Pro Football Junkies, or PFJ (we, our site, website) cover the NFL and other aspects of professional football. We are not associated with the NFL (the League, the Owners, or any other outside third party organizations that work with or represent the NFL). PFJ aims to provide our readers (you, the user, community) with thought provoking articles and features, as well as provide an opportunity for readers to engage in interactive feedback through the means of commenting on said articles and features that PFJ believes generates a lively, but polite discourse.
We provide this website without charge or any implicit or implied financial benefits or favors to the user. Furthermore, you agree to abide by the rules as set forth below, and your continued use of our site constitutes such an agreement by you. If you DO NOT wish to abide by all rules and policies governed below, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CEASE ACCESS TO OUR WEBSITE. There is no grace period offered on our terms of use. These rules and policies and everything set forth in our terms of use becomes immediately effective from the first time you access our site, to any further, subsequent and continued use of our site.
Words in this terms of use such as, Pro Football Junkies, PFJ, us, we, our(s) are all meant to express that it is the owners or administrators of this site speaking.
A user is defined as any person, entity, group, organization or end user that access our site; regardless of how little or how much access a person uses.
A third party, simply put, is not us, PFJ or Pro Football Junkies. It is an outside person(s), group, entity, organization, function, app, application, form, data or analytics device that we do not own, control, employ, license, operate or otherwise endorse.
All published or drafted stories, articles, features, user generated comments and posts, as well as all other information contained our website is considered content and is protected under copyrighted laws.
There are various ways PFJ allows you, the user of our site, to communicate with PFJ. The most common way is through electronic communications, such as email, feedbacks forms, third party registration of user accounts, to traditional mail. Use of our site, including some features of our site, such as newsletter(s), commenting on stories or articles published on our site, or providing feedback or site issues may require you to provide PFJ with certain identifiable information. You, further understand that you are providing this information voluntarily and that you DO NOT have to provide us with any information that is not requested or considered “required”. For example such fields marked as “required” on electronic forms must be filled out in order for the form, or a form, to be submitted electronically. However, a field that is marked “optional” is not required.
You understand that if you provide us with optional information that we do not require, you are doing so voluntarily, and you also understand that your decision to provide us with any information is strictly voluntary. You may elect to forgo using certain features or services that require you to provide information and you also understand that general use of this site does not require you to provide identifiable information about “yourself”.
Information that we collect is stored on a third party server. We (PFJ) make every reasonable effort to ensure that all information that is collected and stored is done so securely. However, we are not responsible for the theft of information that is stored on our third party severs, nor are we responsible for any information that is improperly transmitted by electronic means. In the event of a data breach by one of our third party servers, we will notify you as soon as we are made aware of such a breach having occurred.
Please DO NOT send any sensitive or otherwise confidential information electronically through the use of our website. Also DO NOT send our site such information such as, credit card numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, or any other sensitive information that we do not expressly ask for. If you do send this type of sensitive information, even if it is done so by mistake, you understand that we shall not be responsible for it’s safe keeping.
We will never ask for any payment to use our website or transmit information on or to our website. ANY party asking for payment to use our website is committing fraud and deception. For example, should you ever receive any electronic or paper mail (snail mail) correspondence from a party claiming to be PFJ, please DO NOT respond to that party. We would furthermore ask that you email us at mws@profootballjunkies.com and provide us with such correspondence so that we may investigate the matter further.
Our site uses what are known as cookies (small data files stored on your computer or mobile device) that collect and store certain information on your computers hard drive and web browser that makes it easier to recognize you as you use our website on a daily basis. These cookies collect this data in a number of ways, such as if you create an account and subsequently login to our site, even through a third party site, such identifiable cookies are stored on your computers hard drive and/or browser so that you are remembered by this site when you return.
Cookies are essential for most websites to function, as not using cookies would provide an unnecessary inconvenience to the you, the user, and would otherwise make many ways that you interact with this website impossible.
