ITEM 1 Those terms and conditions are an English language document adapted from the french language Terms and conditions legal document which set out your rights and obligations, and Gerwin software Limited ones(collectively, the “ Company ”) (registered in France under RCS number 44412121400019). The use of this web site, of its content, of the software and associated materials made available on this web site (collectively, the “ Site ”), is conditioned on your acceptance without modification of these terms and conditions. By registering on the Site, you re-affirm this agreement every time you use it.
To participate to our Site's games and to be eligible for prizes you must : Persons who don’t meet one or all theses conditions can play to our free games but aren’t eligible to win prizes. We reserve the right to prevent connections to the Site from certain locations if needed. You are solely responsible for submitting accurate contact information at registration and keeping it up to date on an ongoing basis. Submitting deliberately false or incomplete information will make close your account and cancel all the pending prizes without any compensation for the banned player.
ITEM 3 : Description of the games The Site hosts mind and culture games which allow to measure ones culture and to compete against other players in ladders and tournament. Obtaining high scores and climbing to the highest ranks in Ladders and tournaments allow you to obtain virtual distinctions such as being displayed in leaderboards, as well as win prizes. Most of our Games are free and only need prior registration. However, it is possible to buy additional credits when the daily quota of free games is reached. To play our games, you must have an Internet connection and a computer having the following specifications or equivalent: pentium III with 256 MB of RAM. Scores realized in the Games are counted in "sesterces" to increase the immersion in the game ambiance. Sesterces can be cumulated during one calendar weeks and best week scores are used to establish a ranking at the end of each game session. Games that count for the Global Ranking are : •The Question : a time constrained Quiz with a fixed question difficulty distribution. If two or more players obtain the same rank by adding the various ranks involved in the Global Ranking computation, the following methods are used to decide between ex aequo players : - a player who gets the shortest time at the nighlty momentum sessions takes the highest rank
1- « The Question » : answer to a 12 questions Quiz Players must answer a flow of questions as fast a possible (20 seconds maximum are allocated per question). - very difficult questions : 500 sesterces If the players answer wrongly to a question, he gets a penalty equivalent to the sesterces value of the question. For example, answering false to an easy question gives a penalty of 50 sesterces, but giving a wrong answer to a very difficult question gives a penalty of 500 sesterces so never answer randomly and prefer the "I don't know" option ! Answering correctly to a very difficult question after 4 seconds (20% of the maximum time elapsed) will give you a credit of 500-20%=400 sesterces Questions difficulties are set up as following : - easy : between 70% and 98% of correct answers Questions which obtain more than 98% or less than 1% of correct answers are considered respectively as too easy and too difficult. The score at "The Question" is the sum of all the sesterces obtained on the questions less penalties. In case this value should be negative, the score is set to zero. Daily results will be sent by email if the player decides to accept them.
2- "The Assault" : submit your own questions to the players community The goal is to compose a pair of questions matching to a difficulty target set randomly by the computer, and to submit them to the players’community to see if the actual difficulty of the questions matches the target difficulty with a tolerance rate. The player brings a stake which is the number of sesterces realized that allowed him to win the right to participate to "The Assault", then he chooses an objective for his Assault that will determine the multiplication factor for the stake and thus the number of sesterces he may earn. The bigger the reward is, the smaller the tolerance rate accepted for the question difficulty is. For example, let's say that the player won the right to participate to "The Assault" by realizing 1000 sesterces at "The Question" the previous day. He can choose between 3 difficulty modes that can offer a multiplication factor of respectively 3, 8 or 15 times the stake, hence up to 15000 sesterces ! The various game modes are : - practicable: multiply stake by 3 with a tolerance factor of 30% Both questions must fall into their difficulty range in order to win the Assault. Moreover, an additional incentive may be given to the player if he submits a question within a given category under the form of a bonus rate. Players can cumulate up to 3 assault participation tokens. The questions submitted in "The Assault" will be inserted into Quizzes and proposed after correction to the players’community in various games such as "The Question".
3- «The Usurpation » : challenge your superior in the hierarchy and take his seat A player is inserted in the hierarchy of the players after a few quizzes. Then he can try to climb the hierarchy by usurpating its superior's seat and by obtaining substantial advantages from it : the ones who have the highest positions in the hierarchy get the best prizes and win a part of the sesterces won at "The Assault" by all their subordinates) . To play to "The Usurpation", you need a participation token. It is possible to have one by finishing first at "The Question" in a group of 30 players selected randomly every day, or by investing some credits.
