User Agreement

1. Who can use ThreadNet

You must be 18 or older and provide accurate registration details. One account per person — the account is tied to your own identity, not shared or transferred.

Keep your password and passkey private. You're responsible for what happens on your account, so reset your passkey in Settings and tell us through Support straight away if you think someone else has used it.

2. What ThreadNet is — and who runs the sessions

ThreadNet is a discovery and coordination tool connecting players and football turfs across Nigeria, starting in Abuja: browsing and showing interest in sessions, tracking attendance and membership, posting Reels and community content, connecting with other players, and running a monthly Turf vs Turf cup.

Turfs and session organisers are independent businesses, not part of ThreadNet and not our employees or agents. When you book or play a session, your agreement for that session is with the turf or organiser running it, not with ThreadNet. They set the price, capacity, rules and who gets a place, and they run the session. We provide the platform, not the pitch, the coaching or the game itself.

If a session is cancelled, changed, or stops running, the turf is responsible for telling you and for any refund it owes you (see section 5). We'll pass on any cancellation the turf records in the app, and we may remove a session or turf that stops running.

3. Playing at your own risk

Football is a physical contact sport and injuries happen. By joining a session you confirm you are fit to play and accept that you take part at your own risk. ThreadNet does not supervise sessions, inspect pitches, or check the identity of turf admins or other players.

The turf hosting a session is responsible for its premises — the pitch, facilities, safety and first aid — and for how the session is run. Nothing in this agreement limits a turf's own responsibility to you.

4. Children and youth training

Children can't have accounts. Only a parent or legal guardian may add a child and book them into a youth training session, using their own account. When you add a child you confirm that you are their parent or legal guardian and that you consent to:

• the child taking part in the sessions you book them into;
• ThreadNet storing the details you give about them (including any medical notes) and sharing them with the turf running those sessions, as set out in our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for the child you book, for the accuracy of their details, and for their supervision. Unless the turf has agreed in writing to supervise the child, you (or an adult you have chosen) are responsible for the child on site, before, during and after the session, and must follow any instructions the turf sets (for example, that a parent must stay on site). The turf remains responsible for its premises and for how the session is run.

Don't post Reels or photos showing a child unless you are their parent or guardian or have their parent or guardian's consent (see section 8).

5. Payments and refunds

Session and membership fees are set by the turf. Most are paid to the turf at the venue. Where a turf allows it, you can also pay in the app through Paystack, our payment provider; you are still paying for the turf's session or membership, and the turf remains responsible for providing it.

If a session is cancelled by the turf, you are entitled to a refund of any fee you paid for it. Where you paid in the app, we will arrange that refund to your original payment method. Where you paid the turf directly, ask the turf. A membership is for one session only (not the whole turf) and covers what the turf describes when you join.

Nothing in this agreement takes away your rights under the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018 or any other consumer protection law.

6. The Turf vs Turf Cup

Entry. Each month, turfs on ThreadNet can register to enter. Entry is free and no purchase is needed. A turf enters a squad of 9 to 15 registered players aged 18 or over; a player can be in only one squad per cup.

Format. The cup is a knockout. The first cup is drawn at random; later cups seed the previous cup's semi-finalists (or a points table) so top teams are spread across the bracket, and the rest are drawn at random.

Results. Matches are played under the rules announced for that cup. Each result is confirmed by a neutral organiser appointed by ThreadNet — never by either competing turf's own admin — and the organiser's confirmed result is final, unless it was recorded in obvious error.

Prize. The prize for each cup is announced when entries open. Any cash prize is paid to the winning turf's admin, by bank transfer, within 30 days of the final, once we have verified the result and the account details; the turf decides how to share it with its squad. Any tax due on a prize is the recipient's responsibility. The winners also feature in a ThreadNet social media campaign (see section 8).

The cup is a competition of skill, not a lottery or sales promotion. We may postpone, change or cancel a cup for reasons outside our control, and will tell entrants if we do. Friendly matches that turfs arrange between themselves, and any stakes they agree, are between those turfs.

