User Agreement

This User Agreement (the "Agreement") is a contract between you and Studio Blindspot Inc., trading as "Blindspot Games" ("we", "us", "our"), governing your access to and use of HexaDome Tactics (the "Game"), the website at thehexadome.com (the "Website"), related tournaments, and any other software or service we provide under the HexaDome brand (together, the "Services").

Legal entity: Studio Blindspot Inc., a legal person duly constituted under the laws of Quebec (Canada), trading under the "Blindspot Games" brand, having its registered office at 305 rue de Bellechasse, bureau 103, Montreal, Quebec H2S 1W9, Canada.

By creating an account, registering for a tournament, joining a beta programme, accepting a prize, or otherwise using the Services, you accept this Agreement. If you do not agree, please do not access or use the Services. Specific actions inside the Services (account creation, tournament registration, prize acceptance, beta enrolment) will also surface a clickwrap confirmation at the moment the action is taken.

1. Eligibility and account creation

1.1 Minimum age to create an account

To create a HexaDome account, you must be at least the higher of (a) 13 years old, and (b) the minimum age for valid data-protection consent in your country (see the table in our Privacy Policy, which ranges from 13 to 16 across the EU/EEA). Below that age, we do not allow account creation.

1.2 Contract capacity

If you are above the minimum account age but below the age of majority for entering into a contract in your country (typically 18, sometimes lower), your parent or legal guardian must review and accept this Agreement on your behalf, and is responsible for your activities on the Services. We may ask for proof of guardian consent before granting access to specific features.

1.3 Tournaments and cash prizes

Tournaments with cash prizes, real-money rewards, or other monetary value are restricted to participants who are at least 18 years old (or the local age of majority where higher), regardless of the minimum account age above. Each tournament's published rules may set additional age, country, residency, or status requirements. See Section 5 for full tournament eligibility terms.

1.4 Account creation

Access to most of the Services requires an account, which you create by signing in with a supported identity provider (currently Discord, with optional linking to Steam). You agree to provide accurate information, keep it current, and notify us promptly of any unauthorised use of your account.

1.5 One account per person

You may only operate one HexaDome account at a time, in your own name. You may not share, sell, lease, or transfer your account to anyone else. You are responsible for all activity carried out under your account.

2. Licence to use the Services

2.1 Licence grant

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and use the Services for your personal, non-commercial entertainment. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

2.2 Virtual items and in-game currency

The Services may offer virtual items, in-game currency, cosmetics, or other digital content (together "Virtual Items"). Virtual Items are licensed, not sold: you receive a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to access them inside the Services, but no ownership.

• No monetary value: Virtual Items have no cash value outside the Services. They cannot be redeemed for money, traded for goods or services, or transferred outside the Services except where we explicitly allow it.
• May change or expire: we may modify, rebalance, remove, or expire Virtual Items, including in response to gameplay balance, regulatory requirements, or technical constraints. We will give reasonable notice for material changes where practical.
• End of the Services: if we shut down a Service, Virtual Items linked to that Service may become unavailable. Where required by law, we will offer refunds for amounts paid for Virtual Items that you have not yet used.
• Statutory withdrawal (EU/EEA consumers): where you purchase Virtual Items with real money, you have a 14-day right of withdrawal under EU Directive 2011/83/EU. By starting to use a Virtual Item immediately after purchase you are asked to confirm that you waive that right for that specific item, in which case the withdrawal right no longer applies to it. Items you have purchased but not yet used remain refundable within the 14-day window.
• Statutory consumer protection: this section does not affect any statutory rights you have as a consumer under the law of your country of residence.

