Terms of Service
Effective April 1, 2018.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: FOR U.S. AND CANADIAN
PLAYERS, DISPUTES ABOUT THESE TERMS OR RELATING TO WHYPHY SERVICES GENERALLY
MUST BE RESOLVED BY BINDING ARBITRATION AND ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS ONLY. For more details, go to Section 17.
Please read these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy carefully
before using Whyphy Services.
Whenever you use the
Services, you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of these
Terms of Service. If you don’t agree to all the terms and conditions you must
not use our Services.
References to “Whyphy,”
“Us” or “We” means Whyphy Games and Whyphy’s Corporate Family.
Whyphy Games. is
located at 421,Shashwat Plaza,Punagam,Surat,Gujarat,India.
1. DEFINITIONS
“Account” means
an account you create when you access the Services.
“Community Rules” means
the rules of conduct that govern your interaction with our Services and other
players
“Feature Terms” means
any other rules related to specific services like platforms and APIs,
applications for mobile devices, forums, contests, subscriptions or loyalty
programs that We may publish which apply to your use of those specific services
and state they are part of these Terms.
“Offers” means
special programs, including offers, excursions, and special gifts, both digital
and tactile, that Whyphy may offer from time to time to certain eligible
players.
“Services” refers
to products, games, services, content, Whyphyinfotech.com and/or the other domains
provided by Whyphy.
“Terms of Service” or “Terms” means
these terms of service.
“User Content” means
all the data that you upload or transmit on or through the Service. This
includes things like your profile picture or your in-game chat.
“Virtual Items” means
(a) virtual currency, including but not limited to virtual coins, cash, tokens,
or points, all for use in the Service and (b) virtual in-game items.
“Whyphy Corporate Family” refers
to Whyphy’s subsidiaries, parent companies, joint ventures and other corporate
entities under common ownership and/or any of their agents, consultants,
employees, officers and directors.
“Whyphy Affiliates” refers
to the Whyphy Corporate Family plus Whyphy’s and the Whyphy Corporate Family’s
third-party content providers, distributors, licensees or licensors.
2. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
We reserve the right, at
our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of the Terms,
Community Rules, Feature Terms, and Privacy Policy at any time by posting the
amended Terms, Community Rules, Feature Terms, or Privacy Policy on our sites
or within the Service (such as through in-game notices). We may provide
additional notice, such as an e-mail message or messaging within the Services,
of any material changes. Unless We state otherwise, changes are effective when
posted. If you continue to use the Services after the changes are posted you
agree to the changes. New versions of the Terms, the Community Rules and the
Privacy Policy and any other policies.
If you have a dispute with Whyphy, the version of the Terms, the
Community Rules, Feature Terms, and the Privacy Policy in effect at the time Whyphy
received actual notice of the dispute will apply to such dispute. However, if
you keep using the Service after the changes are posted, you are agreeing that
the changes apply to your continued use of the Services.
You can’t make changes to the Terms, Community Rules, Feature
Terms, or Privacy Policy unless both you and Whyphy sign a written amendment.
If the Terms or the Privacy Policy have provisions that conflict
with other Whyphy terms or policies, the provisions in these Terms and the
Privacy Policy win.
3. ACCOUNT INFORMATION
AND SECURITY
In order to use our
Services, We may ask you to create an Account and select a password and/or
provide Us with certain personal information, which may include your name,
birth date, e-mail address, and, in some cases, payment information. This
information will be held and used in accordance with Whyphy's Privacy Policy.
You agree to supply Whyphy with accurate, complete, and updated
information, particularly your email address.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your
Account. Don’t share your Account details with others or allow others to access
or use your Account. You are solely responsible for any activity in your
Account whether or not authorized by you, including purchases made using any
payment instrument (for example, credit card, PayPal or social network or
platform virtual currency).
Tell Us immediately of any actual or suspected loss, theft,
fraud, or unauthorized use of your Account or Account password.
4. PRIVACY
Whyphy's Privacy Policy tells
you how We collect and use information about you and your computer or mobile
device, and how you can use the Services to share such information with others.
