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Terms of use

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January 1, 2026
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‍Effective Date: January 2026

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE‍

Introduction

This page (together with the pages referred to in it) sets out the terms and conditions that apply to your use of our website https://www.thehackinggames.com/ and any related sub-domains (“website”), whether as a guest or a registered user. 

1. WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US

  • About us

https://www.thehackinggames.com/ is a site operated by THG Ventures Ltd (we, our and us). We are a private limited company, registered in England and Wales under company number 14983076, and have our registered office at 298A Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8DX. Our VAT number is GB 452 7088 82. 

  • About our site

Please be aware that our website promotes ethical hacking, cyber education, and awareness.

Any tools, discussions, or simulations presented are for educational and ethical purposes only.

  • Contacting us

To contact us, please email us at info@thg-v.com. We aim to respond to your query within 5 Business Days (being days, other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in England, when banks in London are open for business).  

2. BY USING OUR WEBSITE YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS

Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using our website. 

  • By using our website, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. 
  • If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our website.

3. AGE REQUIREMENTS  

  • You must be at least 16 years of age to use our services

By accessing our services, you confirm that you are at least 16 years old. Our services are not designed for or directed towards users under the age of 16. 

We may take additional steps, including the use of third party services, to determine whether you are old enough to create an account with us or using our services. You accept and agree to be bound by these terms and represent that you are at least 16 years of age. 

  • For the attention of the parents and guardians 

If you are a parent or guardian and allow your child (in the UK where our business is based, a child is generally anyone under the age of 18) to use these services, then you and your child accept and agree to be bound by these terms. You are responsible for all use of their account with us or our services, including your child’s activity on the services and any purchases made by them.  

4. THERE ARE OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of the HAPTAI Platform via our website:


If you purchase goods or services from our website, our Terms and Conditions will apply to the sale: https://www.thehackinggames.com/legals/terms. 

Our website includes links to third party web applications and use of their functionality (namely Discord Inc.). You will be required to accept the terms and conditions imposed on such use by the third party provider and be bound by such terms and conditions when using their web applications and functionality from our website. Please refer to paragraph 16 below for more information on our use of links on our website.

5. USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policies (please see paragraph 4 above for links to each of our privacy policies). ‍

6. WE MAY SUSPEND, AMEND OR WITHDRAW THE WEBSITE

We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business and operational reasons.

We will have no liability or responsibility if for any reason the website is unavailable at any time or for any period. We will try to give reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal. 

We may update and change our website from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes. 

You will be responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

7. WE MAY AMEND OR TRANSFER THESE TERMS OF USE 

We may amend these terms of use from time to time. Every time you wish to use our website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms and conditions that apply at the time.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

8. TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED THROUGH THE WEBSITE

Nothing in this website is intended as a contractual offer for the provision of our goods or services capable of acceptance by you as principal or agent. Any transactions started via the website represent an offer by you to transact on our terms, such offer only being accepted if subsequently confirmed by us in writing, usually via confirmation email. 

9. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the website and the material published on it (including without limitation photographs, logos, trademarks and graphical images)). Those works are protected by copyright, trade mark and other laws around the world. All such rights are reserved. 

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on the website.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. 

You must not use any part of the materials on the website for commercial purposes or for any other purpose not permitted by these terms of use without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on the website must always be acknowledged.

If you print off, copy or download any part of the website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use the website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. 

You may not copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, sell, lease or sublicense any portion of our website or any data, information, software or services accessed via the same. You also may not reverse engineer or decompile our software or services, attempt to do so or assist anyone in doing so, unless you have our prior written consent.

“The Hacking Games” and accompanying logo are trade marks of THG Ventures Ltd. You are not permitted to use them without our written approval, unless they are part of material you are using and such use is strictly as permitted by these terms of use. 

10. WEBSITE CONTENT – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The content on the website is provided for general information only. Commentary, analysis and other materials contained on the website are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. We will have no liability or responsibility for any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the website, registered user or by anyone informed of any of its contents. 

You must not act or refrain from acting based on any information you obtain from the website unless you have obtained professional or specialist advice from a suitably qualified individual. 

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on the website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on the website is accurate, complete or up to date.

If you have any concerns or questions about material which appears on the website, please contact info@thg-v.com.

11. UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR WEBSITE 

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to create content directly on our website, upload or share content to our website, or to make contact with other users of our website, you must comply with the standards set out in these terms of use, particularly paragraphs 12 (Acceptable Use of the Website) and 13 (User Content Rules) below.

