TERMS OF WEBSITE USE

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website at www.quizfortune.com (“our site”), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, playing the Games (defined below) or registering as a “Member”, you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please refrain from using our site.

 

INFORMATION ABOUT US

www.quizfortune.com is a site operated by QuizFortune Limited.  We are registered in Northern Ireland under company number NI069366 and have our registered office at  Unit 5L, Weavers Court, Linfield Road, Belfast, BT12 5GH

Our site contains various 'skill' and 'ability' based general awareness and knowledge quiz games (“Games”). Thus, www.quizfortune.com is a “game of skill‟ website and not a gambling, gaming, lottery or a game of chance website and is, therefore, legal under the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985.

 

ACCESSING OUR SITE

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

 

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

 

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy detailed below.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.  You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use, and that they comply with them. 

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it.  Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site. 

 

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

 

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

 

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

 

OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely.

 

OUR LIABILITY

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

 

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.  By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

 

REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP

You do not have to be over 18 years old to play free Games on our site. However, to become a Member that can play Games for money (“Member Games”), you must be at least 18 years old, register as a Member and establish an Account with us.

 

By registering and establishing an Account with us you expressly warrant to us that when playing any of our Member Games that:

If you register as a Member, the Member Games will be made immediately available for your use. As a result you will not have the right to cancel these Terms of Use or to any refund of monies you pay once you have started to play a Member Game and the applicability and enforceability of these terms and conditions shall not be affected by any “cooling-off” period once you have played a Member Game.

 

You undertake to register as a Member using only accurate and current information about yourself including your age, full name and surname, place of residence and a valid email address.

 

You agree to only register one online Account and / or one mobile Account with us.

 

You will not allow anyone else to use your login details or give them to anyone else. If you do, you accept full responsibility for the consequences of this and agree to fully indemnify and hold us harmless from any damage or harm that may result.

 

GAMES WINNERS AND PRIZES

The number of Members participating in a Game and their relative skills determine the result of all Games.

The prize amount of all Member Games will be disclosed at the outset of each Member Game, except in cash progressive jackpot Member Games where the cash prize will be dependent upon the number of participants in the Member Game. The indicated cash prize will be the total prize fund that will be distributed to the winning Members.

 

A cash progressive jackpot Member Game is open to as many Members as wish to participate up to a certain time specified by us, and the prize associated with the Member Game will increase as the number of Members admitted to the Member Game increases.

 

Cash prizes will be deposited directly into a winning Member's Paypal Account and will usually be available within thirty (30) minutes of Member Game’s conclusion. Where a Member Game ends before its scheduled closing, the prize for the Member Game will be reduced to reflect the proportion borne by (a) the number of Members participating in the Member Game when it closes, to (b) the maximum number of participating Members intended for that Member Game.

Game rules, scoring, controls and guidelines for all tournaments offered by us can be found at each specific Game section. Any questions or comments regarding this information should be sent to our Customer Support, the details of which are located on our Contact Us page.

 

At the conclusion of each Member Game, we will list the usernames and scores of the winners. The lists will only be available to the Members participating in the Member Games. We will also regularly update the site's various high scorer tables. For Member Games with substantial prizes the Member Game conclusion and posting of winners may be delayed for up to 5 working days by us to allow for verification of result and prevention of abuse.

 

UPLOADING MATERIAL TO OUR SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.  You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. 

 

Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

 

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

 

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. However, each user acknowledges that we do not actively monitor material uploaded to the site, and we make no undertaking to do so.

 

Further to the above, all material uploaded to the site, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such material originated. We do not control material posted on our site in relation to the Games by third parties, and as such, cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such material.

 

You understand that by using our site and the Games, you may be exposed to material that you may consider to be offensive, indecent or objectionable. We will not be liable in any way for any such material including, but not limited to any errors or omissions in any such material, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any such material posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available in relation to the Games.

 

ACCOUNTS

A Member may open only one online Account and one mobile Account, which must be funded only by that person. We reserve the right to assess compliance with this requirement by checking for unique email addresses, real world addresses, credit card number and/or any other payment forms used to establish an Account.

 

If you provide materially misleading, inaccurate or incomplete information in your Account, we will be entitled to terminate your Account and cause you to forfeit any prizes you may have won as well as exercise any legal remedies we may have as a result of such conduct.

 

If any Member is discovered to have more than one online Account and one mobile Account, we reserve the right to close any additional Accounts and consolidate the funds in such additional Accounts into the original Account.

