Terms and Conditions
Welcome to Strands Game!
These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Strands Game's Website, located at gamestrands.com.
By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Strands Game if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.
1. Terminology
The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement, Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: "Client", "You" and "Your" refers to you, the person log on this website and compliant to the Website's terms and conditions. "The Website", "Ourselves", "We", "Our" and "Us", refers to our Website. "Party", "Parties", or "Us", refers to both the Client and ourselves.
2. Unofficial Fan Site & Trademark Disclaimer
Strands Game (gamestrands.com) is an independent, fan-made, unofficial website. We are not affiliated with, associated with, authorized by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected with The New York Times Companyor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. "Strands" and "NYT Strands" are registered trademarks of The New York Times Company. The use of any trademarked names is purely for educational, reference, and informational purposes.
3. Cookies & Local Storage
We employ the use of cookies and local storage. By accessing Strands Game, you agreed to use cookies in agreement with Strands Game's Privacy Policy.
Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user's details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website. Some of our affiliate/advertising partners may also use cookies.
4. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, Strands Game and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Strands Game (including the custom gameplay client code, layouts, and styles). All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from Strands Game for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
- Republish material or game engine code from Strands Game.
- Sell, rent, or sub-license material from Strands Game.
- Reproduce, duplicate, or copy material or grid layouts from Strands Game for commercial purposes.
- Redistribute content or scrape puzzle configurations from Strands Game.
5. Hyperlinking to our Content
Organizations, blogs, and search engines may link to our home page or game pages without prior written approval, provided the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.
6. Prohibited Behavior
When playing Strands Game, you agree not to:
- Use bots, scripts, spiders, or scrapers to extract game grids, answers, or blog posts from the website.
- Attempt to bypass hints systems or cheat mechanisms to disrupt global user databases if any are implemented.
- Interfere with, damage, or disrupt the website servers or network bandwidth.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties
This website and the Strands Game are provided "as is" and "as available" without any warranties, express or implied. We do not guarantee that the game will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that any puzzle data is 100% accurate or complete compared to official puzzles.
8. Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Strands Game, its developers, or owners be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, use of, or inability to use the game or website.
9. Variation of Terms
We are permitted to revise these terms at any time as we see fit, and by using this website you are expected to review these terms on a regular basis to ensure you understand all terms and conditions governing the use of this website.