Terms & Conditions

Your use of product and/or services (hereinafter referred to as "Services) offered by 'Fanadda' and/or its partners, subsidiaries, affiliates and associates (hereinafter referred to as "Fanadaa " or "We" or "Us" or "Our") through the website / app - www.fanadaa.com (hereinafter referred to as "Website / app") is subject to the following terms of service (hereinafter referred to as "Terms") Any/every user is required to read all the terms carefully before using our services. All the terms are binding on all the users, who can avail our services only when they are complying to the terms at all times. Users are also required or considered to be fully aware of all the updated or modified or published terms. In an event where one or more of our terms are determined to be invalid, unlawful for any reason by a judicial or quasi-judicial body in India, the validity or enforceability of our remaining terms will not be affected as they will stay valid and binding on all users.

Any user who doesn't accept our terms of services can or should stop the use of any feature of our website / app.

1. Applicability:

BEFORE REGISTERING WITH US, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ AND REVIEW THE TERMS PROVIDED ON Fanadaa SITE WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO ALL SERVICES ON THE WEBSITE / APP AND ALSO THE PRODUCT-SPECIFIC CONDITIONS AND RULES APPLICABLE TO SPECIFIC OFFERINGS.

2. Eligibility:

A person who is 18 or more years of age is eligible to use our services, however, if a person violates age restrictions, it's his/her sole responsibility to bear the legal actions that might follow.

User is required to understand that our services are available only in India. We don't offer our services in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana in India. We have the privilege to control the access to our services at all times, in all States in India. These terms of use shall be suitably modified to reflect changes in law/regulation/rule in any of the states in India and the user shall be notified of the same in the event of such change.

3. Legality of Game of Skill:

Games of skill are legal, as they are excluded from the ambit of Indian gambling legislations including, the Public Gambling Act of 1867.The Indian Supreme Court in the cases of State of Andhra Pradesh v. K Satyanarayana (AIR 1968 SC 825) and KR Lakshmanan v. State of Tamil Nadu (AIR 1996 SC 1153) has held that a game in which success depends predominantly upon the superior knowledge, training, attention, experience and adroitness of the player shall be classified as a game of skill.

The Contest (s) described above (across the Fanadaa Services) are games of skill as success of Participants depends primarily on their superior knowledge of the games of cricket and/or football and/or basketball and/or hockey and/or kabaddi statistics, knowledge of players' relative form, players' performance in a particular territory, conditions and/or format (such as ODIs, test cricket and Twenty20 in the cricket fantasy game), attention and dedication towards the Contest(s) and adroitness in playing the Contest(s). The Contest(s) also requires Participants to field well-balanced sides with limited resources and make substitutions at appropriate times to gain the maximum points.

By participating in this Contest(s), each Participant acknowledges and agrees that he/she is participating in a game of skill.

4. Game Services:

All tournaments, promotional games, practice games and cash games organized on the Website / app are collectively referred as "Games". The rules applicable to each type of Game are provided on the Website / app.

"Cash Game(s)" are Games that require the participant to have a certain minimum cash balance in their user account to participate. All other Games offered on the Website / app are defined as Non-Cash Game(s).

Fanadaa charges service charges for Cash Games, which may vary depending on the nature of the Cash Game and are subject to change from time to time. Non-Cash Games are offered free on the Website / app, but may be subject to entry restrictions in some cases. Service charges charged by Fanadaa are inclusive of all applicable taxes, including Goods & Services Tax.

5. User Representations:

Any information provided by you to us, whether at the stage of registration or during anytime subsequently, should be complete and truthful.

Prior to adding cash to your user account or participating in Cash Games, you shall be responsible to satisfy yourself about the legality of playing Cash Games in the jurisdiction from where you are accessing Cash Games. If you are not legally competent to individually enter into Indian Rupee transactions through banking channels in India and/or are not accessing the Website / app from a permitted jurisdiction, you are prohibited from participating in Cash Games on the website / app. In the event of such violation, your participation in Cash Games will be deemed to be in breach of the Terms and you will not be entitled to receive any prize that you might win in such Cash Games.