 

The maximum funds transferred, if any, will not exceed the total amount of deposits, less any withdrawal requests that have been paid on the additional Accounts. All winnings shall be forfeited. We shall also have the right to deduct the reasonable costs of doing this from the amounts being transferred to the original Account.

 

By opening an Account, you agree to allow us access to your Account to investigate complaints and/or other allegations of abuse.

 

Continued breach may, at our discretion, result in the termination of all the relevant persons Accounts and banning from the Games and the Member Games.

 

When you request your first withdrawal from your Account, we will ask you for (a) proof of your identity and (b) your email address. If you are unable to provide this to us, to our reasonable satisfaction we may be unable to pay your requested withdrawal to you. We reserve the right to request this information for subsequent withdrawals too.

 

Where we have a serious and reasonable suspicion of fraudulent activity on an Account, we reserve the right to withhold the payment of withdrawable funds to a Member until the end of the charge-back period which applies to the payment method used to pay in the relevant funds.

 

We will not be liable to you for any loss that you may incur as a result of an unauthorised person accessing your Account and we accept no liability resulting from its unauthorised use, whether fraudulent or otherwise.

Any amounts that are mistakenly credited as winnings to your Account remain our property and will automatically be transferred from your Account upon the error being noticed. Any winnings mistakenly credited to your Account yet withdrawn by you will constitute a debt owed by you to us in the amount of such wrongfully attributed winnings.

We reserve the right to refuse to accept any promotional offers that we make to you and to withdraw them at any time. Any promotional offer that we make is subject to change by us at any time. Any additional terms and conditions that apply to a promotional offer will be displayed beneath it. By accepting a promotional offer and/or making use of a promotional offer, you are confirming that you agree to its terms and conditions.

 

FEES

There are standard fees for all cash Accounts as follows: Playing fee: Approximately 30% of the entry cost for a Cash or progressive jackpot Member Game represents a fee paid by you to us for hosting the Member Game. The remaining 70% of the entry cost is not paid to us, but goes into the prize fund to be paid by players to the winner(s) of the Member Games.

 

Withdrawal Fee: Each withdrawal from your Account will incur a processing fee of up to £2 per request. If an Account balance (excluding any non-withdrawable funds) is lower than the withdrawal processing fee, the withdrawal request will not be completed.

 

When you credit your mobile Account with funds, the amount credited will be worth less than the amount that you paid. This is because you are charged a small transaction cost for making a deposit. The amount charged will be stated before you make payment.

 

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

QuizFortune Limited will not be liable in respect of any claims, allegations or queries with respect to the authenticity or correctness of any questions and answers for the questions asked in the Games (including the Member Games) on the website. QuizFortune Limited’s decision on the correctness or incorrectness of any answer is final and binding on all users and Members. In the event of any fault, misunderstanding or dispute concerning any part of the playing of the Games, declaration of the winners of prizes, the operation of the services of the website, and/or the validity of any question or answer options, the decision of QuizFortune Limited shall be final and binding on all users and Members.

 

PROHIBITED ACTIVITY

You agree not to:

 

VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

 

SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION

We reserve the right to either suspend or terminate any Member’s access to the Games, or the Member Games, and to forfeit from such Member’s Account(s) all winnings, if such Member or material is deemed by us to be in breach of these Terms of Use. Any person whose access has been suspended or terminated must not re-register for, or re-access, the Games without our prior written consent. You are responsible for all actions on your Account while you are logged in.

At the termination of an Account (whether by us or you), a sum equal to the remaining amount of funds that may be withdrawn in the Account will be returned to you once you have (a) proved your identity and (b) confirmed your email address to us, to our reasonable satisfaction. Deposits of funds made in the Account, less any withdrawals that have been made on the Account, will only be credited to a PayPal account that is registered in your name.

 

RECLAIMING/WITHHOLDING OF PRIZES

QuizFortune Limited may refuse to pay the jackpot prize money or reclaim the prize money awarded to any winner of any prize money in the event of his/her fraud, dishonesty or non-entitlement to participate in the Member Games under these Terms of Use. If at any time, including after disbursement of jackpot prize money, any information submitted by the member is found to be incorrect, false, or otherwise misrepresented or misleading, the member(s) shall be liable to refund all amounts received from our site, together with added penalty and interest as deemed fit by QuizFortune Limited. QuizFortune Limited reserves the right to initiate legal proceedings, if it deems fit, against any such Member(s) who is found to be violating any and all rules of the game and its Terms of Use.

 

LOCAL LAWS

It is your responsibility to ensure that national, state or other laws to which you are subject to do not adversely affect your right to participate in or play the Member Games.

