Terms and Conditions (T&C) — BetCircle

Section 1 — Provider and Scope

1.1 These Terms and Conditions ("T&C") govern the use of the mobile application "BetCircle" and the related services ("Service").

1.2 The provider of the Service is:

BetCircle GbR, represented by its partners Engin Diyar Aydin and Emre Kandemir Gundelsheimerstrasse 51, 70437 Stuttgart, Germany Email: info@bet-circle.com VAT ID No.: DE461677496

1.3 These T&C apply to all users of the Service in their respective current version.

1.4 Deviating terms of the user do not apply unless the provider expressly agrees to them in writing.

Section 2 — Definitions

2.1 "User" means any natural or legal person using the Service.

2.2 "Account" means the personalised access to the Service.

2.3 "User content" means all content that users upload, create or publish, in particular profile information, posts, comments and images.

2.4 "Subscription" means a paid, recurring service model (e.g. monthly or yearly) that may unlock additional features.

2.5 "App store" means the Apple App Store operated by Apple Distribution International Ltd. or Google Play operated by Google Ireland Ltd., through which the application is distributed and through which subscriptions are concluded.

Section 3 — Subject Matter and Scope of Service

3.1 The Service provides in particular functions for bet tracking, performance analysis, social interactions (e.g. following, posts, comments), notifications and optional technical support (e.g. OCR/AI-assisted import).

3.2 The concrete scope of functions may vary depending on platform, region, device, technical availability and subscription tier.

3.3 The provider does not guarantee any particular economic success from using the Service.

3.4 The provider may develop, restrict or discontinue functions insofar as this is reasonable for users.

3.5 The provider is not a bookmaker. The platform does not arrange bets and does not accept bets itself.

3.6 Gambling involves risks and can lead to financial losses. There is a risk of addiction; if signs of problematic gambling appear, users should limit their use and seek support where appropriate. The provider recommends responsible gambling (e.g. staking only funds whose loss is affordable; no further payments to "win back" losses).

3.7 No betting advice. The Service does not provide gambling recommendations, betting advice, financial advice or investment advice. All content available on the platform, including posts, statistics, rankings and popular picks, represents personal opinions or aggregated user activity and does not constitute a recommendation to place bets.

3.8 Informational purpose only. The Service is intended for informational, analytical and social purposes only. It does not encourage participation in gambling activities.

Section 4 — Registration, Account and Security

4.1 Use of certain functions requires registration and a user account. Use of the platform is permitted only to persons who have reached the age of 18.

4.2 When registering, users confirm that they are of full age and accept these T&C. The confirmation is obtained before the account is created, both for registration by email and for registration via Apple or Google sign-in.

4.3 Users must provide true and current information when registering.

4.4 Access credentials must be kept confidential and must not be disclosed to third parties without authorisation.

4.5 Users must inform the provider without delay of any misuse or suspected misuse of the account.

4.6 The provider may temporarily suspend or permanently disable accounts in the event of breaches of these T&C. Section 6.7 applies to the statement of reasons and the right to object.

4.7 Age verification. The provider may implement reasonable measures to verify that users meet the minimum age requirement. Accounts found to belong to underage users may be suspended or deleted.

Section 5 — Permitted Use and Prohibited Conduct

5.1 Users may use the Service only in compliance with applicable law and these T&C.

5.2 The following are in particular not permitted:

• Distribution of unlawful, offensive, discriminatory or misleading content
• Infringement of third-party rights (e.g. copyright, trade mark, personality rights)
• Technical attacks, circumvention of security measures, automated misuse (scraping/botting)
• Manipulation of metrics, rankings or interactions
• Use of the Service for unauthorised advertising or spam
• Sale of betting tips or predictions for consideration via the platform without the provider's express written consent
• Advertising for illegal bookmakers or other unauthorised gambling offers
• Faking bets, statistics or proof (e.g. fake bet slips)
• Insults, targeted harassment, fraud or other abusive community behaviour
• Reverse engineering, decompilation or systematic circumvention of technical restrictions of the platform or APIs (unless permitted by law)
• Unauthorised use of APIs (e.g. bulk requests, use outside the terms of use, circumvention of access or rate limits)
• Automated use (bots, scripts, scraping) except where expressly permitted by the provider

5.3 In the event of breaches, the provider may remove content, restrict functions or suspend accounts. Section 6.7 applies to the statement of reasons and the right to object.

5.4 The provider does not verify or guarantee the quality, legality or profitability of betting-related content offered by users, whether free or paid. Users act independently and at their own risk when offering or purchasing such content.

Section 6 — User Content, Reporting and Moderation

6.1 Users remain the owners of their user content.

6.2 Users grant the provider a simple, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable right, limited to the duration of use, to host, store, reproduce, process technically and display user content within the Service insofar as this is necessary to provide the Service.

