1. Agreement to Terms
Welcome to PlayMinesweeper.online ("we", "our", or "us"). By accessing, browsing, or using our website located at https://playminesweeper.online, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms") and our Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must immediately discontinue your use of our platform.
2. Intellectual Property Rights & Fair Use Homage
The underlying game mechanics of Minesweeper represent a mathematical and computational logic puzzle that has existed in public gaming culture since the 1960s and 1970s.
All original website design, custom software code, logic algorithms (including our proprietary Constraint Satisfaction Problem deductive board solver), graphic user interfaces, visual stylesheets, and sound synthesizers developed for PlayMinesweeper are the intellectual property of PlayMinesweeper.online.
Any references to third-party trademarks, such as "Windows" (trademark of Microsoft Corporation) or "Google" (trademark of Google LLC), are made solely for descriptive, comparative, and nominative fair-use purposes to describe visual themes and nostalgic gameplay styles. We are an independent gaming platform and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft or Google.
3. Permissible Use & Code of Conduct
PlayMinesweeper is provided for personal, non-commercial entertainment and cognitive recreation. When using our service, you agree NOT to:
- Deploy automated scripts, bots, spiders, or crawlers that generate artificial page requests or overload our server infrastructure.
- Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or compromise the security of our website or edge network.
- Engage in click fraud, artificial traffic generation, or automated manipulation of third-party advertisements displayed on the platform.
- Submit fraudulent high scores or tamper with local client memory in a manner that degrades service integrity.
4. Third-Party Advertisements & Google AdSense
PlayMinesweeper is funded and supported through third-party digital advertising, primarily provided by Google AdSense.
5. Disclaimer of Warranties
PlayMinesweeper is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
We make no representations or warranties that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, completely bug-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components. You assume all responsibility and risk for your use of the website.
6. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall PlayMinesweeper, its creators, operators, or affiliates be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, data, use, or goodwill arising out of or in connection with your access to, use of, or inability to use the website.
7. Modifications & Termination
We reserve the right to revise, modify, or replace these Terms at our sole discretion at any time. If a revision is material, we will provide updated notice by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this page. Your continued use of the website following any posted modifications constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.
8. Contact Information
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