Terms & Conditions

Agreement

We strongly advise you to read our Terms of Service carefully and understand them well before using our website/mobile app (hereinafter referred to as “Website”/”Mobile App”) or any of our services, including Fieldon, software and all Fieldon (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Services”). All the clauses in the Fieldon, Terms of Service are delineated below and included in the medium of reference that can be accessed by clicking on the related links. You must make sure that you have read and understood our Agreement, including our Terms of Service, well before becoming a user of Fieldon. By registering on Fieldon, you agree to follow our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and all game rules and contest terms (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Game Rules”). You are completely bound by our Terms of Service in any instance when you choose to use any part of our Services. We reserve the right to modify and amend our Terms of Service at any time. When we make any changes to our Terms of Service, we will update the Terms of Service on our Website/Mobile App to incorporate such changes. We will try to inform you of the changes/revisions by sending you a notice at your email address registered with us. However, it shall be solely your responsibility to stay updated on our Terms of Service by reviewing them on our Website/Mobile App from time to time. We may make changes to our Terms of Service in order to amend or change any of our policies and/or game rules. If you do not agree to the changes made, you may cease your use of our Services of online fantasy games by informing us that you want to get your account deactivated. If you continue to use our Services after any amendments or changes, it will be assumed that you have read and understood the changes made to our Terms of Service and you agree to our new Terms of Service.

Warranty

Fieldon aims to provide information that is accurate, complete, and reliable at the time of publishing or posting it. However, Fieldon makes no representations about the correctness, completeness or suitability of any information published on its Website/App or contained in its Services or any documents. All the information and related graphics are provided on an as is basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Fieldon hereby disclaims all warranties with regard to such information, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. Regardless of Fieldon efforts to provide its users with the Services of the highest quality, Fieldon does not provide users with any warranty or representation whatsoever regarding the quality, fitness for purpose, completeness, merchantability, non-infringement or accuracy of its Services, software, Website, Mobile App or fantasy sports games. Fieldon makes no warranty that its Services, including but not limited to, software, Website, Mobile App, games and servers, will be uninterrupted, timely or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that the features and Services provided therein will be free from viruses or bugs of any kind. Fieldon reserves the right to determine, at its sole discretion, whether it is responsible for any malfunction or disruption. Fieldon reserves the right to limit your tournament/game participation or terminate your account in case it determines that you have intentionally caused a malfunction or disruption in its Website, Mobile App or Services. Fieldon is not liable for any potential winnings from any unfinished tournaments or unfinished online fantasy sports games. Fieldon will not compensate the user for any potential winnings in any unfinished contest, game or tournament under any circumstances.

Use of Software

Commercial use of our software is strictly forbidden. Users are only allowed to use the software for their personal entertainment. Under no circumstances shall users be permitted to use their Fieldon.co.in accounts for any purposes other than playing Fieldon, games for entertainment. Users may not attempt to modify, decompile, reverse-engineer or disassemble Fieldon software in any way. The use of artificial intelligence including, without limitation, robots is strictly forbidden in connection with the Fieldon software and games. All actions taken in relation to fantasy sports games by users must be executed personally by users using the user interface accessible through Fieldon.

Your Password, Your Responsibility

After you have registered on our website or Mobile App, it is solely your responsibility to keep your password absolutely confidential. Make sure you do not share your password with anybody, be it your family, friends or anyone else. Fieldon is not responsible in any way if your user account is logged in to or accessed by anybody else using your password.

Eligibility and Jurisdiction Policy

·         Our Contests (games, tournaments, leagues and contests) are meant only for persons aged 18 or older.

·         The Contests are meant only for persons residing in India at the time of participation.

·         Fieldon may, in accordance with the laws prevailing in certain Indian states, bar people who reside in such Indian states from participating in any Contests. Currently people who reside in the Indian states of Assam, Odisha, Telangana, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Andhra Pradesh may not participate in any paid or cash Contests on Fieldon.co.in, as the laws of the aforementioned states prohibit the residents of the states from participating in real online money games.

·         Only those users who have successfully registered on Fieldon.co.in as well as registered for a contest prior to its each round in accordance with the Contest rules and the conditions outlined above will be eligible to participate in the Contest and win any prizes.

