Please read these terms of use (together with the other webpages referred to in them) carefully before you start to use the site. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or contacting us through our site. By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide and comply by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

By visiting our site and/or purchasing something from us, you engage in our "Service" and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service", "Terms"), including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. These Terms of Service apply to all users of the site, including without limitation users who are browsers, vendors, customers, merchants, and/or contributors of content.

1. Other applicable terms

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Our Accessibility Policy, which allows you to comment to us on how accessible our site is.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

2. Information about us

www.1stxi.com is a website operated by 1STXI Pty Limited ("We"); we are a private limited company registered in South Africa under registration number 2021 / 697479 / 07.

3. Accessing our site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or amend all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

4. Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) must always be acknowledged as the authors of material on our site.

You must not use any part of the materials or content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

5. No reliance on information

The content and materials contained on our site are provided for general information purposes only. It is not intended to amount to or constitute professional advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content or materials on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content and materials on our site are accurate, complete or up-to-date.

6. Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by South African law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with use of, or inability to use, our site; or use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that, in particular, we will not be liable for: loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage. If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. When accessing a site via our website, we advise that you check their terms of use and privacy policies to ensure compliance and to determine how they may use your information.

7. Contributions to our site

If we ever provide a feature that allows you to contribute your opinions or other information to our site, you must ensure that they are accurate (where they state facts), be genuinely held (where they state opinions) and comply with applicable law in South Africa and in any country from which they are posted. Particularly, but without limitation, your contributions must not contain any material which is defamatory of any person; contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person; promote any illegal activity; or give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with these standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer user, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Anything you contribute will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such content for any purpose.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that your contribution constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

8. Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your computer, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Cybercrimes Act, 2020. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

9. Linking to our site

You may link to our home page or other webpages, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

10. Applicable law

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by South African law. You and we both agree that the courts of South Africa will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.

If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by South African law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa.

11. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms of use at any time by publishing an update through this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you.

12. Changes to our site

We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

13. Contact us

We welcome feedback from our users: please contact privacy@1stxi.com with any helpful comments and criticisms. We will use this information to help us to improve the terms of use of our website to all users, including disabled and elderly people.

1STXI Pty Limited ("1STXI", "we") processes personal information in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA). This policy explains what we collect, why, and what rights you have over it.

Who is responsible for your information

1STXI Pty Limited (registration 2021 / 697479 / 07) is the responsible party under POPIA. Our Information Officer can be reached at privacy@1stxi.com.

What we collect

Account details you give us directly — name, email address, and depending on your role, a phone number, a location, and playing or professional information you choose to add to a profile. A player's date of birth, collected so that we can apply the age rules below correctly. Messages sent through the platform, which are kept rather than edited or deleted once sent — see our Terms of Service. Technical information your browser sends on every request, and the cookies described in our Cookie Policy.

Why we process it — the lawful basis

We only process personal information for one of the reasons POPIA allows, which in practice means:

• To create and run your account, and to provide the matching features your role uses.
• To let clubs and agents discover players, and players find clubs and agents, which is the platform's purpose and something you agree to when you sign up.
• To keep the platform safe — screening messages, limiting how often an account may approach a child, and investigating reports.
• To meet a legal obligation, such as keeping records tax or other law requires.
• Where you have given consent for something beyond the above — such as analytics or marketing cookies, see our Cookie Policy.

Children

Many players on this platform are minors. POPIA requires a competent person's — ordinarily a parent or legal guardian's — consent before we may process a child's personal information beyond what is strictly necessary to run the platform. In practice: an account below our self-registration age is created and controlled by a guardian, who consents and answers on the child's behalf; a player account is never offered analytics or marketing cookies, whatever is clicked in the banner — see our Cookie Policy; and private messaging is never available to a child — see our Terms of Service.

Who we share it with

We do not sell personal information. It is shared with: other accounts the platform's purpose requires it be shared with — a club or agent you have connected with sees the profile information you have made visible to them; service providers who process it on our behalf under contract, such as hosting, email delivery and payment processing (PayFast); and a regulator, court, or law enforcement body where we are legally required to disclose it.

Sending information outside South Africa

Some of our service providers operate outside South Africa. Where personal information is transferred across a border, POPIA section 72 requires that it remain subject to protection at least equivalent to this policy — through the provider's own compliance with an adequate law, or through a written contract that binds them to that standard. We only use providers on those terms.

How we protect it

We take reasonable technical and organisational steps against loss, unauthorised access and unlawful processing, as POPIA section 19 requires — the site is served over HTTPS, passwords are hashed rather than stored, and access within our team is limited to what a role needs. No method of storing or transmitting information is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

How long we keep it

We keep personal information for as long as your account is active, and for a limited period after you ask us to close it, in case you change your mind — see the account-deletion setting described in our Terms of Service. Messages are not deleted individually, for the reasons given there.

Your rights

Under POPIA you may, subject to some exceptions the Act itself sets out:

• Ask what personal information we hold about you, and request a copy of it.
• Ask us to correct or delete personal information that is inaccurate, irrelevant, excessive, out of date, incomplete, misleading, or obtained unlawfully.
• Object to our processing of your personal information on reasonable grounds.
• Withdraw a consent you previously gave — for example, your cookie preferences, at any time through our Cookie Policy.
• Complain to us, and if unsatisfied, to the Information Regulator.

To exercise any of these, contact our Information Officer at the address above.

Complaining to the Information Regulator

If you believe we have not handled your personal information in accordance with POPIA, you may complain to South Africa's Information Regulator.

Changes to this policy

We keep this policy under review and will place any updates on this page.

Contacting us

Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@1stxi.com.

What are "cookies"?

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They let a site remember something about your visit from one page to the next, or from one visit to the next.

What we use them for

We use cookies to keep you signed in, to remember a display preference you have made, and — only once you have agreed below — to understand how the site is used and to measure advertising. We do not use cookies to build a profile of you for sale to anyone else.

The table below lists every cookie this application sets.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration	Category
Session cookie	Keeps you signed in and links your requests to your session while you use the site. The application cannot work without it.	Until you close your browser, or sign out	Necessary
theme	Remembers whether you chose light, dark, or "follow this device".	1 year	Functional
cookie_consent	Remembers the choice you make below, so we do not ask again on every visit.	6 months	Necessary
Google Analytics (_ga, _gid and related cookies)	Not set unless you grant Analytics below and Google Analytics has been switched on for this site. Helps us understand how the site is used, in aggregate.	Up to 2 years	Analytics
Meta / Facebook Pixel (_fbp)	Not set unless you grant Marketing below and the Meta Pixel has been switched on for this site. Measures the effectiveness of advertising that brought you here.	Up to 90 days	Marketing

Children

Many players on this platform are under 18. A player account that our records do not show as an adult is not offered Analytics or Marketing here at all — only the necessary and functional cookies above. See our Privacy Policy for how we handle a child's information more generally.

Changing your choice

Use the "Manage cookie preferences" link on this page to open the same panel the banner offers, at any time.

Managing cookies in your browser

Browsers are typically set to accept cookies automatically. You can set yours to warn you when a cookie is being sent, or to refuse cookies entirely, through your browser's settings. Refusing the necessary cookies above will stop the site working correctly.

Changes to this policy

We keep this policy under review and will place any updates on this page.

How to contact us

Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@1stxi.com.