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User Agreement, Please take time to read our User Agreement below which should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy
August 2023
Sports Bet Services (Pty) Ltd. (“Sports Bet Services (Pty) Ltd” or “we”) operates the Website goodforthegame.co.za (the Website) which is a sports information service that allows Members to create unique personal profiles online in order to find and communicate with old and new friends. The services offered include any goodforthegame website branded URL (the £Website”), and other features (for example, embedded social media channels), mobile services, and any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time in connection with the business.
This Terms of Use Agreement (“Agreement”) sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the the Website goodforthegame.co.za. By using the Website you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a “Visitor” (which means that you simply browse the Website, including through a mobile device, or otherwise use the Website without being registered) or you are a “Member” (which means that you have registered with the website). The term “User” refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the Website (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and the terms of this Agreement. Please read this Agreement and save it. If you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement and to follow all applicable laws, you should leave the the Website and discontinue use immediately. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members and/or make use of the Website, you must read and abide by this Agreement.
This Agreement includes the Website’s policy for acceptable use of the Website and Content (as defined in Section 6.1 below) posted on or through the Website and your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the Website and Content posted on or through the Website. In order to participate in certain services you may be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions from the Website. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the Website in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us at: info@goodforthegame.co.za, Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
The Website may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting on the Website. Your continued use of the Website after a revised Agreement is published signifies your acceptance of the revised Agreement. It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you post on or through the Website and that you provide to other Users. Your Website profile may not include any form of Prohibited Content, as outlined in Section 8 below. Despite this prohibition, information, materials, products or services provided by other Website Members (for instance, in their profile) may, in whole or in part, be unauthorized, impermissible or otherwise violate this Agreement, and the Website assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the Website by any person, please notify us by emaling info@goodforthegame.co.za
The Website reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. The Website expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website if the Website determines, in its sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement or pose a threat to the integrity and operation of the Website and/or its Users.
1. Eligibility. Use of the Website and registration to be a Member for the Website (“Membership”) is void where prohibited. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 18 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the Website does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 18 years of age, if we believe that you are under 18 years of age and you represent yourself as 18 or older, or if we believe you are over 18 and represent yourself as under 18.2.
2. Term. This Agreement, and any posted revision to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Website or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Member’s Account Settings page. The Website may terminate your Membership at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including Sections 5-17. 3.
3. Fees. You acknowledge that the Website reserves the right to introduce fees (if any) from time to time in its discretion.
4. Password. When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify the Website immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
5. Use by Members. The Website Services are for the personal use of Members and may be used for promotional purposes as well, but direct commercial endeavors may only be used if they are specifically endorsed or authorized by the Website. The Website reserves the right to remove commercial content in its sole discretion. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the WEbsite, including collecting usernames, user id numbers, and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website, or employing third party promotional sites or software to promote profiles for money, is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of unauthorized solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice or explanation and may result in termination of Membership privileges. The Website reserves the right to take appropriate legal action for any illegal or unauthorized use.
6. Proprietary Rights in Content on the Website
6.1 The Website does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post on or through the Website. After posting your Content to the Website, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content on or through the Website, you hereby grant the Website a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on or through the Website, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Website in any media formats and through any media channels, except Content marked “private” will not be distributed outside the Website. This limited license does not grant The Wesbite the right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the Website. After you remove your Content from the Website we will cease distribution as soon as practicable, and at such time when distribution ceases, the license will terminate. If after we have distributed your Content outside the Website you change the Content’s privacy setting to “private,” we will cease distribution of such “private” Content outside the Website as soon as practicable after you make the change.
6.2 The license you grant to the Website is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to the Website), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that the Website is not required to pay you for the use on the Webssite of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that the Website is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as Internet content delivery networks and wireless carriers to provide the Website), and worldwide (because the Internet and the Website are global in reach).
6.3 You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Website or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this Section 6, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the Website does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person or entity by reason of any Content posted by you on or through the Website.
6.4 The Website owns and retains all rights in the Content. The Website hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the Website Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing and using the Website.
6.5 The Website Services contain Content of Users and other WEbsite licensors. Except as provided within this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the Website.
6.6 The Website performs technical functions necessary to offer Services, including but not limited to transcoding and/or reformatting Content to allow its use throughout the Website.
