TERMS OF SERVICE
Updated on: 26th June, 2023
The terms of this agreement ("Terms of Service") govern the relationship between you and
Naughty Shark, (hereinafter "Naughty Shark" or "Us" or "We") regarding your use of Naughty Shark's games,
websites and related services (the "Service"). Use of the Service is also governed by Naughty Shark's
Privacy Policy and other relevant policies, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Before accessing or using the Service, including browsing any Naughty Shark website or
accessing a game, you must agree to these Terms of Service and the 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. If you access the Service from a Social
Networking Site ("SNS"), such as Facebook or Google+, you shall comply with its terms of service/use as well
as these Terms of Service.
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.
Naughty Shark reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove
portions of these Terms of Service, its Privacy Policy and other relevant Naughty Shark policies at any time
by posting the amended terms on the Naughty Shark 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 Naughty Shark Privacy Policy, or any other Naughty Shark 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.
1. License
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 Naughty Shark policies, Naughty Shark 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 Naughty Shark, or previously been banned from playing
any Naughty Shark game.
.You shall use your Account only for non-commercial purposes; 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.
Login information and Your Account
You may be required to select a password for your Account or you may also use other
credentials to access the Account ("Login Information"). You shall not share the Account or the Login
Information, nor let anyone else access your Account or do anything else that might jeopardize the security
of your Account. In the event you become aware of or reasonably suspect any breach of security, including
without limitation any loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of the Login Information, you must
immediately notify Naughty Shark and modify your Login Information. You are solely responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of the Login Information, and you will be responsible for all uses of the
Login Information, including purchases, whether or not authorized by you. You are responsible for anything
that happens through your Account.
Naughty Shark reserves the right to remove or reclaim any usernames at any time and for any
reason, including but not limited to claims by a third party that a username violates the third party's
rights.
The Service supports only one Account per game on a supported device.
License Limitations
Any use of the Service in violation of these License Limitations is strictly prohibited, can
result in the immediate revocation of your limited license and may subject you to liability for violations
of law.
You agree that you will not, under any circumstances:
.Engage in any act that Naughty Shark deems to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of
the Service or make improper use of Naughty Shark's support services.
.Use or take part (directly or indirectly) in the use of cheats, exploits, automation
software, bots, hacks, mods or any unauthorized third-party software designed to modify or interfere with
the Service, any Naughty Shark game or any Naughty Shark game experience.
.Modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Service or any Naughty
Shark game without Naughty Shark's express written consent. Disrupt, interfere with or otherwise adversely
affect the normal flow of the Service or otherwise act in a manner that may negatively affect other users'
experience when using the Service or playing Naughty Shark's games. This includes win trading and any other
kind of manipulation of rankings, taking advantage of errors in the Service to gain an unfair edge over
other players and any other act that intentionally abuses or goes against the design of 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 or any Naughty Shark game environment.
.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 Naughty Shark, 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 Naughty Shark employees, including Naughty Shark'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 Naughty Shark 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 any
Naughty Shark game, or to obtain any information from the Service or any Naughty Shark game using any method
not expressly permitted by Naughty Shark.
.Solicit or attempt to solicit Login Information or any other login credentials or personal
information from other users of the Service or any Naughty Shark game.
.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.
Naughty Shark reserves the right to determine what conduct it considers to be in violation
of the rules of use or otherwise outside the intent or spirit of these Terms of Service or the Service
itself. Naughty Shark reserves the right to take action as a result, which may include terminating your
Account and prohibiting you from using the Service in whole or in part.
1.2. Suspension and Termination of Account and Service
Without limiting any other remedies, naughty shark may limit, suspend, terminate, modify, or
delete accounts or access to the service or portions thereof if you are, or Naughty Shark suspects that you
are, failing to comply with any of these terms of service or for any actual or suspected illegal or improper
use of the service, with or without notice to you. You can lose your user name and persona in the service as
a result of account termination or limitation, as well as any benefits, privileges, earned items and
purchased items associated with your use of the service, and Naughty Shark is under no obligation to
compensate you for any such losses or results.
Without limiting our other remedies, we may limit, suspend or terminate the service and user
accounts or portions thereof, prohibit access to our games and sites, and their content, services and tools,
delay or remove hosted content, and take technical and legal steps to prevent users from accessing the
service if we believe that they are creating risk or possible legal liabilities, infringing the intellectual
property rights of third parties, or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our terms or
policies. Additionally, we may, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, suspend or
terminate accounts of users who may be repeat infringers of third party intellectual property rights.
