Terms of service
Effective Date: January 25, 2021The terms of this agreement (“Terms of Service”) govern the relationship between you and Mutate AB, a Swedish company (business ID 556972-2134) having its registered office at Hammarby Kaj 10A, 120 32 Stockholm, Sweden, (hereinafter “Mutate” or “Us” or “We”) regarding your use of Mutate’s platform (the “Platform”). The Platform is part of a service offered by Mutate that allows users to develop games, connect with other users to play games, and use content created by you and other users (the “Service”).Before accessing or using the Service, including browsing any Mutate website or accessing the Platform, you must agree to these Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You may also be required to register an account on the Service (an “Account”). By registering for an Account or otherwise using the Service, you represent that you are age 13 or older. If you are between the ages of 13 and 17, you represent that your legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms.BY INSTALLING, USING OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL, USE OR OTHERWISE ACCESS THE SERVICE. USE OF THE SERVICE IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.Mutate reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Service, its Privacy Policy and other relevant Mutate policies at any time by posting the amended terms on the Mutate Service. You will be deemed to have accepted such changes by continuing to use the Service. If at any point you do not agree to any portion of the then-current version of our Terms of Service, the Mutate Privacy Policy, or any otherMutate policy, rules or codes of conduct relating to your use of the Service, your license to use the Service shall immediately terminate, and you must immediately stop using the Service.
Early Access
WHERE THE PLATFORM IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU AS PART OF AN ALPHA, BETA OR OTHER EARLY ACCESS PROGRAMME YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE, ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPT THAT:THE PLATFORM IS MADE AVAILABLE “AS IS” AS WORK IN PROGRESS AND AS PART OF AN EARLY ACCESS PROGRAMME FOR EVALUATION AND DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY, IN ORDER TO ASSESS AND EVALUATE ITS PERFORMANCE INCLUDING THE IDENTIFICATION OF ANY ERRORS OR DEFECTS;THE PLATFORM MAY (AND LIKELY WILL) CONTAIN DEFECTS AND/OR ERRORS;THE PLATFORM MAY AND PROBABLY WILL CRASH AND / OR CAUSE DATA LOSS;YOU USE, DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THE PLATFORM AT YOUR OWN RISK, KNOWING THAT IT IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITH FAULTS.YOU ARE ADVISED TO BACK-UP AND OTHERWISE SAFEGUARD ALL DATA AND SOFTWARE ON YOUR COMPUTER AND TO NOT RELY ON THE CORRECT FUNCTIONING OR PERFORMANCE OF THE PLATFORM.YOU MAY HAVE ACCESS TO AND BE ENTRUSTED WITH CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS RELATING TO THE PLATFORM BEFORE IT IS MADE PUBLIC, AND ABOUT OUR BUSINESS AND PLANS. YOU WILL NOT DIVULGE OR COMMUNICATE TO ANY PERSON, CAUSE OR FACILITATE ANY DISCLOSURE OF, OR MAKE ANY USE OF, SUCH CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION WITHOUT OUR PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION. THIS OBLIGATION SHALL SURVIVE TERMINATION OF THE TERMS BUT SHALL NOT APPLY IN RESPECT OF ANY INFORMATION WHICH HAS BECOME AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC GENERALLY OTHER THAN THROUGH UNAUTHORISED DISCLOSURE.WHERE THE SERVICE OR PROGRAMME IS MADE AVAILABLE AS PART OF AN EARLY ACCESS PROGRAMME THIS DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE MORE GENERALLY OR RELEASED IN FINAL FORM OR THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE OUR PROGRESS IN ANY FULL RELEASE. WE MAY WITHDRAW THE SERVICE OR PROGRAMME AT ANY TIME.1. Licence
1.1. Grant of a Limited License to Use the Service Subject to your agreement and continuing compliance with these Terms of Service and any other relevant Mutate policies, Mutate grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable and limited license to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial entertainment purposes. You agree not to use the Service for any other purpose.The following restrictions apply to the use of the Service:- You shall not create an Account or access the Service if you are under the age of 13; You shall restrict use by minors, and you will deny access to children under the age of 13. You accept full responsibility for any unauthorized use of the Service by minors. You are responsible for any use of your credit card or other payment instrument (e.g. paypal) by minors.
