Last updated April 26, 2024
These Terms of Service (‘Terms’) apply to the relationship between you (‘User’ or ‘You’) and Return Entertainment Oy, a company registered in Finland under business ID 3088344-9 (‘Return’ or ‘We’) regarding Your use of Return gaming platform and Our games such as Rivals Arena (both together or separately ‘Service’). These Terms determine how You may use the Service and what consequences may result from non-compliance with these Terms.
By accepting the Terms, the User is deemed to have read and understood these Terms and agrees to be bound by them.
Return reserves the right to amend the Terms at any time to reflect the changes in the Service, in the Applicable Law, or in agreements between Return and Return's suppliers. Return notifies You before the amendment to the Terms enter into force. By continuing to use the Service, the User shall be deemed to have approved and accepted the amendments to the Terms and shall be bound by them. The amendments shall enter into force upon their publication in the Service.
Return's processing of your personal data is described separately in the Return Privacy Notice, which is available here.
In these Terms, the following capitalized terms shall have the meanings given to them hereunder (and where the context so admits the singular shall include the plural and vice versa):
‘Applicable Law’ means the laws applicable in Finland;
‘Intellectual Property Rights’ means (i) patents, inventions, designs, copyright and related rights, database rights, trademarks and related goodwill, trade names (whether registered or unregistered) and rights to apply for registration; (ii) proprietary rights in domain names; (iii) knowhow and confidential information; (iv) applications, extensions and renewals in relation to any of these rights; and (v) all other rights of a similar nature or having an equivalent effect anywhere in the world;
‘User’ shall mean you, an individual person who uses the Service;
‘Virtual Items’ means virtual items (including but not limited to User's character and the character's accessories within the Service) that exist within the Service.
Rivals Arena uses Unreal® Engine. Unreal® is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. Unreal® Engine, Copyright 1998 – 2024, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved.
Epic Games, Inc. explicitly disclaims any representations, warranties, conditions, and liabilities related to the Services.
Return grants the User with a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable and limited right to access and use the Service for the User's own purposes solely (1) as incorporated in the Service in object code as an inseparable part of the Service, (2) to the extent necessary for the User to make permitted uses of the Service.
The User agrees to be bound by the following rules relating to the use of the Service (‘Rules’):
Return shall be entitled to limit, suspend, terminate, modify, or delete the User's account or deny the User's access to the Service without first hearing the User and without notifying the User if Return reasonably suspects that the User uses the Service contrary to these Terms (in particular but not limited to the Rules under section 4 of these Terms), Applicable Law, or administrative orders or in a manner that jeopardises the provision of the Services to other Users. As a result, You may permanently lose Your account and Virtual Items in the Service.
Return reserves the right to determine what conduct it considers to be in violation of the Terms.
Return reserves the right to stop offering and/or supporting the Service or part of the Service at any time, at which point Your right to use the Service, or a part thereof may automatically expire.
You have the right to stop using the Service. You may terminate your Account at any time and for any reason through the Service.
The User acknowledges that the Service evolves constantly. Return may require that you accept updates to the Service. You acknowledge and agree that Return may update the Service with or without notifying you. You may need to update third party software(s) from time to time in order to receive the Service. There might be maintenance breaks in the service to keep it up to date, enhance your experience and prevent any surprising issues. We aim to inform you of the breaks beforehand and make sure they are reasonable in length.
The User acknowledges and agrees that Return and/or its licensors own all Intellectual Property Rights in the Service. The Terms do not grant the User any rights to or in Intellectual Property Rights or any other rights or licences in respect of the Service except as expressly stated in these Terms.
Reproduction, transfer, distribution, or storage of content protected by Return's Intellectual Property Rights, including but not limited to pictures, design format, logo, audio clips, video clips and HTML coding, in any form as well as any unauthorized reproduction, total or partial, of the texts, illustrations, design format or logo by any means whatsoever without the prior written permission of Return is prohibited.
The Service may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not maintained, under the control of or owned by Return. For clarity, Return is not liable for any contents, commentary or applications of such third-party websites or services.
You acknowledge and agree that you shall not have ownership or other property rights to Your account including its content such as Virtual Items. You further acknowledge and agree that all rights in and to Your account shall be owned by Return.
Return owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to use all of the content that appears in the Service. You agree that you have no right or title in or to any content that appears in the Service, including without limitation the Virtual Items, content, or features appearing in or originating from the Service. Return may make changes to Virtual Items at any time, with or without notice.
By transmitting or submitting any User Content within the Service, you represent and warrant that such User Content is (a) not in violation of any laws, contractual restrictions or other third party rights, and that you have permission from any third party whose personal data or intellectual property the User Content contains; (b) free of viruses, adware, spyware, worms or other malicious code; (c) not harassing and does not offend or aim to offend any groups of people based on their ethnic background, nationality, religion or the like.
Return reserves the right in its sole discretion to monitor, edit or delete any User Content without notice for any reason or for no reason at any time.
You hereby grant to Return an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, sublicensable license to your User Content and right to copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, commercialize, publish, distribute, sell, license, publicly display, publicly perform, broadcast, communicate to the public, in any way, your User Content. You further hereby grant to Return the unconditional, irrevocable right to use and exploit your name and any other information included in your User Content without any obligation to you.
Return provides the Service on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis for Your use, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. Return does not warrant that You will be able to access or use the Service at the times or locations of Your choosing; that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Service are free of viruses or other harmful components.
Provided that We have acted with professional diligence, We do not accept responsibility for any indirect, consequential or incidental or other similar unpredictable damages.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our act or negligence, or to affect the consumer's rights based on the mandatory legislation for consumer protection, such as the Finnish Consumer Protection Act.
These Terms as well as the settlement of any dispute relating to these Terms are governed by the laws of Finland, excluding the rules of the choice of law. These Terms do not limit any legal rights granted to consumers under Finnish consumer protection law. If and to the extent the consumer protection rules of Your country of residence are more favourable to You than the corresponding Finnish rules, You may also invoke the consumer protection rules of the country of Your residence.
Disputes should always, in first-hand, try to be solved in agreeance after discussions with both parties. If an agreeance is not possible, the competent courts shall be the courts of Finland. A consumer can also bring legal action in the competent court of their domicile.
If You reside within the European Union, You may also choose to use the EU Commission's Online Dispute Resolution Platform to resolve disputes. The platform can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/odr/.
In the event any provision or part of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Return may unilaterally assign or delegate these Terms, in whole or in part, to any legal or natural person. You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under these Terms without Return's prior written consent. Any such unauthorised assignment shall be deemed invalid.
In relation to the Services, these Terms contain the entire agreement and understanding between Return and the User and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, inducements, and conditions, express or implied, oral or written, of any nature whatsoever with respect to the subject matter hereof. These Terms cover any course of performance and/or usage of the Service.
The failure of either party to exercise any right, power or remedy provided under these Terms, or to insist upon compliance by the other party hereto with its obligations hereunder, or any custom or practice of the parties at variance with these Terms, shall not constitute a waiver by such party of its right to exercise any such or other right, power or remedy or to demand such compliance.
Return shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes outside the reasonable control of Return, including without limitation any failure to perform hereunder due to unforeseen circumstances or cause beyond Return's control such as war, terrorism, riots, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, floods, accidents, strikes, or pandemic or other significant adverse event caused by an infectious disease.
All contacts to Return can be made using the following email address: support@rivalsarena.com