As the holder of your account, you acknowledge and agree that you are the sole beneficiary of the account and are solely responsible for its proper use. Your account is not transferable to any other person. Accordingly, you may not allow any other person to access your account or access the Site, accept any winnings, or participate in any tournament using your account information. By registering and/or participating in any tournament offered on the Site, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold us and our affiliates harmless from or for any claims, loss, liability, damages, and/or costs (including attorney fees) arising from any such unauthorized use.
The use of your account is subject to the rules and restrictions contained in these Terms, including those which immediately follow. Please be advised that by registering for an account and/or participating in any tournament offered on the Site, you acknowledge and agree that we may monitor by any means and at any time your account information and any and all activities on your computer while you are in the process of communicating with the Site and for the purposes of ensuring compliance with the Terms.
Member Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Site Members. The Site reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
Multiple Accounts
The Site allows only one account per person and only one account per computer and household or address. We reserve the right to monitor any effort to establish multiple accounts, including but not limited to: unique email address, and review of IP address. If we find any links between user accounts, we may at our own discretion conclude such accounts to be multiple accounts belonging to a single user and all additional accounts will be closed without notice and continued violation will result in the termination of any and all of your accounts. The Site also reserves the right to deny access to anyone, including, but not limited to those players who use proxy servers and/or IP addresses residing in certain geographical areas outside of the U.S.
Password
When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify the Site immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
Funding
The Site may impose dollar amount limitations on the credit card transactions in which you engage to fund your activities on the Site. The Site may also impose limitations on the net dollar amount you may lose on the Site in any calendar month; should your expenditures reach the designated limit, your play in the tournaments offered on the Site will be restricted until the beginning of the next calendar month. The Site reserves the right to change these dollar amount limitations at any time. The Site reserves the right to set expiration dates or other limits on all promotional credits. The Site reserves the right to expire the game credits balance of any dormant account. Game Credits is defined as any credit deposited by GorillaGamer into an account, including, but not limited to promotional credits, entry fee credits, accounting credits, prize credits, and gift credits. A dormant account shall be defined as any account that has been inactive for greater than 180 days. Withdrawing Funds When a user chooses to withdraw funds from their account, these funds will be sent to the user through PayPal. If the Site does not have a PayPal email address for the user it will send the funds to the email registered with the Site via PayPal. The user can then collect the funds by going to PayPal and opening a new account to collect the money or by signing into their account if they are already a customer. Unless otherwise requested all funds withdrawn will be sent via PayPal.
Gameplay Fraud
You may not (a) gain unauthorized access to the Site's systems or any account (other than your own), interfere with the communications, procedures or performance of the Site or deliberately damage or undermine the Site, (b) affect the outcome of your online game play on your platform by means of or with the assistance of automatic, macro, bots, automated programs, screen analysis utilities, any type of mods, memory readers or similar methods or to otherwise commit fraud in relation to the Site, or (c) alter the human skill component of any game played on your platform. Any attempt to do so will result in civil and/or criminal prosecution, termination of your user account and forfeiture of all winnings, bonuses and incentives to which you would otherwise be entitled.
The Site is not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, lost or unavailable network connections, disconnects from your game play on your platform or any incorrect or inaccurate results that may be posted on your online game. The site, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to terminate any person's account who tampers with their game results for the tournament entered, or who otherwise violates these rules. By entering, entrants accept and agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules.
Temporary Account Suspensions/Termination
The Site reserves the right to terminate your account, limit or prohibit your participation/entry in any tournament or tournament type with or without prior notice, if the following enforcement actions described in detail below occur:
- Account Suspension: We reserve the right to temporarily suspend your user account if: (a) you have earned $600 or more in prizes redeemed in the Gamer Shop in a calendar year until such time as you provide us with proof that you have submitted a W-9 Form or W-8 Form to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service; (b) you have not yet submitted to us a payment authorization form and a valid copy of your personal identification; (c) we are investigating your activity in relation to the Site for possible multiple account use, tournament gameplay fraud or poor conduct; or (d) you have had three pending and/or actual strikes marked against your account. Also a Suspension serves as a "Final" warning and will prevent the abuser from continuing their abusive behavior as well as all strikes the member shared with others are removed from their player profile. The Site will evaluate each validated abuse incident on a case-by-case basis and impose Termination or Suspension at its sole discretion. The Site reserves the right to lift the suspension of a user at any time, at its sole discretion.
- Account Termination: Upon the receipt of a credible and validated complaint, the Site may immediately terminate the membership of the individual user implicated in the abuse. Termination results in the immediate closure of the terminated user's account, the loss of all referrals, the forfeiture of any point in the account, a prohibition against any future membership, and the user will lose the right to compete in any tournament play.
By registering for an account and/or participating/entering in any tournament offered on the Site, you consent to allow the Site to access your account information to investigate complaints or other allegations of abuse.
Abuse Reporting: If you wish to report a violation of any of our policies, please forward all evidence of abuse to: mycommunity@gorillagamer.com subject: Abuse. Please refer responsibly!
Terms
This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Site Services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, emailing mycommunity@gorillagamer.com subject: Terminate Membership. The Site may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect.
Inactive Account Closure
For any account that has been inactive for six consecutive months, the Site reserves the right to assess a maintenance fee of $1.50 per month. On the fifth month of inactivity the Site will notify account owners of their inactivity and the scheduled maintenance fee via email. An inactive account is any account in which the user has not logged in or enter into any tournaments (money or free) in six consecutive months.
IF WE DETERMINE, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, THAT YOU HAVE CIRCUMVENTED OUR PROHIBITION AGAINST MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS OR ENGAGED IN GAMEPLAY FRAUD OR POOR CONDUCT, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO (A) FORFEIT ANY WINNINGS, POINTS, BONUSES AND/OR INCENTIVES CONTAINED IN YOUR USER ACCOUNT(S), AND/OR (B) TO TERMINATE YOUR USER ACCOUNT(S) ALTOGETHER IN WHICH CASE WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, BUT HAVE NO OBLIGATION, TO REFUND TO YOU ANY POINTS IN YOUR TERMINATED USER ACCOUNT(S). IN THE CASE OF MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, BUT HAVE NO OBLIGATION; TO CONSOLIDATE THE POINTS IN ANY MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS (LESS FORFEITED WINNINGS, POINTS PAID, AND ANY BONUSES/INCENTIVES GRANTED) TO YOUR FIRST ORIGINAL ACCOUNT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT AT ALL TIMES TO DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION WE DEEM NECESSARY TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAW, REGULATION, LEGAL PROCESS OF GOVERNMENT REQUEST.