7. Your content

You keep ownership of what you post (Reels, photos, comments, messages). By posting it, you let other ThreadNet users view it as the app is designed to show it (for example, a public Reel is visible to anyone, a direct message only to its recipient).

Don't post anything you don't have the right to share, or anything abusive, harassing, misleading or illegal. We may remove content or restrict an account for this (see section 9).

8. Using Reels and photos to promote ThreadNet

When you make a Reel or photo public on ThreadNet, you give ThreadNet a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to show, copy, crop and share it on ThreadNet and on ThreadNet's own social media and promotional channels — including the campaign celebrating each cup's winners — with credit to you where practical. This licence continues for content we have already published, but you can ask us through Support to stop featuring something, and we won't use it in anything new.

Turfs grant the same licence for session and venue photos they upload.

People in your content. Make sure everyone who can be identified in a Reel or photo is happy to appear in it and to have it shared this way. For anyone under 18 you need their parent or guardian's consent. If you appear in something you didn't agree to, tell us through Support and we'll take it down.

9. Conduct, suspension and appeals

Be honest in your profile and skill claims, show up to sessions you've committed to, and treat other players and turf admins respectfully — online and in person.

Grounds. We may remove content, or suspend or close an account, if it breaks this agreement or the law, puts anyone's safety at risk, involves fraud or misuse of payments, or for repeated no-shows, harassment, or abuse of the reporting or blocking tools.

Notice. We'll tell you what we've done and why, by email or in the app. Where we can, we'll warn you first and give you a chance to put things right; we may act straight away where there is a risk to safety, fraud, or a legal reason.

Appeal. You can appeal within 14 days through Support. Someone who wasn't involved in the original decision will review it, and we'll give you our answer within 14 days. If your account is closed for breaking this agreement, you may not open another one.

10. The Shop

The Shop is a catalogue of products from our sponsors. ThreadNet is not the seller. When you tap through to buy, you are buying from the sponsor or seller on their own site, under their terms; delivery, returns and refunds are between you and them.

11. Names and logos

The ThreadNet name and logo belong to THREADNET LIMITED. You may not use them without our written permission, except to refer to ThreadNet accurately.

Football club names and badges shown in the app (for example, the club you support) belong to their owners and are used only to identify those clubs; ThreadNet is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. If you upload a turf or club logo, you confirm you have the right to use it.

12. No warranty

ThreadNet is provided as-is. We don't guarantee that a session will run as listed, that a turf's facilities match its description, or that another player will show up — those are outside the app's control. We do our best to keep listings accurate and the app working reliably.

13. Our liability, and yours

We are not responsible for what turfs, organisers, sponsors or other players do or fail to do, or for injury, loss or damage at a session, except where it is caused by our own negligence.

Our total liability to you for anything arising from ThreadNet is limited to the greater of the fees you paid to ThreadNet in the 12 months before the claim, or ₦50,000. This limit doesn't apply to death or personal injury caused by our negligence, to fraud, or to anything else the law doesn't allow us to limit.

You agree to cover ThreadNet for any claims, losses and reasonable costs that result from your own conduct — including content you post, a child you book, or your breach of this agreement or the law.

14. Changes to this agreement

We'll give you at least 14 days' notice of any material change, by email and in the app, before it takes effect. We may make a change sooner where the law requires it or to keep people safe. We'll ask you to accept the updated agreement; if you don't want to, you can delete your account in Settings before the change takes effect.

15. Governing law and disputes

This agreement is governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. If we can't resolve a dispute with you directly, it will be decided by the courts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. This doesn't stop you from complaining to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission or using any other right you have as a consumer.

16. Contact

Questions about this agreement: use the Support page in the app, email privacy@threadnet.com.ng, or write to THREADNET LIMITED, B3 High Gate, Wuye, Abuja, Nigeria.