Terms of Service

1. Agreement to these terms

Spottle (“Spottle,” “we,” “us”) is operated by Oaklake Studio. These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of the Spottle website, game, and related services (the “Service”). By creating an account or playing, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you confirm you are authorized to accept these terms for that organization.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 13 years old to use Spottle, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live. Accounts and sign-in are handled by our authentication provider, Clerk. You are responsible for the activity under your account and for keeping your sign-in method secure.

• One person per account. Provide accurate information and keep it current.
• Your credentials are yours. Do not share your account or let others play under your identity.
• Tell us about misuse. Contact us athi@oaklake.studio if you suspect unauthorized access.

3. The game

Spottle drops you into an AI-generated scene with one random letter and a short timer. You name objects you can spot that start with that letter, and the most valid finds wins the round; the most rounds wins the match. Today you play single-player against an automated opponent (a bot) that is tuned to your skill rating. Finished matches are scored and saved, and they feed your rating and the public leaderboard.

The Service is offered on an evolving basis. We may add, change, or remove features (including the bot, scenes, ratings, leaderboard, or any future real-time multiplayer) at any time.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Cheat, or use bots, scripts, scrapers, or other automation to play, inflate scores, or manipulate ratings or the leaderboard.
• Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Service, or attempt to access data or accounts that are not yours.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, scene answer keys, or model prompts, except where the law allows it.
• Submit unlawful, hateful, harassing, or infringing content as answers or in any other field.
• Use the Service to violate any applicable law or the rights of others.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that break these rules or that put the Service or other players at risk.

5. Your answers and submissions

When you play, you submit content: the words you type. To run the game and score it, we and our providers process those submissions, including sending answers the automated tagger missed to our vision provider to check whether they really appear in the scene. You keep any rights you have in what you submit, and you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to use it to operate, secure, and improve the Service.

See our Privacy Policy for how this data is handled.

6. Intellectual property

The Service, including the Spottle name, logo, design, and the AI-generated scene images and their answer keys, is owned by Oaklake Studio or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own non-commercial play, subject to these terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

7. Third-party services

Spottle relies on third parties to work, including Clerk for authentication and providers that generate scene images and analyze answers. Your use of the Service may be subject to those providers’ terms, and we are not responsible for their services.

8. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, that scene tagging or answer judging will always be accurate, or that ratings and results will be free of mistakes.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Oaklake Studio and its suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of or inability to use the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (which is currently zero, as the Service is free) or USD 50.

10. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (such as intellectual property, disclaimers, and limitation of liability) will survive.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the revised terms.

12. Governing law and forum

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The parties elect the courts of the Judicial District (Comarca) of Florianópolis, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil as the exclusive forum for any dispute arising from these terms or the Service, unless applicable law (including consumer-protection rules) gives you the right to bring proceedings in another forum, such as your place of residence.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms? Reach us at hi@oaklake.studio.