Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use (the "Terms") carefully. These Terms apply to your download, access and/or use of PaperHouse Game Studio games, whether on your computer, on a mobile device, on our website www.king.com (the "Website") or any other website, device or platform (each a "Game" and together the "Games"). These Terms also apply to any other services that we may provide in relation to the Games or the Website, such as customer support, social media, in-app purchases, community channels, contests, tournaments, and other websites that we may operate from time to time such as but not limited to wordguessgame.com or spacemissiongame.com (we refer to all our Games and other services collectively as the "Services" in these Terms). These Terms are a legal agreement and contain important information about your rights and obligations in relation to our Services.

1.1 If you do not agree to these Terms or any future updated version of them then you must not access and/or use, and must cease all access and/or use of, any of our Services. If we require that any future update to these Terms requires any action from you in order to accept the updated Terms, then you may not be able to continue to use the Services until you have taken such action.

1.2 By clicking "Accept" on the Game's pop-up screen, or installation page, PaperHouse Game Studio's webpage (or where such button or a similar button is otherwise presented) or downloading, installing, accessing or using the Services, you confirm that:

1.2.1 you have read and understood these Terms and any other documents referred to herein, including without limitation our Privacy Policy and that you agree to be bound by these Terms;and

1.2.2 you are at least 13 years old, or else you must not use our Services. If you are the parent or guardian of a minor aged 13 or older (depending on the applicable laws of your country), you are agreeing to these Terms on your behalf and on behalf of your minor(s) who you have authorised to use the Service pursuant to these Terms.

1.3 In these Terms references to "PaperHouse", "PaperHouse Game", "PapaerHouse Game Studio", "we", "us" and "our" are references to PaperHouserGameStudio.com as well as PaperHouser Game Studio’s Affiliates where appropriate. “Affiliate” means any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with King, where ‘control’ means the direct or indirect ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of such entity’s capital or equivalent voting rights

1.4 These Terms are made available via the app store or platform that you download our Games from (such as the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, or Amazon App Store or the Microsoft Store), on any website or platform where you can play our Games such as www.facebook.com. You agree that by accessing and/or using our Services, you are agreeing to these Terms and our Privacy Policy section.

1.7 YOU MUST BE AND HEREBY AFFIRM THAT YOU ARE AN ADULT OF THE LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY IN YOUR COUNTRY OR STATE OF RESIDENCE. If you are under the legal age of majority and over the age of 13, your parent or legal guardian must consent to these Terms as set out in paragraph 1.2.

2.1 The specific game rules, scoring rules, controls and guidelines for each Game can be found within the Game itself. Such rules, scoring rules, controls and guidelines form part of these Terms and you agree that you will comply with them in respect of each individual Game which you choose to access and/or play.

2.2 You are responsible for the internet connection and/or mobile charges that you may incur for accessing and/or using our Services. You should ask your mobile operator or internet service provider if you are unsure what these charges will be, before you access and/or use our Services.

2.3 There may be times when our Services or any part of them are not available for technical or maintenance related reasons, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. See Section "Availability of the Services" below for more information.

3.1 When using our Services you may choose to, and in some instances you will be required to, create an account with us ("PaperHouse Account"). If you do create a PaperHouse Account with us, you agree that you will take all steps necessary to protect your log in details and keep them secret. If you do not create a PaperHouse Account, your game play and any Virtual Content (as defined in Section "Virtual Content") you have will not be accessible from any other device, and will not be restored to a different device if you lose, damage or change your device.

3.2 You agree that you will not give your login details to anyone else or allow anyone else to use your login details or PaperHouse Account.

3.3 In these Terms, references to "login details" or "PaperHouse Account" include your login details and account for any social network or platform that you may allow our Services to interact with.

3.4 We will be entitled to assume that anyone logging into your PaperHouse Account using your login details is you and not anybody else. If you fail to keep your login details secret, or if you share your login details or PaperHouse Account with someone else (whether intentionally or unintentionally), you accept full responsibility for the consequences of this (including any unauthorised purchases) and agree to fully compensate us for any losses or harm that may result.