Naughty Shark reserves the right to terminate any account that has been inactive for 180
days.
Naughty Shark reserves the right to stop offering and/or supporting the Service or a
particular game or part of the Service at any time, at which point your license to use the Service or a part
thereof will be automatically terminated. In such event, Naughty Shark shall not be required to provide
refunds, benefits or other compensation to users in connection with such discontinued Service . Termination
of your Account can include disabling your access to the Service or any part thereof including any content
you submitted or others submitted.
2. Ownership
2.1. Games and Service
All rights, title and interest in and to the Service (including without limitation any
games, titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialogue, catch
phrases, concepts, artwork, animations, sounds, musical compositions, audio-visual effects, methods of
operation, moral rights, documentation, in-game chat transcripts, character profile information, recordings
of games played using a Naughty Shark game client, and the Naughty Shark game clients and server software)
are owned by Naughty Shark. Naughty Shark reserves all rights, including without limitation, all
intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, in connection with its games and the Service.
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 Naughty Shark.
2.3. Virtual Items
Naughty Shark owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to use all of the content that
appears in the Service or in Naughty Shark games. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, you
agree that you have no right or title in or to any content that appears in the Service, including without
limitation the virtual goods or currency appearing or originating in any Naughty Shark game, whether earned
in a game or purchased from Naughty Shark, or any other attributes associated with an Account or stored on
the Service.
3. User Content
3.1. Submission of User Content
"User Content" means any communications, images, sounds, and all the material, data, and
information that you upload or transmit through a Naughty Shark game client or the Service, or that other
users upload or transmit, including without limitation any chat text. By transmitting or submitting any User
Content while using the Service, you affirm, represent and warrant that such transmission or submission is
(a) accurate and not confidential or misleading; (b) 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 User Content; (c) free of viruses, adware, spyware, worms or other
malicious code; and (d) you acknowledge and agree that any of your personal information within such content
will at all times be processed by Naughty Shark in accordance with its Privacy Policy.
3.1.1. Content Screening
Naughty Shark assumes no responsibility for the conduct of any user submitting any User
Content, and assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Service for inappropriate content or conduct. We
do not, and cannot, pre-screen or monitor all User Content. Your use of the Service is at your own risk. By
using the Service, you may be exposed to User Content that is offensive, indecent or otherwise not in line
with your expectations. You bear all risks associated with the use of any User Content 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. You acknowledge and agree that you have no expectation of privacy concerning the
transmission of any User Content, including without limitation chat text or voice communications.
Naughty Shark reserves the right in its sole discretion to review, monitor, prohibit, edit,
delete, disable access to or otherwise make unavailable any User Content (including without limitation your
User Content) without notice for any reason or for no reason at any time. If at any time Naughty Shark
chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Service, Naughty Shark nonetheless assumes no responsibility
for User Content and assumes no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate User Content. We have the
right, but not the obligation, in our sole discretion to edit, refuse to post, or remove any User Content.
3.2. Information Use by Other Members of the Service
3.2.1. Public Discourse
The Service may include various forums, blogs and chat features where you can post User
Content, including your observations and comments on designated topics. Naughty Shark 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. Naughty Shark shall have no responsibility to evaluate, use or compensate you for any ideas or
information you may choose to submit.
3.2.2. Responsible For Your Own Content
You are solely responsible for the information that you post on, through or in connection
with the Service and that you provide to others. Naughty Shark may reject, refuse to post or delete any User
Content for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, User Content that in the sole judgment of
Naughty Shark violates these Terms of Service.
3.2.3. Your License to Naughty Shark
You hereby grant to Naughty Shark 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 User Content 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 Naughty Shark the right to authorize others to
exercise any of the rights granted to Naughty Shark under these Terms of Service. You further hereby grant
to Naughty Shark the unconditional, irrevocable right to use and exploit your name, likeness and any other
information or material included in any User Content and in connection with any User Content, 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 User Content, regardless of whether your User Content is altered or changed in any
manner. Naughty Shark does not claim any ownership rights in your User Content and nothing in these Terms of
Service is intended to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit your User Content. Naughty
Shark has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights in or to your User Content.
