Focus: Terms and Conditions

User Terms and Conditions of Service

 

Welcome to Focus: Pocket Prizes! We hope you’ll enjoy being a part of our community by participating in online gaming challenges. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR ABILITY TO WIN, COLLECT AND USE THE PRODUCTS/SERVICES OFFERED BY THIRD PARTY MERCHANTS DOES NOT ESTABLISH FOCUS: POCKET PRIZES AS A PROVIDER OF THESE PRODUCTS/SERVICES, NOR IS FOCUS: POCKET PRIZES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE QUALITY OF THESE PRODUCTS/SERVICES. 

BY REGISTERING A PROFILE WITH US (your “PROFILE”), USING THE SERVICES IN ANY WAY, CLICKING “I ACCEPT” BELOW, DOWNLOADING ANY APPLICATION INTEGRATED WITH FOCUS' Focus Platform (as further defined in Section 2.2 below, “Software”), OR REGISTERING FOR OR PARTICIPATING IN ANY COMPETITIONS, YOU: (A) ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND RULES THAT MAY BE INCLUDED WITHIN EACH COMPETITION IN WHICH YOU PARTICIPATE (“Rules”) (these Terms and Conditions of Service, the terms of any policy incorporated herein, and the Rules are collectively referred to as the “Terms”) IN THEIR ENTIRETY; (B) AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS; AND (C) ARE AUTHORIZED AND ABLE TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS. If you don’t wish to be bound by the Terms, do not click “I accept” and do not register with Focus: Pocket Prizes (“Focus”, “PP” “Pocket Prizes”“we” or “us”) and do not use the Services. Declining to accept these Terms means you will be unable to participate in Competitions or use your Focus Profile.

 

1. GENERAL TERMS

1.1. ARBITRATION. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, ANY CLAIM, DISPUTE OR CONTROVERSY OF WHATEVER NATURE (“CLAIM”) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS AND/OR OUR SOFTWARE OR SERVICES MUST BE RESOLVED BY FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCESS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 14 BELOW. PLEASE READ SECTION 14 CAREFULLY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, YOU ARE GIVING UP THE RIGHT TO LITIGATE (OR PARTICIPATE IN AS A PARTY OR CLASS MEMBER) ALL DISPUTES IN COURT BEFORE A JUDGE OR JURY.

1.2. Changes to the Terms. We may amend, change, modify or revise the Terms at any time, and we may post a notice on our website/application at

(“www.iiiheirs.com”) of any material changes, and you can see when these Terms were last revised by referring to the “Updated” legend above. Your continued participation in Competitions and/or use of Software or Services means you accept any new or modified Terms. You are responsible for reviewing the Terms for any changes, so please check back here from time to time.

1.3. Eligibility. You may not modify these Terms except in writing signed by both you and Focus. For purposes of these Terms, “writing” does not mean an email nor an electronic/facsimile signature.

1.3.1. United States (U.S.). To be eligible to register an Profile, to participate in any Competition or receive Services, and/or to download Software, you must: (a) be a natural person who is at least 16 years of age or older, and who is personally assigned to the email address submitted during your Profile registration; (b) have the power to enter into a contract with Focus; (c) be physically located within the U.S. when accessing your Profile and participating in Competitions; (d) be physically located within a U.S. state in which participation in the Competition you select is unrestricted by that state’s laws; and (e) at all times abide by these Terms. If any one of these requirements is not met at any time, we, as agent for our content partners, may suspend or close your Profile with or without notice.

1.3.2. Non-U.S. To be eligible to register an Profile, to participate in any Competition or receive Services, and/or to download Software, you must: (a) be a natural person who is at least 16 years of age or older, and who is personally assigned to the email address submitted during your Profile registration; (b) have the power to enter into a contract with Focus; (c) be physically located in a jurisdiction in which participation in the Competition you select is permitted and unrestricted by that state or country’s laws; and (d) at all times abide by these Terms. If any one of these requirements is not met at any time, we, on behalf of our content partners, may suspend or close your Profile with or without notice.

