Adda Central — Terms of Service

DRAFT — prepared for review by Skycast Media Network Private Limited's counsel. Not legal advice.

Last updated: [DATE]

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Skycast Media Network Private Limited, a company incorporated in India (CIN U60200TN2024PTC175526), with its registered office at [PLACEHOLDER: registered office address] ("Skycast", "we", "us"). They govern your use of the Adda Central mobile app on Android and iOS, the website at addacentral.com and the games and features offered in them (together, the "Service").

The Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, Virtual Items and Purchases Policy, Community Guidelines, Grievance Redressal Policy and Responsible Play Policy. They form part of these Terms.

1. Accepting these Terms

By installing, opening or using Adda Central you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service and uninstall the app.

If you are 13 to 17 years old, you may use Adda Central only with the agreement of your parent or legal guardian, and your parent or guardian accepts these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the Service (see section 2).

2. Who can use Adda Central

Minimum age: 13. Adda Central is not for children under 13. When you first open the app we ask for your month and year of birth. If you are under 13, the app will not create an account for you.
Ages 13 to 17. You need your parent's or guardian's agreement to use Adda Central. Accounts of players aged 13 to 17 run in a restricted mode designed to protect younger players. In this mode:
- only non-personalised ads are shown, and no full-screen ads between matches;
- you cannot join online matchmaking with strangers or public Tambola rooms; you can play against the computer, on one phone with friends, and in private rooms that you join by a friend's link or code;
- you cannot make purchases, and the app does not show you offers to buy anything;
- you cannot link a Google, Apple or phone account until verifiable parental consent is available and given (see our Parental Consent Notice);
- you receive only gameplay notifications (such as "your turn"), never marketing notifications.
Becoming an adult account. We do not keep your birth date. We store only the month from which you are 18, and your account becomes an adult account automatically from that month.
Truthful age. Please give your real month and year of birth. Giving a false age to get around these protections breaks these Terms.
You must not use the Service if you are barred from doing so by law, or if we have previously banned your account.

3. Your account

Guest account. When you first open the app, we create a guest account for you automatically. You do not need to sign up to play.
Linking an account. You can later link your guest account to a Google account (Android), an Apple account (iOS) or a phone number verified by a one-time password (OTP). Linking lets you keep your progress across devices, add friends and (for adults) make purchases. When you link, the progress from your guest account is merged into the linked account.
Guest progress can be lost. A guest account lives on your device. If you uninstall the app, clear its data or lose your phone before linking, we may not be able to recover your guest progress.
One person, one account for rewards. You may use only one account to earn rewards, referral bonuses and tournament standings.
Keep it secure. You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping access to your linked Google, Apple or phone account secure. Tell us at support@addacentral.com if you think someone else has used your account.
Your account is personal. You may not sell, rent, share, transfer or give away your account.

Adda Central offers casual games — including Ludo, Carrom, Super Over (cricket), Blocks, Saanp Seedhi, Tambola (Housie), and later Quick Chess and a Daily Quiz — played for fun and recreation.

The Service is designed and offered as an online social game within the meaning of the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 and the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2026. This means:

No real money play. You never pay a fee, deposit money or put up any stake to enter a match or a tournament.
Entry never costs anything. Entering any match or tournament never deducts Coins, Gems or anything else from you. Tournament entry uses an earned entry token, which is not used up by entering.
No cash prizes. Rewards are virtual items (Coins, XP, cosmetic items) granted by the system. Nothing you win can be exchanged for money, vouchers, mobile recharges or anything of monetary value, and rewards are never funded from other players' entries.
Nothing bought with money can be staked. Gems and other purchases can never be staked, lost or won in a game, and never convert into Coins or tournament entries.

[PLACEHOLDER: If and when games are registered with the Online Gaming Authority of India, insert the registration certificate numbers per game here.]

5. Virtual items

The Service uses two virtual currencies and various virtual items (such as board themes, dice, frames, avatars, quick-chat packs, season pass rewards and boosts). The full rules are in the Virtual Items and Purchases Policy. In summary:

Coins are earned only — from daily streaks, match rewards, missions, rewarded ads, referrals and tournament prizes. Coins can never be bought, and nothing you buy with money gives you Coins, directly or indirectly.
Gems are bought with real money through Google Play or the Apple App Store (a small number are also granted by the Season Pass free track and Gold membership). Gems can be spent only on premium cosmetics, the Season Pass Premium track, ad removal and convenience boosts (such as double XP). Gems are never staked, never give a gameplay advantage, and never convert into Coins.
Licence, not ownership. Coins, Gems and all virtual items are a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use a feature of the Service. You do not own them. They have no monetary value, are not money, deposits or stored value, and cannot be sold, transferred, gifted, traded, cashed out or redeemed for money or anything of value, inside or outside the Service.
Balances are kept by our servers. If the app and our servers ever disagree, our server records are the reference, subject to your right to raise a grievance.
We may change, rebalance or retire virtual items, prices in Gems or reward amounts. If we permanently remove an item you paid for, we will offer a reasonable replacement or remedy (see the Virtual Items and Purchases Policy).

