General Terms and Conditions
These general Terms and Conditions ("Terms and Conditions" or "T&C") shall be valid for all games offered by WESCO POOLS & LOTTERY LTD (a company duly incorporated under the Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Wesco pools & lottery ltd shall offer betting services through various channels not limited to POS, SMS, and USSD hereinafter referred to as "the service".
By using the service you are bound by the following terms and conditions:
The General Terms and Conditions;
The General Lottery Betting Rules;
All terms and conditions and/or rules concerning bonuses, promotions and special offers which may be advertised in any part of our website;
All further terms and conditions contained in any of the games which you may download in order to be able to use the services we provide.
All the terms and conditions listed in this page shall together be referred to as "the Terms of Use". "User" and "Customer", "You" and "Your" refers to you, the person accessing the Service and accepting the Company’s terms and conditions. Whenever the Customer uses the service, such as to place a bet or to participate in any of the promotions offered, he/she agrees to be bound by the Terms of Use, including any amendment which may periodically take place.
The Terms and Conditions contained herein represent the complete, final and exclusive agreement between the Customer and the Company and supersede and merge all prior agreements, representations and understandings.
By using the service, the Customer confirms that he/she has attained the age of 18 or such legal age as he/she must have reached under the Laws governing lottery betting that are applicable to him/her. Irrespective of national regulations concerning the legal age, however, Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd does not accept any User under the age of 18. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd reserves the right to verify any Customer’s statement of age and to exclude Customers from its services, if there are any doubts regarding the attainment of the minimum age required. Any Customer using our services, who is identified as underage, shall have all his winnings forfeited and his/her (hereinafter referred to as the "Account") shall be blocked immediately.
Non-Commercial, non-professional purposes: the Customer´s interest in using the service is of a personal nature, and is to be used purely for personal entertainment. Any commercial and professional interest is discarded.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd does not warrant the constant availability and functionality of all or any products offered by Wesco Pools, Lotto & Bet. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd shall not be held liable and will be held harmless by the Customer for any damages, losses, costs, loss of profits or any other disadvantage a Customer may incur in connection with any disconnection from or the non-availability of any of the products offered by Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd for whatever reason.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd shall not be held liable in any case for any damage or loss caused directly or indirectly by the service or by its contents or by the contents provided by a third party, unless they are based on intentional or gross negligence.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd shall not be liable if the Customer is unable to place a bet due to congestion on the system or any other electronic communication media used for the purposes of playing our Pools, Lotto & Bet games. Unless otherwise stated, all indicated dates and times are based on WAT (West Africa Time). Any exception to the existing Terms of Use will be communicated in written form to the Customer.
Any verbal statement made by Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd employees or affiliates will not be considered in case of a dispute. The Staking contract, as well as any other legal relationship between the Customer and the Company, for every circumstance not regulated by the Terms of Use, is subject to Nigerian laws. The betting service is available in Nigerian Naira (NGN) only.
II. AMENDMENTS TO THE TERMS OF USE
The Terms of Use can be amended at any time by Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd at its own discretion. All changes will become effective upon their publication on our website. If you consider any amendment carried out to be intolerable, you may cease using the service. The continued use of the Service after the date when the Terms of Use are meant to come into effect will amount to a complete acceptance of the amendment made, whether or not the changes have been acknowledged.
III. MANAGING AN ACCOUNT
Each Customer who is desirous of having access to services and products offered by Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd must open a lottery Account. By opening a Wesco Pool, Lotto & Bet account and by staking on any of our games, the User warrants that he/she has reached the minimum legal age for participation. In addition, by opening a Wesco Pools, Lottery & Bet account and by placing a bet on any of our games, the User confirms that he or she retains the legal capacity to enter into an agreement with the Company.
If one of these conditions is not met, the User’s account will be closed and all other necessary measures will be implemented. As you are aware, the right to access and/or use the Website (including any or all of the products offered via the Website) may be illegal in certain countries (including, for example, the USA).
You are responsible for determining whether your accessing and/or use of the Website is compliant with applicable laws in your jurisdiction and you attest that gambling is not illegal in the territory where you reside. The website does not constitute an offer, solicitation or invitation by Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd for the use of betting or other services in any Countries where such activities are deemed to be illegal. Each person should ensure that he/she would be acting legally in the Country where he/she is located while accepting the terms of Use as an individual Customer of Wesco Pools, Lotto, Bet and playing our games through the website.
