Effective as of July 31, 2025
Welcome to Duel Corp.™ (the "Game"). In order to play the Game, you ("You" or "User") must first agree to this Duel Corp.™ End-User License Agreement ("User Agreement" or “Terms of Use”) between you and Dreameffect Entertainment ("Dreameffect").


If you agree by checking the box next to the statement "I accept the User Agreement" or "I accept the terms of the above agreement(s)" you declare that you have read this User Agreement, you understand the terms of this User Agreement, and you agree to be bound by this User Agreement on behalf of yourself. If you are under the age of 18, you must obtain consent from your parent or legal guardian before using the Services.

1. Scope of Application and Subject Matter of the Agreement
1.1 The subject of the contract is the use of the Game by you. You may purchase Duel Corp.™ through the Steam platform, and other platforms in the future (collectively, the "Platform"). With respect to the purchase of the Game, the respective Platform shall be the sole contractual partner. With regard to the use of Duel Corp.™, the respective contractual terms of the Platform shall prevail. This applies in particular in the event of contradictions between the respective contractual terms of the platform and these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use apply in addition.
1.2 The connection to the Internet, the maintenance of the network connection as well as the procurement and provision of the hardware and software required for the purchase and use of Duel Corp.™ is not subject to these Terms of Use. In order to be able to use the Game, you must therefore be responsible for providing Internet access and all technical equipment required for this purpose, and you must pay any fees incurred in this connection yourself.
1.3 Source codes, development materials and open-source software used for Duel Corp.™ are not subject to this contract.
1.4 Names and behaviors of Game characters, items, factions and all other names/titles are fictional. No association with real companies and/or persons. Similarities to real entities are coincidental.
1.5 Multiplayer features require automatic network connections between players via Steam (or other “Platforms” in future) services (e.g., matchmaking). You acknowledge and consent that such connections may be established where technically necessary and legally permissible. This feature can be disabled in the Game’s settings (called Options).

2. Conclusion of contract
You can only acquire the rights to use Duel Corp.™ necessary for purchase and play via a platform. For this purpose, you must register on the respective platform. The respective platform will be your contractual partner for the registration, the acquisition of the rights of use of Duel Corp.™. The conclusion of the contract for the registration, the purchase of Duel Corp.™ takes place according to the contract conditions of the respective platform.

3. License Limitations
3.1 The use of Duel Corp.™ is subject to the terms and conditions of the Platform through which you acquired Duel Corp.™. In addition, the provisions of this clause 3 shall apply to the extent that they do not conflict with the terms and conditions of the Platform. In the event of such a conflict, the terms and conditions of the Platform shall prevail.
3.2 You are obliged to use the Game in accordance with these Terms of Use and in accordance with the respective purpose. You are obligated not to hinder or harass other users of the Game, not to use the Game for purposes other than those for which it is intended, and not to use the Game in a way that disrupts or overloads the technical process.
3.3 The Game is a carefully controlled environment designed to provide the maximum level of enjoyment for all players. In order to preserve an enjoyable experience for all users, and to protect Dreameffect’s rights, the activities identified in this Section 3 ("License Limitations") are strictly prohibited and violate the conditions or limitations on your license to use the Game. Therefore, any use of the Game in violation of such restrictions exceeds the scope of the License granted to you and constitutes infringement of your license, and is grounds for immediate exclusion from multiplayer features such as leaderboards and matchmaking. Use of the Game in violation of these provisions, or any bypassing attempts after you have been excluded, violates Dreameffect’s rights in the Game.
Violating these License Limitations may result in the suspension or permanent banning your account from multiplayer features such as leaderboards and matchmaking, or such other lesser measures described in Section 4 which Dreameffect may take in its sole discretion, or Dreameffect taking action for copyright infringement or any other legal claims, all of which are reserved. You agree that offering or providing banned services to other players of the Game constitutes improper interference with Dreameffect’s contracts with such players, and Dreameffect reserves the right to take formal legal action against you, with or without warning.
3.4 Dreameffect may update the list of License Limitations any time. The current License Limitations are as follows:
a) Cheating and Botting. You may not create or use any unauthorized cheats, bots, automation software, hacks, mods or any other unauthorized software or hardware designed to modify the Game and gameplay. In addition, you may not take advantage of game system bugs and exploits during gameplay. You also may not change your leaderboard score or send/change any data that has been sent to other users.
b) Real Money Trading Farming and Fraudulent Transactions. You may not sell, purchase, or exchange for real-world money or value any in-game currency, accounts, characters, in-game services, or in-game virtual items. You may not play the Game for the purpose of acquiring virtual items or advancement in game play on behalf of a third-party or for the purpose of selling any virtual assets to a third party for real-world money, specifically including power-leveling services.
c) Commercial Use. You may not exploit the Game for any commercial purpose without Dreameffect prior written consent.
d) Private Servers. You may not create, operate, participate in or use any unauthorized servers intended to emulate the Game.
e) Data Mining. You may not intercept, mine or otherwise collect information from the Game using unauthorized third-party software.
f) Hacking and Circumvention. You may not hack, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise modify the Game or server computer code, whether the Game code is located on a DVD, Blu-ray™ disc, your computer or console, except as expressly permitted by Dreameffect or applicable law.
g) Modifying or Creating Derivative Software. You may not modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Game or Service in any way not expressly authorized by Dreameffect, and may not make any derivative works of the Game.
h) Commercial Spamming/Spimming. You may not use (or abuse) the in-game mechanics and message services to distribute advertisements.
i) Other Prohibited Activities. Any other activities that are determined Prohibited Activities (as referred to in the below section), which include but are not limited to, harassment, obstructive or offensive behavior, impersonation, etc.