7. Content Posted.
7.1 The Website may reject, refuse to post or delete any Content for any or no reason, including Content that in the sole judgment of the Website violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights of any person or entity, or harm or threaten the safety of any person or entity. The Website assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time the Website chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Content and Services, the Website nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.
7.2 You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any part of the Website, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users.
8. Content/Activity Prohibited. The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the Website. The Website reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in the Website’s sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the Website and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of the Website:
8.1 is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
8.2 harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
8.3 exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
8.4 contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
8.5 solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
8.6 publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;
8.7 constitutes or promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
8.8 constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
8.9 involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, “spimming,” or “spamming”;
8.10 contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
8.11 furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
8.12 solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
8.13 involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from the Website such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
8.14 includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person’s consent;
8.15 for band, comedy, filmmaker and other profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile; or
8.16 violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.
The following are examples of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the Website and through your use of the Website Services. The Website reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in the Website’s sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
8.17 criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
8.18 advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Website. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, The Website reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which the Website deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unauthorized commercial communications of any kind through the Website, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to the Website, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay the Website $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unauthorized commercial communication you send through the Website;
8.19 circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of the Website
8.20 activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or access to a computer or a computer network;
8.21 covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any of the Website’s pages via HTML/CSS or any other means;
8.22 any automated use of the system, such as, but not limited to, using
scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;
8.23 interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Website or the networks or services connected to the Websites;
8.24 impersonating or attempting to impersonate another Member, person or entity;
8.25 for profiles containing a Website Member, copying the code for your Website Member and embedding it (or directing others to embed it) anywhere other than your profile on the Website
8.26 using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
8.27 selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
8.28 using any information obtained from the Website in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same;
8.29 displaying an unauthorized commercial advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Website on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial purpose or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or
8.30 using the Website in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
9. Protecting Copyrights and Other Intellectual Property.
The Website respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. You may not upload, embed, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any person or entity. The Website has the right to terminate the Membership of infringers.
If you believe your work has been copied and posted on or through the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send the Website a notification of claimed infringement with all of the following information:
(a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;
(b) identification of the claimed infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material on the Website (providing the URL(s) of the claimed infringing material satisfies this requirement);
(c) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address; (d) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
(e) 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 a authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and
(f) your physical or electronic signature. The Website’s Copyright Agent for notification of claimed infringement can be reached on info@goodforthegame.co.za .
10. Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Website Members. The Website reserves the right, but has no obligation, to become involved in any way with disputes between you and other Members.
11. Privacy. Use of the WEbssite is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
12. Disclaimers. The Website is not responsible for and makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the User Content or the accuracy and reliability of the User Content posted on or through the Website, whether caused by Users of the Website or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Website and such User Content does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Website. Profiles and third party applications created and posted by Members on the Website may contain links to other websites. The Website is not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are not necessarily investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by the Website. Inclusion of any linked website on the Website does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website. When you access these third party sites, you do so at your own risk. The Website takes no responsibility for third party advertisements or third party applications that are posted on or through the Website, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. The Website is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the Website.
The Website assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member communication. The Website is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any of the Website’s Services or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Users or to any person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the Website. Under no circumstances shall the Website be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Website, attendance at a Website event, from any User Content posted on or through the Website, or from the conduct of any Users of the Website, whether online or offline. The Website Services are provided “AS-IS” and as available and the Website expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. The Website cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the the Website.
13. Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL GOOD FOR THE GAME BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE GOOD FOR THE GAME SERVICES, EVEN IF THE WEBSITE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, THE WEBSITE’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO THE WEBSITE FOR THE WEBSITE’S SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
14. Software. Downloading or using any Software from the Website is at your sole risk.
15. Disputes. The Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of South Africa, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and the Website agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within South Africa to resolve any dispute arising out of the Agreement or the Good for the Game Services. EACH OF THE PARTIES HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY CLAIMS, COUNTERCLAIMS, CROSS-CLAIMS, OR THIRD PARTY CLAIMS) ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT. FURTHER, EACH PARTY HERETO CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT OF EITHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH PARTY WOULD NOT IN THE EVENT OF SUCH LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THIS WAIVER OF RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL PROVISION. EACH OF THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS SECTION IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR THE OTHER PARTY ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
16. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold the Website, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Website in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement and/or if any Content that you post on or through the Website causes the Website to be liable to another.
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