These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and the operator of insane.city ("we", "us", "the operator") governing your access to and use of the Insane City game, website, multiplayer service, chat and any related pages (together, the "Game"). By loading, accessing or playing the Game, or by clicking to confirm your age and acceptance, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into them by reference. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Game.
In plain English: this is a free toy for adults. It is provided as-is with no guarantees of any kind, it contains stylised cartoon violence, it has an unmoderated public chat, and you use it entirely at your own risk.
Subject to your continuous compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and play the Game in a standard web browser for your own private, non-commercial entertainment. No other right or licence is granted, expressly or by implication. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
You agree that you will not, and will not attempt to, permit or assist any person to:
We may block any IP address, session, client, display name or connection, throttle or degrade any traffic, and withdraw access in whole or in part, at any time, without notice and without liability, in order to protect the service, its users or ourselves.
The Game includes a single shared multiplayer world with a public text chat and visible display names. Everything you type into the chat or the display-name field, and your position and activity in the world, is transmitted to and visible by every other person connected at that time. Treat all of it as public and permanent. Do not transmit anything you would not put on a public noticeboard, and never transmit personal information about yourself or anyone else.
You are solely and entirely responsible for all content you transmit ("User Content"). You must not transmit User Content that:
By transmitting User Content you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display and distribute it for the purpose of operating, securing and improving the Game. You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights necessary to grant that licence.
We do not pre-screen, monitor, moderate, endorse or verify User Content, and we assume no responsibility for it. We reserve the right, but accept no obligation, to review, filter, refuse, edit, remove or retain any User Content, and to suspend or terminate any user, at our sole discretion and without notice or explanation. Any moderation we do choose to perform does not create a duty to perform it again or consistently.
You interact with other users entirely at your own risk. We are not a party to, and disclaim all liability arising from, any interaction, dispute, communication, conduct or transaction between users, whether online or offline. To report abusive content or conduct, use the contact route in section 20 with the time, the display name and what was said.
The Game is a work of fiction aimed at adults and depicts stylised, low-detail cartoon violence. Specifically, and so that you can make an informed choice before playing: vehicles can strike pedestrian characters and animal characters; the player character can punch and kick pedestrian characters and animal characters; aircraft can fire at other aircraft; and these actions produce simple, non-detailed red particle and decal effects on low-polygon models. There is no anatomical detail, dismemberment, gore modelling, torture, sexual content or nudity. Pedestrian and animal characters are plainly fictional geometric figures.
The Game also contains fast motion, flashing lights, heights, falling and simulated collisions. You knowingly and voluntarily assume all risk arising from the content and operation of the Game, including any distress, discomfort or offence it may cause you. If any of the above is unwelcome to you, do not play. Pedestrian and vehicle traffic can be switched off entirely in the Game's World controls.
Driving, flight, landing, physics, wind, terrain, traffic, architecture and structural behaviour in the Game are arcade approximations built solely for entertainment. Nothing in the Game is engineering data, architectural data, pilot or driver training, navigational information, geographic information, or safety analysis, and none of it may be used or relied upon as any of those things. You must not rely on the Game for any decision of any kind. Any resemblance of any measurement, dimension, position or behaviour to the real world is coincidental and unverified.
The Game and all of its code, models, artwork, text, layout and design are owned by the operator or its licensors and are protected by copyright and other laws. Every place in the Game is invented. Meridian Bay, Vertigo Point, the Meridian Zoo and every street, district and business in it are fictional.
The Game is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, licensed by, or connected in any way to Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive, the Grand Theft Auto series, Bugatti, Ferrari, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd, Petronas, PNB Merdeka Ventures, the owners or operators of the Burj Khalifa, Tokyo Skytree, Shanghai Tower, Lotte World Tower, One World Trade Center, the Petronas Twin Towers, Merdeka 118, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Taj Mahal, the Elizabeth Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Arc de Triomphe, the Statue of Liberty, or any other company, authority, product, marque, structure or property referred to, named or evoked anywhere in it.
Vehicles are original design studies inspired by general engineering forms, not licensed replicas. Structures that share a name with real architecture are stylised, non-measured, artistic interpretations presented for illustrative and commentary purposes; their proportions, placement, materials and surroundings are fictional, deliberately inaccurate, and must not be relied on for any purpose. All third-party names and marks remain the property of their respective owners and are used, where used at all, nominatively for identification and commentary only. If you own a right you believe is infringed, see section 7.
Attributions for third-party software are listed in the project's third-party notices.