6. Purchases and subscriptions

Who can buy. Only adult (18+) players can make purchases. Players aged 13 to 17 cannot make purchases until verifiable parental consent is available and given.
Store billing only. All purchases are made through Google Play Billing (Android) or the Apple App Store (iOS), and are also subject to the store's own terms. We never take payment directly in the app and never ask for card or UPI details ourselves.

What we sell (prices in Indian rupees, inclusive of GST):

Product	Price	Type
Gem packs	₹29, ₹49, ₹99, ₹199, ₹499, ₹999 (your first Gem purchase gives double Gems)	One-time
Remove Ads	₹99	One-time; removes full-screen and banner ads, keeps optional rewarded videos
Season Pass Premium	₹49 per 30-day season (or the Gem equivalent)	One-time per season
Gold membership	₹99 per month or ₹29 per week	Auto-renewing subscription

Prices outside India, and any future changes, are shown in the store before you pay. The price shown at checkout is the price you pay.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in Google Play (Subscriptions) or in your Apple ID settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep the benefits until the end of the period you have paid for. Uninstalling the app does not cancel a subscription.
Delivery. We verify each purchase receipt with Google or Apple before crediting it. If a purchase does not arrive, contact support@addacentral.com.
Refunds are handled under the store's refund policy, together with our own goodwill policy described in the Virtual Items and Purchases Policy. Nothing in these Terms limits any refund right you have under Indian consumer law.

7. Fair play

Provably fair randomness. Dice rolls, card and ticket shuffles and other random outcomes are generated on our servers. At the start of a match we publish a cryptographic fingerprint (a SHA-256 hash) of the match's random seed; at the end we reveal the seed so you can check, in the "verify this match" screen, that the outcomes were fixed in advance and not changed during play.
No paid advantage. Nothing you can buy changes the odds, the dice or the outcome of a game.
Computer players are labelled. Some seats may be filled by computer-controlled players ("bots"), for example when matchmaking takes too long or a player disconnects. Bots always show an "AI" label on their avatar.
Our servers decide. Game results, timers and balances are decided by our servers, which keep a log of every match for disputes.

8. Things you must not do

You must not, and must not help anyone else to:

cheat, use bots, scripts, auto-clickers, macros or any tool that plays for you or gives you an unfair advantage;
use modified, hacked or unofficial versions of the app, emulators used to cheat, or tamper with the app or its network traffic;
farm rewards — for example colluding with others, deliberately losing, or creating or using multiple accounts or devices to collect Coins, referral bonuses, streaks or tournament positions;
exploit a bug or glitch instead of reporting it to us;
choose a display name that is offensive, hateful, sexual, misleading, impersonates someone else, or includes contact details or a real brand you do not own;
harass, threaten or abuse other players, including through emotes or quick-chat;
sell, buy, trade or offer to trade accounts, virtual items or rewards, or advertise any real-money service;
reverse-engineer, decompile, copy or scrape the Service, or interfere with our servers or other players' connections, except to the extent the law expressly allows;
use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in breach of the Community Guidelines.

9. Communicating with other players

There is no free-text chat in Adda Central. You can communicate in games only through preset quick-chat phrases and emotes. You can mute any player, and report or block players from any room. Display names are screened against a list of blocked words in all supported languages, but screening is not perfect — please report anything that slips through.

10. Enforcement

If you break these Terms or the Community Guidelines, we may, depending on how serious the breach is: warn you; remove or reset your display name; remove rewards, Coins, ranks or items gained through the breach; temporarily restrict features or suspend your account; or permanently ban your account and devices.

A ban may mean losing access to your virtual items, including items bought with Gems, and the Gems themselves. We will not take this step lightly; we act on evidence from our server records, and we will tell you the reason unless the law or the safety of others prevents it. You can challenge any action through our Grievance Redressal Policy. Where a ban is reversed on review, we will restore your account and items. We do not refund purchases lost through a ban for a serious breach, except where the law requires it.

11. Intellectual property

The Service — including its software, games, art, characters, avatars, audio, text and the name and logo "Adda Central" — belongs to Skycast or its licensors and is protected by law. We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on your own devices for personal, non-commercial entertainment, in line with these Terms. All other rights are reserved.

Some materials are used under open licences (for example open-licence fonts and chess puzzles from a public domain puzzle database); their licence terms are available in the app [PLACEHOLDER: confirm in-app "Licences" screen].

Some Daily Quiz questions may mention real people, films, teams and events as plain facts. This does not imply any connection with, or endorsement by, them.

12. Your content

The only content you add to Adda Central is your display name, your choice of avatar and frame (chosen from our illustrated set — you cannot upload photos), and your optional state. You give us a licence to display these to other players and in leaderboards, rooms and share cards within the Service. You confirm that your display name does not infringe anyone's rights and follows the Community Guidelines. We may remove or replace any display name that does not.

Share cards (images of your wins that you can post to WhatsApp and elsewhere) are created on your phone. When you share one outside the app, you are responsible for where you post it.

