Dear LUCILAMERCADO90,
We would like to inform you that the relevant department has completed the review process of your account and account winnings have been removed from your account due to the following terms of our Terms & Conditions:
2.6 Your account must be registered in your own, correct, name and personal details and it shall only be issued once for you and not duplicated through any other person, family, household, address (postal or IP), email address, Access Device or any environment where Access Devices are shared (e.g. schools, workplaces, public libraries etc), computer (or other access device), and/or account in respect of the Services. Any other accounts which you open with us, or which are beneficially owned by you in relation to the Services shall be "Duplicate Accounts". We may close any Duplicate Account (but we shall not be obliged to do so).
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g) Forfeit and/or confiscate funds available on a Sonsofslots Account and/or refuse to honour a claim, in the event that, directly or indirectly: (i) the Sonsofslots Rules have been violated; and/or (ii) other unauthorised activities have occurred in connection with a betting event and/or the operation of a Sonsofslots Account (such as, but not limited to, breach of the law or other regulations, breach of a third party’s rights, fraud, and cheating);
h) Suspend and/or cancel the participation of an Account Holder in the games, promotional activities, competitions or other services, whenever Sonsofslots is of the opinion that there are legitimate concerns that a Sonsofslots Account is, has been, or may be used for illegal, fraudulent or dishonest practices;
i) Suspend and/or cancel the participation of the Account Holder in the Services, and/or forfeit and/or confiscate funds available on their Sonsofslots Account if the Account Holder is found cheating, or if it is determined by Sonsofslots that the Account Holder has employed or made use of a system (including machines, robots, computers, software or any other automated system) designed to defeat or capable of defeating the Client Application and/or Software.
11.1. The following practices in relation to the Services:
a) abuse of bonuses or other promotions (as defined in paragraph 11.4)
b) using unfair external factors or influences (commonly known as cheating)
c) taking unfair advantage (as defined in paragraph 11.4);
d) opening any Duplicate Accounts; and/or
e) undertaking fraudulent practice or criminal activity (as defined in paragraph 11.4), constitute "Prohibited Practices" and are not permitted. We will take all reasonable steps to prevent and detect such practices and to identify the relevant players concerned if they do occur.
11.2. You agree that you shall not participate in or be connected with any form of Prohibited Practice in connection with your access to or use of the Services.
11.3. If:
a) We have reasonable grounds to believe that you have participated in or have been connected with any form of Prohibited Practice (and the basis of our belief shall include the use by us of any fraud, cheating and collusion detection practices which are used in the gambling and gaming industry at the relevant time); or
b) You have placed bets and/or played online games with any other online provider of gambling services and are suspected (as a result of such play) of any Prohibited Practice or otherwise improper activity; or
c) We become aware that you have "charged back" or denied any of the purchases or deposits that you made to your account; or
d) You become bankrupt or suffer analogous proceedings anywhere in the world,
then, (including in connection with any suspension and/or termination of your account) we shall have the right, in respect of your account to withhold the whole or part of the balance and/or recover from the account the amount of any deposits, pay-outs, bonuses or winnings which have been affected by or are in any way attributable to any of the event(s) outlined in this paragraph.
11.4. For the purposes of this paragraph 11:
a) A "fraudulent practice" means any fraudulent activity engaged in by you or by any person acting on your behalf or in collusion with you, and shall include, without limitation:
fraudulent charge-backs and rake-back activity;
the use by you or any other person who was participating in the same game as you at any time, of a stolen, cloned or otherwise unauthorized credit or debit card, as a source of funds;
the collusion by you with others in order to gain an unfair advantage (including through bonus schemes or similar incentives offered by us);
any attempt to register false or misleading account information;
any actual or attempted act by you which is reasonably deemed by us to be illegal in any applicable jurisdiction, made in bad faith, or intended to defraud us and/or circumvent any contractual or legal restrictions, regardless of whether such act or attempted act actually causes us any damage or harm;
b) An "unfair advantage" shall include, without limitation:
the exploitation of a fault, loophole or error in our or any third party's software used by you in connection with the Services (including in respect of any game);
the use of automated players ('bots'), or other 3rd party software or analysis systems; or
the exploitation by you, of an 'Error' as defined in paragraph 18, in any case either to your advantage and/or to the disadvantage of us or other.
c) Bonus Abuse includes, but is not limited to:
i. breach of terms and conditions of a bonus, free bets or any other promotional offer
ii. the opening of multiple accounts to claim multiple bonuses;
iii. all bonuses are subject to bonus use limitation based on the bonus engine, and, unless stated otherwise, they shouldn't be used more that 6 times per calendar month; if for any reason a bonus code is used by an individual player over the stated amount, the Company reserves the right to further investigate bonus abusing pattern and deduct bonus winnings plus all 3rd-party charges arising from player's activity (payment fees, providers fees, etc)
Where there is a reasonable suspicion that the Account Holder has committed or attempted to commit a bonus abuse, either on their own or as part of a group, company reserves the right to:
i. forfeit the bonus allocated to the Account Holder and any winnings from that bonus, and/or
ii. revoke, deny, or withdraw a bonus offer from the Account Holder, and/or
iii. block an access to particular products, and/or
iv. exclude the Account Holder from any future promotional offers, and/or
v. terminate the Account Holder’s account with immediate effect.
12.10 Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to void any winnings and forfeit any balance (winnings and deposits) in your betting account, to terminate the Agreement and/or to suspend the provision of the Services or deactivate your account if:
i) we identify you have disguised, or interfered, or taken steps to disguise or interfere, in any way with the IP address of any Device used to access our Site (such as using a Virtual Private Network “VPN”)
ii) it comes to our attention that the customer used forged documents (photos, scanned documents, screenshots etc.) during the verification procedure or in any point time the Agreement is active
iii) there is a reasonable suspicion that you have committed or attempted to commit a bonus abuse, either on your own or as part of a group
iv) you are involved in any fraudulent, collusive, fixing or other unlawful activity in relation to Your or third parties’ participation or you use any software-assisted methods or techniques or hardware devices for Your participation in any of the services provided by the Company.
43.3 Sonsofslots does not recommend two or more Users placing bets from one IP-address (from the same computer or the same local area network) in order to avoid suspicion of collusion (cheating). In such cases it is necessary to reconcile the possibility of the game with Sonsofslots by explaining the circumstances. Sonsofslots has the right to block the account of such a User and ask them to send the documents verifying their registered identity.
