Last Updated: 18th Aug, 2019

These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

You understand that the Terms will be binding on you. You agree that Services offered on the Website can be accessed only in accordance with the Terms and you shall be responsible to comply with the Terms at all times. You are responsible to be aware of and agree to abide by the Terms as published and periodically amended or modified by Fanspole.

If any of the Terms are determined to be unlawful, invalid, void or unenforceable for any reason by any judicial or quasi - judicial body in India, it will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining Terms.

Our failure or delay to act or exercise any right or remedy with respect to a breach of any of the Terms by you shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to act with respect to the said breach or any prior, concurrent, subsequent or similar breaches.

If a promotion, game, event, or competition is organized by us on the Website, it shall be governed by the Terms and any supplementary terms and conditions which may be specifically applied for that promotion, game, event or competition


If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to explicitly agree to these terms and conditions.

  • You must be at least [18] years of age to use our website; and by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least [18] years of age.
  • Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.
  • The trademarks, names, logos, images, assets and service marks displayed on this website are registered and unregistered trademarks of the website owner. Nothing contained on this website should be construed as granting any license or right to use any trademark without the prior written permission of the website owner. The written content displayed on this website is owned by its respective author and may not be reproduced in whole, or in part, without the express written permission of the author. We have full right’s to decide who is to be awarded as the winner for any competition going on the fanspole.com Our decision will be final and is only revocable by us.

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

  • information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website.
  • your IP address.
  • browser type and version
  • length of visit
  • page views and website navigation paths
  • information that you provide to us when registering with our website including [your email address].
  • information that you provide when completing your profile on our website. Your name, profile pictures, gender.
  • information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication.
  • Any other personal information that you choose to send to us
  • Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
LICENCE TO USE WEBSITE

You may:

  • download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
  • Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website. Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
  • attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
ACCEPTABLE USE

You must not:

  • use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website
  • use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity
  • use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software
  • conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent; [access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means;]
  • [use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).]
  • You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
  • You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is [true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading].

User Account Creation and Operation.

To use our Services, you will need to register with us on the Website.

By completing the online registration process on the Website, you confirm you acceptance of the Terms.

During the registration process, you will be required to choose a login name and a password in addition to providing some other information which may not be mandatory. Additionally, you may be required to give further personal information for your user account verification and/or for adding cash to your user account. You must give us the correct details in all fields requiring your personal information, including, without limitation, your name, postal address, email address, telephone number(s) etc. You undertake that you will update this information and keep it current.

You acknowledge that we may, at any time, require you to verify the correctness of this information and in order to do so may require additional documentary proof from you, failing which we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your registration on the Website.

Any information provided by you to us should be complete and truthful to the best of your knowledge. We are not obliged to cross check or verify information provided by you and we will not take any responsibility for any outcome or consequence as a result of you providing incorrect information or concealing any relevant information from us.

You understand that it is your responsibility to protect the information you provide on the Website including but not limited to your Username, Password, Email address, Contact Details and Mobile number. Fanspole will not ask for your user account login password which is only to be entered at the time of login. At no other time should you provide your user account information to any user logged in on the Website or elsewhere. You undertake that you will not allow / login and then allow, any other person to play from your user account using your username. You specifically understand and agree that we will not incur any liability for information provided by you to anyone which may result in your user account on the Website being exposed or misused by any other person.

You agree to use your Fanspole user account solely for the purpose of playing on the Website and for transactions which you may have to carry out in connection with availing the Services on the Website. Use or attempted use of your user account for any reason other than what is stated in the Terms may result in immediate termination of your user account and forfeiture of any prize, bonus or balance in the user account.

You also understand and agree that deposits in your user account maintained with us are purely for the purpose of participation in Cash Games made available on the Website.

You understand and agree that you cannot transfer any sum from your user account with us to the account of another registered user on the Website except as may be permitted by Fanspole and subject to restrictions and conditions as may be prescribed.

You must have a valid email address inorder to redeem prizes.

You will receive a reference code on signing up on Fanspole.com. The reward you receive by referring other sign ups will only be for valid user email sign-ups. Money received through referral sign-ups can be decremented if the sign-up was done through an invalid email-id. Admins of site have the power to decrement wallet money received by referring other sigh-ups if found inappropriate without reasoning or prior notice.

Eligibility
  • The Contest(s) are open only to persons above the age of 18 years.
  • The Contest(s) are open only to persons, currently residing in India.
  • Fanspole may, in accordance with the laws prevailing in certain Indian states, bar individuals residing in those states from participating in the Contest(s). Currently, individuals residing in the Indian states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh Odisha, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland and Sikkim may not participate in the paid version of the Contest as the laws of these states bar persons from participating in games of skill where participants are required to pay to enter.
  • Persons who wish to participate must have a valid email address.
  • Only those Participants who have successfully registered on the Fanspole as well as registered prior to each round in accordance with the procedure outlined above shall be eligible to participate in the Contest and win prizes.
Prizes and Taxation

Within a reasonable time period after each Sporting Event corresponding to the Game ends, the Winners for the Game are announced, but remain subject to final verification by the Company. The Company may, in its sole discretion, award cash or non-cash prizes, to the Winners of each Game.

The details of the prizes that may be won by the Participants, together with the prize structure for each Game, will be finalised and displayed on the Platform prior to the start of the corresponding Sporting Event.