You understand that through your use of our Services you acknowledge the
collection, use and sharing of this information as described in Whyphy’s Privacy Policy. If
you don’t agree with the Privacy Policy, then you must stop using our Services.
We encourage you to read
the Whyphy PrivacyPolicy carefully and use it to make informed decisions.
5. USING OUR SERVICES
Who can use our Service: We
are excited to have you start playing our games, but there are some limits on
who can use our Service.
You may not use
our Service if:
·
You cannot enter into a binding contract with Whyphy;
·
You are under 13 years of age, in which case you must
not create an Account, use any part of the Service except games with an age
screen after accurately identifying your age, or submit personal information
through the Service or to Whyphy (for example, name, address, telephone number,
email address);
·
You are not allowed to receive products, including services or
software, from the United States, for example if you are located in a country
embargoed by the United States or if you are on the U.S. Treasury Department's
list of Specially Designated Nationals;
·
You are a convicted sex offender; or
·
You have previously been banned from playing any Whyphy games or
using any Whyphy Service.
If you are under the age of 18, or under the age of majority
where you live, you represent that your legal guardian has reviewed and agreed
to these Terms.
Additional Important Rules and
Terms:
If you use our Service,
you must follow the Whyphy Privacy Policy and
all other Feature Terms that may apply. These additional rules and terms apply
in addition to these Terms and are important. Please read them. If you access
the Service from a social network or download the Service from another
platform, such as Apple or Google, you must also comply with its terms of
service/use as well as these Terms.
Accessing our Service:
To access or play our games or create an account with Us, you
may need an account with a social network, like Facebook, and, if you are using
our mobile Service, an account with the company that provides your mobile
applications, like an iTunes account. You may need to update third party
software from time to time to receive the Service and play Whyphy’s Games.
We provide the games. You provide the equipment (computer,
phone, tablet, etc.) and pay any fees to connect to the Internet and app
stores, or for data or cellular usage to download and use the Service.
Service Changes and
Limitations:
The Service is evolving
and We may require that you accept updates to the Service as well as to the
Terms, Community
Rules, and the Whyphy Privacy Policy. From
time to time we may make you update the game or your software to continue to
use Our Services. We may perform these updates remotely including to Whyphy
software residing on your computer or mobile device, without notifying you.
Whyphy reserves the right to
stop offering and/or supporting the Service or a particular game or part of the
Service at any time either permanently or temporarily, at which point your
license to use the Service or any part of it will be automatically terminated
or suspended. If that happens, Whyphy is not required to provide refunds,
benefits or other compensation to players in connection with discontinued
elements of the Service or for virtual goods previously earned or purchased.
WHYPHY MAY, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION LIMIT, SUSPEND, TERMINATE,
MODIFY, OR DELETE ACCOUNTS OR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE OR ANY PORTION OF IT AND
PROHIBIT ACCESS TO OUR GAMES AND SITES, AND THEIR CONTENT, SERVICES AND TOOLS,
DELAY OR REMOVE HOSTED CONTENT AND WHYPHY IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO COMPENSATE
YOU FOR ANY SUCH LOSSES OR RESULTS.
Deleting your Account:
You may stop using the
Service at any time and may request that We stop making active use of your data
at any time by following the instructions in the Privacy Policy. Unless
the local law where you are located requires otherwise, We
are not required to provide refunds, benefits or other compensation if you
request deletion of your Account.
6. OWNERSHIP; LIMITED
LICENSE
Games and Service:
The Service is comprised of works owned by Whyphy, and it is
protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress, patent and other US and non-US
intellectual property and other applicable laws, rules or regulations. Whyphy
owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to use all of the content that
appears in the Service. These Terms do not grant you or any other party any
right, title or interest in the Service or any content in the Service.
So long as you abide by these Terms and any other rules,
including the Community Rules, Whyphy grants you a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, revocable limited license subject to the limitations in these
Terms, to access and use the Service using a Whyphy supported web browser or mobile
device solely for your own non-commercial entertainment purposes. You agree not
to use the Service for any other purpose.
