PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE APP.
We have created an app that connects players who want to play their favourite games for money and prizes (App).
This Acceptable Use Policy (Policy) sets out the standards and rules that apply when you access and use the App, including any content, functionality, products and services offered on or through the App (collectively the Services). This Policy prohibits all illegal, harmful or otherwise inappropriate conduct, including, but not limited to the following:
- failing to conduct yourself in a lawful and respectful manner towards any other users or any Stakester staff;
- posting, submitting, publishing, displaying or transmitting to Stakester or other users any content or material that, as determined by us, in our sole discretion:
2.1. contains profanities, obscenities, or the use of *asterisks* or other “masking” characters to disguise words;
2.2. violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;
2.3. is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another’s privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, libellous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive or is otherwise objectionable;
2.4. promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
2.5. consists of or contains software viruses, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of “spam”;
2.6. is harmful to minors in any way; or
2.7. is in violation of any law, regulation or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party; - creating a username that:
3.1. is protected by third-party rights and you have no written permission to use;
3.2. resembles or is identical to a brand or trademark, no matter whether it has been registered or not;
3.3. resembles or is identical to a real person other than yourself;
3.4. resembles or is identical to Stakester products;
3.5. resembles or is identical to the names of Stakester employees;
3.6. is purely commercial (e.g. product names);
3.7. is defamatory, pejorative, offensive, vulgar, obscene, anti-Semitic, incites hatred, or offends against good manners; or
3.8. uses alternative spelling, gibberish or wrong spelling in order to avoid the requirements mentioned above; - posting, sending or otherwise making available via the App any content that:
4.1. contains personal data (including photos, images and videos) of any third party without their permission;
4.2. contains your personal information (such as your name, phone number, home address and password);
4.3. infringes the rights of others, including any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy rights, image rights or other intellectual property or proprietary rights; or
4.4. uses advanced fonts, java, tables, html or other programming codes or commands; - engaging in any conduct disrupting or diminishing the game experience for other users of the App, including but not limited to:
5.1. filing false win claims or raising unnecessary disputes;
5.2. intentionally and repeatedly setting up wrong competitions;
5.3. cancelling games to try to find a specific user;
5.4. attempting to participate or participating in any game by means of automatic, macro, programmed or similar methods; or
5.5. advertising or promoting any third party in the App; - engaging in illegal, harassing, hateful, defamatory, embarrassing, offensive, obscene, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable actions via the App. including but not limited to using abusive images on your profile photo(s);
- carrying out fraudulent activities in relation to the Services or the App;
- impersonating or deceiving, or attempting to impersonate or deceive, another user for the purposes of illicitly obtaining cards, passwords, account information or any other information;
- opening and/or using multiple accounts;
- using cheats (including exploits of any in-game bugs and malfunctions granting you and/or any other user an advantage over other users not using such methods), automation software (bots), hacks, mods or any other unauthorised software designed to modify the game, or the App or any part of it or using any unauthorised device or any unauthorised modification of the device on which you use the App;
- attempting to derive any source code of the App;
- using a VPN, Tor or proxy to hide and/or amend your location;
- selling, trading, assigning, licensing or otherwise conveying for real money any digital items that may be used within the App;
- selling, trading, assigning or otherwise transferring your account to another person or entity;
- uploading, transmitting or distributing to or through the App any computer viruses, worms, malware or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data;
- sending unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or unsolicited messages, whether commercial or otherwise through the App;
- using the App to harvest, collect, gather or assemble information or data regarding other users, including email addresses, without their consent;
- interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on servers or networks connected to the App, or violating the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks;
- attempting to gain unauthorised access to the App (or to other computer systems or networks connected to or used together with the App), whether through password mining or any other means; or
- using software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the App, or to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to (or to strip, scrape or mine data from) the App.
We may amend this Policy from time to time. Every time you wish to use the App, please check this Policy to ensure that you understand the provisions that apply at that time. This Policy was most recently updated on the date noted below.