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 and/or Naughty Shark games. Naughty Shark reserves
the right, but has no obligation, to become involved in any way with these disputes. You will fully
cooperate with Naughty Shark to investigate any suspected unlawful, fraudulent or improper activity,
including, without limitation, granting Naughty Shark 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.
4. Fees and Purchase Terms
4.1.Purchases
In the Service you may purchase, with "real world" money, a limited, personal,
non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use (a) "virtual currency", including but not
limited to virtual cash or diamonds, all for use in Naughty Shark games; (b) "virtual in-game items"
(together with "virtual currency", "Virtual Items"); and (c) other goods or services ("Merchandise"). You
are only allowed to purchase Virtual Items from us or our authorised partners through the Service, and not
in any other way.
Naughty Shark may manage, regulate, control, modify or eliminate Virtual Items and/or
Merchandise at any time, with or without notice. Naughty Shark shall have no liability to you or any third
party in the event that Naughty Shark exercises any such rights.
The transfer of Virtual Items and Merchandise is prohibited except where expressly
authorized in the Service. Other than as expressly authorized in the Service, you shall not sell, purchase,
redeem or otherwise transfer Virtual Items or Merchandise to any person or entity or attempt any of the
aforesaid, including but not limited to Naughty Shark, another user or any third party.
All purchases and redemptions of virtual items made through the service are final and
non-refundable.
The provision of Virtual Items for use in Naughty Shark games is a service provided by
Naughty Shark that commences immediately upon acceptance by Naughty Shark of your purchase.
4.2. Payment of Fees
You agree to pay all fees and applicable taxes incurred by you or anyone using an Account
registered to you. Naughty Shark may revise the pricing for the goods and services offered through the
Service at any time. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NAUGHTY SHARK IS NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A REFUND FOR ANY REASON,
AND THAT YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE MONEY OR OTHER COMPENSATION FOR UNUSED VIRTUAL ITEMS WHEN AN ACCOUNT IS
CLOSED, WHETHER SUCH CLOSURE WAS VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY.
5. Updates to the Service
You understand that the Service is an evolving one. Naughty Shark may require that you
accept updates to the Service and to Naughty Shark's games you have installed on your device or computer.
You acknowledge and agree that Naughty Shark may update the Service and Naughty Shark games, with or without
notifying you. You may need to update third party software from time to time in order to receive the Service
and play Naughty Shark games.
6. Disclaimer of Warranties
Without limiting naughty shark's liability under section 7 below, the service is provided on
an "as is" and "as available" basis for your use, without warranties of any kind, express or implied,
including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title,
non-infringement, and those arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. Naughty Shark does not warrant
that you will be able to access or use the service at the times or locations of your choosing; That the
service will be uninterrupted or error-free; That defects will be corrected; Or that the game or the service
are free of viruses or other harmful components. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain
warranties. Accordingly, some of the above disclaimers may not apply to you.
7. Limitation of Liability; Sole and Exclusive Remedy; Indemnification
To the maximum extent permitted by law, naughty shark shall not be liable to you for any
indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or other similar damages, including but not limited
to loss of revenues, lost profits, lost data or business interruption or other intangible losses (however
such losses are qualified), arising out of or relating in any way to these terms of service or the service
itself, whether based on contract, tort or any other legal theory, and whether or not Naughty Shark has been
advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the extent not prohibited by law, naughty shark shall not be liable to you for more than
the amount you have paid to naughty shark in accordance with these terms of service in the six (6) months
immediately preceding the date on which you first assert a claim. you acknowledge and agree that if you have
not paid anything to Naughty Shark during such time period, your sole remedy (and Naughty Shark's exclusive
liability) for any dispute with naughty shark is to stop using the service and to cancel your account.
Nothing in these terms of service shall affect the statutory rights of any consumer or
exclude or restrict any liability resulting from gross negligence or willful misconduct of naughty shark or
for death or personal injury arising from any negligence or fraud of Naughty Shark.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Naughty Shark (and our officers, directors, agents,
subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) harmless from any claim, demand, damages or other losses,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, asserted by any third-party resulting from or arising out of your use
of the Service, or any breach by you of these Terms of Service, however the foregoing does not apply if the
infringement of rights is not attributable to your intentional or negligent behavior.