Breach and Consequences

In the event of breach of any of our Terms of Service, evidenced by our investigation, or if there is reasonable ground to believe that your continued access to our Website/Mobile App is detrimental to the interests of Fieldon.co.in or its other users or the general public, Fieldon may, at its sole discretion, take any or all of the following actions:

·         Restrict games between users suspected of colluding or cheating;

·         Permanently freeze your Fieldon account;

·         Seize the money in your user account;

·         Demand damages for breach and take appropriate civil action to recover such damages, and/or initiate prosecution for violations that amount to offences in law.

·         Additionally, in the event of a material breach thereof, Fieldon reserves the right to bar you from future registration on its Website/Mobile App. The decision of Fieldon Management on the action to be taken as a consequence of any breach shall be final and binding on you. Any action taken by Fieldon shall be without prejudice to its other rights and remedies available in law or equity.

Governing Law, Dispute Resolution and Jurisdiction

These Fieldon Terms of Service shall in all respects be governed and interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of India. All disputes, differences, complaints, etc. shall be subject to arbitration under the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

 

Content

All content and materials on the Fieldon Website and Mobile App, including, but not limited to, information, images, marks, logos, designs, pictures, graphics, text content, hyperlinks, multimedia clips, animation, games and software (collectively referred to as "Content" hereinafter), whether or not belonging to Fieldon, are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Additionally, all chat content, messages, images, recommendations, emails, images sent by any users can be logged/recorded by Fieldon and shall form part of the Content, and Fieldon is free to use this material in any manner whatsoever.

The Fieldon Website/Mobile App may contain information about or hyperlinks to third parties. In such cases, Fieldon is not in any way responsible for the content on such websites, and it does not provide any express or implied warranty of the accuracy, completeness, suitability or quality of the content belonging to such third-party websites. You may choose to rely on any third-party content (content that does not belong to Fieldon) posted on the Fieldon Website/Mobile App solely at your own risk and liability.

If you visit a third-party website through any third-party content posted on Fieldon.co.in, you shall be subject to the terms and conditions applicable to that content and website. Fieldon neither controls nor is it responsible for the content published on such third-party websites. The existence of a link to a third-party website on the Fieldon Website/Mobile App is not in any way an endorsement of that website by Fieldon.

Contest Formats

Fieldon provides Contests in two separate formats: (1) Public Contests, where users can participate in a Contest with other users without any restriction on participation, and no private contest criteria given by us.

·         Public Contests

o    In Public Contests, Fieldon may offer Contests comprising 2 participants, 3 participants, 5 participants, 10 participants, 100 Participants, or any other pre-designated number of participants.

o    Fieldon may offer Public Contests in the real money gaming format and the winner will be determined at the end of the Contest.

o    The number of participants required to make a Contest operational will be pre-specified and once the number of participants in such Contests equals the pre-specified number required for that Contest, the Contest will be operational. In case the number of participants is less than the pre-specified number at the pre-decided time of commencement of the Contest, such Contests shall not start and shall not be operational, and the participation fee paid by each participant will be credited back to the account of the respective user without any charge or deduction.

o    Fieldon Contests designated as "Guaranteed Contests" will become operational once the number of participants in such Contests equals the pre-specified number of winners to be declared in such Contests, even if all the available participant slots (as pre-specified in relation to the Contests) remain unfilled. It is clarified that notwithstanding the activation of such Contests, participants can continue to join such Contests until (i) all the available participant slots in such Contests are filled up, or (ii) the real-world game on which a Contest is based commences, whichever is earlier. In case such Contests are not operational by the specified time of the commencement of the Contest, the participation fee paid by each participant shall be credited back to the account of such user(s) without any charge or deduction.

Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, and in consideration for being allowed to use our Services and participate in our Contests, you hereby agree to indemnify, save and hold harmless and defend Fieldon.co.in (to the extent of all benefits and awards, cost of litigation, disbursements and reasonable attorney's fees that Fieldon may incur in connection therewith including any direct, indirect or consequential losses, any loss of profit and loss of reputation) from any claims, actions, suits, taxes, damages, injuries, causes of action, penalties, interest, demands, expenses and/or awards asserted or brought against Fieldon by any person in connection with:

·         infringement of their intellectual property rights by your publication of any Content on the Fieldon Website/mobile App;

·         defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any other user or for anything that turns out to be misleading, inaccurate, defamatory, threatening, obscene or otherwise illegal whether originating from another user or otherwise;

·         use, abuse or misuse of your Fieldon user account in any manner whatsoever;

·         any disconnections, technical failures, system breakdowns, defects, delays, interruptions, manipulated or improper data transmission, loss or corruption of data or communication lines failure, distributed denial of service attacks, viruses or any other adverse technological occurrences arising in connection with your access to or use of the Fieldon Website/App and/or the Services; and

·         access of your user account by any other person accessing the Services using your username or password, whether or not with your authorization.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Fieldon, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of India. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising from Fieldon Terms of Service or Privacy Policy shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the civil courts at Greater Noida.

Refund Policy

All deposits and purchases made and fees paid on Fieldon to participate in or in connection with Contests are final. All transactions are final. Fieldon gives utmost importance to customer satisfaction, so only erroneous transactions shall be reviewed.

If you are not fully satisfied with any deposit/purchase made or fee paid on Fieldon and feel there is an error in the transaction, please reach out to Fieldon within 3 days from the transaction date, and Fieldon will review the transaction and determine the resolution at its own discretion.

Fieldon reserves the right to cancel any matches for any reason, with or without disclosure of the reason, and refund all fees paid for such matches by any and all users.

Legality

Playing games of skill is legal as it is excluded from the ambit of Indian gambling legislations, including the Public Gambling Act of 1867. The Supreme Court of India, in the cases of State of Andhra Pradesh v. K Satyanarayana (AIR 1968 SC 825) and KR Lakshmanan v. State of Tamil Nadu (AIR 1996 SC 1153), has held that a game in which success depends predominantly upon the superior knowledge, training, attention, experience and adroitness of the player is a game of skill and playing a game of skill for real money is not gambling or betting but business activity.

The Contests provided by Fieldon are games of skill as participants’ success in the Contests depends primarily on their superior knowledge of the games of cricket and/or football statistics, knowledge of players' relative form, players' performance in a particular territory, conditions and/or format (such as ODIs, Tests, T20, etc.) and attention the Contests in which they are participating. The Contests require participants to field well-balanced sides with limited resources and make substitutions at appropriate times to score the most points.

By participating in Fieldon Contests, each participant acknowledges and agrees that he/she is participating in a game of skill, not a game of chance or luck.

Score and Feeds

Fieldon may obtain the score feed and other information required for the computation, calculation and tabulation of scores from third party service providers. In the rare event that any error in the computation or tabulation of scores, selection of winners, etc. as a result of inaccuracy or incompleteness of the feed provided by the third-party service provider comes to its attention, Fieldon will make the best efforts to rectify such error prior to the distribution of prizes. However, Fieldon hereby clarifies that it relies on the accuracy and completeness of such third-party score/statistic feeds and does not itself warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy thereof and, in any event, shall not be responsible for inaccuracies in computation and tabulation of scores or the selection of winners as a result of any inaccurate or incomplete scores/statistics received from such third-party service providers. Users and participants agree not to make any claim or raise any complaint against Fieldon in this respect.

Starting/Line-up: The purpose of indicating a player's inclusion in the final starting/line-up is only to provide information and assist a user in selecting his/her team/game on Fieldon. Also, no other information given at starting we just give our expert view for each and every option. A player's inclusion in the starting/line-up is indicated by Fieldon on the basis of the information/data received from feed providers and publicly available information. Users are advised to do a thorough research of their own using official sources and/or other available sources of information to verify the information. Fieldon shall not be liable or responsible in any way if a player indicated as 'playing' does not play or start the game for any reason whatsoever. Player/participant have to give the answers of the question time to time flashed, while the game is started for winning the scores.

Bonuses and Benefits

Bonus: A bonus can be used as a percentage/part of an entry fee. The permitted percentage usage is mentioned on the contest card. If a user does not have sufficient bonus balance to join a contest, the amount shall be deducted from his/her deposit balance. A user can get a bonus by wining man of the match or man of the series/khitaab.