- You shall not (or attempt to) purchase, sell, rent or give away your Account, create an Account using a false identity or information, or on behalf of someone other than yourself; You shall not use the Service if you have previously been removed by Mutate, or previously been banned from the Platform.
- You shall not use the Service to advertise, or solicit, or transmit any commercial advertisements, including chain letters, junk or spam e-mail or repetitive or misleading messages to anyone.
- Engage in any act that Mutate deems to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of the Service or make improper use of Mutate’s support services.
- Use or take part (directly or indirectly) in the use of cheats, exploits, automation software, bots, hacks or any unauthorized third-party software designed to modify or interfere with the Service.
- Disrupt, overburden, or aid or assist in the disruption or overburdening of any computer or server (“Server”) used to offer or support the Service.
- Institute, assist, or become involved in any type of attack, including without limitation distribution of a virus, denial of service attacks upon the Service, or other attempts to disrupt the Service or any other person’s use or enjoyment of the Service.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, Accounts registered to others or to the computers, Servers, or networks connected to the Service by any means other than the user interface provided by Mutate, including but not limited to, by circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person to circumvent or modify, any security, technology, device, or software that is part of the Service.
- Post any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable or offensive or engage in ongoing toxic behavior, such as by repeatedly posting information on an unsolicited basis.
- Post any information that contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or that contains a link to such content.
- Attempt to, or harass, abuse, or harm, or advocate or incite harassment, abuse, or harm of another person, group, including Mutate employees, including Mutate’s customer service representatives.
- Make available through the Service any material or information that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, right of privacy, right of publicity, or other right of any person or entity or impersonates any other person, including without limitation a Mutate employee.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for any underlying software or other intellectual property used to provide the Service, or to obtain any information from the Service using any method not expressly permitted by Mutate.
- Solicit or attempt to solicit Login Information or any other login credentials or personal information from other users of the Service.
- Collect or post anyone’s private information, including personally identifiable information (whether in text, image or video form), identification documents, or financial information through the Service.
2. Ownership
2.1. Service The visual interfaces, graphics, design, compilation, information, data, computer code (including source code or object code), products, software, services, and all other elements of the Service (“Intellectual Property” or “IP”) are protected by law. All IP contained in the Service is our property or our users’ or third-party licensors’ property. The IP includes User Generated Content (“UGC”) that has been licensed to us by our users under Section 3.2.3 below. Except as expressly authorized by us in these Terms, you may not make use of any IP contained in the Service unless you get separate permission from the owner. We reserve all rights to the IP not granted expressly in these Terms.2.2. Accounts NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU SHALL HAVE NO OWNERSHIP OR OTHER PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ACCOUNT, AND YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ALL RIGHTS IN AND TO THE ACCOUNT ARE AND SHALL FOREVER BE OWNED BY AND INURE TO THE BENEFIT OF MUTATE.3. User Generated Content (“UGC”)
3.1. Submission of UGC “UGC” means any communications, images, sounds, and all the material, data, and information that you upload or transmit through the Service, or that other users upload or transmit, including without limitation any chat text. By transmitting or submitting any UGC while using the Service, you affirm, represent and warrant that such transmission or submission is (a) accurate and not confidential or misleading; (b) adheres to the Terms including, without limitation the License Limitations, (c) not in violation of any laws, contractual restrictions or other third party rights, and that you have permission from any third party whose personal information or intellectual property is comprised in the UGC; (d) free of viruses, adware, spyware, worms or other malicious code; and (e) you acknowledge and agree that any of your personal information within such content will at all times be processed by Mutate in accordance with its Privacy Policy.3.1.1. Content Screening Mutate assumes no responsibility for the conduct of any user submitting any UGC, and assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Service for inappropriate content or conduct. We do not, and cannot, pre-screen or monitor all UGC. Your use of the Service is at your own risk. By using the Service, you may be exposed to UGC that is offensive, indecent or otherwise not in line with your expectations. You bear all risks associated with the use of any UGC available in connection with the Service. At our discretion, our representatives