Terms and Conditions

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a legal agreement between you, on the one hand, and NHL Interactive CyberEnterprises, LLC and its affiliates (current and future), including NHL Enterprises, L.P., NHL Enterprises Canada, L.P., NHL Enterprises B.V., and the National Hockey League, and their independent charities (NHL Foundation U.S., Inc. and NHL Foundation Canada) (collectively, the "NHL Entities"), and the member clubs of the National Hockey League ("NHL Member Clubs", and together with the NHL Entities, "NHL", "our", "we" or "us"), on the other hand, governing your access to and use of the digital platforms, websites and online services that display or provide an authorized link to these Terms (collectively, the "Services"). The Services include, without limitation, nhl.com, and NHL mobile applications, and may include content that may be shown or otherwise displayed in or through the Services, including but not limited to NHL Content (as defined in Section 7), User Content (as defined in Section 3) and Third-Party Materials (as defined in Section 11).

Except where prohibited by applicable law (which may include the Province of Quebec), to the extent there is any conflict between the Dispute Resolution and Binding Arbitration and Class Action Waiver and Jury Trial Waiver provisions of these Terms on the one hand, and the terms of service or privacy policy of any NHL Member Clubs on the other, the Dispute Resolution and Binding Arbitration and Class Action Waiver and Jury Trial Waiver provisions of these Terms shall control. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence, your parent or legal guardian must agree to these Terms on your behalf.

Certain service providers of ours may operate portions of the Services (each, a "Service Provider") and you agree that all Service Providers, their respective successors and permitted assigns, and their respective affiliates are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as third-party beneficiaries hereof.
Please read these Terms carefully before using the Services. It is your responsibility to check these Terms periodically for changes. Your access to and use of the Services indicates your acceptance and agreement to be bound by the Terms. Do not access or use the Services if you do not accept the Terms. Subject to applicable law (which may include the Province of Quebec), we may impose new conditions or amend or modify the Services or the Terms at any time, for example to reflect changes in laws or regulatory requirements. Any access to or use of the Services by you after we post modifications to the Terms constitutes your acceptance of those modifications and shall apply to your access and use of the Services.

You may not access or use, or attempt to access or use, the Services to take any action that could harm us or any other person or entity (each a "person"), interfere with the operation of the Services, or use the Services in a manner that violates any laws. For example, you may not:

• Impersonate any person or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your credentials, affiliation with any person, or the origin of any information you provide;
• Engage in unauthorized spidering, scraping, or harvesting of content or information, or use any other unauthorized automated means to compile information;
• Solicit, collect, transmit, store, or otherwise make available private information of any third party including, without limitation, telephone numbers, addresses, last names, email addresses, Social Security/Social Insurance numbers, or credit or debit card numbers;
• Obtain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems, materials, information, or any services available on or through the Services;
• Use any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services or any activity conducted on the Services or attempt to probe, scan, test the vulnerability of, or breach the security of any system, device, or network;
• Circumvent, reverse engineer, decipher, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with (or attempt, encourage, or support anyone else's attempt to engage in such activities) any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services. The use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security (e.g., password guessing programs, cracking tools, or network probing tools) is strictly prohibited;
• Use or attempt to use another's information, account, password, service, or system except as expressly permitted;
• Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our network or infrastructure;
• Upload or otherwise transmit any communication, software, or material that contains a virus or is otherwise harmful to our or our users' computers, devices, or systems; or
• Engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any person from using or enjoying the Services, or that, in our sole judgment, exposes us, users, or any other third party to any liability, damages, or detriment of any type.

Violations of system or network security and certain other conduct may result in civil or criminal liability. We may investigate and work with law enforcement authorities to prosecute users who violate the Terms. If you commit or cause such violations, we may suspend or terminate your access to the Services for any or no reason at any time without notice.

