Term and Conditions

I. INTRODUCTION TO AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS

This Terms of Service and User Agreement (this “Agreement”) is a legally binding agreement between Playwards (the “Company”, “we” or “us”) and you (“you”) governing your use of the Playwards service (the “Website”), the Playwards client software (the “Software”, if any), the Playwards web site (the “Site”, if any) and other related Internet services (collectively, the “Services”), as a registered user of the Services (“Registered User”). Unless you accept this Agreement, otherwise you have no right or authorization to use any part of the Services which requires you to be a Registered User.

By accessing the “Terms of Service and User Agreement” section and completing the registration (sign-up) process, or continue to use or access any of the Services as a Registered User, you agree and certify to us:

i) that you are at least 13 years of age, or the statutory age of majority in your state of nationality and residence, whichever is higher.

ii) that you are not restricted from using the Services, by law, by contract, or by us.

iii) that you fully agree with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

iv) and where necessary, your legal guardian has reviewed and consented to this Agreement and agreed to be responsible for any of your liability arising hereof.

Your fundamental rights as a Registered User to the Services are mainly set forth in this Agreement, so please read all the terms and conditions carefully. This Agreement includes an agreement to resolve disputes by arbitration on an individual basis. The venue of such arbitration may not be in the country where you reside. Due to fast-developing technologies and law and policies, as well as volatile market conditions, the Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify or revise this Agreement from time to time at any time, and to the extent permitted by Websitelicable law, you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions. Any such modified or revised version will be effective at the time we first post it onto our Services (or at any other time designated in the terms of such version, if any). We will give you a notification or provide you the opportunity to review such a version by other means. Your continued use of the Services thereafter will constitute your acceptance of, and consent to, such modifications or revisions. If you object to any such modification or revision, your sole recourse shall be ceasing to use all the Services.

II. USER RIGHTS AND LICENSES

1. Rights to Access the Services

A. The Services provide an internet web gaming platform offering comprehensive software and network services, online and/or mobile, audio and/or video, via the Website, Software, and/or Site and other related Internet services. 

B. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, the Company grants you a conditional, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Services, solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You agree not to (and not to attempt to):

i) access or use the Services for any use or purpose other than as expressly permitted by this Agreement.

ii) attack, hack, interfere with other user’s use of, reverse-engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, the Service or any part thereof.

iii) conduct any action that may infringe or jeopardize the lawful rights or interests of any person.

iv) copy, modify, adapt, produce derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Services or any portion thereof, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement or authorized by the Company.

2. License of the Software and the Website

A. Both the Software and the Website consist of computer programs and integrated or peripheral contents which may contain copyrighted material. The Software and the Website made available to you are licensed, not sold, to you. Your license to each of the Software and the Website is subject to your prior acceptance of this Agreement. The Company reserves all rights in and to the Software and the Website that are not expressly granted to you under this Agreement.

B. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, the Company grants you a conditional, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to copy, store, install, use and uninstall the Software and the Website on any computing devices (inclusive but not limited to desktop and portable computers, tablets or pads, smartphones, Internet TVs and wearable devices) that you own or control, solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Unless otherwise provided to the contrary, this Agreement governs all content, material and services accessible from or purchased within the Software and the Website as well as upgrades and patches provided by the Company.

C. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, you shall not rent, sell, transfer, redistribute or sublicense the Software and the Website. If you sell your computing device to a third party, you must remove the Software and the Website from such device, or at least log out and erase all records in relation to your use (and your user account with us, if any) of the Software and the Website.

D. You shall not make use of errors, bugs or defects of the Software and the Website, and shall not develop, distribute, disseminate or use any program, software or scripts which may cast detriment to us or the Software and the Website.

3. Use of Data

You agree that the Company may collect and use technical data and related information including but not limited to technical information about your device, system, network access and other software and peripherals installed on your devices. These may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of the Services, inclusive of customer service, technical support, and other services to you (if any) related to the Services. The Company may use this information to improve its products or to provide services or technologies to you or third parties, if it is in a form that is not capable of personally identifying you. For more details, please check our Privacy Policy.

4. Account

A. Typically, you need not register a user account with us for certain part of the Services. However, for the rest part of the Services, especially those advanced features and functions of the Services, you must register a user account (“Account”) with us before you can use them.

