Terms of Use

Agreement and scope

These Terms of Use are a legally binding agreement between you and Exalted Morning Star Group LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company (“Guessistan,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of https://guessistan.com, including its games, puzzles, content, features, and related services (collectively, the “Service”). Our Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

By accessing or using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms and agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Service. Nothing in these Terms limits a consumer right or company obligation that applicable law does not permit us to limit or waive.

Eligibility and children

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use it only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.

The Service is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 provided personal information to us, contact admin@guessistan.com.

Entertainment only; no reliance

Guessistan provides casual games, puzzles, clues, scores, streaks, and related content for entertainment only. The Service is not legal, financial, medical, historical, political, religious, educational, or other professional advice. Content may be simplified, subjective, culturally specific, satirical, incomplete, inaccurate, generated or assisted by technology, or based on information that later changes. Answers and classifications may involve judgment, alternate spellings, transliterations, regional usage, wordplay, or more than one plausible interpretation. Independently verify information before relying on it.

Scores, streaks, badges, results, and other in-Service achievements have no cash value, are not property, cannot be transferred, and may be corrected, changed, reset, suspended, or discontinued at any time. Unless separate official rules expressly say otherwise, the Service does not offer gambling, wagering, sweepstakes, contests, prizes, or anything of monetary value.

Limited license

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for your own noncommercial entertainment. No ownership rights are transferred. We and our licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted.

Acceptable use

You may not, directly or indirectly, do any of the following:

• Use the Service in violation of law, a court order, or another person’s rights.
• Copy, reproduce, republish, sell, license, distribute, publicly display, scrape, harvest, archive, or commercially exploit the Service or its content except as permitted by law or with our written permission.
• Use bots, scripts, crawlers, automation, artificial-intelligence systems, or similar means to extract content, build datasets, train or evaluate models, reproduce puzzle databases, mass-submit answers, manipulate results, or place an unreasonable load on the Service.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, probe, scan, test, bypass, or attempt to defeat a security, access-control, rate-limit, anti-cheat, content-protection, or other technological measure, except to the limited extent applicable law prohibits that restriction.
• Introduce malware or harmful code; conduct denial-of-service activity; obtain unauthorized access to systems or data; impersonate another person; misrepresent an affiliation; use the Service fraudulently; or interfere with another person’s use of the Service.
• Use Guessistan’s names, logos, designs, puzzles, or content in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation without our written permission, or encourage or help anyone violate these restrictions.

Sharing results

You may use sharing tools we provide to share a limited result grid or link for personal, noncommercial purposes, provided you do not reveal an answer before the applicable puzzle period ends, remove attribution, misrepresent the result, or suggest that we endorse you.

Intellectual property

The Service—including its software, visual design, trade dress, logos, graphics, text, game names, protectable game elements, puzzle selections and arrangements, clues, compilations, databases, and other content—is owned by or licensed to us and is protected by intellectual-property and other laws. Guessistan and its associated branding are trademarks or trade dress of Exalted Morning Star Group LLC. You may not use them without our prior written permission.

References to third-party names, marks, works, people, products, places, or cultural material are for identification, commentary, parody, or gameplay and do not imply affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement. All third-party rights remain with their owners.

If you believe material on the Service infringes your intellectual-property rights, email admin@guessistan.com with identification of the protected work; the location of the material; your contact information; your good-faith explanation; and confirmation that your information is accurate and you are authorized to act. We may remove or restrict material while reviewing a complaint.

Feedback and communications

If you voluntarily send ideas, corrections, suggestions, puzzle concepts, feedback, or other materials (“Feedback”), you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, display, perform, commercialize, and create derivative works from that Feedback for any lawful purpose, without compensation or attribution.

You represent that you have the right to provide the Feedback and that our permitted use will not violate another person’s rights. This license does not apply to personal information except as described in our Privacy Policy.

Third-party services, links, and advertising

The Service may contain or rely on third-party hosting, security, analytics, advertisements, embedded content, links, products, or other integrations. We do not control and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, are not responsible for third-party content, products, services, availability, security, privacy practices, or terms. Your interactions with third parties are between you and that third party.

An advertisement, sponsorship, or link does not by itself constitute our endorsement. Review the applicable third party’s terms and privacy practices. Any purchase or transaction with an advertiser or third party is governed by your agreement with that party, not these Terms.

Privacy and security

Our Privacy Policy describes our collection and use of information and is incorporated into these Terms. It does not limit rights you have under applicable law.

Internet transmissions, browser storage, and electronic systems cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure. You use the Service and transmit information at your own risk, subject to responsibilities we cannot exclude under applicable law.

Changes, interruptions, and termination

We may add, remove, modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We do not promise that a game, puzzle, score, streak, feature, browser-stored record, or other content will remain available, be preserved, or work on every device or browser.

We may restrict or terminate access, invalidate results, and take reasonable protective action if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure, interfered with the Service, or acted fraudulently or abusively. Where applicable law requires notice or an opportunity to contest the action, we will provide what that law requires.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Revised Terms will show a new effective date. For a material change, we will provide notice reasonably appropriate to the Service and the change. Changes apply prospectively from their effective date. Continued use after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law; if you do not agree, stop using the Service.

Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided “as is,” “as available,” and with all faults. Exalted Morning Star Group LLC and its members, managers, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, licensors, and service providers (collectively, the “Guessistan Parties”) disclaim all express, implied, and statutory warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, security, availability, and freedom from harmful code.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, complete, compatible with your device, or free from harmful components; that defects will be corrected; or that a score, streak, answer, clue, transliteration, classification, or other content will meet your expectations.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Guessistan Parties will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, use, or business opportunity; device or system damage; or the cost of substitute services arising from or relating to the Service or these Terms, under any theory of liability, even if advised that such damages were possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the total aggregate liability of the Guessistan Parties for all claims arising from or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid directly to us to use the Service during the six months before the event giving rise to the claim or US$100.

These limitations do not apply to liability that applicable law does not permit a party to limit or exclude, including fraud or willful misconduct where the law prohibits exclusion. Your jurisdiction may provide additional rights.

Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Guessistan Parties from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, penalties, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from or relating to your unlawful or unauthorized use of the Service; your material breach of these Terms; your infringement or violation of another person’s rights; or Feedback or other material you submit.

This obligation does not require you to indemnify a Guessistan Party for its own unlawful conduct, negligence, or other liability to the extent prohibited by law. We may control the defense of a covered claim, and you agree to reasonably cooperate. You may not settle a covered claim in a way that imposes liability or an admission on a Guessistan Party without our written consent.

Disputes, New Jersey law, and venue

Before filing a legal claim, the complaining party should send a written notice describing the dispute and requested relief and allow 30 days for a good-faith attempt to resolve it, unless urgent relief or applicable law requires otherwise. Notices to us must be emailed to admin@guessistan.com with the subject “Legal Dispute Notice.”

Except where applicable law requires otherwise, these Terms and disputes arising from them or the Service are governed by New Jersey law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. A dispute must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New Jersey, and each party consents to their personal jurisdiction and venue, except that an eligible individual matter may be brought in small-claims court.

General terms

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement concerning the Service, except for separate terms or official rules we expressly provide for a feature, promotion, or transaction. If a provision is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will continue. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, operation of law, or transfer of the Service. No third party is a beneficiary of these Terms. Section headings are for convenience, and “including” means “including without limitation.”

Provisions that by their nature should survive termination—including intellectual property, Feedback, warranty disclaimers, liability limitations, indemnification, dispute provisions, and these general terms—will survive. Contact admin@guessistan.com with questions.