Terms | Sladders

TERMS OF SERVICE

Effective date: 1st July 2024

1. Introduction

Services – This contract applies to Sladders.com and Sladders apps (collectively referred to as “platform”), communications and other services that are stated as offered under this contract (“Services”) including the onsite and offsite collection of data for those Services.

Sladders – Sladders provide a social platform where users can engage with other users on sports related contents as well as predict sports (leagues, tournaments, racings) results or outcomes for fun and for a chance to win cash prizes.

You are entering into this contract with Sladders Ltd (also referred to as “Sladders”, “we”, ”our” and “us”)

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our platform.

1.2 By registering or using our platform, 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 register or use our platform.

1.3 You must be at least 13 years of age to use our platform; by using our platform or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 13 years of age.

1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to participate in our sports prediction games. By submitting prediction entries, you warrant that you are aged 18 or over or, if you are under 18, that your parents have consented to your entry into the prize competitions and the play rules.

1.5 By signing up and by entering our prediction games, you hereby warrant that all information submitted by you is true, current, and complete. We reserve the right to verify the eligibility of all entrants to our games.

2. Copyright notice

2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our platform and the material on our platform; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our platform and the material on our platform are reserved.

3. Permission to use our platform

3.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our platform in a web browser, iOS or Google Play Store;

(b) download pages from our platform for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from our platform for your own personal and non-commercial use provided that such printing is not systematic or excessive;

(d) stream audio and video files from our platform; and

(e) use our web services by means of a web browser and our apps services by means of iOS or Google Play Store

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our platform or save any such material to your computer.

3.3 You may only use our platform for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use our platform for any other purposes.

3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our platform.

3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) sell, rent or sub-license material from our platform;

(b) exploit material from our platform for a commercial purpose; or

3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute [our newsletter] in [print and electronic form] to [any person].

3.7 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our platform, to areas of our platform and/or to functionality upon our platform. We may, for example, suspend access to the platform [during server maintenance or when we update the platform]. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the platform.

4. Misuse of platform

4.1 You must not:

(a) use our platform in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the platform or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the platform;

(b) use our platform in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our platform without our permission;

(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our platform;

(f) use our platform 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;

(g) impose an unreasonably large load on our platform resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity;

(h) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our platform without our permission;

(i) 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 platform without our express written consent;

(j) access or otherwise interact with our platform using any robot, spider or other automated means

(k) use our platform except by means of our public interfaces;

(l) use data collected from our platform for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

(m) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our platform.

4.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our platform, or in relation to our platform, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

5. Registration and accounts

Users must register on our platform to use our Services including partaking in our competitions. Registration and usage of our platform is free.

5.1 To be eligible for an account on our platform, you must be 13 or over and not be a person or resident of a country barred from receiving our Services under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction.

5.2 You may register for an account with our platform by completing and submitting the account registration form on our iOS or Google Play Store apps, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the app will send to you.

5.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the platform or apps.

5.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account.

5.5 You must not use any other person's account to access our platform.

6. User login details

6.1 If you register for an account with our platform, you will be asked to choose a username (User ID) and password.

6.2 Your User ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 11; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

6.3 You must keep your password confidential.

6.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

6.5 You are responsible for any activity on our platform arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

7. Cancellation and suspension of account

7.1 We may:

(a) suspend your account;

(b) cancel your account; and/or

at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.

7.2 We reserve the right to cancel an account if it remains unused for a continuous period of 18 months.

7.3 You may close your account on our platform using your account control panel on our platform at any time.

8. Our rights to use your content

8.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our platform for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our platform.

8.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, translate, distribute and publish your content on and in relation to this platform and any successor platform.

8.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

8.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

8.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

8.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our platform.

8.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

9. Rules about your content (user-generated content)

Users of our platform may be allowed to upload, post, or otherwise make available content on our platform including, without limitation, any texts, photographs, videos, and audios (User Content). You acknowledge and agree that users of our platform may also extract all or part of User Content uploaded or otherwise made available by you on the platform to produce additional User Content.

9.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

9.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

9.3 Your content must not be objectionable, and as such, must not:

(a) be libelous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g) be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) depict violence;

(m) be pornographic or promote sexually explicit content;

(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, bullying, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory;

(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

9.4 Any User Content will be considered non-confidential. You must not post any User Content on or through our platform or transmit to us any User Content that you consider to be confidential or proprietary to any other person.

9.5 When you submit User Content on our platform, you agree and represent that you own that User Content, or you have received all necessary permissions (including any necessary licenses), clearances from, or are authorized by the owner of any part of the content to publish such User Content on our platform, to transmit it from our platform to other third party platforms, and/or to otherwise make any use of such User Content on or through our platform.

9.6 Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

9.7 You must not use our platform to link to any platform or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our platform, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.

9.8 You must not submit to our platform any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

If you find inappropriate or objectionable content or content that violates any of the above content rules and guidelines or have any other issues you’d like to raise, you can email us at report@Sladders.com

10. Report abuse

10.1 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our platform, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.

10.2 You can let us know about any such material or activity by email us at report@sladders.com

11. Limited warranties

11.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our platform;

(b) that the material on the platform is up to date;

(d) that the platform or any service on the platform will remain available.

11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our platform services, and to stop publishing our platform, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any platform services, or if we stop publishing the platform.

11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our platform and the use of our platform.

12. Limitations and exclusions of liability

12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law,

and, if you are a consumer, your statutory rights will not be excluded or limited by these terms and conditions, except to the extent permitted by law.

12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

12.3 To the extent that our platform and the information and services on our platform are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software[, providing that if you contract with us under these terms and conditions as a consumer, this Section 12.6 shall not apply].

12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the platform or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

12.9 Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide services to you under these terms and conditions shall not exceed:

(a) the total amount paid and payable to us during the term of this contract; or

(b) US $500.

13. Indemnity

13.1 You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our platform or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

14. Breaches of these terms and conditions

14.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our platform;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our platform;

(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our platform;

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g) suspend or delete your account on our platform.

14.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our platform or a part of our platform, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking including without limitation creating and/or using a different account.

15. Third party platforms

15.1 Our platform includes hyperlinks to other platforms owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.

15.2 We have no control over third party platforms and their contents, and subject to Section 13.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

16. Trademarks

16.1 Our logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks are trademarks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

16.2 The third party registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks on our platform are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any license to exercise such rights.

17. Variation

17.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

17.2 We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our platform from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our platform.

18. Assignment

18.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

18.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

19. Severability

19.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

19.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

20. Third party rights

20.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

20.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

21. Entire agreement

21.1 Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our Policies shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our platform and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our platform.

22. Law and jurisdiction

22.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

22.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

23. Statutory and regulatory disclosures

23.1 We will not file a copy of these terms and conditions specifically in relation to each user or customer and, if we update these terms and conditions, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our platform. We recommend that you consider saving a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.

23.2 These terms and conditions are available in the English language only.

24. Our details

24.1 This platform is owned and operated by Sladders Ltd.

24.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 13483388

and our registered office is at

128 City Road

London

EC1V 2NX

United Kingdom.

24.3 You can contact us:

(a) by post:

Sladders Ltd, 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom

(b) by email: support@sladders.com