Terms of Use

Please review the following terms of using our service.  Use of our service indicates your acceptance of these terms.

I. General

1. This unique and innovative Site is designated to enable Internet surfers to participate at any of the major official lottery draws according to a list which is updated at the Site from time to time. Subject to the stipulations of this Terms of Use, the participation in the official lottery draws via this Site is possible without any geographical limitation, i.e. - each surfer, at any territory whatsoever, can participate at any of the official lottery draws, that take place in different territories.
2. In addition, the Site proposes a compilation of accompanying services, including, inter alia, management of a participant account, examination of the participation forms, collection of prize moneys and transferring them to the winner, as well as publishing various and immediate information on all the official lotto draws concerning which the Site's services are granted.
3. The Site is owned by Betslips.com, hereafter "the Company".

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II. Subordination to the Terms of Use and the binding thereof

4. Anyone registered at the Site, in accordance with the procedure specified hereafter, or participating in one of the Site's proposed activities, or uses the information published in the Site, accepts upon himself, in free will and consent, the Terms of Use's authority and the binding thereof, agrees to be bound by the Terms of Use, undertakes to act pursuant to the Terms of Use's stipulations and to the rules specified therein, as they will be updated from time to time, and to obey them without any reservation. .
5. The Company is entitled to amend this Terms of Use at any time, and to do so according to its absolute and exclusive discretion. Therefore, everyone is required to review the Terms of Use on a regular basis, including before performing any activity via this Site.
6. This Terms of Use, as it will be updated or amended from time to time by the Company, constitutes the entire and whole agreement between the Company and anyone registered to the Site or participating in one of the activities proposed by the Site or using this Site, including the information published thereon, for whatever purpose. Any presentation, promise, undertaking or consent, whether verbal or in writing, that do not comply with the Terms of Use's stipulations, will not be valid.

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III. Who is entitled to Participate

7. The participation in the official lottery draws via the Site, or in any other activity that is proposed by the Site, is solely permitted to one complying with all the accumulative terms that are specified hereafter:
   1. On the participation date, the participant's age exceeds the legal capacity age as set by the law applying in the territory he is in, and in any event his age exceeds 18 years; and,
   2. The participant is the legal owner of a valid credit card or other payment method accepted by the Site; and,
   3. The participant does not violate any law or regulation as a result of the participation in the official lottery draws via this Site, or as a result of participation in any other activity proposed by this Site. In this context it will be stressed, that Players residing or present in any jurisdiction that prohibits participation in this Site or in any lottery shall not participate in the prohibited activity. The Company, its agents and anyone on their behalf make no representations or warranties, express or implied, as to the lawfulness of any person's participation in any activity through this Site or to the legal right to participate in the official lotteries draws or any other activity proposed by this Site. It is each participant's responsibility to ensure that he complies with any and all laws applicable to him before registering or participating in any activity through this Site.
8. All persons connected, directly or indirectly, with the management of each lottery game offered by the Site, and family members thereof, are not entitled to participate in any of the activities proposed by this Site.

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IV. Site Registration

9. Anyone interested in participating in the various activities that are proposed by this Site (including, participation in official lottery draws, as explained in this Terms Of Use) is obliged to register at the Site, as specified in this paragraph.
10. The registration at the Site is made once, but in a two phased process.
11. At the first phase of the registration process, one must fill in all the obligatory fields at the registration form, therein included to specify a valid, working personal e-mail address and to choose a secret Password (hereafter, "the Identification Details").
12. The participant has the entire responsibility to reserve under confidentiality the Identification Details and not to transfer them to another. The full responsibility for an unauthorized use of the participant's Identification Details lies solely on the participant, who will bear, alone, all the responsibility derived of an unauthorized use of his Identification Details.
13. A surfer who will enter this Site and request to participate in one or more of the activities that are proposed by the Site will be required to type in the Identification Details. The Site's operating system will compare the Identification Details that are typed in by the surfer and the Identification Details that are reserved at the Site, and only in the event of a complete identification will the surfer be allowed to participate in all of the Site's activities, that are allowed to that identified participant.
14. The second and last phase in the registration process to the Site will be performed by the participant on the date that he will participate, for the first time, in one or more of the paid activities that are proposed by this Site.
15. At this phase (the second phase) the participant must give his valid credit card details, and also give additional personal identification details (the Identification Details, as defined in article 11, and the additional details mentioned in this article will be referred to hereafter as "the Participant's Details").