We will consider any content you upload to our website to be non-confidential and not protected by any trade mark, patent or copyright ("non-proprietary"), that is, in the public domain. We will have no obligations in relation to such material. 

You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you provide to us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, copy, disclose, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied in any such material for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes, and you confirm that you have all necessary rights and licenses to enable us to do so.

12. ACCEPTABLE USE OF THE WEBSITE

You may use the website only for lawful purposes. 

  • Prohibited Uses

You may not use our website:

  • In any way that causes or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way including (a) any part of the website; (b) any equipment or network on which the website is stored; (c) any software used in the provision of the website; or (d) any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this website relies in any way.
  • In any way that breaches any local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
  • In any way that breaches any copyright, database right, trade mark, confidentiality, privacy or any other proprietary information or right.
  • By seeking to publish or publishing a fake review on our website - fake reviews include reviews that conceal that the reviewer has been incentivised in some way to post the review, or where the review contains information that is false or misleading.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, share, post, use or re-use any material which does not belong to you or which do not comply with our terms and conditions, including our content rules set out in paragraph 13 below.


We reserve the right to remove, refuse, delete or edit any content that in our sole judgement violates these terms of use and, or terminate your permission to access or use this website.

13. USER CONTENT RULES

The following content rules apply to any and all material (including any documents and images) which you upload, or share to our website or generate on our website (“Contribution”), and to any interactive services associated with it (together, the “Content Rules”). The Content Rules also apply to any contact you make with other users on our website, links to our website, and every other way you use our website.

You and, any Contribution you make, must comply with these Content Rules in spirit as well as to the letter. 

We will determine, in our discretion, whether any Contribution or your use of our website breaches these Content Rules.

All Contributions must:

  • be accurate (where it states facts); 
  • be genuinely held (where it states opinions); and
  • comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted.


A Contribution must not:

  • be defamatory of any person; 
  •  be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; 
  • promote sexually explicit material; 
  • promote violence; 
  • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; 
  • infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
  • be likely to deceive any person; 
  • breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
  • constitute or promote any illegal activity; 
  • be in contempt of court; 
  • be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
  • be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
  • impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
  • give the impression that the Contribution emanates from us, if this is not the case; 
  • advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse; 
  • contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism;
  • be pornographic; or
  • contain content which is otherwise considered as being very harmful to children, including (without limitation) any:
    • Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide;
    • Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of deliberate self-injury;
    • Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder;
    • Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for a challenge or stunt highly likely to result in serious injury to the person who does it or to someone else; or
    • Content which depicts real or realistic serious injury or violence against an animal (real or not).

14. CYBER OFFENCES

You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our website, the server on which our website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them or locate anyone posting any material in breach of these terms of use. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.

15. BREACH OF ACCEPTABLE USE STANDARDS

When we consider that a breach of the acceptable use standards and content rules set out in paragraphs 12 to 14 above (“Acceptable Use and Content Standards”) has occurred, this will constitute a material breach of these terms, and we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including all or any of the following actions:

  • immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the website; 
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  • immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to the website; 
  • issue of a warning to you; 
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  •  legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
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  • further legal action against you; and/or
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  •  disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law. 


You warrant that any Contribution complies with the Acceptable Use and Content Standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty. 

We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any Contribution constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. 

We have the right to remove any Contribution if, in our opinion, the Contribution does not comply with the Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

You can also report content or conduct that you think violates our Acceptable Use and Content Standards by emailing us at info@thg-v.com.‍

16. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO, VIRUSES, OR USER GENERATED CONTENT

  • Websites we link to

Where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no liability or responsibility for them or for any loss or damage arising from your use of them.

  • No responsibility for viruses

We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.

  • User generated content is not approved by us

Our website may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our website do not represent our views or values.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our website.

17. RULES ABOUT LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our website in any website that is not owned by you.

Our website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with our Acceptable Use and Content Standards above.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact info@thg-v.com.

18. OUR LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

  • We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
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  • Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a sale of any products to you, which will be set out in our Terms and Conditions which apply to the sale: https://www.thehackinggames.com/legals/terms. 
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  • No agency, partnership, joint venture, employment relationship or franchise relationship is intended or created between you and us as a result of your use of the website or by you entering into any contract to buy any goods or services from us.


If you are a business user:

  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our website or any content on it.
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  • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • use of, or inability to use, our website; or
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  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website.
  • In particular, we will not be liable for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
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  • business interruption;
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  • loss of anticipated savings;
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  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
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  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.


If you are a consumer user:

  • We only provide our website for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
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  • If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

19. JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. We both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

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