Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Atomance LTD governing your access to and use of ADYTUS. Please read them carefully. By creating an account, clicking “I agree,” or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you accept these Terms and every document they incorporate by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Section 24 contains a binding individual arbitration agreement and a waiver of class actions and jury trials. It affects how disputes are resolved. Please read it.

1. Acceptance and the documents that govern

Your use of the Service is governed by these Terms together with the following, each incorporated by reference and each as updated from time to time:

• the Official Contest Rules;
• the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy;
• the AML & Identity Verification Policy;
• the Risk & Fair-Play Disclosure;
• the Fee Schedule;
• the Eligible Jurisdictions notice;
• the Responsible Play policy; and
• any additional rules published for a specific contest or promotion.

Clicking to accept is the legal equivalent of your signature. If these Terms conflict with the Official Contest Rules on a matter specific to a contest, the Official Contest Rules govern for that contest; otherwise these Terms govern.

2. Who we are

ADYTUS (the “Service”, at adytus.com) is operated by Atomance LTD (“Atomance”, “we”, “us”, “our”). Contact: support@adytus.com (support) · legal@adytus.com (legal) · privacy@adytus.com (data). Registered office and company number: [TBD BY COUNSEL].

3. What the Service is — and is not

ADYTUS hosts live argumentation games judged by an automated evaluator (the “Oracle”). There are two kinds of rounds:

• Debate markets — free-to-play rounds that use platform points. Points are promotional play credits with no cash value.
• Contests — skill-based competitions with a published, flat entry fee (which may be zero) and fixed, pre-published prizes keyed only to final rank. Outcomes turn on participant skill: the quality of arguments as scored by the Oracle and the strategic choices participants make.

ADYTUS is a skill-contest platform. It is not a casino, sportsbook, lottery, or gambling service; it is not a securities, commodities, futures, or event-contract exchange; and it does not offer, and nothing on the Service is, a financial product or a contract regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or any comparable authority. You do not acquire any security, derivative, or ownership interest by using the Service.

4. Eligibility

• You must be at least 18 years old and of the age of majority in your place of residence.
• You must be located in, and a resident of, a jurisdiction where participation in paid-entry skill contests is permitted, as described in the Eligible Jurisdictions notice.
• You must not be a person barred under applicable sanctions or export-control laws, and must not be located in a comprehensively sanctioned territory.
• One account per person. Accounts are personal and non-transferable.
• You must have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms and to use the Service on your own behalf and for your own benefit.

We may restrict, condition, or refuse access, and may verify eligibility at any time. Where we cannot confirm eligibility, we may withhold access, entries, or payouts until it is resolved.

5. Your account and its security

• You must provide accurate, current, and complete registration information and keep it up to date.
• You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity under your account. We recommend enabling two-factor authentication.
• You must notify us promptly at support@adytus.com of any unauthorized use or security breach.
• You are solely responsible for the devices, software, and connectivity you use to access the Service, and for maintaining reasonable security on them.

6. Identity verification, anti-money-laundering, and sanctions

Identity verification (“KYC”) is required before you receive any prize payout, and may be required earlier where the law or our risk controls demand it. We screen against applicable sanctions lists and apply anti-money-laundering (“AML”) controls. Consistent with the USA PATRIOT Act and applicable law, we obtain, verify, and record information that identifies you, which may include your name, address, date of birth, government identifier, and government-issued ID.

You authorize us and our verification providers to verify your information on an initial and periodic basis, including by lawful checks with third-party sources. You agree to cooperate with reasonable requests, including as to source of funds. Attempting to create duplicate or synthetic identities, or entering a single contest more than once, results in disqualification and forfeiture. See the AML & Identity Verification Policy.

7. Your representations and warranties

Each time you access the Service, enter a contest, or submit content, you represent, warrant, and covenant that:

• you meet every eligibility requirement in Section 4;
• all information you provide is true, complete, and accurate, and you will promptly update it if it changes;
• you are acting on your own behalf, for your own benefit, and not on behalf of any undisclosed person;
• your use of the Service complies with all laws that apply to you; and
• you are not the subject of any sanctions and are not located in a jurisdiction from which participation is prohibited.

