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The Sun Dream Team 2023-24 General terms & conditions

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THESE General Terms & Conditions apply to your use of The Sun’s Dream Team and app, including any games available on The Sun’s Dream Team website and app from time to time. 

The Game Rules set out the terms and conditions for playing each game and provide you with information about how to enter, play and win Prizes for that game. 

These General Terms & Conditions together with the Game Rules, the Loyalty Programme Terms and the (the “Dream Team Terms & Conditions”) set out the contract between you and News Group Newspapers Limited, a company registered in England and Wales in relation to your use of The Sun’s Dream Team website and app. 

It is important that you always consult the Game Rules for each game you play. You can find the Game Rules here.

GENERAL TERMS & CONDITIONS

SECTION 1: KEY TERMS AND INTRODUCTION

You should carefully read all of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions before playing any games, but we draw your attention in particular to the following sections of these General Terms & Conditions:

  • Section 2.1 Eligibility:  This section explains who is eligible to register and play the Games and the consequences if you do not meet the eligibility criteria. For example, you must be at least 18 years old (or age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence, whichever is older) and located and resident in a country where the Services are legally permitted, such as Great Britain. 
  • Section 3.2 Fraud, cheating, unfair play and other prohibited behaviour:  This section explains behaviour that is not allowed and considered a breach of the General Terms & Conditions.
  • Section 3.3 Consequences of breaching the Dream Team Terms & Conditions: This section explains the action that may be taken if you seriously breach the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, including closure of your Account and Prizes being forfeited.
  • Section 3.4 Errors: This section explains how we will deal with any errors that affect the Services (including technical errors and malfunctions with the operation of the Games and information provided in the relation to the Services). Please note in particular that Prizes may be void if they are affected by an error or malfunction. 
  • Section 3.7 Limitations of Liability: This section contains certain limits on what we will be liable to you for and what compensation you can recover from us. 
  • Section 5.1 Prizes: This section sets out eligibility for Prizes, depending on where you are registered and your postal address. If you are registered outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland and/or your postal address for receipt of a non-cash Prize is outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland, then we will replace the non-cash Prize with a cash equivalent.

Dream Team is not a gambling product in the UK, however subject to your opt-in preferences, you may receive marketing communications relating to gambling products. To opt-out or for more information please see . These marketing communications are optional and do not affect your chances of winning Prize(s) in the Games. You are NOT required to give consent to receive such emails or offers in order to participate in the Games or win any Prize.

SECTION 1: KEY TERMS AND INTRODUCTION
SECTION 2: REGISTRATION
SECTION 3: IMPORTANT RULES
SECTION 4: OTHER LEGAL TERMS
SECTION 5: PRIZES 
SECTION 6: GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS


SECTION 2: REGISTRATION

In order to play any of the Games made available on The Sun’s Dream Team website and app, you must first sign up with us by:

  1. registering an account with The Sun (if you haven’t done so previously); and
  1. completing the registration process on The Sun’s Dream Team website and/or app.

Once registered, you can play any of the Games made available on The Sun’s Dream Team website and app during the current Game Year which runs from 17 July 2023 to and including 15 July 2024.

For further information as to whether you’re eligible to play any of the Games on The Sun’s Dream Team website and app, please see section [2.1] below.

2.1 Eligibility

In order to register for an Account and play the Games, you must:

(a) be aged 18 or over (or age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence, whichever is older);

(b) be a consumer (by this we mean that you must be using the Services for personal use and not for any commercial purpose); and

(c) be located and resident in a country or jurisdiction where you are legally permitted to access the Services and where the Services and the applicable Game are not prohibited or in violation of local law. In addition, if you are located or resident in any of the countries listed here (the “Excluded Jurisdictions”), you are not permitted to register for an Account or play the Games. 

You acknowledge that access to our Services may be illegal in certain jurisdictions, and you may not attempt to access the Service from any such jurisdiction, or a jurisdiction which is subject to economic sanctions administered and enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the UK government and/or the UN Security Council. 

