Terms & Conditions

1. Definitions

“Certification” — our confirmation that a draw was conducted in accordance with the Fair Draw Standard (as defined below), evidenced by a certificate page.

“Fair Draw Standard” or “Standard” — the published technical rules by which entry lists are sealed, random seeds are derived, and winners are calculated, as published at fairdrawregister.co.uk/standard and versioned.

“Seal” — the cryptographic commitment of your entry list anchored to a public blockchain.

“Services” — registration on the Register, draw sealing, draw execution, certification, certificate and archive pages, the live draw studio, evidence packs, and any API access, as available on your plan.

“Public Network” — a public blockchain network (a third-party network that no company, including us, controls) on which records are anchored.

“Entry Data” — the entrant, ticket and order information you provide to us for a draw.

2. What Certification means — and what it does not

2.1Certification confirms only the following, in respect of a specific draw: (a) the Entry Data you supplied was sealed at the recorded time and has not been altered since; (b) the winning entry was derived from the sealed Entry Data using the Standard’s published selection rule and a seed value determined in accordance with the Standard; and (c) the records required by the Standard were anchored to the Public Network.

2.2Certification does not constitute and must not be represented as: (a) verification of the accuracy, completeness, or lawfulness of the Entry Data before sealing; (b) any endorsement of you, your competitions, prizes, financial standing, or conduct; (c) confirmation of prize existence, delivery, or fulfilment; (d) legal, regulatory, or compliance advice, including as to the Gambling Act 2005, the DCMS Voluntary Code, consumer law, or advertising rules, with which you remain solely responsible for complying.

2.3You must not state or imply that Certification covers anything beyond clause 2.1. Doing so is a material breach.

3. Your obligations and warranties

3.1You warrant, on application and continuously, that: (a) you are a lawfully constituted business, and the information in your application is accurate and kept up to date; (b) all Entry Data you supply is accurate, complete, final at the time of sealing, and lawfully collected and transferred to us; (c) your competitions comply with all applicable law and regulation; (d) you hold all rights in any logos, branding, and materials you provide, and their use by us will not infringe third-party rights; (e) you will conduct every paid-entry draw you operate through the Services while registered, will advertise draw times in advance, and will follow the Register rules published at fairdrawregister.co.uk/rules.

3.2You will not: attempt to alter, re-run, or influence any sealed draw; supply Entry Data you know or suspect to be false; use the Services, badge, certificates, or marks in a misleading way; or resell, sublicense, or provide the Services to any third party.

3.3Indemnity. You will indemnify us against all losses, claims, costs (including reasonable legal fees), and regulatory penalties arising from: your competitions; your breach of clause 3.1 or 3.2; claims by your entrants or customers; inaccurate or unlawful Entry Data; or your breach of Data Protection Legislation as controller.

4. Our obligations — and the limits of them

4.1We will provide the Services with reasonable care and skill, and will operate the Standard faithfully and identically for all operators.

4.2No uptime warranty. The Services are provided on an “as available” basis. We do not warrant that the Services, the website, the live draw studio, the API, or any certificate page will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at any particular time, and — except as stated in clause 4.1 and to the fullest extent permitted by law — all other warranties, conditions and terms implied by statute or common law are excluded.

4.3The Public Network. We do not own, operate, or control the Public Network or any third-party block explorer. We are not liable for its delays, congestion, forks, reorganisations, fees, discontinuance, or the availability of third-party explorer websites.

4.4Draw incidents. If a technical failure occurs before a winner is certified, our sole obligation is to complete, or void and re-run, the draw in accordance with the Standard’s published incident procedure, transparently and at no additional charge. We are not liable for any consequences of delay to a scheduled or live-streamed draw, including audience, reputational, or sales impact.

4.5We may amend the Standard by published version. Amendments never apply retrospectively to certified draws, and prior versions remain verifiable.

4.6We may suspend the Services for maintenance, security, suspected breach, or non-payment. Suspension never prevents the completion and certification of a draw whose entry list was sealed before suspension.

5. Registration, the badge, and revocation

5.1Registration is at our discretion following review, and remains conditional on your continuing compliance with these terms and the Register rules.

5.2While registered, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to display the Register badge and your registration number, solely in connection with your own registered operation and in accordance with our brand guidelines. All rights in the Register and DrawProof names, marks, badge, and certificates remain ours.

5.3We may revoke or suspend registration immediately if: you materially breach these terms; we reasonably believe your conduct risks the integrity or reputation of the Register; you become insolvent; or required by law or a regulator. Revocation may be recorded publicly on the Register. On revocation, your badge licence ends immediately, but certified draws remain in the public archive.

6. Fees and payment

6.1Fees are per your selected plan as published at fairdrawregister.co.uk/pricing, exclusive of VAT, invoiced monthly in arrears, payable by bank transfer within 14 days quoting your payment reference. Plan changes take effect at month end.