We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe material in the Game infringes a copyright you own or control, send a notice to the contact route in section 20 that includes: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and enough detail to locate it; your contact details; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf. We will respond to properly submitted notices and may remove material and terminate repeat infringers.
The Game is provided free of charge on an as-available basis. There is no service level, uptime commitment or support obligation of any kind. We may modify, update, suspend, restrict, degrade or discontinue the Game or any feature, world, session or state, in whole or in part, at any time, for any reason or none, without notice and without liability. Game worlds, sessions, chat history, display names and any in-game state may be reset or deleted at any time.
Your licence terminates automatically on any breach of these Terms. We may also terminate or suspend your access at any time at our sole discretion. On termination, your right to use the Game ceases immediately. Sections 3 to 20 survive termination.
The Game is free to play and requires no account. You may optionally sign in with Google, and you may optionally choose to support the Game financially; both are entirely voluntary and the Game is fully playable without either. There is no advertising and no subscription. We ourselves will never ask you for a password or payment card, and we never receive or store your card details: any supporter payment is taken and processed by our third-party payments provider, Polar, which acts as merchant of record under its own terms and privacy policy. Supporter contributions are voluntary; unless we expressly state otherwise at the time, they do not entitle you to any specific feature, and, being contributions toward a free work provided on an as-is, as-available basis, are generally non-refundable except where required by law or by Polar's own policies. Any page, message or person other than the genuine Google sign-in dialog or the Polar checkout that asks you for a password or payment detail is not us, and you should not respond to it.
The Game is delivered using third-party infrastructure and loads resources from third-party providers, and may link to third-party sites. We do not control and are not responsible for those services, their availability, their content, or their handling of your data, which is governed by their own terms and policies. See the Privacy Policy for what this means in practice.
The Game renders continuous motion in 3D. A very small proportion of people may experience motion sickness, disorientation, eye strain, discomfort, or photosensitive epileptic seizures when exposed to flashing lights or patterns, even with no personal or family history of epilepsy. If your operating system requests reduced motion, the world starts paused. Stop playing immediately and consult a doctor if you experience dizziness, nausea, altered vision, eye or muscle twitching, involuntary movement, loss of awareness, disorientation or convulsions. Do not play while tired, and take a break of at least 10–15 minutes every hour. Never play while operating a vehicle or machinery.
The Game is provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator disclaims all warranties, express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, and non-infringement, and any warranty arising out of any course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Game will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, accurate, complete or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Game or its servers are free of harmful components. You use the Game entirely at your own risk.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator and its suppliers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, goodwill, business or anticipated savings, or for any personal injury, distress or device damage, arising out of or relating to the Game or your use of or inability to use it, on any theory of liability, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Game shall not exceed one hundred United States dollars (USD $100), or the amount you paid us to use the Game, whichever is greater. You acknowledge that the Game is provided free of charge, that these limitations are a fundamental basis on which it is offered, and that we would not offer it without them.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so parts of sections 12 and 13 may not apply to you. In that case those sections apply to the greatest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, these Terms do not affect your non-excludable statutory rights.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the operator from and against any claim, demand, action, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: your use or misuse of the Game; your User Content; your breach of these Terms or of any representation or warranty in them; your violation of any law; or your violation of the rights of any third party.
These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Game (including non-contractual disputes or claims), are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws applicable in the operator's principal place of residence, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
You and the operator agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that place to resolve any dispute, except that either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or the security of the service. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree that any claim will be brought in your individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective or representative proceeding. If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law grants you the right to bring proceedings locally or under local law, nothing here removes that right.
Before commencing any proceeding, you agree to contact us first using section 20 and to attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.
You may not access or use the Game if you are located in, ordinarily resident in, or a national of any country or territory subject to comprehensive economic sanctions, or if you are on any restricted-party or denied-persons list. You are responsible for compliance with all laws that apply to you where you are, and you must not use the Game where doing so would be unlawful.
We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by anything beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, war, terrorism, civil unrest, epidemic, labour dispute, act of government, failure of a hosting, network, power or content-delivery provider, denial-of-service attack, or other malicious act.
We may revise these Terms at any time by posting a revised version on this page with a new version number and date. Changes take effect when posted. Where a change is material, we will ask you to confirm acceptance again the next time you open the Game. Your continued use after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Game.
Notices, abuse reports, takedown notices and questions may be sent to the operator via the project repository at github.com/sanket-kogekar/insane-city. Please include enough detail for us to identify what you are referring to.