B. When you access some part of the Services, you may be prompted to Website for (register, or sign up) an Account by providing us certain information of you, or log-in with an existing account. You represent and warrant that the information you provide to us upon such Account registration and at all other times will be true, accurate, current, and complete. If any such information changes, you agree to forthwith update such information to us. You become a registered user (“Registered User”) of our Services once your Account is opened with us and cease to be a Registered User when you no longer maintain an Account with us.

C. You may choose a combination of certain characters (letters, digits and other characters as allowed by the Platform Rules, as defined below) unused by other users as your username and nickname. We reserve the right to restrict the use of certain such combinations for legal compliance purpose or prevention of personal attack, humiliation, intellectual property rights infringement or other improper use of the Account.

D. You are primarily responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your log-in credentials (including without limitation your account number (ID), username, password) and are fully responsible for all activities that occur using your credentials or otherwise on or through your Account. You agree to notify us immediately if you believe the confidentiality of your log-in credentials has been compromised or if you suspect any unauthorized use of your Account. You agree that we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from unauthorized use of your log-in credentials.

E. If you lose or forget the password or other log-in confidential of your Account, you may retrieve your Account by reporting to us and following the instructions given by our staff. Our Account retrieval mechanism can only validate the consistency of the information given by the User with the information recorded in our system. We are unable to identify whether the user is the correct and legitimate user of the Account. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that your Account is always retrievable, and we cannot prevent imposters who assume the identity of you and retrieve the Account fraudulently (although we will make every endeavor to identify such imposters). On this ground, we shall not be held liable for any loss and damage incurred due to such failure of retrieval, or imposture or fraud.

F. We retain the ownership of the Account. You enjoy only the right to use your Account during the period that you maintain it with us. Your Account shall be exclusively used by you. Any form of lending, borrowing, renting, transferring, gifting or selling of such Account is prohibited and shall be null and void. You are liable for all activities done using your Account, even if such activities are not actually conducted by you. If we detect any inconsistency between the actual user of an Account and the person who registered it, or it is in dispute on who shall be the legitimate user of an Account, we have the right to recover, withdraw, suspend (freeze) or terminate such Account in our discretion, without any notice or any liability to any person. The loss and damage arising thereof, including but not limited to the loss of communication, data and virtual properties, shall be assumed solely by the user.

G. For safety, compliance, operational or other concerns, and on a reasonable ground (for example, the Account is inactive for a long period and is wasting service resources), we reserve the right to suspend (freeze), terminate or reclaim your Account in our sole discretion, temporarily or permanently, with or without notice, giving reasons or not, and without any liability to you.

5. Verification

A. To use some of the features and functions of the Services, you may be required to first undergo a real-name verification process. This is usually required by laws or regulatory authorities. We may ask you to provide certain personal information of you, such as your legal name, identity card / passport number, security number, telephone or mobile phone number, and so on. We will collect, store, use and dispose this information in the way we described in our Privacy Policy.

B. We may also engage biometric technologies such as iris scan, face recognition and fingerprint identification to confirm your identity, or crosscheck with our third-party suppliers on the authenticity of the information you provided. 

C. By submitting real-name verification information to us or by undergoing the biometric verification, you represent and warrant to us that such information is true, correct, and is totally of yourself, and no substitute or imposter is used during the biometric verification. Any false, incorrect, imposture, deceitful or fraudulent submission to us may result in immediate action and/or punishment in accordance with Clause III.4. of this Agreement. You shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and keep us harmless from and against all losses and damages we incurred.

III. LAWFUL AND PROPER USAGE OF THE SERVICES

As a precondition and requirement for your access to and use of the Services, you are obliged to always observe certain Platform Rules, Codes of Conduct and Community Guidelines (each as defined below, collectively “Regulations”) during your access to and use of the Services.

1. Platform Rules

When accessing and using the Services, you may be subject to additional rules applicable to specific parts and features of the Services, as promulgated by us online from time to time (the “Platform Rules”). Such Platform Rules set forth the way, method and procedures for you to use such Services, including without limitation what roles will you play under a product or service, what operations you may perform, what rules or procedures you have to follow, and what consequences will you face if you fail to follow. We may promulgate new rules, post notices or make announcements online from time to time to improve the Platform Rules. All such rules, notices and announcements shall be deemed incorporated into this Agreement by reference. If you do not agree with any of the Platform Rules, your sole recourse is to cease to use the corresponding product and service.

