Terms

Eligibility

You must be able to form a legally binding agreement to use LuckyDuck, and you must be at least the legal age to play the lottery in the province where your pool's tickets are bought: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island and Yukon set it at 19, and Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan set it at 18. When you join a pool you confirm that you are at least that age, and we record the age and province you confirmed. LuckyDuck doesn't sell lottery tickets or verify your age to purchase one - that's between you and the official lottery retailer or operator.

What LuckyDuck is

LuckyDuck watches Lotto Max, Lotto 6/49, and the WCLC EXTRA add-on draws and checks them against tickets you've saved. When a draw completes, it tells you what it found.

Each cycle of a pool plays one lottery, Lotto Max or Lotto 6/49. The organizer chooses which, and the next cycle can use the other.

What it isn't

LuckyDuck doesn't sell tickets, place bets, or process gambling transactions. It isn't a lottery operator, and it isn't affiliated with WCLC, OLG, or any lottery corporation. It's a personal tool for keeping track of results. If lottery or gambling activity is causing you harm, resources like responsiblegambling.org can help, regardless of where you live in Canada.

Verification and its limits

LuckyDuck checks your tickets against results published by WCLC and OLG. When those sources agree, it tells you whether you have a possible win or no win. When it can't get a clear answer, it says so instead of guessing. "Couldn't verify yet" means exactly that: not a loss, not a win, just no answer yet. The WCLC EXTRA add-on has no independent second source to confirm results against, so it can reach a possible win or couldn't verify, but it can never reach a confirmed no-win.

Your responsibilities

LuckyDuck doesn't replace checking your ticket yourself. You're responsible for validating any ticket and claiming any prize through the official channels. Always confirm a result against the official source before acting on it.

Group invites and consent

A pool organizer can create a pending invite using only a first name they choose as a label - no contact information is collected at that point. If an invite is never accepted, the invite link stops working after 14 days. Only once you personally open an invite link and agree do we store your chosen name and email address, and only then do we email you. You can withdraw that agreement at any time from the notifications link in any email we send you.

Joining a paid or finalized group pool involves a separate, additional agreement, covering things like an age attestation, a non-contribution policy, and roster finalization, which is presented to you at the time you join that pool. This section covers invites generally; that separate agreement governs your participation in the pool itself.

Payments

Who pays what

Group pools of up to 4 participating people are free. For pools of 5 or more participating people, the LuckyDuck service fee is $1 per participating person, plus applicable tax on that service fee only (never on the lottery contribution). The organizer counts as a participating person, and every participating person shares the fee. The fee is separate from any lottery contribution and is never taken from pool funds.

Members pay their organizer directly and never pay LuckyDuck. After members have agreed, the organizer requests payment, and each member receives one request showing their lottery contribution, their share of the service fee, the tax on that fee, and one total. The organizer chooses how to collect it and sends payment instructions. LuckyDuck records what the organizer marks as paid. It never collects, holds or verifies the money, never accepts money from members, and never holds the pool's lottery contributions or prize money, only the service fee itself.

Payment and refunds

LuckyDuck receives one payment per cycle, from the organizer, based on the finalized participant count. The final participant count, and so the final fee, is determined when the organizer finalizes the cycle. See the Pricing page for current amounts.

Payments are processed through Stripe. LuckyDuck never sees or stores your full card details. Once a cycle's payment has been made, it isn't refundable, except where we made an error. If you believe you were charged incorrectly, contact us through our contact page.

Recommendation program

A pool organizer can share a LuckyDuck link with another pool organizer. A pool started through that link has LuckyDuck's service fee covered for its first cycle. When that pool finalizes its first cycle with 5 or more participating people, LuckyDuck covers its service fee for the next cycle of the pool whose link was used, for a cycle that would otherwise have a fee.

A covered cycle:

• covers LuckyDuck's service fee only, never lottery tickets or member contributions
• has no cash value and can't be sold, transferred, or applied to another pool
• belongs to the pool whose link was used, not to the organizer personally
• isn't used up on a cycle that is already free (4 or fewer participating people)

A pool holds one covered cycle at a time, and an organizer can earn up to 3 covered cycles in any 12 months. LuckyDuck may refuse, reverse, or cancel a covered cycle if a link is used to game the program, for example by recommending your own pool to yourself or by creating a pool only to earn one. We may change or end the program, and changes are handled as described under Changes below.

Third-party services

LuckyDuck depends on services it doesn't control, including:

• WCLC and OLG websites, for draw results
• Clerk, for sign-in
• OneSignal, for push notifications
• Stripe, for group-pool payments
• Hosting, database, and file storage providers

We name these hosting and storage providers specifically in our Privacy page, since they may change over time as LuckyDuck grows.

If any of these are unavailable, slow, or wrong, LuckyDuck's results can be delayed, incomplete, or unable to verify.

No warranty / limitation of liability

LuckyDuck is provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind. Results are informational only and are never a substitute for checking your physical ticket against the official draw results yourself. Prize claim deadlines are set by the lottery operator, not by us, and they don't pause because LuckyDuck was slow, wrong, or unavailable.

To the extent permitted by law, LuckyDuck and its operator aren't liable for missed prizes, expired claim windows, or any other loss connected to using this app, and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you've paid us in the past 12 months, which for a free service is zero. Some jurisdictions don't allow these kinds of limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Suspension and termination

You can stop using LuckyDuck and delete your account at any time. We can suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe an account is being used to abuse the service, violate these terms, or interfere with other users, and we'll generally try to tell you why.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Saskatchewan and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If a dispute goes to court, the courts of Saskatchewan have jurisdiction, though this doesn't stop you from using any local consumer protection rights you may have where you live.

Changes

These terms may change as LuckyDuck changes. Material changes, such as new fees, reduced rights, or new uses of your data, will be emailed to you in advance. Other changes, like wording clarifications, take effect when we update this page.

Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent through our contact page.