Website terms.

Using the website

You may read and share the pages on this website. Please do not misuse it: no attempts to break, overload or gain unauthorised access to it.

Accounts

A free ChiefScout account needs only an email address and a username, and will be required to download ChiefScout. Keep your sign-in links to yourself. We may restrict an account that is misused, for example to abuse the Community or to attack the website.

Community

You are responsible for the content you submit, including comments posted as a guest. Do not post anything unlawful, abusive, threatening, discriminatory, malicious or that infringes someone’s rights, and never share your save file or other people’s personal information. See the Community Guidelines. Posts are public.

Anyone can report a suspected breach of the guidelines. ChiefScout may hide or remove Community content that breaches them, or that we otherwise reasonably judge harmful, and may restrict accounts that are misused. A report is not automatic proof of wrongdoing.

You keep ownership of what you post. Posting does not transfer ownership to ChiefScout. You give ChiefScout only the permission needed to store, display and moderate the content you submit on this website.

Independence and trademarks

ChiefScout is an independent companion application. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Sports Interactive or SEGA. Football Manager and other names are trademarks of their respective owners.

No guarantees

The website and ChiefScout are provided as they are. ChiefScout shows information read from your save and its own measures, such as Meta and Estimated Max PA, which are guides and not predictions. We do not promise that any of it is complete, error-free or right for your decisions. Nothing here limits any rights you have that cannot be limited by law.

The ChiefScout app

These terms also apply to the ChiefScout Free app for Mac.

• Free. ChiefScout Free is currently free to use. These terms do not promise that it will stay free.
• Independent. ChiefScout is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Sports Interactive or SEGA. Football Manager is a trademark of its owner.
• Local use. ChiefScout reads the Football Manager saves you choose, on your Mac. It does not upload them and does not change them. The app needs no account and no online licence check to run.
• Your data. You keep ownership of your saves, shortlists and settings. ChiefScout keeps its own database on your Mac, and you can delete it.
• Accuracy and compatibility. ChiefScout supports exact Football Manager builds only, listed on the Compatibility page. Its measures, such as Meta and Estimated Max PA, are guides, not predictions. Information it cannot establish is shown as Unknown. It may be wrong, incomplete or stop working after a game update.
• No guarantee. The app is provided as it is, without a promise that it is error-free or suitable for your purposes. This does not limit any consumer rights that cannot be limited by law.
• Liability. To the extent the law allows, ChiefScout and its operator are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of save data, so please keep your own backups. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow to be limited.
• Support. See contact and support. ChiefScout is operated by Brian Thomson.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms, and the date above will change when we do. Questions: contact and support →