Staff of the Promoter, Fan Hub Media UK Limited, Genius Sports Group Ltd and any associated, affiliated and subsidiary companies of News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, Fan Hub Media UK Ltd, Genius Sports Group Ltd and their immediate family members and household members, agents and any person connected with any of the Games may play the Games (and be visible in leaderboards) but are excluded from winning any Prizes in any of the Games.

If we become aware that you do not fulfil all of the eligibility criteria set out at sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) above, we may void your Account and forfeit Prizes including those already received by you must be promptly returned to us.

You will need internet access to play the Game. Internet, data and related costs will be at your own expense.

2.2 Information Requirements

You must supply all information requested at the time of registration which may include:

  1. what football club you support;
  2. your first and last name;
  3. email address;
  4. password;
  5. mobile number; 
  6. date of birth; and
  7. your country of residence.

Your entries and all information provided by you must be accurate, up to date and complete.  

SECTION 3: IMPORTANT RULES

3.1 Keeping your account secure 

You are responsible for all activities that occur under your Account. Any Prizes under your Account will be yours (except those which have been deemed void or forfeited in accordance with these Dream Team Terms & Conditions).

It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality and security of your Account information. We cannot reverse any team selections or transfers that may have been made in error or which you believe were made by someone who was not authorised to do so.

3.2 Fraud, cheating, unfair play and other prohibited behaviour 

The following is prohibited behaviour and considered a breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions:

  • using more than one Account;  
  • allowing a third party (including a family member or friend) to use your Account;
  • using your Account for the benefit of a third party in a manner which is not permitted by the Dream Team Terms & Conditions;
  • deliberately taking unfair advantage of any fault, loophole or error in the Services;
  • attempting to defraud us; 
  • colluding with others to create an unfair advantage (for example, this can include entering multiple family members and/or friends in order to maximise the number of entrants that you manage (individually or collectively) in the Season Competition);
  • cheating of any kind; 
  • providing materially false or misleading registration data;
  • undertaking any fraudulent activity (including but not limited to money laundering); 
  • using automated processes of any kind to facilitate any element of your entry or gameplay; 
  • using any information that is not publicly available (including but not limited to information acquired from any persons directly or indirectly involved in any fixtures relevant to the Game) in order to enhance your chances of success; and/or
  • any other breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions.

In respect of the operation of the Games and interpretation of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, our decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into unless you instigate the complaints procedure set out below in section 4.1.

3.3 Consequences of breaching the Dream Team Terms & Conditions

If we have reasonable grounds to believe that you are in serious breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, we may suspend and/or close your Account, void your entries in any Game and invalidate and withhold any or all Prizes. If any such invalidated Prizes have already been paid out or received by you then you must immediately return the Prize to us.

In addition, if there is reasonable cause to suspect a crime has been committed, we may share information (together with your identity) with the police and other fraud prevention agencies. 

3.4 Errors 

We take reasonable care to ensure that our Games operate as intended and the information provided in relation to the Services is accurate but on rare occasions errors or malfunctions may occur and these may not be obvious to you.  

If there is any error or malfunction with the operation of any Game or any other information provided in connection with the Game then we may correct such error at any time and may withhold, reclaim or invalidate Prizes which are affected by such error.

3.5 Changes to the Dream Team Terms & Conditions

We may make changes to all or part of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions from time to time, for example to: 

• reflect any changes to the Services (including any new Games);

• for valid security, legal or regulatory reasons;

• to address any change in the format of any tournament to which any of the Games relate (e.g. a shortened Premier League season).

If the Promoter makes changes to the Dream Team Terms & Conditions it will post a notice on the Website and/or App. Your continued use of the App will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to such changes.