3.5 We will not be responsible to you for any loss that you suffer as a result of any other person accessing your PaperHouse Account and/or using our Services and we accept no responsibility for any losses or harm resulting from its unauthorised use, whether fraudulently or otherwise.

3.6 We reserve the right to delete your PaperHouse Account if no activity is conducted by you in relation to the King Account for 180 or more days. In such an event, you may no longer be able to access and/or use any Virtual Money and/or Virtual Goods (as defined in Virtual Money and/or Virtual Goods) associated with that PaperHouse Account and no refund will be offered to you in relation to the same.

3.7 You understand that if you delete your PaperHouse Account, or if we delete your PaperHouse Account in accordance with these Terms, you may lose access to any data previously associated with your PaperHouse Account (including, without limitation, your progress through our Games and/or the level or score you have reached in our Games and any Virtual Money or Virtual Goods associated with your PaperHouse Account). We have no obligation to reinstate your PaperHouse Account or be liable for any loss of data if you delete your PaperHouse Account, or if we delete your PaperHouse Account in accordance with these Terms.

3.8 Your PaperHouse Account is personal to you and you are not entitled to transfer your PaperHouse Account to any other person.

3.9 Your use of the Services is licenced, not sold, to you, and you acknowledge and agree that you will have no ownership or other property interest in any account that you create using any of our Services. To the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, we may, acting reasonably, suspend, terminate, modify, revoke access to, or delete any of these accounts (including, without limitation, for any breaches of these Terms). Subject to applicable law, we will provide notice where possible, although you acknowledge we may not always have your direct contact details to do so.

3.10 About Gameplay, Tools, and Support When you use our Services, we may use tools such as AI, your gameplay information (such as your past scores, your country, the level you have reached in a Game, your purchase history, or any other gameplay activity) and/or your personal data to enhance our customer support and your in-game experience. For example, if you send us a query, we may use AI tools which take into account your query details, gameplay information and/or your personal data to offer you the most appropriate support experience. We may also use AI tools, your gameplay information and/or your personal data to personalise your experience of the Services by, for example, adjusting the game challenge to keep it fresh and exciting, and offering customised Services, in-game events, offers, promotions, and/or levels. We may process your precise geolocation data to deliver news, updates, and offers from King, as well as partner deals tailored to your location. This functionality is available only in supported regions and requires both geolocation tracking and marketing push notifications to be enabled, which you can manage in your device and in-game settings. For more information on how your personal data is processed, please see our Privacy Policy.

4.1 Our Games may include virtual currencies such as gold bars and gems ("Virtual Money"), items or services for use within our Games ("Virtual Goods") or paid subscriptions for Virtual Money, Virtual Goods or other in-game features ("Subscriptions"). Virtual Goods, Virtual Money and Subscriptions will together be referred to in these Terms as "Virtual Content". To benefit from or use some Virtual Content in our Games, you may first have to reach a certain level or progress to a certain point. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you agree that (once purchased) Virtual Content has no monetary value and can never be exchanged for real money, real goods or real services from us or anyone else. You agree that Virtual Content is not transferable to anyone else and you will not transfer or attempt to transfer any Virtual Content to anyone else. For the purposes of this Section 4, a "purchase" is complete at the time our servers validate your purchase and the applicable Virtual Content is successfully credited to your account on our servers.

4.2 We reserve the right to control, regulate, change or remove any Virtual Content without any liability to you at any time, but if you have an active Subscription such changes will only take effect following the end of the then-current Subscription period, at which date your Subscription will automatically terminate.

4.3 We may revise the pricing for Virtual Goods and Virtual Money at any time. We may also revise the pricing for Subscriptions offered through the Services with reasonable notice to you and in accordance with applicable law, but if you have an active Subscription such changes will only take effect following the end of the then-current Subscription period. When we give you notice, we will remind you that your continued use after the end of your then-current Subscription period means that you accept the new Subscription prices.

4.4 We may limit the total amount of Virtual Content that may be purchased at any one time, and/or limit the total amount of Virtual Content that may be held in your account in the aggregate. You are only allowed to obtain Virtual Content from us or our authorised partners through the Services, and not in any other way.

