Terms and Conditions — ValleyGames
1. Overview
ValleyGames (referred to here as the “Website”) is run by its operator (hereafter the “Operator”), and this page sets out the terms and conditions that apply, referred to as the “Terms”. It explains the rights and duties that every visitor holds while on the Website. Should you access the resources and services offered here and continue browsing, you confirm that you accept the rules laid out in our Terms.
Additional details appear further down. If, after reading them, you find that you disagree with ANY of the Terms listed, we urge you to cease using the Website together with its services and content. Before you use the Website, the Software or the Services, kindly take the time to read our Privacy Policy together with the Terms set out below.
2. What We Offer
This Website supplies details on casino games, online casinos and various other areas of the gambling sector (the “Services”).
The Services on offer through the Website come at no cost and exist to inform and educate users who are interested.
ValleyGames holds no ownership stake, whether partial or complete, in any poker room or online casino. Furthermore, no wagers involving real money are taken on ValleyGames.
3. Using the Site and Its Services
Every piece of content on ValleyGames — reviews, guides, news pieces, forums, contests and polls and similar materials — is published at the discretion of the site. All of it may be updated, removed, or otherwise altered at any moment and without warning.
Access to the Website is restricted to users of legal gambling age in their province: 19, or 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. Anyone below the legal age is not permitted to view the content provided or to make use of any of the Services available.
The materials published on the Website target a mature readership and centre heavily on gambling and similar pastimes. Unless stated otherwise, every article, photo, image, logo, graph, statistic, media item and other piece of intellectual property belongs to the Website.
4. Site Content
Everything published on the Website complies with industry regulations and conforms to our Terms.
The content is informational in nature and is written by experts from the industry.
Reading the content costs nothing and no paid subscription is needed to reach it.
5. Ownership of Intellectual Property
All software, information, written content, media assets, images, artwork, pictures, graphics, videos, forms, text, music, audio, animations and any other intellectual property item available on the Website belongs to the Operator (also referred to as “Website Content”).
Copyright law shields the Website Content, which means using or distributing parts of the Website without the Operator’s permission is unlawful. In using the Website, you accept both the Terms and the Services.
It is prohibited to delete or change copyright notices or any other proprietary notices.
6. Your Promises and Declarations
By staying on the Website, you accept the Terms and confirm that the requirements below apply to you:
- You have reached the legal gambling age in your province: 19, or 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec.
- You accept that the Website may be used only for non-commercial purposes.
- You have verified that your use of the Website, together with its Services, does not clash with any laws or regulations in the jurisdictions that are relevant to you personally.
- You follow the Terms, which may be changed at any time without notice.
- You neither use nor intend to use the information available on the Website for unlawful ends or for unauthorized purposes that could breach local or international laws.
- You are not pretending to be another person, group or entity, and the personal details you provide are genuine.
- You give up any right to take part in a jury trial or a class-action lawsuit against the Operator of the Website.
Should you be acting on behalf of an organization, company or other entity, then, in using the Website, you confirm that you:
- hold proper authorization to represent the organization in question and possess the necessary authority;
- have read these Terms and agree to them;
- comprehend the Agreement (defined below) entered into with the Operator;
- consent on behalf of the organization you represent.
7. Material from Other Parties
Hyperlinks on the Website may point to websites, products, services or kinds of content run by different entities (“Third Party Content”). Such hyperlinks appear as extra references and as a way of finding further information on the topics discussed.
You accept that neither the Website nor the Operator can be held accountable for material found on the other websites those hyperlinks may send users to. Following a hyperlink does not mean the Operator fully supports the content supplied by that third party.
The Website Content offers information meant for personal entertainment and general reference.
The Website may point to Third Party Content connected with online gaming and gambling services (“Gaming Services”).
Information about Gaming Services is meant only for users who find themselves in jurisdictions where those services are lawful and who are themselves of legal age.
You recognize that online gambling laws differ from one jurisdiction to another, and you accept that ensuring that your own activities respect the laws and regulations in force in your country and your jurisdiction is your responsibility. The mere ability to view the Website Content, or to reach the Gaming Services offered, does not make your actions on the Website lawful.
In making use of the Gaming Services, you accept the following:
- You are based in a regulated jurisdiction in which accessing the Services — the Gaming Services among them — is lawful.
- You have reached legal age (not younger than 19 years, or 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec).
- You have confirmed that your use of the Gaming Services, as well as the Website Content, complies with the local laws and directives.
- Using the information supplied on the Website may lead to financial loss from gambling, for which the Operator bears no responsibility.
- You alone are responsible for checking updates and changes to the laws and requirements imposed.
- You are entirely aware that gambling and gaming carry some risk of losing money.
- You make use of the Gaming Services however you wish and entirely at your own risk.
No legal advice is offered by the Website on whether gambling, online or offline, is legal, and therefore it is down to users themselves to find out about and grasp the gambling laws relevant to them.
Even though the Website carries information on gambling and on gaming, it does not urge readers to engage in betting, gambling or gaming activities. Whether or not to gamble is your own personal decision.
9. No Warranties Provided
Your use of the Website implies that you fully understand and accept the following:
- Your use of the Website, its Services, along with the Website Content on offer, is at your own discretion and risk.
- ValleyGames gives no guarantees and makes no promises that: the Website Content matches what you are looking for, or that it can be accessed without interruption, securely, in a timely manner or free of errors; the services, results or content will always prove accurate or reliable; the standard of the products and services, content and information or other services delivered via the Website will satisfy customer expectations.