4. Prohibited Activities
As mentioned above, in addition to the License Limitations, there are other activities that you are forbidden from doing in connection with the Game ("Prohibited Activities"). You may find more details below.
In its sole discretion, Dreameffect may use a variety of methods to deal with violations of this User Agreement and the Prohibited Activities, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
• Issuing a warning;
• Removing or deleting ill-gotten in-game items or currency;
• Temporarily suspending an account;
• Permanently terminating an account;
• Asserting a lawsuit for breach of contract, copyright infringement, or other cause of action as may be applicable; and/or
• Seeking injunctive relief in any court or jurisdiction to prevent you from continuing such activity.
By suspending, banning, or permanent termination of an account is meant that you will be excluded from multiplayer features such as leaderboards and automatic connection with other users.
In addition, Dreameffect is entitled to ban any Account (immediately and without notice), in its sole discretion, of any User who (1) was previously suspended or terminated by Dreameffect and who Dreameffect reasonably believes re-registered using different registration information in order to circumvent or bypass such suspension or termination, or (2) Dreameffect reasonably believes ( based upon any information available, including registration and account information) that such User is enabling or assisting another User to conduct any Prohibited Activities of any kind.
Dreameffect may update this list of Prohibited Activities at any time. Some of the main Prohibited Activities are listed below as reference:
4.1 Disruption. You may not in any way disrupt or interfere with the Game experience of other players, including the disruption of other user computers.
4.2 Profanity and Offensive Language. You may not use profanity or other expressions that a reasonable person would find offensive. The game is also played by younger players (aged 13 and above). You agree to behave accordingly.
4.3 Impersonation. You may not impersonate any person or entity or fraudulently hold yourself out as a Dreameffect employee, representative, or any other Dreameffect-connected person or being affiliated with any such person or entity. This means you cannot log into someone else's account, or deceive or mislead other people as to your identity. For your own safety, we encourage users to safeguard their privacy, remain anonymous, and never give out personal information to other users.
4.4 Naming Right. You may not use any name or other intellectual property belonging to Dreameffect or any other third party in your use of the Game (for example, naming a character after a celebrity, company, product, or superhero).
4.5 Any Illegal Activities. You may not conduct any illegal activities whatsoever in connection with the Game. This includes every illegal activity not specifically highlighted above, including without limitation gambling, defamation, harassment, and fraud.
4.6 Non-Commercial Spamming/Spimming. You may not use (or abuse) the in-game mechanics and message services to harass other players.
4.7 Modifying network data or disrupting matchmaking systems. You may not modify any data sent to other users or servers.

5. Interruption to the Service
From time to time, in order to provide our customers with the optimal gaming experience, it is necessary for Dreameffect to conduct routine maintenance on the computers and/or servers that support the Game. During these times, access to the multiplayer features (matchmaking) may be interrupted. Access may also be temporarily suspended in whole or in part, without notice, due to emergency repairs, fire, flood, explosion, war, strike, embargo, governmental action or failure to act, the act of any civil or military authority, act of God, or by any other causes beyond Dreameffect's control, or any other reasons for which Dreameffect, in its sole discretion, deems that temporary suspension is necessary. Dreameffect does not warrant uninterrupted availability of the Service. You acknowledge that scheduled and unscheduled disruptions of Service may occur and You hereby waive any causes of action against Dreameffect in any way arising from or related to any such disruptions of service.

