These Terms of Use (“Terms,” “Agreement”) set out the rules that apply when you access or use gameitchio.com, also known as Itch.io Games Online (the “Site,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They cover every page, game, guide, news article and other material available through the Site. By accessing or using the Site, you confirm that you have read these Terms and agree to follow them. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

gameitchio.com is an independent website that offers a catalog of indie and browser games, game information, guides, news and access to browser games obtained from publicly available sources. It is not affiliated with itch.io. In these Terms, “you” means any person who visits or uses the Site.

Depending on applicable law and where you live, some disputes may be handled through arbitration or another alternative dispute-resolution process rather than in court. Please read the “Dispute Resolution” section below.

Updates to These Terms

We may change these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to the Site, the law or our practices. The version published on this page is the current version of the Agreement.

Changes apply from the moment they are posted and do not affect disputes or situations that arose before the updated Terms took effect. If you keep using the Site after changes are published, you accept the revised Terms.

We may also add, change, pause or remove pages, games, categories, features or other parts of the Site at any time, with or without notice.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how information connected with your use of the Site may be collected and handled. By using the Site, you also agree to the practices described there.

Any information you give us should be accurate and reasonably current. If these Terms and the Privacy Policy conflict on a question about personal information, the Privacy Policy applies.

Eligibility and Use of the Site

The Site is meant for a general international audience and is not designed specifically for children. We do not knowingly request or collect personal information from children where the law prohibits it.

If you are under the legal age in your location, you should use the Site with the knowledge and supervision of a parent or legal guardian where local law requires it.

Compliance With Applicable Laws

You are responsible for making sure your use of gameitchio.com follows the laws and rules that apply to you and your location.

We may restrict, suspend or end access to certain games, content, features or parts of the Site when we consider it necessary for legal, security, operational or other legitimate reasons.

Prohibited Activities

When using the Site, you agree not to:

  • Use the Site to spread unlawful, abusive, threatening, defamatory, fraudulent or harmful material.
  • Use the Site for spam, unauthorized advertising or unrelated commercial promotion.
  • Try to collect or misuse other visitors’ personal information without their consent.
  • Disrupt the operation, availability, performance or security of the Site or its servers.
  • Copy, change, republish, distribute or commercially use our original content without permission.
  • Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or bypass any technical protection used on the Site.
  • Frame, mirror or embed large parts of the Site or its content on another website without permission.
  • Republish large parts of our original guides, descriptions, news or other editorial material elsewhere.
  • Use bots, scrapers, crawlers, scripts or other automated tools to collect large amounts of information from the Site without authorization.

Content Management

We are not required to constantly monitor every page, link, game or other material on the Site. We do, however, keep the right to review, edit, restrict, disable or remove any content whenever we think it is appropriate.

We may do so for legal, technical, security, editorial, operational or other reasons. Information on how personal data is handled is available in our Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Websites and Content

The Site may contain links, ads, embedded games, media or other material supplied by third parties, including links to itch.io and developer pages and recommendations for other games and services.

Third-party websites and services operate independently of gameitchio.com. We do not control their content, availability, security, policies or business practices, and a link or embedded game does not mean we endorse the third party or what it offers.

If you choose to visit or use a third-party website, service or resource, you do so at your own discretion and under that third party’s terms and policies.

Disclaimer of Warranties

The Site and everything available through it are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no express or implied promises about the availability, reliability, accuracy, completeness, security or suitability of the Site or its content.

We do not guarantee that the Site or any game on it will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free or up to date. Games may change or stop working after developer updates, and game information, guides, embedded content and third-party materials may contain mistakes or become outdated over time.

If you notice a problem with the Site or think something should be corrected, please contact us through our Contact page.

Information for Parents and Guardians

Parents and guardians decide what online content is suitable for children in their care. The catalog includes horror games, visual novels and other titles with mature themes or tense moments, so please check a game’s page before letting a child play it. To limit access to certain websites or types of content, you can use parental-control software, browser restrictions, filters or similar tools.

Information about who owns the content on the Site is available in our Copyright Policy. If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, you can submit a complaint as described in our DMCA Policy.

We review properly submitted notices and, where appropriate and legally required, may remove, restrict or disable access to the material identified in a valid complaint.

Dispute Resolution

To the extent permitted by law, any dispute about your use of the Site that cannot be settled informally may be resolved through binding arbitration rather than in court. This does not take away rights that cannot legally be waived, including any right to bring an individual claim in a small-claims court.

Before starting formal proceedings or arbitration, both you and we agree to make a reasonable effort to settle the matter informally. You can start this process by contacting us through our Contact page and describing the issue in enough detail for us to review it.

General Provisions

These Terms do not create any employment, partnership, agency, joint-venture or other business relationship between you and gameitchio.com.

If any part of these Terms is found invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining parts continue to apply to the fullest extent the law allows.

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer ours in connection with a sale, restructuring, merger, acquisition or other transfer involving the Site or its operation.

These Terms, together with the policies they refer to, form the complete agreement between you and the Site about your use of gameitchio.com and replace any earlier agreements on the same subject.

We are not responsible for delays, interruptions or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as technical failures, infrastructure problems, service outages or natural events.

Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns or requests about these Terms of Use, please contact us through our Contact page or at [email protected].