It is prohibited for Customers to buy, sell or transfer accounts to other Customers. When a new account is opened, the Customer is responsible for the accuracy and up-to-date of all the personal information and contact details provided, including name and date of birth, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd reserves the right to close the Account when the information provided is deemed to be false or inaccurate.
All personal data is stored in the database of the company and will not be passed on to third parties unless in accordance with the terms set out in the Privacy Policy Section. Wesco Pools & lotto reserves the right to relay suspected offender’s saved details to lottery bodies, authorities or any other third party, which deals with the investigation of offences concerning games or price manipulation. (For our Privacy Policy, please visit the specific section).
Every Customer may only open one account with us.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd retains the right to close the account of any Customer who has opened multiple accounts under his/her name or under different or fictitious names. If we have reasonable grounds to believe that multiple accounts (also under different names) have been opened with the intention of defrauding the Company, we retain the right to cancel any transaction related to the said fraud attempt.
After opening an account, the Customer must keep username, password and/or account number a secret. All transactions where your username and password and /or account number have been entered correctly will be regarded as valid whether or not they have been authorized by the registered Account holder. Any account registration will be subject to KYC processes.
The Company shall not be liable for any claims in the event that the Player gives away, tells, shares or loses his/her username, password or account number. The Customer is entitled to apply for the closing of his Account whenever he/she wishes by sending a written request the Customer Service. The effective closure of the Account will correspond to the termination of the Terms of Use. In case the reason behind the closure of the Account is related to concerns about possible gambling addiction, the Customer shall indicate it.
In accordance with the legal period of warranty requested by law, all the personal details saved in our system will only be deleted at your express request, after the expiration of the respite period of Five (5) years. A closed Account may be reopened when requested by its owner and granted by the Company.
In such circumstances, he/she will be subject to the Terms of Use that are in force at the date of the re-opening. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd retains the right to exclude Users from his services at its discretion. In this case, we will refund the residual credit balance in the Account, using the same payment method provided upon registration, or any other payment methods adopted subsequently by the customer upon their appropriate verification.
If the Account has been closed due to an infringement pursuant to the Terms of Use or to a prohibited behaviour leading to collusion, Fraud or whatsoever Criminal Activity, the residual credit balance may be forfeited.
The same procedure will be applied to open stakes that result in winnings. Customer is not allowed to transfer funds from his/her Account to other Users or to receive money from other Users into his Account, or to transfer, sell and/or acquire, user accounts.
If a Customer does not access his Account by "logging in" using his Account name and security details for any period of six calendar months, his account shall be deemed to be "Inactive".
IV. DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS
The Customer has the possibility to increase the credit balance of his Account with one of the payment methods made available by Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd. The Customer can similarly withdraw the residual credit balance using the same payment method provided upon registration, or any other payment method adopted subsequently by the customer once the full and appropriate verification has been completed. (Credit/Debit card, Bank Transfer, Virtual card (only for deposits), E-wallets. Withdrawals will be remitted only to the same account from which funds paid into the player’s account originated. No withdrawal will be authorized if it appears to be linked with transactions predominantly performed with the purpose of allowing the transfer of money from a payment means to another.
If such a circumstance occurs, the relevant amount may only be remitted to the player through the same payment means from which the money deposited into the player’s account originated, minimum withdrawable value is 3,000 (three thousands naira). In order to perform any transaction, Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd may undertake any such verification checks as may be required by ourselves or by third parties (including, but not limited to, regulatory bodies) to confirm the legal ownership and the origin of the money, the identity of the applicant and to comply with the relevant Anti Money Laundering Provisions.
In order to withdraw your money, you will be requested to send us a copy of your ID (front and rear). Whenever a transaction is made through bank transfer, credit card or electronic wallet, the first withdrawal request will be processed only after a security check has been performed.
In such instances, you may be required to supply the following papers together with the ID, in order to comply with our security policies: In case of credit card transactions, a copy of both sides of each of the cards used duly signed by the owner; A copy of an official document showing your billing address if it differs from the one registered in the ID; Any other document that may be relevant in order to complete the check.
Full compliance with our requests will speed up the verification process.
All withdrawals from pools, lotto & Bet accounts will be subject to audit before being processed. If the audit shows that the Customer has violated the provisions of the Terms of Use, Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd may reclaim any bonuses or winnings previously attributed. Pay-outs handled manually through an ordinary bank transfer are processed within 2 banking days.
