terms of use

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these terms cover your use of slotsscience.com, operated by [PLACEHOLDER: legal entity name, company number, registered address] ("we"). by using the site you accept them. they're short, because the honest version of a terms page is short.

1. what this site is

slots·science publishes statistical simulations of slot games, bust rates, session-survival data, bonus-frequency analysis, built from models calibrated to published game math (see our methodology). it is information and entertainment. it is not:

2. who may use it

you must be 18 or older (or the legal gambling age where you live, if higher, 19 in some canadian provinces) and located somewhere it is legal for you to read about and participate in online play. the site is available worldwide with one exception: it is not directed at, and its offers are not available to, residents of the united states. the operators we currently list are not UK-licensed, so their offers are not available to united kingdom residents either; any UK-licensed offers will be handled on a separate track. you are responsible for knowing your local law; we can't know it for you.

3. affiliate disclosure

this site is funded by affiliate commissions. outbound links to casinos are affiliate links: if you sign up or deposit through them, we may be paid by the operator, at no extra cost to you. this funds the lab. it does not shape the data, results are produced and locked before any affiliate placement happens, and our methodology page explains the separation. where we link a specific casino for a specific game, it reflects where that game's best published RTP version was last observed, a factual configuration note, not a promise about outcomes.

4. third-party sites

casinos and other sites we link to are run by third parties under their own terms, licenses, and privacy policies. we don't control them, we aren't responsible for them, and we are not a party to any agreement you enter with an operator. an operator appearing in our studies is not a representation that it is licensed or lawful in your location. an affiliate relationship is not an endorsement of everything an operator does; if one of our partners treats players badly, tell us, [PLACEHOLDER: contact email].

5. accuracy, corrections, and no warranty

we work hard to make the numbers right: validated models, confidence intervals, a two-source rule for input data, and a corrections policy that fixes errors loudly and with dates (see methodology). still, the site is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. simulations are models, published RTP configurations change without notice, and third-party data can be wrong. don't make financial decisions based on this site, that's not what it's for, and the data itself says gambling loses money on average.

the simulator is free, plays with imaginary money, and models published math rather than any provider's game engine. it is offered for information and entertainment, "as is", without warranty of availability or fitness for any purpose. its outcomes are random draws from a statistical model and have no relationship to any outcome on any real machine.

6. limitation of liability

to the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for losses arising from use of the site, reliance on its content, or anything that happens on third-party sites you reach through our links, including gambling losses. nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, or affects consumer rights that your local law grants you regardless of contract.

7. intellectual property

studies, text, charts, and the underlying results data are ours ([PLACEHOLDER: entity]) unless marked otherwise. you may quote and share excerpts and charts with attribution and a link to the study, journalists and researchers, that's an invitation. you may not republish entire studies, scrape the site at scale, or pass our data off as your own. game names and trademarks belong to their providers; we reference them factually for identification.

8. acceptable use

don't misuse the site: no attempting to breach security, no automated bulk scraping, no reposting our content in ways that strip its context or disclaimers, and no using our content to make edge, prediction, or "guaranteed win" claims, that last one misrepresents our work and we will ask you to stop, then make you.

9. changes to these terms

we may update these terms; material changes get a dated note at the top of this page. continued use after a change means acceptance. if a court finds any clause unenforceable, the rest stands. these terms do not create any partnership, agency, or advisory relationship between you and us.

10. governing law

these terms are governed by the laws of [PLACEHOLDER: jurisdiction, should match the legal entity's home], and disputes go to the courts of [PLACEHOLDER: venue], without depriving you of mandatory consumer protections where you live.

11. contact

[PLACEHOLDER: contact email] · [PLACEHOLDER: entity name and registered address]

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