The personal guard is the best player among the 10 randomly chosen players who played the usurpation quiz (with “the best” we mean the one who have had the best results to "The Question" for the last 3 days). "The Usurpation" can only be played when the following conditions are met: - you haven’t launched another pending Usurpation that is still pending If the superior should be defeated by ex-aequo subordinates, the subordinate who earned the biggest number of sesterces in the last 3 days wins. 4- "The Duel " : challenge another player and climb the Ladder The Duel is a real time game that allows you to challenge a player of your level and to see immediately if you have defeated him. Each time you win a Duel against another player who has a better rank in the considered Ladder, your rank progresses of half the places between his and yours. If you win the Duel, you will progress of half the places between yours and your opponent's. Thus it is more efficient to challenge players who have the highest positions to progress quickly. If you’re playing at the "General Ladder", your score performed in sesterces will be added to your account, and for this particular ladder only. If you lose your Duel, you keep the same rank in the ladder. When you register, you begin at the bottom of the Ladder.
The Company won’t accept any complaint concerning suspicions of cheating or questions inaccuracy. Indeed, the Site has a number of security measures to prevent from cheating and inaccurate questions would hurt both the challenger and the challenged player, hence it would not change the Duel outcome. 5- " Momentum" : multiplayer race for 6 runners You join a race with 5 other competitors, and you are proposed 12 questions of various difficulties. The more difficult a question is, the bigger additional energy potential it brings, and the faster an answer is given, the bigger piece of the energy potential you get. Races played during the day count for the Momentum Hourly Ranking running at that time of the day. Only the 3 best races played in the hour are used to establish the position in the Momentum Hourly Ranking. Then the shortest cumulated time on those 3 races is used to decide between players who had the same score in points. The 5 best players of every Hourly Ranking win 3 tokens to play to the Nightly Momentum Races (possible only once a day). Nightly Momentum Races start at night (see opening hours in Momentum game itself) and count for the Momentum Session Ranking. Only players who previously qualified by finishing in the top 5 of the Hourly Rankings can play the nighlty races. Same rules as for hourly races apply for nightly races excepted the fact that the points won count for the Momentum Session Ranking and that the best 12 races are kept to establish the session score (cumulated time still being used to decide between ex aequo players). In order to avoid multiple accounts, we have set up the following restrictions:
7- The "GOLD" player status The Site proposes a Gold status that allows registered players to have several advantages such as more free games and higher game quotas (or no quota) concerning the daily number of games played. Thus Gold players benefit from the following advantages : Those advantages can’t be considered as short circuits to the best ranks, but only as a way to increase the gaming experience and to have fun longer on the Site. ITEM 4 : sponsoring and hierarchy CaesarsQuiz.com proposes games that allow to build a hierachy between players that is similar to the Roman Legion. Officers lead their subordinates , communicate with them, and get a percentage of their gains in a few games such as "The Assault". There are 7 hierarchical levels : legionary, decurion, centurion, commander, senator and last but not least Caesar ! Beginners start as legionaries, and can climb each step of the hierarchy by usurpating their superiors in the Usurpation game. An officer gets a percentage of all his subordinates’ gains in "The Assault" game following the scheme below : The Site reserves the right to open positions before the numbers above are met. Sponsoring is also a way to swell the number of subordinates. Indeed, for every new recruited Godson, a new player is also randomly integrated as one of your subordinate as soon as you climb above the status of Legionary.
