Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using BrainPickle at brainpickle.app ("the Service"), operated by Click Clack Labs LLC ("we", "us", "our"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Description of Service

BrainPickle is a trivia platform: a daily quiz, topic quizzes in several languages, AI-generated and hand-built quizzes, 1v1 challenges, group rooms, leaderboards, streaks, share cards, and related features, on the web, as an installable web app, in the BrainPickle mobile apps, and through a Slack app and an Amazon Alexa skill. Every feature is free. The Service is supported by advertising.

3. Accounts

You can play without signing up. When you answer your first question we create a guest account — a random id with nothing personal attached — so your progress is kept. Signing in with Google, Apple, or email (via a one-time code) attaches an identity to that same account. You are responsible for the security of your account and for keeping your details accurate. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. We may suspend or close accounts that violate these Terms.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Service
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure
• Scrape, crawl, or otherwise extract data from the Service in bulk
• Abuse the question reporting system or submit false reports
• Manipulate scores, leaderboards, challenges, or room results through automation or API abuse
• Impersonate other users in challenges, group rooms, or leaderboards
• Use the AI quiz generator to produce offensive, harmful, or illegal content
• Circumvent rate limits, usage limits, or other restrictions
• Use the embeddable widget or APIs in a way that misrepresents BrainPickle or its content

5. AI-Generated Content

Quiz questions are written with artificial intelligence (Google Gemini with Google Search grounding, with Anthropic Claude as a fallback), reviewed, and cite a Wikipedia article as their source where one is shown. Editions in other languages are generated from the English quiz and cite that language's Wikipedia. We review questions for accuracy but do not guarantee that every question or answer is correct. If you find an error, use the report button on the question; questions that receive multiple reports are quarantined automatically for review.

6. User-Created Content

You may create quizzes using the AI quiz generator or manual quiz builder. You are solely responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of content you create. You retain ownership of your original questions, but grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to display, distribute, and make available your quizzes on the Service. We reserve the right to remove user-created content that violates these terms or is reported as inaccurate, inappropriate, or offensive. If you delete your account, your quizzes will be anonymized (your name removed) but may remain available on the Service.

7. Challenges and Group Rooms

Challenges allow you to compete 1v1 with another player on the same quiz. Your display name, score, and time are shared with your opponent when the challenge is completed. Challenge links are publicly shareable.

Group rooms allow multiple players to play the same quiz asynchronously. Rooms expire automatically after 24 hours. Display names you choose in rooms are visible to all participants. We reserve the right to remove rooms or players that violate these terms.

8. Pricing

The Service is free. There is no paid tier, no subscription, and no trial; we do not collect payment details and we do not charge for any feature. The Service is supported by advertising. If we ever introduce a paid offering, we will update these Terms and give reasonable notice before it takes effect.

9. Usage Limits

Because AI quiz generation has a real cost to run, accounts are subject to a daily limit on generations (currently 5 per day), and requests are rate limited to prevent abuse. These limits apply to every account and may change at our discretion. There is no way to pay to raise them.

10. Email and Notifications

When you sign in (guests have no email), you are enrolled in these email categories: daily quiz, streak reminders, challenge notifications, weekly digest, and product updates. Each can be turned off in your account settings, every email has a one-click unsubscribe for its category, and you can stop all email at once. Unsubscribes take effect immediately. Push notifications are off until you turn them on in your browser or the app, and can be turned off there at any time.

11. Embeddable Widget and APIs

We provide an embeddable widget that allows third-party websites to display BrainPickle quizzes. By embedding our widget, you agree not to modify its appearance or behavior, remove attribution, or use it on sites that contain illegal, offensive, or misleading content. We reserve the right to disable widget access at any time.

12. Third-Party Platform Integrations

BrainPickle is available as integrations on third-party platforms, including Slack and Amazon Alexa. By using these integrations, you agree to both these Terms and the terms of the respective platform.

Slack: When you install the BrainPickle Slack app, we store your workspace ID, channel configuration, and bot access token to deliver trivia questions and track leaderboard scores. Slack user IDs and display names are stored to attribute answers and display leaderboards. When the app is uninstalled from a workspace, all associated data (workspace configuration, trivia posts, answers, scores, and quiz sessions) is permanently deleted.

Amazon Alexa: The BrainPickle Alexa skill does not store any personally identifiable information. Quiz sessions are maintained in temporary Alexa session attributes and are discarded when the session ends. No Alexa user IDs or voice data are stored on our servers.

13. Question Reporting and Moderation

You may report questions you believe are incorrect, ambiguous, outdated, or inappropriate. Reports are reviewed and questions may be quarantined or removed. Abuse of the reporting system (e.g. false or frivolous reports) may result in account suspension.

14. Account Deletion

You can delete your account at any time from your account page or the account deletion page. Your personal data (profile, quiz results, streaks, email and push preferences) is permanently deleted within 30 days. Quizzes you created and reports you filed are kept with your name removed. Challenge and room records have your user id removed.

15. Intellectual Property

All content, design, and code on BrainPickle are owned by Click Clack Labs LLC or licensed to us. You may share your quiz results and share cards freely. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from the Service itself without our written permission.

16. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components. We do not guarantee the accuracy of any quiz question or answer.

17. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Click Clack Labs LLC shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim arising from or relating to the Service shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim, or $50, whichever is greater.

18. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Click Clack Labs LLC and its officers, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising from your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your user-created content.

19. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising from these Terms or the Service shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in New York.

20. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. Material changes will be communicated via the Service or email.

21. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at hello@clickclacklabs.com.

Click Clack Labs LLC
418 Broadway, Ste R, Albany, NY 12207