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Terms and Conditions Binding
Registering for an account and/or participating in
any tournament offered on Skillmoney.com ("the Site") signifies
your knowledge of and agreement to be bound by the most current
version of these Terms and Conditions. The Site may modify these
Terms and Conditions at any time. Your continued use of the Site
following such modifications signifies your acceptance of those
modifications. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms and
Conditions periodically for any such modifications.
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Disputes
By registering for an account and/or participating
in any tournament offered on the Site, you agree that any dispute
that cannot be resolved between the parties shall be resolved individually,
without resort to any form of class action. You further agree that
any legal action arising from any dispute shall proceed only in
the state or federal courts and you hereby submit to personal jurisdiction
and venue in such courts for the purposes of litigating any such
action.
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Entire Agreement
These Terms and Conditions, in connection with the
other obligations and rules detailed in writing on the Site, constitute
the entire agreement between you and the Site and cannot be modified
by you. These Terms and Conditions cannot be modified on an individual
basis by any person affiliated, or claiming affiliation, with the
Site. Nothing in this subsection will prevent the Site from modifying
the terms of these Terms and Conditions and posting such modifications
on the Site.
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Severability
If any portion of these Terms and Conditions is deemed
void or unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable
from these Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity
and enforceability of the remaining provisions.
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Eligibility (United States)
To open an account and/or participate in any tournament
offered on the Site, you must :
a) be a natural person, at least 18 years old, who is assigned to
the e-mail address submitted on your account registration form;
b) be a U.S. citizen or citizen of a country that our system will
allow to send and receive funds
c) be physically located in a U.S. state in which participation
in the tournaments offered on the Site is unrestricted by law, or
in a country which participation in the tournaments offered on the
Site is unrestricted by law.
The rules governing sweepstakes, contests, and tournaments with
entry fees and/or prizes are set up by each individual state, not
by the federal government. Based on these 50 sets of laws, the Site
CANNOT offer fee-based tournaments with prizes to residents of the
following states: Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Tennessee, and Vermont.
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Persons Not Eligible
The following persons are ineligible to participate
in any tournament or receive any prize offered on the Site: employees,
officers, and directors (and their immediate family members) of
the Site; its parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates; and
any other person with access to non-public information regarding
the operation of any tournament offered on the Site. For purposes
of this section, immediate family members include parents, siblings,
spouses, children, or any other person permanently residing in the
same household with such employee, officer, or director.
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Legality and Taxes
You are subject to all laws of the state, province
and/or country in which you reside and from which you access the
Site and are solely responsible for obeying those laws. You agree
the Site cannot be held liable if laws applicable to you restrict
or prohibit your participation. The Site makes no representations
or warranties, implicit or explicit, as to your legal right to participate
in any tournament offered on the Site nor shall any person affiliated,
or claiming affiliation, with the Site have authority to make any
such representations or warranties.
The Site reserves the right to monitor the location from which you
access the Site and to block access from any jurisdiction other
than the U.S., or any jurisdiction in which participation is illegal
or restricted. The Site may require any participant receiving any
prize to provide the Site with proof that he or she is eligible.
It is the policy of the Site, in compliance with United States Internal
Revenue Service regulations, to send a Form 1099 to any person who
wins in excess of $600 (USD) on the Site in any given year. However,
you remain solely responsible for paying all federal and other taxes
in accordance with the laws that apply in your state, province,
and/or country of residence.
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Proprietary Rights
By registering for an account and/or participating
in any tournament offered on the Site, you acknowledge that all
information contained on the Site may be protected, in all forms
and media, by one or more valid copyrights, patents, trademarks,
trade secrets, or other proprietary rights, and that all such rights
are owned by the Site. You may not modify, publish, participate
in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in
any way exploit this information, except that you may download one
copy for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you
keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
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Promotional Activities
By registering for an account, you agree that the
Site may display your user name and tournament records. By accepting
any prize from the Site, you agree to allow the Site to print, publish,
broadcast and use, worldwide, in any media and at any time, your
name, picture, voice, likeness, and/or biographical information
for promotional purposes without additional compensation.
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Submissions
If you send comments or suggestions, including, but
not limited to, notes, text, drawings, or computer programs, to
the Site, such submissions shall become, and shall remain, the sole
property of the Site. No submission shall be subject to any obligation
of confidence on the part of the Site. The Site shall exclusively
own all rights to, and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of,
all such submissions without compensation to you.
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Information Required (U.S. players only)
At registration, you are required to submit the following
information: an alias that will be your user name, a password and
your e-mail address, full name, permanent residential address, phone
number. In addition, if your total winnings on the Site in any given
year reach $600, the Site will request that you submit your social
security number in order to send you a Form 1099, as required by
Internal Revenue Service regulations. Failure to provide your social
security number at that time will result in the Site's inability
to credit your account for any winnings in excess of $600.
