Char-lotte Online Pools Rules.
1) Concept
Char-lotte Online Pools has been set up to help Clubs, Societies, Organisations and Charities, however large or small, to raise the all too necessary funds to keep alive.
2) Participation
If your Club, Society, Organisation or Charity can satisfy the criteria that you ‘benefit the community’, you will be given a unique id number. We then request that you promote us, say on your website and generally recommend that your members and friends visit our website and play Char-lotte Online Pools. The customer/player when playing the game will give us your unique id number, which will ensure that their donation will go to you. The more you promote Char-lotte Online Pools the more funds you receive.
3) Who can play (a) and qualify for funds (b)?
a) You must be 18 years of age or older to participate and have completed the Registration correctly.
b) Any Club – Society – Organisation – or Charity, whether Professional or Amateur, for Youth or Senior, that are affiliated to a main body such as BAF – FA etc., and has a Club/Society/Organisation/Charity Bank account, where we can send your raised funds. (Must not be an individual) Groups of People such as Youth clubs, Sports clubs, Running and football clubs, Play groups, Nurseries, Carers groups, even Schools and Hospitals etc., a ‘benefit to the community’.
4) What we can give to you
Most Clubs, Societies, Organisations and Charities have not the membership or funds to run this type of game. We can offer this facility to you free from work and charge. The game has the capacity to generate very large prize funds and rollovers etc., and the website is full of additional features. If you do not have a website, probably because of cost, we can offer a service to put one together for you FREE OF CHARGE. Please e-mail us for details.
5) Security
With all internet business there are many aspects of security to enter into for both your safety and ours.
a) To be able to operate a game of this type, which has been determined as a ‘Football Pool’, we by law, have had to be registered with HM Revenue and Customs / Gambling Commission, as a Pools Promoter.
b) The website is on a dedicated server supplied by BT and has firewall protection.
c) We have a Secure Card Facility which is an independent card processing facility processing cards between Banks.
d) We also have a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate to encrypt card information.
e) We are registered under the data protection act.
f) Char-lotte.com databases are encrypted for which each entry or group of selections will have its own unique id number.
6) Registration
It is important that all customers/players complete the registration form with correct information. Your User name should ideally be 4 letters or more and your Password should be 6 letters &/or numbers. Each time you are required to ‘login’ you must use your “User name” and “Password” advised when you first registered. If you forget your User name/Password you can ‘click on’ “lost Password”, enter your e-mail address that you registered and your User name and Password will appear. A confirmation will be sent to your e-mail address confirming that your ‘playing account’ has been set up.
7) The Game
a) The game will be played on the internet only.
b) 49 matches will be displayed on the website for the coming weekend.
c) For a £2 stake a customer/player will play 5 games.
d) Each game will consist of 10 matches.
8) Object of the Game
The object of the game is for the customer/player to forecast the highest total points in PART one. All score draws and no score draws will count as 3 points, Aways 2 pts, Homes 1 point. Therefore the highest possible points total would be 30 points. We will pay 6 dividends – 30,29,28,27,26 and 25 points. Should no customer/player win a particular points score e.g. 30 pts then all monies in that pool will be rolled over to the next date that matches will be played. PART two. Within the same game, if the customer/player is unsuccessful with his points score he can check for Aways only. There are 2 dividends for Aways - 10 and 9 Aways. As in part one, should no customer/player have 10 or 9 Aways, the monies for that pool will rollover to the next date that matches will be played. PART three. Also within the same game, if the customer/player is unsuccessful in parts one & two he can check for 10 and 9 Homes. Two dividends. The monies for this pool will rollover to the next date of matches should no customer/player be successful.
9) Pools and dividends
a) A Pool - is a pot of money that has been invested/created by a group of customers/players who have agreed that the Pot of money will be shared/divided equally between the winners.
b) A Dividend is the declared amount the winners of that Pool will receive.
c) There are 10 Pools in each game (Part one 6, Part two 2, Part three, 2).
d) Each Pool will receive 5% of the total stake monies to share between winners.
10) Rollovers
A unique feature of Char-lotte Online Pools is that all 10 pools have the possibility of being rolled over should no customer/player be successful in any one of them.
11) Matches/Kick off times/Abandonments/Pools Panel/Void Games
a) All matches to count will be those that kick off at the weekend - Saturday / Sunday.
You will not be able to make your selections after the first kick off time ie. 12:45 or 15:00.
b) Abandoned matches – the result will be as at the time of Abandonment.
c) All matches Postponed, to be played at another date, will be decided by the official Pools Panel whose results will be confirmed in the National Press.
d) Void matches will count as 2 pts.
12) Cost or stakes
For a £2 stake – a customer/player will play 5 games. (Each game has 10 pools, therefore each customer covers 50 pools per £2 stake.) 50 games (Cost £20) can be played each session. A customer/player can go back and play more games if they wish.
13) Claims
You will be notified on your claims page whether you are a winner or not. We will credit your playing account with your winnings without you needing to claim. For amounts under £500 we will pay your winnings back to a card of your choice. Amounts over £500 will be paid back to a card of your choice or we could send you a cheque. Under normal circumstances this will be by the Wednesday following the date on which the matches were played. If you need to contact us about your winnings – please e-mail us at char-lotte.com/claims providing the following information:
a) Your playing account number.
b) The date the matches were played.
c) Details of the prize you are claiming.
d) Id number of the winning line.
You must claim through the e-mail address you supplied when you registered.
14) Pools declared Void
Should the ‘Pools’ be declared void for any reason - then the stakes will be credited to your playing account.
15) Division of total stake monies received
There are 10 Pools. Each pool will receive 5% of the total stake money received. = 50% of total stake monies. A minimum of 20% will go direct to Charities etc. of the customer/players choice and up to 30% will cover Duties/Taxes, commissions and Costs, such as Bank charges. As we are a non-profit making Company any excess monies remaining at the end of each accounting year ending 31st July, will also go to charities.
16) Disputes
Anyone participating in Char-lotte Online Pools will have been deemed to have read our rules and agreed to abide by them. Also anyone participating in Char-lotte Online Pools must be aware that no legal liability of any kind can be placed on char-lotte.com ltd as any transactions are binding in Honour only. However should there be any dispute connected with Char-lotte Online Pools, including interpretation of our rules. An independent firm of Accountants will be appointed and will adjudicate. Their decision will be final and binding on both sides.
17) Rule changes
Any alteration of, or addition to, these Rules will be notified to you by e-mail and made clear on the website.
First Draft – 22nd May 2002
Second Draft - 25th June 2002
Rules 11 d + e added 16th November 2003
Rule 11 e amended 14th August 2004
Rule 15 amended 17th October 2004
Rule 8 amended 10th March 2008
Rules revised 20th January 2010
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