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Terms of Service

The rules that govern your use of Cricket Times. Please read section 3 in particular — it sets out what you may and may not do with what you find here.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Dreamers LLC, a Washington State limited liability company trading as Cricket Times ("Cricket Times", "we", "us"), and they govern your use of cricketimes.com and any associated pages, feeds, datasets, and services (together, the "Site").

By visiting the Site, creating an account, subscribing, commenting, or submitting an article, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Site.

Section 1Accounts

Some parts of the Site are open to everyone; others require an account, and others require a paid subscription or an equivalent grant of access. You must provide an accurate email address when you register, keep your password confidential, and tell us promptly if you believe your account has been used by someone else.

An account is personal to one individual. It may not be shared, sold, lent, or operated on behalf of a group, an institution, or a newsroom. You are responsible for everything done through your account.

You must be at least 13 years old to hold an account. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only purchase a subscription with the consent of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.

Section 2What the Site is

Cricket Times is an independent publication about cricket. It combines editorial writing with statistical pages, derived datasets, rankings, simulations, and models built specifically for this Site. Some of that material is free to read; some sits behind a subscription.

Nothing on the Site is financial, betting, or fantasy-sports advice. See section 10.

Section 3Copyright and permitted use

3.1 Ownership

All material on the Site — including articles, headlines, analysis, editorial photography and illustration, statistical tables and visualisations, derived and computed datasets, ranking systems and models, page design, typography, layout, and source code — is © 2026 Dreamers LLC unless credited otherwise, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Section 4 describes the third-party records that some of this material is built from; our compilation, derivation, computation, arrangement, and presentation of those records is our own work and is covered by this section.

"Cricket Times" and the Cricket Times masthead are our marks. Nothing here grants you a licence to use them.

3.2 What your access permits

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and read the Site, and to display it on a device you control, for your own private and non-commercial use. That is the whole of the licence. Every right not expressly granted here is reserved.

3.3 What your access does not permit

Without our prior written permission, you may not:

• Copy or reproduce any part of the Site, in whole or in part, in any medium now known or later devised;
• Republish, redistribute, syndicate, mirror, or publicly display any part of it, including on a website, in a newsletter, in an app, on social media beyond ordinary linking, or in print;
• Adapt, translate, or make derivative works from it, including reformatting a table, restating a dataset, or rebuilding a visualisation from the underlying figures;
• Extract data in bulk — by scraping, crawling, spidering, harvesting, automated download, systematic manual copying, or any other means, whether or not the extraction is technically permitted by the Site;
• Use any part of the Site to train, fine-tune, evaluate, ground, or otherwise develop a machine-learning model, large language model, or other artificial-intelligence system, and you may not permit or facilitate a third party doing so. This restriction is express, is not waived by any technical means of access, and applies whether the material is retrieved by a person, a browser agent, or an automated crawler. We do not grant a text-and-data-mining exception, and any such use is expressly reserved;
• Share subscriber content with anyone who does not hold their own access — by forwarding, screenshotting, exporting, reposting, or passing on your credentials;
• Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice, credit line, byline, or attribution attached to material you receive.

3.4 Quotation and linking

You are welcome to link to us, and to quote us the way one publication quotes another: a short extract, quoted accurately, attributed to Cricket Times, and accompanied by a link to the page it came from. That courtesy does not extend to reproducing an article substantially, reproducing a table or dataset, or quoting at a length that saves your reader the trouble of visiting. Where local law grants you a right of quotation, criticism, review, or reporting that is wider than this paragraph, that right is unaffected.

3.5 Enforcement

We take this section seriously. Where we find material from the Site republished, redistributed, or reused in breach of these Terms, or an account being used to copy, extract, or share what it was given access to read, we may suspend or terminate that account at our sole discretion — immediately, without notice, and without refund — and we may pursue any other remedy available to us. Section 12 sets out how suspension and termination work more generally.

3.6 Asking for permission

Permission is often given, and it costs nothing to ask. Licensing, syndication, and republication enquiries go to ivan@cricketimes.com.

Section 4Where the data comes from

The match and player records behind the Site are compiled by Ananth Narayanan and used with permission. The Site also draws on data from Cricsheet, made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence 1.0, and our use of it is subject to that licence's attribution requirement.

