Lottery Syndicate: Player Terms and Condititons
- Information About Us
- Your Status
- How the Contract is Formed Between You and Us
- Our Status
- Consumer Rights
- Price and Payment
- Payment of Prizes
- Our Liability
- Termination
- Written Communications
- Notices
- Transfer of Rights and Obligations
- Events Outside Our Control
- Publicity
- Waiver
- Severability
- Entire Agreement
- Our Right to Vary These Terms and Conditions
- Third Party Rights
- No Partnership or Agency
- Law and Jurisdiction
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Player Terms and Conditions
This page together with the documents referred to on it tells you the terms and conditions of membership (“Membership”) to a syndicate to play the draws known as ‘Lotto’ and “Euromillions” within the United Kingdom controlled and operated by Camelot Group plc (collectively referred to in these terms as the “Draw(s)”) as set out on this website. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before applying for Membership. You should understand that by applying for Membership, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.
Please tick the box marked "I Accept" on the application process if you accept them. Please understand that if you refuse to accept these terms and conditions, you will not be able to apply for Membership.
1. Information About Us
1.1 www.virtualworlddirect.com is a website operated by Virtual World Direct Limited (“we, us, our”). Virtual World Direct Limited is registered in the British Virgin Islands under company number 1012797 and with registered office at Akara Building, 24 De Castro Street, Wickhams Cay 1, PO Box 3136, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, with correspondence address at Office 7A, 101 P.H. Balboa Point, PO BOx 0833-00146, Panama City, Republic of Panama. Our main mailing address for Member Support is St Georges Chambers, 1 Athol Street, Douglas, IM1 1LD, British Isles.
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2. Your Status
2.1 By applying for Membership through this website, you warrant that:
* You are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and
* You are at least 18 years old.
2.2 We reserve the right to ask for proof of age from you and any application for Membership may be suspended until we are in receipt of satisfactory proof of age.
2.3 We also reserve the right to request proof of residence from you and any application for Membership may be suspended until we are in receipt of satisfactory proof of residence. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply completely with your own local, national or state laws. We will not be liable for any breach by you of any such laws.
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3. How the Contract is Formed Between You and Us
3.1 You should apply for Membership by completing the online Membership application, submitting the Fees (as defined in clause 6.1) and if applicable the optional Entry Protection Deposit. Submitting an application for Membership does not mean that your application has been accepted. Your application constitutes an offer to us. All applications are subject to acceptance by us, and we will confirm such acceptance to you by sending you an email (the “Membership Confirmation”). The contract between us (the “Contract”) will only be formed when we send you the Membership Confirmation. A Membership Confirmation will be sent, subject to acceptance, on receipt of cleared funds in payment of the Fees.
3.2 Together with the Membership Confirmation we shall send to you by email a Membership number (which should be quoted by you on all correspondence) and details of five numbers selected by us (the “Original Numbers”) which will be entered into each Saturday and Wednesday Lotto draw and/or the Friday Euromillions draw by us during your Membership in accordance with your instructions. From time to time, at our sole discretion, it may be necessary to consolidate syndicates for the Draws and in such event we shall notify you in writing of the five numbers which shall replace the Original Numbers (or any other numbers used for the Draws during your Membership), which shall be entered into each Draws by us from the date of such notification.
3.3 We reserve the right to accept or decline any application for Membership for any reason whatsoever.
3.4 Your Membership will apply from the next Draw following the business day of the Membership Confirmation. For this purpose a business day will close at 18.00 BST (GMT + 1) or one and a half hours before the closing time for the purchase of tickets for the next Draw whichever is the earlier and applications received after such time on the day of a Draw will not be eligible for the Draw on that date.
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4. Our Status
4.1 We act as a syndicate manager in relation to the Draw and as such purchase the relevant lottery ticket in our name. We do not purchase lottery tickets in your name or on your behalf. Your Membership does not entitle you to any interest in any lottery tickets purchased by us.
4.2 We do not sell lottery tickets and do not operate a lottery. We are not connected to or affiliated with or approved by Camelot Group plc or the National Lottery Commission or any other body or organisation related to the National Lottery.