However, the Customer acknowledges that we are at the mercy of the banks and Payment service providers in this regard and cannot do anything to speed up this process. As an alternative, withdrawals to e-wallets such as Paystack, Rave, Quickteller etc. are usually processed within 24 hours from the request. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd reserves the right to carry out additional verification procedures for pay-outs exceeding certain amount, or when there is a suspicion of misuse of accounts or money laundering.
The Customer agrees not to attempt any charge-backs, reversals or otherwise cancel any deposit previously made in his/her Account. Whenever any such event occurs, the Customer commits to refund Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd for the unpaid deposits and for possible expenses resulting from the recollection of the misplaced money.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd will hold the funds deposited in the Account as trustee for the Customer and not as his/her banker or debtor. Accordingly, there will be no obligation on the part of Wesco Pools Lotto & Bet to repay money to the Customer as his/her debtor.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd reserves the right to limit or to refuse playing any of our lotto games. Funds deposited in the Account, as well as winnings or other amounts not yet credited, shall not attract any interest.
V. LEGAL USE OF THE WEBSITE AND OF ITS COMPONENTS
Under no circumstances shall the Website be used for any purpose different from personal entertainment without our express consent. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd is not liable for any attempts to use the services offered by means or ways not intended by us.
All Trademarks, Domains, Terms of Use, Logos, Images and any other material used by or in Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd products (Ex. graphics, pictures, text etc.), as well as any other content or underlying idea that can be found within our Website, are owned by Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd and protected by copyright in their entirety and may not be modified, reproduced and redistributed, in whole or in part, without Wesco lotto’s express previous written permission.
All necessary legal actions will be undertaken in order to ensure compliance to this policy. Any action aimed to interfere with the normal functioning of the website including, but not limited to, releasing or propagating viruses, worms or logic bombs or similar is strictly prohibited and will be pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd reserves the right to restrict access to certain parts of the Website and to certain services offered.
WESCO LOTTO may at any time and without previous notice, remove or amend any product offered via the Website, as well as alter available prices where such alterations do not affect bets already in progress. Under some circumstances Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd may provide its Customers with software designed internally or by third parties in order to optimize the functioning of the Website or to benefit from additional services. In such circumstances the Customer may be asked to accept further Terms and Conditions related to the utilization of the new component.
Any attempt to interfere with, modify or reverse engineer any software provided is strictly prohibited. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd is not liable for any possible IT failures caused by the electronic equipment used by the Customer while accessing the Website or for faults due to the internet service provider used by the Customer while accessing the Website.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd also assumes no liability for correctness, completeness or up-to-date of the information services provided neither for the accuracy of results, statistics and intermediate results available in our website.
VI. LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE AND FROM OUR WEBSITE
Where our Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by our partners or other third parties, these links are provided for information only and we do not make any representations regarding the accuracy and reliability of contents available on such third party websites. We have no control over the contents of those websites and therefore accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from their utilization.
VII. COMPLAINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
If you wish to make a complaint or a suggestion regarding the Company, the Website or the services offered, as a first step you should contact our Customer Services or send us an email through wescolottong@gmail.com. As second step, the complaint shall be assigned to an advisor that will manage to provide you with the appropriate response. Save as provided further under clause ‘3, should the complaint not be resolved as expected by you, a response shall be provided to you through internal message or email by the Customer Service Advisor who will report the final decision to you.
All claims and suggestions shall be forwarded to the Customer Service in written form via internal message, fax, mail or e-mail. No complaints with regard to the acceptance, settlement or resettlement of a stake will be heard by us if they are not raised through our Customer Services within 24hrs from the event occurrence which the bet related to occurred.
Offensive or rude language, as well as malicious or damaging comments, will not be tolerated while contacting our staff or while discussing our products and services in any media, social network or forum. Any infringement of this policy will result in a suspension of the Account or in every additional action as may be required in order to ensure compliance.
VIII. WAIVER
In no event will any delay, failure or omission (in whole or in part) in enforcing, exercising or pursuing any right, power, privilege, claim or remedy conferred by or arising under these Terms and Conditions or by law, be deemed to be or construed as a waiver of that or any other right, power, privilege, claim or remedy in respect of the circumstances in question, or operate so as to bar the enforcement of that, or any other right, power, privilege, claim or remedy, in any other instance at any time or times subsequently.
