Terms of Service

Effective from 1 September 2026.

These Terms are a legally binding agreement between you and the operator of Cluecade. They also serve as the terms of use and privacy notice required to be published under Rule 3(1)(a) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and constitute an electronic record under the Information Technology Act, 2000. No physical or digital signature is required.

By playing Cluecade — including as a guest, without creating an account — you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the service.

1. Who you are contracting with

Cluecade (“Cluecade”, “we”, “us”) is operated by Arshad Aqeel Khan, an individual carrying on business as a sole proprietorship at Nara, Nagpur, Maharashtra 440014, India. Cluecade is not a registered company; your agreement is with that individual.

You can reach us at scalystic@gmail.com. For complaints, use the Grievance Officer route set out in Contact & Grievances.

2. What Cluecade is

Cluecade is a browser-based arcade of guessing games. Sargam, the game available today, plays a short audio excerpt of a track and asks you to name it within a limited number of attempts, revealing more of the excerpt with each miss. The service also offers a daily challenge, leaderboards, and multiplayer rooms with text chat.

Cluecade is provided free of charge. There is no paid tier, and we do not currently sell anything. If that changes, we will publish pricing and refund terms before taking any payment.

3. Eligibility and age

You must be 18 years of age or older to create a Cluecade account or to use multiplayer chat. If you are under 18, you may use Cluecade only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian, who must provide that consent to us and who accepts these Terms on your behalf.

This threshold is set by Section 9 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which requires verifiable parental consent before processing the personal data of anyone under 18 in India, and prohibits tracking or behavioural monitoring of children. We do not serve behavioural advertising to anyone and we do not track users across other websites.

4. Guests and accounts

• Playing as a guest. You can play without registering. We create a temporary player identity for you, stored in a cookie, so your run and progress survive a page refresh. Guest progress is tied to that browser — clearing your cookies loses it, and we cannot recover it.
• Registering. You can create an account with an email address and password, or by signing in with Google. If you register after playing as a guest, we merge that guest progress (experience, coins, completed runs) into your new account once. That merge is final and cannot be reversed.
• Your credentials are yours to protect. Keep your password confidential and tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access. You are responsible for activity under your account, except to the extent it results from our own failure.
• One account per person. Do not create multiple accounts to farm rewards, evade a suspension, or manipulate a leaderboard.
• Accurate information. Give us a real, working email address. It is how we reach you about your account.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Cluecade to do any of the following.

Content you must not host, display, upload, or share

This list reflects Rule 3(1)(b) of the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. In chat, display names, room names, or anywhere else on Cluecade, you must not transmit anything that:

• belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right;
• is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another’s privacy including bodily privacy, or harmful to children;
• is defamatory, libellous, racially or ethnically objectionable, or promotes enmity, hatred, or violence between groups;
• infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, or other proprietary right;
• violates any law for the time being in force, or deceives or misleads anyone about the origin of a message, or knowingly communicates information that is patently false or misleading;
• impersonates another person, including by choosing a display name designed to pass you off as someone else;
• threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security, or sovereignty of India, its friendly relations with foreign states, or public order, or causes incitement to any cognisable offence, or prevents investigation of any offence, or insults any foreign state;
• contains a software virus or any other code designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer resource.

Things you must not do to the service

• Do not cheat. No bots, scripts, automated solvers, audio-fingerprinting tools, or third-party software that plays for you or identifies tracks on your behalf.
• Do not extract the audio. Audio excerpts are streamed to you for the sole purpose of playing the game. Downloading, recording, re-hosting, redistributing, or building a dataset from them is prohibited.
• Do not scrape. No crawling, bulk-downloading, or automated access to our pages or APIs beyond ordinary gameplay, and no circumventing rate limits or signed asset URLs.
• Do not attack or probe. No attempts to gain unauthorised access to accounts, servers, the admin console, or data you are not entitled to; no denial-of-service; no interference with other players’ games.
• Do not reverse engineer the service or attempt to derive source code, except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable under applicable law.
• Do not resell or commercialise access to Cluecade without our written permission.