Underlying factual records may carry their own rights and permissions, which these Terms do not purport to grant you. Our own contribution — the compilation, the derived and computed datasets, the models, and everything built on top — is covered by section 3.

Section 5Subscriptions, payment, and availability

5.1 How a subscription works

Paid access is sold as a recurring subscription. Prices are shown at the point of purchase, in the currency that applies to your location, and include or exclude tax as indicated there.

Unless you cancel, a subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price. You may cancel at any time from your account page; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and your access continues until then.

We may change prices for future billing periods. Where we do, we will tell you before the change takes effect, and you may cancel if you would rather not continue.

5.2 Who takes your payment

Payments are handled by Stripe, through its Managed Payments service, under which Stripe acts as merchant of record for the transaction rather than simply processing a payment on our behalf.

Stripe provides that service through a Stripe company called Sold through Link, LLC, and the name you will actually see is Link. Stripe and Link are the same organisation; Link is the part of it that handles the sale. In practice that means:

• your purchase is described to you as “Sold through Link”, and your card statement will show LINK.COM followed by our name — not “Cricket Times” or “Stripe”;
• your receipt, your invoice, and any refund or credit notification are sent to you by Link rather than by us, and we cannot change or suppress them;
• you can view your order history, update your card, and cancel your subscription at link.com as well as from your account page here;
• Stripe may send you a reminder before your subscription renews. These come from Link and are not within our control.

We never receive or store your card number.

None of this changes what you are buying or who you are reading. Your subscription is to Cricket Times, and we remain responsible for the Site and for the access your subscription provides. Questions about the publication come to us; questions about a charge, a receipt, or a refund may be handled by Link.

5.3 Where paid subscriptions are available

Free access to Cricket Times is open to readers everywhere. That includes articles published on the home page, the newsletter, the Yorker quiz, and any other content we make available without charge. Nothing in this section restricts free access, and nothing in this section requires you to hold an account or to tell us where you are.

Paid subscriptions are offered only to residents of the countries listed in our Service Area. We may update that list from time to time; the version published when you subscribe applies to your subscription for its then-current term.

By purchasing a paid subscription you confirm that you are resident in a country within the Service Area. You agree not to use a virtual private network, a proxy, or any other means of misrepresenting your location in order to purchase a subscription, or to obtain pricing designated for a country in which you are not resident.

If we determine that a paid subscription was purchased from outside the Service Area, or that regional pricing was obtained by misrepresenting location, we may cancel the subscription. Where we cancel on those grounds, we will refund the unused portion of the amount paid, and section 12 does not apply to that cancellation.

Cancellation under this section does not affect your continued free access to Cricket Times.

5.4 Refunds

Except where a refund is required by law, or where these Terms provide for one, payments are non-refundable, including for partly used periods. Because Stripe acts as merchant of record, Stripe may also issue a refund directly in some circumstances, whether or not we would have done so. If something has gone wrong with your subscription, write to us before disputing a charge — most problems are quicker to fix directly.

Section 6Complimentary access

Cricket Times may, at its sole discretion, extend complimentary access to the subscriber experience to a small number of individuals. Complimentary access is a discretionary courtesy. It is not an offer, a promise, a prize, a service purchased, or anything bargained for, and nothing on the Site or in these Terms should be read as an invitation to request it.

Where it is granted, it is personal to the recipient and non-transferable; it may be limited or open-ended in duration; and it may be varied, suspended, or withdrawn at any time, with or without notice and without reason being given. It creates no payment obligation on either side, and it carries no refund, credit, compensation, or continuation right of any kind.

Except in respect of payment, these Terms apply to complimentary access exactly as they apply to a paid subscription — and section 3 in particular applies without any relaxation. Because complimentary access involves no payment, the availability restriction in section 5.3 does not apply to it.

Section 7Comments and reactions

Where comments are open, you may post under the display name on your account. By posting, you confirm that the comment is your own work, is accurate as far as you know, and is not unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or an infringement of anyone else's rights.

You keep ownership of what you write. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display, and reproduce your comment on the Site and in connection with it, for as long as it remains posted.