IX. SEVERABILITY
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions which shall remain in full force and effect. In such instances, the part declared invalid or unenforceable shall be amended in a manner consistent with the applicable law to reflect, as closely as possible, Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd original intent.
X. RESPONSIBLE GAMING
We believe in Responsible Gaming and take our responsibility in this matter seriously. Gambling should be an exciting pastime, and we urge our Customers to have fun, but not stake beyond their means. Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd is committed to endorsing responsible wagering among its Customers as well as promoting the awareness of problem gambling and improving prevention, intervention and treatment thereof.
We undertake any effort in order to ensure your pleasant online gaming experience while playing in Wesco Pools & Lotto & Bet, keeping full awareness of the financial harms associated with the problem of gambling. With regard to the purposes pointed out herewith, we do strongly suggest our Customers to try keeping clearly separate gambling from his/her daily activities; try establishing affordable deposit limits; try considering the lasting time of each gambling session before its commencing; not to resort to gambling as an alternative source of income or a way to recoup debit; At any time the Customer may request from our Customer Service temporary or permanent self-exclusion from part or all of our services as well as the closure of his/her account.
We will use all our reasonable endeavours to ensure compliance with self-exclusion; however you accept that we are not liable if you manage to by-pass our security measures in circumstances which are beyond our reasonable control. The Customer may as well request to our Customer Service to activate deposit limit on his/her account, or to modify the existing ones.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd provides its users with the facilities to set their own limit on deposits on a daily, weekly or a monthly basis. We will use all our reasonable endeavours to ensure the effective enforcement of the deposit limits; however you accept that we are not liable if you manage to by-pass our security measures in circumstances which are beyond our reasonable control. Revocation of previously self-imposed limit shall come into effect only after seven days after the Company has received the request of Revocation.
XI. APPLICABLE LAW AND PLACE OF JURISDICTION
Any bet placed by the Customer shall be governed by the applicable provisions of the Nigeria Criminal Code Act, CAP. 22 and any Regulations and Rules made in terms thereof, as amended from time to time. It shall be the responsibility of the Customer to ensure that he/she is aware of these provisions.
The National lottery contract, as well as any other legal relationship between the Customer and the Company, for every circumstance not regulated by the Terms of Use, is subject to Nigerian laws. If the Customer places a bet from a location falling outside Nigeria, such bet shall be subject to all appropriate exchange control regulations and the laws of the foreign jurisdiction from which such communication originates and it shall be the responsibility of the Customer to ensure full compliance with same.
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd makes no warranties and shall not be liable to the Customer if it is not able to remit any monies held by it to any account held by the Customer in a foreign jurisdiction.
XII. PALPABLE ERRORS
Some circumstances may arise where a bet is confirmed, or a payment is performed, by us in error. The following is a non-exhaustive list of such circumstances: Whenever the prices/spreads/terms offered by Wesco lotto are significantly dissimilar from those available in the general market, Whenever the prices/spreads/terms offered at the time the bet is placed are clearly wrong given the probability of the forecast occurring, Whenever a bet has been erroneously accepted (via retail/online) on a market which should have been suspended or removed, Where a bet containing incompatible events is accidentally accepted, because of human or technical error, Whenever a settlement error is made while computing or crediting the amount of winnings,
Any other situation that may be referred to as an error or leakages of results on any of the Ghana games being played daily except on Sunday. In all these cases Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd reserves the right to cancel all the bets accepted containing such an error, or to correct the mistake made re-settling all the bets at the correct prices/spreads/terms that should have been available at the time that the bet was placed in the absence of the error. The Customer has an obligation to inform Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd as soon as possible of any amount wrongly credited to his/her account. Wesco Pools Lotto & Bet may at any time set off any positive balance resulting from the erroneous operation, as well as cancel possible bets or transactions made with the erroneously credited funds. Neither we (including our employees or agents) nor our partners or suppliers are liable for any loss resulting from any error made. Bets placed in order to cover flawed bets will stand valid if not impaired by errors. In the event that, due to technical problems, the printed version of a document or of a coupon differs from the web version, the latter shall prevail. In the event of any dispute the Customer agrees that the records of our server shall act as the final authority in determining the outcome of any claim.
XIII. TERMINATION
Wesco Pools & Lottery Ltd shall have the right prior to accepting any bet, temporarily to suspend or permanently to terminate, the provision of betting services to a Customer without providing any reason.