We may introduce new Games from time to time. Each Game has its own Game Rules. Please read the Game Rules carefully before playing each Game. We may need to make changes to the Game Rules for a Game from time to time, for example for security, legal or regulatory reasons. We may also need to make changes to the Loyalty Programme Terms from time to time. We will do our best not to change the Game Rules of a Game you are already playing or participating in if to do so would be materially detrimental to you, although very occasionally and usually due to circumstances outside of our reasonable control this is unavoidable. If we change any Game Rules or the Loyalty Programme Terms, we will post a notice on the Website and App. Your continued use of the relevant Game and participation in the Loyalty Programme will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to such changes.

3.6 Our responsibility for third party content and other matters

Some of the information provided by us is supplied to us by our third party partners. 

We have no control over third party content and are unable to guarantee the accuracy of such third party content. Before relying on any information, whether it is from the partner or from its third party partners, you should verify the accuracy of such information.

The availability of the Services does not constitute an offer, solicitation or invitation by us for the use of the Services in any jurisdictions in which such activities are prohibited by law. Under no circumstances will we be liable for any breach of the law of any state, country or other localities that may occur as a result of your usage of the Services.

This App is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple for any of its contests or sweepstakes within this app and is solely the responsibility of the Promoter.

We may restrict access to the Games and services from time to time as required to perform necessary maintenance and upgrades. 

 3.7 Limits on our liability to you

You have certain rights under the law and there are certain matters for which we are not permitted by law to limit or exclude our liability to you. This includes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Nothing in the Dream Team Terms & Conditions shall affect these rights or any such liability that we may have to you. 

If our Services damage your device or any software installed on it as a result of our failure to use reasonable care and skill, please let us know. We may ask you to provide information such as photographs or screenshots about what has happened so that we can understand the problem. 

To the full extent permitted by law, we and our subsidiary, associated and affiliated companies exclude responsibility and all liability for:

  • any losses that were not foreseeable (i.e. it was not an obvious loss or damage) to you and us when you registered with the Game.
  • any losses that are not caused by our breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions or any legal obligation owed by us to you.
  • any delay, failure, act or default in relation to the Services caused by events outside our reasonable control (e.g. including but not limited to technical problems from traffic congestion on the internet, or storms).
  • connectivity, hardware or software issues caused by third parties or factors outside of our control.
  • incompatibility of the game or content with any other software or hardware (including compatible registered devices) which is outside our reasonable control.
  • issues arising from participating in or from downloading third party content.
  • any damage to devices or content that belong to you where such damage would not have been caused if you had followed our reasonable instructions.
  • any act or default of any third party supplier or provider, device manufacturer or provider of a device operating system, which are beyond our reasonable control.
  • lost, corrupted, damaged, unclear, inaudible, delayed or otherwise invalid entries. Proof of calling or sending or transmission of an entry shall not be proof of receipt or acceptance of an entry.

SECTION 4: OTHER LEGAL TERMS

4.1 Customer Services and Resolving Issues

If you have a complaint about a Game, please contact us using the Contact Us form on our Website or App. Alternatively, you can tweet us at @DTcustsupport. Or write to us at News Group Newspapers Limited, Customer Liaison Dream Team, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF United Kingdom, providing details of your complaint and your contact information.

We will always do our best to help resolve your complaint as quickly as possible.

If our customer services team cannot resolve your complaint within 28 days then your complaint will be escalated for review by the Dream Team’s review panel who will provide their decision within 28 days.

4.2 Regulatory Information

Our Games are free to play and are not gambling products and so the Promoter is not required to be licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission of Great Britain, a country where you are legally permitted to access the Services. 

You acknowledge that access to our Services may be unlawful in certain jurisdictions, and you may not attempt to access the Service from any such jurisdiction, or a jurisdiction which is subject to economic sanctions administered and enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the UK government and/or the UN Security Council.

4.3 Your personal information

Please see our privacy policy at www.newsprivacy.co.uk for information about how News Group Newspapers Limited (publisher of The Sun) will use your personal information, including for the purposes of the Services and any Prizes to be delivered and other purposes as may be specified or consented to at the time of entry or on promotional materials. The information provided may be shared with the Promoter's agents, affiliates and, if applicable, any third party prize provider (including those outside the UK/European Economic Area) who will process such information in accordance with their own privacy policy. 