In most cases these data files are temporary and will cease when you close your browser or log-off an account. Some third party cookies, however, can remain on your computers hard drive or mobile device for longer periods of time. It may be necessary for you to clean your browsers history and remove these cookies if you no longer wish to have those data files stored on your computer, web browser, or other form of mobile devices.
Our website defines an adult as any person that has reached the age of eighteen. Any adult may access and use our website, so long as they agree to the rest of our sites terms of use. And of course, providing that they have not been prohibited from using our site for any subsequent violations of our websites terms of use.
Our website defines a minor as any individual under the age of eighteen, but at least 13 years old. It is required that BEFORE minors access our site, that said minors seek and obtain the permission from their parent(s) or otherwise legal guardian(s) before using our website. We shall not be responsible for minors accessing information on our website that parent(s) or legal guardian(s) would otherwise not wish for their minor children to have access here within.
Our website defines a child or children as being any individual under the age of thirteen. Our website is NOT intended for use by children. While we DO NOT ban children from accessing our website, we strongly advise parent(s) or legal guardian(s) to use discretion if they do allow their child or children to access this site. This website has many features, articles and sections of the website that are presented in an “irreverent” sort of way. Certain types of strong language, such as profanity, might be used in some of the stories, articles, features, and content.
Furthermore, parent(s) or legal guardian(s) AGREE that if they do allow their child or children to use the website, they are doing so at their own discretion and are doing so against the expressed advice of the administrators of this website (PFJ)
Under NO circumstances should a minor or child send our site any information through electronic means or via traditional mail (snail mail). We expressly forbid this. Any minor or child that accesses this site and provides any information via an electronic form is violating our terms of use. This includes such features as commenting, newsletter(s), interactive forums or chat rooms, feedback forms or any other forms that are intended to communicate with our site and its administrators.
Our website aims to protect minors and children and more and most importantly protect their identities and protect them from engaging with our “adult” members of our community.
We (PFJ) shall NOT be responsible for the violation of this section of our terms of use.
We DO NOT encourage minors to leave comments on any type of content on our site, where commenting is otherwise allowed. Parent(s) and guardian(s) should explain the inherit dangers in allowing their minor children to engage in such ways on this site.
This website (PFJ) expressly FORBIDS children from leaving comments on any type of content on our site, where commenting is otherwise allowed. Children are also FORBIDDEN signing up for any account that would otherwise be necessary to facilitate commenting on our site. THIS POLICY SUPERSEDES THE TERMS OF USE OF ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE AND THEIR TERMS OF USE.
Any person, group, entity, device controlled by another person or entity (such as a bot) who uses our site for any malicious reason or purpose is in violation of our terms of use and could be subject to criminal and/or civil prosecution. Furthermore the following acts WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
Language that a reasonable person would find offensive is prohibited. Furthermore, language that is deemed by a reasonable person to be racists, sexists, homophobic, misogynistic, or any other form of slander or language that attacks a person(s) race, sex, gender, LGBTQ orientation, creed, ethnicity, statehood status, or any other forms of harassment or abuse will not be tolerated and will result in the banishment by any such parties or entities violating this section of our sites terms of use.
Simple uses of plain profanity, such as simple curse words will be treated on a case by case basis and if we feel that such simple profanity crosses a certain line we will warn such user, before taking any subsequent action.
Any user that makes threats against another user or against the administrators of this site or against a third party vendor or application that this site uses, is in violation of our sites terms of use. The term threat includes such examples, though is not limited to just the following examples. Threatening to commit violence or harm, threatening to commit violence or harm even if the person making the threat is joking. Threatening to commit violence or harm to somebody that a user knows or has any association with. Implying that another user or person with an association to that user could be harmed, also constitutes behavior that will not be tolerated.
Any form of bullying and/or harassment online, or in person, is strictly prohibited on our site. We simply will not tolerate a user that bullies or harasses another person. For the purpose of this section of our terms of use, the word bullying is defined as any repeated conduct or words that another user finds abusive and when the user receiving the abusive conduct or words has made it clear to the other user(s) that they wish for the conduct or words to cease, but instead the abusive conduct or word(s) continues. For the purpose of this section of our sites terms of use, the word harassment is defined as any following of a user on this site or another site, with the sole purpose to annoy or harass that individual and that person has made it clear that they do not wish to engage with another user any further.