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Accuracy of Information
You represent and warrant that all information you
supply to the Site is complete and accurate. Knowingly submitting
incomplete or inaccurate information will result in immediate termination
of your account and forfeiture of any prizes to which you are otherwise
entitled.
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Privacy Policy
The Site will not intentionally disclose any personally
identifying information about you (including information submitted
on the application form, your social security number, your e-mail
address, information obtained by the Site from cookies, and information
regarding your IP address) to third parties without your consent
except where the Site, in good faith, believes such disclosure is
necessary to comply with the law or to enforce these Terms and Conditions
or other rules of the Site. Your acceptance of any prize from the
Site constitutes consent for the Site's disclosure of personal information.
The Site reserves the right to collect general demographic and other
market information that does not personally identify you to any
person without additional consent . The Site will not intentionally
disclose any personally identifying information about you (including
information submitted on the application form, your social security
number, your e-mail address, information obtained by the Site from
cookies, and information regarding your IP address) to third parties
without your consent except where the Site, in good faith, believes
such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law or to enforce
these Terms and Conditions or other rules of the Site. Your acceptance
of any prize from the Site constitutes consent for the Site's disclosure
of personal information. The Site reserves the right to collect
general demographic and other market information that does not personally
identify you to any person without additional consent.
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Chat Policy
Rules of Conduct:
- The Site reserves the right to ban users who violate these
standards, or who in any way abuse the community purpose of
the chat areas.
- You must be at least 18 years old to participate in any part
on the Site.
- Profanity, obscenities, or the use of **asterisks** to disguise
such words, is not permitted.
- Obscene, lewd, slanderous, pornographic, abusive, violent,
insulting, indecent, threatening and harassing language of any
kind will not be tolerated.
- The Site player names will be used as 'Your Name'; impersonating
other players is not allowed.
- Opinions or comments on the subject at hand is welcomed, but
attacking (flaming) individuals, companies or products is not
allowed.
- Please limit chat to the subject of the Site games or site.
- Do not share personal information (your name, phone number,
home address, password) with others on the site.
- No advertising of any kind is allowed in chat messages.
- No copyrighted materials are allowed in chat messages.
- Information disclosed in the Site chat rooms becomes property
of the Site and is revealed to the public. The Site is not responsible
for any information you choose to disclose to others.
- Advanced fonts, java, tables, html, or other programming codes
or commands are not allowed in chat messages.
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Anti-Spam Policy
The Site is vigorously against the practice commonly
referred to as "Spam". Users who are reported and whose claims of
"Spam" are validated by the Site, will have their respective accounts
either immediately TERMINATED or SUSPENDED, at the sole discretion
of the Site. The Site defines "Spam" as:
- Electronic mail messages addressed to a recipient with whom
the initiator does not have an existing business or personal
relationship or is not sent at the request of, or with the express
consent of, the recipient;
- Messages posted to Usenet and message boards that are off-topic
(unrelated to the topic of discussion), cross-posted to unrelated
newsgroups, or posted in excessive volume;
- Solicitations posted to chat rooms, or to groups or individuals
via Internet Relay Chat or "Instant Messaging" system (such
as ICQ);
The Site may undertake, at its sole discretion and with or without
prior notice, the following enforcement actions described in detail
below:
- Account Suspension: Upon the receipt of a credible
and validated complaint, the Site may also elect to immediately
suspend the membership of the user implicated in the abuse.
Suspension serves as a "Final" warning and will prevent the
abuser from continuing their abusive "Spamming" behavior. The
Site will evaluate each validated abuse incident on a case by
case basis and impose Termination or Suspension at its sole
discretion. The Site reserves the right to lift the suspension
of a user at any time, at its sole discretion.
- Account Termination: Upon the receipt of a credible
and validated complaint, the Site may immediately terminate
the membership of the individual user implicated in the abuse.
Termination results in the immediate closure of the referral
account, the loss of all referrals, the forfeiture of any unpaid
referral money on account, a prohibition against any future
membership, and the user will lose the right to compete in any
tournament play.
ABUSE REPORTING: If you wish to report a violation of our Anti-Spam
Policy, please forward all evidence of abuse to: support@skillmoney.com.
Please refer responsibly!
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Technical Configuration
It is your sole responsibility to confirm the technical
compatibility between your computer system and the SkillMoney.com
site. For a detailed listing of optimum computer specifications,
please see the Technical section of the FAQ's.
The sponsor of the games is not responsible for technical, hardware,
software, or telephone failures of any kind; lost or unavailable
network connections or fraud; incomplete, garbled or delayed computer
transmissions, whether caused by the sponsor, user, or by any
of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in
the games; or by any technical or human error which may occur
in the processing of submissions which may limit a participant's
ability to participate in the games.
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Limitations on Participation
You may establish an account for each valid email
address, to participate in the activities offered on the Site. The
Site reserves the right to monitor any effort to establish multiple
accounts; in the event the Site discovers that you have opened additional
fraudulent accounts all accounts will be closed without notice.