You represent that you are 18 years of age or older to participate in any Cash Games and are also otherwise competent to enter into transactions with other users and Fanadaa. You are aware that participation in the Games organized by us ("Activity") may result in financial loss to you. With full knowledge of the facts and circumstances surrounding this Activity, you are voluntarily participating in the Activity and assume all responsibility for and risk resulting from your participation, including all risk of financial loss. You agree to indemnify and hold Fanadaa, its employees, directors, officers, and agents harmless with respect to any and all claims and costs associated with your participation in the Activity.

You represent that you have the experience and the requisite skills required to participate in the Activity and that you are not aware of any physical or mental condition that would impair your capability to fully participate in the Activity. You further acknowledge that you are solely responsible for any consequence resulting from your participating in this Activity or being associated with this Activity or around this Activity. You understand that Fanadaa assumes no liability or responsibility for any financial loss that you may sustain as a result of participation in the Activity.

You understand and accept that your participation in a Game available on the Website / app does not create any obligation on us to give you a prize. Your winning a prize is entirely dependent on your skill as a player vis-a-vis other player in the Game and subject to the rules of the Game.

You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for all content posted, transmitted, uploaded or otherwise made available on the Website / app by you. All content posted by you must be legally owned by or licensed to you. By publishing any content on the Website / app, you agree to grant us a royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive, perpetual and assignable right to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, edit, translate, create derivative works from, transmit, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform your content and to use such content in any related marketing materials produced by us or our affiliates. Such content may include, without limitation, your name, username, location, messages, gender or pictures. You also understand that you do not obtain any rights, legal or equitable, in any material incorporating your content. You further agree and acknowledge that Fanadaa has the right to use in any manner whatsoever, all communication or feedback provided by you.

You understand that the funds in your user account held by Fanadaa do not carry any interest or return. You shall not hold Fanadaa responsible for not being able to play any Game for which you may be eligible to participate. This includes, but is not limited to situations where you are unable to log into your user account as your user account may be pending validation or you may be in suspected or established violation of any of the Terms.

You understand and accept that by viewing or using the Website / app or availing of any Services, or using communication features on the Website / app, you may be exposed to content posted by other users which you may find offensive, objectionable or indecent. You may bring such content posted by other users to our notice that you may find offensive, objectionable or indecent and we reserve the right to act upon it as we may deem fit. The decision taken by us on this regard shall be final and binding on you.

6. User Account Creation and Operation:

To use our Services, you will need to register with us on the Website / app.

By completing the online registration process on the Website / app, you confirm your acceptance of the Terms. By registering on Fanadaa, you agree to receive promotional messages relating to Tournaments & Bonus through SMS, Email and Push Notifications. You may withdraw your consent by sending an email to support@fanadaa.com

During the registration process, you will be required to choose a login name and a password in addition to providing some other information which may not be mandatory. Additionally, you may be required to give further personal information for your user account verification and/or for adding cash to your user account. You must give us the correct details in all fields requiring your personal information, including, without limitation, your name, postal address, email address, telephone number(s) etc. You undertake that you will update this information and keep it current.

You acknowledge that we may, at any time, require you to verify the correctness of this information and in order to do so may require additional documentary proof from you, failing which we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your registration on the Website / app.

Any information provided by you to us should be complete and truthful to the best of your knowledge. We are not obliged to cross check or verify information provided by you and we will not take any responsibility for any outcome or consequence as a result of you providing incorrect information or concealing any relevant information from us.

You understand that it is your responsibility to protect the information you provide on the Website / app including but not limited to your Username, Password, Email address, Contact Details and Mobile number. Fanadaa will not ask for your user account login password which is only to be entered at the time of login. At no other time should you provide your user account information to any user logged in on the Website / app or elsewhere. You undertake that you will not allow / login and then allow, any other person to play from your user account using your username. You specifically understand and agree that we will not incur any liability for information provided by you to anyone which may result in your user account on the Website / app being exposed or misused by any other person.

