Terms of Service

1. What FTBL Exchange is

FTBL Exchange is a football recruitment platform built and operated by Agency Four. Clubs, and agents working for a club, post requests for the players they need. Agents propose the players they represent, and players can apply to open requests themselves. Using FTBL Exchange is free: there is no subscription, no commission on any deal and no advertising.

FTBL Exchange is not an agent and is not a party to any deal made between the people who meet on it. It does not promise any player a move or any club a signing. The agreements you make, and following the rules that apply to them (including the FIFA Football Agent Regulations and your national association's rules where they apply to you), are your responsibility.

2. Accounts and who can register

Anyone can register as a player, a club, a FIFA licensed agent, an intermediary or a scout. Every account gives a WhatsApp number with its country code, and we keep every number an account gives us, including one it later replaces and the numbers on the page of an agency it runs (see section 6 and the Privacy Policy). The WhatsApp number on a player's profile is the number on the account that owns the profile: the player's own account if he has one, otherwise the account of the agent who added him. A profile with no owner account shows the number entered on the profile itself, if one is. Members, and anyone who opens the profile through its own share link, which the player, his agent or our admins send, see it when they tap for it. Agents' pages show no number. A person at FTBL Exchange checks every account before it goes live, and may refuse one. Until an account is approved it cannot browse the board of requests or anyone's profile. It can open only a request, a list of proposed players or a profile that someone has shared by link, and sees no contact details on them, except on a profile opened through its own share link, which shows the same contact details members see.

• Players must give their own Transfermarkt player page and a link to their highlights. The profile is built from that page.
• Clubs must name the club and their role at it, and must be authorised to recruit for that club.
• Choose FIFA licensed agent only if you hold a FIFA Football Agent licence, and give its number. The type is what you tell us; the label and the verified tick are our check. Until we have matched the number on FIFA's public register, the account is shown to others as FIFA licence pending check, with no tick. Once it matches, it is shown as a FIFA Licensed Agent, with a verified tick. Choosing FIFA licensed agent without holding that licence is a reason for us to refuse or remove the account.
• Intermediaries (who work on players' moves without a FIFA licence) and scouts (who look for players or help players get seen) can do everything an agent can on FTBL Exchange. They are shown to everyone as an intermediary or a scout, and must not present themselves as FIFA licensed.

Give your real name and accurate details, keep your password to yourself, and hold one account. You are responsible for what is done with your account.

3. Agents and the players you add

When you add a player, you warrant that you have a valid signed representation agreement (exclusive, non-exclusive mandate, or specific-submission basis) with that player. A person checks every player an agent adds before the profile goes live. Adding a player without a valid mandate may result in:

• Immediate removal of the profile
• Personal legal liability for damages
• Termination of your FTBL Exchange account
• Reporting to FIFA where applicable

4. Requests and proposals

Post a request only for a position a club has authorised you to fill. Every request you post has to state the salary, whether it is net or gross, and the contract length, and what you state must be true. The club is never named to the agents and players who see the request. Whoever posted a request can also share it as a public link, still without the club's name.

Whoever posted a request, and our admins, see every proposal made to it, including proposals from other agents. An agent sees only his own proposals on a request he did not post.

Whoever posted a request can also share, by link, the players proposed to it (not those withdrawn or turned down) or only the shortlist, so that someone without an account, such as the club itself, can review them. Each player on it links to his profile, without his contact details or his wage. When our admins post a request for a club that is not on FTBL Exchange, the proposals reach that club this way. By proposing a player, or applying yourself, you agree that the profile can be shared in this way.

When you propose a player you state his minimum wage. Whoever posted the request sees only whether it fits the budget, never the figure. If the player wants more than the offer, you are asked to confirm he will accept the club's figure before the proposal goes through. Confirm it only if he has agreed.

5. Profile data and accuracy

Career history, appearances, minutes, contract details and market value are read from third-party sources (Transfermarkt, Sofascore and FotMob) and shown with their source. Players and agents cannot type over them; our admins correct a wrong reading. We take care with this data but cannot guarantee that a third-party source is correct or up to date.

Wyscout statistics come from an uploaded Wyscout export, which an admin or the player's agent can add. If you upload one, you warrant that it is an unaltered export that you are entitled to share. Everything else you add, such as a bio, video, languages, availability and contact details, is your responsibility and must be accurate.

6. Approval, suspension and removal

We may refuse, edit, suspend or remove any account, profile, request or proposal at our discretion, without notice, including where we believe an account is fake or automated.

You can ask for your account and your profile to be removed at any time. Signed in, use the Remove my profile page, or write to the address in section 9. If you are an agent, removing your account does not remove the players you added or the page of an agency you ran: say so in your request if you want them removed too, or your contact details taken off them.

When we remove an account, we delete its data, whether you asked us to or we removed it ourselves. When we remove an account ourselves, a record of email we hold only against an email address, and not linked to the account, stays, because anyone can type any address when signing up; whoever holds that address can ask us to delete it. We may keep one copy of the data we delete, messages included, for no more than 30 days, so that a removal made in error can be reversed or a dispute answered. After that the copy is deleted.

There are three exceptions. One is a short identity record, kept for every account that closes, however it closed: the name and email addresses on the account, every WhatsApp number we held for it (including the numbers on the page of an agency it ran), the FIFA licence number on the account when it closed, if it had one, the account's identifier, its role (and for an agent, which kind), and the date it closed and why. Another is a request to remove data, if one was made, and what we did about it. We keep the record for six years from the date the account closed and the request for six years from the date we dealt with it, to prevent fraud and misuse of FTBL Exchange, to show that we carried out the request and to deal with legal claims, and then delete them. The third is an email address on our list of addresses we must not email, because it unsubscribed or asked us to stop, a message to it bounced or it reported one as spam: it stays on that list, with the date and the reason, so that we never email it again. Only our admins can see them. The Privacy Policy says more.

7. Prohibited use

Scraping FTBL Exchange, collecting other people's contact details in bulk, creating accounts automatically or in bulk, or misrepresenting who you are or who you act for will result in immediate termination and possible referral to authorities.

Contact details shown to you, on a player's profile, on an agent's or an agency's page, or against a proposal on a request you posted, are there so you can contact that person about football. They are not yours to pass on, publish or add to a list. Unless it is your own, the WhatsApp number on a player's profile is shown only when you tap for it, whether you are signed in or opened the profile through a share link, as is one against a proposal, and we record every reveal, and who asked for it when they were signed in. There is a daily limit on how many different players' numbers one account can reveal from their profiles, and on how many can be revealed through share links.

8. Messages

Messages sent through FTBL Exchange are stored only for as long as they are useful and are deleted automatically 90 days after they are sent. We do not read them in the ordinary course of running the platform. We will access a conversation only where we are required to by law, or where one of the people in it reports the other, and then only so far as is needed to deal with that report.

Do not send passwords, payment details, identity documents or anything else you would not want stored. Messaging carries no file attachments. If you paste a link to an image hosted elsewhere, that link is outside our control and may be readable by anyone who has it.

If you ask us to delete your account, the messages you sent are deleted with it, including from the inbox of the person you sent them to.

9. Contact

Compliance: info@agencyfour.app