Terms of Service

1. Who these terms are between

These terms are between you and:

CMB Project, registered in Denmark on 12 June 2024, CVR 44892227, EU VAT DK44892227, Hovvej 73A, 3060 Espergærde, Denmark. Email help@cmbproject.com, telephone +45 20 12 34 56.

By using this website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

2. What this website is

This site describes what CMB Project does and provides a way to send us a project. It is informational.

• Nothing on this site is a binding offer to publish, to fund, or to enter into any agreement.
• Nothing on this site is legal, financial, tax or investment advice.
• No games, software, downloads, subscriptions or other products are sold through this site.
• We take reasonable care to keep the site accurate, but we do not warrant that every statement is complete and current at every moment.

3. What we do, and what we will not publish

CMB Project provides video game publishing services: release management and platform certification support, production co-financing, marketing and PR, community management, localisation and QA. What each of those covers is described on the publishing page.

The following are outside the scope of what this company publishes or supports:

• No real-money gambling, casino, betting or wagering content, and no simulated gambling that pays out anything of real-world value.
• No loot boxes, gacha pulls or randomised paid rewards, and no pay-to-win progression sold for money.
• No cryptocurrency, token, NFT or "play-to-earn" mechanics, and no game marketed as an earnings or investment opportunity.
• No unlicensed software, cracks, key resellers, emulator ROM distribution or any other route around a rights holder.
• No pitch we cannot trace to a clear chain of rights — every asset, engine licence and third-party contribution has to be accounted for before an agreement is signed.

This is a scope limitation on our own business, not a statement about anyone else's. We may decline any project for any lawful reason, and we are not obliged to explain a commercial decision beyond telling you what it is.

4. Unsolicited submissions

This section applies whenever you send us a project, a concept, artwork, code, a document or any other material without a signed agreement between us covering it. Read it before you send anything.

4.1 What a submission does not create

• It creates no confidentiality obligation on either side unless we have signed a non-disclosure agreement covering it. We do not sign an NDA before a first read.
• It creates no obligation to review, respond further, negotiate, publish or pay, beyond the response commitment in section 4.3.
• It creates no exclusivity. You remain free to pitch the same project anywhere else, at the same time, without telling us.
• It transfers no rights. Your intellectual property remains entirely yours.

4.2 Independent development

The games industry is not large, and similar ideas occur to different people independently and constantly. We may already be working on, or may later work on, something that resembles what you send us, without having used your material in any way. By submitting, you accept that a resemblance between your submission and something we do is not by itself evidence that we used your material, and that submitting gives you no claim in respect of independently developed work.

This does not licence us to copy your work. We will not use material you send us to make your game ourselves, and we will not pass it to a third party to do so.

4.3 What we do commit to

• A written response to every submission within 10 working days, including when the answer is no.
• Circulating your submission only to the people at CMB Project who assess submissions, and to our service providers acting on our instructions as described in the Privacy Policy.
• Deleting it after 24 months, or sooner if you ask.
• Signing an NDA where a project moves into active discussion, if you want one.

4.4 What you confirm when you submit

• You hold or control the rights necessary for the project to be published, including engine licences, third-party assets, music and contractor work.
• The material you send does not infringe anyone else's rights and is not unlawful.
• The project does not rely on the mechanics listed in section 3.
• What you have told us about the project is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

5. Publishing agreements

Any publishing relationship is governed by a separate written agreement signed by both parties. That agreement, and not this website, sets out scope, milestones, budget, recoupment, revenue share, term, territory, rights and termination. Where anything on this site conflicts with a signed agreement, the signed agreement governs.

5.1 How co-financing is characterised

Production co-financing from CMB Project is a commercial publishing agreement funded from the company's own resources and recouped from the revenue of the released title. It is not a loan, a deposit, a security, an investment product, a public offering or financial advice, and it gives the developer no financial return other than the revenue share written into the agreement.

Accordingly, nothing on this site is an offer or invitation to invest, an offer of securities, a credit or deposit-taking activity, a collective investment scheme, or financial advice, and nothing here is addressed to investors.

5.2 We never charge developers to be considered

There is no submission fee, review fee, listing fee, "fast-track" fee or any other charge for having a project considered, published or promoted by us. If anyone asks you for money in our name, it is not us — please tell us at help@cmbproject.com.

6. Intellectual property on this site

The text, layout, code, generated artwork and brand marks on cmbproject.com belong to CMB Project or are used with permission. You may read, print and quote reasonable extracts with attribution. You may not republish the site or substantial parts of it as your own, or use our name or marks in a way that suggests an association that does not exist.

Platform names, storefront names and game titles referenced anywhere on this site are the trademarks of their respective owners. Referring to a platform describes the workflows we support; it does not state or imply endorsement, sponsorship, certification, partner status or affiliation.

7. Acceptable use

When using this site, please do not:

• submit material that is unlawful, infringing, malicious or deliberately false;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its server or any data on it;
• attempt to interfere with the site's availability, including by flooding its forms;
• use automated means to harvest data from the site;
• impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your connection to a studio or rights holder.

Submissions are rate limited. If a rate limit stops you from sending something legitimate, email us — the limit exists to stop floods, not people.

8. Links to other sites

Where we link to a storefront, a platform holder or another third-party site, we do not control it and are not responsible for its content, availability or privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement.

9. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the site available but do not guarantee uninterrupted access; maintenance, provider outages and events outside our control all happen. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site, and may amend these terms. The version in force is the one published here, with the date at the top. Material changes to how submissions are handled will be reflected here before they take effect.

10. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded under Danish law.

Subject to that, and to the extent permitted by law: this website is provided "as is"; we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business, loss of data, or loss of anticipated savings arising from the use of this site; and we are not liable for material you send us being lost in transit or for a submission that never reaches us because of a delivery failure outside our control.

Liability arising out of a signed publishing agreement is governed by that agreement, not by this section.

11. If you are a consumer

This site is addressed primarily to businesses. Nothing on it is sold to consumers, and no consumer contract is concluded through it. If you are nevertheless a consumer within the meaning of Danish consumer law, nothing in these terms limits your mandatory statutory rights, and the limitations in section 10 apply only so far as Danish consumer law permits.

A consumer with a complaint we have not resolved may bring it to Center for Klageløsning, Nævnenes Hus, Toldboden 2, 8800 Viborg, Denmark — naevneneshus.dk.

12. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of this site, are governed by Danish law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The courts of Denmark have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the EU, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of your own country of residence.

13. If part of this is unenforceable

If any provision of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and the invalid provision is treated as replaced by the closest enforceable provision that achieves the same purpose.

14. Contact

CMB Project
Hovvej 73A, 3060 Espergærde, Denmark
help@cmbproject.com · +45 20 12 34 56
CVR 44892227 · EU VAT DK44892227