Terms of use

1. The agreement

These terms are between you and Kontest Games Ltd, a company registered in Nigeria ("Kontest", "we"). By using Kontest you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use Kontest.

You must be at least 13 to use Kontest. If you are under 18, you need a parent or guardian’s consent to use it, and their permission to buy Koins.

2. Your account

You can sign in with Google or Apple, or continue as a guest. A guest account lives in your browser or on your phone: if you clear it or lose the device before keeping the account with Google or Apple, the account and everything in it, including Koins, is lost.

Keep your account to yourself. You are responsible for what happens on it.

3. Koins

Koins are a virtual currency for use inside Kontest only. You can earn them by playing and buy them in the shop.

Koins and Kash have no cash value. They cannot be withdrawn, sold, bought from another person, or exchanged for money or anything of value outside Kontest. You do not own them; you have a licence to use them in Kontest under these terms.

Gifts. You can give items, Koins or Kash to people you share a chat with, inside Kontest only, within limits shown in the app: both accounts must be kept with Google, the giver’s account must be at least a week old, there are daily and monthly caps, and Koins or Kash bought in the last 14 days cannot be gifted. Gifts are final and cannot be refunded or reversed by the giver.

Selling or buying Koins, Kash, items or accounts for money or anything else outside Kontest is not allowed. Offering to, or asking somebody to, is a breach of these terms, and we may remove the Koins, Kash or items involved and close the accounts.

Purchases are final once the Koins have been delivered, except where the law or the store you paid through says otherwise. If a payment is reversed, we may remove the Koins it bought.

We may change what Koins can be used for, and how many are awarded for achievements. We will not take away Koins you already hold except as these terms allow, or if they were obtained by cheating, fraud or a mistake on our part.

4. Referral and social rewards

Refer and earn. Invite links you share from Kontest carry a code that is yours. When somebody makes a new account through one, signs in with Google and finishes a game, you get 5 earned Koins, once for that account, up to 5,000 Koins in all. The first link they followed is the one that counts, and you cannot refer yourself.

Visit our socials. You get 50 earned Koins the first time you open each of our social pages from Kontest, once per page, on an account kept with Google. We cannot see whether you follow us, and you do not have to.

Rewards are earned Koins, under the Koins section above. We may withhold or take back a reward obtained with extra accounts, shared devices or addresses, or any other trick, and we may change or end these rewards; rewards already paid stay paid.

5. Payments and refunds

Koin packs, Kash packs, ads and Kontest fees are sold for the price shown before you pay, through our payment provider, Bachs. Prices are set in Nigerian naira and in US dollars: in Nigeria you pay the naira price exactly; elsewhere the price is in US dollars, and you can pay in your own currency.

You can pay by card, bank transfer, mobile money or crypto (stablecoins such as USDT and USDC, and other assets Bachs accepts), in the currencies Bachs offers. When you pay in a currency other than the one a price is set in, Bachs converts it at checkout at its own rate and shows you the exact amount before you pay; that conversion, and any fee your bank, wallet or network charges, is between you and them. Card, bank, wallet and crypto details are entered on Bachs’ page and never reach us.

Koins are delivered to your account as soon as the payment is confirmed. A bank transfer or a crypto payment can take a few minutes to confirm (crypto: until its network confirms it), and is delivered when it does. Because they are delivered at once and can be used straight away, purchases are final once delivered.

A payment of less than the price (for example, crypto sent short) delivers nothing; Bachs returns it or lets you pay the rest. Crypto sent on the wrong network, or to an address other than the one Bachs shows, may be lost, and we cannot recover it.

If you were charged and did not receive your Koins, were charged twice, or were charged the wrong amount, write to support@kontest.games within 14 days with your payment reference and we will put it right or refund you.

Unused Koins are not refunded when you stop using Kontest or close your account, except where the law requires.

Ads and Kontest fees are refunded in what paid them (Koins for Koins, Kash for Kash or a payment through Bachs), never as money, as the Ads section below sets out.

6. Games and prizes

Kontest offers games of skill, and some games of chance (such as dice and card games) for fun only. A game of chance never carries a prize. No game has an entry fee: nobody pays Koins, Kash or money to play, and nobody stakes anything on a result. Results are decided by the game’s rules as applied by our servers, and a result is final.

Some games may offer a prize in Koins, put up by Kontest or a sponsor and free to enter. Entry to those may be approved by the host. Prizes are paid in Koins, under the rules shown with the game.

7. Playing fair

Do not cheat: no bots, engines or outside help in a game against a person, no deliberately losing to move Koins to someone, and no multiple accounts to farm rewards.

Do not harass people, post anything illegal, or try to break, overload or get around how Kontest works.

We may remove content, void a game, remove Koins gained unfairly, or suspend or close an account that breaks these rules.

8. Your content

You keep what you post. You allow us to store it and show it to the people in the groups you post it to, so that Kontest works.

