License Agreement

1. Parties and structure

This License Agreement is entered into between MazeCrafts Studio GmbH, Ritterstraße 12, 10969 Berlin, Germany (“Licensor”) and the business entity named on the order (“Licensee”). It governs use of the Licensed Materials and sits alongside the Terms and Conditions, which cover commercial matters such as price, payment and liability. Where the two conflict on a question of scope of use, this License Agreement prevails.

“Licensed Materials” means everything Licensor makes available under an order: puzzle and maze designs, printable artwork and PDFs, facilitator scripts and solution keys, hint copy, audio stings, app configuration files, the MazeCrafts player app and facilitator console, brand assets and any bespoke deliverable produced under a statement of work.

2. Grant of licence

Subject to payment in full and continued compliance with this Agreement, Licensor grants Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide and revocable licence to use the Licensed Materials for internal team-building events as described below.

2.1 Event License

Permits one run of one Kit for a single event on a defined date, for the number of players stated on the order, at a venue or in a digital session controlled by Licensee. The licence expires when the event concludes or 90 days after delivery, whichever is later. Rehearsals by facilitators do not count as a run, provided no more than eight rehearsal participants take part.

2.2 Team Enterprise subscription

Permits unlimited runs of every Kit in the library during the paid term, for employees, contractors and interview candidates of Licensee and of its majority-owned affiliates, subject to the concurrency rule in clause 3.2. Affiliates must be listed in the workspace so that seat and concurrency limits can be administered.

2.3 Bespoke Build

Deliverables created under a statement of work are licensed on the terms of clause 2.2 for the duration agreed in that statement of work. Unless the statement of work expressly assigns copyright, Licensor retains ownership of the underlying puzzle mechanics, engine and reusable components, and Licensee receives an exclusivity window of 12 months during which Licensor will not license the same narrative theme to a direct competitor named in the statement of work.

3. Permitted uses

3.1 Internal events

Licensee may run events for its own workforce, including onboarding cohorts, offsites, all-hands meetings, graduate programmes and charity days where no fee is charged to participants beyond cost recovery. Licensee may print, duplicate and distribute puzzle sheets in the quantity needed for the licensed player count, and may retain a single archival copy of each file.

3.2 Concurrency

One concurrent run per licence. A run means a live session in which players are solving puzzles. Two teams playing the same Kit at the same time in different cities are two runs and require the Multi-Cell add-on, which raises the ceiling to the number of cells purchased. Sequential runs on the same day at the same venue count as one run per session and are permitted under a Subscription.

3.3 Facilitation by agencies

An event agency engaged by Licensee may operate a run on Licensee’s behalf if it is named in the workspace, accepts this Agreement in writing and charges Licensee only for facilitation services. The agency acquires no licence of its own and may not reuse the Licensed Materials for other clients.

3.4 White-label rights

Subscription and Bespoke customers may replace the MazeCrafts wordmark in the player app and on printed materials with their own logo, adjust the accent colour, and rename teams, rooms and the event itself. Copyright and design-right notices embedded in file metadata, solution keys and the app’s legal screen must remain intact. White-labelling grants no ownership of the underlying materials and does not entitle Licensee to represent the product as its own commercial offering to third parties.

4. Prohibited uses

• Reselling, sublicensing, renting, lending or otherwise commercially exploiting the Licensed Materials, whether standalone or bundled into another product or service.
• Operating a public or ticketed commercial escape room, attraction, festival stand or paid workshop using the Licensed Materials without a separate Commercial Venue Licence.
• Redistributing PDFs, artwork, solution keys or app configuration files outside Licensee’s organisation, including uploads to public file shares, template galleries, intranets accessible to unrelated third parties, or torrent networks.
• Removing, obscuring or altering copyright notices, watermarks, credits or file metadata.
• Using the Licensed Materials, in whole or in part, as input to train, fine-tune, evaluate or ground any machine-learning or generative artificial-intelligence model, or to create derivative puzzle generators. This prohibition applies to text, imagery, mechanics and solution data alike.
• Reverse engineering, decompiling or circumventing licence enforcement, rate limits or watermarking in the player app, except to the extent such acts are permitted by sections 69d and 69e of the German Copyright Act.
• Creating derivative works for distribution outside Licensee’s organisation; internal adaptation of clue text and difficulty is permitted and remains subject to this Agreement.
• Publishing solutions, walkthroughs or spoiler videos on public channels.
• Using the Licensed Materials in any way that breaches the Acceptable Use Policy or applicable law.