We may remove any comment, at any time, for any reason — including decency, accuracy, relevance, or the general quality of the conversation — and we are not obliged to explain a removal. Reactions are a rough indication of reader sentiment, not a measurement, and we may recalculate, reset, or withdraw them.

Section 8Contributor submissions

If you submit an article or other material for publication, you keep the copyright in your work. You grant Cricket Times a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to edit, publish, archive, syndicate, and promote it on and in connection with the Site, including in any audio version we produce.

You confirm that the work is original to you, that it has not been generated in substantial part by an artificial-intelligence system without our knowledge, that you hold the rights in any image or material you supply with it, and that publishing it will not infringe anyone's rights or breach any obligation of confidence you owe.

We are not obliged to publish anything submitted, and submission creates no payment obligation unless we have agreed one with you in writing. We may edit for length, accuracy, style, and house conventions. Once published, we may keep the piece in the archive indefinitely.

Section 9Things you may not do

In addition to the restrictions in section 3, you may not:

• circumvent, disable, probe, or attempt to defeat any paywall, access gate, rate limit, or security measure on the Site;
• access the Site by any automated means, or through any interface other than an ordinary web browser, without our written permission;
• impose an unreasonable load on the Site's infrastructure, or interfere with its availability to others;
• use the Site to send unsolicited messages, to advertise, or to harvest other users' details;
• misrepresent who you are, or register an account in someone else's name;
• misrepresent where you are — including by using a virtual private network or proxy to purchase a subscription from outside our Service Area, or to obtain pricing designated for a country in which you are not resident (see section 5.3);
• use the Site for any unlawful purpose, or in breach of any applicable export, sanctions, or data-protection law.

Security researchers acting in good faith are welcome; please write to us before testing anything, and give us a reasonable chance to fix what you find before disclosing it.

9.1 Measures we apply

Running a subscription site means protecting what it serves. We apply technical measures to do that, and we may add to them without notice. They currently include limits on how often the underlying data may be requested, checks that a request comes from a genuine browser session rather than an automated client, logging of which account requested what and when, and suspending or blocking access where we reasonably believe these Terms are being breached.

Applying these measures is part of operating the Site. It is not a change to what your subscription provides, and it does not entitle you to a refund. They are set so that ordinary reading is unaffected, but no such measure is perfect: if one interrupts your legitimate use, write to us and we will put it right promptly.

Section 10Accuracy and no warranty

Statistics, derived datasets, models, simulations, rankings, and editorial content are provided as-is. We take accuracy seriously and correct errors when we find them, but we do not warrant that every figure is current, complete, or free from error, and source data can itself be wrong or revised.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Do not use this Site as the sole basis for any financial, betting, or fantasy-cricket decision. If you do, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Section 11Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cricket Times and Dreamers LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising out of or connected with your use of the Site — whether the claim is framed in contract, tort, or otherwise, and whether or not we were told such loss was possible.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or connected with the Site and these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you actually paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) one hundred United States dollars (US$100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations. Where that is so, the exclusions and limitations above apply to the fullest extent that jurisdiction permits, and nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Section 12Suspension and termination

You may close your account at any time by writing to us. We may suspend or terminate an account, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe these Terms have been breached — and we will normally do so immediately in the case of a breach of section 3 or section 9.

Where we terminate a paid subscription for a breach, we may withhold any refund for the unused part of the period — except where we cancel under section 5.3, in which case we will refund the unused portion as that section provides. Sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 14 survive the end of your account.

Section 13Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The version on this page is the version in force, and the date it took effect is shown at the foot of the page. Where a change materially affects your rights, we will make reasonable efforts to tell subscribers in advance — by email or by a notice on the Site. Continuing to use the Site after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

Section 14Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts sitting in King County, Washington have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or connected with them, and you consent to that jurisdiction and venue. Nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of any mandatory consumer law of the country in which you live.

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest remain in force. Our not enforcing a provision on one occasion is not a waiver of it.

Section 15Contact

Licensing, syndication, republication, and permission requests: ivan@cricketimes.com.

Everything else, including account and subscription questions: contact@cricketimes.com.

How we handle your personal data is set out separately in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

Dreamers LLC (Washington State), trading as Cricket Times.
Effective 14 August 2026. Supersedes the terms of 31 July 2026, 28 July 2026, and the interim terms of 5 May 2026.