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V. Participant Account

16. To each surfer at the Site who will fill in his Participant's Details, a "virtual" account at the Site will be opened (hereafter, "Participant's Account").
17. Entry to a Participant's Account will only be made by giving the Identification Details, as will be published at the Site.
18. The orders for lottery participation that the participant has made, and the prizes that he will win (if he will win), due to and as a result of the participant's participation in the activities proposed by the Site, will be specified in the Participant's Account.
19. The participant will be able to perform via the Participant's Account various acts, including updating the Participant's Details, examining winnings, ordering e-mail alerts, changing the participant's Password, etc.

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VI. Confidentiality

20. The Company undertakes to preserve under confidentiality all the Participant's Details, all the data relating to the Participant's Account, and also all the details of the participant's activity at the Site, not to do any use thereof beyond the required for participation in the Site's activities, and not to disperse them or transfer them to others, for a consideration or gratis, and that for any purpose whatsoever.

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VII. Paid Participation in Official Lottery Draws

21. Anyone who has registered at the Site and has opened a Participant's Account pursuant to this Terms of Use's stipulation is entitled to and can participate, via this Site, at various official lottery draws that are conducted or that will be conducted by official lottery operators, and that according to a list which will be updated at the Site, from time to time, pursuant to the Company's exclusive discretion (hereafter in this chapter, "the Game").
22. The Game's purpose is to guess the winning numbers that will be drawn at the official lottery draw, that the participant has chosen to participate in, as they will be published, in a final and exclusive manner, by the official operator of the lottery draw (hereafter, "the Winning Numbers").
23. Subject to the stated in this Terms of Use, by participating in the Game one can win various monetary prizes, equal to those granted in any official lottery draws in which the participation is possible through this Site. Subject to the stated in this Terms of Use (and in particular see article 36 hereunder) the participation in the Game is subject to, and will be in accordance with, the official and valid rules and/or the official and valid Code of each and every official lottery draw, with respect to which the participation in the Game is made (hereafter - "the Official Rules"). Without jeopardizing the generality of the aforementioned, the prizes rating, too - as a first, second, third prize etc. - the number of the Winning Numbers that must be guessed in order to win one of the prizes and the prizes payment manner, are also set according to the Official Rules.
24. One can participate, via the Site, in one or more of the official lottery draws that are specified at the Site, by surfing to the Site and purchasing a participation form, that will be filled in according to the Official Rules and to the stipulations of this Terms of Use (hereafter, "Participation Form").
25. The payment for the Participation Form that has been filled in by a participant will be made by debiting the participant's credit card, the details of which were given to the Site during the participant's registration process to the Site, as specified in chapter IV above.
26. Only a Participation Form that will be filled in pursuant to the stipulations of this Terms of Use and that the payment with respect to which will be settled in full will be entitled to receive a confirmation number (hereafter, "a Confirmation Number") from the Site's operating system. A Participation Form, as stated, that will be given a Confirmation Number, will be referred to hereafter as, "a Valid Participation Form", and only a Valid Participation Form will entitle a participant with the right to receive winning prizes, as specified in this Terms of Use.
27. A Participation Form that has not received a Confirmation Number from the Site's operating system, for any reason whatsoever — including, but without jeopardizing the generality of things, a malfunctioning in the Site's operating system, technical failure, human error or force major — will not be considered as a Valid Participation Form, no payment will be debited for it, and it will not entitle the participant who has filled it in or purchased it with any right.
28. The Company and the Site are entitled to cancel, retroactively, a Valid Participation Form, even after a Confirmation Number was given for it, if it will be found out that the consideration for the Participation Form has not been fully settled. In such an event, the Participation Form will be considered as if it has been invalid from the first place.
29. The participant has an absolute obligation and responsibility to preserve the Confirmation Number that will be given to him by the Site, and to divulge it to the Company upon its request. The company reserves the right to rejected on the threshold all claims concerning winnings, should the claimant not be able to divulge a valid Confirmation Number.
30. The possibility to purchase and to fill in, at the Site, participation forms concerning each of the official lottery draws, in which one can participate via the Site, will be blocked by the Site, usually, several hours before the hour the official lottery draw is to be actually performed. However, the Site is entitled, according to its discretion and subject to publishing same at the Site, to block or to open the possibility to purchase, via the Site, participation forms, concerning each official lottery draw, at any hour and date.
31. Immediately with the blocking of the possibility to participate at a certain draw, as stated in article 30 above, the Site's operating system will stop to give Confirmation Numbers for Participation Forms, even those that have been filled in before the possibility to participate at a certain draw was blocked, and Participation Forms as stated will not be considered as Valid Participation Forms.