8. Money: what goes in and what comes out

Real money moves in exactly two places, and nowhere else:

1. Entry fees in.A contest’s entry fee is flat, published before entry, and identical for every entrant. Fees are processed by our third-party payment providers; we do not store your card details. Fees, and any changes to them, are described in the Fee Schedule; a change takes effect only for contests opened after it is posted.
2. Prizes out.Prizes are fixed dollar amounts published before entry and keyed only to final rank. A prize is never calculated from, or proportional to, any in-contest balance, and is never a share of other entrants’ fees framed as winnings on a position.

Handling of funds. Entry fees are held pending settlement in a manner intended to keep them separate from our operating funds [ESCROW / TRUST ARRANGEMENT — TBD BY COUNSEL]. We do not pay interest on any amount held, and amounts held are not a deposit account.

9. Contest Vouchers and platform points are play credit

Contest Vouchers (“CV”) are in-contest play credits granted identically to every entrant in a contest. CV, and platform points in debate markets:

• have no cash or monetary value;
• cannot be purchased, sold, redeemed, withdrawn, transferred, or exchanged for money or anything of value;
• exist only inside the round that issued them and expire when that round settles; and
• are not stored value, electronic money, a security, a token, or a financial instrument of any kind.

Your CV balance and standing are a way of keeping score. They do not entitle you to any payment; prizes are determined solely by final rank under Section 8.

10. Entries are final

Committing CV to a side in a contest is final: there is no exit, reversal, or transfer of a committed position. Entry fees are refundable only in the limited circumstances set out in the Official Contest Rules — for example, a contest we cancel, or one that does not reach its published minimum number of entrants. Where a refund is due, it is returned to the original payment method.

11. Prizes, payouts, and taxes

• You must complete KYC and provide any required tax forms (for example, a Form W-9 or equivalent) before a prize is paid.
• You are responsible for any taxes on prizes. Where required by law, we report prize winnings to tax authorities and may withhold amounts required by law. Reporting thresholds are set by law and may change; we do not give tax advice.
• Prizes are paid to the verified winner only. Duplicate, synthetic, or misrepresented identities forfeit prizes.
• We may withhold a payout while a suspected violation, chargeback, or verification issue is investigated, and may reverse or recover prizes awarded in connection with a violation.
• A record of your entry fees, prizes, and refunds is available in your Statements.

12. The Oracle, scoring, and settlement

Rounds are scored by an automated evaluator that runs deterministically: it scores the arguments and choices that participants themselves make, under a rubric fixed before the round, and its scoring is replayable. There is no external event, and no element of chance, determining the result — outcomes are a function of participant skill.

The Oracle’s scores and the platform’s settlement of each round under the published rules are final, except where the Official Contest Rules provide for review. We may pause, void, or re-run a round affected by a technical fault, suspected manipulation, or force majeure; if a paid contest is voided, entry fees are refunded as described in the Official Contest Rules. We do not guarantee that you will win any contest or prize.

13. Fair play and prohibited conduct

You must not:

• operate more than one account, or enter a single contest more than once;
• collude with other participants, share accounts, or coordinate entries;
• use automation, bots, scripts, or non-public tooling to enter contests or submit arguments;
• attempt to manipulate, jailbreak, prompt-inject, or otherwise interfere with the Oracle or any platform system;
• exploit a bug, latency, or error, or attempt to gain an unfair advantage;
• harass, threaten, or defraud others, or post unlawful, infringing, or abusive content in chat or arguments;
• scrape, reverse-engineer, decompile, or probe the Service except as the law expressly permits;
• circumvent geographic, identity, or eligibility controls; or
• use the Service for money laundering, sanctions evasion, or any unlawful purpose.

14. Consequences of violations

Violations may result in warning, disqualification, forfeiture and recovery of prizes, suspension or closure of your account, retention of amounts pending investigation, and — where money movement or unlawful conduct is involved — reports to competent authorities. These remedies are in addition to any other right or remedy available to us.