Your games are shown on TV, on your page and on your opponents’ pages, with comments, unless a player turns that off; you allow us to show them there. Comments and pictures are public to other kontestants, so keep them to what you would say in front of everyone.

You can block or report anybody. We review reports, and may remove content or close accounts that break these terms.

Pictures, videos and voice notes are stored with Cloudflare, our hosting provider (R2 for files, Stream for ad videos), on our behalf.

9. Ads

Anyone with a Kontest account can advertise, guests included. You must be at least 18, or acting for a business that has allowed you to. By submitting an ad you agree to these terms and to the ad rules at kontest.games/rules/ads.

Payment. An ad runs in a tier (Basic, Boost or Prime) for the number of days you choose from those offered, at the price shown in the setup and on kontest.games/advertise before you pay. Prices can change; a change applies to purchases made after it, never to a run already paid for. You pay in any of the ways offered at the time: Kash, Koins, or through Bachs (in naira, US dollars or your own currency, by any way Bachs offers, as Payments and refunds sets out); paying through Bachs buys the Kash the run costs and spends it on the run at once.

Review. Every new ad, and every change to an approved one, is reviewed before it shows. We may turn down any ad, and pause or stop one that is running, if it breaks the ad rules or these terms, if the law requires it, or if we reasonably think it harms the people who use Kontest. Approving an ad does not mean we vouch for what it sells.

Refunds are paid to the account that paid, in what paid: Koins for a run paid in Koins, and Kash for one paid in Kash or through Bachs: an ad that is not approved gets everything back; an ad we stop gets back its unused whole days at the price paid per day; an ad you pause gets nothing back, because its days keep running; an ad that runs its days gets nothing back. Koins and Kash have no cash value and are not exchanged for money. A guest account that is lost loses them with it. If a payment itself goes wrong, the Payments and refunds section applies.

Licence. You keep what you own in your ad. You give Kontest a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, resize, crop, convert and show it (its pictures, video, words, name and link) in Kontest, in links shared from it, on your page and in our review tools, for as long as it is on Kontest. Ads stay on your page after their runs end. A video may be removed from storage 30 days after its last run ends, keeping its still picture; running it again then needs the video again.

No guarantee. We do not promise any number of views, clicks, likes or sales, or any particular place, time or audience. A higher tier is shown more often than a lower one, but how often depends on how many ads are running and who is watching. The counts we show are our own records.

Your responsibility. You are responsible for your ad and the page it links to: that it is true and lawful, that you have the right to everything in it, and that it meets any requirement of the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) or other authority. To the extent the law allows, you will make good any loss Kontest suffers from a claim about your ad.

Verified brands and branded Kontests. A business may apply in the app to be a verified brand. We may refuse an application, and may revoke a verification later, saying why; a verified brand keeps to these terms and the ad rules in everything it runs. Only a verified brand may run a branded Kontest.

Sponsor prizes. A brand may add Koins to a branded Kontest’s prizes. They are taken from its Koins or Kash when the Kontest is made and held until it ends: what the winners are paid is used, and the rest, and all of it if the Kontest is called off, goes back to the pockets that paid. A prize a brand offers of its own (a shirt, tickets) is the brand’s promise to the winner, not Kontest’s: the brand delivers it, and Kontest is not responsible for it.

10. Global and Kontest chats

Global is a chat with everyone on Kontest in it. Everybody can read it; guests must sign in with Google to post. A Kontest chat has everyone entered in that Kontest in it. Anything you post in either can be read by everyone in it, so treat it as public.

Each keeps only its last 2,000 messages: older ones, with their voice notes, are deleted and cannot be brought back. Kontest chats themselves are not deleted.

The chat rules at kontest.games/rules/chats apply. In a branded or community Kontest, the organiser runs its chat and may remove people and messages from it.

Anyone can report a message. A message reported by three different people is hidden until we review it; we then delete it or show it again. We may also mute somebody in Global, for a time or for good, or ban an account.

11. The service

We work to keep Kontest running, but we provide it as it is and cannot promise it will always be available or free of errors. We may change or stop features.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing here limits rights you have by law that cannot be limited.

12. Ending

You can stop using Kontest at any time and delete your account yourself, in the app (You, Account, Delete account) or at kontest.games/delete-account. We may end these terms or close an account that breaks them.

Deleting your account forfeits every Koin and Kash in it, bought or earned: they have no cash value, and are not refunded, paid out or moved to anybody. You have 30 days to restore the account, balances and all, by signing in again; after that it is final (a guest account is deleted at once). Records of what happened to your Koins and Kash are kept, without your name, as the Privacy policy explains.

An account we ban is signed out everywhere and cannot sign in again. If you think we banned you by mistake, write to support@kontest.games.

13. Credits

The chess pieces are by Cburnett, from Wikimedia Commons, used under the BSD licence: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_chess_pieces

14. Law and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and disputes go to the courts of Lagos State, unless the law where you live says otherwise.

Questions or complaints: support@kontest.games.