PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND THE RELATED PRIVACY POLICY LOCATED AT https://www.worldpokertour.com/privacy-policy CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE OR ANY OF THE "FORUMS" (AS DEFINED BELOW). BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER DESCRIBED BELOW.
This "Site" (as defined below) is owned and operated by WPT Enterprises, Inc. on its own behalf or in combination with one of its corporate subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions or joint ventures (collectively referred to herein, solely for ease of reference, as "WPT", "us" or "we"). These terms of service (the "Terms of Service", "TOS" or "Agreement") set forth the legal terms and conditions governing your use of our website located at https://www.worldpokertour.com and any other online and mobile websites, blogs and mobile applications operated by WPT (collectively, the "Site") (unless a different policy is provided on a particular site, application or service, in which case such different policy shall govern and control your access to and use thereof). Your use of this Site constitutes and confirms your unconditional agreement to be bound by these Terms of Service and is subject to your continued compliance with these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, you are not authorized to access or otherwise use the Site. Before using the Site, please review the related WPT Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy"), which is available at https://www.worldpokertour.com/privacy-policy and is incorporated herein by this reference.
The Site is intended solely for users eighteen (18) years of age and older. You represent and warrant that you are eighteen (18) years of age or older. Certain parts of the Site may be subject in whole or in part to heightened age and/or other eligibility requirements.
Certain parts or features of the Site may require registration or may otherwise ask you to provide information to participate in certain features or to access certain content. The decision to provide this information is purely voluntary and optional; however, if you elect not to provide such information, you may not be able to access certain content or participate in certain parts or features of the Site. You agree that you will not provide any false personal information to the Site or create an account for anyone other than yourself without their permission. You will also not create more than one personal profile, and if you select a username for your account (your "Account"), we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe in our sole discretion that is necessary or appropriate (such as if a celebrity or trademark owner complains about a username). If you register with the Site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, if any, and for restricting access to your computer and mobile device so that others may not use your Account to access any password protected portion of the Site. You accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your Account, email or password.
WPT grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right and license to access, use and privately display the Site and the materials thereon for your personal use only, provided that you comply fully with these TOS. You shall not interfere (or permit the use of your membership or access to the Site by a third party to interfere) or attempt to interfere with the operation or use of Site by other members in any way through any means or device including, but not limited to, spamming, hacking, uploading computer viruses or time bombs, or any other means.
WPT reserves the right, from time to time, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, update, discontinue, remove, revise, delete or otherwise change any portion of the Site or these TOS, in whole or in part, at any time without further notice. For changes to these TOS that we deem material, we will place a notice on http://www.worldpokertour.com by revising the link on the homepage to read substantially as "Updated Terms of Use" for an amount of time that we determine in our discretion. If you access or use the Site in any way after the TOS have been changed, you will be deemed to have read, understood and unconditionally consented to and agreed to such changes. The most current version of these TOS will be available on http://www.worldpokertour.com and will supersede all previous versions of these TOS.
The Site and all of the content it contains, or may in the future contain, including but not limited to text, video, pictures, graphics, designs, information, applications, software, music, audio files, articles, directories, guides, photographs as well as the trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, copyrights, logos, domain names, code, patents and/or any other form of intellectual property (collectively, the "Material") that relates to the Site (other than and except for "User Content" as defined herein) are owned by or licensed by WPT or other third parties and are protected from any unauthorized use, copying and dissemination by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property and non-intellectual property laws and by international treaties.
Except as expressly permitted in writing by WPT, you shall not capture, reproduce, perform, transfer, sell, license, modify, create derivative works from or based upon, republish, reverse engineer, upload, edit, post, transmit, publicly display, frame, link, distribute or exploit, in whole or in part, any of the Material. Nothing contained in this Agreement or on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any Material in any manner without the prior written consent of WPT or such third party that may own the Material or intellectual property displayed on the Site.
UNAUTHORIZED USE, COPYING, REPRODUCTION, MODIFICATION, PUBLICATION, REPUBLICATION, UPLOADING, FRAMING, DOWNLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING, DISTRIBUTING, DUPLICATING OR ANY OTHER MISUSE OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Any use of the Material other than as permitted by this Agreement will violate this Agreement and may infringe upon our rights or the rights of the third party that owns the affected Material. You agree to report any violation of this Agreement by others that you become aware of. You are advised that WPT will aggressively enforce its rights to the fullest extent of the law. WPT may add, change, discontinue, remove or suspend the display of or access to any of the Material at any time, without notice and without liability.
