Terms of Service

Welcome to MockSlate. These terms are a contract between you and Cody Blaze Enterprises LLC, the company that operates mockslate.com. We’ve written them in plain English on purpose. By using MockSlate you agree to them. Questions any time: hello@mockslate.com.

1. What MockSlate is

MockSlate provides tools for building fan-made mock sports schedules, plus games and contests built around real schedule releases. Everything you build or see here is a fan-made projection. Nothing on MockSlate is an official schedule, and graded results are for entertainment.

2. Your account

You need an account (email and password) to save mocks, enter contests, or subscribe to Pro. You must be at least 13 to create an account. Keep your password to yourself — activity on your account is your responsibility. One account per person. If you choose a public display name or a league team name, it appears on leaderboards and public pages, so it must not be offensive, impersonate someone else, or include names, logos, or trademarks you don’t have the right to use. We filter and may reject or replace names that break these rules.

3. The free tier and contests

The mock builders’ free tier and our free prize contests cost nothing to use or enter. Contests with cash prizes are free to enter — no purchase necessary — open to residents of eligible jurisdictions who are 18 or older, and void where prohibited. Each contest is governed by its own Contest Official Rules (eligibility, entry windows, scoring, tiebreakers, and prize delivery), published before that contest’s entries open. If these terms and a contest’s Official Rules ever disagree, the Official Rules control for that contest. Paying for Pro never improves your odds or prize eligibility in any contest.

4. MockSlate Pro

MockSlate Pro is an auto-renewing annual subscription. The standard price is $19/year; accounts that subscribe during the 2026 founding season pay $12/year and keep that rate for as long as they stay continuously subscribed. Your subscription renews automatically each year until you cancel — see section 5 for how cancelling and refunds work.

Price changes. If the renewal price of your subscription is ever going to increase, we’ll email you at least 30 days before the renewal so you can cancel first. A price change never alters the founding rate of a continuously-subscribed founding member.

Lifetime Pro is an optional one-time purchase that grants Pro for as long as MockSlate operates. It never auto-renews. Gifts: Pro can be gifted; a gift grants the recipient one year of Pro on their own account and never auto-renews. All prices are shown at the point of purchase.

Payments. Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.

5. Refunds and cancellation

Refunds. Subscriptions are non-refundable except as required by law. That said, we want you to have a good experience — if something’s clearly wrong within the first 30 days of a new purchase, like a billing error, duplicate charge, or a bug that broke your Pro access, email hello@mockslate.com and we’ll take a look. Whether we issue a refund, credit, extension, or other remedy is decided case-by-case in our reasonable discretion, and this is a courtesy — not a guarantee, warranty, or ongoing right. After the first 30 days, subscription fees are non-refundable in all cases except where required by law.

Cancellation. You can cancel anytime from your Account page. Cancelling stops all future charges immediately. You’ll keep Pro access through the end of the billing period you’ve already paid for; we don’t prorate partial periods, and cancellation itself doesn’t trigger a refund of the current period.

6. Pro games and private leagues

Games that come with Pro are played for leaderboard glory only. They have no cash prizes and no entry fees. MockSlate is not a gambling service.

7. No wagering on private leagues

Private friend leagues on MockSlate are for glory only. You may not use MockSlate leagues, invitations, chat, or scoring outputs to organize, promote, collect entry fees for, run buy-ins or prize pools for, or settle wagers of any kind — whether the money moves on MockSlate, off MockSlate, or entirely between third parties. If we become aware that a league is being used to facilitate wagering, we may (in our sole discretion and without prior notice) remove the league, disqualify its results, and suspend or terminate the accounts of the organizer and participants. We’re not obligated to monitor leagues, but we do act on credible reports.

8. Your content

You own the mocks you build. Saved mocks are private to your account. When you enter a contest, the entry becomes part of the public contest: your entry, its title, your display name, and its graded result appear on public leaderboard and scorecard pages. By entering, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and share those public pages for as long as the contest and its results remain published. You can also export graphics of your mocks and share them anywhere — they’re yours.

Anything visible to other people — mock titles, display names, team names — must be yours to use. Don’t include content that infringes someone else’s trademarks or copyrights, and don’t post anything hateful, obscene, or illegal. We run an automated filter on public names, and we reserve the right to remove or rename any content that breaks these rules. To report content, email hello@mockslate.com and we’ll review it promptly.