1.4. Registration. When you create a Profile, you will be asked for a legitimate email address that you control and to create a password. After registration, you will be given the opportunity to create a username or accept a username given by the Services. The password and username are needed to participate in the Services. As a registered user, you can update your Profile settings, including your email address, by logging into your Focus Profile and clicking “The Settings” page. Also, if you forget either your password or username, you can visit www.iiiheirs.com or email us for help. Please keep your username and password secret because you are responsible for all activity in your Profile. Although we may offer a feature that allows you to “save” or “remember” your password, this feature makes it possible for third parties to access your Profile, so please use that feature prudently because such use is at your own risk. We may, in our sole discretion, reject, change, suspend and/or terminate your username.

1.5. Your Profile. As the holder of your Profile, you are solely responsible for complying with these Terms, and only you are entitled to all benefits accruing thereto. You may not allow any other person to (i) access your Profile; (ii) access Services or Software through your Profile; or (iii) accept or use prizes, winnings and other representative of value (including without limitation digital trophies, virtual currency or virtual goods) (collectively “Winnings”). Neither your Profile nor Winnings nor any Digital Assets (defined in Section 10.3) are transferable to any other person or Profile. You must immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or identification or any other breach or threatened breach of our security or the security of your Profile with in Focus.

1.6. Personal Location Data: As a part of this service, on behalf of our content partners, we collect location information from your device. 

1.7. Use of Information Collected: By setting up an Profile and providing an email address, users authorize Focus to provide them with important announcements, relevant promotions, and other related communications relating to the Service, Software and Competitions. Users will always have the opportunity to opt out of these communications at any time.

1.8 Employee Policy: Focus employees may use the Services and/or Software for the purpose of testing the user experience, but may not withdraw prizes. Focus directors, contractors, affiliates, or partners may use the Website/application, Services and/or Software without such limitation, but only if they do not have any access to non-public information relating to the Services and/or Software that would lead to any advantage in their play using the Services and/or Software.

 

2. SERVICES AND SOFTWARE

2.1. The Services. On behalf of our content partners, we may, with or without notice to you: (1) modify, suspend or terminate your access to the Website/application, Services and/or Software for any reason without liability; and (2) interrupt the operation of the Website/application, Services and/or Software as necessary to perform maintenance, error correction, or other work. As agent for our content partners, we may suspend and/or close the Profile of any user who violates, or whom we reasonably believe may be in violation of or will violate, these Terms, at any time without notice and without liability. Also, and without limiting our other rights or remedies, if we believe you have violated these Terms or if you have violated these Terms, as agent for our content partners, we may determine that your Winnings, if any, will be forfeited, disgorged or recouped.

2.2. Software. If you wish to participate in Competitions or receive Services, you may be required to first download certain mobile applications (included therein, any associated documentation, and any application program interfaces, license keys, and patches, updates, upgrades, improvements, enhancements, fixes and revised versions of any of the foregoing, is collectively “Software”). If you do not download the Software, you will not be able to participate in Competitions or receive relevant Services. Whether you download the Software directly or from a third party, such as via an app store, your use of the Software is subject to these Terms. We license the Software to you under Section 10.2.

2.3. Remote Access and Updates. We choose to offer technical support for Software from time to time in our discretion. Such technical support may require that we remotely access your device on which the Software is installed (“Device”). Also, if and when we update the Software or deploy patches, updates, and modifications to the Focus application, we may do so through remote access of your Device without your knowledge. You hereby consent to these activities. You acknowledge that if we cannot remotely access your Device, then the Software may no longer work, and this may prevent you from participating in Competitions or otherwise receiving Services. Our access to your Device will be limited solely to (i) providing support (ii) updating the Software or (iii) determining your location for skill-gaming regulatory purposes only, and is governed by the terms of our Privacy Policy.

