Terms of Service

Key points at a glance

This overview summarises what matters most to you. The full text that follows is authoritative.

Most of LawFive is free. The rules quiz, the reference work, assignment management and the leaderboards cost nothing. Only the detailed personal statistics and the Friends feature are subject to a charge (clause 2).

LawFive Premium costs CHF 7.50 per month or CHF 78.00 per year. You can take it out through the Apple App Store, through Google Play or through our website (clauses 3, 4 and 9).

The subscription is available only in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The app itself can be used free of charge worldwide (section "Important: LawFive Premium is available only in Switzerland and Liechtenstein", following clause 3).

If we increase the price and you do not cancel, the new price counts as accepted. We announce an increase at least 30 days in advance (section "Important: if you do not cancel after a price increase, the new price counts as accepted", following clause 4).

The trial period lasts 14 days and then automatically converts into a paid subscription. We do not remind you. You are shown the end date when you purchase (clause 5).

You can cancel at any time — in the App Store and on Google Play at the latest 24 hours before the end of the current period, and with no deadline for a subscription taken out through our website (clause 6).

You have a 14-day right of withdrawal, without giving reasons — including if you use Premium from the outset. It is available to you once per subscription (clause 7).

Anyone who already used LawFive before Premium was introduced receives the Premium features free of charge up to and including 30 September 2027 (clause 10).

You can take out a subscription from the age of 16. Anyone younger uses LawFive free of charge (clause 11).

Your display name and your profile picture are visible to other users. The anonymity setting hides them in the leaderboards; they remain visible to people you are friends with (section "Important: your display name and your profile picture are visible to other users", following clause 12).

Deleting your account is immediate and final — and it does not end your subscription (clause 20).

Questions? Write to us at info@lawfive.ch.

1. Scope and contracting parties

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern the use of the LawFive app — free use as well as the paid LawFive Premium subscription.

The provider is Mauchle Digital, Sandro Mauchle, Hochackerstrasse 6, 9032 Engelburg, Switzerland, email info@lawfive.ch (referred to below as "we"). The contracting party is the natural person who opens an account or takes out a subscription (referred to below as "you").

By opening an account and by using LawFive, you accept these Terms. Individual provisions concern only the paid subscription; this is apparent from the text in each case. All other provisions apply to all users.

These Terms are available at any time at https://www.lawfive.ch/legal/terms-en.html (in German, French and Italian at -de, -fr and -it, to the extent those versions have been published).

The app is available worldwide and, in its free form, can be used worldwide; these Terms apply to that use as well. For the paid subscription, the restriction in the section "Important: LawFive Premium is available only in Switzerland and Liechtenstein", following clause 3, applies.

2. Description of services

The following are free of charge: the rules quiz, the reference work on the Laws of the Game, assignment management (match appointments, calendar synchronisation) and the leaderboards (the friends leaderboard additionally requires the Friends feature).

LawFive Premium additionally unlocks: detailed personal statistics and analyses as well as the Friends feature (friends list, friends' profiles and their statistics).

We develop LawFive on an ongoing basis; the range of features may change as a result. If we intend to restrict the scope of the Premium services substantially, we will notify you at least 30 days in advance in the app and at www.lawfive.ch. You may terminate the subscription with effect as of that date, and we will refund you the portion of the subscription fee attributable to the remaining term; the process is governed by clause 8.

LawFive is a training and learning offering. Its content replaces neither the official IFAB Laws of the Game nor the rules of any association, and it gives rise to no claims against associations or third parties.

3. Conclusion of contract and billing channels

You can take out LawFive Premium through three channels: through the Apple App Store, where payment is processed by Apple; through Google Play, where payment is processed by Google; and through our website, where we process payment ourselves (clause 9).

In all three cases, the contract for the use of LawFive Premium is concluded with us. It is concluded as soon as the purchase is confirmed in the relevant channel.

Who sells to you, by contrast, differs from channel to channel: in the App Store it is Apple, on Google Play it is Google. Those two handle payment, invoicing and refunds under their own terms, which apply to the purchase in those channels in addition to these Terms. If you take out the subscription through our website, we are the seller and handle those steps ourselves (clause 9).

What applies between you and us is set out in these Terms.

Important: LawFive Premium is available only in Switzerland and Liechtenstein

We offer the paid subscription exclusively to persons resident in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. If you live elsewhere, you may not take out LawFive Premium; by taking it out, you confirm that you are resident in Switzerland or Liechtenstein.

