Terms of Use

Introduction

This is a legal agreement between you and Bantr Ltd ("Bantr/us/we") stating the terms that govern your use of the www.bantr.tv ("the Service") website.

This agreement - together with all updates, additional terms, privacy policy, and all Bantr rules and policies - collectively constitute the "Agreement" between you and us.

By using and accessing this site, you agree to these terms. You must accept and abide by these terms as presented to you: changes, additions, or deletions are not acceptable, and Bantr may refuse access to the site for noncompliance with any part of this agreement.

General Terms of Use

  1. Accepting the Terms.

    1. In order to use the Services, you must firstly agree to the Terms. You may not use the Services if you do not accept the Terms.

    2. You can accept the Terms by:

      1. clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you by Bantr in the user interface for the Service; or

      2. by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that Bantr will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

    3. You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Bantr, or (b) you are a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws of England and Wales or other countries including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services.

    4. Before you continue, you should print off or save a local copy of the Terms of Use for your records.

    5. Bantr reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes.

  2. Information about us.

    1. The Site is operated by Bantr Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under Company Number 7609702 and have our registered office at Argent House, 5 Goldington Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 3JY. Our VAT number is 116 4469 16.

  3. Definition of the Bantr Service.

    1. Bantr is the provider of interactive web-based services including, without limitation:

      1. Manager, Team, Squad, League;

      2. Fixtures;

      3. In Game Feeds;

      4. Uploads;

      5. Messages;

      6. Comments;

      7. User Reviews / Ratings;

      8. Badges; and

      9. Other services hosted on the Site from time to time;
        The above collectively known as the "Interactive Services".

    2. The Services are provided through the Site and affiliated sites.

    3. The Site and Interactive Services are known collectively as the "Services".

    4. The Services are provided under certain terms and conditions as set forth in this Agreement.

  4. Age requirements for use of the Services.

    1. These Services are available for individuals aged 13 years or older. If you are 13 or older but under the age of 18 ("a Minor"), you should review these terms and conditions with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand these terms and conditions. Some content on the site might be labelled as adult content and restricted to users over the age of 18. Misrepresenting your age in order to gain access to these products may be a violation of applicable laws. By accessing these portions of the site, you attest that you:

      1. Are 18 years of age or older;

      2. Are not accessing this material to use against the site operator or any person whomsoever;

      3. Will not redistribute this material to anyone nor will you permit any minor or any other who might find such material personally offensive to use this material.

  5. Objectionable Material.

    1. You understand that by using the Services, you may encounter content that may be deemed offensive, indecent, or objectionable, which content may or may not be identified as having explicit content. Nevertheless, you agree to use the Services at your sole risk and that Bantr shall have no liability to you for content that may be found to be offensive, indecent, or objectionable.

  6. Privacy.

    1. Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Privacy Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use the Services to share with others and how we collect and can use your content and information. You are required to read and accept the Privacy Policy which forms an important part of this Agreement.

    2. You own all of the content and information you post on the Services, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:

      1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like voice recordings, comments, messages, reviews, slideshows, podcasts and other forms of downloadable content from time to time (collectively known as "IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with the Services ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

      2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).

      3. When you add content and use the Site, your content and information is shared with the Site and other users.

      4. When you publish content or information on the Services using publicly available settings, it means that everyone, including non-users of the Services, will have access to that information and we may not have control over what they do with it.

      5. We appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about the Services, but you understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them.

  7. Safety.

    1. We do our best to keep Bantr safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments:

      1. You will not send or otherwise post unauthorised commercial communications (such as spam) on the Services.

      2. You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access the Services, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.

      3. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.

      4. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.

      5. You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.

      6. You will not post content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic, or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.

      7. You will not develop or operate a third party application containing, or advertise or otherwise market alcohol-related or other mature content without appropriate age-based restrictions.

      8. You will not offer any contest, lottery, giveaway, or sweepstakes ("promotion") on Bantr without our prior written consent. If we consent, you take full responsibility for the promotion, and will follow all applicable laws.

      9. You will not use the Services to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.

      10. You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of the Services, such as a denial of service (DoS) attack.

      11. You will not act in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.

      12. You will not act in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.

      13. You will not act in any way for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.

      14. You will not knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

      15. You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Agreement.

      16. You also agree:

        1. not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of the the Services in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use;

        2. not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

          1. any part of the the Services;

          2. any equipment or network on which the Services are stored;

          3. any software used in the provision of the the Services; or

          4. any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

  8. Accessing the Service.

    1. Access to the Services is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the Services without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason the Site or Services are unavailable at any time or for any period.

    2. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Services, or all Services, to users who have registered with us.

    3. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

    4. You must keep your user name and password confidential at all times. Any breach of these terms of use by anyone to whom you disclose your password will be treated as if the breach had been committed by you, and will not relieve you of your obligations under these terms of use.