32. After blocking the possibility to participate, via the Site, at a certain official lottery draw, and before the hour that this official lottery draw is to take place, the Site will transfer copies of all the Valid Participation Forms that were purchased and filled in the Site concerning that official lottery draw, to the control of the Company's accountants, who will supervise the Site's activity (hereafter, "the Accountants").
33. The only determining registrations with respect to the guess that was filled in by participants in Valid Participation Forms will be those sent by the Site to the Accountants before the time of the relevant official draw as will be held in the Accountants' possession. The registrations that will be at the Company's Accountants' possession will constitute, in any event of a dispute or a conflict or a claim, a final proof to the correctness of the stated therein which cannot be disputed or attacked in any way.
34. With respect to each Valid Participation Form, that a copy thereof will be received by the Company's Accountants, the Company will purchase a participation form in an official lottery draw, in which exactly the same numbers that have been marked in the Valid Participation Form that was purchased at the Site will be marked, and that, according to data that will be received from the participant via the Site and that were transferred by the Site to the Accountants. The participation form in the official lottery draw that will be purchased as aforementioned will be referred to hereafter as a "Parallel Form". In the event that any Parallel Form that has participated in the official draw has won any prize in the official draw, then, a participant who has purchased at the Site the Valid Participation Form for which the Site has purchased the Parallel Form will be entitled to receive from the operator of the official lottery draw, via the Site and as specified hereafter, the winning sums at the official lottery draw that the Parallel Form has won.
35. In any event that a parallel form has not been purchased by the Company, for any reason whatsoever, including, but not only - due to a failure in the computer system, a communication break or any other malfunctioning or reason - the Company, or any other entity on its behalf is entitled, but not obliged, and that according to its exclusive discretion, to purchase for the guess marked by a certain participant in the Valid Participation Form, as transferred to the Accountants.
36. Immediately after the Winning Numbers, the number of winners and the winning sums at each of the official lottery draws will be published by the official operator of the lottery draw (hereafter the "Official Results"), the Company will conduct a comprehensive examination of all the Valid Participation Forms that were purchased, via the Site, concerning that draw, such examination will be made in relation to the registrations that are held by the Accountants. The Company will examine whether, amongst the Valid Participation Forms, include guesses, that entitle a participant or any participants to prizes as stated in this Terms of Use (hereafter the "Game Results"). To remove doubt it is hereby clarified, that setting the Game Results will be made according to the stipulations of this Terms of Use and in view of the Official Results.
37. The Official Results and the Game results (hereafter jointly "the Results") will be published at the Site as soon as possible.
38. Winning a game will be noted in the personal Participant's Account of the relevant participant. In parallel, immediately with the publication of the Results at the Site, the Site's operating system will inform the winning participant of his winning via e-mail that will be sent to the electronic address that was given by the participant.
39. In the event that a Valid Participation Form includes winning in an accumulative prize, up to a total sum of US $10,000, then the Company will transfer the winning sum due to it, to the personal Participant's Account of the relevant participant, upon where it can be used in leau of a credit card payment for future orders. Upon participant's request in writing, the Company will pay to the participant any fraction of the balance of funds contained in the Participant's Account, so long as the amount paid out to the participant is US $50 or greater. If the Participant's Account contains less than $50, those funds must remain in the Participant's Account until they are either exhausted from future orders or have exceeded $50. A funds transfer to the particiapant will take, on average, four to six weeks. The participant will be assessed a transfer fee of approximately US $15 to $30 for each transfer request that participant requests in writing. Transfers of large prizes could incur larger transfer fees, depending on the method of transfer.
40. In the event that a Valid Participation Form includes a winning or winnings that entitle with a prize above the total sum of $US 10,001, the Site's operating system will request the winning participant, via e-mail, immediately with the publication of the Results at the Site, to transfer to the Site instructions concerning the manner that the winning sum will be transferred to the participant (hereafter the "Participant's Instructions"). The Company will transfer the winning sum in its entirety, according to the Participant's Instructions, subtracting the transfer costs, in the event that there will be any, and that, within four to six weeks from the receipt of the Participant's instructions.
41. Also in the event that a Valid Participation Form includes a winning or winnings that entitle with the first prize at any official lottery draw, i.e., the Jackpot, the Site's operating system will request the Participant's Instructions, as stated in article 40 above. The Company will transfer the winning sum in its entirety, according to the Participant's Instructions, subtracting the transfer costs in the event that there will be any, and that, within 15 days from the receipt of the winning sum from the official draw operator.
42. The winning sums will be paid nominally, in US dollars, and will bear no interest or linkage differentials from the winning date till the actual payment of the winning sums.
43. The participant alone will be responsible for the payment of the taxes that will apply, if at all, on the winning sums, but the Company will be entitled, but not obliged, to deduct from the wining sums any tax that will apply to the winning sums concerning which a withholding tax obligation will apply.

