Updated: 29th January, 2021

Our legal team require us to use the words below for the terms and conditions of using our service, and so we shall. But we wanted to add our own simple message, because our terms and conditions are actually very simple.

We want you to enjoy using the site. Have fun, and allow others to have fun, too! So, please don't cheat, don't try to steal our data, and play fair. This is basically what the following says ...

The QuizMachine website ("Service") is a hosted service operated by QuizMachine Ltd. (referred to as "QM"). Any use of the Service is subject to the following Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms and Conditions"), as well as to QM's Privacy Policy, all of which are incorporated by reference into these Terms and Conditions. Your use of the Service will constitute your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

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1. Eligibility: QM does NOT allow users under 13 years of age to register for an account or use the quizmachine.net website. By using the Service, you represent and warrant that: (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; and, (c) your use of the Service does not violate any applicable law or regulation.
2. Your QM Account and Data: If you create an account on the Service, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and data, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account. You must immediately notify QM of any unauthorized uses of your data, your account or any other breaches of security. QM will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions. QM may from time to time set storage limits for your data, or take any other measures QM considers appropriate to manage the Service. QM may also from time to time change its policies on offering commercial content or displaying advertising, and it may do this without notice.
3. QM content is not guaranteed for accuracy or completeness. This applies to our publicly available content AND our question products: QM aims to be as accurate as possible when it comes to presenting question and quiz content. However, QM does not warrant that any content is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. However, if you notice a mistake, we encourage you to let us know so that we can correct it.
4. You agree not to attempt to reverse engineer, breech security measures of or otherwise access QM for reasons other than standard game play.
5. QM content (text and images) are copyrighted under international law, you therefore agree not to electronically copy or redistribute any content gained from QM.
6. You may not use any data mining, automated scripts, bots, information gathering or other automated mechanisms while connected to the QM web site.
7. You may not use QM in any way to promote a web site, product or service.
8. You may not share any content or answers found within QM games with other users to achieve an unfair advantage. You must not use flaws or holes in the system to gain unfair advantages in games or quizzes. Anything considered cheating is prohibited.
9. You agree to behave in a mature manner in all communications.
10. You agree to and understand that QM uses IP address logging and may use certain 3rd parties to verify your compliance to these terms.
11. You agree that QM may terminate your account at any time without notice for any reason at its sole discretion.
12. You understand that QM player scores and awards will not be "reimbursed" or "undone" due to system bugs, network errors, personal computer issues, or any other reasons.
13. Prohibited Content and Activities, and Responsibility of Contributors: If you create quizzes, comment via any discussion boxes, post material to the Service, post links on the Service, or otherwise make material available by means of the Service (any such material, "Content"), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, computer software or any other format in which QM stores data. You are also entirely responsible for ensuring that you are lawfully entitled to use any information and content. QM does not assume any responsibility for damage caused by your acts, errors, omissions or negligence with respect to the content you post to QM.
14. The QM Service is intended to be educational. The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the Service. QM reserves the right to suspend or terminate your ability to access QM if you post illegal or prohibited content on QM. QM further may investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in QM's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the Service and terminating the accounts of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of QM: is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any class or individual; harasses or advocates harassment of another person; exploits or encourages the exploitation of people in a sexual or violent manner; contains anything sexually suggestive, nudity not related to the study of art, medicine or another educational field, portrays or glorifies excessive violence without educational merit, or constitutes offensive subject matter; solicits personal information from anyone; publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person; includes information about another person that you have posted without that person's consent; violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person; constitutes or promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libellous; constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work; solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users; involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, or "spamming"; furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; or involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from QM such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes.
15. The following are examples of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the Service. QM reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in QM's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement or national security authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to: criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets; circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of the Service; organizing or encouraging acts of violence; impersonating or attempting to impersonate another user, person or entity; using the account, username, or password of another user at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account; using any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same; activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or access to a computer or a computer network; any automated use of the system, such as, but not limited to, using scripts to create or post Content; interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Service or the networks or services connected to the Service; displaying an unauthorized commercial advertisement on the Service, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Service on behalf of that person; using the Service in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations; or reproduces, duplicates, copies, sells, trades, resells, or exploits for any commercial purposes, any portion or use of, or access to, the Content and/or services offered throughout this Service (unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement).
16. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that: the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party; if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either: (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software; or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content; you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms; content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content; content is not spam, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third-party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing); content is not obscene or libellous, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party; and have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by QM or otherwise.
17. By submitting Content to QM for inclusion on the Service, for example posting a quiz, you grant QM a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free license (with right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now or later developed).
18. Such additional uses by QM, or other companies or individuals who partner with QM, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, or otherwise make available through the Service.
19. Responsibility of Service Visitors: QM has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material posted to the Service, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material's content, use or effects. By operating the Service, QM does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Service may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Service may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. QM disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Service, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
20. Content Posted on Other Websites: We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which QM links, and that link to QM. QM does not have any control over those non-QM websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-QM website or webpage, QM does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive Content. QM disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-QM websites and webpages.
21. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy: As QM asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by QM violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify QM by email at support@quizmachine.net. QM will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of QM or others, QM may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Service. In the case of such termination, QM will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to QM.
22. Trademarks: QuizMachine, quizmachine.net, the quizmachine.net logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with QM, or the Service are trademarks or registered trademarks of QM or QM's licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Service may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Service grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any QM or third-party trademarks.
23. Changes: The Service, including without limitation all content there available and these Terms and Conditions, may be changed at the sole discretion of QM and without notice. You are bound by any such updates or changes, including but not limited to those affecting these Terms and Conditions, and so should periodically review these Terms and Conditions.
24. Limitation of warranties of QM, its suppliers and its licensors: Except as otherwise expressly stated, all content posted to or available from the Service is provided "as is", and QM, its suppliers and its licensors make no representations or warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement of proprietary rights. You understand and agree that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Service at your own discretion and risk, and that QM, its suppliers and its licensors will have no liability or responsibility for any damage to your computer system or data that results from the download or use of such content or services. Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.
25. Limitation of liability of QM, its suppliers and its licensors: Except as otherwise expressly stated, in no event will QM, its suppliers or its licensors be liable to you or any other party for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or exemplary damages, regardless of the basis or nature of the claim, resulting from any use of the Service, or the contents thereof or of any hyperlinked website including without limitation any lost profits, business interruption, loss of data or otherwise, even if QM, its suppliers or its licensors were expressly advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event will the aggregate liability for any and all of your claims against QM, its suppliers and its licensors arising out of or related to use of the Service, or the contents thereof or of any hyperlinked website exceed the amounts actually paid by you to QM during the 12-month period prior to the date a claim is made. Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for certain incidental or consequential damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you. The parties agree that this Section 10 represents a reasonable allocation of risk.
26. General Representation and Warranty: You represent and warrant that your use of the Service will be in accordance with QM's Privacy Policy, with these Terms and Conditions, with any applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside, and with any other applicable policy or terms and conditions.
27. Indemnification: You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless QM, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Service, including but not limited to out of your violation of any representation or warranty contained in these Terms and Conditions.
28. Miscellaneous: These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between QM and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of QM, or by the posting by QM of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, these Terms and Conditions, any access to or use of the Service will be governed by the laws of the state of Gujarat, India. If any part of these Terms and Conditions is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of these Terms and Conditions or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under these Terms and Conditions to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms; QM may assign its rights under these Terms and Conditions without condition. These Terms and Conditions will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