Bonus and Instant REWARD: Terms and Conditions

The following conditions apply to all the Fieldon bonuses  (Instant reward, Bonus, etc.) on www.fieldon.co.in and all users who receive a Bonus amount are bound by them:

·         Bonuses are added to the Bonus account.

·         Instant reward given to the winners of Fieldon is added to their  Instant reward (wallet) accounts.

·         A user can withdraw reward from the Instant reward/Wallet account after submitting KYC and Bank Details.

·         The Bonus can be used to join Contest/Contests or transferred to instant reward (wallet) account. An amount won in reward Contest/Contests can be withdrawn in bank account.

Prizes: Terms and Conditions

·         A user can win multiple Contests and prizes in a day.

·         A user can make a withdrawal only if he/she has made at least one successful money deposit on Fieldon.

·         Users should play at least/Minimum one game to withdraw amount from his/her wallet. If any user wants to withdraw any amount without playing single game, which is mandatory, than in that case 5% (percent) charges will be deducted from his/her wallet before withdrawal.

·         For redemption of bonus or any other amount from wallet, users should provide his/her bank account details which is mandatory along with users complete KYC to claim the amount. Without Bank account details no amount will be redeemed.

·         No free contest available.

·         Freight and shipping charges and customs duties, if any, on all prizes shall be borne by winners.

·         As per government regulations, 30% income tax shall be deducted from the winnings of ₹10,000 or more won in a single or multiple game/contest/tournaments. The TDS (tax deducted at source) shall be deducted from the overall cash winnings in a game/contest/tournament.

·         All prizes shall be subject to tax deduction (TDS) as per the Income Tax Act 1961. Winners will be provided with TDS certificates in respect of such tax deductions. TDS deducted will be deposited within a due time period of every user and TDS certificate will be shared to their registered mail id after every quarterly return filed. Winners shall be responsible for the payment of any other applicable taxes, including, but not limited to, the income tax and gift tax in respect of the prize money.

·         Fieldon does not consider any changes made to the scorecard once the settlement is done.

·         By downloading and/or using the licensed Fieldon application, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

·         Fieldon, its subsidiaries and all group companies that collectively come under the name Fieldon are in no way responsible for the application and the content within. Also, your use of this application and Website/Mobile App is limited to a non-transferable personal use.

·         Fieldon has no obligation of warranty with respect to the Website/Mobile App or Content on Fieldon. All claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs and/or expenses that occur because of using Fieldon Website, Mobile App, Services, or the content on Fieldon are the sole responsibility of the user. Fieldon is not in any way responsible or liable for any liabilities, losses, damages, costs or expenses that occur because of your use of the Fieldon Website/Mobile App, Services, or Fieldon Content.

·         Fieldon do not have any physical branch/office/stall available, to deposit/withdraw/gift any money/prize/winning amount. Each and every process is online through Starting of game till the end of the game including redemption of amount from wallet.

·         Fieldon is not responsible for any third-party infringement claims that your possession and/or use of any third-party's intellectual property may cause.

·         Fieldon allows people from all the states and union territories of India, except Assam, Odisha, Telangana, Nagaland, Sikkim and Andhra Pradesh, to participate in real money Contests on Fieldon.

·         All the standard terms and conditions of Fieldon apply.

·         The decision of Fieldon management shall be final and binding in case of any disputes.

·         Fieldon representatives will approach players who win ₹10,000 or more in any contest for official text or video testimonials, which the players must provide.

·         Every winner will have to share a video testimonial with the Fieldon Team. Fieldon will have the full right to use the video for all promotional purposes.

·         Fast2smsis the sms provider of Fieldon, which help in sending otp for user account verification through mobile/email.



·  All the user database/information/documents are safe in our system. We assure all the users that we will not use any documents/information/database other than for Gaming website/Mobile app.

·         No verification from users will donet be on call/physical appearance. If any one is calling you for any meeting at any place or any verification, Fieldon is not responsible for that because we have already declared that this is completely online gaming website/mobile app.