Community and Commercial Events Policy

Version: 2026.06.27

Effective date: 27.06.2026 г.

Overview

This Community and Commercial Events Policy explains when third parties may run events, tournaments, leagues, streams, broadcasts, competitions, or similar activities involving Ember Tables games.

The policy is a permission and compliance framework. It does not mean Ember Tables currently provides first-party event tools.

At MVP launch, Ember Tables does not provide event calendars, brackets, registration systems, organizer dashboards, event payment processing, prize administration, tax reporting, sponsor reporting, or official tournament tooling.

Definitions

An “Event” includes a tournament, league, ladder, competition, exhibition, stream, broadcast, community night, bracket, challenge, classroom activity, coaching session, or similar organized activity involving Ember Tables games.

A “Community Event” is an Event that is non-commercial or lightly monetized in ordinary community ways and does not imply official Ember Tables status.

A “Commercial Event” is an Event or related activity that involves material commercial monetization, such as ticket sales, organizer-retained entry fees, sponsorships, advertising, paid broadcasts, premium access, merchandise, paid cosmetics or supporter items, subscriptions, data products, or other organizer-retained value.

Community Events Without Case-by-Case Permission

You may organize Community Events using Ember Tables games without case-by-case written permission, provided you comply with this policy, the Terms of Service, applicable law, and third-party rights.

You must not present your Event as official, endorsed, sponsored, administered, or operated by Ember Tables unless Ember Tables expressly agrees in writing.

You are responsible for your Event, participants, rules, communications, moderation, prizes, payments, sponsors, recordings, and compliance obligations.

Commercial Events and Monetization

Commercial Events are permitted only subject to this policy, the Terms of Service, and any additional requirements Ember Tables provides for the relevant activity.

Ember Tables may require notice, approval, reporting, records, audit cooperation, platform processing, branding controls, revenue terms, or a separate written agreement for Commercial Events or high-scale commercial use.

Commercial monetization, not prize-pool size alone, is the target for platform fees or commercial licensing. Examples include tickets, organizer-retained entry fees, sponsorships, advertising, paid broadcasts, premium access, merchandise, paid cosmetics, marketplace sales, subscriptions, official API/data products, paid tools, or similar retained value.

Prize Pools and Prize Compliance

Prize pools and player winnings are not treated as Ember Tables platform-fee revenue merely because they are large.

Prize pools may still trigger legal and operational requirements, including proof of funds, fraud review, sanctions or eligibility checks, minors/safety review, tax reporting, prize fulfillment, consumer protection, gambling, lottery, contest, sweepstakes, or local-law compliance.

Unless Ember Tables expressly agrees in writing, Ember Tables does not administer, guarantee, escrow, fund, verify, pay, withhold taxes for, or report prizes for third-party Events.

Formats, Versions, and Independent Scenes

Organizers may define Event formats using specific games, versions, rulesets, timing modes, match structures, player counts, pools, brackets, ladders, seasons, eligibility rules, or other format details, subject to platform rules and law.

Independent competitive scenes, ladders, rankings, leagues, commentary, coaching, and analysis are allowed unless they violate law, rights, safety, integrity, anti-abuse rules, or platform access limits.

Ember Tables may change, delist, restrict, rebalance, rename, or stop supporting games or features, even if an Event planned to use them.

Streaming, Broadcasts, Replays, and Media

You may stream, record, broadcast, comment on, review, teach, compare, and create media about public Ember Tables gameplay and Events, subject to these Terms, platform rules, third-party rights, and applicable law.

You are responsible for participant permissions, platform rules of streaming services, music or asset rights, privacy, publicity, moderation, and required disclosures.

Ember Tables may use public Event-related information, public gameplay, public published games, clips, screenshots, and metadata for platform operation, moderation, promotion, discovery, and business purposes, subject to applicable law and policies.

Sponsorships, Advertising, and Promotional Activity

Sponsorships, advertising, affiliate relationships, gifted consideration, paid promotions, and similar material connections are allowed only if clearly disclosed where required by law and not misleading.

Sponsors, teams, organizers, broadcasters, and creators may not suggest Ember Tables endorsement, official status, partnership, or control without written permission.