From time to time, and in its sole discretion, WPT may make available to users certain software that may be accessible or downloaded from this Site. In the event you access or download software from this Site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed to you by WPT or a WPT-approved third party software provider ("Third Party Provider"). WPT does not transfer title to the Software to you. WPT retains full and complete title to the Software, and all intellectual property rights therein. For purposes of these TOS, such Software shall be included in the definition of "Material". Furthermore, your use of any Software of a Third Party Provider shall be subject to the end user license agreement or any other terms of use set forth by such Third Party Provider for its Software.
You agree not to circumvent, disable, disassemble, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or otherwise tamper with such security technology or any digital rights management or other content protection, copy control, or access control measure associated with the Site, including geo-filtering mechanisms.
WPT is pleased to hear from its visitors and welcomes your comments regarding WPT products and services. WPT's long-standing company policy does not allow it to accept or consider creative ideas, suggestions, or materials other than those it has specifically requested (see below). While we value your feedback on our services and products, we request that you be specific in your comments on those services and products, and that you not submit any creative ideas, suggestions or materials. We hope you will understand that it is the intent of this policy to avoid the possibility of future misunderstandings when projects developed by WPT's or its affiliates' professional staff might seem to others to be similar to their own creative work. Accordingly, we ask that you do not send us any original creative materials that you expect to be compensated for or that you would like to keep private. If you nevertheless choose to make any such submission, WPT may freely use the submission, in whole or in part, for any purpose without any obligation to you.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if you send or post a submission or if you send us creative suggestions, ideas, notes, photographs, drawings, concepts, or any other information (each, a "Submission" and collectively, the "Submissions") despite our request that you not send us any unsolicited Submissions or other creative materials, the Submission will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary in each instance. None of the Submissions shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of WPT, and WPT shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submissions. Any Submission may be used by WPT without restriction for any purpose whatsoever, including, without limitation, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast or posting, and you hereby irrevocably waive, release and give up any claim that any use of such Submission violates any of your rights, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, privacy rights, proprietary or other property rights, publicity rights, or right to credit or compensation for the material or ideas. WPT shall have and is hereby irrevocably granted the right, but not the obligation, to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, broadcast, license, perform, post, sell, translate, incorporate, create derivative works from, exploit, distribute and otherwise use the Submission in any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe, in perpetuity, without according you any compensation or credit. Submissions to the Site and/or WPT will not be acknowledged or returned. You agree and understand that WPT is not obligated to use any Submission you make to the Site or WPT and you have no right to compel such use. You hereby acknowledge and agree that your relationship with WPT is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other special relationship, and that your decision to submit any material to WPT does not place WPT in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public with regard to your Submission. You understand and acknowledge that WPT has wide access to ideas, stories, designs, and other literary materials, and that new ideas are constantly being submitted to it or being developed by WPT's own employees. Many ideas or stories may be competitive with, similar or identical to your Submission in structure, purpose, function, theme, idea, plot, format or other respects. You acknowledge and agree that you will not be entitled to any compensation as a result of WPT's use of any such similar or identical material. Finally, you acknowledge that, with respect to any claim you may have relating to or arising out of WPT's actual or alleged exploitation or use of any material you submit to the Site and/or WPT, the damage, if any, thereby caused will not be irreparable or otherwise sufficient to entitle you to injunctive or other equitable relief or to in any way enjoin the exploitation or other use of any WPT television show, platform, product or service based on or allegedly based on the material, and your rights and remedies in any such event shall be strictly limited to the right to recover damages, if any, in an action at law. Applicable law may restrict or limit the foregoing provisions of this Paragraph.
The Site may contain links to third party websites or resources, which may or may not be obvious ("Third Party Sites") as well as software, text, graphics, articles, photographs, pictures, designs, sound, video, music, information, software applications and other content originating from third parties (collectively, "Party Applications, Software or Content"). Our provision of links to Third Party Sites is not an endorsement of any information, product or service that is offered on or reached through such Third Party Site or Third Party Application, Software or Content. Such Third Party Sites and Third Party Applications, Software or Content are not monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for the content or performance of any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available through or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or the Third Party Applications, Software or Content. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern.
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIRD-PARTY SITES OR THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS, SOFTWARE OR CONTENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOUR USE OF ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, DATA, ADVERTISING, PRODUCTS, OR OTHER MATERIALS ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH SUCH SITES AND RESOURCES, IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE APPLICABLE TO SUCH SITES AND RESOURCES.
