Terms & Conditions

Please read these Terms and Conditions of Service ("Terms", "Agreement") carefully before using the FavoritePicker.com website (the "Service", "Website"). By accessing, browsing, or using any feature of this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be legally bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

1. Acceptance of Terms & Eligibility

By accessing or using FavoritePicker.com, you certify that you are of legal age to form a binding contract or have obtained parental/guardian consent. If you do not agree to all terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, you must immediately cease all access and use of the Service.

2. Description of the Service

FavoritePicker.com provides an interactive, web-based algorithmic ranking engine, pairwise comparison tournaments, team generators, Pokédex reference databases, and informational blog articles concerning the Pokémon video game and animation franchise.

The Service is offered strictly for personal, non-commercial, informational, and entertainment purposes. We provide the platform on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without fee or mandatory registration.

3. Limited License & Permitted Use

FavoritePicker.com grants you a personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable, and royalty-free license to use the Website in accordance with these Terms. Under this license:

• Personal Sharing Allowed: You are encouraged to generate, download, and share your personal tier list images (PNG, PDF) or unique ranking share URLs across personal social media profiles, community forums, Discord servers, and YouTube videos, provided you do not alter the watermark or misrepresent the tool.
• Non-Commercial Usage: You may not sell, monetize, bundle, or sublicense access to FavoritePicker's software, proprietary algorithm scripts, or underlying databases.

4. Prohibited Activities & System Integrity

To protect the community and server infrastructure, you agree NOT to:

• Automated Scraping & Bots: Use web scrapers, spiders, headless browsers, data mining scripts, or robotic harvesting tools to extract content, images, or API endpoints without prior written authorization (excluding well-behaved public search engine crawlers following our robots.txt).
• Denial of Service Attacks: Engage in any activity that overburdens, damages, disrupts, or floods our web servers, including denial-of-service (DoS/DDoS) attacks, automated stress-testing, or excessive high-frequency requests.
• Reverse Engineering: Decompile, disassemble, decipher, reverse engineer, or attempt to derive the source code of any proprietary script or algorithm driving the Website.
• Malicious Payloads: Inject viruses, malware, trojans, worms, or other malicious code through comments, forms, or headers.
• Impersonation: Falsely claim affiliation with, endorsement by, or employment with FavoritePicker, Nintendo, Game Freak, or The Pokémon Company.

5. Intellectual Property Rights & Fair Use

6. User-Generated Content & Shareable Links

When you create custom rankings or generate share codes on FavoritePicker, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to store, render, and display your selected rankings and tier list cards solely to fulfill your request to view and share them.

You are solely responsible for any comments or feedback you post on our blog. We reserve the right to moderate, remove, or edit any comments that are defamatory, abusive, offensive, promotional spam, or in violation of these Terms.

7. Disclaimer of Warranties

Please read this section carefully:

The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, statutory, or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, FavoritePicker.com disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy of Pokémon game stats, or uninterrupted and error-free operation.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, under no circumstances shall FavoritePicker.com, its operators, contributors, or service providers be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages—including but not limited to loss of data, browser crashes, loss of profits, device interruption, or emotional distress—arising out of or in connection with your access to, use of, or inability to use the Website, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless FavoritePicker.com, its team members, contractors, and affiliates from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from your violation of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or your infringement of any third-party rights.

10. Third-Party Links & External Services

FavoritePicker may reference or contain links to third-party websites (such as PokéAPI, Nintendo official channels, or community resources). These links are provided solely for your convenience. We do not endorse, sponsor, or assume responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any external sites.

11. Modifications to the Service and Terms

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify, update, replace, or discontinue any portion of the Website or these Terms at any time without prior notice. The updated date at the top of this page indicates the most recent revision. Your continued use of the Website following any posted changes constitutes your binding acceptance of the updated Terms.

12. Governing Law & Severability

These Terms shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws applicable to general electronic commerce and internet services, without regard to conflict of law principles. If any provision of these Terms is deemed unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

13. Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments, or legal inquiries regarding these Terms and Conditions, please contact us through our Contact Us page or email us at legal@favoritepicker.com.