9. Acceptable use

Don’t break MockSlate: no scraping at abusive volume, no probing or disrupting our systems, no circumventing Pro gates or contest entry limits, no automated contest entries, and no using the service to violate any law. We may suspend or terminate accounts that do any of this.

10. Affiliate program

MockSlate operates a partner program for creators and publishers. Participation is governed by separate affiliate terms provided when you join that program; nothing in these terms creates an affiliate relationship.

11. Independence and intellectual property

MockSlate is an independent fan tool and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, FIFA, or any team or national federation. Team names are used for identification purposes only.

MockSlate’s software, design, data presentations, and original content belong to Cody Blaze Enterprises LLC. You may not copy or resell the service itself, but you’re always welcome to share what you build with it.

12. Disclaimers

MockSlate is provided “as is” and “as available.” We work hard to keep it accurate and online, but we make no warranties of any kind — express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — and we don’t guarantee the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. Schedule data and grading are for entertainment; don’t use them for anything that matters if they’re wrong.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, each party’s total aggregate liability arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, for any and all claims of any kind, will not exceed the greater of (a) fifty U.S. dollars ($50.00), or (b) the amounts you paid to MockSlate in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Exceptions. The cap and the exclusion of consequential damages above do not apply to: (i) your indemnification obligations to MockSlate under these Terms; (ii) either party’s infringement or misappropriation of the other’s intellectual property rights; (iii) either party’s breach of its confidentiality obligations under these Terms; (iv) MockSlate’s obligation to pay a prize actually awarded to you under the Official Rules of a contest you won; or (v) any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law (such as, in some jurisdictions, liability for gross negligence, fraud, or willful misconduct).

Basis of the bargain. You acknowledge that the fees charged by MockSlate reflect this allocation of risk, and that this section is a fundamental basis of the bargain between you and MockSlate.

14. Ending things

You can stop using MockSlate at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account and data by emailing hello@mockslate.com. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms; if we do, and you have an active paid subscription with no violation-related cause on your side, we’ll refund the unused portion.

15. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll update the date at the top and, for significant changes, tell you by email or an in-product notice before they take effect. Using MockSlate after a change takes effect means you accept the new terms.

16. Dispute resolution and arbitration

Please read this section carefully. It requires you and MockSlate to resolve most disputes through binding individual arbitration, and it limits your ability to sue in court or participate in a class action. You can opt out within 30 days (see below) without affecting any other part of these Terms.

1. Informal resolution first. Before starting arbitration or filing in small claims, you agree to send us a Notice of Dispute at hello@mockslate.com with (a) your name and account email, (b) a description of the dispute, and (c) the specific relief you want. We’ll do the same before bringing a claim against you. If we can’t resolve the dispute within 60 days after the Notice is received, either of us may start arbitration or file in small claims.

2. Binding arbitration. Except for the exclusions in Section 4, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, or your relationship with MockSlate will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures then in effect. Arbitration will be conducted in Miami-Dade County, Florida, or by telephone or video at your election. The arbitrator’s decision is final and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

3. Class action waiver. You and MockSlate agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, mass, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of representative proceeding.

4. Exclusions. This arbitration agreement does not apply to: (a) claims brought in small claims court that stay within that court’s jurisdictional limits and remain individual (non-class); (b) actions by either party to seek injunctive or other equitable relief for infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property; or (c) actions to enforce an arbitration award.

5. 30-day opt-out. You can opt out of this arbitration agreement (Sections 2 and 3) by emailing hello@mockslate.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” and your account email in the body. Opting out doesn’t affect any other part of these Terms and won’t affect your account.

6. Severability. If the class action waiver in Section 3 is found unenforceable as to any claim or relief sought, that claim or request for relief will be severed from the arbitration and heard in a court of competent jurisdiction in Miami-Dade County, Florida; all other parts of this section remain in effect. If any other part of this section is found unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect.

7. Governing law. These Terms and any dispute between you and MockSlate are governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (for the arbitration provisions) and the laws of the State of Florida (for everything else), without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

17. Contact

Cody Blaze Enterprises LLC · hello@mockslate.com · See also our Privacy Policy.