PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE (“Terms of Use”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE AND/OR APP
Who we are and how to contact us
The website located at sixnationsrugby.com (our website) and the ‘Six Nations’ mobile application (our app) are operated by Six Nations Rugby Limited (we, us, our or similar expressions). We are incorporated in Ireland under company number 358420 which is tax resident in the United Kingdom where it is registered with company number FC037182 and whose business address is at Thomas House, 84 Eccleston Square, Pimlico, London SW1V 1PX.
To contact us, please email [email protected]
What's in these Terms of Use?
These Terms of Use tell you the rules for using our website and app, including content and materials within them. Please read them carefully before using the website and/or app.
By using our website and/or app you accept these Terms of Use
By using our website and/or app, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must not use our website and/or app.
If you’re under 18
If you’re under 18, it might be helpful to ask your parent or guardian for some help with navigating our website and app and understanding these Terms of Use. If you’re finding any parts challenging to understand, you should ask your parent or guardian for help. Please also see our Privacy Policy or an explanation of how we use your personal information when you use our website and/or app. Your parent or guardian can reach out to us at: [email protected] if you have any questions.
Please note if you are under the age of 13, you cannot register for an account without your parent/guardian’s permission. Please see the “Registering for an account” section below for more information.
Other terms that are applicable
These Terms of Use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our website and app:
See further under How we may use your information section.
Our Cookies Policy.
We may make changes to these Terms of Use
We will amend these Terms of Use from time to time, so you should check this page regularly for any changes. By using the website and/or app, you are accepting to be bound by the most recent version of these Terms of Use.
We may make changes to, suspend or withdraw our website and/or app We will continually make updates to our website and app from time to time without notice.
The content on our website and/or app is provided for general information only and is not intended to be relied upon for any purpose. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website and app (although we are under no obligation to do so), we and our partners/suppliers make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website or app (including any match data or statistics) is accurate, complete or up to date. We disclaim all liability and responsibility for any reliance on the website and/or app contents by you or any individual that you have informed of the contents of the website and/or app.
Please note that our website and app are made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our website or app, or any content on either of them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website or app for business and operational reasons.
We will not be liable to you for any period of suspension, withdrawal or unavailability of the website and/or app.
Registering for an account
If you are under 13 years of age, you must obtain permission from your parent/guardian to register for a Six Nations account (account). You will be asked for your parent or guardian’s email address when you try to sign up for an account, so that this permission can be given.
Please note that you need to register for an account if you want to participate in the Fantasy game. You can register for an account on our website and app, but it’s not necessary to use them (it just means you can access some more features and get personalised content!)
Registration of multiple accounts on our website or app is not allowed. When you register for an account, you will be providing personal data to us which we will process in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection legislation.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our account registration procedures, you must treat it/them as confidential and not disclose it/them to anyone else. It is your responsibility to frequently change your password to help keep it secure, and to keep your computer and phone software up-to-date, including any virus checking software.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.
How you may use material on our website and/or app
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website and app, and in the material published on them. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world, and all such rights are reserved. Except where expressly stated on the website or app
You are allowed to download and/or print off a reasonable volume of material from our site for your personal use. You may draw the attention of others to content posted on our website or app for their personal, private use but you must credit us (or identified third-party suppliers/partners as applicable) as the source(s) and make clear that the use of such material is subject to these Terms of Use; You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text;
You must not otherwise use, reproduce, disseminate or distribute any part of the content of the website and/or app in any other way, including for commercial purposes, without our prior written consent.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our website or app in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our website and/or app will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made at our request.
The trade marks, logos and brand names shown on the website and app are owned by us or our suppliers, partners or shareholder Unions. You are not permitted to use them without the prior permission of the relevant owner.
No text or data mining, or web scraping
You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our website or app or any services provided via, or in relation to, our website or app. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the website or app or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790). This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
Third party websites
Where our website or app contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. For information on how any third party processes your personal information, you should refer to the relevant third party’s privacy policy.
Please note that our official merchandise is sold by via our online store at this [website](https://store.sixnationsrugby.com/en/). The online store is currently operated under licence by Fanatics (International) Limited). Where you purchase any goods from our online store, the terms and conditions that apply to the sale and purchase of such goods can be found [here](https://store.sixnationsrugby.com/en/terms--conditions/ch-4479).
Any personal data that is provided to, collected by, or derived using the online store is co-controlled by both Fanatics (International) Limited and us. The use of the online store is subject to its own privacy policy which can be found here.
When you register to participate in the Fantasy game, the terms and conditions that apply to your participation of the Fantasy game can be found here. Any personal data that you provide as part of your registration or participation in the Fantasy game is processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. How to complain about or report content
If you wish to complain about any content, please contact us on [email protected].
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
If you are a business user:
We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our website or app or any content on them.
We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: use of, or inability to use, our website or app; or use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website or app.
In particular, we will not be liable for:
loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
If you are a consumer user:
Please note that we only provide our website and app for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our website or app for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity arising from such use.
If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our [Privacy Policy](https://beta.sixnationsrugby.com/en/privacy-policy).
Uploading content to our website and app
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy. We have the right to remove any posting you make on our website and/or app if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with our content standards.
If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our site and that we have taken down, please contact [email protected]. You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content from the website and app.
Rights you are giving us to use material you upload
When you upload or post content to our website or app, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the services provided by the website and across different media including to promote the website or the service indefinitely.
We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them. We do not guarantee that our website and app will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our website and app. You should use your own virus protection software, ensure you regularly update your web browser and download any updates to the app which are offered to you to help mitigate against the risk of viruses and bugs.
You must not misuse our website or app by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website and/or app, the server on which our website and/or app is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website and/or app. You must not attack our website and/or app via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website and app will cease immediately.
Rules about linking to our website and app
You may link to our website home page, or the link to download our app, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, and by appropriately crediting us.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to our website or app in any website that is not owned by you.
Our website or app must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page, or to our app except for the link to the relevant app store where it can be downloaded.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website or other medium in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below. Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
These Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes in connection with these Terms of Use. English version takes precedence
In the event of any inconsistency between the English language version of these Terms of Use and any other language translation, the English language version takes place.