2.4. Beta Releases. For any Service that is identified by us as a “beta” version (“Beta Service”), you acknowledge and agree that a Beta Service may contain more or fewer features than the final release of the Service. We reserve rights not to release a final release of a Beta Service or to alter any such Beta Services’ features, specifications, capabilities, functions, licensing terms, release dates, general availability or other characteristics. Beta Services may not be suitable for production use and may contain errors affecting proper operation and functionality.

2.5. Third Party Sites. You may be able to access third-party website/applications or services via the Software, Services or Website/application. We are not responsible for third-party website/applications, services, or content available through those third-party services. You are solely responsible for your dealings with third-parties (including advertisers and game Content Providers). Your use of third-party software, website/applications or services may be subject to that third-party’s terms and conditions.

 

3. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS

3.1. Prohibited US States/Countries. You acknowledge that various rules, regulations and laws addressing sweepstakes, contests, and tournaments with entry fees and/or prizes govern your participation in Competitions (“Gaming Laws”), and that Gaming Laws are set up by each individual US state, country, territory, or jurisdiction. Therefore, the Software DOES NOT permit Cash Competitions (as defined in section 8.3) to be offered to users participating in Competitions in any state in which such Competition violates its Gaming Laws (“Prohibited Jurisdiction”), and if you are located in any Prohibited Jurisdiction then you may not participate in Cash Competitions. In the United States, Prohibited Jurisdictions, as of the “Updated” date above, include: Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee. For card games, Prohibited Jurisdictions include Maine and Indiana. It is your responsibility to determine whether the state, country, territory or jurisdiction in which you are located is a Prohibited Jurisdiction. We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to monitor the location from which you access Services, and we may block access from any Prohibited Jurisdiction. Each time you log in to participate in a Cash Competition, you must accurately confirm the location from which you are playing.

3.2. Additional Laws. In addition to Gaming Laws, you are also subject to all municipal, state and federal laws, rules and regulations of the city, state and country in which you reside and from which you access and use Services, including without limitation U.S. export laws (together with Gaming Laws, the “Applicable Laws”). You are solely responsible for your compliance with all Applicable Laws. Access to Competitions may not be legal for some or all residents of, or persons present in, certain jurisdictions. SERVICES AND COMPETITIONS ARE VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS. Your participation in Competitions is at your own risk, and you agree not to hold us responsible or liable if Applicable Laws restrict or prohibit your access or participation.

3.3. LEGAL DISCLAIMERS. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE LAWFULNESS OF YOUR PARTICIPATING IN ANY COMPETITION OFFERED BY OUR CONTENT PARTNERS OR USE OF SERVICES, NOR SHALL ANY PERSON AFFILIATED, OR CLAIMING AFFILIATION, WITH US HAVE AUTHORITY TO MAKE ANY SUCH REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES.

 

4. YOUR REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES TO US

You represent and warrant to us that (1) you have the right, authority, and capacity to agree to these Terms, to register for an Profile, and to participate in those Competitions for which you register; and (2) you will comply with these Terms when participating in Competitions, receiving Services, and/or using Software; and (3) all information you supply to us or our content partners is complete, accurate and current (and knowingly submitting incomplete or inaccurate information, or failing to update and maintain current, complete and accurate information, may result, without limitation, in immediate termination of your Profile and forfeiture of Winnings).

 

5. YOUR INDEMNIFICATION OF US

You will, at your own cost and expense, indemnify and hold us and our directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any and all claims, disputes, liabilities, judgments, settlements, actions, debts or rights of action, losses of whatever kind, and all costs and fees, including reasonable legal and attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to (i) your breach of these Terms; (ii) any use of your Profile, the Website/application, the Software and the Services by any person including yourself; (iii) your violation of Applicable Laws; and/or (iv) your negligence or misconduct; and, if we instruct you in writing, you will, at your cost and expense, defend us from any of the foregoing using counsel reasonably acceptable to us.