If you violate these Terms, or any of Our other terms that apply
to you, We may take action against you, up to and including permanently
suspending your account. In addition, you may be breaking the law, including
violations of Whyphy’s intellectual property rights. ANY ATTEMPT BY YOU TO
DISRUPT OR INTERFERE WITH THE SERVICE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION UNDERMINING
OR MANIPULATING THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF ANY WHYPHY GAME IS A VIOLATION OF WHYPHY
POLICY AND MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS.
Your Account and Virtual Items:
Regardless of what
anything else says in these Terms, the Community Rules, or
any other Feature Terms that apply to features you may choose to use, you do
not own the Account that you create on Our Service, including in Our games, and
your Account is not your property. This also applies to other stuff, like
in-game currency or items, regardless of whether you “earned” those items in a
game or “purchased” them. Your account and any related items are owned by Whyphy.
Whyphy gives you a limited license to use your account and the related items
while We offer the Services
WE MAY DELETE OR
TERMINATE ACCOUNTS THAT ARE INACTIVE (I.E., NOT
LOGGED INTO) FOR 180 DAYS.
You are not allowed to
transfer Virtual Items outside of the Service (i.e., in
the “real world”), for example by selling, gifting, or trading them. We won’t
recognize those transfers as legitimate. You are not allowed to sublicense,
trade, sell or attempt to sell in-game Virtual Items for "real"
money, or exchange Virtual Items for value of any kind outside of a game. Any
such transfer or attempted transfer is prohibited and void, and We may
terminate your Account because of it.
User Content:
If you transmit or upload User Content on the Service, you agree
that it will be:
1. accurate;
2. not
confidential;
3. not in
violation of the law;
4. not in
violation of contractual restrictions or other parties’ rights, and that you
have permission from any other party whose personal or other information or
intellectual property is contained within the User Content;
5. free of
viruses, adware, spyware, worms or other malicious code;
You own your User Content, but you give Whyphy a perpetual and
irrevocable (other than as provided below), worldwide, fully paid-up and
royalty free, non-exclusive, license to use your User Content and any modified
and derivative works thereof in connection with the Service, including in
marketing and promotions. To the extent allowed by applicable laws, you waive
any moral rights you may have in any User Content (like the right to be
identified as the author of the User Content or the right to object to a
certain use of that User Content).
If you request deletion of your User Content we will take
reasonable steps to remove your User Content from active use, which may include
suppression of your User Content in our systems. However, User Content may
persist in our systems, including back-up copies. We may also retain copies of
User Content if we are legally required to do so.
When you post your
observations and comments on the Service such as in forums, blogs and chat
features, We cannot guarantee that other players will not use the ideas and
information that you share. If you have an idea or information that you would
like to keep confidential and/or don’t want others to use, don’t post it. WHYPHY
IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OTHER PERSON’S USE OR APPROPRIATION OF ANY CONTENT
OR INFORMATION YOU POST IN ANY FORUMS, BLOGS AND CHAT ROOMS.
7. MONITORING USE OF
SERVICE AND USER CONTENT
We have no obligation to monitor User Content and We are not
responsible for monitoring the Service for inappropriate or illegal User
Content or conduct by other players. That said, We have the right, in our sole
discretion, to edit, refuse to post, or remove any User Content.
We may also, at our discretion, choose to monitor and/or record
your interaction with the Service or your communications with Whyphy or other
players (including without limitation chat text and voice communications) when
you are using the Service.
8. YOUR DEALINGS WITH
OTHER PLAYERS
You are responsible for your interactions with other players. If
you have a problem with another player, We are not required to get involved,
but We can if We desire.
If you have a dispute with another player, you release Whyphy
and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and
employees, and all Whyphy Affiliates from responsibility, claims, demands
and/or damages (actual or consequential) of every kind and nature, whether
known or unknown, resulting from that dispute or connected to that dispute.
This includes damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use or data.
If you live in California, you waive California Civil Code
§1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims which the
creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of
executing the release, which if known by him or her must have materially
affected his settlement with the debtor."