You must comply with the laws which apply to you in the location you access the Games from. If any laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit your participation in the Games or the Member Games, then you must comply with such restrictions or prohibitions.

 

We may monitor the location from which access our site and, may use techniques which are intended to block access from any location in which participation in the Member Games may be illegal or restricted as we may determine from time to time.

 

We may require a Member receiving any prize to provide proof that he or she is eligible to participate and if we determine in our sole and absolute discretion that you are not eligible, we may refuse to award the prize.

If you live in the states of Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee or Vermont, you are not eligible to play Member Games.

 

LINKS FROM OUR SITE

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.  We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. 

 

INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify us against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of these Terms of Use by you or any person to whom you have allowed access to your Account in breach of these Terms of Use or through any computer that you use to access the Games.

 

ASSIGNMENT

We reserve the right to assign ownership of this website and these Terms of Use and to assign or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations under these Terms of Use. You may not without our written consent assign or dispose of your Account or assign or subcontract any of your rights and obligations under these Terms of Use.

 

DISCLAIMER

To the maximum extent permissible under applicable law, in no event shall we be liable, whether in contract, warranty, tort or otherwise for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of the use (or inability to use) our site or the Games, including any damages resulting therefrom, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

 

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The courts of Northern Ireland will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of Northern Ireland.

 

VARIATIONS

We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you and your continued use of the Games will constitute your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

 

If you do not wish to be governed any new version of the Terms of Use, you must notify us of this in writing and stop using the Games.

 

SEVERABILITY

In the event that any part of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of these Terms of Use shall remain valid and enforceable as if such part being held to be invalid or unenforceable did not form part of these Terms of Use.

 

PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIES

QuizFortune Limited are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Policy (together with our Terms of Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (Act), the data controller is QuizFortune Limited of 12 Executive Suites, Weavers Court, Linfield Road, BT12 5GH.

 

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

 

IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file. They enable us:

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small information file that is sent to your computer and is stored on your hard drive. Cookies are what are often used so that sites can remember who you are to save you time when you re-visit a site.  Our site statistics software currently also uses cookies to allow us to measure the level of activity occurring on the site. You can change the settings on your browser to prevent cookies being stored on your computer without your explicit consent, or download a web browser which prevents cookies from being stored at all http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/

Please note that switching cookies off may mean that some functionality on this site may also be switched off.

 

Site Statistics

We gather data regarding the visitors to this Website using cookies and code which is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded code provide statistical information about visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other general information. Analytics does not gather any Personally Identifiable Information of visitors to the site. We use and store only the general type of information to help us improve our websites services to our customers.

 

Personal Information

If you have made a purchase from our site, or signed up to receive e-mails/ newsletters from our site, we may occasionally update you on our latest products, news or offers via e-mail.

 

We do NOT share your personal information with any third parties (but from time to time we may include third party offers in our e-mail marketing) and all customer data is stored securely.

 

You have the option of opting out from continuing to receive these communications from us. Just click unsubscribe on the bottom of any of our past marketing e-mails.

 

Your Consent

We will never sell your name, address, e-mail address or personal information to any third party without your express permission.

 

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things,  the fulfilment of your order and the processing of your payment details. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

 

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

We may also use your data to provide you with information about services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these.

 

If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means with information about services similar to those which were the subject of a previous supply to you.

 

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please contact us at info@quizfortune.com

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

CREDIT CARD INFORMATION

We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties.

 

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by informing us to that effect at any time via info@quizfortune.com.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

Any changes we may make to this Policy in the future will be posted on this page.

 

CONTACT US

Should you have any further questions on this policy, please contact us.

 

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.quizfortune.com (our site). This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.

Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this Acceptable Use Policy, which supplement our Terms of Use.

 

www.quizfortune.com is a site operated by QuizFortune Limited.  We are registered in Northern Ireland under company number NI069366 and have our registered office at 12 Executive Suites, Weavers Court, Linfield Road, Belfast, BT12 5GH.  

 

PROHIBITED USES

You may use our site only for lawful purposes.  You may not use our site:

You also agree:

 

INTERACTIVE SERVICES

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site. Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

 

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

 

The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

 

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

 

CONTENT STANDARDS

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (“Contributions”), and to any interactive services associated with it.

 

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

Contributions must not:

 

SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy through your use of our site.  When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. 

Failure to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this Acceptable Use Policy.  The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

 

CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

We may revise this Acceptable Use Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this Acceptable Use Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

 

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