Terms and Conditions of Use

Version published on November 13, 2026

News Tank Football ("News Tank") publishes the Site and the Service described below, which are reserved for professionals. These Terms and Conditions of Use of the Service ("Terms of Use" or "TCU") apply to any User, being an individual, who accesses or uses the Service without necessarily being a party to a subscription agreement with News Tank.
They supplement, as the case may be, the Terms and Conditions of Subscription ("TCS") or the Terms of Individual Online Subscription ("TIOS") accepted by the Client, and do not replace them: in the relationship between News Tank and the Client, the TCS or the TIOS prevail. By accepting the TCS, the Client accepts these TCU on behalf of its employees or corporate officers who benefit from the Service.
Accessing the Service, creating or activating a Personal Account, or activating an AI Feature also constitutes individual and unreserved acceptance of these TCU by the User themselves.
Capitalised terms have the meaning given to them in Article 1.

1. DEFINITIONS

Site refers to the website located at the following address: football.newstank.ch, its subdomains and language versions, as well as the News Tank mobile application giving access to the same content.

Service refers to the databases, content (articles, news items, interviews, reports, appointments, attached documents, data), standard documents, resources and tools, search engine… published by News Tank and accessible through the Access Channels.

Access Channels refers to all the means by which the Service's content is consulted or received: the Site, the mobile application, email alerts, push notifications and the AI Features. These Terms of Use apply whatever the Access Channel used.

Client refers to the organisation or person that has taken out a subscription with News Tank and under which the User accesses the Service.

User refers to the individual who accesses or uses the Service, whatever the basis of their access: as a Member designated by a Client within the meaning of the TCS, as an individual holding an individual subscription taken out under the TIOS, as a guest, as a holder of a trial access, as a student, or under any other access granted by News Tank.

Personal Account refers to the individual, named space allocated to a User to access the Service.

Credentials refers to the elements giving access to the Service on behalf of a User: username, password, login code, as well as AI Connector authorisations and personal access keys.

AI Features refers to the artificial intelligence features that News Tank may make available to all or some Users in addition to the Service, in particular the AI Assistant (Quid) and the AI Connector (Quid+).

AI Assistant refers to the conversational agent built into the Site, which answers a User's questions based solely on the content covered by their access, endeavouring to cite the articles used.

AI Connector refers, where offered to the User, to the mechanism allowing the third-party artificial intelligence assistant of their choice to be linked to the content covered by their access, by means of a named authorisation granted from their Personal Account or a personal access key issued by News Tank.

2. PURPOSE AND ACCEPTANCE

2.1 These Terms of Use define the conditions under which the User accesses and uses the Service, through any Access Channel.

2.2 These Terms of Use are binding on the User as a result of their acceptance by the Client under which the User accesses the Service, which has brought them to the User's attention, and the User is deemed to have accepted them. The User also accepts them personally by accessing the Service, creating or activating their Personal Account, or activating an AI Feature. Where the User holds an individual subscription, they accept them upon subscribing. If the User does not accept them, they must not use the Service.

2.3 The Client remains answerable to News Tank for compliance with these TCU by the Users who access the Service under its subscription; a breach by the User may be held against the Client under the conditions set out in the TCS or the TIOS.

3. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE

3.1 The User's access to the Service depends on the subscription taken out by the Client or on the access granted to them by News Tank, within the limits of duration, scope and package attached to it. It ends with that subscription or access, or when the User ceases to belong to the Client's organisation or to meet the conditions of the access granted.

3.2 News Tank freely determines the content, features and Access Channels open to each category of Users. A trial access, a free trial or a Guest access may be limited, suspended or withdrawn by News Tank at any time, without notice or justification.

3.3 The Personal Account and Credentials are strictly personal. The User undertakes to keep them confidential and not to disclose them to anyone, nor to use them for the benefit of several persons, whether directly or through a shared tool, agent or workspace. Any action carried out using their Credentials is deemed to have been carried out by the User.

3.4 The User informs News Tank without delay, in writing by any means, of any unauthorised use of their Credentials or of any unauthorised access to the Service of which they become aware.

3.5 The User is responsible for the configuration of their workstation and Internet connection. The User provides News Tank with a valid professional email address and reports any change to it.

4. USE OF THE SERVICE

4.1 The User may only use all or part of the Service as an end-user, for their personal and professional information, whatever the Access Channel.

