TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

Whereas;   Simulated Online Racing Series or SORS is a registered Limited Liability Company Located and residing in the State of North Carolina, and as such is bound by the laws and regulations that govern limited liability companies, pursuant to ~57C-2-20 of the General Statutes of North Carolina.

Whereas; any person whom creates an account and becomes a member of SORS LLC will be considered the under-signed herein by this document and will hereby agree to submit to the laws of the State of North Carolina so far as it pertains to SORS LLC in all that encompasses the following:  website, racing venues, forums, emails, news letters and news pages, paint schemes, sponsors, payment methods, purchase methods, financing and account management.   Furthermore the undersigned will agree to accept the following terms and conditions as written below without exception.

Welcome to Simulated Online Racing Series (SORS) available at http://www.sorsracing.net (the “Site”). Please review the following basic rules that govern your participation in races available via the Site and your overall use of the Site.

1. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms and Conditions will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
North Carolina, irrespective of any principles of conflicts of law. By registering for an account and/or participating in any races offered on the Site, you agree that any dispute that cannot be resolved between you and SORS shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action. You further agree that any legal action arising from any dispute between you and SORS shall proceed only in the state or federal courts located in the State of North Carolina, and you hereby submit to personal jurisdiction and venue in such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. Because SORS is a venue, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more participants in a race regarding a matter that SORS does not assume express legal responsibility for under these Terms and Conditions, you (a) acknowledge and agree that you shall look solely to the participants with whom you have a dispute to resolve any claims, demands or damages relating to any such dispute and (b) hereby release and agree to release SORS (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

2. Binding Nature of Terms and Conditions
You are responsible for reviewing these Terms and Conditions periodically for any modifications. If any portion of these Terms and Conditions is deemed void or unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. The failure of SORS to enforce any right or provision in these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by SORS in writing. These Terms and Conditions comprises the entire agreement between you and SORS and supersede all prior or contemporaneous negotiations, discussions or agreements, if any, between the parties regarding the subject matter contained herein. These Terms and Conditions are personal to you and you may not assign these Terms and Conditions to anyone without the express written permission of SORS.

3. Eligibility
To open an account and/or participate in any of the races offered on the Site, you must :

a) be a natural person, at least 18 years old, who is assigned to the email address submitted on your account registration form;

b) be a citizen or resident with an address in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, or the USA.

c) be physically residing within Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, or the USA.

d) and for
U.S. residents, be physically residing in a U.S. state in which participation in the races offered on the Site is unrestricted by law.

In the
United States, the rules governing sweepstakes, contests, and races with entry fees and/or prizes are set up by each individual state, not by the federal government. Based on current laws of each state, the Site cannot offer fee-based races with prizes to residents of the following states: Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, and Vermont. If you elect to participate in a fee-based race with prizes, you represent and warrant to SORS that you do not reside in any such state.

4. Legality and Taxes
You are subject to all laws of the state in which you reside and from which you access the Site and are solely responsible for obeying those laws. You agree that SORS cannot and shall not be held liable if laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit your participation. SORS makes no representations or warranties, implicit or explicit, as to your legal right to participate in any races offered on the Site nor shall any person affiliated, or claiming affiliation, with SORS or the Site have authority to make any such representations or warranties.

SORS reserves the right to monitor the location from which you access the Site and to block access from any jurisdiction other than the
U.S., or any jurisdiction in which participation is illegal or restricted. SORS may require any participant receiving any prize to provide SORS with proof that he or she is eligible to participate according to Section 3 above.

It is the policy of SORS, in compliance with United States Internal Revenue Service regulations, to send a Form 1099 to any person who wins in excess of $600 (USD) on the Site in any given year. However, you remain solely responsible for paying all federal and other taxes applicable to any prize you may win via the Site in accordance with the laws that apply in your state, province, and/or country of residence.

If your total winnings on the Site in any given year reach $600, SORS will request that you submit your social security number in order to send you a Form 1099, as required by Internal Revenue Service regulations. Failure to provide your social security number at that time will result in SORS’s inability to credit your account for any winnings in excess of $600.

5. Privacy Policy
SORS will not use any personally identifying information about you (including information submitted on the application form, your social security number, your e-mail address, information obtained via the Site from cookies, and information regarding your IP address). SORS reserves the right to collect general demographic and other market information that does not personally identify you to any person without additional consent. You acknowledge and agree that your alias shall not be deemed personally identifiable information subject to this privacy policy.

6. Limitations on Participation
You may establish only one membership account per person to participate in the activities offered on the Site. SORS reserves the right to monitor any effort to establish multiple accounts; in the event SORS discovers that you have opened more than one membership account per person, all additional accounts will be closed without notice and continued violation will result in the termination of any and all of your accounts and forfeiture of any prizes to which you are otherwise entitled.

 7. Odds and Prizes
The results of all races offered on the Site depend on the number and skill level of the drivers participating in such races; precise odds of winning are therefore unavailable. Prizes will be in cash in the amounts designated by SORS for a particular race, which are deposited directly into winners' paypal accounts immediately following the completion of the race and SORS’s verification of a winner. The actual prize(s) available for each race on the Site shall be described in the particular page on which you can initially gain access to information on a particular race.