15. Responsible play

We provide tools to help you stay in control, including entry limits, cool-off periods, and self-exclusion. You can set these under Responsible Play, and once a self-exclusion is in effect you cannot enter contests until it lifts. See the Responsible Play policy.

16. User content, feedback, and copyright

You retain the rights you already hold in the arguments and messages you post, and grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, display, and use them to operate, secure, and promote the Service. You are responsible for your content and warrant that you have the right to post it and that it does not violate any law or third-party right.

If you send us suggestions, ideas, or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use them without restriction or compensation. The Oracle’s scores, commentary, and all platform content remain ours or our licensors’.

We respect intellectual-property rights and respond to valid notices of claimed infringement. Send notices to legal@adytus.com with the information required by applicable law [DMCA AGENT DETAILS — TBD BY COUNSEL].

17. Our intellectual property; licence to you

The Service, the Oracle, our software, designs, and the ADYTUS and Atomance names and logos are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by law. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial use. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

18. Third-party services

We rely on third parties for payments, identity verification, hosting, and communications. Your use of those services may be subject to their own terms, and we are not responsible for third-party acts, omissions, or content. Links to third-party sites are provided for convenience only.

19. Privacy and data

Our handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. You grant us a licence to use transaction and gameplay data generated through your use of the Service to operate, secure, analyze, and improve it, consistent with those policies and applicable law.

20. Electronic communications and consent

You consent to receive communications, notices, disclosures, and records from us electronically — by email, by messages within the Service, or by posting to the Service — and agree that electronic delivery satisfies any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You may withdraw consent for non-essential messages via your notification settings, but some communications are necessary to operate your account.

21. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE ANY OUTCOME, RANKING, OR PRIZE.

22. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE AND OUR RELATED PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE ENTRY FEES YOU PAID IN THE SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) USD 100. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

23. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Atomance and its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, and agents (each a “Related Party”) from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees arising out of or connected with your use of the Service, your content, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right, except to the extent finally determined to result from our own gross negligence, fraud, or willful misconduct.

24. Dispute resolution; binding arbitration; class-action and jury waiver

Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights.

• Informal resolution first. Before starting a formal proceeding, you agree to contact legal@adytus.com and try in good faith to resolve the dispute for at least 30 days.
• Binding arbitration. Except as noted below, any dispute that is not resolved informally will be settled by final and binding individual arbitration, rather than in court, administered by [ARBITRATION PROVIDER — TBD BY COUNSEL] under its rules.
• Class-action waiver. Disputes will be brought only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated, or representative proceeding.
• Jury-trial waiver. You and we waive any right to a jury trial.
• Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by written notice to legal@adytus.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms.
• Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property or unauthorized-access matters.
• Time limit. Any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, to the extent the law permits such a limit.

If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable, the rest of this section survives; if the arbitration agreement as a whole is found unenforceable, disputes will proceed in the courts identified in Section 25.

25. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of [GOVERNING LAW — TBD BY COUNSEL], without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to Section 24, the exclusive venue for any permitted court proceeding is [FORUM — TBD BY COUNSEL].

26. Changes to these Terms or the Service

We may update these Terms or the Service. Material changes to these Terms will be notified in-product or by email and take effect on the stated effective date. Your continued use after that date is acceptance of the updated Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the Service and close your account. We may add, change, or discontinue features at any time.

27. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these Terms or where required for legal, security, or risk reasons. You may close your account at any time. Verified prize amounts already owed to you survive closure, subject to KYC and these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 8–9, 11, 16–19, and 21–25 — do survive.

28. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the documents they incorporate are the entire agreement between you and us on this subject and supersede prior agreements.
• Severability. If any provision is held invalid, the rest remains in effect, and the invalid provision is replaced with a valid one that comes closest to its intent.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Notices. We may give notice electronically; you may reach us at the addresses in Section 2.
• No third-party beneficiaries; headings. Except for Related Parties under Sections 22–23, these Terms create no third-party rights, and headings are for convenience only.
• Export and sanctions. You will comply with applicable export-control and sanctions laws in using the Service.

29. Contact

Questions about these Terms: legal@adytus.com. General support: support@adytus.com.