These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form an agreement between you and BidFive Official ("we", "us") regarding your use of BidFive (the "Service"). Please read these Terms carefully before using the Service, especially provisions limiting our liability or your rights, which appear in bold, underline, or red. By ticking "I agree" or beginning to use the Service, you confirm you have read, understood, and accept these Terms in full.
1. Definitions
For ease of reading:
· "Service" means the BidFive multiplayer card-game platform we provide, including the client app, servers, and related features.
· "User" or "you" means any natural person who reads, registers, or uses the Service.
· "Account" means the account you register with via email and password.
· "Points" means the in-game scoring units that have no real-world value.
· "Content" means any information you submit, post, or display in the Service (including nicknames).
2. No Gambling — Important Notice
The Service is a casual card game for entertainment only. Any form of gambling is strictly prohibited.
(a) Prohibited conduct includes (without limitation):
· Using cash, transfers, red-packets, virtual currency, gift cards, items, or anything of economic value as stakes or prizes;
· Using game outcomes or scores to settle payments or debts;
· Organizing, soliciting, or participating in any gambling group;
· Using the Service as a gambling tool via off-platform means (e.g. WeChat or QQ groups).
(b) Legal risk and responsibility:
If a user violates the above, all legal liability, financial loss, administrative penalty, or criminal consequence shall be borne solely by the violating user. We and the Operator bear no legal or financial responsibility, nor will we mediate or participate in such disputes.
(c) Our enforcement actions:
Upon discovery or verification of violation, we may take one or more of the following:
· Permanently ban the account, with no refund of any fees paid (if any);
· Remove violating content;
· Report to and provide data to regulators or police as legally required.
(d) Reporting:
If you observe others using the Service for gambling, please report to legal@bidfive.com.
3. Account & Security
(a) Eligibility:
· You must be at least 18 years old and have full civil capacity;
· Registration information (email) must be true, accurate, and complete;
· One email may register only one account.
(b) Account security:
· You are responsible for safeguarding your password and for all activity under your account;
· Losses caused by password disclosure or account compromise are your responsibility, unless caused by us;
· Contact legal@bidfive.com immediately to freeze or reset upon any anomaly;
· You may not transfer, lend, or sell your account; we may ban such accounts.
(c) Account closure:
· The "Logout" button in the client only clears the local session — your account and data remain.
· To permanently close your account and delete all personal data, email legal@bidfive.com. This is currently handled manually. Closure permanently deletes your account and all gameplay data; it is irreversible.
4. User Conduct
You agree to comply with applicable laws and public morals. You shall not:
(a) Technical abuse:
· Use cheats, bots, automation, or other unfair means to gain advantage;
· Attack, intrude on, or interfere with servers, networks, or other users;
· Reverse-engineer, crack, or modify the client.
(b) Prohibited content:
· Post or use as a nickname any content that violates law, endangers state security, incites hatred, or promotes violence, pornography, gambling, superstition, or cults;
· Insult, defame, harass, threaten, or infringe the privacy or IP rights of others;
· Impersonate others or commit fraud.
(c) Gambling-related:
No gambling activities of any kind (see Section 2).
Violation may result in warning, feature limitation, account ban, content removal, and cooperation with regulators or law enforcement; serious cases may be pursued legally.
5. User Content
· You retain ownership of any content you submit (e.g. nicknames), but grant us a free, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, store, display, and transmit it as necessary to operate the Service.
· You are responsible for the legality and truthfulness of submitted content and warrant that it does not infringe any third party's rights.
· We may remove, hide, or modify any content that violates law or these Terms, and reserve the right to pursue further remedies.
6. Intellectual Property
All intellectual property in the Service (including the client and server code, UI design, text, icons, trademarks, audio/video, and the specific expression of game rules) belongs to the Operator or relevant rights holders, protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and unfair-competition laws.
Without our prior written consent you may not:
· Copy, modify, adapt, translate, or distribute any part of the Service;
· Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service;
· Develop derivative products based on the Service;
· Use the Service for any commercial purpose.
7. Service Changes & Suspension
· We may modify, suspend, or terminate part or all of the Service due to business adjustments, technical upgrades, maintenance, system failure, or force majeure, without prior notice;
· We may discontinue or adjust features; this does not constitute a breach;
· Upon termination, we will give reasonable notice and provide a reasonable window for data export or account closure;
· We are not liable for service interruption due to force majeure (e.g. natural disaster, war, government action, telecom failure, hacker attack).
8. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability
(a) "As-is" provision: we make no express or implied warranty regarding timeliness, security, accuracy, stability, or completeness of the Service.
(b) We are not liable for losses caused by:
· Your failure to use the Service per these Terms;
· Sharing or disclosing your account to others;
· Force majeure or third-party causes resulting in service interruption or data loss;
· Your violation of law (including the no-gambling rule in Section 2).
(c) Liability cap: to the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or punitive damages arising from your use or inability to use the Service. Should a competent authority require us to compensate, total compensation shall not exceed the fees you actually paid to the Service in the prior 12 months (if any).
9. Modification & Termination of Terms
· We may revise these Terms as laws or business needs change. Revisions are posted in-client and the version number in the header is updated.
· Routine revisions take effect 7 days after publication; revisions affecting your significant rights will be highlighted via in-app message, email, or modal, and your renewed consent will be sought.
· If you do not agree, stop using the Service and close your account; continued use is deemed acceptance.
· If you breach these Terms, we may terminate the Service to you at any time and reserve the right to pursue legal action.
10. Governing Law & Disputes
· These Terms are governed by the laws of the People's Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), and apply to all disputes arising out of or related to these Terms.
· Disputes shall first be resolved by friendly negotiation; failing that, either party may bring suit in a court with competent jurisdiction.
· If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, it does not affect the remaining provisions; the parties shall negotiate in good faith to replace the invalid provision with a valid one closest to the original intent.
· To the extent permitted by law, the Operator reserves the right to interpret these Terms.