3. Player conduct and prohibited behaviour

HexaDome is meant to be a fair and welcoming environment, especially in competitive play where cash prizes are at stake. You agree not to:

• Cheat or exploit bugs, including using aimbots, wallhacks, packet injectors, automation tools, scripts, bots, macros, or any unauthorised third-party software designed to provide an unfair advantage.
• Boost or play on someone else's account, or let someone else play on yours, to inflate ranking, win prizes, or qualify for tournaments.
• Collude with other players or teams to manipulate match results, ranking, or tournament outcomes.
• Create or operate multiple accounts for the same person, except where we explicitly permit it (for example, a separate admin or content-creator account approved by us in writing).
• Sell, trade, gift, lease, or transfer your account, your in-game currency, or any virtual item, except where we expressly enable such transfers within the Services.
• Emulate or host private servers, intercept or redirect communications between the Services and us, mirror our servers, or run any matchmaking, leaderboard, or ranking system that imitates ours.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, datamine, or attempt to derive source code from the Services, except to the limited extent permitted by mandatory applicable law.
• Access non-public areas of the Services, probe their security, run vulnerability scans, or attempt to bypass any technical protection, rate limit, anti-cheat, or authentication mechanism.
• Use IP proxies, VPNs to spoof your country, or other technical means to disguise your location for the purpose of circumventing geographic restrictions, tournament eligibility rules, or prize eligibility rules.
• Use the Services for commercial purposes, advertising, paid promotion, or to promote a third party's product or service without our prior written permission.
• Collect personal information about other users (scraping, harvesting, doxxing), or impersonate any person or entity.
• Upload, submit or transmit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, hateful, threatening, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable.
• Engage in disruptive behaviour such as match abandonment, intentional throwing, spamming, flooding, mass-reporting, social engineering, or harassment of other users or our staff.
• Use the Services to commit fraud, launder money, evade taxes, or facilitate any other criminal activity.
• Encourage, assist, or enable anyone else to do any of the above.

3.1 Moderation actions

We may investigate suspected violations using both manual review and automated anti-cheat tooling, and may take any action we consider proportionate, including: warnings, temporary or permanent suspension, account termination, voiding match results, forfeiture or claw-back of prizes, exclusion from future tournaments, and reporting illegal activity to the relevant authorities. We aim to be proportionate: less restrictive actions before more restrictive ones, except where the violation is severe or repeated, or where immediate action is needed to protect users or the integrity of competition.

3.2 Notice and reasons

Where reasonably possible, before or shortly after taking a moderation action against your account we will:

• tell you what action has been taken and against which account;
• explain the reason in plain language (the conduct concerned and the rule we believe has been broken);
• indicate how long the action lasts and what triggers its end;
• where the action follows a third-party notice (for example a copyright takedown), let you know unless we are legally prevented from doing so.

3.3 Internal appeals

If you believe a moderation action against you is unjustified, you may appeal by emailing legal@blindspot-games.com within thirty (30) days of receiving the notice. Please include your account identifier, the action concerned, and the reasons why you believe the decision should be reversed. We will review your appeal and respond in writing. Appeals are reviewed by someone who was not involved in the original decision where the volume of decisions makes that practical.

3.4 Out-of-court dispute settlement (EU users, DSA)

If you are a recipient of the Services located in the European Union and your appeal does not resolve the dispute, you may select a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body, in line with Article 21 of the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065), to settle disputes about our moderation decisions. This is without prejudice to your right to bring proceedings before a competent national court.

4. User-generated content

The Services may allow you to submit, post, or transmit content (team names, profile information, comments, screenshots, replays, video clips, and similar) ("User Content").

What you keep, what stays ours. You retain whatever rights you already own in the underlying creative material you contributed (for example, your own text or your own recorded commentary). However, screenshots, replays, video clips, and similar captures of the Services necessarily contain our and our licensors' intellectual property (game art, characters, interface, sound, music, Aristeia and Infinity branding). Those underlying game assets remain owned by us and our licensors (including Corvus Belli). User Content therefore embeds our assets under the licence we grant you in Section 2; you cannot transfer or sublicense those assets to anyone.

Licence to us. By submitting User Content you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute that User Content in connection with operating, providing, and promoting the Services. This licence ends a reasonable time after you remove the relevant User Content, except where it has been shared with other users who retained a copy, or where we are required to retain it for legal reasons.