6.3 Users warrant that they hold all necessary rights in uploaded content.

6.4 The provider is entitled to remove unlawful or T&C-violating content.

6.5 Users and third parties may report unlawful or T&C-violating content to the provider, either through the reporting functions in the app or by email to info@bet-circle.com. The provider reviews valid reports within a reasonable time and acts in accordance with legal requirements, in particular Art. 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act, "DSA"). Unlawful or T&C-violating content may be removed without prior hearing of the author; there is no obligation to remove content in the case of manifestly unfounded reports.

6.6 No general monitoring obligation. The provider is not obliged to actively monitor user content. Upon becoming aware of illegal content, however, the provider acts promptly to remove it or disable access to it in accordance with applicable law.

6.7 Statement of reasons and objection. Where the provider removes user content, restricts its visibility, or suspends or terminates an account, the affected user receives a clear and specific statement of reasons in accordance with Art. 17 DSA. The statement sets out the measure taken, its territorial and temporal scope, the facts relied on, whether automated means were used, the contractual or legal ground, and how the decision can be contested.

Users may object to such a decision within six months by email to info@bet-circle.com. The provider reviews the objection without undue delay and does not decide solely by automated means. Users retain the right to bring the matter before a court or, where available, an out-of-court dispute settlement body.

6.8 Points of contact. Users can reach the provider on all matters concerning these T&C and content moderation at info@bet-circle.com. Communication in German and English is possible.

Member State authorities, the European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services may contact the provider for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 at info@bet-circle.com, in German or English.

6.9 How moderation works. The provider applies the following measures to user content: images are checked automatically before publication by an external service to detect prohibited content, in particular sexual or pornographic imagery; reports received under clause 6.5 are reviewed by a person; and posts, comments, profile content and accounts may be restricted where clause 5.2 is breached. Possible measures are the removal of content, the restriction of individual functions, the temporary suspension of an account and, in serious or repeated cases, its permanent closure.

Automated means are used only for the image check described above. Every other decision involves a human review, and an objection under clause 6.7 is never decided by automated means alone.

Section 7 — Bet Tracking, Data and Rankings

7.1 The Service serves to document, analyse and present betting-related information in a social context.

7.2 The Service does not provide legal, tax, financial or investment advice.

7.3 The Service does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of user-generated information or external data sources. The Service uses external data sources (e.g. sports data APIs, odds or third-party statistics); the provider gives no guarantee and accepts no liability for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or availability of these sources. The provider is not the provider of this external data; its use is subject to the licences or terms of use of the respective third parties.

7.4 Users are solely responsible for decisions on bets or financial stakes.

7.5 Where the Service offers rankings, leaderboards or similar ordering (e.g. top bettors, performance overviews), the underlying criteria (e.g. metrics, time periods, weighting) are made transparent in the app or the product description, or explained on request. No guarantee is given for the completeness or real-time accuracy of rankings.

7.6 No recommendation through rankings. Rankings, leaderboards, statistics and popular picks are based on aggregated user data and activity. They are provided for transparency and informational purposes only and do not constitute recommendations or endorsements of any betting decision.

7.7 User-generated data. The provider does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of user-submitted betting data. Users are solely responsible for the content and correctness of the information they provide.

Section 8 — Paid Subscriptions

8.1 The provider offers paid features in the form of subscriptions. Prices, terms and scope are shown transparently in the app before the purchase is concluded.

8.2 Contracting party. Subscriptions are concluded and processed exclusively through the app store from which the application was obtained. The contract for the paid subscription is therefore concluded with the operator of that app store as seller, not with the provider. The terms of the respective app store apply to the purchase, the billing and the payment.

8.3 Term and renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically for the selected period unless they are cancelled before the end of the current period. Cancellation is possible at any time through the subscription management of the respective app store account and takes effect at the end of the period already paid for. There is no notice period. Access to the paid features remains available until the end of that period.

8.4 Right of withdrawal. Because the contract for the subscription is concluded with the app store operator, any statutory right of withdrawal is directed at that operator and is governed by its terms and its withdrawal instructions. Apple and Google each provide their own refund and withdrawal procedures within the respective account settings.

8.5 The provider grants access to the paid features for the duration of a subscription that the app store reports as active. Refunds are handled exclusively by the app store operator.

8.6 Where the provider offers a free trial period, its duration and the price applying afterwards are shown before the purchase. Unless cancelled before the trial ends, the subscription continues as a paid subscription under clause 8.3.

8.7 The provider is not responsible for the uninterrupted availability of the app stores or of the payment services they operate.

Section 9 — Conclusion of Contract, Contract Text and Language

9.1 The contract for the use of the Service is concluded when the user completes registration in the app, having confirmed their age and accepted these T&C.

9.2 For paid subscriptions, the purchase is concluded through the app store's purchase dialogue. Before confirming, the user is shown the plan, the price, the billing period and the renewal terms, and can cancel the process at any point.

9.3 Correction of input errors. Before submitting a registration or a purchase, users can review all entries and correct them using the input fields of the respective screen, or abort the process by leaving the screen.

