These are the basic rules and legal stuff that go with using the site. It isn’t supposed to be complicated stuff so if you have any questions about it or you are unsure of something then please contact us with your enquiry.
(1) AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD
The Universal Affiliated Ltd website (known as UniversalPoker.com) is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions and notices contained herein. Your use of the Universal Affiliates Ltd website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices.
(2) MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE
Universal Affiliates Ltd reserves the right to change the terms, conditions and notices under which the Universal Affiliates Ltd website is offered at any time without notice. These updates will take effect as soon as they are posted here. It is your responsibility to check back regularly for any changes. Please note that the rates of rakeback for which you qualify are determined by the Poker Rooms with whom we work. If for any reason the Poker Room decides to reduce this rate at a later date for any reason, it is not a decision that we can affect. Providing we are informed of such change as well, we will endeavour to give you notice as soon as we can. It is your responsibility when signing up to a poker room to make sure that you adhere to the terms and conditions of that room, and are not contravening any rules/laws that the poker room or the territory/state/country (in which you are resident) have governing an account such as age or legality to wager on line. If for whatever reason a poker room offering rakeback defaults on its agreement to pay rakeback to you, Universal Affiliates Ltd shall not be liable for any outstanding rakeback monies (including any outstanding monies or prizes for previous or current promotions, including but not limited to rake races, chases and cash/prize freerolls) owed to any player by that room.
(3) CHARGEBACKS AND PAYMENTS
All Poker rooms have the right to withhold rakeback payments in the event they believe that there is reason to believe that a player is using their poker account for fraudulent purposes. In this event they can refuse to release commission to Universal Affiliates Ltd. Whilst these occurrences are few and far between, they are nonetheless possible and such player may be required by the room to pay such amounts withheld. Universal Affiliates Ltd depends on reports from the poker rooms to display the amount of rake generated and rakeback earned by players. The gross/rake numbers we receive from the poker rooms at the month end are subject to change at any time on account of extra/missing data, fraud and chargebacks. Poker software systems such as Poker Tracker and Poker Office do NOT provide accurate data. See FAQs for more information on this. The month end reports that we get from the poker rooms are final and Universal Affiliates Ltd are unable to enter into any discussion with any poker room on this issue as this would breach the poker room’s player confidentiality rules. If you feel that the amount of rake you have generated in any given month is wrong, you will need to consult directly with the poker room before talking to Universal Affiliates Ltd In order for a player to receive payments, Universal Affiliates Ltd need to access online reports from the Poker Rooms they are affiliated with. These reports in the various forms show some, or a combination, of the following information: Player Name, player email, Player ID Number, Number of raked hands played, Rake generated in a given month, Overall Rake generated. By signing up through Universal Affiliates Ltd with any poker room for rakeback or VIP program, you are granting us permission to view these reports and are also granting permission for the respective poker room to allow us access to see said reports and the information contained therein.
(4) SPECIFIC POKER ROOM INFORMATION
All rakeback payments are calculated upon net rake. On occasion this is done once player retention bonuses, any other site give-aways and transaction charges have been deducted by the Poker Rooms. Some rooms do not deduct bonuses. At some rooms negative net rakes at the end of a month are carried forward by Universal Affiliates Ltd to the next month regardless of whether the associated poker room resets negative balances for Universal Affiliates Ltd to zero. This is because Universal Affiliates Ltd net rake for a poker room is calculated as a total of all players belonging to that room. Therefore, a net negative rake player will offset a player with a positive rake and whilst the positive rake player qualifies for rakeback, Universal Affiliates Ltd is not allocated a corresponding commission from the poker room because of the other player’s negative contribution. Therefore, negative rake must be carried forward to make up for the losses incurred by Universal Affiliates Ltd. Players registered to more than one account through Universal Affiliates Ltd will have their net rakes combined and if possible, negative balances will be offset against positive ones and any referral fees or rake race/chase winnings. If a player signs up for poker rakeback and also chooses to play at that Poker room’s casino (if it has one) they will not be entitled to cashback on any losses, they occur at the casino. A player who signs up through a Universal Affiliates Ltd poker link will only be entitled to rakeback on poker providing the room they have chosen caters for it. Some poker rooms offset a player’s casino play against their rake generation. If this is the case casino winnings are offset against poker rake generated and so a player may find that they receive reduced or no rakeback at all in a given month Universal Affiliates Ltd shall not be liable for any change of rakeback program or loyalty scheme by a poker room which results in any loss of income for any player regardless of whether or not the player was adequately informed of said change by either the room or Universal Affiliates. It is always the player’s responsibility to check the precise terms of the loyalty/rakeback program with the poker room should they suspect any change in said program.
All Rooms – By signing up through Universal Affiliates Ltd you accept that your rake and other data such as points/hands played will be provided to us by the poker room/casinos with whom we are affiliated. You also accept that we will on occasion, for the purpose of races, freerolls and other leader boards display this data publicly. As per GDPR guidelines we will never display or disclose to a third party any other personal data specific to you of your account.
