Terms of Service

#1. What the service is

ViceLume is an independent companion tool for players of Grand Theft Auto VI. It consists of:

• Signal — short, independently written digests of publicly available press and creator coverage, translated into 30 languages, each naming the outlet it is based on.
• Coach — an AI planner that turns the play time and goals you give it into a structured session plan for legitimate in-game play.
• Atlas — an interactive map, which ships after the game’s release, once real in-game geography is public.
• ViceLume Radio — a stream of AI-generated instrumental and wordless-vocal music, spoken news bulletins read by a synthetic host voice, and audio advertisements.

ViceLume is an independent, fan-made companion tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. “Grand Theft Auto” and related marks are the property of their respective owners.

#2. Who may use it

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. Reading and listening without an account is open to anyone, subject to these terms.

#3. Your account

Accounts use passkeys. There is no password to choose, to forget or to leak — but the passkey lives on your device, so keeping that device and its screen lock secure is your responsibility, and anyone who can unlock it can use your account.

One person, one account. Do not share it, sell it, or register on someone else’s behalf. Tell us promptly if you think it has been compromised.

You may delete your account at any time from your profile. Deletion removes your data as described in the Privacy Policy and ends this contract for the future.

#4. Free and paid

The free tier gives you everything the site publishes to read — the feed and its digests, the archive and its search, the verified facts, the radio, the predictions, your passport, your crew, the daily edition and the language switcher. Quotas are enforced on our servers and may change; a reduction is announced beforehand.

Premium is the one paid tier. It adds a weekly letter about the topics you follow (and silence in a week when nothing moved), mail alerts when a claim you follow becomes confirmed or its confidence crosses 50% or 80% — at most two alert mails a day, by email only, never a push notification — spoken versions of the stories, a watchlist of up to twenty topics, and your complete prediction history. Coach is not part of what you buy today. It plans a play session and the game is not out; it starts on release day, and every subscriber has it from that morning at no extra cost. The status layer — level, experience, streak, badges and accuracy — is identical on every tier and is never for sale.

Premium costs €9.99 per month or €79.99 per year, both inclusive of VAT; the rate actually applied depends on where you are and is shown to you at checkout. Subscriptions are taken through Stripe and renew for the same term until cancelled. You may cancel at any time with effect from the end of the paid term; access continues until then, and part-terms are not refunded except where the law says otherwise. Prices may change for future terms with at least 30 days’ notice, and you may cancel before the change takes effect. Where the checkout says a plan is unavailable, it cannot be bought and nothing is charged.

#5. Right of withdrawal (consumers in the EU)

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, you have the right to withdraw from a contract for digital content or digital services within 14 days, without giving any reason. The period begins on the day the contract is concluded.

How to withdraw

Send us a clear statement to mail@vicelume.com or by post to MATTALNET GRUPP OÜ, Tuukri tn 19-315, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia, saying that you withdraw. You may use the model withdrawal form, but you do not have to. Sending the statement before the period ends is enough. We refund all payments received without undue delay and within 14 days at the latest, by the same means you used to pay.

When the right lapses

Because a subscription starts working the moment it is bought, the checkout will ask you to do two things before we begin: to request that performance begin during the withdrawal period, and to acknowledge that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal once the service has been supplied in full. That is Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU as amended. If you do not give both, we will simply wait out the 14 days before switching your subscription on — the choice is yours, and refusing it costs you nothing but time.

None of this applies while no plan can be bought — the checkout says so plainly: there is no paid contract to withdraw from, and free use can be ended at any moment by deleting your account.

#6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Scrape, bulk-download, mirror, resell or redistribute the service or its content, or use it to train a model.
• Bypass or attempt to bypass quotas, entitlements, rate limits or any other security control.
• Submit unlawful content, content you have no right to share, or content that infringes anyone’s rights.
• Upload leaked, datamined, stolen or otherwise unreleased material, or ask us to publish it.
• Use the service to harass, threaten or impersonate anyone.
• Interfere with the service’s operation — probing, flooding, or anything that degrades it for others.