At MVP launch, Ember Tables does not provide sponsor-reporting systems, paid promotional inventory, official sponsor dashboards, or sponsor data feeds.

Cosmetics, Merchandise, and Supporter Items

Organizers may sell or distribute lawful off-platform merchandise, supporter items, or community items if they comply with law, rights of others, Ember Tables brand rules, and this policy.

At MVP launch, Ember Tables does not provide paid cosmetics, paid supporter-item tooling, creator marketplace sales, creator payouts, or marketplace revenue sharing.

Future Ember Tables marketplace, cosmetics, or supporter-item features may require separate terms before use.

Data, APIs, Tools, and Reporting

You may manually discuss, compare, catalog, stream, and analyze public games and public Event results in ordinary community ways.

You may not scrape, bulk harvest, overload, bypass controls, replicate the core Service, or use unauthorized automation to access Ember Tables systems or data.

At MVP launch, Ember Tables does not provide official event APIs, paid data products, event reporting feeds, sponsor reporting exports, or organizer analytics dashboards. Future data/API access may require separate terms.

Organizer Responsibilities

Organizers are responsible for Event rules, participant eligibility, communications, moderation, safety, accessibility, schedule, brackets, disputes, prize descriptions, prize fulfillment, sponsor disclosures, taxes, payment compliance, and legal compliance.

Organizers must provide accurate information and must not mislead participants about official status, prizes, odds, fees, refunds, sponsor relationships, eligibility, or Ember Tables involvement.

Organizers must comply with applicable laws and platform rules concerning minors, gambling, lotteries, contests, sweepstakes, sanctions, consumer protection, privacy, publicity, intellectual property, and advertising.

Recordkeeping, Substantiation, and Audit Rights

For Commercial Events or Events with prizes, sponsorships, entry fees, paid broadcasts, or similar monetization, Ember Tables may require reasonable records, substantiation, reports, screenshots, payment summaries, sponsor information, prize information, proof of funds, participant notices, or compliance certifications.

Ember Tables may request audit cooperation or restrict future Event permissions where necessary to enforce platform rules, investigate abuse, verify commercial terms, or protect legal compliance.

Off-platform payments are generally allowed, but they may not be used to conceal commercial monetization, evade required platform processing, avoid reporting, mislead participants, or bypass legal or policy obligations.

Restrictions

You may not run Events that violate law, infringe rights, exploit minors, involve unlawful gambling or lotteries, misrepresent prizes, deceive participants, manipulate matches, enable harassment, distribute malware, evade platform enforcement, or harm Ember Tables, users, or the Service.

You may not imply official Ember Tables status, use Ember Tables branding in a misleading way, sell access to Ember Tables itself, or interfere with Service availability.

You may not require participants to waive rights in a misleading or unlawful way or impose Event rules that conflict with mandatory law or platform enforcement.

Ember Tables Brand and Official Status

You may refer to Ember Tables factually to describe that your Event uses Ember Tables games.

You may not use Ember Tables logos, trade dress, names, or confusingly similar branding in a way that suggests official status, endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, or control without written permission.

Ember Tables may require correction, removal, or changes to Event names, branding, pages, descriptions, streams, or promotions that are misleading or harmful.

Reservation of Rights

Ember Tables may deny, revoke, suspend, limit, modify, or condition Event permissions at any time for legal, safety, integrity, commercial, operational, product, or policy reasons.

Ember Tables may require separate written agreements for high-scale, official, sponsored, paid, broadcast, data-intensive, prize-bearing, or commercially significant Events.

Nothing in this policy grants ownership of Ember Tables games, software, brand assets, platform data, infrastructure, or user information.

Future Ember Tables Event Tools

If Ember Tables later offers first-party event tools, registration pages, calendars, brackets, organizer dashboards, event payment processing, prize administration, sponsor integrations, reporting, analytics, or official licensing workflows, those features may require additional terms and privacy notices before use.

Until those features are actually offered, organizers should not assume Ember Tables will administer, schedule, process payments for, verify, report, or operate their Events.

Contact

Questions about this policy or requests for written event permission can be sent to contact@embertables.com.