The rules of the ring.

These terms are a starting draft. Before launching publicly, have a qualified attorney review and customize this to your specific situation, jurisdiction, and business structure. We are not lawyers.

Who can use Octagon.

You can use Octagon if either of the following is true:

• You are 13 years of age or older and can form a binding contract under the laws of your jurisdiction; or
• You are under 13, and your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and accepted these terms on your behalf through our verified parental consent flow.

Octagon is built for students — middle school through college — and we welcome school-age users. Schools, districts, or teachers using Octagon on behalf of students agree to these terms on those students' behalf and confirm they have appropriate consent to do so.

Your account.

• One person, one account.Don't make multiple accounts to climb leaderboards faster or evade a ban.
• Accurate info. Give us real information when you sign up. If your email or age changes meaningfully, update it.
• Keep your credentials safe.You're responsible for what happens under your account. If someone gets your password, tell us immediately at security@playoctagon.com.
• No transfer.Your account is for you. You can't sell, rent, or hand it to someone else.

Acceptable use.

Octagon is a competitive learning environment. To keep it that way, the following are not allowed:

• No cheating.Don't use bots, scripts, autoclickers, or any tool that submits answers on your behalf. Don't share answers in real time. Don't exploit bugs to inflate XP or league rank — report them instead.
• No harassment.Don't bully, threaten, or harass other users. Usernames and display names that are slurs, sexual, or otherwise abusive will be reset, and repeat offenders will lose their accounts.
• No scraping.Don't scrape, copy, or systematically download questions, lessons, explanations, audio, or other content. This includes using automated tools, browser extensions, or AI agents to extract our content.
• No reverse-engineering.Don't reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source of the app or our APIs.
• No security probing without permission.If you're a researcher who's found something, email security@playoctagon.com. We'll work with you. Don't go fishing.
• No commercial use.Octagon is for personal study and classroom use. You can't repackage it, resell access, or build a competing service on top of our content.
• No abuse of the service.Don't spam, flood our servers, or otherwise try to degrade the experience for other users.

Your content.

Anything you create inside Octagon — a username, a display name, feedback you submit, a message in a future social feature — is yours. We don't claim ownership of it.

You do grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and process that content for the sole purpose of running the Service. For example, we need a license to show your username on the leaderboard, or to display your message in a friend chat. This license ends when you delete the content, unless we've already shared it with another user (e.g. a message they've received).

We're not obligated to monitor user content, but we reserve the right to remove anything that violates these terms or that we believe is harmful, illegal, or inappropriate.

Our intellectual property.

The Service itself — including the question bank, the lessons, the explanations, the teacher avatars, the audio, the UI, the brand, the logo, the code, and the curriculum structure — belongs to Octagon. We've invested real money and real human time into building it, and we're protective of it.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for studying. That license does not include the right to copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from any of our content. If you want to use our content for something — a school, a tutoring business, a research paper — email legal@playoctagon.com and we'll talk.

Termination.

You can leave anytime. Delete your account from Settings and your data is wiped within 30 days, as described in the Privacy Policy.

We can suspend or terminate accountsthat violate these terms — for cheating, harassment, scraping, or any other prohibited use. Where possible we'll give a warning first, but for serious violations (especially anything involving the safety of other users) we'll act immediately.

We may also discontinue the Service entirely. If we do, we'll give reasonable notice and provide a way to export your data before shutdown.

Disclaimers.

Octagon is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We do our best to make the math accurate and the app reliable, but we can't promise that:

• The Service will always be available, uninterrupted, or bug-free.
• Every question or explanation is free of errors — though we'll fix them when reported.
• Using Octagon will improve your grades, test scores, or performance on any specific exam.
• Your league rank, streak, or belts mean anything to anyone outside this app.

Octagon is a study tool, not a tutor, not a teacher, and not a substitute for real schoolwork. We hope it helps. We can't guarantee it will.

Limitation of liability.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Octagon and its team are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost data, or lost opportunity — arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service, even if we've been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total liability for any direct damages relating to the Service is limited to the amount you've paid us in the 12 months before the claim — or, if you haven't paid us anything (which most users haven't, since the core app is free), one hundred US dollars. Some jurisdictions don't allow these limitations, so they may not apply to you.

Dispute resolution.

If something goes wrong, the first move is to email legal@playoctagon.com. Most disputes can be resolved informally if both sides are willing to talk. We commit to a good-faith response within 30 days.

For users in the United States

If we can't resolve a dispute informally, both you and Octagon agree to resolve any claim through final, binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitration will be conducted in English, in the county where you live or by phone or video. Either side may bring small-claims actions in court instead of arbitration if the claim qualifies.

Class-action waiver. You and Octagon agree that any dispute will be brought on an individual basis only, and not as a class, collective, or representative action. If a court finds this waiver unenforceable, the rest of this arbitration clause also becomes unenforceable, and any dispute proceeds in court.

Right to opt out. You can opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@playoctagon.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms, with the subject "Arbitration opt-out" and your account email. Opting out doesn't affect any other part of this agreement.

For users outside the US

Nothing in this section overrides any non-waivable rights you have under your local consumer protection laws.

Governing law.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any disputes not subject to arbitration under Section 10 will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

Changes to these terms.

We may update these terms over time. If we make a material change, we'll notify you in the app or by email before the change takes effect, and you'll have a chance to review and either accept or close your account. Continued use of the Service after a change goes live means you accept the updated terms. The "last updated" date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.