Terms of use

These are the terms on which Kidz Playzone Pty Ltd makes this website available. It is the company’s own site: there are no games on it, nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for. These terms are therefore short on obligations for you and honest about the limits of what we can promise.

Please read section 3 in particular. There is a minimum age of 13 and it applies to everyone.

1. These terms, and who they are with

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Kidz Playzone Pty Ltd (ACN 691 993 496, ABN 17 691 993 496), an Australian proprietary company registered with ASIC. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean that company, “this site” means the website at kidzplayzone.co, “the platform” means the casual game platform the company operates, and “you” means the person using this site.

These terms govern this site. Where the platform is made available, it carries its own terms of use, and those govern the platform.

Our Privacy Policy and cookies page form part of these terms. Where those documents deal with personal information, they govern.

2. Acceptance

By using this site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use it. There is nothing to cancel and nothing to pay, so leaving is simply a matter of closing the tab.

We may change these terms. We will not do it silently or retrospectively: the effective date at the top of this page changes, and if a change materially affects your rights we will publish a notice on the site before it takes effect. Continuing to use this site after a change takes effect means you accept the changed terms. If you do not, stop using it. We do not reserve a right to change these terms in a way that alters what has already happened between us.

3. Minimum age — you must be 13 or over

You must be at least 13 years old to use this site or the platform, or to contact us.

If you are under 13, please do not use this site or the platform, and do not send us your email address. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, email privacy@kidzplayzone.co and we will delete it — the route is set out in section 9 of the Privacy Policy.

“Kidz Playzone” is a brand name for casual, arcade-style games. It is not a description of our audience and the platform is not directed to children. We do not run categories, artwork or copy aimed at young children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13.

There are no user accounts, so there is no age gate to fill in and no date of birth held anywhere. The minimum is a stated policy, applied through how the platform is built — no accounts, no messaging, no purchases and a curated library. It is set out in full under Safety & suitability.

This is a stated minimum age honestly applied. It is not an age-verification system and we do not represent it as one.

4. What the platform is, and what it is not

This site is the company’s information site. It describes the company and the platform we operate. You cannot play, preview, browse, search for or download a game on it, and it holds no catalogue.

The platform itself is a free, advertising-funded set of casual games that run in a web browser — puzzle, arcade, skill, word and two-player. There is nothing to install, no account and nothing to pay.

To be explicit about what it is not:

• It is not a physical venue, play centre or soft-play centre. There is no location to visit.
• It is not a gambling service. We do not offer, and we do not list games that offer, real-money wagering, betting, purchasable loot boxes, casino mechanics or simulated gambling.
• It is not a social network. There is no chat, no profile, no comment thread and no messaging between players.
• It is not a paid service, a subscription, or a free trial that becomes paid. If that ever changes, it changes with clear notice and with a payment step you have to actively take.

Games are made by independent developers. We select and publish them; we do not build them.

5. Licence to use this site

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use this site for your own personal, non-commercial purposes.

That licence is limited to using this site in the way it is designed to be used: through a standard web browser, on the pages we publish. It does not give you ownership of anything, and it does not give you a right to extract, republish or commercialise any part of it.

The licence lasts as long as you comply with these terms. It ends if you stop using this site, if we withdraw it, or if we terminate your access under section 16.

6. Acceptable use

Read this site, and get in touch if you need to. Do not use it for any of the following.

Interference with this site

• Do not scrape, crawl, harvest or systematically download this site or its content, whether by hand or by any automated means, except that a search engine may crawl it in accordance with our robots.txt file.
• Do not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of this site, except to the extent that Australian law expressly permits it despite a contractual restriction.
• Do not attempt to gain unauthorised access to this site, or to any system or network connected to it.
• Do not upload or transmit a virus, worm or any other malicious code.
• Do not deliberately overload, disrupt or degrade this site, or interfere with anyone else’s use of it.
• Do not circumvent any security or access-control measure, or any rate limit.

Framing, republishing and misuse of the brand

• Do not embed, frame, mirror or rehost this site on another site.
• Do not remove, obscure or alter any notice of ownership, credit or attribution.
• Do not use our name, logo or branding in a way that suggests we endorse or are associated with something we are not.

