Gamestage Terms of Service

Terms version 2026-09-06.

1. These Terms, and how you accept them

1.1 These Terms are a contract between you and [Monterosa legal entity], a company registered in England and Wales under number [number] with its registered office at [address] ("Monterosa", "we", "us"). They govern your use of Gamestage, the service described at gamestage.ai (the "Service").

1.2 You accept these Terms by ticking the acceptance box on the Service and confirming. Acceptance is recorded against your account, together with the version of these Terms accepted, the time of acceptance and the account that accepted them. Until you have accepted these Terms, you may use the Service only to inspect and scaffold a game on your own machine.

1.3 If you accept on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.

1.4 You must be at least 18 years old to hold an account.

1.5 We may change these Terms. A change is a new version with a new date. We will ask you to accept the new version before you next publish a game. We will give at least 30 days' notice of any change that materially reduces your rights. Continuing to operate a game already published does not by itself amount to acceptance of a new version.

2. Definitions

"Account" means your registered Gamestage account and its workspace.

"Applicable Law" means every law, regulation, licensing requirement, advertising and promotions code, and regulatory guidance that applies to you, to your Games, or to your Players, in any territory in which you make a Game available.

"Customer Content" means everything you provide to, or create on, the Service other than Feedback: your game code and pages, artwork, sounds, copy, questions, answers, rounds, brand features, names, and any Dataset.

"Dataset" means data you supply to be held server-side and used to score, value or resolve a Game, including any data you license from a third party.

"Engine" means the server-side components of the Service that hold a Game's authoritative state, mark plays, hold scores, and enforce limits.

"Feedback" means any suggestion, request, idea, proposal or comment about the Service or any Format, however made, including a request that we build or support a particular mechanic.

"Format" means a game mechanic, rule set or method of play that the Service offers or may offer, together with its server-side rules, schemas, scaffolds, documentation and Studio configuration, under whatever name we give it.

"Game" means a game you build, migrate or operate on the Service.

"Player" means an end user who plays a Game.

"Player Data" means personal data relating to a Player that is processed through the Service.

"Studio" means Monterosa Studio, the content management interface used to edit a Game's content.

3. Your Account

3.1 We approve Accounts at our discretion. Until an Account is approved, you may inspect, scaffold, run and verify a Game on your own machine. You may not publish a Game until an Account is approved.

3.2 You are responsible for everything done through your Account, including by any agent, automation or tool you direct. Keep your credentials secure and tell us promptly if you believe they have been compromised.

3.3 One person, one Account. You may not use the Service to create Accounts for others, or to hold an Account for a person who could not hold one themselves.

4. The Service

4.1 The Service takes a game you have built and moves the parts a Player could otherwise alter, such as answers, scoring and limits, onto the Engine. It lets you publish and operate the result. The documentation at gamestage.ai/docs describes what the Service does at any time. That documentation forms part of these Terms to the extent it describes limits, plans and conduct.

4.2 The Service is offered in plans. What each plan includes, and its limits, is stated at gamestage.ai/pricing and in your Account. We may enforce those limits automatically, including by stopping a Game that reaches its fair-use ceiling until a person has reviewed it.

4.3 We may change the Service. We will not remove a Format on which a published Game depends without at least 90 days' notice, except where Applicable Law or a third-party claim requires it.

4.4 The Service is provided from the United Kingdom. You are responsible for determining whether it may lawfully be used in any territory in which you or your Players are located.

5. Customer Content: yours, and what you let us do with it

5.1 You own Customer Content. Nothing in these Terms transfers any intellectual property right in Customer Content to us.

5.2 You grant us a licence to operate the Service. You grant Monterosa a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence for the term of these Terms and any period during which a Game remains published. Under this licence, Monterosa may host, store, copy, transmit, display and make available Customer Content. Monterosa may also adapt, reformat and modify it to the extent needed to migrate, operate, secure and support the Service. The licence also allows Monterosa to permit our sub-processors and hosting providers to do the same on our behalf. Migration means, in particular, that the Service and tools you direct may rewrite your game's pages and code so that authoritative parts run on the Engine.

5.3 We do not show your Game to other customers. We will not use Customer Content, or a Game, as a demonstration, example or case study, or otherwise disclose it to another customer, without your prior written consent. Our own demonstration games are built by us for that purpose.

5.4 Your Dataset stays server-side. A Dataset is held in storage no Player can reach and is used only to operate your Games. We will not disclose it to any third party except as needed to operate the Service, or as required by law.

5.5 You warrant that you have the rights. You represent and warrant, on each occasion you provide Customer Content, that:

(a) you own it, or hold every licence, consent and permission needed to provide it to us and to use it in the Service in the way these Terms contemplate, including from every rights-holder in any Dataset;

(b) its use in the Service will not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights or any other rights of any person;

(d) where a Dataset is licensed to you by a third party, that licence permits its use to score or value a Game offered to the public, and you will comply with its terms, including any attribution, territorial or usage limits; and

(e) you have obtained every consent required from any person whose name, image, likeness or performance appears in Customer Content.

