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Terms and conditions

These terms apply when you use Game Plan Hockey Manager (GPHM), the website and the game. By playing you agree to them. Premium is covered by the terms of subscription, and how we handle your information by the privacy policy.

GPHM is a hobby project run by one person in Sweden, with volunteer admins who help run the game worlds.

1. Your account

You sign in with your email address and a one-time code we send you. Keep your email account to yourself: anyone who can read your email can sign in as you. You are responsible for what happens on your account.

One person, one account. Each account may run one club per game world.

2. Play fair

The game is only fun if everyone plays the same game. These count as cheating:

  • Running more than one account, or helping someone else’s account, to gain an edge in the same world: trading between your own clubs, dumping players to a friend, or joining a club just to strip it.
  • Stripping computer-run clubs through lopsided trades. Those clubs are the next manager’s new home.
  • Using bugs or automated tools to gain an advantage. If you find a bug, report it instead.

We detect cheating both automatically and through reports from other managers. Trades that came from cheating can be reversed, and accounts that cheat can be suspended or closed. Report suspected cheating to an admin in the chat, or to support@gameplanhockey.com.

3. The chat, and anything you write or upload

You are responsible for what you write. No racism, harassment, threats, hate, sexual content, spam, advertising, or anything illegal. Keep personal information, yours and others’, out of the chat.

The admins may remove posts and mute or suspend managers who break these rules. We do not check everything before it is posted, so if you see something that breaks the rules, tell us.

Club logos you upload. With Premium you can upload a logo of your own for your club. When you upload one, you confirm that you have the right to use the image and that it follows these rules. A club logo has to look like it could belong to a real hockey club. It may not:

  • copy the logo or mark of a real club, league or brand, or use artwork you have no right to use;
  • show a real person;
  • be obscene, racist, violent, hateful or sexual;
  • be a meme or a joke image.

Every logo is reviewed by the person running the game, with the help of the AI assistant described in the privacy policy, before any other manager can see it. We may refuse a logo, or withdraw one we approved earlier, at any time, for example after a report. You get a notice in the game with the reason, and a club wearing a withdrawn logo goes back to the mascot it had before.

You keep whatever rights you have in your image. By uploading it, you let us store it and show it in the game and on the site wherever your club appears, until you delete it or we withdraw it. Uploading something that breaks these rules can lead to a suspension (section 5).

Some clubs wear a logo their manager uploaded rather than one from the game. If you see one that breaks these rules, tell us at support@gameplanhockey.com.

4. Staying active

The game keeps clubs in the hands of managers who play. If you do not sign in for about a week, your club is marked as on leave and the game runs it for you. If you do not sign in for about two weeks, you are released from the club so another manager can take it over. Your manager history stays, and you can start a new career at any time.

5. When we suspend or close an account

We may suspend or close an account that cheats, abuses other managers, attacks the site, or otherwise breaks these terms. We decide whether the rules were broken. If you think we got it wrong, write to support@gameplanhockey.com. If we suspect a crime, we may report it and share the information the authorities need.

6. The game and its content

The game, its code, text, graphics, logos and other content belong to GPHM or are used under licence, except the club logos managers upload, which stay theirs (section 3). You may not copy, distribute or reuse them, for profit or not, without our written permission. Screenshots and videos of your own games for non-commercial use, such as streams and community posts, are welcome.

All players, clubs, leagues and other names in the game are fictional. Any resemblance to real people is coincidental.

Artwork made with AI tools. Some artwork in the game, such as the club mascots and some scene and background pictures, was made with AI image tools (Midjourney and Google Gemini). We have the right to use it, but it may not be protected by copyright in the usual way, and it is not exclusive to us. You may not download or reuse it without our permission. GPHM is not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of these tools.

Player faces are drawn by a program from randomly combined features. They are not made by AI and do not show real people.

7. Ideas and feedback

Ideas, suggestions and bug reports are always welcome. If you send us one, we may use it in the game freely, without owing you payment or credit.

8. Attacks on the site

You may not try to break into, overload or disrupt the site, or read other managers’ information. We report such attacks to the police and help them identify who was behind them.

You may link to GPHM. You may not present the game as part of another site, or run it through another service. We are not responsible for the content of sites we link to.

There is no public API at the moment. If one returns, its terms will be added here.

10. Our responsibility

We do our best to keep the game running, fair and correct, but it is a hobby project. It is provided as it is, and it may sometimes be down, have bugs, or change. We may change, pause or close the game or any part of it. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses from using the game. This does not limit any right you have as a consumer under the law.

11. Changes to these terms

When these terms change, we update this page and the date below, and we tell managers in the game about important changes. This version applies from 30 October 2026.

These terms are governed by Swedish law.