4.3 We may also provide links on this website to the websites of other companies, whether affiliated with us or not. We cannot give any undertaking, that products you purchase from third party sellers through this site, or from companies to whose website we have provided a link on this site, will be of satisfactory quality, and any such warranties are disclaimed by us absolutely. This disclaimer does not affect your statutory rights against the third party seller. We will notify you when a third party is involved in a transaction, and we may disclose your customer information related to that transaction to the third party seller.
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5. Consumer Rights
5.1 You may cancel your Membership at any time by giving not less than 28 days notice using the facility in your member’s website or by email in accordance with clause 11.
5.2 For the avoidance of doubt your Membership will not apply to any Draws made after the date of cancellation of your Membership and you shall not be entitled to any monies whatsoever in relation to any Draws after such date.
5.3 During the notice period you will be eligible to participate in syndicate entries in Draws for which we hold Fees in your account but no further Fees will be payable or accepted by us.
5.4 This clause does not affect your statutory rights.
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6. Price and Payment
6.1 You shall pay to us the weekly fee set out on the Membership application monthly, weekly or biweekly as appropriate and in advance (the “Fees”).
6.2 The Fees shall be paid to us by you in cleared funds.
6.3 The Fees are liable to change at any time, but written notice of such changes will be provided to you no later than 14 days prior to such change.
6.4 Despite our best efforts, fees listed on our site may be incorrect. We will normally verify prices as part of our application for Membership procedures so that, where a fee is less than our stated fee, we will charge the lower amount when providing the Membership Confirmation. If a fee is higher than the fee stated on this site, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before dispatching the Membership Confirmation, or reject your application and notify you of such rejection.
6.5 We are under no obligation to provide Membership to you at the incorrect (lower) fee, even after we have sent you a Membership Confirmation, if the error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mis-pricing.
6.6 Payment for the Fees must be by credit or debit card, international money order, bankers draft or UK bank or building society cheque. We may accept other payment methods from time to time at our sole discretion.
6.7 If payment of the Fees is not made on the due date for any reason whatsoever (including but not limited to credit card or debit payment card failure), without limiting any other rights we may have, we shall be entitled to deduct a sum equal to such overdue monies from the Entry Protection Deposit (if applicable) in payment of such overdue amounts and/or immediately suspend and or terminate your Membership without any liability to you whatsoever. If your Membership is suspended and/or terminated by us from the date of such suspension or termination (whichever is the earlier) you shall be removed from the relevant syndicate and will not be entitled to any monies generated by any relevant Draws.
6.8 Notice of suspension and/or termination, as referred to in clause 6.7, shall be provided by us to you in accordance with clause 11.
6.9 You hereby acknowledge and agree that the Fees represent a charge made by us in relation to the provision by us of syndicate management service and not for the purchase of Lottery tickets.
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7. Payment of Prizes
7.1 Any prize won in a lottery Draw by the syndicate to which your Membership relates (“Your Syndicate”) shall be divided equally between the participating members of Your Syndicate. You will be entitled to an equal share of the monies due in relation to Your Syndicate pursuant to the relevant lottery Draw (the “Prize”).
7.2 Subject to clause 7.3, we shall pay the Prize (without any interest) to you within 14 days of receipt by us from the operator of the lottery Draw from time to time. We shall not be liable for any delay of the payment to us of such Prize howsoever caused.
7.3 In the event that the operator of the lottery Draw(s) from time to time requires the repayment of any monies paid by it to us in relation to the Prize, you hereby undertake to pay to us a sum equal to the relevant Prize within 14 days of a written request from us. You agree to fully indemnify us against all claims, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including legal fees) arising out of any breach by you of the provisions of this clause.
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8. Our Liability
8.1 We will endeavour to provide the services relating to your Membership using our reasonable care and skill. Subject to clause 8.3 we make no further warranty or representation, whether express or implied in relation to the services relating to your Membership and all implied warranties or conditions are hereby excluded.
8.2 We make no warranty that the services provided by us in relation to your Membership will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free. In the event of any system or communication error in relation to the generation of syndicate numbers we will not be liable to you as a result of any such errors and we reserve the right to withhold the payment to you of any Prize in such circumstances.