5. Intellectual property

Licensor and its licensors retain all right, title and interest in the Licensed Materials, including copyright in puzzle designs, illustrations, scripts and software, database rights in the puzzle library, trade marks in the MazeCrafts name and logo, and any know-how in maze topology generation. This Agreement transfers no ownership. Feedback that Licensee volunteers may be used by Licensor without obligation, but Licensor acquires no rights in Licensee’s trade marks, uploaded content or business data, which remain Licensee’s property.

6. Attribution and references

Unless white-label rights apply, printed materials must retain the footer credit “Designed by MazeCrafts”. Licensor may name Licensee and use its logo in a customer list and in one case study, provided Licensee has approved the text in writing; approval may be withdrawn with 30 days’ notice for future publications.

7. Audit right

Licensor may, no more than once per 12 months and on 14 days’ written notice, ask Licensee to certify in writing the number of runs, players and cells used in the period. Where telemetry indicates material under-reporting, Licensor may request supporting records limited to event schedules and participant counts, conducted remotely, during business hours, subject to confidentiality, and at Licensor’s cost unless the audit reveals an under-declaration exceeding five per cent, in which case Licensee bears reasonable audit costs.

8. Third-party props and content

Some Kits reference third-party items such as padlocks, UV torches, printed maps or licensed music cues. Where a component is supplied under a third-party licence, the applicable notice ships in the Kit’s NOTICES file and prevails for that component. Fonts embedded in printable artwork are licensed for Licensee’s printing only and may not be extracted. Licensee is responsible for the safety, compliance and insurance of props it sources itself.

9. Fees for out-of-scope use

Where use exceeds the licensed scope, the following schedule applies without prejudice to Licensor’s other remedies, including injunctive relief and claims for damages:

Breach	Fee
Undeclared additional run or cell	€490 per run
Players exceeding the licensed count by more than 10 per cent	€4 per additional player
Commercial or ticketed operation without a Venue Licence	€7,500 per venue plus 15 per cent of gross ticket revenue
Redistribution of Licensed Materials outside the organisation	€2,500 per Kit affected
Use of Licensed Materials for model training	€25,000 per corpus, plus deletion certification

These amounts are liquidated compensation for administrative effort and lost licence revenue; Licensee may prove that actual damage was lower, and Licensor may prove that it was higher.

10. Suspension and termination

This licence terminates automatically if Licensee fails to cure a material breach within 14 days of written notice, on non-payment after the grace period in the Terms and Conditions, or on expiry of the subscription term. Licensor may suspend access immediately in cases of suspected redistribution or commercial exploitation, and shall notify Licensee with reasons on the same business day.

11. Effect of expiry or termination

Within 30 days of expiry or termination Licensee shall stop all use, delete digital copies of the Licensed Materials from active systems and shared drives, destroy printed puzzle sheets and solution keys, remove white-label builds from managed devices, and confirm in writing signed by an authorised officer that it has done so. Licensee may retain event result data and engagement reports, and may keep archival backups it cannot practicably purge provided they are not restored into use. Rented Props must be returned within 14 days.

12. Warranty, liability and export

The warranty and liability provisions of the Terms and Conditions apply to this Agreement and are not repeated here. Licensee shall comply with applicable export control and sanctions law and shall not make the Licensed Materials available to persons or territories subject to EU or UN restrictive measures.

13. Survival and entire agreement

Clauses 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 and 13 survive termination. This Agreement, the applicable order, the Terms and Conditions and the Acceptable Use Policy form the entire agreement on the subject matter and supersede prior representations, save for fraudulent misstatement.

14. Governing law

German substantive law applies, excluding the CISG, with Berlin as the exclusive venue for merchants. Should any provision be invalid, the remainder stays effective and the parties shall replace it with an enforceable provision reflecting the original economic purpose.