6. Your content, and our role

“Your content” means anything you submit to Cluecade — chat messages in multiplayer rooms, your display name and handle, and any feedback you send us.

You keep ownership of your content. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, and display it for the purpose of operating the service — for example, showing your chat message to the other players in your room and your name on a leaderboard. This licence ends when the content is deleted, except for copies retained in backups for the period described in the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for your content and confirm you have the right to post it.

Cluecade is an intermediary under Section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, in respect of user content. We do not pre-screen chat and we are not obliged to monitor it. We may, but need not, remove or disable access to any content that we reasonably believe breaches these Terms — and we will remove content when required to under Section 79(3)(b) of that Act on receiving a valid court order or government direction. Reporting routes are set out in Contact & Grievances and Copyright.

7. Coins, experience, and levels

Cluecade awards coins, experience points, and levels as part of gameplay. These are a scorekeeping feature, not property. Specifically:

• they have no monetary value and cannot be exchanged for money;
• they are a limited, personal, revocable, non-transferable permission to use a feature of the service — you do not own them;
• they cannot be sold, gifted, or traded, on Cluecade or anywhere else;
• we may adjust balances, rebalance rewards, or reset them where needed to fix a bug, reverse cheating, or change how the game works;
• they expire when your account is closed, and we owe you nothing for any unspent balance.

8. Our content and third-party music

The Cluecade name, logo, interface, code, and game design are ours or our licensors’. We grant you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use them for the purpose of playing the game, and nothing more.

The musical works and sound recordings featured in the games belong to their respective rights holders — composers, lyricists, performers, publishers, and labels. Nothing on Cluecade transfers any right in them to you. Excerpts are streamed for the purpose of gameplay only. If you hold rights in a recording used on Cluecade and want it removed, follow the process on the Copyright page and we will act on it.

9. Availability and changes

Cluecade is offered on an ongoing but not guaranteed basis. We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of it — including a game, a feature, or the whole service — with reasonable notice where practicable. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation, and we may take the service down for maintenance.

We do not guarantee that your account, gameplay history, leaderboard standing, or coin balance will be preserved indefinitely.

10. Suspension and closing your account

You may stop using Cluecade at any time, and you may ask us to delete your account by emailing scalystic@gmail.com.

We may suspend or terminate your access, with notice where reasonably practicable, if you breach these Terms — in particular the acceptable use rules — or if we are required to by law. Where a breach is serious or ongoing, we may act immediately. If you believe we have acted wrongly, the Grievance Officer route is open to you and we will review the decision.

Sections 6 (the licence you grant, for content already posted), 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, and 14 survive termination.

11. Disclaimers

Cluecade is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Song metadata — titles, artists, years, album details — is drawn in part from third-party catalogues and may contain errors. Cluecade is entertainment, not a reference work.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by Indian law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive losses, or for loss of data, goodwill, or gameplay progress, arising from your use of Cluecade.

Our total aggregate liability to you for all claims connected with the service is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim — which, while Cluecade is free, is nil — and (b) ₹1,000.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, for wilful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your content, or your unlawful use of the service. We will notify you of any such claim and will not settle it without consulting you.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Nagpur, India, have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, and you and we submit to that jurisdiction.

Before starting proceedings, please raise the matter with our Grievance Officer — most issues are resolved there.

15. Grievance redressal

Under Rule 3(2) of the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, we publish the name and contact details of our Grievance Officer, who will acknowledge your complaint within 24 hours and dispose of it within 15 days. Full details, including the categories of complaint that carry shorter deadlines, are on the Contact & Grievances page.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When a change materially affects your rights, we will give notice in the product or by email to registered users before it takes effect, and we will update the “last updated” date at the foot of this page. Continuing to use Cluecade after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not, stop using the service and ask us to close your account.

17. General

• Whole agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy, Cookie, and Copyright policies, are the entire agreement between us about Cluecade.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, we have not waived it.
• Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign ours if we transfer or incorporate the business, on notice to you.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for failures caused by events beyond reasonable control.