Terms of Service

1. Agreement and scope

These Terms of Service (Terms) govern your use of Chess Beats, its online services, and playchessbeats.com (together, the Services), provided by Strategic Gambit LLC, Wyoming, USA (Strategic Gambit, we, us). By selecting the in-app agreement button or otherwise expressly accepting these Terms, you enter into an agreement with us. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. Merely visiting a publicly accessible information page does not constitute express acceptance.

Our Privacy Policy at https://playchessbeats.com/privacy explains how personal data is handled. Agreeing to these Terms does not constitute consent to optional analytics, personalized advertising, or tracking; those choices are managed separately.

For applications obtained through Apple's App Store, Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (Apple EULA) also applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/. These Terms supplement that agreement for our Services and do not replace it. If a provision conflicts with the Apple EULA on a matter governed by that agreement, the Apple EULA controls. Mandatory law always controls. Applicable app-store usage and payment rules also remain in effect. Specific purchase disclosures presented when you buy control over a conflicting general product description in these Terms.

2. Eligibility and minors

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services. A parent or guardian's permission does not make a child under 13 eligible. If local law requires a higher minimum age, that higher age applies.

If you are under 18 or have not reached the age at which you can enter into this agreement where you live, your parent or legal guardian must review and accept these Terms for you and supervise your use. A parent or guardian accepting agrees to these Terms on their own behalf and on behalf of the eligible minor, to the extent permitted by law. You must also satisfy the applicable app store's account and purchase requirements. Provide accurate eligibility information; do not bypass the age screen.

3. Accounts, security, and deletion

You may play using a guest game account or link a supported sign-in method. Keep your credentials secure, use only accounts you are authorized to access, and contact support if you suspect unauthorized use. Do not sell, rent, share access to for commercial purposes, or transfer a game account. You are responsible for activity you authorize, subject to applicable law.

Guest progress and purchases can be difficult or impossible to recover after local data is lost unless the account was linked first. Linking enables supported recovery and synchronization; it does not guarantee recovery of every lost, corrupted, or deleted record. Keep the app updated and follow the available backup and account-linking instructions.

To request deletion in the app, open Options > Account and choose Delete guest data or Delete account. Deletion removes the game account and its wallet, including purchased coins and unlocked in-game items, as described at https://playchessbeats.com/delete-account. Read the confirmation before proceeding. Uninstalling alone does not delete server records. A deletion request does not cancel a subscription or automatically entitle you to a refund; mandatory rights remain unaffected. Records retained for legal, accounting, security, or dispute purposes are explained in the Privacy Policy.

4. Purchases, subscriptions, and advertising

Prices, currency, billing periods, trial eligibility, and included benefits are those shown in the applicable storefront and purchase confirmation. Purchases require the account holder's authorization. Google Play or Apple processes payment; we do not receive your full payment-card details.

Chess Beats Pro is an optional monthly or annual subscription. It renews automatically unless cancelled in the applicable store's subscription settings before the renewal deadline shown by that store. Where offered, a trial converts to the disclosed paid subscription unless cancelled before its stated deadline. Cancellation normally takes effect at the end of the paid period, unless the store or applicable law provides otherwise. Uninstalling or deleting your game account does not cancel Pro. Subscription changes, including price changes, follow applicable store rules and law, including any required notice or consent.

Pro removes banner and interstitial ads while active. Remove Ads is a separate one-time purchase that removes banner and interstitial ads for the supported life of the Services, subject to these Terms and applicable law. Optional rewarded ads, including Arcade continues and shop rewards, remain available with either entitlement. Ad removal does not itself change gameplay. Rewards require completion of the applicable offer and successful confirmation; availability is not guaranteed. Contact support if a completed offer was not credited.

Use Restore Purchases for eligible store entitlements, using the relevant store account. Consumable coin packs are credited to the purchasing game account's wallet; Restore Purchases does not create a second credit for a delivered pack or reconstruct a deleted wallet. Cross-platform access depends on the supported account-linking and entitlement features and is not promised for every purchase.

5. Coins and virtual items

Coins, power-ups, cosmetic unlocks, and other virtual items are limited, personal, non-transferable rights to use features within the Services, not ownership of the software or underlying content. They are not money, deposits, investments, or payment instruments. They have no cash-out value and cannot be sold, transferred between accounts, or redeemed for money, except for refunds or other remedies required by law or the applicable store.

