Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and the Flickcade team (“Flickcade”, “we”, “us”), who run Flickcade.

This is version 1 of the terms, in force from the date shown above. You accept them when you create an account. If you use Flickcade without an account, they apply to that use too.

Our Community Guidelines are part of these terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data.

You must be at least 13 years old. If the law where you live sets a higher age for agreeing to the use of your personal data — up to 16 in some countries of the European Union — you need the consent of a parent or guardian below that age, and they accept these terms for you.

You may not use Flickcade if we have suspended your account for breaking these terms, or if the law where you are forbids it.

• Give accurate information. Your username and display name must not pretend to be someone else.
• Keep your password secret and don’t let anyone else use your account. You are responsible for what happens in it; tell us at once if you think someone else has used it.
• Confirm your email address. You need a confirmed address to set a profile picture, write comments, change your profile text, create studios and publish games.

You can delete your account at any time; see Delete your account.

You may use Flickcade for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. You can browse and play without an account; liking, saving, commenting, following and reporting need one.

You must not:

• break the law or the Community Guidelines;
• use bots, scripts or other automated means to create accounts, post, like, follow, play or report, or to collect data from Flickcade;
• fake activity — plays, likes, follows, comments or reports — or manipulate statistics or rankings;
• get around a suspension, a block, the countries a game is available in, moderation, or any other limit we set;
• probe, scan, overload or attack Flickcade, its players or its games, or try to reach data that isn’t yours;
• copy, modify or reverse-engineer our apps or services, except where the law allows it;
• use Flickcade’s name or logo in a way that suggests we endorse you.

What you post — your profile picture, bio and comments, and what you publish as a developer — stays yours.

So that we can run Flickcade, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, re-encode, display and distribute your content on Flickcade, and to let others see it there as the service intends. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for the copies our Privacy Policy says we keep for a time, and content we must keep by law.

You confirm that you have the rights to what you post, and that posting it breaks no law and no one’s rights.

Usernames, display names, bios, comments, studio names, handles and bios, and profile and studio pictures are checked automatically before they are published, and may be refused. We don’t review everything people post and aren’t responsible for what others post, but we act on reports.

Games are made by independent developers, not by us. A moderator reviews every game, and every update to it, before players can see it, but a review can’t catch everything. If a game breaks the rules, report it.

Games and features can change or be removed. A game may not be available in every country, because its developer chooses where it appears.

A game can ask to use your camera, microphone or location. It gets access only if you allow it, and only while it is on screen.

Game progress is saved on your phone only. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes it.

This section applies when you publish games through a studio on the developer portal, developers.flickcade.com.

Studios

A studio is the public name your games appear under. You need a confirmed email address to create one, you can own up to five, and you are responsible for everything published under them. Who owns a studio stays private unless you choose to show the studio on your profile.

What you submit

A game is a web build — HTML5, Unity WebGL, Cocos Creator or another engine’s web export — with a title, description, genres, orientation, cover and, if you like, a trailer. Everything you submit must be accurate: the listing must show the game players will get.

Review

A moderator reviews every game, and every update, before players see it, and approves or rejects it. We email you the result; a rejection says what to fix. A rejected game you don’t resubmit within 30 days is deleted with its files, and a rejected update is discarded while the approved version stays — never before we have emailed you a reminder at least 3 days ahead. While an update to a published game waits for review, players keep getting the approved version. You can have only a limited number of games waiting for review or rejected at once; the portal shows how many.

What a game must do

• Load only its own files, and data from services you declare when you submit it; moderators review those services. Load no code from anywhere else, and change what the game does only by submitting an update.
• Follow the Community Guidelines and suit players aged 13 and over.
• Contain no malware, and nothing that tries to break out of the game or reach other games, the player’s account or their device beyond what the game needs.
• Use the camera, microphone or location only for gameplay that needs it.
• Collect personal data only where the game needs it, tell players what it collects, and follow the law. You are responsible for the personal data your game, or a service it uses, handles.
• Respect the terms of every service your game uses.