5.6 If we receive a credible complaint that Customer Content infringes a third party's rights or breaches clause 6, we may suspend the Game concerned and will notify you. You must resolve the complaint or remove the content within the time we specify.

6. Acceptable use

6.1 You must not use the Service, and must not build, publish or operate any Game that is used, to:

(a) offer, promote, facilitate or link to gambling, meaning any gaming, betting or lottery in which a person pays or stakes money or money's worth for the chance of winning a prize, as those terms are defined under the Gambling Act 2005 or any equivalent Applicable Law;

(b) create, display or distribute pornography or any sexually explicit material, or any material that sexualises, exploits or endangers a child;

(c) promote or incite hatred, violence or discrimination against any person or group on the basis of a protected characteristic;

(d) harass, threaten, defame or impersonate any person;

(e) infringe any person's intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights;

(f) collect, use or disclose Player Data other than in accordance with clause 14 and Applicable Law;

(g) introduce malware, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, the Engine, another customer's Account or any Player's device;

(h) circumvent, disable or probe any limit, meter, cap, rate limit or security control of the Service, or use the Service to test the security of any system without our written consent;

(i) reverse engineer, decompile or extract the Engine, the Formats, or any server-side component of the Service, except to the extent Applicable Law permits this despite this clause;

(j) resell, sublicense or provide the Service to third parties as a service bureau, other than by operating Games for your own organisation and its Players; or

(k) do anything that breaches Applicable Law.

6.2 You must not use the Service in any way that targets, or is likely to be attractive to, children under 13 unless you have first agreed a written addendum with us covering that use. The same requirement applies to children under any higher age of digital consent in a territory in which you make a Game available.

6.3 Prizes, promotions and competitions. The Service supports Games that offer a prize. A prize competition that requires skill, or a free prize draw that requires no payment or stake, is not gambling for the purposes of clause 6.1(a). Whether a particular Game is lawful under Applicable Law depends on its rules, territory and audience. That is your responsibility alone:

(a) you must ensure that any Game offering a prize complies with the promotions, advertising, consumer and gambling law of every territory in which it is available, including any requirement for terms, eligibility rules, age limits, free entry routes, prize descriptions and registration;

(b) you are the promoter of any prize promotion run through a Game, and you alone are responsible for the prize, its award, its fulfilment and any tax or reporting obligation; and

(c) we may require you to provide evidence of compliance before we enable any prize feature or as a condition of keeping it enabled. We may withdraw that feature from a Game at any time if we reasonably consider it may breach Applicable Law.

6.4 We may remove or disable any content or Game that we reasonably believe breaches this clause 6, with or without notice, and may report unlawful material to the relevant authorities.

7. Game Formats and intellectual property

7.1 The Service is ours. Monterosa and its licensors own all intellectual property rights in the Service, including the Engine, every Format, the command-line tools, software development kits, scaffolds, reference games, documentation, App Specifications, and the Gamestage name and marks. These Terms grant you no rights in any of them except the right to use the Service in accordance with these Terms.

7.2 Game mechanics are common. You acknowledge that game mechanics, rules, methods of play and formats, including any mechanic used in a Game you build, are not capable of being owned exclusively by you. You also acknowledge that many such mechanics are in common use, are in the public domain or are the subject of prior art. Neither these Terms nor anything you provide to us gives you any right in a Format or mechanic, or prevents us from offering any Format to any person.

7.3 No exclusivity. We do not offer, and you do not acquire, any exclusive right in relation to any Format, mechanic or feature of the Service. This applies even if it was built at your request, from your Feedback or after you showed us a Game using it. Any statement to the contrary is of no effect unless set out in a written agreement signed by a director of Monterosa.

7.4 Feedback and requests are ours to use. A request that we build, support or change a Format, and any other Feedback, is not commissioned work. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use Feedback for any purpose, including to build and offer a Format to any customer, without obligation, attribution or payment to you. You will not provide Feedback that you are not entitled to license on those terms.

7.5 Similar Games. You acknowledge that the Service is a multi-tenant platform on which many customers, including your competitors, build Games using the same Formats. You also acknowledge that a Game built by another customer may resemble yours in mechanic, rules or method of play. That resemblance does not, by itself, infringe any right of yours. We owe you no duty to prevent that resemblance. Clause 5.3 governs what we will and will not do with your Customer Content.

7.6 Covenant not to assert. You agree not to assert any claim against Monterosa, its customers or its licensees that the offering, use or operation of a Format, or of a Game built by another person on a Format, infringes an intellectual property right of yours. This restriction applies to the extent the claim is based on the mechanic, rules, method of play or format rather than on the copying of your Customer Content. This clause does not prevent a claim founded on the copying of your Customer Content.

7.7 Residual knowledge. Our personnel may use, in the course of their work, general knowledge, skills and experience retained in their unaided memory as a result of working with you, provided they do not disclose your confidential information or copy your Customer Content.

7.8 Our record of independent development. We maintain a dated record of Formats we intend to build. If a Format appears in that record before you provided related Feedback or showed us a related Game, you agree that, between you and us, the record conclusively establishes independent development.