or technology may monitor and/or record your interaction with the Service or communications (including without limitation chat text) when you are using the Service.By entering into these Terms of Service, you hereby provide your irrevocable consent to such monitoring and recording.Mutate reserves the right in its sole discretion to review, monitor, prohibit, edit, delete, disable access to or otherwise make unavailable any UGC (including without limitation your UGC) without notice for any reason or for no reason at any time. If at any time Mutate chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Service, Mutate nonetheless assumes no responsibility for UGC and assumes no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate UGC. We have the right, but not the obligation, in our sole discretion to edit, refuse to post, or remove any UGC.3.2. Information Use By Other Members Of The Service3.2.1. Public Discourse The Service may include various forums, blogs and chat features where you can post UGC, including your observations and comments on designated topics. Mutate cannot guarantee that other members will not use the ideas and information that you share. Therefore, if you have an idea or information that you would like to keep confidential and/or don’t want others to use, do not post it on the Service. Mutate shall have no responsibility to evaluate, use or compensate you for any ideas or information you may choose to submit.3.2.2. Resposible For Your Own Content You are solely responsible for the information that you publish on, through or in connection with the Service and that you provide to others. Mutate may reject, refuse to post or delete any UGC for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, UGC that in the sole judgment of Mutate violates these Terms of Service.3.2.3. Your License To Mutate You hereby grant to Mutate an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense and assign to third party) and right to copy, reproduce, fix, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, manufacture, commercialize, publish, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, transfer, lease, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, or provide access to electronically, broadcast, communicate to the public by telecommunication, display, perform, enter into computer memory, and use and practice, in any way, your UGC as well as all modified and derivative works thereof in connection with our provision of the Service, including marketing and promotions of the Service. You also hereby grant to Mutate the right to authorize others to exercise any of the rights granted to Mutate under these Terms of Service. You further hereby grant to Mutate the unconditional, irrevocable right to use and exploit your name, likeness and any other information or material included in any UGC and in connection with any UGC, without any obligation to you. Except as prohibited by law, you waive any rights of attribution and/or any moral rights you may have in your UGC, regardless of whether your UGC is altered or changed in any manner. Mutate does not claim any ownership rights in your UGC and nothing in these Terms of Service is intended to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit your UGC. Mutate has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights in or to your UGC.Kindly note that if you provide UGC (such as a catalog item or other items to or for the Service), you do not have the right to remove or modify that UGC (unless Mutate provides tools for you to remove or modify that specific type of UGC, or unless otherwise required by law). When using the Service, you may be prompted to grant other Mutate users the right to use your UGC. If you agree to grant this right, other users may use your UGC to create their own games and other UGC on the Service, and you will not be entitled to any revenue that those other users earn, even if they use your UGC.3.3. User Interactions You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Service and any other parties with whom you interact through the Service. Mutate reserves the right, but has no obligation, to become involved in any way with these disputes. You will fully cooperate with Mutate to investigate any suspected unlawful, fraudulent or improper activity, including, without limitation, granting Mutate access to any password-protected portions of your Account.If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.3.4. Trademark Infringement Our policies prohibit you from providing UGC that infringes trademarks. If you Provide UGC that infringes trademarks, your UGC can be blocked or removed.If you are a trademark owner that believes your trademark is being infringed, please note that we are not in a position to mediate disputes between users and the holders of trademark rights. That being said, we take your rights seriously. So, we will look into and try to resolve any allegations of trademark infringement.Therefore, if you feel that your trademark rights are being infringed, contact our Trademark Agent at Infringement@mutate.se or Legal, Hammarby Kaj 10A, 120 32 Stockholm, Sweden. When you contact us, please provide the following information in writing:- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the trademark;
- A description of the trademark right that you claim has been infringed;
- A description of the material that you claim is infringing and where it is located;
- Your address, telephone number, and email address;
- A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of those materials is not authorized by the trademark owner, its agent, or the law; and