Terms of service.

Welcome to Hangout FC. These terms set out the legally binding agreement between you and Hangout FC when you create an account, subscribe to a membership, read our content feeds, use our AI creator tools, or distribute member-created work.

They are written in plain English so members can understand their rights and obligations. If anything is unclear, please use our public contact form.

Hangout FC is owned and operated by Hangout Cloud Solutions Limited, a company incorporated and registered under the laws of Gibraltar. References to "we", "us", and "our" mean Hangout Cloud Solutions Limited. References to "you" or "your" mean the individual account holder, reader, or creator using our platform.

Company number: 126195

Registered office:
Hangout Cloud Solutions Limited
R23 Ragged Staff Wharf
Queensway Road
Gibraltar GX11 1AA

To use Hangout FC, you must agree to these terms and follow the rules below.

You must be at least 16 to register for or use Hangout FC. Registration is limited to one account per person. Sharing accounts or transferring access is not allowed.

Sign-in is passwordless. Enter your email address and we send a 6-digit verification code to your inbox. The code stays valid for about an hour. Anyone with access to your inbox can sign in as you, so keep it secure.

You are responsible for everything that happens through your account. If you suspect unauthorised access, sign in and use Account help straight away. If you are locked out, use our public contact form.

Hangout FC is a paid subscription service designed to fund high-quality journalism without relying on ad networks or selling consumer attention.

Base membership plans

• Press Pass (£19/mo) — read every daily feed (football, NFL, NBA, and F1) — Live Wire, Pulse, Reports and Stories, with localised audio where available — plus a monthly allowance of Plays for The Booth, Dossiers, and Press Box. Unused monthly Plays reset at the start of each billing cycle and do not roll over.
• Press Pass Plus (£49/mo) — the same creator tools as Press Pass, with a larger monthly Play allowance for heavy use.

Current plan details and Play allowances are on our pricing page.

Extra Time top-ups

If you use up your monthly included Plays mid-cycle, you can buy top-up packs from your account dashboard:

• Extra Time — 25 Plays pack: £5
• Extra Time — 100 Plays pack: £20

We spend your monthly included Plays first, then top-up balances. Top-up Plays stay valid for 6 months from purchase. You can only buy or spend top-up Plays while you have an active creator membership.

Proration, upgrades, downgrades, and cancellation

All billing, invoicing, tax collection, and customer portal transactions are processed through our merchant of record, Paddle.

Upgrades to a higher tier take effect immediately. Upgrading does not reset your monthly billing cycle; Paddle bills the prorated difference straight away.

Downgrades also take effect immediately. Press Pass and Press Pass Plus both include the creator tools, so a downgrade does not switch anything off. What changes is your monthly Plays: the allowance moves to the Press Pass amount, less what you have already spent this billing period — so if you have already spent more than that allowance, you have none left until the period resets. Unused Plays are not paid out, and Extra Time top-ups are unaffected because you keep creator access. Paddle applies the downgrade credit to your next billing statement rather than paying it back now.

Cancellation schedules termination for the end of your current paid billing period. You keep access until that period ends, and future renewals stop.

All subscription charges, add-on fees, and top-up payments are final unless the law requires otherwise. We do not offer voluntary refunds or partial credits for unused days in a billing period. At checkout, you confirm that access starts immediately. In the UK, EU, EEA, Switzerland, and similar regions, that may affect statutory cooling-off or withdrawal rights for digital services you have already used. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer rights. See our cancellation and refund policy.

Eligible new members who confirm a real email may receive one complimentary 7-day Press Pass trial. The trial includes a limited Play allowance for creator tools.add-on, Extra Time top-ups, or a paid Paddle checkout. No card is required to start the week.

One trial per mailbox, including if you delete your account and return. We may refuse throwaway addresses, plus-tagged aliases used to farm extra weeks, duplicate sign-ups from the same place, or anyone who has already had a paid membership (including cancelled or refunded). We can stop offering new trials at any time. A week that has already started continues until it expires.

Unused trial Plays do not carry into a paid plan. Subscribe to Press Pass or Press Pass Plus during the week and access follows that paid plan. If the week ends without a paid membership, creating tools are paywalled until you choose a plan.

AI tools inside Hangout FC process search terms, factual inputs, context libraries, and workflow states to deliver source-backed outputs. Standard Play costs:

• The Booth — 1 Play per successfully delivered answer (one question, one answer from our indexes or the open web). Cancelled, blocked, or failed turns do not deduct Plays.
• Dossiers — 4 Plays per in-depth research brief.
• Press Box — 5 Plays per Creator Package (written article, cover image, and short audio). Sending from an active Dossier to Press Box costs another 5 Plays per send.

Reading Live Wire, Pulse, Reports, and Stories does not spend Plays.

Monthly included Plays reset each billing period. Extra Time top-up Plays expire 6 months after purchase, are spent after monthly Plays, and can only be bought or spent while you have creator access. If youcancel, become past due, or otherwise lose creator access, unused Extra Time may be frozen until creator access returns.