- All materials downloaded or otherwise obtained through the Website or Services are acquired at your own discretion and risk. In addition, you are responsible for any harm caused to your computer system or any loss of data that may result from such activities.
- Nothing shown on the Website amounts to any warranty or guarantee, except where these Terms expressly say so.
10. Caps on Our Liability
You understand that, when you make use of ValleyGames, the Operator bears no liability or responsibility for any damages arising directly, indirectly, consequentially, incidentally or in other special circumstances. This covers damages that may stem from the loss of profits, data, goodwill or other intangible assets.
You accept that neither the Operator nor its affiliates bear liability for changing, suspending or discontinuing the Services or the Website as a whole.
The Website is not accountable for material found on Third-Party websites linked to from articles on the Website.
11. Compensation and Defense
In using the Website, you acknowledge that you must hold harmless and defend ValleyGames and its Operator. That covers paying reasonable lawyer fees that might arise from any messages or other content sent, posted or otherwise submitted to the Website in breach of these Terms.
12. Changes to the Site and Services
ValleyGames keeps the right to modify or remove portions of the content on the Website, whether temporarily or permanently, and without giving users notice. The Services, too, may change at any time.
13. Reporting Copyright Violations
Should you believe that content published on the Website breaches copyright laws or infringes intellectual property rights, you are required to inform us using the contact details below and include the following information:
- Your full name, plus the name of any company you represent, if relevant.
- Contact details that must include a working email address and also a physical address, plus a telephone number.
- A clear description of the material concerned that is alleged to violate copyright laws, together with its location on the Website. Including the URL of the page holding the content that supposedly infringes intellectual property rights is preferable.
- A physical or electronic signature supplied by whoever is authorized to act for the content owner.
14. Complete Agreement
These Terms make up a legally binding agreement between you and this Website, and they govern your relationship with ValleyGames; together they cover these Terms, our Privacy Policy and any Competition terms and conditions that apply (the “Agreement“).
This is a deal concluded between the user and this Website to guarantee that the content and the services offered are used fairly.
The Agreement replaces every earlier agreement concluded between users and this Website. In accepting the Agreement and carrying on using the Website, you acknowledge that you are not relying on any warranties or guarantees given by the Operator.
15. Separability of Clauses
Every provision listed in the Agreement is, and will remain, severable to the extent that current laws and regulations allow. Should one provision be invalid, the others shall not be affected.
16. Ending the Agreement
When you visit or use the Website or its Services, you accept that the Website may, entirely at its own discretion and with no notice, bar access or shut down any account concerned.
Grounds for ending the agreement may include, without limitation, misuse of the content provided, a breach of these Terms, or conduct that is inconsistent. Beyond that, the Operator may shut down the Website and cease providing the Services together with the Website Content whenever it chooses.
17. Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution
In using the Website, you acknowledge that both the Website Content and the Services fall under the laws of Canada, ignoring any clash with other jurisdictions.
Should a dispute, controversy or claim emerge from using the Website, the parties concerned must talk and consult among themselves, taking their interests into account, and aim for a solution acceptable to all. If no settlement is reached within 30 days, the matter shall be passed to the jurisdiction’s higher authority.
18. Keeping Matters Private
When you use and visit the Website, you agree to treat as confidential all details connected with a dispute, unless the Operator explicitly directs otherwise. You will not use confidential information for any purpose other than resolving the dispute, while maintaining strict confidentiality toward the other parties taking part in any arbitration that is relevant.
You may reveal confidential information where the law strictly demands it, but you must alert the Website without delay and consult the Operator.
19. Irreparable Damage
Through your use of and visits to the Website, you confirm that a breach of the Agreement may cause irreparable harm to the Operator and to the Website. You acknowledge that the damages resulting may not prove sufficient where any provision in the Agreement is breached, and that the Operator may seek various remedies and other equitable relief measures. No proof of damages is needed to enforce this provision should the Terms of Service be violated.
20. Provisions That Survive
Any provisions set out in these Terms may outlive the Agreement’s expiration or termination until they have fulfilled their purpose.
21. Failure to Enforce
No waiver granted by the Operator in respect of any Term shall count as a waiver for an earlier or a later breach of the Terms.
22. Rights of Other Parties
Nothing in these Terms, on the Website or in the Privacy Policy, nor in any Competitions terms and conditions that apply, may serve to create benefits or grant any rights whatsoever to third parties. No third party may use the Terms to establish an agency, partnership, relationship or any other form of joint enterprise with the Operator, unless stated otherwise.
23. Transfer of Rights
The Operator keeps the right to transfer, assign, pledge or sublicense the Agreement and the Terms, whether fully or in part, without needing your consent.
You may not transfer, assign, sublicense or pledge any obligations or rights you hold under the Agreement.
24. Getting Access
To gain proper access to ValleyGames and the Services it provides, you must first arrange internet access and bear the cost of all service fees that arise from this process. You bear full responsibility for securing internet access and for paying for whatever equipment and services are required, including, but not restricted to, a computer device, a mobile device, a modem and so on.
In addition, you must be aged at least 19 (18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec) and of the legal age specified by the laws and regulations in force in your country of residence in order to reach the Website, sign up, or join any competitions or contests.
25. How to Reach Us
You may reach the Website at: [email protected]