Your warranties. You warrant that you own or have all rights necessary to grant the licence above for the portion you contributed, and that your User Content does not infringe anyone's rights or violate this Agreement. We may remove or refuse to display any User Content at our discretion, subject to the notice and appeal rules in Section 3.

5. Tournaments and prizes

5.1 Tournament-specific rules

From time to time we organise tournaments, some of which may include cash prizes or other rewards. Each tournament has its own written rules (format, schedule, eligibility, prize structure, scoring, tie-breakers, disqualification grounds), published before registration opens. Those rules form part of this Agreement for participants of that tournament. If a tournament rule conflicts with this Agreement, the tournament rule prevails for that tournament unless the conflict touches a non-waivable statutory right.

5.2 Eligibility

Participation in tournaments and the ability to receive prizes is subject to:

• Age: minimum 18 (or the local age of majority where higher) for any tournament awarding cash prizes or items of monetary value, as set in Section 1.3. Lower thresholds may apply to non-prize tournaments where lawful.
• Country of residence: tournaments are void where prohibited by law. Cash-prize tournaments are not open to residents of countries where online prize tournaments, esports prize pools, or the use of our payment processors is illegal. The eligible country list is published with each tournament's rules.
• Sanctions and export control: prizes cannot be paid to individuals subject to applicable EU, UK, US, or UN sanctions, or to residents of sanctioned territories. We may refuse to register or pay any prize where doing so would breach sanctions or export-control law.
• Status: employees, contractors, family members of the same household, and persons otherwise involved in the operation of a tournament are not eligible to receive cash prizes for that tournament.

Participation in a tournament does not require any purchase. Outcome is determined by skill (gameplay performance) and not by chance.

5.3 Identity verification and prize claim

To claim a prize you may be required to provide, within the deadline set by the tournament rules: full legal name, date of birth, residential address, a copy of a government-issued ID (with non-essential fields redacted where possible), tax identification details where required by law, and payment details. We process this information solely to verify your eligibility, prevent fraud, pay the prize, and comply with our legal obligations (see our Privacy Policy). Failure to provide accurate information within the deadline may result in forfeiture of the prize.

5.4 Tax and withholding

Prizes may be subject to income, withholding, or similar taxes in your country of residence. Unless we state otherwise in the tournament rules, you are responsible for any taxes due on your prize. Where law requires us to withhold tax at source or to report the payment to tax authorities, we will do so and provide you with the corresponding documentation.

5.5 Minors

Where a tournament allows participants under the local age of majority and that participant wins a prize, the prize will only be paid into an account in the name of the participant's parent or legal guardian, after that guardian has confirmed acceptance of the prize and these terms in writing.

5.6 Prize substitution and cancellation

Where circumstances beyond our reasonable control prevent us from awarding a specific prize (for example, supplier bankruptcy, product withdrawal, regulatory restriction), we may substitute it with a prize of equal or greater value. If we are required to cancel a tournament before completion for reasons outside our control, we will pro-rate or refund prize pools fairly where participants have already advanced.

5.7 Personal and non-transferable

Prizes are personal to the winner and cannot be transferred, sold, or assigned to a third party except as expressly permitted in the tournament rules.

5.8 Final results and disputes

Tournament outcomes determined under the published rules are final, except where we identify and correct a clear error of scoring or eligibility. Any dispute relating to a specific match must be raised within the time limit set by the tournament rules (typically before the start of the next round). General disputes about prize payment follow the appeals process in Section 3.3 and the dispute resolution process in Section 15.

5.9 Cheating, collusion, account sharing

We may exclude, disqualify, or remove from a tournament any participant suspected of cheating, collusion, account sharing, harassment, account boosting, or any other violation of this Agreement, and may withhold or claw back prizes accordingly. The notice, reasons, and appeals rules in Section 3 apply.