4.2 The User may not redistribute to anyone, whether internally or externally, the emails and alerts they receive as part of the Service, push notifications, or the answers, summaries, extracts or documents obtained by means of the AI Features.

4.3 The following are prohibited in particular, without News Tank's prior written authorisation: reproduction of all or part of the content on another website, making it available on an intranet or any corporate network, distribution of headlines via email alerts, use in a press review, brochure or promotional material, summarising, modifying, altering or redistributing it in any form whatsoever, and any use of the content to produce, exploit or market an information product that would compete with News Tank's products.

4.4 The User shall not use all or part of the Service's content, through any Access Channel whatsoever, to train, fine-tune, evaluate or feed an artificial intelligence model or system, an index, a knowledge base or any text and data mining tool, with the exception of the instant and personal use permitted by the AI Features. This includes in particular copying, uploading, transmitting or submitting all or part of the Service's content, including emails and alerts, to a third-party artificial intelligence tool other than by means of the AI Connector under the conditions of Article 6. News Tank expressly objects, within the meaning of Article L. 122-5-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code, to any text and data mining of the Service's content; this objection is also expressed by machine-readable means. This article applies subject to the exceptions that cannot be waived by contract, in particular text and data mining for the purposes of scientific research provided for in Article L. 122-5-3, II of the same Code.

4.5 A short quotation of an extract, indicating the author's name and the source (title, date, News Tank), remains permitted provided that it illustrates a point and does not compete with the publication from which it is taken. The proliferation of quotations constitutes a derivative work subject to News Tank's prior consent.

4.6 The User shall not use the Service for the production of illegal content or content likely to adversely affect public order or the rights of third parties, nor use the News Tank name or brands without prior, express and written consent.

5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

5.1 The Service and its content are protected by copyright and by the database producer's right. News Tank remains their sole owner. Access to the Service does not grant the User any ownership or exploitation rights over all or part of the Service and its content.

5.2 The User respects all particulars relating to News Tank's rights. Any complete or partial performance or reproduction made without News Tank's consent is unlawful and constitutes an infringement within the meaning of Articles L. 122-4, L. 335-2 and L. 335-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code.

6. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FEATURES

6.1 News Tank may make AI Features available to all or some Users. They are provided without any commitment as to availability, performance or continuation. The User may not demand their provision, continuation or development.

6.2 News Tank freely determines the access restrictions to the AI Features. News Tank may at any time, unilaterally, without notice and without having to justify its decision, modify, restrict, suspend or withdraw all or part of the AI Features, with regard to all Users or to a specific User.

6.3 Access to the AI Features requires the User to be logged in to their Personal Account. The AI Features only give access to the content covered by the User's access, within the limits of their rights.

6.4 The AI Features are reserved for the User's personal professional use. The AI Connector may only be linked to an artificial intelligence assistant used solely by the User who authorised it and placed under their direct control. The following are prohibited in particular: (a) sharing an AI Connector authorisation or an access key with any other person, including within their organisation; (b) connecting the AI Connector to an agent, chatbot, workspace, knowledge base or tool accessible to several persons, or intended to answer third parties; (c) any automated, scheduled or systematic querying aimed at extracting, copying, indexing or reconstituting all or part of the content; (d) circumventing the usage limits referred to in Article 6.6, in particular by multiplying authorisations, accounts or client tools; (e) any use of the content obtained to train, fine-tune, evaluate or feed an artificial intelligence model or system, an index or a knowledge base.

6.5 The answers, summaries, extracts, tables and documents obtained by means of the AI Features constitute content of the Service and are subject to Articles 4 and 5. They are intended solely for the User's information and may not be redistributed, internally or externally, passed on to third parties, included in a press review, a collective memo, an intranet or any shared tool, or used to feed an information product or an artificial intelligence system. A short quotation with mention of the source remains permitted under the conditions of Article 4.5.

6.6 Use of the AI Features is subject to usage limits (number of requests per period, volume of documents, length of questions) which News Tank sets and changes freely; exceeding them results in a temporary refusal. Abnormal use means any use incompatible with the individual use of a User, in particular: the concurrent use of the same authorisation or key from several workstations, networks or client tools; a volume, pace or variety of requests unrelated to individual use; any serial extraction. In the event of abnormal use or breach of this article, News Tank may, without notice or compensation, suspend or withdraw all or part of the AI Features from the User concerned, revoke the authorisations and keys in question and inform the Client, without prejudice to Article 9.