Purchased and earned coins may be used only through supported in-game features. Earning conditions, availability, and prices may change prospectively for the reasons and subject to the safeguards in section 8. A purchase does not guarantee a particular score, ranking, improvement, or future exchange rate. Authorized solo assistance is distinct from prohibited cheating; follow the rules of each mode. Offline practice does not earn rewards unless the game expressly identifies the session as eligible.

Our verified transaction and reward records are used to determine balances and entitlements. We may investigate and correct duplicate, fraudulent, or demonstrably erroneous grants and transactions. If you dispute a correction, contact support with the transaction reference; do not send passwords or payment-card details. An automated record does not remove your right to challenge an error.

6. Refunds, reversals, and purchase problems

Refund requests for store purchases should ordinarily be submitted through the store that processed the payment. Store procedures do not exclude rights or remedies you may have against Strategic Gambit under applicable law. If an authorized purchase is missing, duplicated, or defective, contact support so we can investigate. We do not promise a refund or replacement in every case.

If a payment is refunded, reversed, cancelled, or confirmed unauthorized, we may revoke the corresponding entitlement, remaining attributable coins, or unused virtual items funded by that payment. Adjustments are limited to attributable value; legitimate unrelated balances are not a penalty fund. Our wallet does not create debt or a negative balance, or take future earned coins, to recover already consumed refunded value. Where an item has mixed funding, unaffected value is preserved. A supported reversal of a refund may restore recovered coin value rather than both an item and its price.

Requesting a refund or exercising a lawful consumer right is not itself a violation of these Terms. Intentional payment fraud, fabricated receipts, or exploitation of refund systems may lead to proportionate enforcement under section 9. Except where store rules or applicable law provide otherwise, consumed virtual items and unused portions of voluntary cancellations are not refundable. Nothing here limits statutory withdrawal, cancellation, conformity, or refund rights.

7. Licence and intellectual property

Subject to these Terms and applicable store usage rules, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-commercial, non-transferable licence to install and use Chess Beats on devices you own or control. Any sharing rights granted by mandatory law or applicable store usage rules remain unaffected. This licence ends as provided in section 9.

Strategic Gambit LLC and its licensors retain all intellectual property rights in the software, original content, artwork, audio, branding, and presentation of Chess Beats, to the extent protected by applicable law. The application is licensed, not sold. No ownership rights are transferred to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Third-party software and asset notices are available in Options > Licenses & credits. Applicable third-party licence terms govern those components.

Except as permitted by these Terms, applicable law, or a third-party licence, you may not copy, distribute, sell, sublicense, modify, or create derivative works of the application or our protected content, remove proprietary notices, reverse engineer or decompile the software, or use our branding in a way that implies sponsorship or endorsement. Ordinary personal screenshots and gameplay recordings may be shared, provided they do not misrepresent affiliation or separately redistribute our assets; this permission does not grant rights in third-party music or other third-party material beyond its applicable licence.

8. Updates, changes, and availability

We may update or modify the Services for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, technical compatibility, bug fixes, game balance, or reasonable operational reasons. This may include changes to supported devices, features, reward conditions, virtual-item prices, and online functionality. Required security and compatibility updates may be necessary to continue using online features. We do not promise that the Services or every feature will remain available indefinitely.

Changes will be made consistently with applicable law and existing purchase commitments. For material adverse changes to ongoing paid access, we will provide the notice, cancellation opportunity, continued access, price reduction, or refund required by applicable law or the store. Where EU/EEA digital-content rules apply, modifications beyond those needed to maintain conformity require a valid contractual reason, no additional charge for that modification, and clear information; more than minor adverse effects trigger the applicable advance durable-medium notice and termination protections. We will not use a general change clause to override those rights.

If we discontinue the Services, we will provide reasonable advance notice where practicable and any remedies required by law or binding purchase commitments. Emergency security measures or legal requirements may require action without advance notice. Routine maintenance, third-party outages, and events outside our reasonable control may interrupt availability, without excluding responsibility that law requires us to retain.

We may revise these Terms for the reasons above or to clarify our agreement. A new version and effective date will be identified. We will give reasonable advance notice of material changes through the app or another appropriate channel and request renewed acceptance where required. Revisions do not retroactively remove accrued rights or change the terms of an existing dispute. Declining revised Terms may prevent continued use where the revision is necessary, subject to your existing purchase and statutory rights.

