These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) apply to www.ecogra.org (the “Website”).
Please read these Terms carefully as they contain important information regarding your legal rights, remedies, and obligations with respect to your use of the Website, including but not limited to various limitations, exclusions, and indemnities.
No Reliance on Information
The content on the Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice or serve as a substitute for any audit, professional advice, consultation, or service.
All information and services are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. eCOGRA hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to the information and services, including all implied warranties and conditions. In no event shall eCOGRA be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or any other damages whatsoever. Without limiting the foregoing sentence, eCOGRA shall not be liable for any damages for loss of data, loss of profits or loss of use in any way connected with the use or performance of this Website, the delay or inability to use this Website, or for any information or services obtained through this Website. eCOGRA shall not be liable for any such damages, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, even if eCOGRA has been advised of the possibility of damages.
Disclaimer
eCOGRA’s objectives include setting standards for lawful online gambling by, inter alia, requiring sealholders whose websites bear the eCOGRA name and logo to adhere to rigorous technical and ethical standards. While online gambling is legal in many jurisdictions throughout the world, eCOGRA recognises that some jurisdictions have passed laws restricting or even prohibiting online gambling altogether. In fact, some of these laws criminalise online gambling and may subject violators to imprisonment and may require violators to pay substantial fines. Accordingly, eCOGRA does not condone, endorse, sponsor, authorise, approve of, promote, or encourage in any way, shape, or form, unlawful online gambling by anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
In accordance with the foregoing, no person or entity should interpret eCOGRA certification, or the display of the eCOGRA name, symbol, “Play It Safe” logo or “Safe and Fair” logo on any webpage or website as an indication that it is lawful to engage in online gambling from within any jurisdiction. We emphasise that, prior to engaging in any form of online gambling, it is your responsibility to seek legal advice and determine whether you may do so lawfully.
- Intellectual Property Rights
- We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Website and in the material published on our Website, including but not limited to any concepts, ideas, methods, procedures, processes, know-how, techniques, programs, publications, models, products, templates, art work, graphics and information on or described in the Website. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Users are encouraged to print or distribute content (e.g. via link on a social network) provided that:
- the use of the content is personal and non-commercial;
- all copyright, trademark and similar notices are retained; and
- the content is not used as or implies that eCOGRA is providing a testimonial or endorsement of an organisation, its products or services.
You must not modify, reproduce, publicly display, perform, distribute or use for any public or commercial purposes without explicit written permission from the appropriate content or material provider (including third-party links).
If you print off, copy or download any part of our Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Trademarks
The eCOGRA name and logo are registered trademarks and other products and service names mentioned on the Website may be the registered trademarks of eCOGRA. Use of these marks requires express prior permission from, and a license agreement with, eCOGRA. Unauthorised use of these and any other of eCOGRA’s portfolio of trademarks is prohibited and may become subject to legal proceedings.
To request written approval, please use the Contact Us feature.
Our Liability
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms which may apply to our Website or any content on it, whether express or implied, included but not limited to that the Website will be uninterrupted, without delay, error-free, omission-free, or free of viruses.
eCOGRA, its board, managing directors, or employees will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage arising under or in connection with but not limited to:
- use of, or inability to use, our Website; and
- or use of, or reliance on, any content displayed on our Website.
Please note that we only provide our Website for general, domestic and non-commercial use. You agree not to use our Website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, savings, data, sales or revenue, loss of business, business interruption or business opportunity or any indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, consequential or other loss or damage.
Viruses
We do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses and we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus infected either through our Website or third-party link.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform in order to access our Website. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server on which our Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Linking to our Website
The eCOGRA Website may contain links to other websites operated by parties other than eCOGRA. The links are provided for your information and convenience only. eCOGRA has no control over, and are not responsible for, the contents of these websites or resources.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
You must not establish a link which:
- suggests any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists;
- links to our Website from a website that is not owned by you;
- involves the unauthorised use of our logo; and
- takes the form of a link that disguises the URL and/ or bypasses the homepage or pages containing the entity copyright, legal disclaimer, and online policy statement.
Changes to our Terms and Conditions
Any changes made to eCOGRA’s Terms and Conditions in the future will be posted on this page and any such changes will become effective upon posting of the revised Terms and Conditions.
eCOGRA’s Terms and Conditions were last updated 29/06/2021.
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