6.7 The answers of the AI Features are generated automatically from the content, without review by the editorial team. They may contain errors, omissions, approximations or interpretations and constitute neither validated editorial content nor advice. The User checks any information in the cited source article before using it. When using the AI Connector, the third-party assistant to which the User links the content is their sole choice and responsibility; the User accepts its terms of use, bears its costs and ensures that they do not allow any use of the content beyond what these TCU authorise. News Tank is not a party to those terms and is not liable for the operation of that assistant, for the answers it produces, or for the processing, retention or re-use of the content by it.

6.8 Use of the AI Features is logged by News Tank: identifier of the User and of the Client, date and time, feature and tool called, search terms used, articles and documents consulted, IP address and identification of the client tool used. These logs are used for the security of the Service, the enforcement of usage limits, the detection of abnormal use, audience measurement and the improvement of the Service. They are kept for thirty-six (36) months and constitute proof under the conditions of Article 10. For the AI Assistant, the User's question and the conversation history are processed, on behalf of News Tank, by a generative artificial intelligence provider named in the Privacy Policy; News Tank does not keep the text of conversations beyond the time necessary for their continuity. Where this provider processes the data outside the European Union, the transfer is governed by the safeguards provided for in Articles 44 et seq. of the GDPR, described in the Privacy Policy.

6.9 The AI Features rely on artificial intelligence systems. News Tank clearly informs the User of this at the time of use, and the answers of the AI Assistant are presented as automatically generated.

6.10 The User refrains from entering into the AI Features any personal data of third parties not necessary for their research, any sensitive data within the meaning of Article 9 of the GDPR, or any confidential information or information covered by secrecy. Questions and conversations are not used by News Tank or by its provider to train artificial intelligence models.

7. PERSONAL DATA

7.1 News Tank processes the User's personal data as data controller, on the basis of the performance of the contract or of its legitimate interest depending on the purposes, for the management of their Personal Account, the provision of the Service, the sending of the alerts and notifications they have chosen, audience measurement, the security of the Service and the logging referred to in Article 6.8. These data may be disclosed to the Client under which the User accesses the Service, to the extent necessary for the management of the subscription and for monitoring compliance with these TCU, as well as to processors who process the data on behalf of and upon the instruction of News Tank.

7.2 The User has the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to and port the data concerning them, which they may exercise by writing to News Tank via the DPO contact page, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL (French data protection authority). Details of the processing operations, recipients, retention periods and rights are set out in the Privacy Policy.

8. LIABILITY

8.1 The Service is intended for professionals. It is up to the User to assess the quality, relevance, comprehensiveness and topicality of the information made available to them, which they use under their sole responsibility, as well as the interpretations, actions and advice they deduce from it.

8.2 The Service is provided "as it stands". News Tank is bound by an obligation of means; it does not guarantee the continuous functioning of the Service, the absence of errors or any specific response times. Access to the Service may be suspended without notice every day from 10pm to 6am and on Sundays for maintenance and updating operations.

8.3 Except in the event of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, News Tank cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of the Service or its unavailability, from a failure of communication networks, from the use of the Service with the User's hardware or software, or from the content, quality or continuity of third-party sites accessible from the Site.

9. SUSPENSION AND WITHDRAWAL OF ACCESS

9.1 In the event of a breach by the User of these Terms of Use, and in particular in the event of sharing of Credentials, redistribution of content or abnormal use of the AI Features, News Tank may, without notice or compensation, suspend or delete their Personal Account, all or part of their access and their AI Connector authorisations, and inform the Client.

9.2 These measures are without prejudice to News Tank's rights against the Client under the TCS or the TIOS and to any claim for damages.

10. MISCELLANEOUS

10.1 The records made by News Tank's equipment of the use of the Service through any Access Channel, and in particular the use of the User's Credentials and the AI Features logs referred to in Article 6.8, constitute proof between News Tank and the User.

10.2 News Tank may modify these Terms of Use at any time. The version in force is published on the Site and applies from its publication. Substantial changes, in particular those concerning the rules for using the AI Features or the processing of data, are brought to the attention of Users by email or by a message on the Site. Continued use of the Service after publication constitutes acceptance. The addition, development, restriction or withdrawal of an AI Feature or of an Access Channel does not constitute a change to these TCU.

10.3 These Terms of Use are governed by French law. In case of legal dispute, express jurisdiction is granted to the courts of Paris, subject to the applicable mandatory rules.