In addition to the uses of your personal information as described above, we may share the information we hold on you, including your personal information with regulators, sporting bodies, the police, other law enforcement bodies and any other bodies necessary in order to investigate fraud, money laundering or sports integrity issues and to comply with our regulatory duties.

Subject to Data Protection law, we may need to disclose information relating to you and/or the Games (which may include information provided by you to us) to any relevant regulatory authorities in order to comply with our regulatory obligations.

4.4 Exclusion of any other agreements 

The Dream Team Terms & Conditions and any document expressly referred to in them and any guidelines or rules posted on our Website and/or App represent the agreement between you and us in relation to the subject matter of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions.

If there is any inconsistency between the advertising/promotional copy related to any Games and the Dream Team Terms & Conditions then the Dream Team Terms & Conditions will apply. If there is any inconsistency between the General Terms & Conditions and the Game Rules then the General Terms & Conditions apply. 

If any provision of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions or any document incorporated by reference is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of such documents remain in full force and effect.

4.5 Applicable Law 

The laws of England and Wales apply to the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, although if you are resident elsewhere you will retain the benefit of any mandatory protections given to you by the laws of your country. Any disputes will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. This means that you can choose whether to bring a claim in the courts of England and Wales or in the courts in the country where you live if you live outside of England and Wales.

4.6 Trade mark and Copyright Statements

The trade marks “The Sun”, “Sun”, “Dream Team” (in relation to fantasy games), “Dream Team Season” and logos are owned by the Promoter.

Copyright in the Games, the game mechanics, scoring system, any graphics or text comprising of or used in the Games, the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, and any other Intellectual Property Rights associated with the Games are the sole property of the Promoter.

You may print off a copy of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions for your personal reference with regards to playing the Games. Except as may be necessary to play the Games in accordance with the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, no other Intellectual Property relating to the Games may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without our prior written consent.

SECTION 5: PRIZES 

5.1 Prizes 

Save as otherwise stated, there are no alternatives to the Prizes stated for each Game and the Prizes are not transferable and no part or parts of any Prize may be substituted for other benefits, items or additions. However, we may substitute a Prize with one of equal or greater value in the event that we are unable to award the stated Prize for any reason.

All non-cash Prizes are only available if you are registered in the United Kingdom or Ireland and your postal address for receipt of any such non-cash Prize is in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. For anywhere else in the world, we will substitute the non-cash Prize with a cash equivalent which will be sent to your bank account by electronic bank transfer. The cash equivalence shall be reasonably determined by us and shall not include any VAT or sales tax in respect of the relevant non-cash Prize.

The provision of any Prize does not imply endorsement by us of the third party prize provider or any other third parties concerned in any way with the Games. 

5.2. Prize Payments to winners

All verified winners of any cash Prizes will be paid by electronic transfer to your account once ID, age verification and any other checks as we may reasonably determine appropriate to verify your age, identity, location and to meet legal obligations, have been carried out and we have details of your account or any other account that we believe may be linked to your account.

Prizes will be awarded to you without you needing to make a claim and, subject to successful checks being carried out by us, we will do our best to verify the results within 14 days of the competition ending. We will then seek to pay the winner within 28 days of receiving your bank details.

Once payments have been sent to your account, the Promoter is unable to transfer funds to a different account.

If the attempted payment of a cash Prize to you fails for any reason (such as the transaction is not accepted by the issuing bank) then we will also attempt to contact you by the mobile number and/or email address you have provided to us when registering for the Game or updated by you subsequently, and arrange appropriate payment to you.

We may suspend the award of any Prizes in the event of the occurrence of an event outside our control which might include: network failures, malfunctions to our systems, war, terrorist activity, riots, malicious damage, fire, flood, storm, nuclear accident or compliance with any new law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction. We will award you any Prizes due to you as soon as the relevant event outside our control allows us to do so.

