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Arcade 51™ Terms of Service

Effective Date: October 29, 2026 (version tos-2026-10-29; replaces the October 21, 2026 terms)

Website: Arcade 51™ / arcade51az.com

Operator: Arcade 51 LLC, 3335 W Dahlia Dr, Phoenix, AZ 85029 · (602) 332-7710 · 2bros@arcade51az.com

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Arcade 51 LLC ("Arcade 51", "we", "us"). By accessing or browsing the website, creating a profile, purchasing a membership or download, reading a comic, watching a video, submitting a score, or playing any game on Arcade 51™, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the website or services.

1. Use of the Website

Arcade 51™ provides browser-based arcade games, leaderboards, player profiles, membership features, digital comics, videos, the Kids AI Class, donation links, merchandise links, and related entertainment content (together, the "Services"). You agree to use the Services only for lawful, personal, non-commercial entertainment purposes unless Arcade 51 LLC gives written permission otherwise.

You may not interfere with the site, bypass access controls, exploit bugs, manipulate game scores, attempt unauthorized access, attack the server, upload malicious code, or use automated tools to abuse gameplay, leaderboards, accounts, payment systems, or website features.

2. Eligibility and Minors

Arcade 51™ is intended for general entertainment. If you are under the age of majority in your location, you may use the site only with permission from a parent or legal guardian, and purchases must be made by, or with the permission of, a parent or guardian. Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising minors who use the site, purchase memberships or downloads, donate, or access third-party links.

Children under 13 may use the Kids AI Class only with verified parental consent, as described in the Kids Privacy Notice. Any future physical student safe-haven program, after-school program, event, or in-person activity may require separate registration forms, waivers, parent or guardian permission, safety rules, and eligibility requirements.

3. Accounts, Profiles, and Member Information

Arcade 51™ may allow players to create local profiles, member profiles, gamer tags, or similar identifiers. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep your password or PIN secure. You are responsible for activity that occurs through your profile.

Memberships are personal. You may not share, sell, rent, or transfer your membership or login, or let other people use it. A membership may be signed in on up to two of your own devices at a time.

Arcade 51™ may suspend, restrict, delete, or refuse any profile, gamer tag, score, membership, or purchase if it appears fraudulent, abusive, offensive, unlawful, technically harmful, or in violation of these Terms.

4. Membership Access

Arcade 51™ may offer free games and paid member-only games and content. Unless otherwise stated on the site, the first two listed games are free to play, and the remaining games, as well as reading GAMEBOUND™ and other comics online, require an active paid membership.

Paid membership access begins when payment is successfully completed and confirmed by Arcade 51™ or its payment processor. If a payment is pending, failed, disputed, reversed, refunded, or cannot be verified, membership access may be delayed, suspended, or removed.

Membership features, game and comic availability, pricing, names, benefits, and access rules may change at any time. Arcade 51™ will make reasonable efforts to keep the website accurate, but occasional technical issues, maintenance periods, or temporary outages may occur.

5. Comics and Digital Downloads

Reading online. Active members may read GAMEBOUND™ and other Arcade 51 comics in the online reader at no extra cost while their membership is active. Anyone may read the free preview pages. Online reading is for viewing on arcade51az.com only; it is not a download, and online access ends when your membership ends.

Buying a download. Individual issues may be purchased as a digital download (currently 99¢ per issue, plus any tax shown at checkout). After payment is confirmed you receive a personal download link that works up to 5 times within one year of purchase. Keep your own copy safe; we are not required to provide re-downloads after that, although we may help at our discretion.

Personal-Use License

A download is licensed, not sold. When you buy one, Arcade 51 LLC grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to download the file, keep copies of it on devices you personally own or control, read it, and print one copy for your own personal use. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Arcade 51 LLC.

