Terms of use

These terms are a contract between you and AXIOM INTERACTIVE PTY LTD (ACN 700 712 465, ABN 77 700 712 465), an Australian proprietary company in New South Wales.

They cover this website at axiominteractive.link and any mobile title we publish. A title may ship with supplementary terms, which prevail over these for that title where they conflict.

Using the website or a title means accepting these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use them.

The six axioms published on the home page are not marketing copy. They are incorporated into these terms, which means a title that breaches one is capable of failing a consumer guarantee rather than merely disappointing you.

What that gives you

• If a puzzle cannot be solved from the visible state, that is a breach of axiom 1 and a defect.
• If undo is ever charged for, gated behind an advertisement, or limited in number, that is a breach of axiom 4.
• If content is reachable only with a timer enabled, that is a breach of axiom 3.

Report any of these to studio@axiominteractive.link and we will treat it as a defect report, not a feature request.

Changing an axiom

An axiom may change. If one does, the change is marked on the home page with the date, the previous wording is available on request, and the change takes effect only for titles released afterwards. It does not retrospectively rewrite what you were promised about a title you already have.

The Australian Consumer Law is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). Acquiring something from us as a consumer within the meaning of that Law gives you guarantees including acceptable quality, fitness for a disclosed purpose, and correspondence with description.

The statutory wording

Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For a major failure you are entitled to a replacement or refund and to compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have goods repaired or replaced if they fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure.

Correspondence with description

The axioms section above is part of the description of what we supply. That is deliberate, and it is the practical reason the axioms are in this contract rather than only on a marketing page.

Limitation the Law permits

To the extent the Australian Consumer Law permits, our liability for failing to comply with a guarantee other than one under sections 51 to 53 is limited at our election to resupply or the cost of resupply.

Subject to these terms we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use our titles on a device you own or control, for your own non-commercial entertainment.

Not permitted

• Copying, selling, renting, sublicensing or distributing a title, or making it available on a network for concurrent use.
• Reverse engineering, decompiling or disassembling, except so far as that restriction is void under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).
• Running a modified client, or extracting the puzzle set as a dataset.
• Interfering with advertising, or removing a notice of ownership.
• Using a title to develop a competing product, or training a machine learning model on its puzzles or solutions.

Solving with a program is fine

Writing your own solver for one of our puzzles and running it is expressly permitted. We build a solver ourselves and it would be strange to forbid you from doing the same. What is not permitted is submitting a machine-produced result to a shared leaderboard as though a person produced it.

Store terms

The App Store or Google Play terms also apply to the download and to payment and prevail over these for that subject matter. Apple and Google are not parties to these terms and have no obligation to support our titles. Where Apple's rules require it, Apple is a third party beneficiary of these terms for a title distributed through the App Store.

What is for sale

One thing: a permanent removal of advertising from a title, bought once, on the account or install that bought it. There are no consumables, no currency, no season pass and no subscription. Axioms 3, 4 and 5 together leave nothing else that could honestly be sold.

Who takes the payment

The store, not us. We never see a card number and cannot process a refund directly because we never held the funds.

Refunds

• App Store: reportaproblem.apple.com. Apple decides.
• Google Play: through Google Play, which has an automatic window and a review process after it.
• From us: if the store refuses and you believe you have a remedy under the Australian Consumer Law, write to studio@axiominteractive.link and we will deal with it on the merits.

Restoring it

The purchase restores on a new device through the store's own restore mechanism, with no account needed. If it does not restore, that is a defect and a consumer guarantee matter, not a request for you to buy it again.

Digital content and price

Australian law gives no general cooling off right for digital content bought online. Your protection is the consumer guarantees. Prices are shown by the store in your local currency. AXIOM INTERACTIVE PTY LTD is not currently registered for GST, so its own supplies do not currently carry GST; where a store collects tax as the supplier it does so under its own arrangements.

Our titles have no chat, no user generated content and no player to player messaging.

• Do not attempt unauthorised access to a title, another person's account, or our systems.
• Do not submit a machine-produced result to a shared leaderboard as a human result.
• Do not choose a display name that is unlawful, impersonates someone, or would be obviously offensive to a reasonable person. We may change such a name without notice.

