What are the DraftKings Community Guidelines?

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DraftKings is committed to ensuring a safe, fun, and fair experience for all.

• DraftKings monitors peer-to-peer games and reviews customer concerns Security & Safeguards

To that end, Game Integrity investigators consistently monitor DraftKings’ peer-to-peer game ecosystem. In addition to its proactive detection and protection processes, Game Integrity is also committed to reviewing all customer-submitted concerns to supplement its extensive data-centric internal reviews. If you have concerns about the integrity of a contest, you can get in touch with Game Integrity by emailing GameIntegrity@DraftKings.com.

• DraftKings monitors peer-to-peer games and reviews customer concerns Security & Safeguards

Adherence to the Community Guidelines helps to ensure that the integrity of our contests is maintained. The examples below outline permitted and unpermitted behavior while playing in our Fantasy contests.

• These behavior examples concern Fantasy contests Account & Service Control

Permitted Behaviors

Social behavior that is a natural and encouraged part of the DraftKings experience may include the following:

• These behavior examples concern Fantasy contests Account & Service Control

• Discussing strategy around building lineups, statistics, and the quality of your picks publicly or privately.
• • You may discuss lineup strategy publicly or privately Account & Service Control
• Example: A discord chat with peers who play on DraftKings to discuss and debate which athletes or teams will be the winning plays in that day's contests.
• • You may discuss lineup strategy publicly or privately Account & Service Control
• Competing in a contest against friends or other fantasy sports customers that you know personally.
• • You may compete against friends and people you know Account & Service Control
• Example A: You and a friend compete in the same single-entry contest to see who can build a better lineup.
• • You may compete against friends and people you know Account & Service Control
• Example B: You and a family member compete in the same 150-max multi-entry GPP contest against the field as well as against each other.
• • You may compete against friends and people you know Account & Service Control
  • Do not coordinate complementary lineups for an unfair advantage Account & Service Control
• Using third-party media sources such as streaming video, coaching sites, projections, or lineup construction tools to help you skillfully build your own lineups.
• • Third-party tools may help you build your own lineups Account & Service Control
• Example: Signing up for a fantasy sports content site to use its baseline projections and lineup optimizer to build a roster of contest entries that incorporate a component of your own skill.
• • Third-party tools may help you build your own lineups Account & Service Control
  • Pre-built lineups cannot replace the customer’s own skill Account & Service Control
• Entering as many contests as you’d like up to the maximum permitted by the customer First Initiative's Enhanced Contest Eligibility and Single Entry Limits product features.
• • You may enter multiple contests within the applicable limits Account & Service Control
• Example: You are excited about a Sunday afternoon slate of NFL games, so you decide to enter a variety of guaranteed and non-guaranteed contests within the same Game Set.
• • You may enter multiple contests within the applicable limits Account & Service Control
• Choosing the athletes you want to draft in your contest entries, regardless of “conventional wisdom.”
• • Your athlete choices may depart from conventional wisdom Account & Service Control
• Example A: You receive the first pick in a Best Ball draft and make a choice to select the athlete you believe will be the most valuable for your roster throughout the season.
• • Your athlete choices may depart from conventional wisdom Account & Service Control
• Example B: You play in a multi-entry NFL contest where you roster a backup QB in some of the entries as part of a contrarian long-shot strategy.
• • Your athlete choices may depart from conventional wisdom Account & Service Control
  • Do not coordinate complementary lineups for an unfair advantage Account & Service Control
• Learning from your peers how to become a better fantasy sports customer, or teaching others how to participate in DraftKings contests.
• • You may learn from peers and teach others to participate Account & Service Control
• Example A: Following leading fantasy sports customers on social media that discuss lineup construction processes to learn how to build and enter lineups of your own.
• • You may learn from peers and teach others to participate Account & Service Control
• Example B: Your friends would like to start participating in DraftKings contests, so you show them how to create and enter lineups using components of their own skill.
• • You may learn from peers and teach others to participate Account & Service Control
  • Do not share your account or log into someone else’s Security & Safeguards

Unpermitted Behaviors

Group play behavior that may create an unfair advantage over others in a contest, regardless of intent, is not permitted. Such behavior may include the following:

• You may discuss lineup strategy publicly or privately Account & Service Control
• Group play that may create an unfair advantage is prohibited Account & Service Control

• Team-building complementary lineups that may create an unfair advantage over individual play (commonly referred to as "collusive behavior").
• • You may compete against friends and people you know Account & Service Control
  • Do not coordinate complementary lineups for an unfair advantage Account & Service Control
• Example A: You and a friend coordinate the makeup of the lineups you build to minimize direct competition with each other in the same multi-entry contest.
• • Do not coordinate complementary lineups for an unfair advantage Account & Service Control
• Example B: You and a group of friends collaborate in NFL contests, each drafting different QBs and WRs to minimize direct competition with each other.
• • Do not coordinate complementary lineups for an unfair advantage Account & Service Control
• Allowing someone else to use your account, or logging into another person’s account.
• • Do not share your account or log into someone else’s Security & Safeguards
• Example A: A friend borrows your account because that friend’s own account is restricted.
• • Do not share your account or log into someone else’s Security & Safeguards
• Example B: You give a friend your username and password to submit lineups for you because you are in a location where DraftKings does not offer fantasy sports contests.
• • You may learn from peers and teach others to participate Account & Service Control
  • Do not share your account or log into someone else’s Security & Safeguards
• Entering the maximum number of entries in a contest, type of contest, or event, and having another person enter additional entries for you.
• • Do not use another person to exceed entry limits Account & Service Control
• Example: A contest has a maximum of 150 entries but you want to enter more, so you ask a friend to enter additional lineups for you in the contest.
• • Do not use another person to exceed entry limits Account & Service Control
• Any use or distribution of pre-built lineups that bypass the need for the end customer to incorporate a component of their own skill.
• • Pre-built lineups cannot replace the customer’s own skill Account & Service Control
• Example: Building lineups with the use of a lineup creation tool, such as an optimizer, without incorporating your own substantive, independent decisions.
• • Pre-built lineups cannot replace the customer’s own skill Account & Service Control
• Having another fantasy sports customer enter your lineup in a contest against an opponent that has blocked you from competition.
• • Do not use another customer to evade an opponent’s block Account & Service Control
• Example: You play in Head-to-Head contests with another customer who no longer lets you join Head-to-Head games, so you instruct a friend to play against that customer for you while using your lineup.
• • Do not use another customer to evade an opponent’s block Account & Service Control

DraftKings is committed to its world-class Game Integrity detection and protection processes that monitor the peer-to-peer game ecosystem. We uphold the policies defined within the Terms of Use, Community Guidelines, and contest rules equally for all customers. To protect both the integrity of our contests and the privacy of our customers, DraftKings cannot comment on any public assumptions or disclose any corrective actions or enforcement taken against a customer.

• DraftKings says it applies its policies equally to all customers Account & Service Control
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