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VIII. The Price

45. The price of participation in the Game (i.e. the participation price at official lottery draws via this Site and as stated in this Terms Of Use) may be higher than the participation price that is collected by the official operator of the lottery draw from one participating directly at the lottery draw.
46. Participation price via this Site at each of the official lottery draws as stated in this Terms Of Use is not fixed and may change from one draw to another.
47. In any event, the participation price, via the Site, at each of the official lottery draws, is the price appearing on the participation screen of each of the draws, and the final debiting sum for the participation is the sum appearing in the Confirmation Form and in the Participant's Account.

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IX. The Currency

48. Debiting the participation price, as paying the prices to the winners, will be made in one currency - US dollars.
49. In any event in which an official lottery draw is conducted at a currency different than the USA dollar, than for the publication at the Site of the prize sums at that draw, an approximate conversion of the prizes will be made from the currency in which they are supposed to be paid to a USA dollar.
50. All the exchanges from various currencies to the USA dollar will be performed according to conversion rates that will be published by US Banking institutions as will be updated from time to time.
51. The Site and the Company will be entitled to deduct reasonable costs due to currencies' exchanges.

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X. Subscribers Service

52. In the framework of the services granted by this Site, there is also operated a service for subscribers, as specified hereafter.
53. A subscriber is a participant who has requested to participate, in a repetitive, fixed and consecutive manner, in a certain lottery game chosen by him, specifically, or in a certain category.
54. When a participant becomes a subscriber, then the Site's operating system will bring about that the subscriber will participate in a fixed and consecutive manner, in the various draws at a certain lottery game or at a certain category, chosen in advance by that subscriber, and that without any additional intervention on the part of the subscriber.
55. Each participant, who has joined the Site as a subscriber, can and may stop or cancel the subscription at any time.
56. From the moment that the cancellation or stopping of a subscription notice will be recorded at the Site, the Site's operating system will stop the subscription and will cease the participant's participation at draws pursuant to the cancelled subscription.
57. The payment due for the subscription is according to the number of draws the subscriber has participated in according to the subscription. Payment for the subscription is made in advance, at the time of purchase, and all at once.
58. If the participant chooses to cancel the subscription prior to the date of the last drawing in the subscription, the refunded money for any unplayed games will be paid into the Participant's Account, whereby the payout rules in paragraph 39 will apply. (i.e., the same rules as a payout for an awarded prize.)
59. The Company may offer subscriptions in which the participant participates in games based upon the size of the jackpot, and subscriptions in which the specific game played is based upon the game with the highest present jackpot size. Should the participant choose such a subscription type, participant waives any right to control the game that is played, and transfers the decision of which game to play to the Company. The Company will notify the participant in advance of the drawing by e-mail which game the participant will be participating in. Should the paricipant's ticket numbers match another game that the participant is not playing in that drawing, and which the Company has not chosen to play based upon the aforementioned jackpot criteria, the participant is not owed any prize from the non-participating game, and waives any and all rights to pursue such a prize from the Company.
60. Each participant can join, simultaneously, an unlimited number of subscriptions (for different lottery draws or for different categories).

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XI. The information

61. The Site provides various information concerning the worldwide leading official lottery draws, including the winning numbers, the official rules, the official results, the winning odds, etc. (hereafter "the Information").
62. The Information's publication at the Site is given only as a service to the participants, and nothing more. The information is manually fed into the Site's operating system and therefore may include errors and mistakes made in bona fide.