Certain areas of the Services may enable you to post comments, send emails, or otherwise post, publish, submit, transmit, upload, send, or otherwise provide ("provide") information to us or other persons. You remain fully responsible for the content, data and other materials that you provide to us or others in connection with the Services, including without limitation information, audio recordings, videos, photographs, documents, or other materials (collectively, "User Content"). You represent and warrant that you own the User Content or you have the necessary rights to provide the User Content pursuant to these Terms, and with respect to any works of authorship you represent and warrant that they are original works. You agree not to provide User Content that:

• Infringes on, misappropriates, or otherwise violates the copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property right of any person;
• Is false, misleading, libelous, slanderous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, hateful, threatening, harassing, or sexually-explicit;
• Violates a person's right to privacy or publicity;
• Contains advertising or a solicitation of any kind;
• Exploits, harms, personally attacks (personal attacks include, but are not limited to, defamatory, sexual and/or sexually implicit remarks) or impersonates any person or entity, including an NHL representative, a current or former NHL Member Club player, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents an affiliation with a person or entity;
• Degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, orientation or identity, disability, or other classification;
• Transmits, stores, or otherwise makes available a virus, trojan horse, worm, time bomb, spyware, bot, or other harmful or deleterious programming routine;
• Transmits, stores, or otherwise makes available material which contains any material of a commercial nature, including but not limited to advertising, promotions, "junk mail," "spam," "pyramid schemes," "chain letters," or solicitation of any kind;
• Transmits, stores, or otherwise makes available material which is irrelevant to the subject matter of the Services;
• Contains epithets or other language or material intended to intimidate or to incite violence; or
• Violates any applicable local, state/provincial/territorial, national, or international law, or advocates illegal activity.

We also, to the extent permitted or required by law, have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any User Content you provide us or others in connection with the Services constitutes a violation of the third party's intellectual property rights, of the third party's right to privacy, or of any other applicable local, state/provincial/territorial, national, or international law.
The Services may also offer opportunities for you to transmit User Content via third party social media and social networking websites and products ("Third-Party Social Networking Features"). Any use of Third-Party Social Networking Features is subject to these Terms and the then-current terms of use of the applicable third-party website or product ("Third-Party Website Terms"). In the event of a conflict between these Terms and the Third-Party Website Terms, these Terms will govern.
By providing us User Content, you grant us a royalty-free, fully paid up, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully sub-licensable, transferable, license to publish, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, disclose, perform, edit, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works of, sell, offer for sale, export, and otherwise use and exploit your User Content (in its entirety or any portion thereof) for any purpose, in any manner to the extent permitted by law, and in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You hereby waive any moral rights you may have in your User Content to the extent permitted by applicable law. You represent and warrant that you have obtained all necessary permissions from any entity or person (and, in the case of minors, also from their parents or legal guardians as appropriate) identified in, displayed in or implicated by your submission of User Content (including those shown in photographic or video content).

If you do not want to grant us permission to use your User Content in accordance with these Terms, please do not provide it to us on our Services. By providing your User Content to us, you agree to these Terms.
We are not obligated to publish or use your User Content. The posting or publishing of any User Content, NHL Content or Third-Party Material is not in any way intended to and does not state, suggest, or imply endorsement by the NHL, including as to the truth, validity, or reliability of the User Content, NHL Content or Third-Party Material. The NHL is not responsible for any User Content or Third-Party Material and has no duty to monitor the User Content or Third-Party Material posted on the Services. Any use of information contained in User Content, NHL Content, or Third-Party Material is at your own risk. The NHL and its designees have the right, but not the obligation, in their sole discretion, to monitor, review, edit, remove, delete, disable, refuse, restrict, or terminate access to your User Content, NHL Content, Third-Party Material, or the Services (in whole or in part) at any time, without prior notice and in our sole discretion, for any or no reason. The obligations that you have to us under these Terms shall survive termination of the Services, any access or use by you of the Services, any User Content on the Services, or these Terms. You shall not post or continue to post any User Content that we have previously advised you not to post.

You acknowledge that by submitting your User Content, no confidential, fiduciary, contractually implied, or other relationship is created between you and NHL or between you and any of NHL's third party providers other than as expressly set forth in these Terms. You acknowledge that NHL is not responsible for, and cannot and does not guarantee, the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information in any User Content, NHL Content or Third Party Material. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Services. You may use various features (e.g., the "Flag" within comments sections) to report violators within the User Content. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
If you are under the age of 13, you may not provide any User Content to us. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence but at least 13 years of age, subject to any applicable sweepstakes, contest, or other supplemental terms, you may provide User Content but only with the permission of, and under the supervision of, a parent or legal guardian. If you are a parent or legal guardian agreeing to these Terms for the benefit of an individual between the ages of 13 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence, please be advised that you are fully responsible for such individual's User Content and any legal liability that such individual may incur.