If we are unable to contact you for any reason within 28 days of the winner being determined, the Promoter reserves the right to forfeit your Prize. 

If any winner is later found to be ineligible to win any Prize for any reason, then the winner must return the Prize back to the Promoter within 28 days of its request. If the Promoter has not yet paid cash Prize or awarded a non-cash Prize, then it will be forfeited and no Prizes will be awarded to the ineligible entrant under any circumstances. 

All cash amounts will be paid in British Pounds Sterling. If your bank account is in a different currency, (e.g. Euros) the cash Prize amount may differ to the amount stated due to the then current conversion rate offered by your bank and may be subject to conversion fees (these are both outside of the control of the Promoter and the Promoter cannot be held responsible for any discrepancies or fees).

5.3 Winners’ Details

The Promoter proposes to make available a list of winners, subject to any objections from the relevant individuals. For a copy of the list, please send a stamped self-addressed envelope by no later than 28 days after the end of the Game to the Sun Fantasy Games Dept, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, United Kingdom, marked ‘Dream Team 2023/24 Winners’.

If a winner objects to this information being made available, they should inform the Promoter at the earliest opportunity using [email protected]

Winners acknowledge that the Promoter may still be required to share their details with the Advertising Standards Authority or other regulators.

SECTION 6: GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS

In the Dream Team Terms & Conditions the following words and expressions will have the following meanings: 

ACCOUNT means the account held by you with us which may be used to access the Services.

APP means The Sun’s official Dream Team iOS and/or Android mobile application(s).

DREAM TEAM FANTASY GAME means the free-to-play Dream Team fantasy football game.

DREAM TEAM HUB means the main page on the Website or App where you can access the Dream Team Fantasy Game and additional games, such as Score Predictor and Higher or Lower?. 

DREAM TEAM TERMS & CONDITIONS means the General Terms & Conditions together with the Game Rules, the Loyalty Programme Terms and the Privacy Policy. 

GAME YEAR means the period from 17 July 2023 to and including 15 July 2024 encompassing all relevant domestic, European and international fixtures (as specified in the relevant Game Rules) during that period .  

GAME means each game available via the Dream Team Hub, including: (a) the Dream Team Fantasy Game; (b) Score Predictor (c) Higher or  Lower?; and (d) any additional games or competitions that the Promoter may introduce subsequently to the commencement of the Season.

GAME RULES means the applicable rules for each Game, as set out here.

HIGHER OR LOWER? means the Game of the same name accessed through the Dream Team Hub.

PRIZE means any prize (including, without limitation, cash prizes of varying amounts) awarded or to be awarded to a winner of a Game.

PROMOTER means News Group Newspapers Limited (company number 00679215), whose registered office is at 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, United Kingdom.

SCORE PREDICTOR means the Score Predictor game accessed through the Dream Team Hub.  

SERVICES means the Games, Website, App and related services and/or advertising.

WE, OUR or US means the Promoter.

WEBSITE means .

YOU or YOUR means you.

EXCLUDED JURISDICTIONS 

Please note, if you are located or resident in any of the countries listed below, you are not permitted to register for an Account or play the Games.

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Belarus
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Brunei
  • Burma/Myanmar
  • Cambodia
  • Central African Republic
  • China
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Donetsk, Crimea and Luhansk regions of Ukraine
  • Ethiopia
  • Guinea/Republic of Guinea-Bissau
  • Haiti
  • Hong Kong
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq 
  • Israel 
  • Kosovo
  • Lebanon
  • Libya
  • Malaysia
  • Mali
  • Moldova
  • Montenegro
  • Nicaragua
  • North Korea
  • Qatar
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • Singapore
  • Slovenia
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan/Darfur
  • Syria
  • The Republic of Burundi
  • The Republic of North Macedonia
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Venezuela
  • Yemen
  • Zimbabwe

In addition to the list above, you must not register for an Account or play any Games if you are a resident of or located in a country where to do so would be unlawful.  

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