9. Acceptable use, suspension, and termination

Do not cheat; manipulate saved data, scores, wallets, rewards, or receipts; exploit defects to obtain unauthorized benefits; use bots or automation for unauthorized play or claims; bypass access or security controls; disrupt the Services; access another person's account without authority; or use the Services unlawfully. Accessibility tools that do not automate gameplay or bypass restrictions are not prohibited by this clause. Statutory research, interoperability, and third-party licence rights remain unaffected. On ranked features, if offered, follow their published assistance and fair-play rules.

We may temporarily restrict affected features while reasonably investigating suspected fraud, security incidents, or material violations. Where supported by the findings, we may correct affected records, remove illegitimate rewards or scores, suspend access, or terminate an account for serious or repeated violations. Action will be proportionate to the circumstances. Where practicable and lawful, we will give the reason and an opportunity to correct the issue or request review. We may act immediately where needed to prevent harm, protect security, or comply with law. Contact support to dispute an action.

You may stop using the Services at any time and request deletion as described in section 3. Upon termination, your licence to use the affected Services ends. The treatment of remaining paid access and virtual items is subject to sections 3–6 and 8, applicable store rules, and mandatory law; termination does not automatically remove statutory refund rights. Clauses concerning accrued payment obligations, intellectual property, liability, dispute resolution, and general provisions survive to the extent relevant after termination.

10. Third-party services

The Services use third-party providers, including app stores, Google AdMob, Firebase, RevenueCat, and platform achievement services. External services and linked websites may have their own terms and privacy policies. Links and advertisements are not endorsements. We do not control independent third-party content, availability, or transactions and are not responsible for them to the extent permitted by law. This does not exclude our responsibility for our own obligations or for providers acting on our behalf where the law makes us responsible.

11. Warranties and limitations of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of uninterrupted or error-free operation, accuracy, suitability for a particular purpose, merchantability, or non-infringement. Ratings, statistics, puzzle evaluations, and training features are informational and do not guarantee playing strength, competitive results, or improvement. We do not guarantee that all lost progress or data can be recovered. Express purchase commitments and mandatory conformity and consumer guarantees remain unaffected.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Strategic Gambit LLC and its officers, employees, contractors, and licensors are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, or loss of profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill, or data arising from use of or inability to use the Services. These exclusions apply regardless of the legal theory and whether the possibility of the loss was advised, but only where permitted for the particular claim.

Subject to the exceptions below and the Apple EULA priority in section 1, the aggregate liability of those parties for all claims arising from the same event or related events is limited to the total amount you paid for Chess Beats purchases and subscriptions, including amounts paid through Google Play or Apple, in the twelve months immediately preceding the first event giving rise to the claim. The cap is an aggregate limit, not a separate allowance for each claim or defendant.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, wilful misconduct, gross negligence where it cannot be limited, death or personal injury caused by negligence where such limitation is prohibited, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Nothing limits non-waivable consumer, privacy, or data-protection rights. If a limitation is not permitted where you live, it applies only to the extent permitted there.

12. Governing law and disputes

These Terms and disputes with Strategic Gambit are governed by Wyoming law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules, except that you retain all mandatory protections of the laws that apply in your country or state of residence. Subject to those protections and section 1, courts of competent jurisdiction in Wyoming are the agreed forum for disputes with Strategic Gambit. If consumer law entitles you to bring proceedings in your home courts or requires us to sue there, those rights prevail.

You may contact support@playchessbeats.com to seek an informal resolution. Doing so is not a mandatory prerequisite to exercising legal rights and does not shorten statutory time limits or restrict access to regulators, small-claims courts, or other remedies. These Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration or a class-action waiver.

13. General provisions and contact

These Terms, applicable purchase disclosures, and the agreements identified in section 1 form the agreement for their respective subject matter. A failure or delay in enforcing a provision is not a waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain effective to the extent the agreement can lawfully continue, without rewriting an unfair term to deprive a consumer of protection.

You may not assign this agreement or transfer your game account except as allowed by applicable law or with our written agreement. We may transfer this agreement as part of a reorganization, merger, or sale of the relevant business, provided this does not reduce your mandatory rights or our existing obligations to you; we will give notice where required. Apart from the protected parties identified in section 11 and rights under applicable platform agreements, these Terms do not create third-party enforcement rights.

For support, purchase disputes, account questions, or legal notices concerning these Terms, contact support@playchessbeats.com. The contracting provider is Strategic Gambit LLC, Wyoming, USA. Do not send passwords or full payment-card details. Nothing in this contact procedure displaces legally required methods of service.