Terms of use

Rule. A term that binds you should be findable, dated, and written by someone willing to be named.

1.1 This document sets the conditions on which AXIOM INTERACTIVE PTY LTD makes the website at axiominteractive.link available for reading.

1.2 The company is registered in New South Wales, Australia, under ACN 700 712 465, and holds ABN 77 700 712 465. It is a proprietary company limited by shares.

1.3 The parties are that company and you, meaning the person requesting a page from this domain. Nobody else acquires a right under this document.

1.4 The issue that binds is identified by the number and commencement date printed at the head of this page. Clause 18 governs how one issue gives way to another.

Rule. A word doing work in a clause is defined before the clause uses it.

2.1 The studio, we, us and our mean AXIOM INTERACTIVE PTY LTD as identified in clause 1.2.

2.2 The site means every page, stylesheet, script, icon and file served from axiominteractive.link, and nothing served from anywhere else.

2.3 The axioms means the six numbered design rules published on the home page, together with the statement of cost that accompanies each. Clause 5 deals with what they do and do not create.

2.4 A title means a puzzle game published by the studio under its own name. Clause 4.2 states what these pages do and do not represent about one, and clause 15 states which terms govern it.

2.5 The Australian Consumer Law means Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), applied as a law of the Commonwealth and of each State and Territory.

Rule. Agreement follows from an act you actually performed, not from a box drawn to look pre-ticked.

3.1 Requesting a page from the site binds you to the issue of these terms in force when the request is made.

3.2 If any clause here is unacceptable to you, the remedy is to stop requesting pages. Nothing on the site requires an account, a subscription or a payment, so leaving costs you nothing and takes effect at once.

3.3 No clause of this document requires you to waive a right conferred on you by a law of the Commonwealth of Australia or of a State or Territory, and clause 13 states so directly.

Rule. A page that publishes design rules should not be readable as a page that sells a product.

4.1 The site exists to publish the axioms, to record the registrable facts about the company, and to give one address for correspondence. That is the whole of its function.

4.2 Nothing here is an offer capable of acceptance, an invitation to invest, a prospectus, or a representation that any particular title is available for purchase.

4.3 Nothing on the site is legal, financial or professional advice, and no clause of these terms creates a relationship of that kind between us.

4.4 No account can be created here, no payment can be made here, and no form is presented for you to complete. Correspondence travels by email to the address in clause 22.1.

Rule. A published rule is worth something only if the person publishing it says plainly what kind of thing it is.

5.1 The axioms are design constraints the studio has adopted for its own work. They are not terms of a contract between you and us, and clause 5.1 exists so that nobody has to guess.

5.2 They are also not marketing copy, and we do not treat a departure from one as a change of emphasis. A shipped build that breaks an axiom is a defect, and the studio's position is that it should be reported, reproduced and either fixed or publicly conceded.

5.3 Where an axiom is capable of being enforced by a program rather than by memory, it is. The studio page sets out which four are checked automatically and what each check catches. Those checks run against our own builds; they are not a service, and passing one says nothing about anybody else's product.

5.4 An axiom may be amended. If one is, the home page will carry the amended wording, the date of the amendment, and the superseded wording will be supplied on request. An amendment made without that record would defeat the purpose of numbering them, which is why clause 5.4 is written here rather than left to good intentions.

5.5 Where a title is published under the company name, the guarantees that apply to it are those imposed by the Australian Consumer Law under clause 13, together with any end user licence issued under clause 15. The axioms sit alongside those, not in place of them.

Rule. The permission granted should be as wide as the ordinary use of a public page and no wider.

6.1 You may read the site, print pages from it, save copies for your own reference, and quote from it with attribution to AXIOM INTERACTIVE PTY LTD.

6.2 You may link to any page here from anywhere, without asking and without conditions on the surrounding context, provided the link does not represent that we endorse or are associated with the linking site.

6.3 The permission in clauses 6.1 and 6.2 is non-exclusive, revocable under clause 19, and does not transfer ownership of anything described in clause 8.

Rule. The list of prohibited acts should be short enough to read and specific enough to apply.

7.1 You must not attempt to gain access to any part of the hosting arrangement, the domain records or the source repository that is not published at this address.

7.2 You must not send automated traffic at a rate that degrades the site for other readers, nor use the site to distribute malicious code.