9. PAYMENT TERMS
We provide a service in the form of access to games and Virtual
Items. In the Service you may use "real world" money to obtain a
limited license to use Virtual Items and/or other goods or services.
How it Works:
You get a limited license to Virtual Items by visiting the
purchase page in one of our games and providing billing authorization through
the platform on which You are playing (e.g., Facebook, Apple iOS, Android).
On Whyphy.com, the payment page will let you know what you can
use to pay when you make your purchase. We may change what you can use to pay
from time to time, at Our sole discretion. Virtual Items purchased in Our games
on other platforms such as Facebook, Apple iOS, or Android will be subject to
those platforms’ payment terms and conditions. Whyphy does not control how you
can pay or how any refunds may be issued on those platforms. Please review
those platforms’ terms of service for additional information.
When you get a limited license to use Virtual Items from our
Services on Whyphy.com, We may send you a confirmation email or text that will
have details of the items you have ordered. Please check that the details in
the confirmation message are correct as soon as possible and keep a copy of it
for your records. Whyphy keeps records of transactions in order to deal with
any future questions about that transaction.
For Virtual Items, your order will represent an offer to Us to
obtain a limited license for the relevant service(s) or virtual in-game item(s)
which will be accepted by Us when We make the Virtual Items available in your
account for you to use in our games or debit the account through which you
paid, whichever comes first. Your limited license to Virtual Items for use in Whyphy
is a service provided by Whyphy that starts when We accept your payment or
redemption of third party virtual currency.
For orders to obtain a limited license to use Virtual Items, by
clicking the button on the purchase window or page you:
1.
agree that We may start to supply your purchased Virtual Items
immediately after you have clicked that button; and
2.
if you reside in the European Union, you acknowledge that you
will therefore no longer have the right to cancel under the EU's Consumer
Rights Directive (as implemented by the law of the country where you are
located) once we start to supply the Virtual Item.
You understand that while you may “earn” "buy" or
"purchase" Virtual Items in our Services, You do not legally
"own" the Virtual Items and the amounts of any Virtual Item do not
refer to any credit balance of real currency or its equivalent. Any "virtual
currency" balance shown in your Account does not constitute a real-world
balance or reflect any stored value, but instead constitutes a measurement of
the extent of your limited license.
ALL SALES ARE FINAL:
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WHYPHY IS NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A REFUND
FOR ANY REASON, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE MONEY OR OTHER COMPENSATION FOR
UNUSED VIRTUAL ITEMS WHEN AN ACCOUNT IS CLOSED, WHETHER SUCH CLOSURE WAS
VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY, OR WHETHER YOU MADE A PAYMENT THROUGH WHYPHY.COM OR
ANOTHER PLATFORM SUCH AS APPLE, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, OR ANY OTHER SITES OR
PLATFORMS WHERE WE OFFER OUR SERVICES.
PURCHASES OR REDEMPTIONS OF
THIRD PARTY VIRTUAL CURRENCY TO ACQUIRE A LICENSE TO USE VIRTUAL ITEMS ARE
NON-REFUNDABLE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW.
If you purchase third party currency or choose to make a payment
in our Services through a third party (like Facebook, Apple, or Google), you
are agreeing to the third party’s payment terms, and Whyphy is not a party to
the transaction.
Additional Payment Terms:
You agree to pay all fees and applicable taxes incurred by you
or anyone using an Account registered to you. Whyphy may revise the pricing for
the goods and services it licenses to you through the Service at any time.
Billing Support:
Billing Support:
For billling Support you can contact us at games.whyphy@gmail.com and leave your query.
10. PROMOTIONS AND OFFERS
From time to time, We may offer limited time promotions.
Please review the official rules (if any) associated with the promotion. They
will apply in addition to these Terms.
In addition, from time to time, We may promote Offers. We
are not required to give, and players are not required to accept, any Offer.
