Terms

This site is run by WAVEMYTH SRL, a Romanian limited liability company, tax code (CUI) 37507410, registered with the trade register under J12/2210/2017, with its registered office at Str. Septimiu Albini nr. 19-21, ap. 22, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania. It trades as Wavemyth Gaming at wavemyth.com. In these terms "we" and "us" mean WAVEMYTH SRL, and "you" means the person using the site.

By using Chikinverse Arcade you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

If you are a child, these terms are also addressed to your parent or guardian, and by letting you use the site they accept them too.

On your first visit, or under the first game you open, we ask the month and year you were born. Answer truthfully. We keep only whether you are under 13, 13 to 15, 16 or 17, or 18 or over.

If you are under 16 you can play every game and add friends straight away. Signing in, so that your progress is kept, needs a parent or carer to say yes first. You give us their email address and we send them one email to ask. Only give an address that really belongs to your parent or carer, and do not answer that email yourself.

Once you have told us you are under 16 you cannot change the answer on the site. If it was a mistake, write to connect@wavemyth.com.

A parent or carer who has said yes can take it back at any time from the parent corner, or by writing to connect@wavemyth.com. You then cannot sign in again, but you can keep playing. Only they can turn it back on; asking a different adult does not.

From the parent corner they can also see how long you have played, remove a friend, switch friends, waves, sticker swaps or coop visits off, download a copy of what we hold about you, and delete your account. You cannot switch back on something they switched off.

You can play everything without an account, as a guest. A guest's progress is not kept: games are not saved, and a guest earns no scores, Credits or trophies and is not on the score boards or cup tables. That is how the site works, not a fault.

You can make an account with Google or with an email link, and then your progress is kept and follows you. If you are under 16, a parent or carer has to say yes before you can.

Keep your email account secure, because anyone who can read your email can sign in as you.

One person, one account. Do not make extra accounts to get more rewards or more places on a leaderboard.

The arcade is not offered in Vietnam or mainland China, because the rules for online games there do not let us offer it. A visit from either country is shown a page saying so.

Credits are points. Experience, levels, streaks, trophies, stickers, daily missions, weekly cups and titles are all points. You can spend Credits on parts for your Chikin in your profile, on furniture and room backgrounds for your coop, and on the few stickers on the shelf in your sticker album. Anything you buy with Credits is yours to keep, and the Credits spent on it are not given back. The other stickers, and the titles for finishing a page of the album, cannot be bought: they are earned by playing, found on the site, or given by the daily machines.

They cannot be bought, cannot be sold, cannot be exchanged for money or for anything of value, and cannot be transferred to another player, except that you can swap a sticker one for one with a friend. They have no cash value and they are not a prize, a wager or a competition entry with a reward.

The Dailies page has daily machines: a capsule machine, a claw machine and a daily wheel. Every signed-in player gets one free go on each, once a day, and a new day starts at 00:00 UTC. Nothing goes into a machine: a go costs no Credits and no money, a second go cannot be bought, no advert gives one, and Chikin Club gives none. Every go gives something, a sticker, a part for your Chikin or some Credits, and each machine shows everything it can give, and how often it gives each one, before you take your go. What comes out is points like everything else in this section: it cannot be bought, sold or exchanged for money, it has no cash value and it is not a prize.

Winning a weekly cup earns you more Credits and a title on the site. It earns you nothing else.

A streak counts the days you play. You can miss up to two days in a row and your streak waits for you. After a longer break it rests, and the next day you play starts a new one. Your best streak stays on your player card, and nothing you earned while a streak was running is taken back when it ends. A streak cannot be bought back, and no game on this site offers to repair one in exchange for watching an advert.

We may change what things cost, what they pay, how missions and cups are scored, and how many Credits anything is worth. We may reset any of it. Nobody is owed compensation for a change to a number in a game.

Your player name is two words you pick from lists we wrote, and you can pick again whenever you like in your profile. You are given one at random when you first arrive. It appears on public leaderboards next to your scores, and strangers can see it there.