4.5 Depending on your platform, any Virtual Content purchased may be subject to your platform provider's terms of service and user agreement. Usage rights for each purchase may differ from item to item for the Apple App Store, for the Google Play Store etc. If you are unsure about usage rights you should check with your platform or our customer support team before making a purchase. Unless otherwise shown, content available in any in-game store has the same age rating as the Game.

5.1 You must comply with the laws that apply to you in the location that you access our Services from. If any laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit you from using our Services, you must comply with those legal restrictions and, if applicable, stop accessing and/or using our Services. You must also comply with our Code of Conduct when you use our Services.

5.2 You promise that all the information you provide to us on accessing and/or using our Services is and will remain true, accurate and complete at all times.

5.3 Information, data, software, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, usernames, guild names or other materials may be sent, uploaded, communicated, transmitted or otherwise made available via our Services by you or another user ("Content"). You understand and agree that all Content that you may be sent when using our Services, whether publicly posted or privately sent, is the sole responsibility of the person that sent the Content. This means that you, not us, are entirely responsible for all Content that you may upload, communicate, transmit or otherwise make available via our Services.

5.4 You agree not to upload, communicate, transmit or otherwise make available any Content or otherwise use the Services in any way:

• that is or could reasonably be viewed as unlawful, harmful, harassing, grooming, defamatory, libellous, obscene or otherwise objectionable;
• that is or could be reasonably viewed as toxic and/or abusive behaviour, or behaviour that is intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others or affect other players;
• that is or could reasonably be viewed as invasive of another's privacy or violate any privacy rights;
• that is likely to, or could reasonably be viewed as likely to incite violence, terrorist activities or racial or ethnic hatred;
• which you do not have a right to make available lawfully (such as inside information, information which belongs to someone else or confidential information);
• which infringes any intellectual property right or other proprietary right of others;
• which consists of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters', 'pyramid schemes' or any other form of solicitation; or
• which contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

5.5 You agree that you will not:

• use our Services to harm anyone or to cause offence to or harass any person, or otherwise use our Services to act in a way that is intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others or affect other players (including, without limitation, engaging in toxic or abusive behaviour);
• use the Services or any third-party systems to commit an illegal or fraudulent action that is prohibited under applicable laws and/or under these Terms;
• exploit, in its entirety or individual components, the Services for any purpose not expressly authorised by us, including, without limitation:
• playing the Game(s) at commercial establishments;
• gathering in-game currency, items, or resources for sale/selling/exchanging outside of our Services;
• performing in-game services including, without limitation, account boosting or power-levelling, in exchange for payment or otherwise;
• communicating or facilitating (by text, live audio communications, or otherwise) any commercial advertisement, solicitation or offer through or within the Services; or
• organising, promoting, facilitating, or participating in any event involving wagering on the outcome, or any other aspect of, our Games, whether or not such conduct constitutes gambling under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction, without authorisation.
• create more than one King Account per platform to access our Services;
• share your PaperHouse Account or login information with anyone, unless these Terms allow it;
• use another person or entity’s email address in order to sign up to use our Services;
• use our Services for fraudulent or abusive purposes (including, without limitation, by using our Services to impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person, entity or our Services);
• disguise, anonymise or hide your IP address or the source of any Content that you may upload;
• use our Services for any commercial or business purpose or for the benefit of any third party or to send unsolicited communications;
• remove or amend any proprietary notices or other ownership information from any part of our Services;
• interfere with or disrupt our Services or servers or networks that provide our Services;
• attempt to modify, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or hack any of our Services, or to defeat or overcome any of our encryption technologies or security measures or data transmitted, processed or stored by us;
• 'harvest', 'scrape' or collect any information about or regarding other people that use our Services, including, but not limited to any personal data or information (including by uploading anything that collects information including but not limited to 'pixel tags' cookies, graphics interchange formats ('gifs') or similar items that are sometimes also referred to as 'spyware' or 'pcms' (passive collection mechanisms);
• sell, transfer or try to sell or transfer a PaperHouse Account or any part of a PaperHouse Account, any Virtual Content (including, without limitation, any sale of Virtual Money and/or Virtual Goods for real money or for other value outside of the relevant Game);
• disrupt the normal flow of a Game or otherwise act in a manner that is likely to negatively affect other players' ability to compete fairly when playing our Games or engaging in real time exchanges;
• disobey any requirements or regulations of any network connected to our Services;
• use our Services in violation of any applicable law or regulation;
• use our Services to cheat or design or assist in cheating (for example, by using automated means or third party software to play), or to otherwise circumvent technological measures designed to control access to, or elements of, our Services, or to do anything else that a reasonable person is likely to believe is not within the spirit of fair play or these Terms;
• be abusive, aggressive, demeaning or conduct offensive behaviour towards PaperHouse’s customer service representatives by any means like chat, email, phone or any other means of communication; or
• use our Services in any other way not permitted by these Terms.