You agree to use your Fanadaa user account solely for the purpose of playing on the Website / app and for transactions which you may have to carry out in connection with availing the Services on the Website / app. Use or attempted use of your user account for any reason other than what is stated in the Terms may result in immediate termination of your user account and forfeiture of any prize, bonus or balance in the user account.

You also understand and agree that deposits in your user account maintained with us are purely for the purpose of participation in Cash Games made available on the Website / app.

You understand and agree that you cannot transfer any sum from your user account with us to the account of another registered user on the Website / app except as may be permitted by Fanadaa and subject to restrictions and conditions as may be prescribed.

We are legally obliged to deduct tax at source (TDS) on winnings of more than Rs. 10,000/- in a single tournament, or a single game, as the case may be. In these cases, you will be required to furnish your Permanent Account Number (PAN) duly issued to you by the Income Tax authorities if you have not already done so. TDS at the rate of 30% will automatically be deducted from such winnings and the rest will be credited to your Fanadaa user account. Withdrawal of these winnings will only be permitted upon your providing your correct PAN details. These limits and rates are subject to change as per the prevailing rules and regulations. Fanadaa's obligation is this regard is limited to deducting TDS as required by law and providing you an appropriate certificate of tax deduction. We neither advise you nor shall in any manner be responsible for your individual tax matters.

We reserve the right to verify your PAN from time to time and to cancel any prize should your PAN be found inconsistent in our verification process.

Once you have completed the registration process, it would mean that our terms have been accepted by you and that they will be binding on you across all our services. Read Privacy policy for more information.

7. User account validation and personal information verification:

Fanadaa may from time to time attempt to validate its players' user accounts. These attempts may be made via a phone call or via email. In the event that we are not able to get in touch with you the first time around, we will make additional attempts to establish contact with you. If the phone number and email provided by you is not correct, we bear no responsibility for the Services being interrupted due to our being unable to establish contact with you.

If we are unable to reach you or if the validation is unsuccessful, we reserve the right to disallow you from logging into the Website / app or reduce your play limits and/or Add Cash limits until we are able to satisfactorily validate your user account. We will in such events email you to notify you of the next steps regarding user account validation. We may also ask you for proof of identification and proof of address from time to time.

Upon receipt of suitable documents, we will try our best to enable your user account at the earliest. However, it may take a few business days to reinstate your user account.

In the event that we have made several attempts to reach out to you but have been unable to do so, we also reserve the right to permanently suspend your user account and refund the amount, if any, in your user account to the financial instrument through which the payment was made to your user account or by cheque to the address provided by you. In the event the address provided by you is incorrect, Fanadaa will not make any additional attempts for delivery of the cheque unless a correct address is provided by you and charges for redelivery as prescribed by Fanadaa are paid by you.

The Privacy Policy of our Website / app forms a part of the Terms. All personal information which is of such nature that requires protection from unauthorized dissemination shall be dealt with in the manner provided in the Privacy Policy of the Website / app.

8. User Restrictions:

Anti-Cheating and Anti-Collusion:

You undertake that you yourself will play in all Games in which you have registered/joined and not use any form of external assistance to play. You shall not add unauthorized components, create or use cheats, exploits, bots, hacks or any other third-party software designed to modify the Website / app or use any third-party software that intercepts, mines or otherwise collects information from or through the Website / app or through any Services. Any attempt to employ any such external assistance is strictly prohibited.

Formation of teams and collusion between you and any other user(s) for participating in Games organized on the Website / app or any other form of cheating is strictly prohibited.

Money Laundering:You are prohibited from doing any activity on the Website / app that may be construed as money laundering, including, without limitation, attempting to withdraw cash from unutilized cash added through credit cards or deliberately losing money to a certain player(s).

Anti-SPAMMING: Sending SPAM emails or any other form of unsolicited communication for obtaining registrations on the Website / app to benefit from any promotional program of Fanadaa or for any other purpose is strictly prohibited.