13. Ads and third-party services

Adda Central shows ads (rewarded videos you choose to watch, banners in menus, and for adults, occasional full-screen ads after a match), served by Google AdMob and its mediation partners. Ads for players aged 13 to 17 are non-personalised. Ads are provided by third parties; we do not endorse the products advertised.
The Service relies on third-party services such as Google Firebase, Google Play and the Apple App Store, described in our Privacy Policy. Your use of Google Play, the App Store, your Google or Apple account and WhatsApp is also governed by those companies' terms.
Links in ads or shared by others may take you outside Adda Central. We are not responsible for third-party sites and apps.

14. Responsible play

Adda Central is meant to be a fun part of your day, not all of it. The app reminds you after every 60 minutes of continuous play and shows your daily playtime in your profile. See our Responsible Play Policy. Adda Central contains no gambling, betting or real-money games.

15. Availability and changes to the Service

We work to keep the Service running, but it may sometimes be unavailable — for example during planned maintenance (we will try to give notice in the app), updates, network problems or events beyond our control.
Solo games work offline and sync when you reconnect; multiplayer games need a connection. If you disconnect, you have a short time to reconnect; otherwise the game's rules on leaving apply (for some games a labelled AI player takes your seat, and leaving may count as a loss).
We may add, change or remove games, features, events and rewards, and may switch features on or off by region or app version. You may need to update the app to keep using it.
If we decide to shut down the Service, we will give at least [PLACEHOLDER: e.g. 30] days' notice in the app, stop selling Gems and subscriptions at the start of the notice period, and explain what happens to unused paid items.

16. Disclaimers

We provide the Service with reasonable skill and care. Apart from that, and to the extent the law allows, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", and we do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or available on every device.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any right or remedy you have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 or any other law that cannot be excluded by contract.

17. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows:

we are not liable for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable, for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss caused by events beyond our reasonable control;
because virtual items have no monetary value, we are not liable for the loss of Coins, XP, ranks or earned items as such, but we will restore them where the loss was caused by our error;
our total liability to you for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us through the stores in the 12 months before the claim arose, and (b) ₹[PLACEHOLDER: amount, e.g. 1,000].

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for breach of your statutory rights as a consumer.

18. Indemnity

If you break these Terms deliberately or negligently, or break the law while using the Service, and that causes a third party to bring a claim against us, you agree to compensate us for the reasonable losses and costs that result, to the extent caused by your breach. This does not apply to a player aged 13 to 17 except through the parent or guardian who accepted these Terms, and only to the extent the law allows.

19. Ending your use and deleting your account

You can stop using the Service at any time.
You can delete your account in the app (Profile > Privacy Centre > Delete my account) or on the web at https://addacentral.com/delete-account. Deletion is permanent: your progress, Coins, Gems and items are erased and cannot be restored. We keep only the records the law requires (such as purchase and tax records), as explained in the Privacy Policy.
Deleting your account does not cancel a store subscription. Cancel it first in Google Play or your Apple ID settings.
We may suspend or end your account under section 10, or if we stop offering the Service (section 15).
Sections 5 (no monetary value), 11, 16, 17, 18, 21 and 22 continue after your account ends.

20. Complaints and grievances

If you have a complaint about the Service, a game result, an account action, a purchase or your personal data, please use our grievance mechanism, described in the Grievance Redressal Policy. You can file a complaint in the app (Profile > Help > Raise a grievance) or by email to our Grievance Officer at grievance@addacentral.com. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may take the matter to the Online Gaming Authority of India (for gaming matters) or the Data Protection Board of India (for personal-data matters), as described in that policy.

21. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of India.
Talk to us first. Please raise any dispute through the grievance mechanism first so we can try to resolve it.
Arbitration (optional for consumer claims). If a dispute is not resolved within 30 days of your grievance, either of us may refer it to arbitration by a sole arbitrator appointed by agreement, under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The seat and venue will be Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the language English, and the arbitration may be conducted online. [PLACEHOLDER: counsel to confirm whether arbitration should be mandatory or optional, and the cost allocation.]
Courts. Subject to the above, the courts at Chennai, Tamil Nadu have jurisdiction.
Your consumer rights are preserved. Nothing in this section stops you from filing a complaint before a Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission with jurisdiction under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, or from approaching the Online Gaming Authority of India or the Data Protection Board of India.

22. General

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
If we do not enforce a right immediately, we have not given it up.
You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours to a successor that takes over the Service, provided your rights are not reduced; we will tell you if this happens.
These Terms, together with the policies listed at the top, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
If these Terms are translated, the English version prevails to the extent of any inconsistency [PLACEHOLDER: counsel to confirm].

23. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms when the Service or the law changes. We will show the date of the latest version at the top. If a change materially affects you, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect, and where the law requires we will ask you to accept it. If you do not agree to a change, you can stop using the Service and delete your account.

24. Contact us

Skycast Media Network Private Limited VO144, WeWork Olympia Cyberspace, SIDCO Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600032, India CIN: U60200TN2024PTC175526 · GSTIN: 33ABOCS8682G1ZR

Player support: support@addacentral.com
Grievance Officer: Rajesh K, grievance@addacentral.com
Privacy: privacy@addacentral.com