In the App Store and on Google Play, Apple and Google respectively decide whether the subscription is offered to you for purchase, on the basis of the country stored in your Apple or Google account.

If a subscription is nevertheless concluded outside these two countries, it is valid; in that case we may terminate it as of the end of the current period. We do not refund periods already used.

Free use of LawFive is not limited to these two countries.

4. Prices and price changes

You are shown the current prices before purchase. At present they are CHF 7.50 per month or CHF 78.00 per year (equivalent to CHF 6.50 per month).

These are final prices in Swiss francs: any taxes and duties are included, and no further costs are added.

We announce price changes at least 30 days before they take effect in the app and at www.lawfive.ch. A price change takes effect only from the next renewal period; you pay for the current period at the previous price.

A price reduction applies from the next renewal period without any action on your part. For a price increase, the section "Important: if you do not cancel after a price increase, the new price counts as accepted", following this clause, applies.

Important: if you do not cancel after a price increase, the new price counts as accepted

If we increase the price, we announce this at least 30 days before it takes effect in the app and at www.lawfive.ch. In the announcement we state the new price and the renewal period from which it applies. You still pay for the current period at the previous price.

You may terminate the subscription with effect as of the end of the current period. If you do, it ends at that point and the new price is never charged to you. How to cancel is set out in clause 6.

If you do not cancel, the new price counts as accepted: the subscription is renewed and, from the next renewal period, the new price is charged to you. Your silence is sufficient for that — we do not need your express consent.

If the channel through which you took out the subscription additionally requires your express consent to a price increase, that procedure applies in addition. If the subscription ends there because you did not consent, nothing further is charged to you.

5. Important: after the trial period your subscription automatically becomes chargeable

When you first take out a subscription, you receive a free trial period of 14 days — on the monthly plan as well as on the annual plan.

If you do not cancel in time, the subscription automatically converts into a paid subscription and the stated price is charged. In time means, in the App Store and on Google Play, at the latest 24 hours before the trial period expires. For a subscription taken out through our website, cancelling at any point up to the expiry of the trial period is sufficient (clause 6).

We do not send you a reminder before it expires. The end date of the trial period is shown to you when you purchase — in the purchase dialog of the channel through which you take out the subscription — and thereafter in the app with your subscription; make a note of it. How to cancel is set out in clause 6.

6. Term, automatic renewal and cancellation

The subscription runs for the period selected — one month or one year — and is then automatically renewed for the same period at the price then applicable, unless you cancel it.

How you cancel depends on the channel through which you took out the subscription. In the app, the "Manage subscription" button takes you to the right place in every case — to Apple, to Google or to the management page of your web subscription, depending on who processed your payment.

If you purchased through the App Store or through Google Play, you can also cancel directly in the subscription settings of your Apple or your Google account. That route is always open to you and is independent of the app. For a subscription taken out through our website, a notice to info@lawfive.ch is sufficient as well.

In the App Store and on Google Play, cancellation must take place at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. For a subscription taken out through our website there is no such deadline. In every channel, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period; until then you can continue to use Premium.

Amounts already paid are not refunded on a pro-rata basis upon cancellation. The refunds under clause 2 (substantial restriction of the scope of services), clause 7 (withdrawal), clause 13 (downtime credit) and under the section on suspension following clause 12 remain reserved.

Deleting your account is something different from cancelling — see clause 20.

7. Right of withdrawal

We grant you a contractual right of withdrawal: you may withdraw from a paid subscription within 14 days without giving reasons.

The period begins when the subscription is taken out. If you make use of a free trial period, it begins when that trial ends — that is, on the day the subscription becomes chargeable.

The right of withdrawal is available to you once per subscription. It does not arise anew upon automatic renewal; there is no further right of withdrawal for a renewal period.

A notice to info@lawfive.ch is sufficient for withdrawal; it takes effect when it reaches us. You do not need to give reasons. A request to Apple or to Google is not required for the withdrawal to be effective. How the refund is handled depends on the channel through which you took out the subscription (clause 8).

This right of withdrawal does not lapse early. It remains available to you for the full 14 days, even if you use LawFive Premium from the outset.

If you withdraw, your subscription ends and we refund you the amount paid for the current period. The process is governed by clause 8.

8. Refunds

Who handles a refund depends on the channel through which you took out the subscription (clauses 3 and 9).

Purchases through the App Store and through Google Play are handled by Apple and Google respectively under their own policies. In those channels the route to your money runs through the store in which you purchased; you can submit a request there yourself.

If you took out the subscription through our website, we are the seller ourselves: in that case you send a refund request to info@lawfive.ch, and we handle it ourselves.