Offers are not transferable, redeemable or exchangeable for other things of
value, except at our sole discretion. If you accept any Offer, you may
have to sign a declaration of eligibility and liability release, or sign other
paperwork in order to get the Offer. Some Offers will be subject to taxes
and other charges, travel, or activities outside of the virtual world, all of
which will be disclosed before You accept the offer. If you accept an
Offer you also assume all liability associated with the Offer.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
Our Service and our games
may feature advertisements from Us or other companies. Our Privacy Policy explains
what information We share with advertisers. Please read it.
Sometimes We provide links in Our games or on the Service to
other companies’ websites or to companies who invite you to participate in a
promotional offer and offer you some feature of the Service or upgrade (such as
in-game currency) in exchange. Any charges or obligations you take on in
dealing with these other companies are your responsibility.
We make no representation or promises about any content, goods
or services these other companies provide, even if linked to or from Our
Service or games. Also, just because We allow a link to be included in Our
games or Service does not mean We endorse that linked site. We are not liable
for any claim relating to any content, goods and/or services of third parties.
Please also note that the linked sites are not under our control
and may collect data or ask you to provide them with your personal or other
information, or they may automatically collect information from you. When you
use other companies’ services like these, the other company’s service may (or
may not) ask you for permission to access your information and content. We are
not responsible for these other companies’ content, business practices or
privacy policies, or for how they collect, use or share the information they
get from you.
12. COPYRIGHT NOTICES/COMPLAINTS
We respect the
intellectual property rights of others and ask that you should, too. We respond
to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and similar or equivalent local laws that may
apply. We
reserve the right to terminate any player's access to the Service if We
determine that the player is a "repeat infringer." We do not have to
notify the player before We do this. We also accommodate and do not interfere
with standard technical measures copyright owners use to protect their
materials.
13. FEEDBACK AND
Unsolicited Ideas
Sometimes, We may request your feedback on certain features
through a promotion or our customer insights program. Any feedback you provide
at Our request through a promotion or program is subject to the rules of the
specific promotion or program.
14. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER;
SERVICES AVAILABLE ON AN “AS IS” BASIS
Neither Whyphy nor any Whyphy Affiliate makes any promise or
guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.
USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. IT IS PROVIDED ON AN
"AS IS" BASIS. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WHYPHY AND
ANY WHYPHY AFFILIATE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS OR OTHER TERMS OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ABOUT THE SERVICES. WHYPHY AND ANY WHYPHY AFFILIATE
DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS OR OTHER TERMS
OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
If your state or country does not allow these disclaimers, they
do not apply to you. If your state or country requires a certain period for
which a warranty applies, it will be either the shorter of 30 days from your
first use of the Service or the shortest period required by law.
15. LIMITATIONS; WAIVERS
OF LIABILITY
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WHYPHY AND THE WHYPHY AFFILIATES ARE NOT
LIABLE
(1) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL OR DATA, IN ANY
WAY WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICE; OR
(2) FOR THE CONDUCT OF THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING OTHER USERS OF
THE SERVICE AND OPERATORS OF EXTERNAL SITES.
THE RISK OF USING THE SERVICE AND EXTERNAL SITES RESTS ENTIRELY
WITH YOU AS DOES THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE SERVICE AND EXTERNAL SITES.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY ANY LAW THAT APPLIES, THE
DISCLAIMERS OF LIABILITY IN THESE TERMS APPLY TO ALL DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED
BY THE SERVICE, OR RELATED TO USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICE, UNDER
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION IN ANY JURISDICTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ACTIONS
FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE).
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS, THE
TOTAL LIABILITY OF WHYPHY AND/OR THE WHYPHY AFFILIATES IS LIMITED TO THE TOTAL
AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID WHYPHY AND/OR THE WHYPHY AFFILIATE IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY DAYS (180) DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH YOU FIRST ASSERT
ANY SUCH CLAIM.
IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID WHYPHY OR ANY WHYPHY AFFILIATE ANY AMOUNT
IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DAYS (180) DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON
WHICH YOU FIRST ASSERT ANY SUCH CLAIM, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY
DISPUTE WITH WHYPHY AND/OR ANY WHYPHY AFFILIATE IS TO STOP USING THE SERVICE
AND TO CANCEL YOUR ACCOUNT.