7.3 You must not present the site, or copies of it, in a way that implies the material was written by someone else, nor strip the company identification from a copy you republish.

7.4 You must not use anything published here to impersonate the studio, including by registering a confusingly similar domain or by issuing statements attributed to us.

7.5 Testing the site for security defects is not prohibited by clause 7.1, provided the testing is non-destructive, does not touch data belonging to any other person, and is reported under clause 22.1. A report arriving on that footing will never be met with a legal threat.

Rule. Ownership is stated once, and the exceptions are stated with it.

8.1 The text of these pages, the wording of the axioms, the stylesheet, the script, the icon and the arrangement of the whole are owned by AXIOM INTERACTIVE PTY LTD or used by it with permission.

8.2 The two typefaces are the property of their respective owners and are used under the licences under which they are distributed. Nothing in clause 8.1 claims them.

8.3 Where a name, mark or product belonging to another company turns up in these pages, it is there to say which company or which product is meant, and for no other reason. Their appearance asserts no ownership by us and implies no relationship with them.

8.4 The permission in clause 6.1 is the extent of what is granted. Reproducing a substantial part of the site as your own publication requires written consent, which the address in clause 22.1 will consider.

Rule. If we invite an argument, we should say in advance what happens to it.

9.1 The contact page invites disagreement with the axioms and reports of puzzles that appeared to require a guess. Anything you send under that invitation may be read, quoted internally, and acted on.

9.2 If your argument causes an axiom to change, the change will be published under clause 5.4. You are not obliged to be identified in that record, and you will not be identified without your agreement.

9.3 You are not paid for material sent under clause 9.1 and no confidential relationship arises from sending it. Do not send anything you need kept secret, and do not send anything you are not free to disclose.

9.4 Personal information contained in your message is handled under the privacy policy, which states how long correspondence is kept and how to have it deleted.

Rule. An uptime figure nobody measures is worse than no figure at all.

10.1 The site is published on ordinary commercial hosting. It may be unavailable for maintenance, because of a fault upstream, or for no reason we are told about.

10.2 We do not publish an availability target for this site and do not monitor one. Clause 10.2 exists because the alternative is to print a number that would mean nothing.

10.3 No part of clause 10 displaces the guarantees described in clause 13.

Rule. A fact that can be checked against a public register should be published in a form that invites the check.

11.1 The company name, the ACN, the ABN and the jurisdiction appear on this site precisely so that a reader can go and check each of them without our help. They are current at the effective date above.

11.2 The registers themselves govern. Where a detail on this site and the corresponding entry on a public register differ, the register is correct and the discrepancy should be reported under clause 22.1.

11.3 Statements on this site about what a title will and will not do are bounded by the axioms and are made as statements of the studio's present position. They are not consumer guarantees attaching to any particular product, and clause 4.2 already says so.

Rule. Responsibility ends where control ends.

12.1 Some pages link to a public register, a regulator or a statute. Those destinations are operated by other bodies, and their content, availability and conditions are theirs.

12.2 A link is a citation. It is not an endorsement, and it does not make the destination part of the site as defined in clause 2.2.

12.3 The requests these pages make to hosts outside this domain are listed in the cookie notice, which also states what those requests disclose.

Rule. Where Parliament has given you a right, a term of ours cannot take it away, and pretending otherwise would itself be a contravention.

13.1 The Australian Consumer Law confers guarantees on consumers that cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement. Nothing in this document attempts any of those things.

13.2 Where a guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law applies to something we supply, and that guarantee cannot lawfully be excluded, every other clause of this document is read subject to it. Clause 14 in particular operates only to the extent the Australian Consumer Law allows.

13.3 Where the law does permit a guarantee liability of ours to be capped, we may discharge it in one of two ways for services: by supplying the service a second time, or by meeting what it would cost you to obtain that second supply elsewhere. Which of the two is used is our choice.

13.4 If a clause of this document would, but for clause 13, exclude or restrict a guarantee that cannot lawfully be excluded, that clause is to be read as not applying to the extent of the inconsistency, and the rest of the document continues under clause 21.1.

Rule. A limitation clause should state its own ceiling rather than gesture at one.

14.1 Subject in every respect to clause 13, the site is made available as it stands, and we do not undertake that it will be free of error, uninterrupted, or fit for a purpose you have not told us about.