 

6. PRIVACY

6.1. PRIVACY POLICY. This Privacy Policy describes:

• The ways we collect personal data about you and why we do so

• How we use your personal data, and

• The choices you have about your personal data.

This Privacy Policy applies to Focus' games, websites and related services, which we here collectively call the Service. We may periodically update this Privacy Policy by posting a new version on IIIHeirs.com. If we make any material changes, we will notify you as required under applicable law, including by posting a notice in the Service prior to the change becoming effective. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date will be subject to the new Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

If you have questions about data protection, or if you have any requests for resolving issues with your personal data, we encourage you to primarily contact us through: email: support@iiihstudios.com

THE DATA WE COLLECT

The categories of personal data we collect depend on the Services you use, and the requirements of applicable law.

Data you provide us directly.

• Contact information (such as name, street address and email address or phone numbers)

• Player name or tag and password

• Your messages to the Service (such as emails)

• Other data you choose to give us (such as data to identify a lost account or data you provide to participate in survey or promotional programs)

Data we collect automatically.

• Data about your account and game progress, including in most cases an automatically created internal account ID

• Your IP address and mobile device identifiers (such as your device or advertising ID)

• Data about your device, such as device name and operating system, browser type and language, internet service provider, and mobile carrier

• Data we collect with cookies and similar technologies (see more below)

• Approximate location data (as derived from IP address)

• Precise geo-location data (GPS, with your consent)

• Data about your use of the Service, such as gameplay data and your interactions with other players inside the Service

Data we collect from our partners.

We also use third-party partners, such as social networking sites, data analytics providers and advertising networks to supplement information we have about you, such as:

• Data we receive if you link a third party tool with the Service (such as Facebook, WeChat or Google)

• Demographic data (such as to determine the coarse location of your IP address)

• Data to fight fraud (such as refund abuse in games or click fraud in advertising)

• Data from platforms that the games run on (such as to verify payment)

• Data for advertising and analytics purposes, so we can provide you a better Service

• Data that you have made available to us from a third party service (such as LINE, WeChat, Google or Facebook) via your privacy settings

WHY DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

We use your data for a variety of business purposes, such as:

To make the Service work.

To perform the contract, we process data necessary to 

• Create accounts and allow you to play our games and use our Service

• Operate the Service

• Verify and confirm payments

• Provide and deliver products and services you request

• Send you Service-related communications

To make the Service more suitable for our players.

To provide a great Service to our players, we have a legitimate interest to collect and process necessary data to 

• Update and develop player profiles

• Develop and improve the Service and player experience

• Manage our relationship with you

• Provide social features as part of the Service

• Customize your Service experience

• Respond to your comments and questions and provide player support

• Provide you Focus offers within the Service.

• Send you related information, such as updates, security alerts, and support messages

• Enable you to communicate with other players

To show personalized advertisements.

To show you personalized advertisements in the Service. We have a legitimate interest to process necessary data to

• Track the content you access in connection with the Service.

• Deliver, target and improve our advertising and the Service.

 

For information on how to opt-out from personalized advertisements, see section 'Your Rights and Options' below.

To keep the Service safe and fair.

Ensuring a level playing field in the Service is a top priority for us. For more information on our acceptable use policy, see the Focus Terms of Service. 

In order to keep the Service and its social features safe and fair, to fight fraud and ensure acceptable use otherwise, we have a legitimate interest to process necessary data to

• Analyze and monitor use of the Service and its social features

• Moderate correspondence within the service either automatically or manually

• Take action against fraudulent or misbehaving players

 

To analyze, profile, and segment.

In all of the above cases and purposes, we may analyze, profile and segment all collected data.

 

With your consent.

With your consent, we may process your data for additional purposes, such as using your GPS location to show you local events.

 

WHO CAN SEE YOUR DATA

Apart from Focus, your data can be accessed by others in the following situations:

 

OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS.

Focus has vendors to us provide the Services. These vendors process your data only at and according to Focus´ instructions to provide the Service, and perform tasks such as hosting, player support, advertising, analytics and fraud prevention.