6. Early access and beta

6.1 Nature of early access and beta

The Services may be offered as a free early access or beta version. Early access and beta builds are not finished products: they may contain bugs, missing features, performance issues, or behaviour that does not reflect the final release. We may modify, reset, wipe, suspend, or discontinue any beta phase at any time. Participation in a beta does not entitle you to compensation, refunds, credits, in-game items, or any other benefit beyond the access itself.

6.2 Confidentiality of beta material

Beta builds, related documentation, internal communications, bug reports we send back to you, build notes, and any information we identify as confidential or that would reasonably be understood as confidential (together "Beta Confidential Information") are confidential. You agree that:

• Limited use: you will use Beta Confidential Information only as needed to participate in the beta as authorised by us.
• Reasonable care: you will protect Beta Confidential Information with at least the same level of care you use for your own confidential information, and never less than a reasonable level.
• No disclosure: you will not disclose Beta Confidential Information to anyone outside the beta programme, including by streaming, recording, screenshotting, or describing it in public, unless we expressly authorise it (for example through a specific streaming or content-creator agreement).
• No public announcement: you will not make public announcements, press statements, or marketing communications about a beta version of the Services without our prior written consent.

6.3 End of beta

When a beta phase ends, you may be required to uninstall any local beta build and delete any related material you hold. Your participation in a beta does not guarantee continued access to the Services in their commercial form.

7. Intellectual property

We and our licensors (including Corvus Belli for elements drawn from the Aristeia and Infinity universes) own all intellectual property rights in the Services, including the software, art, characters, music, sound effects, text, trademarks and logos. Nothing in this Agreement transfers any of those rights to you. You agree not to remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.

If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, please send a notice to legal@blindspot-games.com with sufficient detail to identify the infringing content and your rights.

8. Third-party services and platforms

The Services rely on third-party platforms (including Discord and Steam) and may link to third-party sites. Your use of those platforms is governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for the content or practices of third parties. Where the Game is distributed through a platform such as Steam, that platform's terms apply to your acquisition and use of the Game on that platform.

9. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or other feedback regarding the Services, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, modify, and exploit that feedback without obligation or compensation to you.

10. Warranty disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free from harmful components, or that any defect will be corrected.

Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits any warranty that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

11. Limitation of liability

11.1 Exclusion of indirect damages (where permitted)

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the Services.

11.2 Cap on direct damages (where permitted)

Where permitted by the law of your country of residence, our aggregate liability for direct damages arising out of or in connection with this Agreement and the Services will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you have paid us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty euros (€50). For Services provided free of charge, only limit (b) applies.

11.3 Carve-outs that always apply

Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. In particular, and depending on your country of residence, the cap above does not apply to:

• death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or wilful misconduct on our part;
• gross negligence on our part where local law prohibits exclusion in such cases;
• liability for defective products under product-liability statutes;
• statutory warranties owed to consumers under EU Directive 2019/770 (digital content and digital services), EU Directive 2019/771 (sale of goods), and equivalent national consumer-protection laws;
• any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited where you live.

If a court of competent jurisdiction in your country finds that the cap above is unenforceable for a specific claim, that claim is governed instead by the minimum liability standard required by your local mandatory law, and the rest of this Agreement remains in full effect.

12. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, and only in respect of third-party claims brought against us, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any such third-party claim, demand, loss, or damage (including reasonable legal fees actually incurred) where it arises out of:

• your wilful, fraudulent, or unlawful breach of this Agreement;
• User Content you submitted that infringes the rights of a third party;
• your wilful violation of applicable law or of the rights of a third party.

This indemnity does not apply to losses caused by our own negligence, wilful misconduct, or breach of this Agreement, and is limited as required by the consumer-protection law of your country of residence. We will notify you promptly of any third-party claim covered by this section, will not settle it without your involvement, and will cooperate reasonably in its defence.

13. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services, in whole or in part, at any time with or without notice if we believe you have breached this Agreement, if continued provision of the Services to you would expose us to legal or financial risk, or if we cease operating the relevant part of the Services. Where reasonable, we will give you advance notice.