2. Earning and Redeeming Rewards

  • Earning Rewards: Users can earn rewards ("Points") by participating in games by playing games.
  • Redeeming Rewards: Points can be redeemed for cash, gift cards, or other rewards as specified on the Site. Redemption options and minimum thresholds for redemption may vary.
  • Reward Discrepancies: If you believe there is an error in your rewards balance, you must notify us within 30 days of the transaction in question.

3. Eligible Countries for Rewards

The Playwards website currently allows users from the following countries to access and claim rewards: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Brazil, Italy, Colombia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hongkong, Mexico, South Africa, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Argentina, Chile, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Saudi Arabia.

Users from other countries may still access and use the website, but they will not be eligible to claim rewards.

4. Prohibited Activities

You agree not to:

  • Engage in any fraudulent or deceptive practices.
  • Use any fraudulent tools to manipulate Geo location, games and points.
  • Create multiple accounts to earn rewards.
  • Use any automated means or bots to interact with the Site.
  • Violate any applicable law or regulation.
  • Use ad block tools.
  • Any action that We consider as a fraudulent activity.

5. Consequences of Misuse of the Services

A. If you violate Applicable laws, regulations, this Agreement and/or our other agreements or terms and conditions you accepted, we have the right to make judgments in our discretion but in accordance with relevant rules, and take one or more countermeasures or penalties as we consider commensurate to your violation, including but not limited to:

i) confiscation of your Virtual Currency and/or Virtual Items 

ii) deducting your Account points balance.

iii) restricting or terminating the provision of certain portions, features or functions of the Services to you.

iv) suspension or termination of your Account, and/or limitation or denial of further service to you.

B. Multiple or repeated violations and misconducts, and cases of extreme severity, may result in more serious consequences, as we reasonably consider.

C. You agree to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from and against any loss, liability, claim, demand, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, arising out of or in connection.

IV. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

1. Ownership

All rights, title and interest in and to all materials that are part of the Services (including, but not limited to, designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, website, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement) are, as between the Company and you, owned by the Company and/or its third-party licensors. You acknowledge and agree that you shall not acquire any ownership rights whatsoever by downloading the Platform Materials or by purchasing any Virtual Currency or Virtual Items. You agree that you shall not modify, copy, distribute, frame, reproduce, republish, download, scrape, display, post, transmit, or sell in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, or otherwise exploit the Platform Materials without our express prior written permission. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by using the Services or by accessing any Platform Materials posted on the Services by the Company, or any derivative works thereof. All rights not expressly granted by this Agreement are reserved by the Company and its licensors, and no license is granted hereunder by estoppel, implication or otherwise.

2. Copyright Complaints

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you should notify us of your infringement claim in accordance with the procedure set forth below. The Company will process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under applicable intellectual property laws with respect to any alleged or actual infringement. A notification of claimed copyright infringement should be emailed to our copyright complaint email address at [email protected]. To be effective, the notification must be in writing, in English, and contain the following information:

i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright.

ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.

iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Services, with enough detail that we may find it efficiently.

iv) your address, telephone number, and email address.

v) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law.

vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

V. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Playwards shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your use of or inability to use the Site; (ii) any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any personal information stored therein; (iii) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Site.

VI. ACCOUNT TERMINATION

We are committed to maintaining a fair and secure environment for all users. As such, any exploitation of the platform, including but not limited to the use of robots, automated tools, or any harmful methods to earn points, is strictly prohibited. Additionally, engaging in suspicious or fraudulent activities, such as attempting to manipulate game outcomes, exploit vulnerabilities in the platform, or falsely accumulate points, will result in immediate action.

We reserve the right to investigate and terminate any account found to be in violation of these policies. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • The use of bots, scripts, or automation tools to earn points or complete game missions.
  • Engaging in any form of hacking, manipulation, or exploitation of the platform.
  • Participation in fraudulent activities or any behavior that compromises the integrity of the platform.

If an account is found in violation of these terms, the account may be permanently terminated, and any accumulated points, rewards, or privileges will be forfeited without notice. We take these measures to ensure a fair experience for all users. Please also refrain from clicking or interacting with ads that do not interest you, as engaging with ads in a manner that appears unnatural, or manipulative can lead to account suspension. Our system monitors ad interactions, and any behavior deemed suspicious or fraudulent may result in the suspension or termination of your account.

VII. CHANGES TO TERMS

We reserve the right to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

 

 Update date: 20 October 2024