Last updated: July 16, 2026
Welcome to KOT845.com, operated as Kings of the 845 and referred to in these Terms as “KOT845,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of KOT845.com and any content, features, forms, submissions, services, promotions, or materials made available through the website.
By accessing or using the website, you agree to these Terms. Do not use the website if you do not agree.
About KOT845
KOT845 is an independently operated Hudson Valley media platform covering Section IX athletics, recruiting, rankings, schools, local businesses, community organizations, events, culture, public-interest information, and related regional topics.
KOT845 is not an official publication of Section IX, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, any school district, athletic department, team, league, government agency, advertiser, or sponsor unless expressly stated.
Eligibility and Acceptable Use
You may use the website only for lawful purposes.
You agree not to:
- Use the website in violation of any applicable law or regulation
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, server, database, or another user’s information
- Introduce viruses, malware, harmful code, automated attacks, or disruptive technology
- Scrape, copy, reproduce, or systematically collect website content without permission
- Impersonate another person, business, school, team, or organization
- Submit false, misleading, defamatory, threatening, discriminatory, unlawful, or infringing material
- Interfere with website security, performance, availability, or operation
- Use KOT845 content, branding, photographs, graphics, data, or reporting to falsely suggest an endorsement, partnership, affiliation, or sponsorship
KOT845 may restrict or block access to the website when reasonably necessary to protect the platform, its users, its content, or its legal rights.
Editorial Content
KOT845 publishes news, features, analysis, rankings, predictions, commentary, schedules, scores, statistics, recruiting information, team information, business coverage, community announcements, and other editorial material.
KOT845 attempts to provide accurate and timely information, but content may occasionally contain errors, omissions, outdated information, incomplete information, or information that changes after publication.
Website content is provided for general informational purposes. It should not be treated as legal, financial, medical, academic, recruiting, employment, or professional advice.
KOT845 may edit, update, correct, remove, archive, restrict, or republish content at its discretion.
Rankings, Evaluations, and Awards
KOT845 Power Rankings, player lists, predictions, awards, evaluations, and similar editorial products reflect independent editorial judgment.
Rankings and evaluations may consider factors including:
- Verified performance
- Statistics
- Team success
- Strength of competition
- Current form
- Film
- Firsthand observation
- Information from coaches, athletes, schools, and other sources
- Championship impact
- Editorial analysis
Rankings are not official standings.
KOT845 does not guarantee that an athlete, team, coach, school, or program will be included, ranked, featured, recognized, recruited, or awarded.
Sponsors and advertisers do not purchase placement in independent editorial rankings, evaluations, or awards.
Recruiting Information
Recruiting information may include college offers, commitments, visits, interest, measurements, statistics, film, performance, evaluations, and athlete-submitted information.
Recruiting information may change and may depend on information supplied by athletes, families, coaches, schools, colleges, and third parties.
KOT845 does not guarantee:
- The accuracy or continued availability of a college offer
- Admission to a college or university
- Athletic eligibility
- A scholarship
- A roster position
- Recruiting exposure
- Communication from a college program
- Any academic or athletic outcome
Athletes and families should verify recruiting information directly with the relevant school, coach, college, conference, or governing organization.
Scores, Schedules, Statistics, and Event Information
Scores, schedules, locations, start times, rosters, statistics, classifications, event details, and similar information may be changed by schools, leagues, organizers, weather conditions, or other circumstances.
Visitors should confirm important information directly with the relevant school, team, league, venue, ticket provider, or event organizer before traveling, purchasing tickets, or making plans.
KOT845 is not responsible for losses or inconvenience caused by postponed, canceled, relocated, delayed, or incorrectly listed events.
User Submissions
KOT845 may accept story ideas, announcements, photographs, videos, graphics, documents, scores, statistics, schedules, corrections, event information, recruiting updates, business information, and other submissions.
Submitting material does not guarantee publication, coverage, payment, credit, response, or acceptance.
By submitting material, you represent and warrant that:
- The information is accurate to the best of your knowledge
- You have the legal right and authority to submit it
- The material does not violate another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other legal rights
- Any necessary consent involving a minor has been obtained from a parent, guardian, school, team, photographer, or other authorized party
- The submission does not contain unlawful, defamatory, threatening, deceptive, or harmful material
You retain ownership of material you legally own.
By submitting material to KOT845, you grant KOT845 a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to review, store, reproduce, edit, adapt, publish, display, distribute, archive, and promote the material through KOT845’s website, social-media platforms, newsletters, broadcasts, marketing materials, presentations, and related media.
This license continues unless KOT845 agrees otherwise in writing. KOT845 may remove submitted material at its discretion but is not obligated to remove previously published or archived material merely because the contributor later changes their preference.
Photographs, Video, and Media
KOT845 content may contain original media, licensed media, submitted media, promotional materials, embedded content, publicly distributed materials, and media used with permission or attribution.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, downloading, copying, editing, reposting, selling, licensing, removing watermarks from, or commercially using KOT845 photographs, videos, graphics, articles, or other content is prohibited without written permission.