You may not:

• share, send, email, upload, post, seed, torrent, stream, or otherwise make the file or any page available to anyone else, including on websites, social media, file-sharing or cloud-sharing links, Discord, chat groups, or comic/scan sites;
• sell, rent, lend, give away, sublicense, or transfer the file or your license;
• copy, scan, screenshot, screen-record, re-type, translate, adapt, colorize, edit, or create derivative works from the comic, except brief quotations for genuine review, commentary, or news as permitted by law;
• remove, crop, blur, alter, or cover any watermark, license mark, copyright notice, order number, or identifying information in the file;
• use any page, panel, character, story, or artwork to train, fine-tune, prompt, or build any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model or dataset, or to generate look-alike content;
• use the comic or its characters on merchandise, in games, videos, or any commercial product.

Watermarks and Tracking

To protect our creators, every downloaded file is marked, visibly and invisibly, with the purchaser's email address, an order number, and other identifiers, and pages viewed in the online reader are marked with the reader's gamer tag. By purchasing or reading, you agree to this marking. If a copy of a file licensed to you is found being shared, we can identify it, and you are responsible for that copy. Your license ends automatically if you break these rules (see Section 12).

6. Payment Terms

Memberships, downloads, donations, and other payments are processed through Square or another third-party payment processor. By making a payment, you also agree to the applicable third-party payment processor terms and policies.

You authorize the payment processor to charge the selected payment method for the amount shown at checkout. You are responsible for making sure your payment information is accurate and that you have permission to use the selected payment method. Arcade 51™ never sees or stores your full card number.

Arcade 51™ is not responsible for payment processor outages, declined cards, bank holds, processing delays, failed webhook confirmations, chargeback fees, or third-party account issues.

8. Cancellations and Access Changes

Arcade 51™ may cancel, suspend, or modify membership access due to nonpayment, chargebacks, suspected fraud, abuse, violation of these Terms, server issues, discontinued services, or other operational needs.

Auto-Renew (1-Click Renewal Reminders)

Arcade 51™ memberships are not billed on a recurring, automatic basis. Each membership term is a single Square checkout payment for a fixed period (1, 3, 6, or 12 months). Your payment method is never stored by Arcade 51™ and is never charged again without you actively completing a new checkout.

"Auto-Renew" is an optional, opt-in reminder service. If you turn Auto-Renew on during signup, at renewal, or from your Member Dashboard, Arcade 51™ will email you as your membership expiration date approaches (for example, at 7, 3, and 1 day before expiration) with a direct link that pre-fills your renewal so it takes only one click to reach secure Square checkout. You must still complete that checkout yourself for any new charge to occur.

You can turn Auto-Renew on or off at any time from your Member Dashboard, with no effect on your current membership access. Turning Auto-Renew off only stops the reminder emails; it does not cancel or refund an active membership.

If you do not want to continue past your current paid term, simply do not complete a renewal checkout; access ends when the paid term expires. Canceling a membership or declining to renew stops future access but does not automatically create a refund for prior charges.

Membership Cancellation

Members may request cancellation using the small red Cancel Membership button at the bottom of the Arcade 51™ website or by contacting support. Cancellation stops future membership access after processing. Cancellation does not automatically create a refund. Refund requests are reviewed only under the special-circumstances refund policy described in these Terms. Downloads you have already purchased remain licensed to you under Section 5.

9. Leaderboards, Scores, and Player Content

Players may be able to submit gamer tags, initials, scores, leaderboard entries, tournament entries, contest ideas, or other simple content. You grant Arcade 51™ a worldwide, royalty-free permission to display, store, moderate, remove, or reset submitted leaderboard information for site operation, fair play, moderation, and promotional purposes.

Do not submit offensive, hateful, threatening, adult, harassing, illegal, impersonating, misleading, or infringing names or content. Arcade 51™ may remove or edit entries and may reset scores at any time, especially when cheating, glitches, exploit use, database errors, or suspicious activity is detected.

10. Game Rules and Fair Play

You agree not to cheat, hack, manipulate JavaScript, modify requests, spoof scores, abuse bugs, reverse engineer access controls, use bots, overload the server, or interfere with any game or leaderboard system. Arcade 51™ may remove scores, block access, or terminate profiles if unfair play is suspected.