You cannot type a name of your own and you cannot upload a picture, and your Chikin is put together from parts we drew, so nothing on your player card can say who you are or where to find you. We wrote it that way on purpose, because this site is designed to be safe for children.

We can change the words on the lists. If we take a word off, anyone using it is given a new one in its place.

You can add a friend by swapping friend codes. Both of you have to agree, and either of you can undo it later without asking the other.

Only give your friend code to somebody you actually know. It is the one thing on this site that lets another person find you, so treat it like a phone number rather than something to post publicly. If you have given it out too widely, get a new one from your profile and the old one stops working.

A friend can see your player name, your best scores, your trophies, whether you are on the site now, which game you are playing and for how long, and when you were last here. Unless you switch progress sharing off, they can also see your level, title and streak.

You can also send each friend one wave a day, picked from a short list of messages we wrote. A parent or carer can switch waves off, and then none are sent to you or from you. You can decorate your coop with furniture and room backgrounds bought with Credits and with your own stickers and trophies. Your friends can visit it, and so can other signed-in players on the coop tour, who see your player name, your Chikin and your coop and nothing else. A visitor can leave a heart, or a little mischief for you to clean up, picked from our own pieces; mischief from someone who is not your friend has no name on it. You can swap stickers with a friend, one for one, and nothing moves until both of you agree. A parent or carer can switch sticker swaps or coop visits off, and then they stop both ways; switching coop visits or friends off also takes you off the coop tour.

There is no chat here and no way to send another player anything you have written. Do not use friend requests to pester somebody. We can remove a friendship, change or take away a friend code, or close an account that is used to bother other players.

In Prism you can draw a pixel picture from the game's own colours and share it with your friends. Only your friends can see it, and each of them sees it as a puzzle to solve first. A picture has no words in it. Do not draw anything unkind, rude or scary, and do not draw anything that says who you or anybody else is or where to find them, such as a name, an address or a phone number spelled out in squares.

A friend who thinks a picture should not be there can report it. A reported picture is hidden from everyone but its maker straight away while we look at it, and we can take it down for good or close an account that keeps sharing things it should not. A parent or carer can remove any picture their child has shared from the parent corner. You can stop sharing one of your pictures at any time, and you can have up to 30 shared at once.

Once a picture is shared it cannot be changed, because a friend may be halfway through solving it. To change it, make a copy, change that, and share the copy.

Post scores you actually got, by playing the game as it is meant to be played.

Do not modify a game, automate it, use another program to play it for you, take apart or interfere with the connection between a game and this site, or try to post a score that did not come from a real run. We check scores, and we limit how many can be posted in a short time.

Do not try to get into anyone else's account, read anyone else's saves, or guess at other people's friend codes. We limit how many codes can be tried in a short time, and we keep a record of the attempts.

If we think a score is not genuine, we can remove it, remove a trophy or a cup placing that came from it, reset a player's progress, or close the account. We will use judgement rather than a rule book, and we will get it wrong occasionally; if you think we have, write to connect@wavemyth.com.

The site is paid for by advertising from Google and by Chikin Club (see "Chikin Club and tips"). Adverts appear between games and on some of the site's other pages, such as the games list. No game here offers you an advert to watch in exchange for something in the game.

We limit how often an advert can interrupt play: none in the first minute of a game, no more than three in a visit, and at least two minutes between any two.

The adverts are Google's, not ours. We do not choose which advert you see and we are not responsible for what is in it or for where it takes you if you tap it. If you see an advert here that is not appropriate for children, please tell us at connect@wavemyth.com. We want to know.

Which adverts you can be shown depends on the age you told us, as the privacy page explains. If you have not answered, or you are under 13, every advert is chosen as for a child.

A player covered by Chikin Club sees no adverts anywhere in the arcade. See the privacy page.

The games are free, and everything in them is earned by playing. An adult can choose to support the arcade with Chikin Club, a membership, or with a one-off tip. Payments are taken by Stripe for WAVEMYTH SRL, on Stripe's own payment page.

Only an adult can pay. A parent or carer who has said yes for a player pays from the parent corner, and the membership then covers every player that parent's email address said yes for. A player who has told us they are 18 or over and has signed in can pay for their own account on the Support Chikin page at chikinverse.com/support. A player under 18 is never shown a way to pay.