You acknowledge that we may use your gameplay information and/or your personal data to monitor, detect, investigate, and enforce compliance with Section 5.4, 5.5, and other provisions of these Terms. This includes, without limitation, identifying activities such as abusive behaviour, exploitation of game mechanics, or any behaviour that violates applicable laws and regulations. For more information on how we use your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

6.1 Some of our Games allow you to play against an opponent or to play socially with other users. You may be able to:

6.1.1 choose to play against another user or to play socially with another user whom PaperHouse selects for you, or

6.1.2 play against, or play socially with, one of your contacts on a platform or social network which you have allowed our Games to interact with. Some of our Games may also allow you to search for your friends (for example, by email address) in order to find them to play against or play socially with. We may also display the display names of your past opponents so that you can easily find them to play again.

6.2 Where PaperHouse selects another user or opponent for you, or groups you with other users for a game mode, we may either select at random or use such criteria as we see fit in order to make these selections (for example, your past scores, your country, or the level you have reached in the Game or your other gameplay activity).

6.3 By accessing and/or playing our Games you agree that your display name, scores, avatar, country location, online/offline status and other related details may be used and displayed in any and all media (whether it exists now or in the future), for any purpose, in perpetuity, without any payment to you, including (without limitation) to other users in our Games or within our marketing. You also understand that other users may find you by searching for you with your email address, only if another user already knows your email address to search for you. Please note that we will only show your display name publicly, and not your email address. For more information, please read our Privacy Policy.

6.4 About chat, some of our Games may include functionality that may allow you to participate in text with other users. You may be able to participate in text chat with other players, send messages to PaperHouse customer services or publicly on our forums.

7.1 Without limiting any other remedies or any other Section of these Terms, if we reasonably believe that you are in material breach of these Terms (including by repeated minor breaches), we reserve the right to take any of the following actions, whether individually or in combination, and either with or without notice to you:

• delete, suspend and/or modify your PaperHouse Account, parts of your account and/or access to our Games;
• otherwise suspend and/or terminate your access to our Services;
• correct, modify and/or remove any Virtual Content (including but not limited to Virtual Goods or Virtual Money) or game features that may be associated with your account;
• correct, reset and/or modify any game progression, game features or benefits and privileges associated with your account, such as any level, leaderboard position, or score you have reached in our Games
• We may terminate the licence granted to you under these Terms and/or suspend, modify, or delete your account at any time without giving you any prior notice if you materially breach our Terms.

7.2 You agree to compensate us, according to applicable law, for all losses, harm, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of these Terms by you and/or as required to enforce these Terms.

We will notify you if we decide to terminate or suspend any licence we have granted to you under these Terms, unless: we are reasonably unable to notify you due to technical limitations (for example, we do not have your direct contact details); we are terminating or suspending it to comply with a legal obligation which does not include a prior notice obligation; notification is not possible due to a legal obligation to take immediate action; or if we reasonably believe that providing notice is likely to materially harm a third party.

8.1 We may change and update our Services without notice to you. We make no warranty or representation regarding the availability of our Services and reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Services in our sole discretion without notice, including for example, ceasing a Game or other Service for economic reasons due to a limited number of users continuing to make use of that Game or other Service over time, for technical reasons (such as technical difficulties experienced by us or on the internet) or to allow us to improve user experience. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ANY OR ALL OF OUR SERVICES MAY BE TERMINATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU. YOU ASSUME ANY AND ALL RISK OF LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TERMINATION OF OUR SERVICES.