You may stop using the Services at any time and request deletion of your account by contacting us. On termination, the licences granted to you in this Agreement end and any provisions which by their nature are intended to survive termination (including sections 7, 9 to 12, 15 to 17) will continue to apply.

14. Changes to the Services and to this Agreement

14.1 Changes to the Services

We may modify, update, or discontinue any part of the Services at any time. For material changes that materially affect your use of the Services or features you have paid for, we will give reasonable advance notice through the Services or by email where contact information is available.

14.2 Minor changes to this Agreement

For minor changes that do not materially affect your rights or obligations (for example, typo fixes, clarifications, non-substantive reorganisation), we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Services after a minor change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated text.

14.3 Material changes

For material changes (notably to fees, dispute resolution and governing law, prize and tournament rules, virtual items, content moderation, or rules that may significantly affect your account), we will:

• publish the change with at least thirty (30) days' advance notice before it takes effect, unless a shorter period is required to comply with law or to address a security or legal risk;
• notify you through the Services and, where we have your email, by email;
• where practical, request your explicit acceptance (for example by clickwrap) the next time you access the relevant feature; access to that feature may be conditional on acceptance.

If you do not accept a material change, you may stop using the affected feature or close your account before the change takes effect. Changes do not apply retroactively to disputes that arose before they became effective.

15. Governing law and disputes

15.1 Governing law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec and the laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to its conflict of laws principles and excluding the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. This choice of law does not deprive consumers of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of their country of residence (for example, EU consumer-protection law applicable to consumers in the EU/EEA).

15.2 Informal negotiation first

Before starting any court or arbitration proceedings, you and we agree to try to resolve the dispute through informal negotiation in good faith for at least thirty (30) days. The party raising the dispute will send a written notice to the other party describing the nature and basis of the dispute and the relief sought. You should send your notice by email to legal@blindspot-games.com, including the email address linked to your HexaDome account and a description of the dispute. We will send our notice to the email address linked to your account.

15.3 Forum

If the dispute is not resolved within the negotiation period above, the competent courts of the judicial district of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, except where mandatory law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts (for example, EU consumers may bring proceedings in the courts of their country of residence).

15.4 Consumer dispute resolution (EU users)

The European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform has been discontinued (closed in July 2025). If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, you may instead:

• contact your national consumer protection authority or the European Consumer Centres Network (eccnet.eu) for cross-border issues;
• use a certified alternative dispute resolution (ADR) body under EU Directive 2013/11/EU if you and we have agreed in writing to use one for a specific dispute;
• where applicable, use the out-of-court dispute settlement mechanism under the Digital Services Act referenced in Section 3.4 for moderation-related disputes.

We are not obliged to participate in ADR before a consumer body unless required by applicable law.

15.5 Injunctive relief

Notwithstanding the above, either party may at any time apply to a competent court for an injunction or other urgent equitable relief to protect its rights, in particular in cases of suspected infringement of intellectual property, breach of confidentiality, or unauthorised access to the Services.

16. Mandatory consumer rights

If you are a consumer, this Agreement does not affect your statutory rights under the law of your country of residence, including any rights you may have under EU consumer law (such as the right of withdrawal for digital content where applicable, statutory warranties, and remedies for non-conforming services).

17. General provisions

• Entire agreement: this Agreement and the documents it references constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Services.
• Severability: if any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full effect, and the unenforceable provision will be replaced by an enforceable provision that most closely reflects the original intent.
• No waiver: a failure to enforce any right under this Agreement is not a waiver of that right.
• Assignment: you may not assign this Agreement without our prior written consent. We may assign this Agreement to any of our affiliates or to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Notices: we may give you notices by email to the address linked to your account or by posting them on the Services. You should send notices to us by email at the address below.

18. Contact

Studio Blindspot Inc. (trading as "Blindspot Games")
Registered office: 305 rue de Bellechasse, bureau 103, Montreal, Quebec H2S 1W9, Canada
General contact: contact@blindspot-games.com
Legal: legal@blindspot-games.com
Website: www.blindspot-games.com