As a convenience to its visitors, WPT may provide, from time to time and at its sole discretion, one or more chat areas, message boards, bulletin boards, e-mail functions, instant messaging service and other interactive areas as part of the Site (collectively, the "Forums"). The Forums are subject to these TOS, the "Community Guidelines" (as defined below), the Privacy Policy, and other rules that may be published from time to time by WPT in its sole discretion. Information disclosed in the Forums is revealed to the public by design. The individual who posts messages, content or other information in the Forums (collectively, "Content") is responsible for the reliability, accuracy, and truthfulness of such User Content. Information disclosed in the Forums is revealed to the public by design. WPT has no control over whether any such User Content is of a nature that users will find offensive, distasteful or otherwise unacceptable.
WPT specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability to any person or entity (including, without limitation, persons who may use or rely on such User Content) for any loss, damage (whether actual, consequential, punitive or otherwise), injury, claim, liability or other cause of any kind or character based upon or resulting from any User Content provided through a Forum.
WPT does not and cannot review every message posted by users in the Forums and is not responsible for the content of these messages or the views or opinions expressed by the users of the Forums. In no event does WPT assume any obligation to monitor the Forums or remove any specific material. But WPT reserves the right (as opposed to the obligation) to delete, move or edit User Content, in whole or in part for any reason or no reason at all, as determined by WPT in its sole discretion. In addition, WPT may delete, move, edit or disclose User Content when it is required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights and property of WPT or to protect the safety of our users or the public.
You understand that uploading and/or posting User Content on any Forum shall not be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of WPT, and WPT shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any User Content. In consideration for your use of the Forums and functionality, you agree to comply with the "Community Guidelines" set forth below. Without limiting WPT's other rights and remedies, individuals who violate the Community Guidelines may, at WPT's sole discretion, be banned from using the Forums and/or the Site entirely.
In consideration for your use of the Forums, you agree to comply with these TOS and the Community Guidelines. Users who violate these TOS, the Community Guidelines, or provide inaccurate or false information may, at WPT's sole discretion, be permanently banned from using any Forum or the Site.
ENTERING ANY FORUM WILL CONSTITUTE ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES (THE "COMMUNITY GUIDELINES") FOR USE OF THE FORUMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE OR THE COMMUNITY GUIDELINES, PLEASE DO NOT ENTER ANY FORUM.
Community Guidelines
You are entirely responsible and liable for all activities conducted by you and any authorized user of your Account in the Forums, including the transmission, posting, or other provision of User Content. Listed below are some, though not all, violations that may result in WPT terminating or suspending your access to a Forum. You agree not to do any of the following actions while using any Forum:
1. Harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress or discomfort upon another Forum participant, user, or other individual or entity;
2. Transmit any User Content in any Forum that WPT considers to be disruptive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
3. Misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity, impersonate in any Forum any person or entity, including but not limited to, a WPT official, chat or message board leader, guide or host, or make false or misleading statements;
4. Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in a WPT chat room or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other participants;
5. Post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation in the Forums;
6. Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including but not limited to any regulations having the force of law while using or accessing the Site or any Forum;
7. Invade the privacy or violate any personal or proprietary right of any person or entity;
8. Infringe the intellectual property rights or similar rights, including but not limited to copyrights and trademarks, of any person or entity;
9. Use the Site in any manner that could damage, impair, disable, overburden or harm the Site or circumvent the intended functionality of the Site;
10. Collect information identifying users of the Site by electronic or other means without authorization from the person(s) affected;
11. Upload, post, transmit, send, share, store, distribute or otherwise make available on the Site any private or sensitive information or content about any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers; and/or
12. Upload, post, transmit, send, share, store, distribute, or otherwise make available any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or other electronic or telecommunications equipment.
By posting or uploading Content to the Site, any Forum or submitting any other User Content to WPT, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) WPT a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, publicly perform, translate, sub-license, create derivative works from, exploit, distribute and otherwise use such materials or incorporate such User Content in or in connection with the Site or by or in any other media or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe in perpetuity. In addition, you represent and warrant that any and all User Content you upload, post, transmit, send, share, store, distribute, or otherwise make available on the Site complies with each of the foregoing Community Guidelines.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Site users. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
From time to time, the Site may offer sweepstakes, contests or other promotions that require you to send material or information about yourself. Please note that sweepstakes, contests or promotions offered via the Site may be, and often are, governed by a separate set of rules that, in addition to describing such sweepstakes, contest or promotion, may have eligibility requirements, such as certain age or geographic area restrictions, terms and conditions governing the use of material you submit, and supplemental disclosures about how your personal information may be used. It is your responsibility to read such rules to determine whether or not you want to and are eligible to participate, register and/or enter. By entering any such sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, you agree to comply with abide by such rules and the decisions of the sponsor(s) identified therein, which shall be final and binding in all respects.
