Terms of Use
These Terms are a legal agreement between you and Naija Chase. By creating an account or using the Game, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
1. About these Terms
Naija Chase (“we”, “us”) provides a free browser-based detective game at naijachase.app (the “Game”) and an information website at naijachase.com (the “Website”), together the “Service”. These Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Disclaimer form the whole agreement between us about the Service.
2. Who may use the Service
- You must be at least 13 years old.
- If you are under 18, you may use the Service only with the permission and supervision of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use.
- You must not have been previously removed from the Service for breaking these Terms.
- You must be able to form a binding agreement under the law that applies to you.
3. Your account
- Registration requires a valid email address, a username, a home base and a password. You must confirm your email address.
- Give accurate information and keep it up to date. One person may hold one account.
- Keep your password secret and sign out on shared devices. You are responsible for activity under your account. Tell us immediately at [email protected] if you suspect someone else has used it. You can sign out of all devices from inside the Game.
- Your username and group names must not be offensive, misleading, unlawful, infringing, or impersonate another person or organisation. We may change or remove any that are.
- You can delete your account at any time by emailing us. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to your data.
4. Our licence to you
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and play the Game through a web browser for your own non-commercial entertainment, subject to these Terms. You get no ownership of the Service or its content.
5. Fair play and acceptable use
Naija Chase is a competitive and cooperative game, so it needs honest players. You agree not to:
- use bots, scripts, macros or other automation, or call the Game’s API except through the official website;
- cheat or exploit a bug, glitch or flaw, including to reveal hidden case information, answers or hideouts, or to alter scores, ranks, travel times, deadlines or weekly-challenge results. Please report such flaws to us instead;
- create multiple accounts to gain an advantage, collude with others to manipulate results or share unfair solutions during a live weekly challenge;
- access another person’s account or data, or attempt to bypass our security, rate limits or access controls;
- probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Service, or disrupt it by overloading it, introducing malware or attacking it;
- copy, scrape, mine or bulk-download the Game’s content, or build a competing product from it;
- decompile, reverse engineer or extract source code, except where the law allows it despite this restriction;
- harass, threaten, abuse or discriminate against other players, including through usernames and group names;
- use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or to promote or sell anything; or
- sell, rent, transfer or trade your account, ranks or in-game items for money or other value.
6. Private groups and weekly challenges
Groups are private and invitation-only. Group owners and admins may manage their own groups but cannot change case outcomes. Challenge results are determined by the server, and the server’s record is final. We may correct, reverse or void results that arise from a bug, error, cheating or technical fault.
7. Progress, ranks and in-game items
Career points, ranks, tokens, achievements and cosmetic items exist only inside the Game. They have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for money, and are not your property. We may rebalance, reset or adjust them where needed to keep the Game fair or to fix errors. Ranks such as “Inspector” are game titles only and do not give any real police or official status.
8. Paid features
The Game is free. Checkout and advertising are currently switched off. If we later offer paid items, they will be cosmetic or optional extra content only. They will never change clues, routes, deadlines, scores, ranks or challenge outcomes. Prices, taxes, refunds and any further terms will be shown clearly before you pay, and will apply in addition to these Terms.
9. Intellectual property
The Game and Website, including software, artwork, animations, music, text, clues, dialogue, cases, characters, data selection and arrangement, and the Naija Chase name and logo, belong to us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. Facts about Nigeria are not owned by us, but our wording and compilation of them are.
You keep ownership of any content you submit, such as a username or group name. You give us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, display and store it as needed to run the Service. If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without obligation or payment to you.
10. Fictional content
All characters, crimes, businesses, operators and events in the Game are fictional. Please read our Disclaimer, which forms part of these Terms.
11. Availability and changes
We aim to keep the Service available but do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or always available. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of it, for example for maintenance, security or improvement. We may update content, cases and balance at any time. If we discontinue the Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice where we can.
12. Suspension and termination
We may warn you, restrict features, remove content, reset results, or suspend or permanently close your account, with or without notice, if you break these Terms, put the Service or other players at risk, or if the law requires. If we close your account without cause, we will tell you why where we reasonably can. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, such as sections 9, 14, 15, 16 and 17, will continue.
13. No warranty
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. Educational and cultural content in the Game is provided for entertainment and general interest and may be incomplete or out of date. See the Disclaimer.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill or opportunity, arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service. Because the Service is free, our total liability to you for all claims relating to it will not exceed ₦10,000 (ten thousand naira).
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any rights you have as a consumer under Nigerian law that cannot be waived.
15. Your responsibility
You agree to compensate us for losses, damages and reasonable costs arising from claims by third parties caused by your breach of these Terms, your unlawful use of the Service, or your infringement of another person’s rights, to the extent the law allows.
16. Governing law and disputes
These Terms and any dispute arising from them or from the Service are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us at [email protected] so we can try to resolve the matter in good faith. If we cannot, the courts of Nigeria have jurisdiction, except where mandatory law gives you the right to bring a claim in your home country.
17. General
- Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms. We will change the date above and, for material changes, tell you by email or in the Game before they apply. Continuing to use the Service after the change means you accept the new Terms. If you do not accept, stop using the Service and delete your account.
- Severability. If a part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.
- No waiver. If we do not enforce a right immediately, we do not give it up.
- Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours to a successor of the Service.
- Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Disclaimer are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
- Notices. We may notify you by email to your registered address or inside the Game. You can reach us at [email protected].