Sharing a direct KOT845 website link or using ordinary social-media sharing tools is permitted.
Media-credit or ownership concerns should be submitted through the Contact page with:
- The requester’s name and contact information
- Identification of the material
- The page or post where it appears
- An explanation of the claimed ownership or authority
- Supporting documentation when available
Intellectual Property
The website and its original content—including articles, reporting, graphics, logos, branding, page designs, rankings, databases, videos, photographs, audio, and other materials—are owned by KOT845 or used with permission and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
“KOT845,” “Kings of the 845,” associated logos, graphics, slogans, and brand identifiers may not be used in a manner that falsely suggests endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation.
No right, title, license, or ownership interest is transferred to visitors except the limited right to access and use the website in accordance with these Terms.
Copyright Complaints
KOT845 respects intellectual-property rights.
A person who believes that material appearing on the website infringes their copyright should submit a written notice through the Contact page containing:
- Identification of the copyrighted work
- Identification and location of the allegedly infringing material
- Contact information for the complaining party
- A statement explaining the basis of the claim
- A statement that the information provided is accurate
- Confirmation that the person is the copyright owner or authorized to act for the owner
- A physical or electronic signature
KOT845 may remove or restrict disputed material while reviewing a complaint. Submitting a knowingly false copyright claim may have legal consequences.
Sponsors, Advertisements, and Commercial Relationships
KOT845 may publish advertisements, sponsored content, branded campaigns, affiliate links, presenting partnerships, community partnerships, promotional features, and other commercial material.
Commercial content may be identified using labels such as:
- Sponsored
- Presented by
- Paid partnership
- Advertisement
- Promotional content
- Community partner
Sponsors and advertisers may receive branding, website placement, social-media promotion, campaign integration, event participation, and performance reporting.
A commercial relationship does not guarantee favorable independent editorial coverage and does not control rankings, awards, reporting conclusions, or editorial opinions.
KOT845 does not guarantee any specific number of sales, customers, followers, leads, registrations, impressions, clicks, or business results unless expressly stated in a written agreement.
Separate sponsorship, advertising, event, or campaign agreements may contain additional terms. When a written commercial agreement conflicts with these general Terms, the written agreement controls for that specific relationship.
External Links and Third-Party Services
The website may contain links to or embedded content from schools, teams, businesses, sponsors, social-media platforms, ticket providers, streaming services, recruiting services, government agencies, and other third parties.
KOT845 does not control and is not responsible for:
- Third-party content
- Availability or accuracy
- Privacy or security practices
- Products or services
- Transactions
- Ticket purchases
- Comments or user conduct
- Changes made by external platforms
A link, embed, mention, or reference does not automatically constitute an endorsement.
Visitors use third-party websites and services at their own risk and subject to the third party’s terms and policies.
Contests, Giveaways, and Promotions
KOT845 may occasionally conduct contests, giveaways, raffles, voting features, promotions, or special events.
These activities may be governed by separate official rules, eligibility requirements, deadlines, restrictions, and sponsor terms.
Where separate rules apply, those rules control over these general Terms for the specific promotion.
KOT845 may disqualify entries involving fraud, manipulation, false information, prohibited automation, or violations of the applicable rules.
Privacy
Use of the website is also governed by the KOT845 Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared through website visits, contact forms, submissions, analytics, advertising, and related services.
No Warranties
The website and all content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, KOT845 makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding:
- Website availability
- Accuracy or completeness
- Reliability
- Security
- Fitness for a particular purpose
- Noninfringement
- Error-free operation
- Continued access
- Compatibility with every device or browser
KOT845 does not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, current, or free from harmful components.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, KOT845 and its owner, contributors, contractors, partners, sponsors, service providers, and representatives will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to:
- Use of or inability to use the website
- Reliance on website content
- Errors or omissions
- Website interruption
- Third-party links or services
- Submitted content
- Event changes
- Recruiting information
- Advertising or sponsorship activity
- Unauthorized access, security incidents, or data loss
Where liability cannot legally be excluded, liability will be limited to the minimum amount permitted by applicable law.
Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless KOT845 and its owner, contributors, contractors, partners, sponsors, service providers, and representatives from claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses arising from:
- Your misuse of the website
- Your violation of these Terms
- Material you submit
- Your violation of another person’s rights
- False, misleading, unlawful, or infringing information provided by you
Changes to the Website or Terms
KOT845 may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any portion of the website at any time.
These Terms may also be updated as the website, services, coverage, technology, partnerships, and business operations evolve.
The updated date at the top of this page will identify the latest revision. Continued use of the website after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
To the extent permitted by law, any legal proceeding arising from these Terms or use of the website must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction located in Orange County, New York.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect.
Any invalid provision will be interpreted or limited to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable where permitted.
No Waiver
A failure by KOT845 to enforce any provision of these Terms does not waive the right to enforce that provision later.
Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Editorial Standards, and any applicable written commercial or promotional agreement, constitute the agreement governing use of the website.
Contact
Questions about these Terms, permissions, submissions, copyright concerns, corrections, or website use may be submitted through the KOT845 Contact page.