You understand and agree that you may not reproduce, copy, resell, manipulate, or exploit any part of the Site for any commercial purpose.
WPT operates the Site in the United States from its offices within the State of California. WPT makes no representation that the Site or Material, including merchandise offered for sale on the Site and their copyrights, trademarks, patents, and licensing arrangements, are appropriate or available for use in locations other than the United States. If you access the Site from locations outside of the U.S. you do so on your own initiative and at your own risk, and you are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
Software from this Site is further subject to United States export controls. No software from this Site may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) any countries that are subject to U.S. export restrictions; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. With respect to shipments of merchandise, wherever you may reside, title to the merchandise and risk of loss shall pass to you upon delivery of the merchandise to the common carrier.
You understand and agree that WPT may, in its sole discretion and at any time, terminate your use of the Site or any Forum and discard and remove any User Content posted or submitted by you to any Forum, and/or prohibit you from accessing the Site, in whole or in part, for any reason or no reason at all, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice. You understand and agree that WPT may take any one or more of these actions without prior notice to you. Should WPT take any of these actions, it may, in its sole discretion, immediately delete any or all submitted User Content. You understand and agree that WPT shall not have any liability to you or any other person for any termination of your access to any Forum and/or the Site or deletion of User Content. WPT will determine your compliance with this Agreement in its sole discretion and its decision shall be final and binding and not subject to challenge or appeal. Any violation of this Agreement may result in restrictions on your access to all or part of the Site and may be referred to law enforcement authorities. No changes to or waiver of any part of this Agreement shall be of any force or effect unless formally posted or made in writing and signed by a duly authorized officer of WPT. Upon termination of your membership or access to the Site, or upon demand by WPT, you must destroy all materials obtained from the Site and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof. If we disable your Account, you agree that you will not create another account without our permission.
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You acknowledge that any breach of this agreement would cause WPT irreparable injury, such that WPT would have no adequate remedy at law. You agree that in the event of such breach, WPT shall be entitled to injunctive relief in addition to any other remedies it may have at law or equity, without the requirement of posting a bond.
These TOS shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California applicable to contracts entered into and fully performed in California (without regard to its conflicts of law principles that would cause the application of any other jurisdiction's laws). With respect to any disputes or claims not subject to arbitration, you agree not to commence or prosecute any action in connection therewith other than in the state and federal courts of California, and you hereby consent to, and waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to venue and jurisdiction in the state and federal courts of California.
By using the Site in any way, you unconditionally consent and agree that: (1) any claim, dispute, or controversy (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) you may have against the officers, directors and employees of WPT and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates (all such individuals and entities collectively referred to herein as the "WPT Entities") arising out of, relating to, or connected in any way with the website or the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, will be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration administered by JAMS (or if JAMS is unable or unwilling to administer such arbitration, by another arbitration provider selected by WPT) and conducted before a sole arbitrator in accordance with the rules of JAMS; (2) this arbitration agreement is made pursuant to a transaction involving interstate commerce, and shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. ยงยง 1-16; (3) the arbitration shall be held in Los Angeles, California; (4) the arbitrator's decision shall be controlled by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and any of the other agreements referenced herein that the applicable user may have entered into in connection with the website; (5) the arbitrator shall apply California law consistent with the FAA and applicable statutes of limitations, and shall honor claims of privilege recognized at law; (6) there shall be no authority for any claims to be arbitrated on a class or representative basis, arbitration can decide only your and/or the applicable WPT Entity's individual claims; the arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of other persons or parties who may be similarly situated; and (7) the arbitrator shall not have the power to award punitive damages against you or any WPT Entity. In addition, if you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, WPT will pay as much of your filing and hearing fees in connection with the arbitration as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive; and (9) with the exception of subpart (6) above, if any part of this arbitration provision is deemed to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, or otherwise conflicts with the rules of JAMS, then the balance of this arbitration provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid, unenforceable, illegal or conflicting provision were not contained herein. If, however, subpart (6) is found to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, then the entirety of this Arbitration Provision shall be null and void, and neither you nor WPT shall be entitled to arbitrate their dispute. For more information on JAMS and/or the rules of JAMS, visit their website at www.jamsadr.com.
If any provision of these Terms of Service are determined to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Service and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
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