# Terms of Service **Effective Date: June 5, 2026** **Last Updated: July 1, 2026** Welcome to MovieTQ (also known as "Movie Trailer Quiz"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the website located at `movietq.com` and any related applications, services, and features (collectively, the "Service"). Please read these Terms carefully before using the Service. --- ## 1. Acceptance of Terms The Service is operated by **Caellum LLC**, a Maryland limited liability company ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). When we say "you" or "your," we mean you as an individual user of our Service, along with any entity you may represent. By accessing, registering for, or using the Service, you signify your agreement to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must stop using the Service immediately. --- ## 2. Eligibility and Minors To use the Service, you must be at least thirteen (13) years of age (or the minimum age of digital consent in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher). If you are under eighteen (18) years of age (or the age of majority where you live), you represent that your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf. If you are a parent or guardian agreeing to these Terms for a minor, you agree to be fully responsible for their activities on the Service. You represent that you have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms. --- ## 3. Description of Service and Availability MovieTQ is a real-time multiplayer browser game where users compete to guess movies from short trailer clips. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Service, temporarily or permanently, at any time without notice. We do not guarantee that the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. --- ## 4. Accounts, Security, and Deletion To access certain features of the Service (such as achievements, score progression, friends, direct messages, inventory, and custom profiles), you may be required to register an account. * **Information Accuracy**: You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep it updated. * **Account Security**: You are responsible for safeguarding your password and credentials. We strongly recommend using a unique password for MovieTQ that you do not reuse on other websites or services. You may not share your account or let anyone else access it. You must notify us immediately at `security@movietq.com` if you suspect unauthorized access. * **Third-Party Logins**: If you register via a third-party service (such as Discord), you authorize us to access and use information permitted by that provider's access controls. * **Termination & Deletion**: We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at our sole discretion if you violate these Terms. You may request account deletion at any time through the Profile settings, which initiates a 14-day grace period during which you can cancel the request. After 14 days, deletion of your data is permanent. --- ## 5. Acceptable Use and Rules of Conduct You agree to use the Service solely for personal, non-commercial, and lawful purposes. You are strictly prohibited from engaging in any of the following: * **Cheating and Abuse**: Using bots, scrapers, hacks, mods, automated scripts, or any third-party tools to gain an unfair advantage or exploit bugs. * **Harassment & Hate Speech**: Posting, sending, or transmitting defamatory, abusive, bullying, harassing, hateful, violent, racist, or obscene chat messages or profile customizations. * **Security Violations**: Attempting to bypass access controls, reverse engineer the source code, disrupt servers, upload malware, or execute prototype pollution attacks. * **Impersonation**: Falsely claiming to be a moderator, admin, another player, or representative of Caellum LLC. * **Commercial Use**: Selling accounts, virtual currency ("Popcorns"), or virtual cosmetic items outside authorized game systems. We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to monitor gameplay, public chats, direct messages, reports, and profiles for moderation, safety, abuse prevention, support, legal compliance, and enforcement of these Terms. Direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted, and authorized administrators and moderators may access them through moderation logs or administrative tools for those purposes. --- ## 6. User-Generated Content (UGC) You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights you hold in content you submit, post, or display on the Service (such as chat messages, display names, and profile text). By submitting content to the Service, you grant Caellum LLC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, display, distribute, and moderate your content solely for the purpose of operating, improving, and promoting the Service. You represent and warrant that you possess all rights and permissions necessary to grant this license. --- ## 7. Intellectual Property Ownership * **Company IP**: Caellum LLC and its licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to the MovieTQ software, database systems, matchmaking architecture, original artwork, branding, logos, and proprietary designs. These are protected by US and international copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws. Your use of the Service grants you only a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, and non-transferable license to play the game in accordance with these Terms. * **Third-Party Content**: MovieTQ does **not** own, host, store, upload, or claim any ownership of the movie trailers, film posters, metadata, or studio branding displayed during the game. * **YouTube Embeds & Video Streams**: All trailer clips are embedded and streamed directly from YouTube using official public embeds from public channels. MovieTQ is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Google, YouTube, or any movie production studio. Your viewing of embeds is subject to YouTube's Terms of Service and privacy controls. * **Takedown at Source (YouTube)**: Because all video streams are public YouTube embeds, copyright owners hold complete control over the accessibility of their content. If you are a copyright owner and wish to prevent your trailers from being streamed or shared on our or other third-party services, you can disable public embedding in your YouTube settings or submit a takedown directly to YouTube. Taking a video down or disabling embeds on YouTube will automatically and immediately block playback on MovieTQ. --- ## 8. Copyright and DMCA Policy If you believe that any content streamed or referenced on our Service infringes your copyright, you may submit a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notification to our designated agent. Because we do not host or store any video files on our servers, we recommend addressing copyright issues directly with the hosting provider (YouTube) where the video files are stored. However, if you wish to request that we remove a specific trailer link or identifier from our game's database rotation, you can send an electronic notification to our designated agent. **Designated Copyright Agent Contact:** Email Address for Notices: `legal@movietq.com` To be valid, your DMCA notice must be in writing and include the following: 1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. 2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. 