 

Other companies and public authorities.

In order to combat fraud and illegal activity, we may process and disclose data with other companies and organizations and provide it to public authorities in response to lawful requests.

We may also disclose your data based on your consent, to comply with the law or to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our players or others.

YOUR RIGHTS AND OPTIONS

Opt-out of marketing emails and other direct marketing.

You may opt-out of receiving promotional communications, such as marketing emails from us by following the instructions in such communications. Note that you may still continue to receive non-promotional emails from us, such as communications regarding the Service or updates to our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy.

 

Push Notifications

We may send you push notifications through our mobile applications. You may at any time opt-out from receiving these types of communications by changing the settings on your mobile device.

 

Opt-out of targeted advertising.

You can opt-out of interest-based advertising on mobile applications by checking the privacy settings of your Android or iOS device and selecting"Limit Ad Tracking" (Apple iOS) or "Opt-out of Interest Based Ads" (Android).

You can also opt out from personalized in-game offers by emailing us at support@iiihstudios.com

Access the personal data we hold about you.

If you request, we will provide you a copy of your personal data in an electronic format. To make a request, email us at support@iiihstudios.com with a subject title as “Data Request”. Please note that this delivery may take some time as our data sets are generalised, so we will have to identify who you are specifically before sourcing your data. Also, requests will be dealt with on a first come, first serve basis. 

 

Your other rights.

You also have the right to correct your data, have your data deleted, object how we use or share your data, and restrict how we use or share your data. You can always withdraw your consent, for example by turning off GPS location sharing in your mobile device settings.

We will respond to all requests within a reasonable timeframe. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact send us mail at 1821 Oakridge rd, Weimar, TX, 78962. You may also contact your local data protection authority for unresolved complaints.

If you wish to exercise any of your data subject rights described above, please use the support options described in Contact Us above. We will respond to all requests in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy, we may also take additional steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request, such as by requesting you provide us a purchase receipt or other account information, asking you to link your email address with your game account (for example through Focus ID), or asking you to answer questions regarding your activities on our Services. Once you have verified your identity, you may also designate an authorized agent to exercise your rights on your behalf by providing the agent’s contact information to our customer support staff, as required by applicable law.

You may have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment as a result of your exercise of these rights. 

 

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Like most online services, we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide and personalize the Service, analyse use, target advertisements and prevent fraud. Cookies and similar technologies allow us and our partners to store their preferences and track your activities within the Service. Note that our partners may operate under their own privacy policies. 

We and our partners collect and store information about users' interactions with unaffiliated websites and applications that use our technologies, including cookies and similar tracking technologies. This allows us to infer the presence of a common user or household behind multiple devices or browsers, for instance, and then link those browsers and devices into a device graph. We do so in order to

• detect and prevent fraud; 

• allow users to use the Service on one device and pick up seamlessly where they left off on another device; 

• analytics, personalization and attribution; 

• limit the number of times a user is shown the same advertisement, across all known or inferred devices; and/or

• provide personalized advertising on each device that is inferred from the browsing patterns on all of the devices.

You can disable cookies in your browser settings, but some parts of the Service may then not function properly.

 

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

Security Safeguards.

In order to help ensure a secure and safe player experience, we are continuously developing and implementing administrative, technical and physical security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access or against loss, misuse or alteration.

 

Data retention.

We retain your data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you the Service. We may for example periodically de-identify unused game accounts, and we may regularly review and de-identify unnecessary data.
Note that if you ask us to remove your personal data, we will retain your data as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

 

CHILDREN

Protecting children’s privacy online is very important to us. Generally, our Services are not directed to persons under 18, and the Services do not knowingly collect personal data from children, except as described in the following paragraph.

For games that are not directed at children but nonetheless may appeal to them, we take additional steps to limit access to these Services based on the player’s age. For these Services, when a player indicates they are under 18, we will terminate their account in a reasonable time frame.