9.4 Storage of the contract text. The provider does not store the text of these T&C in a form individually retrievable for each user. The current version is permanently available at bet-circle.com/agb and can be saved or printed from there. Confirmations of app store purchases are provided by the respective app store operator.

9.5 Contract language. The contract may be concluded in English or German. In case of divergence between the language versions, the German version prevails.

Section 10 — Advertising and Affiliate Links

10.1 The provider may display advertising, sponsorship notices or affiliate links within the Service.

10.2 The provider may receive commission for qualified actions via affiliate links.

10.3 Statutory labelling requirements for advertising remain unaffected.

10.4 Third-party services. Affiliate links may direct users to external providers or third-party services. The provider has no influence over these services and assumes no responsibility for their legality, content, availability or operation. Users access such services at their own risk.

Section 11 — Availability, Maintenance and Changes

11.1 The provider endeavours to ensure high availability of the Service but does not guarantee uninterrupted access.

11.2 Maintenance, security updates, further development and technical faults may lead to temporary restrictions.

11.3 The provider may adapt the Service or individual functions for objective reasons, provided the legitimate interests of users are duly taken into account.

11.4 Updates. For consumers, the provider supplies the updates required to keep the Service in conformity with the contract for the duration of the contractual relationship, including security updates, and informs users about them (§§ 327f, 327e BGB). Updates are provided through the respective app store.

Where the provider offers an update that goes beyond what is required to maintain conformity, and the update impairs the user's access to or use of the Service more than marginally, the user may terminate the contract free of charge within 30 days of becoming aware of it.

Section 12 — Liability

12.1 The provider is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence.

12.2 For simple negligence the provider is liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations (obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance the user may regularly rely), and only up to the typically foreseeable damage.

12.3 The limitations of liability do not apply to injury to life, body or health, nor to mandatory statutory liability, in particular under the Product Liability Act.

12.4 The provider is liable for content of users or external third parties only as provided by law.

12.5 Subject to clauses 12.1 to 12.3, betting decisions and any resulting losses fall within the user's own responsibility. The provider is not responsible for financial losses resulting from betting activities.

Section 13 — Data Protection and Data Export

13.1 Information on the processing of personal data is set out in the Privacy Policy at bet-circle.com/datenschutzerklaerung.

13.2 Where consent is required, it is obtained separately.

13.3 Rights of access and data portability under Arts. 15 and 20 GDPR may be exercised through the "Export data" function in the app settings or by email to info@bet-circle.com. Section 20 of the Privacy Policy describes the procedure and the response time.

Section 14 — Term, Suspension and Termination

14.1 The contract for the use of the Service runs for an indefinite period and may be terminated by the user at any time. Clause 8.3 applies to paid subscriptions.

14.2 Users may delete their account at any time via the in-app function under Settings, or alternatively by request to info@bet-circle.com. Deleting the account does not automatically cancel a subscription concluded through an app store; that must be cancelled separately in the app store account.

14.3 The right to terminate for good cause remains unaffected.

14.4 What deletion removes. When an account is deleted, the user's content is permanently removed rather than anonymised or kept visible. This covers in particular posts, comments, tracked bets, likes, bookmarks, follow relationships, profile and settings data, notifications and the entries derived from them, such as performance figures and leaderboard positions.

Comments written by other users on a deleted user's posts are removed together with those posts, since the post they belong to ceases to exist. Comments the deleted user wrote on other users' posts are likewise removed.

Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone. Users who want to keep their data should use the export function under clause 13.3 beforehand.

14.5 Deactivation. Where the provider offers deactivation instead of deletion, a deactivated account is not publicly visible and is permanently deleted after 30 days in accordance with clause 14.4, unless it is reactivated before that period expires.

14.6 Section 17 of the Privacy Policy governs the retention of the remaining data, in particular records that must be kept to satisfy statutory retention obligations.

Section 15 — Changes to these T&C

15.1 The provider may amend these T&C with effect for the future where there is an objective reason (e.g. changes in the law, security requirements, changes to functions).

15.2 Users are informed of material changes in an appropriate manner, at the latest on the next launch of the app, at least 30 days before the changes take effect.

15.3 Where required by law, express consent is obtained. If the user objects to the changes or does not consent, the user may terminate the contract without notice in accordance with clause 14.1.

Section 16 — Applicable Law and Consumer Dispute Resolution

16.1 German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive them of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which they have their habitual residence (Art. 6 (2) Rome I Regulation).

16.2 For consumers, the statutory place of jurisdiction applies.

16.3 Where the user is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is the registered seat of the provider.

16.4 Consumer dispute resolution. The provider is not willing and not obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board within the meaning of § 36 (1) no. 1 VSBG.

Section 17 — Final Provisions

17.1 Should individual provisions of these T&C be or become invalid in whole or in part, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.

17.2 The invalid provision is replaced by the applicable statutory rule.