The Site may impose dollar amount limitations on the credit card
transactions in which you engage to fund your activities on the
Site. The Site may also impose limitations on the net dollar amount
you may lose on the Site in any calendar month; should your losses
reach the designated limit, your play in the tournaments offered
on the Site will be restricted until the beginning of the next calendar
month. The Site reserves the right to change these dollar amount
limitations at any time.
The sponsor of the games reserves the right, in its sole discretion,
to cancel or suspend the games should a virus, bug, computer problem,
or any other cause beyond the sponsor's control corrupt the administration,
security or proper play of the games.
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Odds and Prizes
The results of all tournaments offered on the Site
depend on the number and skill level of the players participating
in such tournaments; precise odds of winning are therefore unavailable.
Prizes are generally cash amounts which are deposited directly into
winners' accounts.
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Winners Lists
Lists of winners will be posted on the Site immediately
following each tournament. An email to the email address registered
on the site will be sent to each player of each tournament.
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Determination of Winners
The results and winners of each tournament offered
on the Site will be determined by the Site. By registering and/or
participating in any tournament, you agree to be bound by these
determinations. Every tournament is subject to verification.
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General Disclaimer
BY REGISTERING FOR AN ACCOUNT AND/OR PARTICIPATING
IN ANY TOURNAMENT OFFERED ON THE SITE, YOU AGREE THAT THE SITE IS
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS, OR INJURY RESULTING FROM USE,
ACCESS, OR ATTEMPTED USE OR ACCESS OF THE SITE. YOU FURTHER AGREE
THAT THE SITE IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS, OR INJURY CAUSED
BY DOWNLOADING ANY INFORMATION FROM THE SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE
GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, YOU AGREE THAT THE SITE IS NOT LIABLE
FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER, ANY DAMAGE, LOSS, OR CORRUPTION
OF DATA, OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM
USE OF THE SITE.
In case of a malfunction or disruption of service for which the
Site is responsible that prevents you from completing a tournament
in which you have begun to participate, the Site will refund the
entry fee charged for that unfinished tournament only. The Site
reserves the right to determine, in its sole discretion, whether
it is responsible for any such malfunction or disruption. The Site
also reserves the right to limit your tournament play or terminate
your account should the Site determine, in its sole discretion,
that you have intentionally caused such a malfunction or disruption.
The Site is not liable for any potential winnings from any unfinished
tournament.
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No Warranty
ALL GOODS AND SERVICES PROVIDED ON THE SITE ARE PROVIDED
"AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. NO PERSON
AFFILIATED, OR CLAIMING AFFILIATION, WITH THE SITE HAS AUTHORITY
TO EXTEND SUCH WARRANTIES.
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Credit Card Use
You agree that the Site is not liable for any loss
caused by any unauthorized use of your credit card or other method
of payment by a third party in connection with the Site. Any attempt
to defraud the Site through the use of credit cards or other methods
of payment, regardless of the outcome, or any failure by you to
honor legitimate charges or requests for payment will result in
immediate termination of your account, forfeiture of any prizes
to which you are otherwise entitled, and civil and/or criminal prosecution.
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Hacking, Tampering, or Unauthorized Access
By registering for an account and/or participating
in any tournament offered on the Site, you agree that the Site is
not responsible for any damage, loss, or injury resulting from hacking,
tampering, or other unauthorized access or use of the Site or your
account. Any attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site's systems
or any account, interfere with procedures or performance of the
Site, or deliberately damage or undermine the Site is subject to
civil and/or criminal prosecution and will result in immediate termination
of your account and forfeiture of any prizes to which you are otherwise
entitled. Any attempt to participate in any tournament offered on
the Site by means of automatic, macro, programmed, or similar methods,
or to otherwise commit fraud with regard to the Site, will result
in civil and/or criminal prosecution, termination of your account,
and forfeiture of all prizes to which your are otherwise entitled.
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Accounts for individual use only
You, as the holder of your account, are solely responsible
for all obligations and entitled to all benefits there from, and
may not allow any other person to access your account, access the
Site, accept any winnings, or participate in any tournament using
your account information. Your account is not transferable to any
other person. By registering and/or participating in any tournament
offered on the Site, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold the
Site harmless from or for any claims, liability, damages, and/or
costs (including attorney fees) arising from any use of your account
by any person.
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Account Termination
The Site reserves the right to terminate your account
or decline or limit your participation in any tournament for any
reason, including, but not limited to harassment of other participants,
posting of objectionable material, creating fraudulent accounts,
game fraud, or any breach of the terms of the agreement between
you and the Site, and any breach of the security of your account
or the Site. By registering for an account and/or participating
in any tournament offered on the Site, you consent to allow the
Site to access your account information to investigate complaints
or other allegations of abuse. All charged monies (deposits), less
tournament entries and withdraws, will be returned to the player.
All winnings will be voided.
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