6.2. Communications with You. As also detailed in the Privacy Policy, we may use emails, text messages, and push notifications to notify you when you win our content partners’ Competitions, when a Competition you have entered has completed, and to let you know of special promotions, events and policy changes. We may also communicate with you via email, text message, push notification or chat for any other purpose relating to Services or Software. We or our representatives may monitor all communications made by or received by you while using the Website/application and Services. If you do not wish to receive these communications from us, you may opt out by emailing support@iiihstudios.com, but you acknowledge that opting out may result in your inability to participate in our content partners’ Competitions or receive Services.

6.3. Device Information. Using the Software and Services requires an Internet connection to our servers, and we (on behalf of our content partners) may need to collect certain information from you and your Internet-enabled device (“Device”) in order to make the Software and Services available to you, such as hardware system profile data, internet connection data and any other data related to the operation of the Service from any Device that logs onto the Service using your Profile. We will use this information in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

6.4. Warning. Please take care in sending us sensitive information because third parties can unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications between you and us, and you acknowledge that internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. For your safety, you should never reveal any sensitive personal information in any Focus-enabled public forums, message boards or chat features.

6.5. Promotional Activities. By registering for a Profile, you allow us to publicly display your username and gameplay records, and to use this information for any purpose. By using the Services, you allow us and our content partners to print, publish, broadcast and use, worldwide, in any media and at any time, your name, picture, voice, likeness, and/or any biographical information that you submit to us or our content partners (“Biographical Information”) for promotional, marketing or related business purposes, without compensation to you. However, we will never sell your Biographical Information without your prior written consent, and our use of your personally identifiable information is always governed by our Privacy Policy.

6.6. Gameplay Dialogue. On behalf of our content partners, we may use third party website/applications and technologies to record or stream gameplay or chat dialogue occurring through the Services, including your own dialogue (“Recordings”). We use Recordings to verify compliance with these Terms and as part of marketing and promotion of the Services. Please do not submit personally identifiable information in gameplay dialogue—this information is available for anyone to see and use. You may record and distribute your own recordings of gameplay dialogue for non-commercial purposes (i.e., you may not record or distribute Recordings for compensation) so long as your recording and distribution: (a) do not include other products or services that are competitive with the Services, and (b) comply with these Terms.

6.7. Children. The Services will not knowingly accept personal information from anyone under 16 years old. If you believe that a child under 16 has gained access to the Services, please contact us at support@iiihstudios.com. On behalf of ourselves and our content partners, we have taken commercially reasonable steps to restrict use of Services to those who are at least 16 years old.

 

7. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

7.1. Rules of Conduct. You are personally responsible for your use of Services and Software, and while using Services and Software you must conduct yourself in a lawful and respectful manner in accordance with our rules of conduct below. We may temporarily or permanently ban users who violate these rules, or who abuse email communications, support communications, or the community purpose of any message board areas, as determined by us and our content partners, in our sole discretion. We  reserve the right to disable a player’s ability to upload profile photos or edit their username at any time.

• Profanity, obscenities, or the use of **asterisks** or other “masking” characters to disguise such words, is not permitted.

• You may not use or upload obscene, lewd, slanderous, pornographic, abusive, violent, insulting, indecent, threatening and harassing language of any kind, as determined by us in our sole discretion.

• Service usernames will be displayed as ‘Your Name’; impersonating other players is not allowed.

• Do not share personal information (your name, phone number, home address, and password) with other users.

• Do not transmit or upload any copyrighted or trademarked materials in messages or postings.

• Information disclosed in chat rooms, message boards, gameplay dialogue or via eMessages is revealed to the public, and neither we, nor our content partners, is responsible for information you choose to disclose to others.

• Advanced fonts, java, tables, html or other programming codes or commands are not allowed in messages.

• You may not attempt to participate in any Service by means of automatic, macro, programmed or similar methods.

• You may not commit fraud with regard to any Service.

• You may not attempt to impersonate or deceive another user for the purposes of illicitly obtaining winnings, passwords, Profile information etc. (aka “scamming”).