3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material (such as the specific YouTube video URL or ID). 4. Your contact details (address, phone number, and email). 5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner. 6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner. --- ## 9. Virtual Items, Currency, and Account Entitlements The Service includes a virtual currency ("Popcorns"), virtual cosmetic items (such as avatars, titles, and backgrounds), and account progression and status (such as levels, XP, achievements, stats, ranks, and inventory) — collectively, "Entitlements". * **License Only**: All Entitlements — including Popcorns, virtual items, levels, and progression, and regardless of whether they were given for free, earned in-game, awarded, or acquired through a purchase — are licensed to you under a limited, personal, revocable, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license. You do not own any Entitlement; you hold only a revocable license to use it within the Service. * **No Cash Value**: Entitlements have no real-world monetary value, cannot be redeemed for cash, and cannot be traded or sold outside the Service. * **Discretionary Grants and Revocation**: We may grant, add, withhold, modify, reset, suspend, or revoke any Entitlement — in whole or in part, for any reason or no reason, at our sole discretion, and with or without prior notice. This includes (without limitation) adjusting Popcorn balances, resetting levels or progression, removing cosmetics, and revoking items that were obtained through a purchase, whether for game-balancing, operational, technical, legal, anti-abuse, or other reasons. Except where required by applicable law, we are not obligated to provide any refund or compensation for an Entitlement that is adjusted, reset, or revoked. * **Corrections**: Without limiting the foregoing, we may also correct balances or revoke access where we detect errors, fraud, exploits, bugs, or violations of these Terms. * **Purchases and Refunds**: Any purchase of Entitlements is additionally governed by our [Refund & Cancellation Policy](/refunds), which forms part of these Terms. --- ## 10. No Real-Money Purchases Currently MovieTQ does not currently offer real-money purchases, paid subscriptions, or payment processing through the Service. If real-money purchases, paid membership tiers, or payment processing are added later, we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy before those features are made available. Any future paid features may be subject to additional terms presented at the time of purchase, and purchases will be governed by our [Refund & Cancellation Policy](/refunds). --- ## 11. Disclaimers THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST PERMITTED BY LAW, CAELLUM LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED, FREE OF VIRUSES OR ERRORS, OR THAT DATA TRANSMITTED THROUGH YOUTUBE OR OTHER THIRD-PARTY SERVICES WILL BE COMPLETELY SECURE OR ERROR-FREE. --- ## 12. Limitation of Liability TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL CAELLUM LLC, ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR USE, INCURRED BY YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT OR TORT, ARISING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO CAELLUM LLC FOR THE SERVICE IN THE SIX (6) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) FIFTY US DOLLARS ($50). SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. --- ## 13. Indemnification You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Caellum LLC, its members, officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: 1. Your access to and use of the Service; 2. Your violation of any term of these Terms; 3. Your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or 4. Any claim that your User-Generated Content caused damage to a third party. --- ## 14. Governing Law and Disputes These Terms and any dispute arising out of or related to them shall be governed by the laws of the **State of Maryland**, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms shall be instituted exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Maryland, although we retain the right to bring any suit, action, or proceeding against you for breach of these Terms in your country of residence. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts. --- ## 15. Changes to the Terms We reserve the right to update or modify these Terms at any time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice within the Service or by displaying an in-product alert on login. The updated Terms will display a new "Last Updated" date. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes your acceptance of the revisions. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service. --- ## 16. General Provisions * **Entire Agreement**: These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms presented for specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and Caellum LLC regarding the Service, and supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications, or understandings. * **Severability**: If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. * **No Waiver**: Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of that right or provision. Any waiver must be in writing to be effective. * **Assignment**: You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, to a successor or affiliate, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These Terms bind and benefit the parties and their permitted successors and assigns. * **No Third-Party Beneficiaries**: These Terms do not create any third-party beneficiary rights. * **Relationship of the Parties**: No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship is created by these Terms. * **Electronic Communications**: You consent to receive communications, agreements, notices, and disclosures from us electronically — by email or by posting within the Service — and you agree that such electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing. * **Feedback**: If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or other feedback about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and incorporate that feedback for any purpose, without any obligation, attribution, or compensation to you. This is separate from, and does not affect, any voluntary reward we may choose to grant for an accepted bug report or feedback submission. * **Survival**: Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including the Virtual Items, Intellectual Property, Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Governing Law, and General Provisions sections — will survive termination of these Terms or your account. --- ## 17. Contact Information If you have any questions, complaints, or legal requests regarding these Terms, please contact us at: **Email:** `legal@movietq.com` **General support:** `support@movietq.com` or [movietq.com/support](/support) **Mailing Address:** Caellum LLC, 4600 Powder Mill Road, Suite #450 #1043, Beltsville, MD 20705 **California Residents (Cal. Civ. Code § 1789.3):** California users are entitled to the following notice. This Service is provided by Caellum LLC, 4600 Powder Mill Road, Suite #450 #1043, Beltsville, MD 20705; you may reach us with questions or complaints at `legal@movietq.com`. If a complaint is not resolved, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.