7.9 Names and brand. You must not use the Gamestage or Monterosa names or marks except as we permit in writing. You must not name a Game, or use trade dress in a Game, in a way that infringes a third party's marks or is likely to be confused with a third party's product. Clause 5.5 applies to any such name or trade dress.

8. Confidentiality

8.1 Each party will keep the other's confidential information confidential, use it only for the purposes of these Terms, and protect it with at least the care it uses for its own confidential information. Customer Content that is not published to Players, and any Dataset, is your confidential information. The Engine, Formats, pricing not published, and the non-public workings of the Service are ours.

8.2 The obligation does not apply to information that is or becomes public other than by breach, was already lawfully held, is independently developed without reference to the other's information, or must be disclosed by law or a court, provided the disclosing party gives what notice it lawfully can.

9. Fees and plans

9.1 Fees, if any, for your plan are stated in your Account. Fees are exclusive of VAT, which is added where applicable. You must pay fees in advance for the stated period. Fees are non-refundable except as provided in these Terms.

9.2 We may change fees on at least 30 days' notice. A change takes effect at the start of your next billing period.

9.3 We may suspend the Service for non-payment after 14 days' notice.

10. Suspension and termination

10.1 You may stop using the Service at any time by archiving your Games. Archiving a Game takes it off the air. We keep its record and its files for the period stated in the documentation and then may remove them.

10.2 We may immediately suspend or terminate your Account, or suspend any Game, if you materially breach these Terms or we reasonably believe a Game breaches clause 6 or Applicable Law. We may also take any of these actions immediately if required by law or a court, or to protect the Service or its users. We will tell you why unless the law prevents it.

10.3 We may terminate these Terms for convenience on 90 days' notice. If we do, we will refund any prepaid fees for the unexpired period.

10.4 On termination, your licence to use the Service ends and your Games are archived. Clauses 5.5, 6.3, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 16 continue to apply.

11. What we promise, and what we do not

11.1 We will provide the Service with reasonable skill and care.

11.2 Early access. The Service is in early access. We do not promise that it is complete, error-free or available without interruption. Features may change or be withdrawn as described in clause 4.3. Before running a Game on which significant sums or obligations depend, you should satisfy yourself that the Service is fit for that Game.

11.3 Except as expressly stated in these Terms, all warranties, conditions and terms, whether express or implied by statute, common law or otherwise, including as to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and non- infringement, are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

11.4 We do not warrant that any Game, Dataset or prize promotion is lawful in any territory. That is your responsibility under clauses 5.5 and 6.3.

12. Your indemnity

12.1 You will indemnify and hold harmless Monterosa, its affiliates, officers, employees and contractors against all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from or in connection with:

(a) any claim that Customer Content, or its use in the Service in accordance with these Terms, infringes the rights of any person;

(b) any breach by you of clause 5.5, clause 6 or clause 14;

(c) any prize, promotion or competition you run through a Game, including its lawfulness, its terms, and the award and fulfilment of any prize; and

(d) any failure by you to comply with Applicable Law.

12.2 We will promptly notify you of any claim and let you conduct its defence and settlement at your cost. We will also give reasonable assistance at your cost. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault on our part or imposes an obligation on us without our written consent.

13. Limits on our liability

13.1 Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

13.2 Subject to clause 13.1, we are not liable to you, in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, for any loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or anticipated savings, any loss or corruption of data, or any indirect or consequential loss, arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service.

13.3 Subject to clauses 13.1 and 13.2, our total aggregate liability to you arising out of or in connection with these Terms and the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of [£X] and the fees you paid us in that period.

13.4 These limits apply whether or not we were advised of the possibility of the loss.

14. Data protection and Player Data

14.1 Our privacy notice at gamestage.ai/privacy explains what we do with personal data relating to you.

14.2 For Player Data, you are the controller of the data relating to your Players that you decide to collect through a Game. We act as your processor to the extent we process that data on your instructions. We do so on the terms of the Data Processing Agreement at [gamestage.ai/dpa], which forms part of these Terms. We act as an independent controller for the Player Data we process for our own purposes, such as operating the Engine's anti-abuse limits and producing service analytics, as the privacy notice describes.

14.3 You are responsible for providing Players with any privacy notice, and obtaining any consent, that Applicable Law requires for your Game.

15. Notices

15.1 We give notice to the email address on your Account. You give notice to us at [legal@monterosa.co.uk]. Notice is treated as received when it is sent, unless the sender receives a delivery failure.

16. General

16.1 These Terms, the documentation to the extent stated in clause 4.1, the pricing page and any Data Processing Agreement make up the entire agreement between us about the Service. They replace all earlier discussions and representations. Each party acknowledges it has not relied on any statement not set out in them. Nothing in this clause limits liability for fraud.

16.2 You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or to a successor to the business.

16.3 A person who is not a party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term.

16.4 If any provision is found invalid or unenforceable, it must be modified only as much as necessary to make it valid. The rest continues in force.

16.5 A party does not waive a right by failing to exercise it or delaying its exercise.

16.6 Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control. This clause does not excuse payment.

16.7 Governing law and jurisdiction. These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, including non-contractual disputes or claims, are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. However, we may seek an injunction or other urgent relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.