6. Granting of rights
6.1 For the granting of rights to Duel Corp.™, the terms and conditions of the platform through which you acquired Duel Corp.™ apply. In addition, the provisions of this clause 6 shall apply to the extent that they do not conflict with the terms and conditions of the Platform. In the event of such a conflict, the terms and conditions of the Platform shall prevail.
6.2 Dreameffect grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, geographically unrestricted right, limited to the term of this Agreement, to use Duel Corp.™ for private purposes in accordance with these Terms of Use and to store and display Duel Corp.™ to the extent necessary for the intended and contractual use. All rights not expressly granted, in particular the rights to edit, distribute, make publicly available and/or otherwise exploit Duel Corp.™, are reserved. To the extent that Dreameffect provides new releases, patches, upgrades, updates and corrections of Duel Corp.™ during the term of this Agreement, the foregoing right of use shall apply to them in the same manner.
6.3 Components of Duel Corp.™ that are recognizably subject to the rights of third parties and in particular open-source licenses are excluded from the granting of rights. In particular, components that are disclosed by Dreameffect within Duel Corp.™ as third-party content are considered to be recognizable.
6.4 You may not decompile or otherwise reverse engineer Duel Corp.™ or attempt to discover its source code. The only exceptions to this are actions necessary to obtain interface information required to establish interoperability with third party software. The prerequisite for this is that you have previously unsuccessfully attempted to obtain such information from Dreameffect for a reasonable fee. Interface information obtained in this way may only be used for the purpose of establishing interoperability, may not be published, and may only be made available to third parties to the extent necessary to establish interoperability.

7. Liability
Primarily the respective platform is liable. Insofar as a direct liability of Dreameffect exists, Dreameffect shall be conclusively liable within the scope of these Terms of Use in accordance with the following provisions.
7.1 Dreameffect shall be liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence as well as for damages resulting from injury to life, body or health.
7.2 In cases of slight negligence, Dreameffect shall be liable in case of breach of a material contractual obligation. An essential contractual obligation in the sense of this clause is an obligation the fulfillment of which makes the execution of the contract possible in the first place and on the fulfillment of which the contractual partner may therefore regularly rely.
7.3 The liability according to clause 7.2 is limited to the damage foreseeable at the time of the conclusion of the contract, the occurrence of which must typically be expected.
7.4 The liability for damages due to loss of data are limited in the case of clause 7.2 to the amount of the recovery of the data, which would have been incurred even if you had backed up the data regularly and in accordance with the risk.
7.5 The limitations of liability shall apply accordingly in favor of Dreameffect's employees, agents and vicarious agents.
7.6 Any liability of Dreameffect for guarantees given (which must be expressly designated as such) and for claims based on the Product Liability Act shall remain unaffected.
7.7 Any further liability of Dreameffect is excluded.

8. Term; Termination
8.1 The use of Duel Corp.™ is governed by the terms and conditions of the Platform through which you acquired Duel Corp.™. In addition, the provisions of this clause 8 shall apply to the extent that they do not conflict with the terms and conditions of the Platform. In the event of such a conflict, the terms and conditions of the Platform shall prevail.
8.2 Dreameffect may terminate the contract with two weeks' notice.
8.3 If the contract between You and the Platform for the provision of Duel Corp.™ ends for any reason whatsoever, this contract between You and Dreameffect shall also end.
8.4 The statutory right to extraordinary termination without notices for cause remains unaffected.

9. Changes to Duel Corp.™
9.1 The use of Duel Corp.™ is governed by the terms and conditions of the Platform through which you acquired Duel Corp.™. In addition, the provisions of this clause 9 shall apply to the extent that they do not conflict with the terms of the Platform. In the event of such a conflict, the terms and conditions of the Platform shall prevail.
9.2 Beyond what is necessary to maintain the contractual compliance of Duel Corp.™, Dreameffect may modify and adapt Duel Corp.™ and its functional scope if a valid reason requires such modification. Such a reason exists in particular in the case of changes (i) to implement changed legal requirements or jurisdiction, (ii) to implement judicial or official orders, (iii) to implement changed technical requirements such as a new technical environment or other operational reasons, (iv) to adapt to changed market conditions such as, for example, an increased number of users, (v) due to infringement of third party rights, (vi) due to loss of or changes to third party license terms whose licenses are required for the operation of Duel Corp.™, (vii) due to delivery or provisioning restrictions of Dreameffect's service providers, or (viii) for your benefit.
9.3 You will not incur any additional charges for any changes to Duel Corp.™ and its functionality pursuant to this Section 9. Dreameffect will provide You with clear and understandable notice of the change.
9.4 If such a change affects your ability to access or use Duel Corp.™ more than insignificantly ("negative change"), Dreameffect will inform you at least six weeks in advance by means of a text message ("change notice"). The Change Notice will include the characteristics and timing of the Negative Change and information about your rights described below.
9.5 In the event of negative changes, you have the right to terminate the contract free of charge with a notice period of 30 days. The period begins with the receipt of the change notification by you. If the change is made after you have received the change notification, the period shall only start to run from the time of the change. The termination of the contract is excluded if the accessibility or usability of the unchanged Duel Corp.™ is maintained without additional costs.
9.6 These Terms of Use apply mutatis mutandis to all modifications and to Duel Corp.™ as modified by such modifications.
9.7 For the avoidance of doubt, the addition, removal and customization of freely available Game Content or Game Features within Duel Corp.™ does not constitute a modification of Duel Corp.™ or its functionality and may be made by Dreameffect at any time without regard to the provisions of this Section 9.