General

• Do not use this site to break any law, or to infringe anyone’s rights.
• Do not send us anything that is unlawful, abusive or deliberately misleading.

If you see something on the platform that should not be there — a game that breaks our intake criteria, an advertisement that breaches the standards on the safety page, or material that infringes someone’s rights — tell us at hello@kidzplayzone.co and we will look at it.

7. User accounts

There are no user accounts. Not on this site, and not on the platform: no sign-up, no sign-in, no profile, no display name and no password. Playing is open to anyone within the minimum age, and Australian Privacy Principle 2 is one reason we have built it that way.

Because there is no account, there is nothing for you to secure, nothing for us to lose, and no credential that can be stolen. If accounts are ever introduced, these terms and the Privacy Policy will be updated before they exist rather than afterwards.

8. Games, developers and intellectual property

The games on this platform, and the artwork, audio, characters, code and other material that make them up, belong to the developers and publishers who created them, or to their licensors. They do not belong to us, and nothing in these terms transfers any right in them to you.

Games appear on the platform under licence from the developer or rights holder. Playing one gives you a personal, non-commercial permission to play it and nothing more. It does not give you a right to copy the game, to host it elsewhere, to modify it, to distribute it, or to use its artwork or characters.

Some games carry their own terms or their own credits. Where a developer’s terms apply to their game, those terms govern your use of that game, and these terms govern your use of the platform.

If you are a rights holder

If you believe a game or other material infringes your rights, email hello@kidzplayzone.co with the location, a description of the work, and the basis of your claim. We take these seriously and we act on them — removing a game from the library costs us nothing and leaving an infringing one up costs us a great deal.

9. Our intellectual property

This site and the platform — their design, layout and code, the Kidz Playzone name and logo, and the way the library is organised and presented — belong to Kidz Playzone Pty Ltd or are used by us under licence. It is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

You may link to any page on this site. You may not copy the site or a substantial part of it, reproduce its design, or use our name or logo as your own or in a way that implies an association that does not exist.

Nothing in these terms limits any right you have under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

10. Things you send us

If you send us a message, a bug report, a suggestion or feedback, you give us permission to use it to run and improve the platform. We do not claim ownership of your words, and we do not publish them.

Please do not send us confidential material, and please do not send us ideas you expect to be paid for. If you send us a suggestion, we may act on it without owing you anything. That is not us being difficult — it is that we cannot run a service while tracking who first suggested each idea.

How we handle the personal information in what you send is covered by the Privacy Policy.

11. Availability, changes and withdrawal

This site and the platform are free, and they are provided on the basis that they may change.

• Games are added to and removed from the platform. A game you played yesterday may not be there tomorrow, usually because the licence ended, because the developer withdrew it, because it broke, or because it failed our intake criteria on review.
• Features change, and the site is redesigned from time to time.
• Either may be unavailable for maintenance, or because of a fault, an attack, or a failure at a provider we depend on.
• We may withdraw the platform entirely. If we decide to do that, we will publish notice on this site in advance where we reasonably can.

We do not guarantee that this site or the platform will be available continuously or without interruption, that any particular game will remain available, or that game progress a platform game has saved in your own browser will survive a browser update, a change of device or your own clearing of browsing data. Progress is stored on your device, not on our servers, so we cannot restore it.

12. Third-party links and embedded content

This site links to third parties, such as the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, and the platform embeds material from the developers whose games it licenses. We do not control those and we are not responsible for their content, their availability or their privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement.

When you follow a link away from kidzplayzone.co, these terms stop applying and the other site’s terms take over.

13. Disclaimers

Read this section together with section 14, which qualifies it. Australian consumer law limits what a business can disclaim, and we are not attempting to go past that limit.

Subject to section 14:

• This site and the platform are provided as they are. We do not promise that they will be free of faults or interruptions, that they will meet any particular requirement of yours, or that they will run correctly on every device or browser.
• We do not promise that any game will be available at any particular time, or that a game will remain on the platform.
• The genre descriptions and intake criteria published on this site are our own honest account of what the platform hosts and how we choose it. They are not formal classifications, and we do not represent that any game has been classified under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 (Cth).
• We are not responsible for the conduct of a third-party developer, or for material on a site we link to.

14. Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you may have under the Australian Consumer Law which cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted.

The Australian Consumer Law is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). It gives consumers guarantees that a supplier cannot contract out of, including guarantees that services are supplied with due care and skill and are reasonably fit for a disclosed purpose. Any attempt by a business to exclude, restrict or modify those guarantees is itself a contravention, and we are not attempting one.

To the extent that any consumer guarantee applies to the platform and we fail to meet it, and the failure is not a major failure, we will remedy it within a reasonable time — which for a free browser-game platform realistically means fixing or removing the game or the page in question. Where the failure is major, you have the rights the Australian Consumer Law gives you.

If a paid element is ever introduced to the platform — for example an option to remove advertising, or a cosmetic purchase — the consumer guarantees will clearly apply to it, and we will publish a refund position that complies with the Australian Consumer Law before taking any payment.

Separately, we are bound by section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law, which prohibits conduct in trade or commerce that is misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive. That is why you will not find invented player counts, decorative star ratings, fabricated testimonials, invented awards, press logos, or a game count we cannot stand behind anywhere on this site. Where we cannot stand behind a detail, it is left off this site rather than filled in with something plausible.

15. Liability

This section is subject to section 14 and does not limit anything that cannot lawfully be limited.

This site and the platform are supplied free of charge. Subject to the consumer guarantees and to any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, we are not liable to you for:

• loss of game progress, scores or settings that a game on the platform has stored in your own browser;
• loss or corruption of data on your device;
• loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of opportunity, or any indirect or consequential loss;
• anything caused by a third-party developer, a linked site, or a failure at a provider we depend on;
• anything arising from your own breach of these terms.

Where our liability can lawfully be limited but not excluded, it is limited to supplying the relevant service again, or to $100, whichever is the lesser — a figure that reflects the fact that you have paid us nothing.

Nothing in this section limits our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for anything else that cannot be limited under Australian law.

We do not ask you to indemnify us. Some template terms would; we have taken that clause out, because an unlimited indemnity given by a consumer in a standard-form contract for a free service is the kind of term the unfair contract terms regime in Part 2-3 of the Australian Consumer Law exists to strike down.

16. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to this site or to the platform if you breach these terms — in particular the acceptable use rules in section 6 — or if we are required to do so by law.

Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you what the problem is and give you a chance to fix it before we act. Where the breach is serious — an attack on our systems, or automated scraping at scale — we may act immediately.

If we terminate your access and you think we have got it wrong, email hello@kidzplayzone.co and a person will look at it again.

You can stop using this site and the platform at any time. Sections 8, 9, 13, 14, 15 and 18 survive the end of this agreement.

17. Complaints and how to reach us

For anything about this site, the platform, a game, or these terms: hello@kidzplayzone.co. The full list of addresses, by purpose, is on the contact page.

For anything about personal information: privacy@kidzplayzone.co. The privacy complaint route, including the step to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, is set out in section 16 of the Privacy Policy.

We do not publish a postal address and we do not operate a postal correspondence route. Email is how you reach us for anything under these terms, including any notice you need to give us.

18. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the State or Territory in which the company’s registered office is situated, together with the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia. The company’s registered office is recorded against ACN 691 993 496 on the public register maintained by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, so which laws apply is a question with a definite answer even though this site does not publish an address.

You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State or Territory and the courts able to hear appeals from them. “Non-exclusive” matters: it means you are not prevented from bringing a claim somewhere else where the law gives you that right, and it means you are not required to travel across the country to enforce a right against us.

Nothing in this section affects your right to take a consumer complaint to a regulator or to a small claims tribunal in your own State or Territory.

19. General

Severance. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, that part is severed and the rest continues to apply.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a right straight away, that does not mean we have given it up.

Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. We may transfer ours if the business is sold or restructured, and if we do, the new owner is bound by these terms as they stand.

Entire agreement. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the cookies page, are the whole of the agreement between you and us about this site.

Language. These terms are written in Australian English and are to be read in their ordinary meaning, not as a set of defined terms of art.