Updated: 29th January, 2021

Our legal team require us to use the words below for the privacy policy, and so we shall. But we wanted to add our own simple message, because our privacy policy is actually very simple.

We ask for your email address, password, and name. Nothing else. We use your name on the site to show those you quiz with who you are. Eventually we might use it for a global leader board too. We use your email address to uniquely identify you, since everyone has a different email address, and a password to stop others logging in to your account. We can also send emails such as password reset emails to you. We will never send you spam and never tell anybody or any group what your email address is unless we must do so by law.

Your privacy is critically important to us. At QuizMachine, these are our guiding principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t keep your personal information longer than is necessary to provide our services to you.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store your personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our services.
• We don’t rent, sell, or exchange your personal information.
• We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted if required.

This Privacy Policy describes how QuizMachine collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects your personally identifiable information. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

Website and Other Visitors

Like most service operators, QuizMachine may collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers, servers, and apps typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. QuizMachine’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how QuizMachine’s visitors use its website and app. From time to time, QuizMachine may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. QuizMachine may also use this information to improve our services and undertake quality assurance for our visitors and customers who engage with our website or apps. Where permitted by law, we may also use information to identify your general location to provide you with services, or relevant frequencyMarketing and advertisements.

QuizMachine also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and unique device identifiers. We use this information to recognize repeat visitors to our site and facilitate the use of our service by you.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to QuizMachine’s website and application ("app", if available) choose to interact with QuizMachine in ways that require QuizMachine to gather personally identifying information so that we may provide you with the services you request. The amount and type of information that QuizMachine gathers depends on the nature of that interaction. For example, for visitors who choose to simply play a game through our website or app without establishing an account, we will gather the minimum amount of information necessary to provide you with our service, such as device identifying information, IP address and a name you provide to us for displaying your score. If you sign up for a QuizMachine account, we may also collect the account information you provide us, such as a username, age and email address. All interactions with QuizMachine’ website or app produce metadata that may identify you or could be identifiable information when paired with other information about you. In every case, QuizMachine strives to collect only the minimum necessary information from you as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor's interaction with QuizMachine or that is required by law. Visitors to the QuizMachine website or app may always refuse to supply personally identifying information, however, doing so may prevent you from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Safety on QuizMachine

QuizMachine does not accumulate personal information about any player for distribution, sharing, or selling except as described in this privacy policy.

Aggregated Statistics

QuizMachine may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our website and app to improve our services. For instance, QuizMachine may monitor the most popular quizzes on the QuizMachine site. QuizMachine may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, QuizMachine does not disclose personally identifying information to any third parties other than as described below.

Use and Sharing of Your Personally Identifiable Information

QuizMachine limits its disclosure of both information that could on its own or in combination with other information be used to identify you. We only disclose personally identifying information to QuizMachine employees, contractors and subcontractors that: (i) must access that information in order to process it on QuizMachine's behalf or to provide services available at QuizMachine's website and mobile applications; and, (ii) agree not to disclose that information to others.

QuizMachine will not rent, sell, or exchange potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to any third party. Other than to QuizMachine’s employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, QuizMachine discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law such as to comply with a court order, or when QuizMachine believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property, or legal rights or safety of QuizMachine, third parties or the public at large.

Use of Your Information to Communicate With You

If you are a registered QuizMachine user and supplied QuizMachine with your email address, QuizMachine may occasionally send you communications, such as emails or texts, to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with QuizMachine and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. You may choose to stop receiving our emails by unsubscribing.

Quiz Comments and User Profiles

Certain activity on QuizMachine may be displayed to other users, such as commentary on published quizzes or our blog, or the information on your QuizMachine Profile. This information includes your username and public quizzes created by you.

You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from these posts, contact us at support@quizmachine.net.

Cookies and Web Beacons

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. QuizMachine uses cookies to test new features and to help QuizMachine identify and track visitors, their usage of the QuizMachine website, and their website access preferences. QuizMachine visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies, but some of the QuizMachine website’s features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Some parts of the QuizMachine website contain third-party web beacons (electronic images sometimes called single-pixel gifs) which are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyse how our site is used.

Data Security

The protection of all of your information is of the utmost importance to QuizMachine. While no company can ever guarantee the protection of your personally identifiable information, QuizMachine implements industry standard practices and procedures. As new methods of protecting your data become available, QuizMachine will introduce additional protections. QuizMachine takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

QuizMachine follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, however, is 100% secure. If you have any questions about QuizMachine’s security practices, you can contact us at support@quizmachine.net. QuizMachine reserves the right not to disclose our policies, procedures and the technologies and methods we employ to advance the security of your data so as to safeguard our practices.

Data Retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at support@quizmachine.net. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Contact Us

If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please send an email to support@quizmachine.net.

Privacy Policy Changes

QuizMachine reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make a material change to our practices regarding your personally identifiable information, we will notify, by email, and/ or by means of a notice on our Web site prior to the change becoming effective and seek your consent for those new practices.

Updated: 21st December, 2022

Frequently Asked Questions

Who decides if a question is easy or hard?

You do! QuizMachine looks at when questons are answered correctly or wrongly and assigns them to one of four categories - easy, normal, hard, and insane.

Why did my friend beat me in a quiz when I answered more questions correctly than they did?

The winner is determined by the number of points you get. Each question is worth a maximum of 20 points, but your answer is timed: the longer you take to answer a question, the less points you receive for the answer.

My friend uses a Samsung Phone but I use an iPhone. Can we quiz together?

Yes! Quiz Machine does not distinuish between players using Apple's iOS or Google's Android. Just enjoy.

How many people can quiz together at the same time?

Currently this is unlimited, though we may introduce a limit at some stage to help with performance.

How many questions do you offer?

We have nearly 25,000 questions in the database, and more are being added all the time.

Can I create my own questions?

Yes. We are planning on automating this but for the moment, contact support@quizmachine.net to get your account upgraded to contributor.

Can I create my own category?

Yes. We are planning on automating this but for the moment, contact support@quizmachine.net with your ideas.

Why do you think QuizMachine is better than the competition?

QuizMachine allows you to quiz in real time against your friends. We (currently) don't know of any others that do. Also, you only need to pay a small yearly fee to be able to use the software - it is transparent and honest.