Using a hint is not cheating, and neither is undo

Hints are free by axiom 5 and undo is unlimited by axiom 4. Using either as much as you like is ordinary play. Nothing in our systems records heavy hint or undo use as suspicious, and nothing restricts an account for it.

No uptime promise

Puzzles are playable offline. Online features depend on services we do not control, we make no availability commitment for them, and we do not offer service credits because we are not charging for a service level.

If the advertising removal is bought and a title is discontinued

The purchase was for a permanent removal, so a shutdown that makes it worthless is exactly the case where a refund is owed. On discontinuation we will seek refunds through the store for anyone who bought within the store's window, and deal directly with anyone outside it. This commitment exists now, before there is anything to lose by making it.

Discontinuation notice

At least 60 days on this website and in the title. New purchases are disabled immediately on announcement. Where a title has account based progress, an export of your solved-puzzle list is made available.

We own or licence everything in our titles and on this website: code, generated puzzles, art, audio, the Axiom Interactive name and marks, the six axioms as expressed, and the arrangement of this site.

Permitted without asking

• Recording and streaming our titles, including monetised video, and publishing full solutions and walkthroughs. Puzzle games are often protective about solutions; we are not, because axiom 1 means a published solution spoils one puzzle rather than defeating the design.
• Screenshots and clips in reviews, news reporting, criticism and commentary.
• Quoting the axioms, with attribution.

The conditions are that you do not imply we produced or endorsed your video, and you do not use our marks as the primary identifier of your channel or product.

Fair dealing

Nothing here limits fair dealing under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) for criticism, review, parody, satire or news reporting.

Copyright complaints

Write to studio@axiominteractive.link with "Legal" in the subject. Identify the work, what you say infringes it, the basis of your rights, and your contact details.

Personal information handling is set out in the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms. It is written to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, and it records the collection absences the axioms create.

Nothing in these terms reduces a right you have under that policy or under the Privacy Act.

Read this with the consumer guarantees section, which overrides it wherever the Australian Consumer Law applies.

What we are responsible for

Loss that is a reasonably foreseeable result of our breach or negligence, and anything the law does not permit us to limit, including fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, and breach of a non-excludable consumer guarantee.

What we are not responsible for

• Loss that was not reasonably foreseeable.
• Loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, anticipated saving or data, suffered in the course of a business rather than as a consumer.
• The content of a third party advertisement, or anything on a site reached from one.
• A failure caused by your device, your network, or an operating system change outside our control.

Cap

To the extent the law permits, our total liability in connection with a title or this website, in contract, tort including negligence, statute or otherwise, is limited to the greater of what you paid for that title in the preceding 12 months and one hundred Australian dollars. The cap does not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law.

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales and the applicable laws of the Commonwealth of Australia. Both parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the courts hearing appeals from them.

Non-exclusive means you may bring proceedings elsewhere where the law gives you that right. A consumer resident outside Australia is not deprived of the mandatory consumer law protection of the place they live.

Before litigation

Write to studio@axiominteractive.link first. This is a request, not a precondition.

Cheaper routes

In New South Wales the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal hears many consumer matters, and the ACCC publishes guidance on which body handles what at accc.gov.au.

Changes

The version in force is the one published here with the effective date at the top. A change that materially reduces your rights gets at least 30 days notice, by a notice in the title on next launch and a note at the top of this page.

Severance

An invalid or unenforceable provision is read down so far as necessary, or severed, and the rest continues.

No waiver

Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.

Assignment

You may not assign your rights. We may on a sale of the business or a title, and your rights under these terms and the privacy policy transfer with them. A buyer takes the titles subject to the axioms as they stood when you acquired the title.

Entire agreement

These terms, the six axioms as published, the privacy policy, the cookie notice and any supplementary title terms are the whole agreement about their subject matter. This does not exclude liability for misleading or deceptive conduct, which cannot be contracted out of.

Contact

AXIOM INTERACTIVE PTY LTD, ACN 700 712 465, ABN 77 700 712 465. Email studio@axiominteractive.link.

We do not publish a postal address here. The registered office recorded against ACN 700 712 465 at ASIC is the address with legal effect for service.