14.2 Subject in every respect to clause 13, we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data, or any consequential loss arising from use of the site or from inability to reach it.

14.3 Four things fall outside clause 14 altogether: fraud, a statement made fraudulently, death or bodily injury brought about by negligence on our part, and anything else the law refuses to let us cap.

14.4 Because the site is supplied without charge and offers nothing for sale, the aggregate liability of the studio under or in connection with these terms, so far as it may lawfully be limited, is limited to one hundred Australian dollars.

14.5 You are liable to us for loss we suffer as a direct result of your breach of clause 7, and for nothing beyond that.

Rule. A document about a website should not quietly extend itself over a product it was not written for.

15.1 These terms govern the site as defined in clause 2.2. They do not govern any title, as defined in clause 2.4.

15.2 A title distributed through an application store is also subject to that store's own terms between you and the store operator. Those terms are theirs, we are not a party to them, and we cannot vary them.

15.3 A title published under the company name carries its own end user licence, and that licence is linked from this site before the title is available for download rather than afterwards.

15.4 Purchases made inside a title, including any purchase that removes advertising, are made through the store operator's payment system. Refunds are handled under the store's process and under the Australian Consumer Law, and clause 13 applies to them.

Rule. Each fact belongs in one document, and the other documents point at it.

16.1 Personal information is dealt with in the privacy policy, written to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

16.2 What this site writes to your device, and which outside hosts it contacts, is dealt with in the cookie notice.

16.3 Those two documents are incorporated into these terms by reference. Where a statement in one of them cannot be reconciled with a clause here, the specialised document prevails on the subject it covers.

Rule. A complaint about material published here should reach a person, not a queue.

17.1 If material on this site infringes a right you hold, write to the address in clause 22.1 with the subject line Legal.

17.2 Identify the material by page and paragraph, identify the right you rely on, and state what you want done. A complaint that identifies none of those cannot be assessed.

17.3 A first substantive response is written within five business days. Material that plainly should not have been published is removed while the question is examined, and removal is not an admission.

Rule. A term can be replaced, but not retrospectively and not invisibly.

18.1 These terms may be amended. Whichever issue bears the number and commencement date shown at the head of this page is the one that binds.

18.2 An amendment applies to page requests made after its effective date. It does not reach back over anything that happened before.

18.3 The superseded issue is retained and supplied on request to the address in clause 22.1. Clause 18.3 is the reason a version number appears on this page at all.

Rule. A power to cut someone off should be narrow and its grounds should be named.

19.1 We may block a request, an address or a network that is breaching clause 7, and we may do so without notice while the breach is under way.

19.2 Clauses 8, 9, 13, 14, 20 and 21 survive any withdrawal under clause 19.1 and continue to apply to what happened beforehand.

19.3 If you believe a block was applied in error, write to the address in clause 22.1 and it will be reviewed.

Rule. The forum should be the one where the company actually is.

20.1 New South Wales law governs this document, together with Commonwealth law so far as it operates in that State.

20.2 Jurisdiction rests with the New South Wales courts, and with whichever courts are competent to hear an appeal out of them. You submit to that jurisdiction, and so do we.

20.3 If you deal with us from outside Australia, clause 20.1 still applies to these terms. Any right you hold under the mandatory consumer law of your own country is unaffected, and clause 13.1 applies with the necessary changes.

Rule. One clause failing should not take the document with it.

21.1 A clause found unenforceable gets cut back only so far as the finding demands, and everything else here carries on untouched.

21.2 Letting one breach pass does not surrender the clause it arose under. That clause stays available on the next occasion, and on the one after that.

21.3 We may assign our rights under these terms to a successor to the business. You may not assign yours, which cost nothing and are personal to you.

21.4 These terms, with the two documents named in clause 16.3, are the entire agreement between us about the site. Nothing said elsewhere adds to them.

Rule. One address, published, and honest about what it can and cannot receive.

22.1 Notices to us go to [email protected]. A notice is taken to be received on the business day it arrives, or on the next business day if it arrives outside business hours in New South Wales.

22.2 This site publishes no postal address. A document that must be formally served belongs at the registered office ASIC holds against ACN 700 712 465, that being where service carries legal weight. Printing a second address on this page would manufacture one where it carries none.

22.3 Notices to you are sent to the address you wrote from. We hold no other means of reaching you, which is a consequence of clause 4.4.