No cheats and no leaks

This is a firm line, not a preference. ViceLume does not publish, and will not accept, cheats, exploits, glitch-money methods, modding instructions or real-money-trading advice; nor leaked, datamined or unreleased material of any kind. Coach gives advice for legitimate in-game play only. Content in those categories is rejected at ingestion and is never surfaced, and a request to add it will be refused.

#7. Our content, and how accurate it is

Digests, Coach plans, spoken bulletins and radio music are produced with the help of artificial intelligence. We check and constrain the pipeline, but AI output can be wrong, out of date, or confidently mistaken. Treat a digest as a pointer, not as a record. Where a story matters to you, read the outlet named beneath it. Coach plans are suggestions, not guarantees of any in-game result.

Digests are our own words, written to be short and transformative, and each names the outlet whose reporting it is based on. We do not reproduce articles, and we do not claim ownership of anyone else’s reporting.

#8. Your content and moderation

Where the service lets you submit something — a report, a takedown notice, a message — you keep whatever rights you have in it, and you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display and process it for the purpose of operating the service and acting on your submission.

You warrant that you are entitled to submit what you submit. Nothing a user submits is published without review: submissions enter a moderation queue and are approved, edited or rejected. We may remove content, refuse a submission or suspend an account where these terms or the law require it, and we tell you why unless telling you would itself be unlawful.

#9. Third-party rights

“Grand Theft Auto”, “Rockstar Games”, “Take-Two Interactive” and all related names, logos and artwork are trademarks and copyrighted works of their respective owners. We use the game’s name descriptively — to say what this tool is for — and for nothing else. We do not use their artwork, logos, trailers or audio as our content or as our identity, and nothing here implies that they endorse us.

The names of the outlets we credit belong to those outlets. Naming them is attribution, not a claim of partnership.

If you hold rights in something published here and believe it should not be, please use the takedown page.

#10. Our rights

The service, its software, its design, the ViceLume name and mark, and the content we generate belong to MATTALNET GRUPP OÜ or its licensors. You get a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service for your own, non-commercial purposes. Nothing more is granted, expressly or by implication.

#11. Availability and changes to the service

We aim for a service that is up and current, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, provider outages and failures happen. We may add, change or discontinue features; where a change materially reduces what a paying subscriber bought, we announce it in advance and, if you object, you may cancel and receive a pro-rata refund for the unused part of the term.

#12. Disclaimer

To the extent permitted by law, the service is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind — in particular no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted availability, or the accuracy or completeness of AI-generated content.

If you are a consumer, your statutory rights in respect of digital content and digital services — including those under Directive (EU) 2019/770 and the Estonian Law of Obligations Act — are not affected by this section, and nothing here excludes them.

#13. Limitation of liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under any applicable product liability law, and to the extent we have given a guarantee.

For slight negligence we are liable only where we breach an obligation that is essential to the contract and on whose fulfilment you may reasonably rely, and then only for damage that is foreseeable and typical of this kind of contract. Any further liability is excluded.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under the law that applies to you.

#14. Termination

You may end this contract at any time by deleting your account. We may suspend or terminate an account for a serious or repeated breach of these terms, for unlawful use, or where we are legally required to. Except in cases of manifest illegality we give you notice and, where it makes sense, an opportunity to put it right.

If we terminate a paid subscription other than for your breach, we refund the unused part of the term. Sections 9, 10, 12, 13 and 16 survive termination.

#15. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms where the service, the law or our costs change. A material amendment is announced on this page at least 30 days before it takes effect and, if we hold your e-mail address, by mail. If you do not accept it, you may terminate before it takes effect; continued use afterwards counts as acceptance.

#16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the law of the Republic of Estonia, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are habitually resident, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country. For everyone else, the courts of Tallinn, Estonia have exclusive jurisdiction.

Information on online dispute resolution, and our position on consumer arbitration boards, is in the imprint.

#17. Miscellaneous

If any provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the rest remains in force. We may transfer this contract to a successor of the business; you may not transfer it without our consent. There are no side agreements — these terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole of it.

Operator

MATTALNET GRUPP OÜ

Address

Tuukri tn 19-315, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia

E-mail

mail@vicelume.com

Company register number

14744075