Terms of Use for The Word Finder

1. These terms

These terms are an agreement between you and MPL Ventures LLC, 330 N Wabash Ave, Floor 23, Chicago, IL 60611-7619, United States ("we", "us", "our"). They govern your use of the website at thewordfinder.com and The Word Finder apps for iOS and Android, which we refer to together as the Service.

By using the Service you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use it.

If you obtained the app from the Apple App Store, these terms also operate as the end user licence agreement for the app, replacing Apple's standard licence agreement. Section 14 sets out the additional provisions Apple requires.

2. Who can use the Service

You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the Service with the involvement of a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms on your behalf.

3. What we provide

The Word Finder provides word game solvers, puzzle answers, generators, reference material and related tools.

That is the whole of what we promise. The Service is a reference and practice aid. We do not guarantee that any answer is correct, that our word lists match those used by any particular game, or that our record of any published puzzle is complete or accurate.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the publishers of any game or puzzle we help with. Where we refer to a game or publication by name, we do so only to describe what our tools work with. Those names are the trademarks of their owners.

4. Advertising

The Service is paid for by advertising. By using it, you accept that advertising will be shown, unless you hold a subscription that removes it.

We do not control which advertisements appear. They are selected by advertising companies through Google Ad Manager. We are not responsible for the products or services advertised, and an advertisement appearing is not an endorsement by us. Any dealings you have with an advertiser are between you and them.

How advertising uses your information, and how to change your choices, is set out in our Privacy Policy.

5. Subscriptions

The apps offer a paid subscription, available monthly or annually, which removes advertising. It does not unlock any other feature, and no functionality that was previously free is placed behind it.

Pricing and billing. The price, the billing period and any introductory offer are shown to you in the app before you buy. Payment is taken by Apple or by Google Play, depending on where you got the app, and charged to the payment method on your store account. We never see or hold your payment details.

Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Your store account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period.

Managing and cancelling. You manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple ID settings or your Google Play account settings, not in the app. We cannot cancel a subscription on your behalf. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

Free trials. Where a free trial is offered, any unused portion is forfeited if you buy a subscription during the trial. Trials are limited to one per user unless we say otherwise.

Refunds. Refunds are handled by Apple and Google under their own policies. We do not process refunds directly, but tell us at [email protected] if something has gone wrong and we will help where we can.

Price changes. We may change subscription prices. Changes take effect at the start of your next billing period and we will give you notice, and the chance to cancel, in advance.

If we discontinue the Service while you hold a subscription, we will provide a pro-rata refund for the unused part of your current billing period.

6. Your licence to use the Service

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service, including to install and use the apps on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use.

You may not:

• Copy, modify, translate or create derivative works of the Service
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the apps, except where that restriction is prohibited by law
• Rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense or otherwise distribute the Service
• Remove or obscure any proprietary notice
• Use scrapers, bots, spiders or other automated means to extract our word lists, answer data or other content in bulk
• Send requests to our servers at a volume or rate that interferes with the Service for others
• Circumvent any technical measure that limits access to or use of the Service
• Use the Service to build or train a competing product
• Use the Service to harass, abuse or harm anyone

We may suspend or withdraw access if you breach these terms, or if we reasonably believe your use is harming the Service.

7. Our content and other people's names

The Service, its software, design, word lists and original content are ours or licensed to us, and are protected by intellectual property law. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership to you.

Game titles, publication names and other third-party marks that appear in the Service belong to their owners. We use them descriptively and claim no rights in them.

8. Feedback and submissions

If you send us feedback, suggestions or ideas about the Service, you give us permission to use them freely to improve what we do, without owing you payment or credit. You keep whatever rights you have in what you sent; we simply need to be able to act on it without a later dispute over an idea we may already have been working on.

Please do not send us anything confidential, and please do not send us personal information about other people.

9. Links to other websites

The Service contains links to websites we do not control, including advertisers' sites. We do not check or endorse them, and these terms stop applying once you leave. Anything you do on those sites, including any purchase, is between you and them.

10. Availability and changes

We may change, suspend or discontinue the Service or any part of it, including removing tools or content, at any time. We may release app updates, and some updates may be required for the app to keep working.

We do not promise that the Service will be available uninterrupted or error-free. It depends on our servers, on third-party services and on your internet connection.

11. Disclaimers and liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or twenty US dollars. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits or lost data.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

12. If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK

Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer, and where these terms conflict with those rights, your rights prevail.

Right of withdrawal. You normally have 14 days to withdraw from a contract for digital content bought at a distance. Where you buy a subscription and ask for immediate access, you acknowledge that supply begins immediately and that you lose the right of withdrawal once supply has begun, to the extent permitted by law. Apple and Google apply their own refund practices, which may be more generous.

Legal guarantee. You are entitled to digital content that conforms to the contract. If it does not, you may be entitled to have it brought into conformity, or to a price reduction or refund.

Disputes. You may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live, and the mandatory consumer protection law of that country applies to you regardless of Section 15.

13. Copyright complaints

If you believe material on the Service infringes a copyright you own or control, write to [email protected] with:

1. Your name, address and contact details
2. Identification of the work you say has been infringed
3. Identification of the material on our Service you are complaining about, with enough detail for us to find it
4. A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law
5. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are authorised to act for the owner
6. Your physical or electronic signature

We take these seriously and will respond promptly. We may remove or disable access to material while we look into a complaint.

14. Apple and Google provisions

These provisions apply where you obtained the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play.

• This agreement is between you and us only, not with Apple or Google. We, not they, are solely responsible for the app and its content.
• Your licence is limited to using the app on devices you own or control, as permitted by the applicable store's terms of service.
• Neither Apple nor Google has any obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the store, and the store may refund the purchase price. To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither has any other warranty obligation.
• We, not Apple or Google, are responsible for addressing any claim that the app or your use of it infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, and for any product liability, legal or regulatory claim relating to the app.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple, Google and their subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. The state and federal courts located in Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to Section 12 where you are a consumer in the EU or the UK.

16. California residents

If a complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, 1625 North Market Blvd, Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone on (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

17. General

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service.

18. Contact

[email protected]