Your rights in your games

Your games stay yours. You confirm that you own, or have permission to use, everything in them — code, art, music, fonts, names and trademarks — and that publishing them on Flickcade breaks no law and no one’s rights.

You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, re-encode, display, run and distribute your games, and to make them available to players in the countries you choose, for as long as they are published. We may use a game’s title, cover, trailer and studio name to show and promote it on Flickcade and on our own websites.

Running your games

You can pause a published game, choose the countries it is available in, or delete it, at any time from the portal — except while its studio is suspended. Deleting a game removes it from Flickcade and deletes its files.

You see statistics about how your games are played — views, play time, numbers of players, how many come back and from which countries — as totals. You get no data that identifies individual players.

Money

Publishing on Flickcade is free, and Flickcade doesn’t pay developers at this time. Games can’t sell anything or show ads through Flickcade yet. If that changes, separate terms will apply, and we will publish them first.

If a game breaks the rules

We may reject, suspend or block a game, and suspend a studio or reset its page, if it breaks these terms or the Community Guidelines, if it puts players at risk, or if the law requires it. A game’s suspension can end on a date we set or when we lift it; a block and a studio’s suspension last until we lift them. We email you what we did and why, and a game’s reason also shows in the portal; see Moderation.

We use automatic checks, reports from players and our own moderators to keep Flickcade safe. Automatic checks only refuse something before it is published; they never remove what is already up or suspend anyone — moderators do. When content or behaviour breaks these terms or the Community Guidelines, or the law requires it, we can remove a comment or a picture, replace a profile’s or a studio page’s names and bio with neutral ones, suspend an account or a studio until we lift the suspension, and suspend or block a game.

When a moderator suspends your account or one of your studios, removes your picture or comment, resets your profile or studio page, or suspends or blocks your game, we email you what was done, the reason and the moderator’s message. We email only a confirmed address: if yours isn’t confirmed, you aren’t emailed. If the email can’t be sent at once, we keep trying for up to 7 days; if the decision no longer stands by then — a suspension lifted or over — we don’t send it. If you think we made a mistake, reply to that email or write to support@flickcade.com, and a person will look at the decision again. You can also go to court or, in the European Union, to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body.

Where the law requires us to, we report illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material, to the competent authorities.

The Flickcade apps, websites, name and logo belong to us. These terms give you no rights in them beyond using Flickcade as the terms allow.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely.

If you believe something on Flickcade infringes your copyright or another right, write to support@flickcade.com with what it is and where, which right it infringes and why it is yours, and how to contact you. We remove infringing content, and suspend the accounts of people who infringe again and again.

We may change, add or remove features. If a change takes away something important you rely on, we tell you in advance where we can.

We may update these terms. Each version has a number and a date it takes effect. When there is a new version, we tell you in the app or by email, and you need to accept it before you can post, comment, change your profile or publish again. If you don’t accept it, you can stop using Flickcade and delete your account.

You can stop using Flickcade and delete your account at any time.

We may suspend your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if the law requires it, or if your account puts others at risk. While it is suspended you can’t sign in, and what you made is hidden from everyone. We email you the suspension and its reason (Moderation).

When your account ends, these terms stop applying to you, except the parts that by their nature continue — such as the licence for copies we keep, your responsibility for your content and games, and the limits of our liability.

We work to keep Flickcade running and safe, but we provide it as it is and as available. We can’t promise that it will always work, that it will be free of errors, or that every game will run on your device.

Games and content are provided by the people who publish them. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for them beyond our duties under these terms and the law.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited — for example for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud — or your rights as a consumer.

Otherwise, to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for losses that were not foreseeable, for losses caused by games or content that others publish, or for game progress lost from your phone.

These terms do not choose the law of a particular country.

Nothing in these terms takes away the rights you have under the law of the country where you live, including mandatory consumer protection.

If you have a problem with Flickcade, write to us first at support@flickcade.com; most problems can be solved that way.

Questions about these terms: support@flickcade.com.