Blot — Terms of Use

1. Who we are and what this agreement is

These terms are an agreement between you and AI Switch LLC («ԱԻ ՍՎԻՏՉ» ՍՊԸ), a company registered in the Republic of Armenia (registration No. 999.110.1592631, tax ID 01098805), address: Apt. 4, 10 Kocharyan St., Yerevan 0056, Armenia ("we"). Email: info@aiswitch.am.

By installing or playing the card game Blot (the "Game") you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Game.

Blot is not real-money gambling. You cannot win money, goods or prizes in the Game. Coins, table places and rating cannot be exchanged for anything outside the Game.

2. Who can play

The Game is for players aged 13 and over. If you are under 18 (or under the age of majority where you live), read these terms with a parent or guardian: they must agree to them and to each of your purchases.

3. Account

• To play with people you need an account: a guest account (created automatically) or Sign in with Google.
• A guest's coins and rating are tied to this phone. If you delete the Game or change phones without signing in with Google, you will most likely not get them back. To keep them safe, sign in with Google.
• Your account is yours only. You may not sell it, transfer it, let others use it, or buy someone else's.
• You can delete your account at any time: Settings → Delete account and data (details: https://aiswitch.am/blot/delete-account). Your coins, including purchased ones, your rating and history are deleted with it permanently. Money for deleted coins is not refunded, except where the law requires it.

4. How the Game works

• Modes. Quick Game — a table for coins with people of a similar rating. With a Friend — your own table by code or link, no rating. Training — with bots, needs the internet, no coins or rating.
• Rules are in the Game, in "Rules". Every deal is scored by them.
• Rating changes only in Quick Game: it goes up when your pair wins and down when it loses.
• 10 seconds per move. If you run out of time, a bot makes the simplest move for you.
• Lost connection or minimised the Game. While you are away, a bot plays for you, and the others can see it. If you come back and tap "Return to the table" before three of your turns pass, you play on in your own seat, no penalty.
• Three of your turns without you — you're out (Quick Game). If three of your turns in a row pass without you — no connection, the Game minimised, or you are online but don't move — you drop out of the game: a bot plays for you to the end, and you can't return to that table. This costs the same as leaving mid-game with the button (below): you lose the entry; in a game of four (2 on 2) you lose twice as much rating as for a loss, and your next entry to a coin table costs more — currently +20% each time; in a game of two it counts as a loss, with no surcharge. Nobody drops out if all the people at the table lose connection at once (or you are the only person, with bots), or if it was the last move of the game. In With a Friend nobody drops out: if you don't make 3 moves in a row yourself, a bot plays for you right away until you tap "Return to the table"; there are no coins or rating there.
• Leaving mid-game (the "Leave" button): a bot finishes the game for you; you lose the table entry, however the game ends, and twice as much rating as for a loss; your next entry to a coin table costs more. Currently +20% for each time you leave. This applies only to games of four (2 on 2): you can leave a game of two ("1 on 1", "Open Blot") without a surcharge — the game counts as a loss.
• The surcharge (for leaving and dropping out together) goes down by itself: after 5 games played to the end, by 1% with each game. If the surcharge reaches 60%, you can play for coins only with bots until it goes down. The Game shows the exact numbers before you confirm leaving and when you drop out.

5. Fair play on our side

• Deals are fair. We never pick cards for a player: not for purchases, coins or rating, and not for whether a seat is a person or a bot.
• You can check a deal. Before the deal the Game shows a fingerprint (SHA-256) of the shuffled deck; afterwards it reveals the key. "Check the deal" shows that the deck is the same and the cards were not changed.
• A bot is always labeled "Bot". We never pass a bot off as a person. Bots don't know other players' cards: each bot sees only its own cards, just like you, and plays on its own, with no hints, trying to make the best move. In Quick Game bots join a table only if you turned on "Play with bots if no people" or agreed when the Game asked.

6. Coins

• Coins are an in-game currency. They pay the table entry in Quick Game. How much the entry costs, how much you get for a win and how much you lose for a loss is shown before the table search starts. Part of the entries stays with the Game.
• How to get coins: 300 on first sign-in, 50 every day (collect in the Game), 10 for a video — only when you tap the button, up to 10 videos a day — and by buying them in the Game's shop. The free amounts may change.
• Coins have no monetary value. They are not money, e-money or property. You get a right to use coins in the Game while these terms apply.
• Coins cannot be: cashed out; exchanged for money, goods, promo codes, crypto or anything outside the Game; transferred or gifted to another player — directly or by losing on purpose; sold together with an account.
• Purchased coins don't expire: they have no time limit, and we don't take them away because you haven't played for a while. We remove coins only in the cases in sections 7 and 8 and if you delete your account yourself.
• A guest account with no purchases that has not been used for 24 months is deleted with its coins. Accounts with purchases and Google accounts are never deleted automatically.
• We may change entry prices, table sizes and free coins — the Game shows the new numbers before you sit down.