8.2 Services then any obligation you may have to make any payment to download, use or access them will be suspended for the duration of such period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we are not liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations that are caused by events outside our reasonable control. You also acknowledge and agree that we are not liable for any errors relating to Services which are provided wholly by a third party (for example, a community channel hosted and operated by a third party). We are entitled to modify or discontinue the Services or any part of them which are paid-for with real money in our sole discretion upon reasonable notice to you.

9.1 You acknowledge that all copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in and relating to our Services (other than Content which is contributed and owned by players) is owned by or licensed to us.

9.2 Whilst you are in compliance with these Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, personal, revocable limited licence to access and/or use our Services (but not any related object or source code) for your own personal private use, in each case provided that such use is in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to use our Services for anything else. We do not permit bots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated means to access or collect data or other content from or otherwise interact with our Services. These Terms also apply to any update or patches which we may release or make available for any of the Services and any such update or patch will be deemed part of the Services for the purposes of these Terms.

9.3 YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, OTHER THAN THE LICENCE GRANTED TO YOU BY THESE TERMS, YOU WILL HAVE NO OWNERSHIP OR PROPERTY INTEREST IN ANY OF OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY PAPERHOUSE ACCOUNTS OR ANY VIRTUAL CONTENT. You must not copy, distribute, make available to the public or create any derivative work from our Services or any part of our Services unless we have first agreed to this in writing.

9.4 In particular, and without limiting the application of paragraph 11.3, you must not make use or available any cheats or technological measures designed to control access to, or elements of, our Services, including providing access to any Virtual Content, whether on a free of charge basis or otherwise.

9.5 By submitting Content (as defined in paragraph 5.3) via our Services you:

• are representing that you are fully entitled to do so;
• represent and warrant that the Content does not infringe upon the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other rights of any third party;
• grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, fully paid up, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty free, right and licence to exploit the Content and all elements thereof, in any and all media, formats and forms, known now or hereafter devised;
• grant us the unlimited right to edit, adapt, translate, reformat, manufacture, rearrange and transpose, distribute, sell, sub-licence, transmit, provide access to, publish and use the Content you submitted, any derivative works we may create from it and any elements contained therein, in any and all media (whether it exists now or in the future), for any purpose, in perpetuity, without any payment to you;
• acknowledge that you may have what are known as moral rights in the Content, for example the right to be named as the creator of your entry and the right not to have work subjected to derogatory treatment. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to waive any such moral rights you may have in the Content or, if a waiver is not possible under applicable law, not to assert such moral rights; and
• agree that we have no obligation to monitor or protect your rights in any Content that you may submit to us, but you do give us the right to enforce your rights in that Content if we want to, including but not limited to taking legal action (at our cost) on your behalf.

9.6 You must not copy, distribute, make available to the public or create any derivative work from any Content belonging to any other user of our Services.

10.1 The data controller for all personally identifiable information or personal data that we collect about you through or in relation to our Games or other Services is PaperHouse Game Studio.

10.2 PaperHouse Game Studio collect, process, use and share your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and as set out in these Terms. If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy you should not download or access our Games or otherwise access and/or use our Services.

11.1 To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, we may wish to transfer all or a part of our rights or responsibilities under these Terms to someone else without obtaining your consent. You agree that we may do so provided that the transfer does not significantly disadvantage you. You may not transfer any of the rights we give you under these Terms unless we first agree to this in writing.

We reserve the right to update these Terms from time to time by posting the updated version at that address (and where these updates affect you, with reasonable notice to you, as required under applicable law). We may do so for a number of reasons including without limitation because we change the nature of our products or services, for technical or legal reasons, or because the needs of our business have changed. Your continued use of our Services will mean that you accept the amended Terms. You agree that if you do not accept any amendment to our Terms then you must immediately stop accessing and/or using our Services.

Our failure to exercise or enforce any of our rights under these Terms does not waive our right to enforce such rights. Any waiver of such rights will only be effective if it is in writing and signed by us.