Chikin Club costs EUR 2.99 a month or EUR 24.99 a year. A gift year costs EUR 24.99, paid once. A tip is EUR 5, EUR 10 or EUR 20, paid once. Prices include VAT.

For the players it covers, Chikin Club takes the adverts away everywhere in the arcade, puts a gold frame around their Chikin, shows a golden feather beside their player name, and gives them a golden feather mouse pointer on computers. That is all it does. It gives no Credits, no rewards and no head start in any game. A tip is a thank-you and gives nothing in return.

Chikin Club renews by itself at the end of each month or year, and Stripe takes the same payment again, until it is cancelled. Cancel at any time with "Manage or cancel" in the parent corner or on the Support Chikin page. It opens Stripe's own page, where you can also change the card and see invoices. A membership that is cancelled, or whose payment fails, keeps its benefits until the end of the period already paid for and then ends by itself.

The first time a parent's email address or a player's account takes out Chikin Club, the first 7 days are free. The card is given at the start and nothing is taken during those 7 days. If the membership is not cancelled before they end, it carries on as the monthly or yearly membership that was picked, and the first payment is taken on the eighth day. Cancelling during the free week costs nothing, and the benefits stop when the week ends. Each parent's email address and each player's account gets one free week.

A gift year is one year of Chikin Club, paid once, to give to someone. It never renews, so there is nothing to cancel. When the payment goes through, the buyer gets a gift code, on screen and by email. The code works once. A parent redeems it in the parent corner, and it then covers every player that parent's email address said yes for. A player who is 18 or over and signed in redeems it on the Support Chikin page. A player under 18 cannot redeem a code, so a parent does it for them.

The gift year starts on the day the code is redeemed. If Chikin Club already covers those players, the year is added after the time already paid for, and a running membership takes no payment until the gift year ends. A gift year can be cancelled for a full refund within 14 days of buying it, as long as its code has not been redeemed. If the payment for a gift year is refunded, or disputed with the bank, before its code is redeemed, the code stops working.

Paying starts the membership at once, and you agree that the 14-day right to cancel ends when it starts. A free week counts as the start, so if you do not want to pay, cancel during the free week. You can stop it renewing at any time. If a second membership is started by mistake for the same players while one is already running, we cancel the second one at once and refund what it took.

The games are made by Wavemyth and are loaded from a separate address into a frame on our page.

We can add a game, take a game down, put one into maintenance, or change one, at any time and without notice. A game that goes away may take its saves and its leaderboard with it.

The site is provided as it is. We do not promise it will always be available, that it will be free of faults, that a save will never be lost, or that a leaderboard is perfectly accurate.

We do take it seriously and we do try to fix things. Tell us when something is broken.

Nothing here takes away a right you have under Romanian or EU consumer law, and nothing here limits our responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.

The games, the characters and their stories, the artwork, the names Chikinverse and Chikinverse Arcade and the look of the site belong to Wavemyth or to the people who licensed them to us. You may play the games and you may show them to people, and you may put a game on your own website with the code its "Embed this game" button gives you, as it is. You may not copy them, sell them, put them on another site in any other way, or use the characters, the artwork or the names for anything of your own without asking us.

You can stop using the site whenever you like. If you told us you are 16 or over, you can delete your account yourself from your Me page; otherwise you can ask us to. A parent or carer who said yes for you can delete it from the parent corner. A deleted account is hidden at once and deleted for good 30 days later, and until then it can be restored. Only a parent's "Delete now instead" deletes it straight away, and that cannot be undone. See the privacy page for how.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we can close the site down. If we close the site down we will say so on it first if we reasonably can.

We may change these terms. If we do, we will change this page and update the date at the top. If a change matters, we will say so on the site rather than quietly swapping the words.

These terms are governed by Romanian law. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the law of the country you live in, and you can bring a claim in the courts there.

Write to connect@wavemyth.com.

WAVEMYTH SRL, Str. Septimiu Albini nr. 19-21, ap. 22, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania. wavemyth.com