7. Purchases and refunds

• Coins are sold only through Google Play. Google processes the payment; we never see your card details. Google Play shows the price in your currency and taxes before you pay. Your first purchase gives twice the coins — once per account.
• Coins arrive as soon as the server has verified the purchase with Google. If they didn't, email info@aiswitch.am with the order number (it starts with "GPA." and is in your Google Play receipt) — we will find it and add them.
• Refunds follow Google Play's rules. Within 48 hours of purchase you can ask Google for a refund directly in Google Play (https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/15574908). Later — email us with the order number: we refund if the coins didn't arrive and we can't fix it, and in every case where the law requires it.
• If a payment is refunded, cancelled or charged back, the coins credited for that purchase are removed from your balance — together with the first-purchase bonus (the bonus then becomes available again). If you no longer have enough coins, your balance doesn't go below zero: the shortfall is taken from coins you get later (daily coins, videos, wins, purchases). The Game shows this debt next to your balance.
• If you live in the EU or the UK: coins are digital content delivered at once. By buying them you agree to immediate delivery and acknowledge that your 14-day right of withdrawal ends when the coins are credited.
• Buying coins may be unavailable in some countries and regions: where Google Play doesn't take payments, or where the law restricts it (for example, Washington State, USA; we tell the region by IP address). You can still play there with free coins. If a payment from there still goes through, the Game doesn't confirm it: no coins arrive, and Google refunds the money automatically after 3 days.
• These terms do not limit your rights under the consumer protection laws of the country where you live.

Subscription

• A subscription gives your whole game history for the storage period. It gives no edge at the table: it only holds games already played. Without it you see your latest games.
• Google Play shows the price and period before you pay. A subscription renews automatically until you cancel it; you can cancel it in Google Play, and access stays until the end of the paid period. Refunds follow the rules above.

VIP subscription

• VIP is a Google Play subscription for a week or a month. While it lasts: VIP daily coins — you collect them yourself once a day (the day is Yerevan time), a missed day is lost, and no more days than the period has; more coins when you buy coin packs; a discount on tables and decks bought with coins; VIP-only tables and decks (which ones — shown in the shop); a VIP badge by your name and VIP phrases at the table. The exact numbers and what is currently included are on the Coins screen before you pay. VIP gives no edge at the table.
• You can have the week and the month at the same time — they are two separate subscriptions: each has its own daily coins, while the extra coins on packs, the discount, the badge and the phrases do not add up — the bigger one applies.
• The first month comes with a gift, forever (a table or a deck — shown in the month sheet before you pay), if you do not have it yet; once per account.
• VIP may also come as a free gift from us (for example, as compensation): for the stated period, and it does not renew.
• Google Play shows the price and period before you pay. The subscription renews automatically until you cancel it; you can cancel it in Google Play, and VIP lasts until the end of the paid period. When VIP ends, VIP-only tables and decks are unavailable again and the default table and deck are selected (what you bought or were given stays yours forever); collected coins and gifts stay. Refunds follow the rules above; if the money is refunded, VIP ends (the server learns it from Google within a day).

8. Fair play on your side

You may not:

• collude: hint to your partner or opponents with signs, phrases, emoji or outside the Game, look at other players' cards, lose on purpose to pass coins or rating;
• sit at one table with two accounts or play for someone else;
• use helper programs, modified versions of the Game, or bugs for your advantage;
• harm the Game, the server or other players.

We can check Quick Game games for 12 months — using deal records and the network fingerprint (whether players share a network). If the rules are broken, we may take back coins and rating gained unfairly, close coin tables for you, or close your account. Found a bug? Email info@aiswitch.am instead of using it.

9. Names, phrases, complaints

• A table name is 2 to 16 characters: letters, digits and spaces; you can change it once a day. The Game won't accept a name with the word "Bot" (as a separate word, in any spelling or language), a link or a phone number. Your name must not insult anyone, impersonate another person or us, or contain ads. We change such a name to "Player" with your number.
• Your own avatar photo (optional) must be fit to show to everyone at the table: no nudity, violence, insults, ads, links or contacts, and no photo of another person without their consent. Nobody checks photos in advance; an inappropriate one can be reported. If the rules are broken, we remove the photo and block setting your own photo for a while (currently 7 days); the ready-made avatars stay available.
• At the table there are only ready-made phrases and emoji. There is no free chat.
• The player window at the table has "Report": the report comes to us. We read reports and act as in section 8.

10. Video for coins

The Game has Google AdMob ads — only the video for coins. It starts only when you tap the button; the reward is shown before the video and always arrives once the video has been shown. There are no other ads in the Game. How ads use data and how to change your choice — see the Privacy Policy.

11. Your right to use the Game

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable right to install the Game on your devices and play it for your own entertainment, not for commercial purposes. The Game, its code, graphics, texts, names and all other content belong to us or our licensors. The rules of the card game blot itself are common and anyone may use them. You may not copy, sell, rent, modify, decompile or reverse-engineer the Game, except as the law expressly allows. You may not automatically collect the bots' moves or use games with them to train other programs or neural networks, and you may not use move-suggesting programs in games with people. Google Play's own terms also apply to Google Play.

12. Changes and ending the Game

We may update, change or remove features, modes and content. Playing with people and Training need the internet: the bots run on our server. Without it, only "Just a scorepad" works. If we decide to end online play, we will tell you at least 60 days in advance in the Game and on its Google Play page, and stop selling coins from that day. Coins have no monetary value; money for them is not refunded then, except where the law requires it.

13. Ending this agreement

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account and the Game. We may close your account or online play for you if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms. Sections 6 (on monetary value), 11, 14 and 15 continue to apply after that.

14. Warranties and liability

We work to make the Game run well, but provide it "as is" and "as available": we can't promise it will never have bugs, disconnections or downtime. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount of your purchases in the Game in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited, including for intent, gross negligence, death or personal injury, or limits your rights as a consumer.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Armenia. Disputes are heard by the competent courts of Yerevan. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live and the right to go to its courts. Write to us first: almost everything is solved by email.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms — for example, when we add features or the law changes. We will show the new version in the Game or on this page before it takes effect. If you keep playing after that, the new version applies. A new version never takes away coins you bought before.

17. Contact

AI Switch LLC, Apt. 4, 10 Kocharyan St., Yerevan 0056, Armenia — info@aiswitch.am.