11. Intellectual Property and Content Protection

Ownership. The following are owned by Arcade 51 LLC or its licensors ("Arcade 51 Content"): the Arcade 51™ name and logo; the GAMEBOUND™ comics; the Prompt School and Kids AI Class lessons; and all games, characters (including Kevin, Agents Gray and Black, Alex, and the Dark Overlord), stories, scripts, artwork, animation, videos, music and audio, text, website design, layout, and code. Arcade 51 Content is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and other laws. Arcade 51™, GAMEBOUND™ and related names and logos are trademarks of Arcade 51 LLC.

Limited permission. Subject to these Terms, you may view and play Arcade 51 Content on arcade51az.com for your own personal, non-commercial entertainment. Purchased downloads are covered by the personal-use license in Section 5. No other right or license is granted, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

Prohibited Uses

Unless Arcade 51 LLC gives you written permission, you may not:

• copy, save, record, capture, screenshot, or screen-record Arcade 51 Content in order to share or redistribute it (purchased downloads are covered by Section 5);
• reproduce, re-upload, mirror, frame, embed, stream, publicly display or perform, distribute, sell, or license any Arcade 51 Content, including game files, comic pages, videos, or artwork;
• scrape, crawl, spider, bulk-download, or use bots or automated tools to collect Arcade 51 Content or data;
• use any Arcade 51 Content to train, fine-tune, test, or improve any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning system, to build datasets, or to generate imitations of our characters, art style, or stories;
• bypass, disable, or work around membership checks, preview limits, download limits, watermarks, or other access-control or content-protection measures;
• clone, copy, decompile, or reverse engineer our games or website, or create derivative works, fan games, or merchandise based on Arcade 51 Content for commercial use;
• use our names, logos, or characters in a way that suggests sponsorship or endorsement, or in any domain name, social media handle, or app.

This section does not restrict brief quotations for genuine review, commentary, criticism, news reporting, or teaching that qualify as fair use. Fans who want to share Arcade 51 are welcome to link to our pages.

Third-party names, payment services, product links, or other references belong to their respective owners. Mention of a third-party service does not mean Arcade 51™ owns, controls, or endorses that service beyond the stated website use.

12. Enforcement

Arcade 51 LLC monitors for unauthorized copies of its content. If you violate Section 5 or Section 11, then, in addition to any other rights we have:

• your licenses (including any download license) end immediately and automatically, and you must delete all copies;
• we may suspend or close your membership and accounts and disable your purchases, without refund;
• we may send takedown notices to websites, platforms, hosts, search engines, and app stores, and share the identifying information from a watermarked copy with them as needed to remove it;
• we may seek all remedies available under law, including injunctive relief, actual or statutory damages for copyright and trademark infringement, and recovery of our costs and attorneys' fees where the law allows.

You agree that unauthorized copying or distribution of Arcade 51 Content would cause Arcade 51 LLC irreparable harm for which money damages alone would not be an adequate remedy, and that Arcade 51 LLC may seek an injunction or other equitable relief to stop it, in addition to any other remedy.

13. Copyright Complaints (DMCA) and Reporting Piracy

Found our content somewhere it shouldn't be? Please tell us at 2bros@arcade51az.com with a link to where you found it. Thank you for helping protect independent creators.

Think something on Arcade 51 infringes your copyright? We respect the intellectual property of others and respond to notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). Send a written notice to our designated agent that includes all of the following:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed;
3. identification of the material on our site you claim is infringing, with enough detail (such as the URL) for us to find it;
4. your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Designated Copyright Agent: Arcade 51 LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, 3335 W Dahlia Dr, Phoenix, AZ 85029 · (602) 332-7710 · 2bros@arcade51az.com
Registered in the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory, registration no. DMCA-1083731.

If your material was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake, you may send a counter-notice that meets the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). It is our policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. Knowingly false notices or counter-notices may result in liability for damages.