(5) REFERRAL AND AFFILIATE MARKETING
You may use Marketing Materials for the sole purpose of marketing to and referring potential players through Universal Affiliates Ltd to Poker Rooms. You will only use marketing materials that have been provided by us and/or pre-approved by us (collectively the “Marketing Materials”). You will not modify Universal Affiliates Ltd marketing materials without our prior written consent.
All marketing activities must be professional, proper and lawful under applicable rules or laws. You represent and warrant that you will not place banners or text links to Universal Affiliates Ltd on any website, or use any media or medium, that is libellous, discriminatory, obscene, unlawful or otherwise unsuitable or which contains sexually explicit, pornographic, obscene or graphically violent materials.
You will not actively target your marketing to any persons who are less than 18 years of age (or such higher age as may apply in the jurisdiction that you are targeting), regardless of the age of majority in the location you are marketing.
You will not use Spam, Adware or Spyware in your marketing attempts. This includes but it is not limited to, talking about rakeback in the chat at online tables
Under no circumstance are you allowed to use the Marketing Materials or any other promotional materials provided by us in a manner that may potentially confuse a potential player or third party.
Violation of any provision set out above will cause you to forfeit all outstanding monies, including any rakeback earned, referral fees and any outstanding prizes. This may extend across all poker rooms and networks covered by Universal Affiliates Ltd.
monies, we reserve the right to reverse the referral credits on the referrer’s account (for the relevant months) until such time that the funds are received from the poker room (at which point they shall be re-credited). Universal Affiliates Ltd shall not be liable for any referral monies owed to any referrer for any referral activity if no commission for that same referred activity is ever received by Universal Affiliates Ltd from the room(s) in question.
For APL UK Accounting purposes, all referral monies that are outstanding (i.e. no payment method was selected by the referrer, or the minimum payment threshold was not met) for more than 12 months will be forfeited.
(6) LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
The Universal Affiliates Ltd website may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Universal Affiliates Ltd and Universal Affiliates Ltd is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Universal Affiliates is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site Universal Affiliates is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Universal Affiliates of the site or any association with its operators.
(7) NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of the Universal Affiliates Ltd website, you warrant to Universal Affiliates Ltd that you will not use the Universal Affiliates Ltd website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Universal Affiliates Ltd website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Universal Affiliates Ltd website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Universal Affiliates website Ltd. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Universal Affiliates Ltd website.
(8) LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE AT ANYTIME. ADVICE RECEIVED VIA THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PERSONAL, MEDICAL, LEGAL OR FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE TAILORED TO YOUR SITUATION. IT IS YOUR DUTY TO CHECK BACK REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES IN THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. THIS VERSION MODIFIES, REPLACES AND SUPERSEDES ALL PRIOR VERSIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE UNIVERSAL AFFILIATES LTD WEBSITE.
(9) COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICES
All contents of the UniversalPoker.com website are: Copyright 2018 Universal Affiliates. com and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved.
(10) TRADEMARKS
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The example companies, organizations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
(11) GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales as are in force from time to time including, without limitation, the Electronic Communications Act, 2000 (C.7). By accepting this Agreement, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the location that we determine in our sole discretion in respect of any disputes arising out of, or connected with, this Agreement. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent us from applying to the courts of any jurisdiction for such provisional or protective measures as are available under the laws of that jurisdiction.
Universal Affiliates Ltd (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the website (the “Service”).
Data protection is taken very seriously by Universal Affiliates Ltd. The processing of personal data is necessary for the Service to function. We therefore request consent from the data subject during the registration process.
The processing of personal data shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country specific data protection regulations applicable.
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from here
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User’s device.
Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.
The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.
Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
Full Name Of Legal Identity: Universal Affiliated Ltd
Email Address: [email protected]
Postal Address: Sutherland House, 1759 London Road, Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, SS9 2RZ
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier and poker room identifier.
Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address and email address.
Financial Data includes bank account and other payment service providers for payment.
Technical And Usage Data We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Marketing And Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
You may give us your Identity, Contact, or Financial Data by filling in forms (for example, application forms and contact us forms on our website) or by corresponding with us by post, email or otherwise.
By giving us your data through these methods, you agree that Universal Affiliated Ltd can contact you about relevant information pertaining to being a member of Universal Affiliated Ltd.
Universal Affiliated Ltd will NEVER sell or share your contact details with external parties.
As you interact with our Service, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
In order to facilitate our services, we may receive and share personal data about you from various essential third parties as set out below:
Technical, Transactional and Contact Data from the following parties:
Universal Affiliates Ltd uses the collected data for various purposes:
You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link in emails or by managing your communication preferences in your account settings.
Universal Affiliates Ltd will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Universal Affiliates Ltd will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer Of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United Kingdom and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Universal Affiliates Ltd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Under certain circumstances, Universal Affiliates Ltd may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Universal Affiliates Ltd may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
The security of your data is very important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Universal Affiliates Ltd aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
Whenever made possible, you can update your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to change your Personal Data, please contact us to make the required changes.
In certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
To exercise your rights as detailed above, please contact us at [email protected]
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Google Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Our Service may contain links to other Services that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s Service. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every Service you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party Services or services.
Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your children have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time so please check back regularly. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Our website address is: https://www.universalpoker.com part of the Universal Affiliates Ltd.