You may not make any commercial use of any of the information provided on the Website/application or through the Services nor make any use of the Website/application or Services for the benefit of a business.

7.2. Your Content. We do not endorse, and specifically disclaim any responsibility or liability for, any publicly posted content. In addition, as agent for our content partners, we may terminate your access to any public forums at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever, and/or delete, move or edit content submitted publicly, in whole or in part. You may only upload, send, and receive messages and material that is related to the subject matter of the public forums, complies with Applicable Laws, and conforms to any additional terms of service posted in the public forums. You may not upload to, distribute, or otherwise publish any content, information, or other material that (a) violates or infringes the copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights of any person; (b) is libelous, threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, pornographic, or could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under U.S. or international law; or (c) includes any bugs, viruses, worms, trap doors, Trojan horses or other harmful code or properties. Submissions or opinions expressed by users are that of the individual expressing such submission or opinion only. Subject to the foregoing, as agent for our content partners, we may edit, refuse to post, or to remove any information or materials submitted, in our discretion. You may not use a false email address, pretend to be someone other than yourself or otherwise mislead us or third parties as to the origin of your submissions or content.

7.3. Cheating, Fraud, and Abuse. In accessing or participating in Services or using the Software, you represent and warrant to us and our content partners that you will not engage in any activity that interrupts or attempts to interrupt the operation of the Services or Software. Anyone who engages in, participates in or displays behavior that may be interpreted, in the discretion of us and our content partners only, as unfair methods in participating in Services or using the Software, including but not limited to, the opening and/or use of multiple Profiles, the use of unauthorized or altered software or hardware to assist play (e.g., bots, bot nets, and collusion with bots), harassment of other participants, posting objectionable material, breach of these Terms, breach of security of your Profile, or any other act (whether through the use of automated technology or otherwise) that unfairly alters your chance of winning or constitutes the commission of fraud (collectively, “Abuse”), you will be subject to immediate sanction (as determined by us and our content partners only), which may include, without limitation: (1) immediate termination of your Profile and blocking of your access to the Website/application and Services; (2) any Winnings that you may otherwise have been entitled to receive shall be void and forfeited; and (3) any Winnings received by you shall be subject to disgorgement and/or recoupment. In addition to the foregoing, as agent for our content partners, we reserve the right to disclose or report any money laundering similar illegal activity to law enforcement and regulatory authorities. Without limiting our other available remedies, we, solely, or in conjunction with our content partners, may institute or seek any injunctive relief, civil and/or criminal proceedings against you and/or any of your co-conspirators arising out of or related to your commission of Abuse, including without limitation recovering all of our and/or our content partners’ fees and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) in connection with such efforts.

7.4. Hacking, Tampering, or Unauthorized Access. Any attempt to gain unauthorized access to systems or any other user’s Profile, interfere with procedures or performance of Services, Software or the Website/application or deliberately damage or undermine the Services or Software is subject to civil and/or criminal prosecution and will result in immediate termination of your Profile and forfeiture of your Winnings. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for any damage, loss or injury resulting from hacking, tampering or other unauthorized access or use of the Services or your Profile.

7.5. Restrictions. Any use, reproduction or redistribution of the Service, Software, or related products or services (including without limitation, Digital Assets) not expressly authorized by these Terms is expressly prohibited. You may not engage in, or assist others to engage in, conduct that would damage or impair our property including, without limitation: (a) copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, performing, framing, linking, hosting, caching, reproducing, publishing, licensing, or creating derivative works from any information, software, products or services obtained from us; (b) providing unauthorized means through which others may use Services such as through server emulators; (c) taking actions that impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on network infrastructure, or that could damage, disable, overburden or impair our Website/applications or Services; (d) interfering with any other party’s use and enjoyment of Services and/or Software (including cheating) or the Website/application; and/or (e) attempting to gain unauthorized access to third party Profiles, the Service or Software.

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