Some states or countries do not allow the exclusion of certain
warranties or the limitations/exclusions of liability described above. So these
limitations/exclusions may not apply to you if you reside in one of those
states or countries.
16. INDEMNITY
If you use or misuse the Service, or if you violate these Terms
or any other applicable rules, including the Community Rules or Feature Terms,
and that results in loss or damage or in a claim or liability against Whyphy or
any Whyphy Affiliate, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Whyphy
and/or the Whyphy Affiliate (which means you agree to compensate Whyphy and/or
the Whyphy Affiliate on a "dollar for dollar" basis) for that loss,
damage, claim or liability, including compensating Whyphy and/or the applicable
Whyphy Affiliate for our legal fees or expenses. If Whyphy or the Whyphy
Affiliate wants to, they are allowed to take exclusive charge of the defense of
any case on which you are required to compensate or reimburse them, and it will
be at your expense. You also have to cooperate in Whyphy’s and/or the Whyphy
Affiliate’s defense of these cases. Whyphy and/or the Whyphy Affiliate will use
reasonable efforts to let you know if they learn of any claim on which you have
to compensate or reimburse them. This will apply even if you stop using the
Services or your account is deleted.
17. AGREEMENT TO
ARBITRATE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER
THIS SECTION ONLY APPLIES TO
PLAYERS IN THE US AND CANADA.
If you are having a problem with the Service, many issues can be
resolved on one of our forums. For issues relating to certain Whyphy games, you may find resolution by clicking on the “Support” link on that game’s
page on Whyphy’s website.
We Both Agree to Arbitrate
If we can’t resolve our
dispute through Customer Service, you and Whyphy or any member of
the Whyphy Corporate Family all agree to resolve any claims relating to the
Terms, the Privacy Policy, Feature Terms or Whyphy’s Services through final and
binding arbitration. This applies to all kinds
of claims under any legal theory, unless the claim fits in one of the
exceptions in the Exceptions to Agreement to Arbitrate sub-section. It also
applies even after you stopped using your Whyphy account or deleted it.
An arbitration proceeding
is before a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge and jury, so we
are all giving up our right to a trial before a judge and jury.
Arbitrations have different rules than lawsuits in court. They are less formal
than lawsuits in courts, and provide limited opportunity to force the other
side to share information relevant to the dispute—a process called discovery.
The arbitrator can award the same damages and relief on an individual basis
that a court can award to an individual. But, if any of us does not like the
arbitrator’s decision, the courts only have a limited ability to change the
outcome of arbitration or make the arbitrator reconsider his or her decision.
If we have a dispute about whether this agreement to arbitrate
can be enforced or applies to our dispute, we all agree that the arbitrator
will decide that, too.
In addition, if you, Whyphy or a Whyphy Corporate Family member
brings a claim in court that should be arbitrated or any of us refuses to
arbitrate a claim that should be arbitrated, the other of us can ask a court to
force us to go to arbitration to resolve the claim (i.e., compel arbitration).
You, Whyphy or the Whyphy Corporate Family member may also ask a court to halt
a court proceeding while an arbitration proceeding is ongoing..
That means:
1.
Neither you nor Whyphy nor any member of the Whyphy Corporate
Family can bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class action,
consolidated action or representative action.
2.
The arbitrator cannot combine more than one person’s claim into a
single case, and cannot preside over any consolidated, class or representative
arbitration proceeding (unless we both agree to change this).
3.
The arbitrator’s decision or award in one person’s case can only
impact the person who brought the claim, not other Whyphy players, and cannot
be used to decide other disputes with other players.
If a court decides that
this subsection on “No Class Actions” is not enforceable or valid, then the
entire Section 17 (Agreement to Arbitrate and Class Action Waiver) will be null
and void (i.e., go away). But, the rest of the Terms, Feature Terms, Community
Rules, and Privacy Policy will still apply.
Changes to Section 17 on
Agreement to Arbitrate and Class Action Waiver
We will give you 60-days’ notice by email or through the Service
if We change Section 17 on our Agreement to Arbitrate and Class Action Waiver.