We understand that discussions can get heated from time to time and that one persons defining of bullying or harassment is going to differ from another. We will make every effort to arbitrate the situation between two or more users with a purpose of providing a fair review of circumstances brought to our attention and what we feel is an equitable outcome for all parties or user(s) involved.
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Please understand that if you, the user(s), are issued a warming by this site to not engage further with another user(s) and you continue to do so, we will suspend or terminate your account, regardless of any past decision(s) or sets of circumstances where a decision may have been looked upon as favorable to you or another user.
Our site expressly FORBIDS any forms of solicitation that are not expressly approved by the administrators of this site. Furthermore, we also FORBID any type of advertising on our site that is not expressly pre-approved by the administrators of our site, this includes, but is not limited to, asking for donations or money for your cause or another cause, whether you have the authority or permission of that cause or not. Advertising for political or religious purposes is strictly prohibited. Using our website as a “call to action” for any purpose is strictly prohibited. Using our website to link to an outside website(s), without prior expressed permission of the administrators of our site, is also prohibited.
It is a violation of our sites terms of use to copy and/or paste words, comments (that do not belong to you or the user), excerpts or in the entirety, from any of our content: such as stories, columns, features, news, reports, lists, or any other content that is published on our site and protected under copyright laws – for the purpose of using said content or works published here within. It is also strictly prohibited to remove copyrighted protected content from our site, published or otherwise in draft form, and disseminate that content to another site for any such purpose, even outside of conventional websites or electronic forums, such as the Internet, for any purpose, whatsoever, but particularly for the purpose of obtaining financial gain by yourself or another party or entity.
Our website will NOT tolerate plagiarism in any form. This includes users of our site illegally violating other websites copyright protected content and posting it on our site. We will also not tolerate one user plagiarizing another users work on this site or another website. Please DO NOT use works or any content that does not belong to you, in full or partially, without that person or users expressed permission. DO NOT post excerpts from other creators works that you find on another website, unless you have obtained expressed permission to do so.
Please note that the violation of these policies of our site could result in legal action, both criminal and civl against the party or parties that are deemed to have been or are at the moment in violation of the terms of use and policies as described herein.
Any improper use or illegal access to our site is strictly prohibited. We DO NOT allow bots or other forms of data mining devices to access our site. Furthermore, our site uses software to scan for such devices on a random basis. We reserve the right to collect and store IP addresses of any users on our site at any time. You can read more about what information we collect in our privacy policy. But your use of our site constitutes an agreement between you the “user” and “us” the site (PFJ).
Furthermore, we allow access to our site to users on personal computers or personal mobile devices. Any intrusion into our site, that attempts to corrupt, deceive, steal, data mine, export or import unwanted code or code structure unlawfully, alter our sites code or host network components or any other improper use of our site or any other third party sites or applications we have the right to use, constitutes a breach of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 commonly referred to as ECPA. You can read the specifics of that act here.
In the event that we suspect or detect an intrusion on our site, we will turn over all information that we collect to federal authorities and we will seek both the full civil and criminal prosecutions of those individuals, groups or organizations responsible.
Users of our site, except where it is expressly prohibited in our terms of use, may register and establish user accounts and profiles. In doing so they agree to our privacy policy which can be found on our site. They also agree to keep their account and profile in good standing and not violate the terms of use as it pertains to what users may and may not post on our site, as listed below under “what a user may post on our site”.
Keeping a users account in good standing means abiding by the following rules, such as, but not entirely limited to:
In all cases, final say over what is considered to be in violation of our sites terms of use will be left to the sole discretion of our site administrators. We may terminate the account of any user, for any reason that violates our terms of use; even if the reason is not expressly contained herein the terms of use.
