Terms of sale

Past the Post is run by Ashley Duffy, a sole trader, trading as Past the Post, of 16 Cowper Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 4PD, United Kingdom. Email pastthepostapp@gmail.com. We aren’t registered for VAT.

Plans and Player Plus are sold to people based in the UK. We can’t sell them to people living in the European Union: a payment from an EU address is refunded in full straight away and the plan stopped. Anyone, anywhere, can still play for free.

What each plan includes is on the plans page. Everything in Past the Post is played for fun with virtual stakes: nothing you buy is a bet, an entry fee or a prize, and nothing in the app has cash value.

Player Plus comes with a paid club. A Club or Society plan includes Player Plus for the club’s owner (not its co-admins or members) for as long as the plan is paid. If you already pay for Plus when your club’s plan starts, we stop your Plus renewing: you keep the year you paid for, and you aren’t charged for Plus again while the plan covers it. If the plan stops, or the club is handed to someone else, the Plus that came with it stops too; after a handover it goes to the new owner with the club.

• Prices are in pounds, and they’re what you pay. There’s no VAT to add.
• Stripe takes the payments. We never see or keep your full card details.
• If you pay for more than one club, the second is 20% off and any after that 30% off, for as long as the others stay paid.
• You pay when the plan starts, then at the start of each month or year.
• If a price goes up, we’ll tell you at least 30 days before your next renewal, so you can stop the plan first if you’d rather.

• Every plan renews by itself at the end of each month or year until you stop it.
• You can stop it any time: Plan & billing for a club, your profile for Plus, or email us.
• Stopping means it won’t renew. You keep everything until the end of what you’ve paid for. Then a club goes back to Free (the plans page says what that means) and Plus ends.
• We don’t refund part of a month or year, except where sections 5, 9 or 10 say so or the law requires it.
• Before a yearly plan renews, we’ll email you a reminder.

Email us within 14 days of your first payment for a plan and we’ll refund that payment in full, no questions asked, and stop the plan. This is on top of your legal rights, not instead of them. It doesn’t apply to renewals: stop a plan before it renews if you don’t want it (section 4).

• Moving up (Free to Club or Society, or Club to Society) happens straight away. Going from Club to Society, you pay the difference for the rest of the period you’ve paid for, then the Society price from your next renewal.
• Moving down, or switching between monthly and yearly, happens on Stripe’s page and starts at your next renewal. A smaller plan has smaller limits: the newest games over the limit are put away until the club moves up again. Nothing is deleted.

• Stripe emails you and tries the card again over the next 14 days. Everything carries on as normal.
• After 14 days, nobody new can join and no new games can start, and we ask the owner what they’d like to do.
• After 30 days, anyone in the club can take it on. They become the owner and pay for a plan themselves, or it carries on as a Free club. The old owner stays on as an admin.
• After 60 days, the club is put away: read-only, with everything kept. Paying brings it straight back.
• If a Plus payment fails, Plus carries on to the end of the period you’d paid for, then ends.

A club plan belongs to the person who pays for it. If the club is handed to someone else, the plan stops renewing and runs to the end of what was paid. After that the new owner pays for their own plan, or the club goes back to Free. The same happens if the owner deletes their account. The card, receipts and invoices always stay with the person who paid.

• We’ll run Past the Post with reasonable care and skill. If something you’ve paid for doesn’t work as it should, tell us and we’ll fix it. If we can’t fix it in a reasonable time, we’ll refund you for the part that didn’t work.
• Fixtures and results come from outside sources, which are sometimes late or wrong. We correct them as soon as we can.
• We’re responsible for loss or damage you suffer that was a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms or not taking reasonable care. We’re not responsible for loss that wasn’t foreseeable, or for business losses.
• Nothing in these terms limits our responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn’t let us limit.

• If we ever stop offering a plan or close Past the Post, we’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice and refund any part of the period you’ve paid for and won’t get.
• If a club breaks the terms of use (for example, by playing for real money on the results), we can close it. We’ll tell the owner why. In that case we don’t refund the rest of the period.

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll tell you at least 30 days before your next renewal. The new terms apply from that renewal, and you can stop the plan before then if you’d rather.

Email pastthepostapp@gmail.com and we’ll reply within 7 days. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring a claim in the courts there.