8. Dispute Resolution and Law
If a dispute arises between you and Naughty Shark, we strongly encourage you to first
contact us directly to seek a resolution. If you are a resident of the United States, these Terms of Service
and any dispute arising out of or related to it or Privacy Policy or the Service shall be governed in all
respects by California law, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You agree that any claim or
dispute you may have against Naughty Shark must be resolved exclusively by a court located in San Francisco,
California. If you are a resident outside of the United States, you agree that all disputes between you and
Naughty Shark shall be governed by the laws of Singapore, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You
agree that any claim or dispute you may have against Naughty Shark must be resolved exclusively by a court
located in Singapore.
9. Severability
You and Naughty Shark agree that if any portion of these Terms of Service or of the Naughty
Shark Privacy Policy is found illegal or unenforceable, in whole or in part by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such provision shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective solely to the extent of such
determination of invalidity or unenforceability without affecting the validity or enforceability thereof in
any other manner or jurisdiction and without affecting the remaining provisions of the terms, which shall
continue to be in full force and effect.
10. General Provisions
10.1. Assignment
Naughty Shark may assign or delegate these Terms of Service and/or the Naughty Shark Privacy
Policy, in whole or in part, to any person or entity at any time with or without your consent. You may not
assign or delegate any rights or obligations under the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy without Naughty
Shark's prior written consent, and any unauthorized assignment and delegation by you is ineffective.
10.2. Supplemental Policies
Naughty Shark may publish additional policies related to specific services such as forums,
contests or loyalty programs. Your right to use such services is subject to those specific policies and
these Terms of Service.
10.3. Entire Agreement
These Terms of Service, any supplemental policies and any documents expressly incorporated
by reference herein (including the Naughty Shark Privacy Policy), contain the entire understanding of you
and Naughty Shark, and supersede all prior understandings of the parties hereto relating to the subject
matter hereof, whether electronic, oral or written, or whether established by custom, practice, policy or
precedent, between you and us with respect to the Service.
10.4. No Waiver
The failure of Naughty Shark to require or enforce strict performance by you of any
provision of these Terms of Service or the Naughty Shark Privacy Policy or failure to exercise any right
under them shall not be construed as a waiver or relinquishment of Naughty Shark's right to assert or rely
upon any such provision or right in that or any other instance.
The express waiver by Naughty Shark of any provision, condition, or requirement of these
Terms of Service or the Naughty Shark Privacy Policy shall not constitute a waiver of any future obligation
to comply with such provision, condition or requirement.
Except as expressly and specifically set forth in this these Terms of Service, no
representations, statements, consents, waivers, or other acts or omissions by Naughty Shark shall be deemed
a modification of these Terms of Service nor legally binding, unless documented in physical writing, hand
signed by yourself and a duly appointed officer of Naughty Shark.
10.5. Notices
We may notify you via postings on https:// www.naughtyshark.games, and via e-mail or any
other communications means to contact information you provide to us. All notices given by you or required
from you under these Terms of Service or the Naughty Shark Privacy Policy shall be in EMail and addressed
to: [email protected]. Any notices that you provide without compliance with this Section on Notices
shall have no legal effect.
10.6. Equitable Remedies
You acknowledge that the rights granted and obligations made under these Terms of Service to
Naughty Shark are of a unique and irreplaceable nature, the loss of which shall irreparably harm Naughty
Shark and which cannot be replaced by monetary damages alone so that Naughty Shark shall be entitled to
injunctive or other equitable relief (without the obligations of posting any bond or surety or proof of
damages) in the event of any breach or anticipatory breach by you.
You irrevocably waive all rights to seek injunctive or other equitable relief, or to enjoin
or restrain the operation of the Service or any Naughty Shark game, exploitation of any advertising or other
materials issued in connection therewith, or exploitation of the Service or any content or other material
used or displayed through the Service and agree to limit your claims to claims for monetary damages, limited
by Section 7 (if any).
10.7. Force Majeure
Naughty Shark shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes
outside the reasonable control of Naughty Shark, including without limitation any failure to perform
hereunder due to unforeseen circumstances or cause beyond Naughty Shark's control such as acts of God, war,
terrorism, riots, embargoes, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, floods, accidents, strikes, or
shortages of transportation facilities, fuel, energy, labor or materials.