ITEM 5 : scores and game sessions management A game session ends the last Sunday of each calendar month and starts the following Monday (after the last Sunday of the previous calendar month). ITEM 6: Determining Winners and Prizes Prizes are attibuted based on 2 parameters : -One line of prizes is distributed purely based on the positions and only the bests win, Determining prize winner with their positions in the Global Ranking and in the hierarchy At the end of a game session, when final scores are given, players are grouped by levels as following : You can find details concerning prizes on the "Gifts" page. In order to maintain a high game quality, we put an additional condition to win a prize: any player who doesn’t reach minimal statistics of regularity and reliability explained hereafter leave their prize to the next eligible player.Minimal statistics of regularity and reliability are both of 6/10 (or 60%) and they can be obtained in the "My Account" section. Those statistics are easy to obtain and they aren’t an obstacle if you play within the rules. One last condition is to have played at least 20 quizzes within the last 30 days before the end of the game session (there are enough free games to reach this number for free). Determining prize winner at the winning instant The 100 best players of the Score Ranking, the 100 best players of the Momentum Ranking and the 50 best players of the Ladder ranking are eligible to win a prize at the winning instant. In order to favour the best players, the server will attribute tickets to each player so that higher positions get more tickets. A minimum of 10 (ten) participants having played at least 10 (ten) quizzes in the game session are required in order to distribute the prizes. If those figures are not met, prizes will be kept for the next game session.
Prizes distributed to winners can be found in the "Gifts" section on the website.
No support nor customer service will be provided by the Company, which will only ship prizes to winners. No refunding or financial counterpart will be provided by the company if a prize is lost by the shipping company, or if it is broken or if it doesn’t work at the arrival. If a trip is won by a minor, he’ll have to be accompanied by an adult who will take care of the trip costs and expenses. Winners screen names will be published at the end of every game session on the Site. The prize will be attributed to the person who actually won the games. Any false or erroneous contact info that would prevent the company to contact the winner would disqualify this player and cancel the attribution of his prize. The company reserves the right to move or to retire the player of the hierarchy after an inactivity period of 3 months. ITEM 8 Only one account can be opened per single person, and there can be only one winner per game session and per household (same family name or same address) for all the games operated by the Company under various brand names. Players whose contact info are false or incomplete will not be accepted; contact info should at least mention the player's login, his first name, his family name, his age, his complete address and his email address. As the holder of your account, you acknowledge and agree that you’re the sole beneficiary of the account and you’re solely responsible for its proper use. Your account is not transferable to any other person. Accordingly, you may not allow any other person to access your account or access the Site, to accept any prize, or to participate in any tournament using your account information. By registering on the Site, you agree to indemnify, to defend, and to hold us and our affiliates harmless against any claims, liability, damages, and/or costs (including attorney fees) from any such unauthorized use. ITEM 9 The Company reserves the right to modify, prolong, shorten or terminate the game without any prior notice, and disclaim liability for any aborted game, and consequently lost prizes. ITEM 10 : Promotions and Privacy You accept that your nickname or username might be displayed on the site if you participate to any events of the Site community such as joining a Ladder, entering a tournament, winning a prize… By accepting any prize in connection with the Site, you further agree and authorize us to publish and otherwise to use for promotional purposes your username, public nickname, tournament records without any further compensation for you. The Company complies with the french law "computer data and liberties" nb78-17 of January the 6th 1978 which protects players’ privacy and allows them to have an access and a modification right on any contact info concerning him. Players can apply by connecting to the "My Account" page and by choosing to modify their personal contact info, and can even oppose to the storage of those data by writing to the company at the following address : GERWIN SARL, CEEI, Domaine du petit Arbois, BP 88, 13545 Aix en Provence Cedex 4. Results and Site newsletters are only sent by email to the players who have expressly chosen to receive them. Those email preferences can be changed at any time by the player in the "My Account" section.
ITEM 11 : using the internet No one can entirely control the flow of data via the Internet. Such flow depends in large part on the performance of internet services provided or controlled by third parties. From time to time, actions or inactions of such third parties can impair or disrupt your connection to the Internet and influence the performance of the Site. We use commercially reasonable efforts that we find appropriate (including employing security protocols and encryption methods) to avoid such events, but we can’t guarantee that such events won’t occur. ITEM 12 : cheating If we discover that a player has opened multiple accounts, used automated means or team play or any other fraud to change or augment their results, to obtain prizes or to enter a leaderboard, the Company will have the right to cancel all involved players’ accounts, and forfeit all associated winnings.
While visiting the Site and playing the games you agree not to : ITEM 14 : Intellectual Property All copyright, trade marks, and other intellectual property rights are owned by GERWIN LLC. You shall not copy any content including but not limited to questions and answers, tips, statistics such as Cultural Quotient. You shall not use any automated mean or computer assisted method to gather questions or user data on the Site." ITEM 15 : Laws Severability. In the event that any term of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France.
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