Multiple IDs: Your registration on the Website / app is restricted to a single user account which will be used by you to avail of the Services provided on the Website / app. You are prohibited from creating or using multiple user IDs for registering on the Website / app.

You may not create a login name or password or upload, distribute, transmit, publish or post content through or on the Website / app or through any service or facility including any messaging facility provided by the Website / app which :

is libellous, defamatory, obscene, intimidating, invasive of privacy, abusive, illegal, harassing;

contains expressions of hatred, hurting religious sentiments, racial discrimination or pornography;

is otherwise objectionable or undesirable (whether or not unlawful);

would constitute incitement to commit a criminal offence;

violates the rights of any person;

is aimed at soliciting donations or other form of help;

violates the intellectual property of any person;

disparage in any manner Fanadaa or any of its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, associates, partners, sponsors, products, services, or website / apps;

promotes a competing service or product; or

violates any laws.

In the event we determine that the login name created by you is indecent, objectionable, offensive or otherwise undesirable, we shall notify you of the same and you shall promptly provide us with an alternate login name so that we can change your existing login name to the new name provided by you. If you fail to provide an alternate name, we reserve the right to either permanently suspend your user account or restore your user account only after a different acceptable login name has been provided by you.

You shall not host, intercept, emulate or redirect proprietary communication protocols, used by the Website / app, if any, regardless of the method used, including protocol emulation, reverse engineering or modification of the Website / app or any files that are part of the Website / app.

You shall not frame the Website / app. You may not impose editorial comments, commercial material or any information on the Website / app, alter or modify Content on the Website / app, or remove, obliterate or obstruct any proprietary notices or labels.

You shall not use Services on the Website / app for commercial purposes including but not limited to use in a cyber cafe as a computer gaming centre, network play over the Internet or through gaming networks or connection to an unauthorized server that copies the gaming experience on the Website / app.

You shall not upload, distribute or publish through the Website / app, any content which may contain viruses or computer contaminants (as defined in the Information Technology Act 2000 or such other laws in force in India at the relevant time) which may interrupt, destroy, limit the functionality or disrupt any software, hardware or other equipment belonging to us or that aids in providing the services offered by Fanadaa. You shall not disseminate or upload viruses, programs, or software whether it is harmful to the Website / app or not. Additionally, you shall not impersonate another person or user, attempt to get a password, other user account information, or other private information from a user, or harvest email addresses or other information.

You shall not purchase, sell, trade, rent, lease, license, grant a security interest in, or transfer your user account, Content, currency, points, standings, rankings, ratings, or any other attributes appearing in, originating from or associated with the Website / app.

Any form of fraudulent activity including, attempting to use or using any other person's credit card(s), debit cards, net-banking usernames, passwords, authorization codes, prepaid cash cards, mobile phones for adding cash to your user account is strictly prohibited.

Accessing or attempting to access the Services through someone else's user account is strictly prohibited. Winnings, bonuses and prizes are unique to the player and are non-transferable. In the event you attempt to transfer any winnings, bonuses or prizes, these will be forfeited.

If you are an officer, director, employee, consultant or agent of Fanadaa or a relative of such persons ("Associated Person"), you are not permitted to play either directly or indirectly, any Games which entitle you to any prize on the Website / app, other than in the course of your engagement with Fanadaa. For these purposes, the term 'relative' shall include spouse and financially dependent parents and, children.

You shall not post any material or comment, on any media available for public access, which in our sole discretion, is defamatory or detrimental to our business interests, notwithstanding the fact that such media is not owned or controlled by us. In addition to any other action that we may take pursuant to the provision hereof, we reserve the right to remove any and all material or comments posted by you and restrict your access to any media available for public access that is either controlled or moderate by us; when in our sole opinion, any such material or comments posted by you is defamatory or detrimental to our business interests.

9. Transactions & Payments:

All transactions on the Website / app shall be in Indian Rupees.

Once you register on our Website / app, we maintain a user account for you to keep a record of all your transactions with us. Payments connected with participation in Cash Games have to be made through your Fanadaa user account. All cash prizes won by you are credited by us into this user account.