8. Winners Lists
Lists of winners (identifiable by their alias names) will be posted on the Site immediately following each race. The results and winners of each race offered on the Site will be determined by the Site. By registering and/or participating in any race, you agree to be bound by these determinations.

9. General Disclaimer
By registering for an account and/or participating in any race offered on the Site, you agree that SORS is not responsible for any damage, loss, or injury resulting from use, access, or attempted use or access of the Site. You further agree that SORS is not liable for any damage, loss, or injury caused by downloading any information from the Site. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree that SORS is not liable for any damage to your personal computer, any damage, loss, or corruption of data. IN NO EVENT WILL SORS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN RELATION TO THE SITE, THE RACES AVAILABLE VIA THE SITE, PRIZES OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLES, WHETHER OR NOT SORS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

10. No Warranty
THE SITE AND RACES AVAILABLE VIA THE SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, AND SORS DOES NOT WARRANT THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SITE AND/OR THE RACES, OR THAT THE SITE AND/OR THE RACES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES SORS MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE. SORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESSED, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. No information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from SORS or through the Site, and/or a race available via the Site shall create any warranty not expressly made herein. NO PERSON AFFILIATED, OR CLAIMING AFFILIATION, WITH THE SITE HAS AUTHORITY TO EXTEND SUCH WARRANTIES.

11. Payments
You are solely responsible for depositing or otherwise making funds payable to SORS for the SORS License see and each fee-based race you desire to participate in via the payment methods authorized on the Site by SORS. All such fees shall be due and payable before the beginning of each fee-based event, except as expressly stated otherwise in these Terms and Conditions, fees paid to SORS shall be non-refundable on all races for which SORS declares a winner.

12. Hacking, Tampering, or Unauthorized Access
By registering for an account and/or participating in any race offered on the Site, you agree that SORS is not responsible for any damage, loss, or injury resulting from hacking, tampering, or other unauthorized access or use of the Site or your account. Any attempt to gain unauthorized access to SORS’s systems or any account, interfere with procedures or performance of the Site, or deliberately damage or undermine the Site is subject to civil and/or criminal prosecution and will result in immediate termination of your account and forfeiture of any prizes to which you are otherwise entitled.

SORS uses or may use many techniques to identify our users when they register on the Site to ensure that users compete honestly and fairly, but SORS cannot ensure that mechanisms are not being used to change game play or otherwise affect the ultimate outcome of a race. Any attempt to participate in any race offered on the Site by means of automatic, macro, programmed, or similar methods to compete or assist you to compete in a race, or to otherwise commit fraud with regard to the Site (including by way of example only, using any machines or third-party software (including, but not limited to cheats and/or hacks) to modify the game or use any other techniques to change game play and the results of all or a portion of a race), may result in civil and/or criminal prosecution and will result in the termination of your account, and forfeiture of all prizes to which your are otherwise entitled.

13. Accounts for individual use only
You, as the holder of your account, (a) may not allow any other person to access your account, access the Site, accept any winnings, or participate in any race using your account information and (b) are solely responsible if you do not maintain the confidentiality of your password and account and for any and all activities made under your password and account. You agree to immediately notify SORS in the event that your password is lost, stolen, disclosed to an unauthorized third party, or any other breach of security in relation to the your account known to you. Your account is not transferable to any other person.

14. Account Termination; Site Termination
SORS reserves the right to terminate your account or decline or limit your participation in any race for any reason, including, but not limited to harassment of other participants, posting of objectionable material, creating multiple accounts, game fraud, or any breach of these Terms and Conditions, and any breach of the security of your account or the Site. By registering for an account and/or participating in any race offered on the Site, you consent to allow SORS to access your account information, to investigate complaints or other allegations of abuse, and determine in its sole discretion if a breach has taken place.

SORS may terminate the Site or any race available via the Site with or without cause at any time, effective immediately upon notice to you; such notice may be in the form of an electronic mail message, or may be posted within the Site itself prior to termination. SORS shall not be liable to you for termination of the Site or the races available via the Site under any theory of law or equity.

15. Proprietary Rights
You acknowledge that the contents of the Site, including without limitation, the game that are the subject of the races available via the Site, and other text, software, music, sound, graphics, photographs, video or other material contained in the Site or the game that is the subject of the races located therein ("Content"), is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents and other laws protecting proprietary information and trade secrets owned by SORS and/or its licensors; therefore, you acknowledge that you are entitled only to use the Site and the game that are the subject of the races available via the Site as set forth in these Terms and Conditions, and may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or otherwise create derivative works from the Content without the advance written approval of SORS.

16. Links
The Site may contain links to other web sites and resources. You acknowledge and agree that SORS is not responsible or liable for (a) the availability or accuracy of such web sites or resources; or (b) the content, advertising, or products on or available from such web sites or resources. The inclusion of any link on the Site does not imply that SORS endorses the linked site.

17. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold SORS, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from and against any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party resulting from or arising out of your use of the Site (including without limitation your participation in races available via the Site), your violation of these Terms and Conditions, or the infringement by you or any other user of the Site using your account name and password (whether or not you are the individual who undertakes such activities), of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.