Terms of Use
These terms are an agreement between you and Katechon Technology, Inc. for the Cast Cards app and the Cast website. By using Cast you agree to them, so please read them. If you don’t agree, don’t use Cast.
1. Who we are and what Cast is
Cast is made by Katechon Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Butte, Montana (“Katechon”, “we”, “us”). Cast is a card game for short drama episodes: you open packs of story cards, and each card you play chooses what happens next. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data and is part of these terms.
If you got the app from the App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement governs your license to the app itself, and these terms cover everything else. Apple is not a party to these terms and isn’t responsible for Cast or its content.
2. Who can use Cast
You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to consent to data processing where you live. If you’re under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you need a parent’s or guardian’s permission, and they accept these terms for you, including responsibility for purchases. You may not use Cast if the law forbids it, including if you are in a country under a US embargo or on a US list of prohibited or restricted parties.
3. Your account
- The first time you open Cast we create a guest account so you can play straight away. You can save it with Sign in with Apple in the app, or with Google on the website. A guest account that isn’t saved can be lost if you lose or reset your device.
- We assign you a random handle. It appears on scenes you film and on leaderboards. You can’t pick your own handle.
- You’re responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us right away at simon@katechon.technology if you think someone else is using it.
- One person, one account. Don’t create accounts to collect extra free cards or rewards.
4. Cards and packs
- Cards are a license, not property. Cards, packs and rewards are digital items for use in Cast. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use them in Cast under these terms. They have no cash value, and you can’t sell, trade, transfer, gift for value or redeem them for money or anything else outside Cast. We never pay money for plays, rewards or rankings.
- Packs are randomized.Each card in a pack is drawn at random according to the odds shown in the app (Packs → Odds & rates) before you buy. The odds, the pity rules that guarantee a higher rarity after a run of lower ones, and each pack’s guarantee are shown there and on our support page. Odds can differ between shows and may change; the odds shown when you buy are the ones that apply.
- Cards don’t expire. A card stays in your hand until you play it.
- Playing a card uses it. If a scene already exists for that card at that point in the story, it plays at once. If not, Cast films a new scene, which usually takes a few minutes. If filming fails or takes too long, the same card comes back to your hand.
- Free cards (the free pack, rewards for scenes other players play, and friend-challenge rewards) are offered at our discretion and are subject to daily limits. We may withhold or remove rewards obtained through abuse.
- We may change the game, including its shows, cards, odds, prices and rewards. If we ever stop offering a show, we’ll give you a reasonable chance to play the unplayed cards you paid for, or replace them with equivalent cards.
5. Purchases and refunds
- In the iPhone app, packs are sold as in-app purchases through the App Store, under Apple’s terms and at the price the App Store shows. To ask for a refund, use Apple’s process at support.apple.com/118223 or reportaproblem.apple.com. Katechon can’t issue refunds for App Store purchases. If Apple refunds a pack, we remove that pack’s unplayed cards from your account; scenes you already filmed with its cards stay.
- On the website, packs are sold through Stripe in US dollars. If a website purchase didn’t arrive or was charged by mistake, email simon@katechon.technology and we’ll deliver it or refund it.
- Apart from the cases above, purchases are final once the pack is delivered, except where the law gives you a right to a refund. Packs are delivered to your account immediately, so where the law allows, you agree that your right to withdraw from the purchase ends on delivery.
6. AI-made scenes
- Cast’s episodes and scenes are made by AI models (we call this Cast Studio) from cards and story material that we write. AI output can be unexpected, inaccurate or not to your taste. All characters and events are fictional.
- When you play a card that films a new scene, that scene becomes public. Other players who reach the same point in the story with the same card watch and play your scene, anyone with its link can watch it, and it shows your handle as its creator. You choose the card; you don’t write the scene.
- Cast, its shows, characters, cards, artwork, scenes and software belong to Katechon or its licensors. To the extent you hold any rights in a scene you film or anything you submit, you grant Katechon a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to host, store, show, distribute, adapt and promote it in and for Cast. This lets other players keep playing scenes after their creator deletes their account.
- You may share scenes and pulls with Cast’s share features for personal, non-commercial use, as long as you don’t remove the Cast branding or present them as your own work.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- cheat, exploit bugs, automate play, or use extra accounts or devices to collect free cards, rewards or leaderboard places;
- reverse engineer, scrape, overload or interfere with Cast, or get around its limits or security;
- sell, trade or offer cards, accounts or scenes for money or anything of value;
- harass other players, impersonate anyone, or abuse the report button;
- on the website’s video maker, write prompts for sexual content, content involving minors in any sexual or harmful way, real people without their consent, hate, harassment, graphic violence, self-harm, illegal activity, or material that infringes someone else’s rights;
- use Cast in a way that breaks the law or these terms.
We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive players. We may remove any scene or content, and suspend or close any account, that we believe breaks these terms.
8. Reporting and hiding scenes
In the app, open a scene’s ••• menu and choose Report this scene, or Hide scenes by @handle to stop seeing that creator’s scenes. On the website, or for anything else, email simon@katechon.technology with a link to the scene. We review reports within 24 hours and remove scenes that break these terms. A scene reported by several players is hidden automatically while we review it.
If you believe something in Cast infringes your copyright or trademark, email simon@katechon.technology with the material, your rights in it and your contact details.
9. Ending your account
- You can stop using Cast at any time and delete your account in the app under You → Settings → Delete account, or by emailing simon@katechon.technology. The Privacy Policy explains what is deleted and what is kept.
- We may suspend or close your account if you break these terms, for fraud or chargebacks, or if the law requires it. Where the law allows, unplayed cards on an account closed for breaking these terms are forfeited without refund.
- We may stop offering Cast. If we do, we’ll give at least 30 days’ notice in the app or on the website where we reasonably can.
- Sections 4 (the license limits), 6, 10, 11, 12 and 13 survive the end of these terms.
10. Disclaimers
Cast is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we don’t promise that Cast will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that scenes will film successfully or quickly.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Katechon won’t be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim about Cast is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for Cast in the 12 months before the claim and US $50. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you; nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn’t allow us to limit.
12. Indemnity
If you break these terms or the law while using Cast, you agree to cover Katechon’s reasonable losses and costs from claims by others that result, to the extent the law allows.
13. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Montana, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be heard by the state or federal courts located in Montana, and you and Katechon consent to their jurisdiction. If you live in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another place whose consumer laws give you rights that can’t be waived, those rights still apply, and you may also bring a claim in your local courts. Before filing a claim, please email simon@katechon.technology so we can try to resolve it.
14. Changes and general terms
We may update these terms. We’ll post changes here and update the date below, and tell you in the app or on the website before a material change takes effect. If you keep using Cast after that, you accept the new terms. If any part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term isn’t a waiver. You may not transfer these terms; we may transfer them as part of a sale or reorganization of our business.
15. Contact
Katechon Technology, Inc., Butte, Montana, USA · simon@katechon.technology · Support
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