10. Changes to the Terms of Use
10.1 Dreameffect may amend and adjust these Terms of Use with effect for the future if there is a valid reason for the amendment and insofar as the amendments are reasonable taking into account the interests of both contracting parties.
10.2 A valid reason exists in particular if the changes are necessary to a not insignificant extent due to a disturbance of the equivalence relationship of the contract which was unforeseeable for Dreameffect at the time of the conclusion of the contract or if they are necessary for the further performance of the contract due to changes in case law or legislation.
10.3 The change of a main service obligation - with the exception of the changes of the functional scope described in clause 10 - is excluded.
10.4 Dreameffect shall notify you of the amended terms and conditions in text form at least six weeks before the planned entry into force and shall separately refer to the new provisions and the date of entry into force. At the same time, Dreameffect will grant you a reasonable period of at least six weeks to declare whether you accept the amended Terms of Use for the further use of Duel Corp.™ and its functions.
10.5 If you do not make a declaration within this period, which shall commence upon receipt of the notice in text form, the amended Terms of Use shall be deemed to have been agreed.
10.6 Dreameffect will separately inform you of this legal consequence, i.e. the right to object, the objection period and the significance of silence, at the beginning of the period.

11. Data Protection & Third-Party Services
11.1 No Data Collection by Dreameffect:
Dreameffect Entertainment does not collect, process, or store any personal data other than Platform IDs (e.g. Steam IDs) from users of Duel Corp.™. This includes, but is not limited to: names, email addresses, IP addresses, device identifiers, or gameplay data. Dreameffect processes only Platform IDs of users who violate this Agreement ("Banned Users"). This data is strictly limited to enforcing bans in multiplayer features (matchmaking and leaderboards), stored locally within game files:
a) Constitutes our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR)
b) Allows permanent bans for violations
c) Enables data deletion via patch if ban is lifted
d) Requires manual requests via our discord server.
11.2 Third-Party Services Disclosure:
The Game relies on external services necessary for its functionality. These services may collect data independently, and Dreameffect:
• (a) Has no control over their data practices,
• (b) Does not monitor what data they collect,
• (c) Assumes no liability for their compliance with data protection laws.
Affected third-party services include:
• Platforms (e.g., Steam) through which the Game is purchased or installed,
• Unity Technologies (game engine provider),
• Matchmaking/network services (e.g., Steamworks API),
• Payment processors (if applicable).
11.3 Your Obligations:
You acknowledge and agree that:
• (a) Your use of the Game is subject to the privacy policies of these third parties,
• (b) You must review their terms separately (linked below),
• (c) Dreameffect cannot provide opt-out mechanisms for their data collection.
11.4 Third-Party Privacy Policies:
Relevant links (as of July 2025):
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement/
• Unity: https://unity.com/legal/privacy-policy
11.5 No Data Sharing:
Dreameffect does not receive or share user data with third parties, as no data is collected by Dreameffect in the first instance.
11.6 Contact for Privacy Concerns:
Questions regarding third-party data practices must be directed to the respective service provider.

12. Final Provisions
12.1 Choice of Law. These Terms of Use shall be governed by German law to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer and do not have a permanent residence in Germany, this shall apply with the proviso that mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which you have your habitual residence shall continue to apply insofar as they provide otherwise.
12.2 Language. This Agreement may be concluded in English.
12.3 Jurisdiction. With respect to (i) users who are not consumers, (ii) consumers who are not domiciled in Germany at the time the contract is concluded or who move their domicile abroad after the contract is concluded, and (iii) consumers whose habitual residence is unknown at the time the action is filed, the place of jurisdiction and performance shall be Frankfurt am Main. Otherwise, the place of jurisdiction shall be determined in accordance with the general rules.
12.4 Transferability. Dreameffect has the right to transfer the rights and obligations resulting from this contract to a third party. In such a case, you have the right to withdraw from the contract.
12.5 Mandatory information on consumer dispute resolution. The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (OS) at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. Dreameffect is neither willing nor obliged to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.