In the event that an account is suspended or revoked, you may appeal that decision by emailing PFJ at, mws@profootballjunkies.com
All content contained herein on this site is protected under copyright laws. This includes all content submitted by users to this site, such as comments, forums posts and articles that are published under special “user submitted” banners in designated sections on our site. It is expressly prohibited to disseminate any content contained on this site, without the expressed written consent of the administrators of this site.
It is also strictly prohibited to remove copyrighted protected content from our site, published or otherwise in draft form, and disseminate that content to another site for any such purpose, even outside of conventional websites or electronic forums, such as the Internet, for any purpose, whatsoever, but particularly for the purpose of obtaining financial gain by yourself or another party or entity.
Copyright laws apply even if you do not wish to financially gain from the use of such dissemination.
It is not against our copyright policy to print content contained on our site for the purpose of reading and sharing that content inside the users home or for research purposes, so long as credit is attributed back to our site and its author. If you do wish to use our content as part of your research and wish to publish that content electronically – on a website, we required that you use an excerpt (of no more than one 100 words) and then post a link back to our website.
We allow users to submit content on our site in various different ways, whether that be posting comments to a published article or other piece of content, or through the use of forms, such as feedback forms or other forms that ask for a users thoughts on their overall experience of using our site. All content that is posted on our site is held to the policies of our terms and use and privacy policies that are contained herein. Any violation of those terms of use or privacy policies can result in that content being removed from our site. In the past it was not always clear what the expectations were, so in an effort to provide better clarity and help users understand our expectations, we have added the section below, titled “what a user may post on our site”.
Most articles, though not all articles, allow for a discussion at the end. You will need to establish a user account if you wish to participate. Users are encouraged to make thought provoking comments, that further drive discussion and at the same time are allowed to respond to other users comments as well. A user may feel free to speak their minds, as long as they do not violate any parts of our sites terms of use. What we ask and expect is that all users remain civil and courteous to other users, as well as the author of the article. Lively discussion and discord is fine and even encouraged, but please remember that you should keep your comments on topic, free of threatening or harassing language, free of racist slurs or any other words or terms that violate our terms of use, such as, but not limited to, sexists, homophobic, misogynistic, or any other form of slander or language that attacks a person(s) race, sex, gender, LGBTQ orientation, creed, ethnicity, statehood status. Content that violates these terms will be flagged and removed and the user in violation will be issued a warning that any future or subsequent violations of our sites terms of use will result in that users account being terminated.
Please understand that in some cases a user may not always receive a warning. Sometimes a users account will be terminated on a first offense. When this occurs a user has a right to appeal such a termination or suspension of their account, but the final decision on the appeal will rest with the sites administrators and not with any outside third party arbitrators. You may appeal any suspension or termination of your account, by filling out this form.
Users may post feedback by clicking the link “feedback” on the main (home page) of our website or users can access the feedback page by clicking here. Please note that the same terms of use apply when submitting the feedback form. Users should complete the feedback form with their own information and words and not the information or words from another user.
Users are NOT required to have an account with our site to access and submit the feedback form.
All users, except where expressly prohibited by our sites terms of use, have access to our forums and/or chat rooms. All terms of use, specifically terms of use relating to content that users are allowed to post, and our privacy policy applies in those areas of our site as well. There are some additional terms of use that apply specifically to our forum(s). You will have to accept and agree to those specific terms of use before you are allowed to register an account. Please note that you will need a separate account to post on our site forum(s) other than any previous account(s) that you have already registered and agree to with any previous terms of use.
Please understand that it is not always possible or reasonable for us to moderate all discussions or comments made on our site. While every effort to do so is made, we cannot guarantee that the content a user reads on our site will not be in violation of our terms of use. To that end, we ask that you report violations of our terms of use, even if you find something that is not otherwise expressly forbidden in our sites terms of use, by contacting our administrators at, mws@profootballjunkies.com
Users of our site maintain certain rights as to their privacy and those rights, as it pertains to what information we collect and how we use that information, can be found here, in our privacy policy page.