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XII. Reservations concerning the Responsibility of the Company and of the Site

63. The Company does and will do, to the best of its ability, to prevent any malfunctioning in the Site's activity, including, but without jeopardizing the generality of things, participation in official lottery draws via the Site. However, in any event of a technical failure in the Site's operating or computer system or in the Accountants accounting system, human error or force major, that as a result thereof, for example, a Parallel Form, as its definition in article 34.1 above, has not been purchased, or a confusion has occurred in transferring the guess that was marked on a Valid Participation Form to the Accountants, the Company will be entitled to cancel any Valid Participation Forms, concerning which the malfunctioning has occurred. In such an event, the responsibility of the Company and/or the Site and/or anyone else who has acted on their behalf (including the Accountants) or for them will be limited only to the participation fees sum that was paid to the Site by the participant for the Valid Participation Form. In addition to the above it is clarified that the Company and/or the Site and/or anyone else who has acted on their behalf (including the Accountants) are not responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of data or information. The company is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line, systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software failure of e-mail on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site. The Company reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Games if for any reason, the Games cannot be conducted as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering or unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the Company. In no event shall the Company and/or the Site and/or anyone else who has acted on their behalf (including the Accountants) be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages or damages for loss of profits, revenue, data or use incurred by any participant or third party, whether in an action for contract or tort, arising from the access to, or use of, the Site. The responsibility of the Company and of the Site for the payment of the first price due to participation via the Site in any official lottery draw will only arise and be limited only to the sum that the Company will receive, if it will receive, from the operator of the official draw. In any event, the Company and/or the Site and /or anyone on their behalf will not have to pay the participant any sum due to a win of a first prize if the Company will fail, in spite of its reasonable efforts, to collect this prize from the operator of the official draw, for any reason whatsoever. The Company and/or its agents make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness and accuracy of the Information, software, products and services contained on the Site for any purpose. All information, software, products and services are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The Company hereby disclaims all warranties with respect to this information, whether express or implied.
64. In any event, no liability will apply to the Company and/or the Site and/or anyone operating in their name or on their behalf due to a damage that was caused due to reliance, of any type, on the Information, as its definition above, or on any other publication appearing at the Site, and the participants or any one surfing at the Site are invited to verify the information published at the Site via the terminals and the official publications of the official lottery games operators.

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XIII. Intellectual Property

69. All the rights, including the intellectual property rights (i.e., patents, copyright, trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, know-how or any other intellectual property or right) concerning this Site or relating to it, or concerning the Games that are proposed within its framework (hereinafter "the Rights"), are owned by the Company and shall be the exclusive property of the Company. No one shall use any of the Rights without the express written approval of the Company.
70. Without jeopardizing the generality of the stated in article 69 above, it is hereby stressed, that the Company and/or anyone on its behalf are the legal owners of ongoing patent application concerning the activity and the services that are proposed by this Site and the framework of the Site's activity. In addition, the Company and/or bodies on its behalf own the copyrights in the Games that are proposed at this Site.
71. Without jeopardizing the generality of the stated in article 70 above, it is hereby clarified that one should not copy or duplicate, in any form whatsoever and in any media whatsoever, any parts of this Terms of Use or of the rules that this Site and the Games proposed therein are managed according to.
72. Each violation of the Rights of the Company and/or the Site will be severely handled, and the Company and/or the Site will be strict in extracting their Rights against anyone who will violate their Rights.

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XIV. Disputes and conflicts

73. In any event of a clarification, complaint, dispute, reservation, claim or action (hereafter "Dispute") resulting from participation at any activity at the Site, including in one of the Games proposed by the Site, or related to an activity as stated - including but without jeopardizing the generality of things, Dispute concerning Participation Forms, concerning the guesses that were marked on them or on Valid Participation Forms, concerning entitlement to winning any prizes - then, in the event that no agreed upon by both the Company and the participant solution will be found, the dispute will be transferred to the exclusive decision of one of the partners in the Accountants office, whose determination will be final and decisive (hereinafter "the Decider").
74. The Decider will determine, according to his sole discretion, the manner in which Dispute will be addressed by him, and he will be entitled to determine, that the Dispute will be clarified only according to written arguments, or in any other manner, as he will see fit.
75. The Decider will determine in the Dispute, according to his sole exclusive discretion, subject only to this Terms of Use's stipulations. The Decider will not be subject to the stipulations of any material law, but will have to shortly reason his decision.

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XV. Client Requirements

76. The company requires that the cardholder print out all transaction data, the rules of the game, the cancellation regulations, and the payment methods in order to avoid misconceptions.

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