A refund is warranted, in every channel, in these four cases: following a withdrawal (clause 7), in the event of a substantial restriction of the scope of services (clause 2), in the event of a downtime credit (clause 13) and in the event of an unjustified suspension (the section on suspension following clause 12). In those cases we owe it to you; we owe no other refunds.

Three of those four cases are handled by neither Apple nor Google: the downtime credit (clause 13), the refund in the event of a substantial restriction of the scope of services (clause 2) and the credit for the days of an unjustified suspension (the section on suspension following clause 12). The stores refund purchases; for these three claims they have no procedure at all. If you took out the subscription through the App Store or through Google Play, you therefore write to us at info@lawfive.ch in these three cases, and we pay you the amount directly. This route is open for these three claims only; it is not an avenue of appeal against a store's decision on a request to refund a purchase.

With a refund, your entitlement to the Premium features lapses for the period refunded.

9. Purchase through our website

If you take out LawFive Premium through our website, we are the seller ourselves: Mauchle Digital, Sandro Mauchle, Hochackerstrasse 6, 9032 Engelburg (clause 1). Apple and Google do not appear in this channel; their terms do not apply to such a subscription.

We process payment via RevenueCat Web Billing, with Stripe as the payment gateway. Your card data is processed solely by Stripe; we do not store full card data.

The same prices apply as in the other channels: CHF 7.50 per month or CHF 78.00 per year (clause 4). The trial period under clause 5 and the right of withdrawal under clause 7 apply unchanged as well.

You can cancel with no deadline; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period (clause 6). The 24-hour deadline that applies in the App Store and on Google Play does not apply in this channel.

You send a refund request to info@lawfive.ch; we handle it ourselves (clause 8).

In this channel too, we offer the subscription only to persons resident in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (section "Important: LawFive Premium is available only in Switzerland and Liechtenstein", following clause 3).

10. Important: for existing users the Premium features are free only up to and including 30 September 2027

Users who already used LawFive before LawFive Premium was introduced receive the Premium features free of charge up to and including 30 September 2027. From 1 October 2027, a subscription is required for continued use of the Premium features.

You can tell that the benefit applies to you by the fact that the Premium features are unlocked for you in the app without a subscription. We carry out the unlocking.

What is decisive is the fixed end date and not the duration from the time of unlocking: the benefit ends on the same day for all eligible persons, irrespective of when it was unlocked. Later unlocking does not extend the period.

The benefit is personal, non-transferable and gives rise to no claim to permanent free use of the Premium features.

11. Age

To take out a paid subscription you must be at least 16 years old.

Before you take out a subscription, we ask you for your age; by providing it, you confirm that you are at least 16 years old.

If you are under 16, you can use LawFive free of charge; you can take out a subscription only from the age of 16. There is no minimum age for free use.

If you already have a subscription, or if the Premium features are unlocked for you under clause 10, that entitlement remains with you even if you are not yet 16. The age rule applies to new subscriptions.

12. Permitted use and content

Account and subscription. Both are intended for your personal, non-commercial use. You may not pass on, share or resell your account, and you may not query LawFive by automated means. Multiple accounts used to influence the leaderboards are not permitted.

Your content. You are responsible for your display name, your profile picture and everything else you enter or upload, and you warrant that you hold the necessary rights to it. Unlawful, insulting, discriminatory, violence-glorifying, sexualised or minor-endangering content, advertising, and content that infringes third-party rights are not permitted in particular. You may not pass yourself off as another person, as an official of an association or as LawFive.

Reporting and blocking. You can report offensive profile pictures in the app; we review reported content. This feature is open to everyone. Through the Friends feature, which is part of LawFive Premium, you can additionally block individual users.

Removal. We may remove content that infringes this clause.

Important: your display name and your profile picture are visible to other users

LawFive displays your display name, profile picture and leaderboard entries to other users. You grant us the right to display this content in the course of operating the app.

If you activate the anonymity setting, this display ceases in the leaderboards: "Anonymous user" and no picture appear there instead. For people you are friends with, your display name and profile picture remain visible — they already know you from the friend request.

If you remove your profile picture, it is no longer displayed in the app. The image file itself remains in our storage and can still be retrieved via its internet address until we delete it at your request or together with your account.

Important: if we suspend your access because of a breach, you get no money back for that period

If you breach clause 12 materially or repeatedly, we may suspend your access. In that case there is no entitlement to a refund, to the extent the suspension is attributable to you.