You are expected to act with integrity and respect publishers, athletes, leagues, and fellow creators. The following are strictly prohibited:

• System abuse — circumventing paywalls, bypassing account blocks, gaming rate limits, or exceeding Play limits.
• Extraction — scraping, bulk crawling, data harvesting, mirroring, reverse-engineering, or probing the app to extract source code, system prompts, model weights, or API structures.
• Content violations— presenting unsubstantiated rumours as verified fact, publishing defamatory claims about identifiable people, or broadcasting private personal data or invasive claims about someone's private life.
• Harmful material — using AI tools to spam, harass, impersonate, break the law, or process prompts involving minors in any sensitive or exploitative context.
• Safety bypasses — prompt injections, jailbreaks, or hidden inputs designed to make our AI disregard safety frameworks or sourcing rules.

More detail in our acceptable use policy.

As between you and us, we do not claim ownership of the prompts, briefs, drafts, or final articles you generate through your account. You grant Hangout FC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, process, display, moderate, support, and troubleshoot your content inside the platform.

Most generated items stay private to your workspace. If you export or distribute Press Box output, you may use the generated text, social, and newsletter distribution assets on commercial outlets — including paid newsletters and monetised channels — so long as you have the rights to publish the material and you follow these terms, platform guidelines, and any embedded source publisher requirements.

You are responsible for the content you create and publish. We may remove, restrict, or refuse to distribute anything that breaks these terms, our acceptable use policy, platform rules, or applicable law.

We run a source-first environment. When we use data-desk or open-web records, we attach checkable links in the active view. We prefer silence over filler — if no credible update has landed in a news slot, that section stays quiet. Press Box and Dossiers can write in nine languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, and Arabic, with regional variants for English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Daily news feeds are English.

Pulse confidence labels

Daily reporting items in Pulse carry one of three front-facing labels:

• Official — directly verified or confirmed by the club, league body, or recognised official channel.
• Reported — attributed to verified, trusted sports journalists.
• Rumour — unconfirmed or speculative claims, explicitly hedged in the text.

AI limitations and refusals

We work hard to limit hallucinations and historical distortions, but no AI system is flawless. AI outputs are for general information, research assistance, and writing support — not professional medical, legal, employment, financial, or betting and gambling advice. Verify important facts before publishing or acting on them.

When a query crosses safety boundaries, involves unbacked personal topics, or falls outside available context, the system should return an explicit refusal explaining the boundary — not a silent or empty reply.

We do not quietly delete past Pulse items as a story develops. Outdated posts stay accessible at their original links, and newer updates link forward to keep an honest public record.persistent timeline of alert drops instead of overwriting past monitoring updates.

We do not lease, trade, or sell member profiles, contact lists, or usage metrics to advertising brokers, and we do not run tracking pixels in the app. Where provider terms and settings allow, we configure third-party AI providers not to train their general models on your private account content.

Full detail on what we collect, who processes it, retention, and your rights is in our privacy policy.

The software, interface designs, logos, datasets, source packages, brand markers, and official newsstreams that make up Hangout FC are owned by or licensed to Hangout Cloud Solutions Limited. You may share short extracts with a direct link, but you may not reproduce materials wholesale, build competing portals, scrape datasets, or use our output to train external large language models.

You can stop using Hangout FC and cancel your subscription at any time. We evaluate reported violations based on context, severity, and security risk. Enforcement may include:

• A written warning by email for a low-severity or first-time infraction.
• Hiding, deleting, restricting, de-indexing, or refusing to distribute content that breaks our policies.
• Revoking feature access, pausing your subscription, or permanently closing your account for repeated violations, serious safety issues, payment fraud, or illegal behaviour.

Accounts terminated or suspended for policy breaches forfeit remaining subscription time and are not eligible for voluntary refunds, except where required by law.

If you believe an enforcement action was wrong, sign in and use Account help and choose "Legal or copyright", or use our public contact form.

We work to keep Hangout FC available and accurately sourced, but the platform is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We cannot guarantee permanent uptime, error-free operation, or complete accuracy across historical iterations.

Nothing in these terms diminishes your statutory rights as a consumer. To the maximum extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claims over a consecutive 3-month period is capped at the amount you paid to Hangout FC in those same 3 months.

We do not exclude or limit liability where the law does not allow it, including liability for fraud, gross negligence, personal injury caused by our negligence, or your non-excludable consumer rights.

These terms are governed by the laws of Gibraltar. Formal legal proceedings relating to this agreement must be brought in the courts of Gibraltar, except where mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

We may update these terms to reflect platform changes, regulatory requirements, or structural shifts. If a change materially affects your membership rights, we will email you and show a prominent notice in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect.

Continued use of Hangout FC after that notice period means you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, cancel your membership before the effective date. We do not offer voluntary refunds for cancellations due to term disagreements, except where required by law.