Prize calculations for a Game are based on the results as of the time when final scoring is tabulated by the Company after the end of a Sporting Event. Once Winners are initially announced by the Company, the scoring results will not be changed in light of adjustments made in the official scoreboards, though We reserve the right to make adjustments based on errors or irregularities in the transmission of information to Us from Our stats provider or in Our calculation of results. In determining the Winners, the Company shall not modify or manipulate the points awarded to any Participant in any manner whatsoever.

We also may make adjustments or withhold prizes, in the event of a non-compliance by any of the Users with the Terms of Use.

No request for substitution or transfer of a prize shall be entertained by the Company. Where the Winner requests the Company to transfer the cash prizes to his bank account, the same will be disbursed ONLY to Winners who are account holders with a bank in India via an electronic funds transfer. The Company shall NEITHER physically mail the cheque containing the prize money to the Winner’s postal address NOR shall the Company hand over cash to the Winner through any other means.All taxes associated with the receipt or use of any prize are the sole responsibility of the Winner. In the event that the awarding of any prizes to Winners of the Game is challenged by any Authority, the Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine whether or not to award or adjust such prizes, which shall be in compliance with the Applicable Law.

In all disputes arising out of the determination of the Winner(s) of the Game(s), the Company is the sole judge and its actions are final and binding on all the Participants.

All prizes shall be subject to deduction of tax at source (“TDS”) as per the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Winners will be provided TDS certificates in respect of such tax deductions. The Winners shall be responsible for payment of any other tax/ cess/ surcharge under the Applicable Law, including but not limited to, gift tax, etc. in respect of the prizes.

Game of Skill
  1. The Fantasy Sports/Game Contests hosted by Fanspole on the Platform are all Games of Skill. Different Contests will reward different skills, but each game will reward certain skills, such as knowledge of the game, familiarity with rules, experience, reflexes, practice, hand-eye coordination etc.
  2. Users must note that all Contests available on the Platform are games where the success or/and performance of the Users depends predominantly upon their superior knowledge, training, attention, experience and adroitness (“Games of Skill”) in playing the game. ‘Games of Skill’, under Indian law, are excluded from the ambit of gambling legislations including, the Public Gambling Act of 1867 and other state enactments except in the Restricted States.
  3. Hence, the individuals residing in the Restricted States should not participate in any Contest or Games offered on the Platform. Any participation by such individuals shall be at their sole risk and discretion and Fanspole shall not be liable to refund or reimburse any injury or damages suffered by such individuals.
Earning from Gaming Contests
Creating contests on Fanspole can be free or some fee maybe charged. This will be mentioned while creating contests. Commission/Fee taken for creating contests shall be taxable as per Income Tax law.
User Account suspension

We may suspend or otherwise put restrictions on your access to the Services on the Website during investigation for any of the following reasons:

  • Suspected violation of Terms or other abuse of your user account;
  • Suspected breach of security of your user account; or
  • If there have been charge-backs on your user account.
  • Our decision to suspend or restrict Service or any part thereof as we deem appropriate shall be final and binding on you
PUBLIC FORUMS AND COMMUNICATION

Public Forum means an area, site or feature offered as part of aSite that enables users or visitors of the Site to Distribute Submissions for viewing by one or more users or visitors to the Site, including a chat area, message board, instant messaging, mobile messaging, social community environment, profile page, conversation page, blog, e-mail function (e.g. send-to-a-friend e-mails).

You acknowledge that Public Forums and features offered therein are usually for public and not private communications. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online through a Public Forum, that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. We cannot guarantee the security or privacy of any information you choose to disclose through any of these media; you make such disclosures at your own risk. We recommend that you do not give out personal information (e.g. telephone, e-mail, or home address) about yourself or anyone else through a Public Forum.

You are and shall remain solely responsible for the Submissions you Distribute on or through any of the Sites submitted and/or posted under your username or otherwise by you in any Public Forum and for the consequences of submitting and posting the same.

You acknowledge that the use of any Submission posted in any Public Forum is at your own risk. For example, we are not responsible for, and we do not endorse, the opinions, advice or recommendations posted or sent by users in any Public Forum and we specifically disclaim any and all liability in connection therewith.

We reserve the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit Submissions at any time and for any or no reason including, without limitation, if your Submission fails to conform to the Rules of Conduct, in our absolute and sole discretion without prior notice, although we have no duty to do so or to monitor any Public Forum. If we elect to screen Submissions, there may be a delay in the posting of such content in a Public Forum to allow for a review process. If we have questions about your Submissions including, without limitation, the copyright, we may contact you for further information including, for example, to verify that you own the copyright or otherwise obtained permission to post the material.

When participating in a Public Forum, never assume that people are who they say they are, know what they say they know, or are affiliated with whom they say they are affiliated with. Information obtained in a Public Forum may not be reliable, and it is not a good idea to take any action, including to trade or make any investment

decisions, based solely or largely on information you cannot confirm. We cannot be responsible for the accuracy of any Submissions contained in a Public Forum, and we shall not be responsible for any trading, investment, or any other decisions made or actions taken or not taken based on such information or content.

Your ability to access and browse Public Forums and/or to submit and/or post Submissions within a Public Forum may be subject to certain age restrictions and/or related procedures or terms and conditions that we may revise in our sole discretion at any time and for any reason. Any such age restrictions, procedures and terms and Conditionstions will be posted within the Public Forum, as applicable.