    5. You must take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised disclosure of your user name and password and you must notify us immediately if your password becomes known to any unauthorised user. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Services. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Services through your internet connection or telephone system are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

    6. Use of the Services requires a device such as a computer with Internet access (fees may apply), and certain software (fees may apply), and may require obtaining updates or upgrades from time to time. Because use of the Services involves hardware, software, and Internet access, your ability to use the Services may be affected by the performance of these factors. High speed Internet access is strongly recommended. You acknowledge and agree that such system requirements, which may be changed from time to time, are your responsibility. The Services are not part of any other product or offering, and no purchase or obtaining of any other product shall be construed to represent or guarantee you access to the Services.

    7. In order to access the Services you require an Internet-enabled PC, Mac or other computing device with suitable browser capabilities.

  9. Bantr Intellectual Property Rights.

    1. We grant you a limited licence to access and make personal use of the Services, but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of the Services or their contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of the Services or their contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

    2. The Services or any portion of the Services may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent. You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) on the Services without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising the Services’ or its affiliates' names or trademarks without express written consent. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or license granted.

    3. You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Homepage of the Site as long as the link does not portray the Services, our affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without our express written consent.

  10. Content Standards.

    1. These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to the Site ("Contributions"), and to any Services associated with it.

    2. Prohibited Content
      You are responsible for all Contributions, including advertisements and user-generated content. You must not promote, or provide content (including any advertising content) referencing, facilitating, containing or using, the following:

      1. Adult content, including nudity, sexual terms and/or images of people in positions or activities that are excessively suggestive or sexual;

      2. Obscene, defamatory, libellous, slanderous and/or unlawful content;

      3. Content that infringes upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary right, or that is deceptive or fraudulent;

      4. Beer, wine or other alcoholic beverages (unless the appropriate Demographic Restrictions are used), or sale of tobacco products, ammunition and/or firearms;

      5. Gambling, including without limitation, any online casino, sports betting, bingo or poker;

      6. Inflammatory religious content;

      7. Politically religious agendas and/or any known associations with hate, criminal and/or terrorist activities;

      8. Content that exploits political agendas for commercial use regardless of whether the developer has a political agenda;

      9. Hate speech, whether directed at an individual or a group, and whether based upon the race, disability, sex, creed, national origin, religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or language of such individual or group;

      10. Illegal activity and/or illegal contests, pyramid schemes, sweepstakes, lotteries or chain letters;

      11. "Spam" or other advertising or marketing content that violates applicable laws, regulations or industry standards.

    3. Contribution Standards

      1. Contributions must:

        1. be accurate (where they state facts);

        2. be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and

        3. comply with applicable laws in the UK and in any country from which the Contributions are posted

  11. Suspension and Termination.

    1. We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms of use through your use of the Services. When a breach of these terms of use has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

    2. Failure to comply with these terms of use constitutes a material breach of these terms of use and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

      1. immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Services;

      2. immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to the Services;

      3. issue of a warning to you;

      4. legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;

      5. further legal action against you; or

      6. disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

    3. We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms of use.

    4. The responses described in these Terms of use are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

  12. Cancellation.

    1. You are solely responsible for properly cancelling your account. An email or phone request to cancel your account is not considered cancellation. You can cancel your account at any time by logging in, then clicking on the My Account link in the global navigation bar at the top of the screen. The My Account screen provides a simple no questions asked cancellation link.

    2. All of your Content will be immediately deleted from the Site upon cancellation, unless it has been shared with others and they have not deleted it. Once you account is cancelled any deleted information cannot be recovered.

  13. Your Duties and Responsibilities.

    1. The Services and Your Account are provided on the basis that You will not, nor will You permit others to use the Services or Your Account other than in accordance with this Agreement and/or use the Services or Your Account: for unlawful purposes; in breach of any licence or third party rights; for inappropriate purposes including without limitation bullying or harassment; for any purpose for which the Services or Your Account were not designed including unauthorised use, obtaining or attempting to obtain service by rearranging, tampering with or making connection with any of Our facilities or those of Our partners or by any deception, scheme, false representation or false credit device, or by or through any other fraudulent means or devices whatsoever or in any other manner. You are responsible to Us for the actions or omissions of any person who uses the Services provided to You or under Your Account with Your authority or arising as a consequence of Your breach of Your Agreement. You will also be responsible for the content of any Contribution or other transmission over the Services by You or in connection with Your Account or password.

    2. You will compensate Us for any loss, liability, damage and expense, including reasonable legal fees, that We may incur as a consequence of Your breach of these Terms.

    3. Your rights to use the Service and Your Account and all rights under Your Agreement are personal to You, and are non-exclusive and non-transferable. You are not permitted to sell, assign, sublicense or grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in Your Account or the Service without Our written consent.