14. Donations, Merchandise, and Third-Party Links

The website may link to Square, Redbubble, or other third-party websites for donations, payments, merchandise, checkout, or related services. Arcade 51™ does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their content, policies, shipping, taxes, payment processing, privacy practices, account rules, outages, or customer service procedures.

Merchandise purchases are subject to the policies of the merchandise platform or seller shown at checkout.

15. Privacy and Data

Arcade 51™ may collect or store information needed to operate the website and its features: profiles, memberships, purchases, download delivery, payment confirmation, leaderboards, tournaments, content protection, fraud prevention, and support. This may include gamer tags, email addresses, local profile data, score data, purchase and download records, payment confirmation references, browser/device information, and server logs. Information about children in the Kids AI Class is handled only as described in the Kids Privacy Notice.

Gamer tags, not real names. Arcade 51™ never asks for your real name. Please use a gamer tag, not your real name, everywhere on the site. Payment card details, including the name on your card, are handled by the payment processor (Square) on its own checkout page under its own privacy policy and are not stored by Arcade 51™.

Update emails. If you have an Arcade 51™ account, we may send occasional update emails, for example a reminder about new games and challenges after you haven't played for a while. Every update email has a one-click unsubscribe link, and you can also reply "unsubscribe." Account emails you request, such as password resets, are not affected. Kids AI Class accounts never receive update emails.

16. Availability and Changes

Arcade 51™ is provided on an "as available" basis. The site may be updated, repaired, redesigned, moved, temporarily unavailable, or discontinued at any time. Games, comics, features, pricing, payment links, member benefits, scoreboards, and site content may change without notice. We may update these Terms; the updated Terms apply from the effective date shown at the top, and continued use after that means you accept them. Changes do not reduce the license for downloads you already bought.

17. Disclaimers

Arcade 51™ is provided for entertainment, education, and community-building purposes. The website, games, comics, downloads, memberships, leaderboards, and related content are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Arcade 51™ does not guarantee uninterrupted service, error-free gameplay, permanent score storage, compatibility with every device or PDF reader, or that all bugs will be fixed immediately.

18. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Arcade 51 LLC, its owners, operators, creators, partners, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, including lost data, lost scores, lost profits, lost access, device issues, payment processor delays, or third-party service problems.

Where liability cannot be excluded, Arcade 51 LLC's maximum liability will be limited to the amount you paid to Arcade 51™ for the specific membership, download, or service giving rise to the claim during the twelve months before the claim, unless a higher amount is required by law.

19. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Arcade 51 LLC from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of the website, your violation of these Terms, your unauthorized copying or sharing of Arcade 51 Content, your misuse of payment systems, your submitted content, your violation of law, or your infringement of another person's rights.

20. Termination

Arcade 51™ may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to the website, member-only games and comics, downloads, profiles, leaderboards, or tournaments at any time if you violate these Terms, create risk, abuse the site, submit improper content, dispute valid payments, or interfere with the site's operation. The license restrictions in Section 5, and Sections 7, 11, 12, 13, and 17 through 22, survive termination.

21. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona and applicable United States federal law (including the U.S. Copyright Act and the Lanham Act), without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Except where applicable consumer law requires otherwise, any dispute arising from these Terms or the Services will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, and you consent to their jurisdiction. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. Nothing in this section limits Arcade 51 LLC's right to seek injunctive relief against infringement in any court with jurisdiction.

22. General

These Terms, together with the Kids Privacy Notice and any terms shown at checkout, are the entire agreement between you and Arcade 51 LLC about the Services. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and the unenforceable part will be enforced to the greatest extent allowed. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms or your licenses; we may assign them in connection with a merger, sale, or transfer of our business. Headings and the summary at the top are for convenience only.

23. Contact

For membership support, download help, payment questions, refund review requests, score issues, piracy reports, or questions about these Terms, contact:

Arcade 51 LLC
3335 W Dahlia Dr
Phoenix, AZ 85029
Phone: (602) 332-7710
Email: 2bros@arcade51az.com