18. APPLICABLE LAW
The Federal Arbitration Act (including its procedural
provisions) is the law that will be applied to determine whether Section 17
(Agreement to Arbitrate and Class Action Waiver) can be enforced and how it
should be interpreted.
Apart from that, if you are United States resident, these Terms
and our relationship will be governed by California law, except for its
conflicts of laws principles.
If you reside outside the United States these Terms and our
relationship will be governed by Irish law, except for its conflicts of laws
principles.
19. VENUE FOR LEGAL
DISPUTES NOT SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION
If you are a United States resident, judicial proceedings (other
than small claims actions) that are excluded from the Arbitration Agreement in
Section 17 must be brought in state or federal court in San Francisco,
California, unless we both agree to some other location. You and Whyphy both
consent to venue and personal jurisdiction in San Francisco, California.
If you reside outside the United States, judicial proceedings
must be brought in the courts of Ireland, unless we both agree to some other
location, and you and Whyphy both consent to venue and personal jurisdiction in
Ireland.
20. SEVERABILITY
Except as described in Section 17 under the “No Class Actions”
heading, if any part of these Terms, Feature Terms, Community Rules or the
Privacy Policy is not enforceable, the rest of these Terms, Feature Terms,
Community Rules and the Privacy Policy still applies and is binding and any
unenforceable term will be substituted reflecting our intent as closely as
possible.
21. ASSIGNMENT
We may give our rights, or Our obligations, under these Terms,
Feature Terms, Community Rules, or our Privacy Policy to any person or entity
at any time with or without your consent. You may not give your rights or your
obligations under these Terms, Feature Terms, Community Rules, or our Privacy
Policy without first getting Whyphy’s written consent, and any attempt to do so
without our consent is void.
22. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
These Terms, and any other policies or rules We reference in
these Terms, make up the entire agreement between you and Us relating to the
subject matter of these Terms, and supersede all prior understandings of the
parties relating to the subject matter of these Terms, whether those prior
understandings were electronic, oral or written, or whether established by
custom, practice, policy or precedent, between you and Us.
23. LANGUAGE OF THE TERMS
If We provide a translated version of these Terms, Feature
Terms, the Community Rules, the Whyphy Privacy Policy, or any other terms or
policy, it is for informational purposes only. If the translated version means
something different than the English version, then the English meaning will be
the one that applies.
24. NO WAIVER
If We do not enforce a provision of these Terms, Feature Terms,
the Community Rules, or our Privacy Policy, that does not waive our right to do
so later. And, if We do expressly waive a provision of these Terms, Feature
Terms, the Community Rules, or our Privacy Policy that does not mean it is
waived for all time in the future. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by
both you and Us to be legally binding.
26. EQUITABLE REMEDIES
You agree that given the
unique and irreplaceable nature of the rights granted and obligations made
under these Terms and the Community Rules, if you breach these Terms, Feature
Terms, Community Rules and/or our Privacy Policy, or intend to breach these
Terms, Feature Terms, Community Rules or Privacy Policy, money damages alone
will not be enough to repair the harm to Whyphy. Therefore, for disputes that
are not required to be resolved through arbitration as described in Section 17,
Whyphy may seek injunctive or other equitable relief (e.g., get a
court order to make you stop doing whatever you’re doing that is causing harm)
if you breach or intend to breach these Terms, Feature Terms, Community Rules
or our Privacy Policy and Whyphy does not have to post any bond or surety or
submit proof of damages.
You agree to limit your claims to claims for money damages, as
limited by Section 15 (Limitations; Waivers of Liability). And, you agree not
to seek injunctive or equitable relief or otherwise seek to stop Us from
operating any aspect of the Service or any Whyphy Game.
27. FORCE MAJEURE
We are not liable for any changes or problems out of our
control, for example changes or problems caused by like natural disasters, war,
terrorism, riots, embargoes, acts of civil or military authorities, fire,
floods, accidents, network infrastructure failures, strikes, or shortages of
transportation facilities, fuel, energy, labor or materials.
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