6.2If an invoice is overdue we may: charge statutory interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998; and suspend the creation and sealing of new draws until settled. The completion and certification of already-sealed draws is never withheld for non-payment.

6.3No refunds are due for periods of suspension caused by your breach or non-payment.

7. Term and termination

7.1This agreement runs monthly and either party may terminate at the end of any monthly billing period on notice given before that period ends. There are no minimum terms, automatic lock-ins, or cancellation fees. Fees accrued to the termination date remain payable.

7.2Either party may terminate immediately for the other’s material breach (unremedied within 14 days of written notice where remediable) or insolvency.

7.3On termination: your badge licence and Services access end; certified draws remain publicly archived and verifiable (we retain what is necessary for this purpose); and clauses intended to survive (including 2, 3.3, 8, 9, 10) survive.

8. Liability

8.1Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

8.2Subject to 8.1, neither party is liable to the other for loss of profits, revenue, sales, business, goodwill, anticipated savings, or data, or for any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.

8.3Subject to 8.1 and 8.2, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this agreement (in contract, tort including negligence, statute, or otherwise) is limited to the total fees paid by you to us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

8.4You must notify us in writing of any claim within 6 months of becoming aware (or when you reasonably ought to have become aware) of the event, failing which we have no liability for it.

9. Data protection

9.1For Entry Data, you are the controller and we are the processor. Our processing is governed by the Data Processing Addendum at fairdrawregister.co.uk/dpa, which forms part of this agreement. In summary: we process Entry Data only to provide the Services; personal data is never written to the Public Network (only cryptographic hashes are anchored); entrant contact details are encrypted at rest; public pages display masked names only; and we will notify you without undue delay of any personal data breach.

9.2You warrant that you have the lawful basis, notices, and (where required) consents to provide Entry Data to us for these purposes, including publication of masked entrant identifiers on public entry lists, and you indemnify us against claims arising from your failure to do so.

10. General

10.1Confidentiality. Each party will keep the other’s non-public information confidential, save as required by law or regulators. Nothing prevents us publishing what the Standard requires to be public, or prevents either party making truthful public statements about registration status.

10.2Assignment. You may not assign this agreement. We may assign to a successor of the Register’s operation on notice.

10.3Entire agreement. This agreement (with the Order/plan, Register rules, Standard, and DPA) is the entire agreement and supersedes prior discussions. Neither party relies on any representation not set out in it (except fraudulent ones).

10.4Variation. We may update these terms on 30 days’ notice; continued use after the notice period is acceptance. Material changes adverse to you entitle you to terminate at the month end without penalty.

10.5Trade marks. References in this agreement and on our websites to our marks include all trade marks, whether registered or unregistered, together with all applications for and future registrations of such marks, in the names “The Fair Draw Register” and “DrawProof” and in the Register badge and device, in each case owned by JSEE Ltd.

10.6Force majeure, waiver, severance, third-party rights, notices: as set out in our standard clauses.

10.7Law and jurisdiction. England and Wales; exclusive jurisdiction of its courts.

1. Free public access

Checking the Register, certificates, entry lists, and re-running draw verification is free for personal, non-commercial use. We may rate-limit or block abusive, automated, or bulk access.

2. What the information is — and isn’t

Register status is accurate as at the time displayed and can change; always check the live page rather than screenshots. Certification relates solely to the draw process as described on each certificate. Nothing on this site is an endorsement of any operator’s competitions, prizes, or conduct, nor advice of any kind (legal, financial, or otherwise). An operator’s absence from the Register means only that their draws are not certified by us — we make no statement about unregistered businesses.

3. Your relationship with operators

Competitions are operated by the operators, not by us. Your purchase, prize, delivery, and service issues are between you and the operator, and your statutory consumer rights against them are unaffected by anything on this site.

4. No warranty; liability

The site is provided “as is” and we do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free availability. To the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all liability to site users, save that nothing limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights.

5. Third-party links

Explorer links, operator websites, and other external links are provided for convenience; we are not responsible for third-party sites.

6. Our content and marks

The Register’s name, badge, certificates, and site content are our intellectual property. “The Fair Draw Register” and “DrawProof” names and the Register badge are our trade marks (whether registered or unregistered, including applications and future registrations). You may share links to, and screenshots of, certificates and register entries for genuine informational purposes; you may not misrepresent, alter, or pass off our marks or certificates, or create anything confusingly similar.

7. Demo pages

Demo pages are clearly watermarked, are not certified draws, expire automatically, and must not be presented as genuine.

8. Concerns

Reports about certified draws or registered operators: concerns@fairdrawregister.co.uk. We investigate reports about our Register; we cannot adjudicate consumer disputes with operators.

9. Privacy and law

Privacy is governed by our Privacy Policy at fairdrawregister.co.uk/privacy. Law: England and Wales.