Before a suspension of your access becomes final, we will inform you of the reason. You may object within 14 days to info@lawfive.ch; we will review the decision and inform you of the outcome within 14 days of receiving your objection.

In the case of serious breaches, we suspend immediately and without prior notice. In that case the review takes place afterwards, as soon as you object within 14 days to info@lawfive.ch.

If you do not object within 14 days, the suspension remains in place. In that case you can delete your account at any time (clause 20); you cancel your subscription under clause 6.

If the review shows that the suspension was not justified, we will lift it and additionally refund you the portion of the subscription fee attributable to the days of suspension (clause 8).

13. Availability

We endeavour to achieve high availability, but we do not owe uninterrupted availability. Maintenance work, disruptions at third parties — in particular at Apple, Google, RevenueCat, Stripe and Supabase — and events outside our control may lead to interruptions.

If the Premium features are unusable for at least seven consecutive days, you receive a downtime credit: we refund you the portion of the subscription fee attributable to the days of downtime. To claim it, contact us at info@lawfive.ch and state the period; the process is governed by clause 8.

14. Important: our liability is limited

We are not liable for slight negligence in the case of interruptions, data losses or indirect damage. For intent, gross negligence and damage arising from injury to life and limb we are liable without limitation.

15. Data protection

How we process your personal data is described in our privacy policy: https://www.lawfive.ch/legal/datenschutz-en.html (in German, French and Italian at -de, -fr and -it).

The privacy policy informs you about the processing of data. It does not form part of these Terms.

16. Amendments to these Terms

We may amend these Terms, in particular if the offering or the legal requirements change. We announce amendments at least 30 days before they take effect in the app and at www.lawfive.ch; in the announcement we state the date from which the amended version applies. Until that date, the previous version applies.

For free use, the amended version applies from the announced date. If you do not agree, you can stop using LawFive and delete your account (clause 20).

For an ongoing subscription, an amendment has no retroactive effect and no effect on a period already paid for: until the end of the current period the previous version remains authoritative, and your silence does not change that. From the next renewal period the amended version applies. If you do not agree, you can cancel by the end of the current period (clause 6); your subscription then ends at that point, and nothing further is charged to you.

The authoritative version is the one published at the relevant time at https://www.lawfive.ch/legal/terms-en.html. When we replace a version, we keep the previous one available there, stating the period during which it applied.

17. Governing law and place of jurisdiction

Swiss law applies, to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

The place of jurisdiction is Engelburg, unless mandatory statutory places of jurisdiction provide otherwise.

18. Severability

If a provision of these Terms is ineffective, the effectiveness of the remaining provisions is not affected.

19. Language versions

The contract language is German. If we publish translations into French, Italian or English, the version authoritative for you is the one in the language in which these Terms were presented to you; none of these language versions takes precedence over another.

If a section is not available, or not available in full, in your language version, the German text applies to that section; it is available at https://www.lawfive.ch/legal/terms-de.html.

20. Important: deleting your account is immediate and final — and it does not end your subscription

This clause applies to all users, with and without a subscription.

You can delete your account at any time — in the app under "Profile" → "Settings" → "Danger Zone" → "Delete Account", or by email to info@lawfive.ch. The email route is always open to you, even if the route in the app does not work for you.

In the case of a request by email, we confirm receipt and delete as quickly as possible, at the latest within 30 days. If there is doubt about your identity, we send a confirmation email to the address stored in the account and delete only after your reply; in that case the 30-day period begins with your reply.

Deletion takes place immediately and is final. There is no cooling-off period, no temporary deactivation and no restoration.

Not covered by the deletion are: technical backup copies and server logs of our hosting provider, which may still contain your data or your user identifier for a short time; logs of subscription events, which we retain for no longer than ten years from the event as evidence vis-à-vis the stores; entries in the administration log concerning reports and role changes that you processed as an administrator; any entry on our waiting list, including the email address, which we delete within twelve months at the latest; the customer records at Apple, at Google and at our subscription service provider, which only those providers can delete; and copies stored locally on your device.

Deleting your LawFive account does not end your subscription. The subscription continues to exist in the channel through which you took it out — with Apple, with Google or through our website — and continues to be charged. Therefore cancel it before you delete your account (clause 6).

Exactly what is deleted and what remains is described at https://www.lawfive.ch/legal/konto-loeschen-en.html.

21. Mandatory consumer law

Mandatory consumer law remains reserved. If a provision of these Terms deviates from mandatory law that applies in your favour, that law prevails; the remaining provisions are not affected.