8.3 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit any person’s liability
* for fraud;
* for death or personal injury caused by its negligence (as defined in section 1 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977);
* for any breach of the terms implied by section 12 Sales of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982; or
* which it is not lawfully permitted to exclude or limit.
8.4 You acknowledge and agree that in accepting these terms and conditions you do not rely on, and shall have no remedy in respect of, any statement, representation, warranty or understanding (whether negligently or innocently made) of any person (whether or not such person is a party to these terms and conditions).
8.5 Our liability in connection with your Membership and the services provided by us on this website is strictly limited to the aggregate total of the Fees paid by you to us in the 12 month period immediately preceding the event upon which such liability arose.
8.6 We accept no liability for any loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, waste of management or office time or for any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
8.7 This clause does not affect your statutory rights.
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9. Termination
9.1 We may terminate, vary or suspend your Membership immediately and without prior notice:
* if you breach these terms and conditions;
* if at our sole discretion, we consider that your conduct compromises our position in any manner;
* if we cease to offer the services relating to your Membership and or advertised on this website;
* for any other reason at our sole discretion.
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10. Written Communications
Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using this website, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail, SMS text messaging or provide you with information by posting notices on this website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
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11. Notices
All notices given by you to us must be given to Virtual World Direct Limited by e mail at admin@vwdmail.com. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when applying for Membership, or in any of the ways specified in clause 10. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail or a text message is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee or in the case of a text message that such message was sent to the specified mobile telephone number of the addressee.
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12. Transfer of Rights and Obligations
12.1 The Contract is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assigns.
12.2 You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of the Contract, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent.
12.3 We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of the Contract, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time during the term of the Contract.
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13. Events Outside Our Control
13.1 We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under the Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control (“Force Majeure Event”).
13.2 A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following:
* Strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action.
* Civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war.
* Fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster
* Impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.
* The postponement or cancellation of any lottery Draw.
* Impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks.
* Delays, losses, errors or omissions in or made by the postal or other delivery service or by the banking system.
* The acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.
13.3 Our performance under the Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.
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14. Publicity
14.1 We reserve the right to publicise and promote details of Prize winners including but not limited to the sum of such Prize. We publish on our website the name and geographical location by country of all Prize winners and a condition of your Membership is that you agree to us including your details on our website if you are a Prize Winner.
14.2 All media enquiries regarding us received by you must be referred to us immediately. You agree to fully indemnify us against all claims, losses, costs and expenses (including legal fees) arising out of any breach by you of the provision of this clause.
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15. Waiver
15.1 If we fail, at any time during the term of the Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under the Contract or any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.
15.2 A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.
15.3 No waiver by us of any of these terms and conditions shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with clause 11 above.
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16. Severability
If any of these terms and conditions or any provisions of the Contract are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
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17. Entire Agreement
17.1 These terms and conditions, and the Website Terms of Use and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between us in relation to the subject matter of any Contract and supersede any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us, whether oral or in writing.
17.2 We each acknowledge that, in entering into this Contract, neither of us has relied on any representation, undertaking or promise given by the other or be implied from anything said or written in negotiations between us prior to such Contract except as expressly stated in these terms and conditions.
17.3 Neither of us shall have any remedy in respect of any untrue statement made by the other, whether orally or in writing, prior to the date of any Contract (unless such untrue statement was made fraudulently) and the other party´s only remedy shall be for breach of contract as provided in these terms and conditions.
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18. Our Right to Vary These Terms and Conditions
18.1 We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time.
18.2 You will be subject to the terms and conditions in force at the time that you apply for Membership unless any change to these terms and conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to these terms and conditions before we send you the Membership Confirmation (in which case we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven days of receipt by you of the Membership Confirmation).
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19. Third Party Rights
Unless otherwise expressly stated within the Contract, nothing within these terms and conditions shall create or confer any rights or any other benefits whether pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise in favour of any person other than you and us.
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20. No Partnership or Agency
Nothing in these terms and conditions is intended or should be construed as creating any partnership, agency or any other form of joint enterprise between you and us.
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21. Law and Jurisdiction
Contracts for Membership through this website will be governed by English law. Any dispute arising from, or related to, such Contracts shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
