Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and [[OPERATOR_LEGAL_NAME]] ("we", "us") about your use of the Brains browser game, its website at playbrains.online and its test server (together, "Brains" or the "Game"). By creating an account or playing, you agree to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Refund Policy and the Game Rules. If you don't agree, please don't use Brains.

1. Who can play

• You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
• If you are under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you need a parent or guardian's permission to play, and a parent or guardian must approve any purchase.
• You may not use Brains if you have been banned by us, or if the law where you live doesn't allow it.

2. Your account

• You are responsible for your account and for keeping your password private. Tell us right away if you think someone else has accessed it.
• Your username must follow the Game Rules. We may change or remove a username that doesn't.
• Don't share, sell, buy or trade accounts. Don't use extra accounts to move currency or items to yourself, to get around a limit, or to get around a mute or ban.
• You can ask us to delete your account at any time by emailing [[CONTACT_EMAIL]] from the address on the account.

3. Virtual items and currency

• Brains contains virtual items and currencies, including Bucks (earned by playing) and Brain Chunks (earned in game or bought with real money). Together these are "Virtual Items".
• Virtual Items are not real money and have no cash value. They can't be exchanged for real money, goods or services outside the Game, and we will never buy them back.
• When you get a Virtual Item, we give you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use it inside Brains. You don't own it.
• Selling or buying Virtual Items, accounts or in-game services for real money or anything outside the Game ("real-money trading") is not allowed.
• Trading Virtual Items with other players is allowed only through the Game's own Market and trade features.
• We may change, rebalance, rename or remove Virtual Items, game features, prices and drop rates at any time, including resetting progress on test servers or at the start of a new server. Where reasonably possible, we'll announce major changes in game first.

4. Purchases

• Purchases are processed by our payment provider, Stripe. Prices are shown in U.S. dollars before you pay. We never see or store your full card number.
• Brain Chunks are delivered to your account right after payment is confirmed. By buying them you ask us to deliver them immediately, and you understand that this means you can't cancel the purchase once they've been delivered, except as described in the Refund Policy.
• If a payment is refunded, reversed or disputed, we will remove the Brain Chunks from that purchase, even if this makes your balance negative, and we may restrict the account until it's resolved.
• Purchased Brain Chunks are lost if you use "Reset My Progress", if your account is deleted, or if your account is banned for breaking these Terms.

5. Playing fair

You agree to follow the Game Rules. In short: no cheating, bots, scripts or exploits; no harassment; no real-money trading. If you find a bug that gives an unfair advantage, report it instead of using it.

6. What you post

• You are responsible for what you write in chat, private messages, clan text, bug reports and anywhere else in Brains.
• You keep any rights you have in what you post, but you give us permission to store, display and moderate it so the Game can work (for example, showing your chat messages to other players).
• Staff may read, remove or keep messages when needed to enforce these Terms, keep players safe, or comply with the law.

7. Our content

Brains, including its code, art, text, characters and names, belongs to us or our licensors. You may not copy, modify, sell or redistribute it, or reverse engineer the Game, except as the law allows. All characters and events in the Game are fictional, including parody characters based on real people. The Game contains coarse language and crude humor.

8. Enforcement

If you break these Terms or the Game Rules, we may warn, mute, kick or ban your account, remove Virtual Items gained unfairly, or delete the account. Serious or repeated problems can lead to a permanent ban without refund. You can contact us if you think we made a mistake.

9. Changes and availability

Brains is an ongoing project and may change, go down for maintenance, or (in the worst case) shut down. We'll try to give notice in game before shutting the Game down. We may update these Terms; if the changes are important we'll announce them in game, and continuing to play after that means you accept them.

10. Disclaimers

Brains is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we make no promises that it will be error-free, uninterrupted or that progress or Virtual Items will never be lost.

11. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for the loss of Virtual Items or progress. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 6 months before the claim. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [[GOVERNING_STATE]], United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, unless the law where you live requires otherwise.

13. Contact

Questions about these Terms: [[CONTACT_EMAIL]].