Heat Trivia ("the Service", "we", "us", "our") is an online trivia-hosting platform operated by Ikon Marketing Group LLC ("Ikon", "the Company"), a limited liability company. The Service provides weekly professionally written trivia game packs, a web-based slide presentation engine, a live scoring admin panel, a player-facing scoreboard, and a TV venue display, all delivered through heattrivia.com.
The trivia game format, including but not limited to: the round structure (rounds 1–7 plus Wager 1 and Wager 2), the scoring system (0–2 points per question with one double-points "bonus" round per team, plus two 0–10 point wager rounds), the pen-and-paper grading protocol, the QR-code team registration flow with captain PIN, the Firebase-backed live scoreboard design, the question-writing style, the answer-sheet template layout, and the weekly two-pack release cadence, is the original, proprietary concept of Craig Sutton and is owned exclusively by Ikon Marketing Group LLC.
Our content is not yours. All trivia questions, answers, round images, slide decks, printable answer sheets, handout materials, branding, fonts, and audio we deliver to you under the Service are the intellectual property of Ikon Marketing Group LLC and its content contributors. They are licensed to you, not sold, strictly for the purpose of hosting live trivia events at the venue(s) you host at, during the active period of your paid subscription or single-game purchase.
You may not:
Violation of any of the above is a material breach of this agreement and grounds for immediate termination of your subscription without refund, plus any legal and equitable remedies available to the Company, including, without limitation, injunctive relief and recovery of damages and legal fees.
Your customizations are yours. The game title you type in, your venue name, your host name, your ticker messages, your team roster, and the scoring data generated during your hosted sessions are yours. We do not claim ownership of that material. We may use anonymous, aggregated usage statistics (e.g. "average team size is 4 players") to improve the Service, never your identifiable venue, team, or player data for marketing.
Participation in the Heat Trivia Referral Program is governed by a separate Referral Program Agreement, which you accept at signup. In short: referrers earn a fixed commission per qualifying sale, payouts hold 30 days for refund/chargeback protection, minimum payout is $25.00, and a valid W-9 must be on file. Self-referral, spam, brand-bidding, and other prohibited conduct will void commissions and may terminate participation.
You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for any activity under your account. Rate limiting and lockout protect against brute-force, but choose a strong password and don't share it. Notify us immediately at heattriviaforbiz@gmail.com if you believe your account has been compromised.
We target 99%+ uptime but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Firebase, Stripe, and our hosting provider occasionally have outages beyond our control. We are not liable for lost event revenue, refunds to your players, or reputational damage resulting from service outages. If your event is disrupted by a confirmed outage on our side, contact us for a prorated credit.
You may cancel your subscription at any time through the billing portal. We may suspend or terminate your account for material breach of these terms, fraudulent payment activity, legal request, or at our discretion with or without notice. On termination for cause, you forfeit any unused subscription time and your access to live sessions, content, and data immediately ceases. Sections 2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16 survive termination.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR UNINTERRUPTED.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IKON MARKETING GROUP LLC, ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, CONTRACTORS, AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, DATA, OR REPUTATION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATED TO THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) FEES YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) $100 USD.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ikon Marketing Group LLC and its affiliates from any claim, liability, damage, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Service, your breach of these terms, your infringement of any third-party right, or your hosted events, including claims by your players, venue, or venue's patrons.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising under these terms shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Benton County, Washington. You and Ikon Marketing Group LLC waive the right to a jury trial and agree that any dispute must be brought in an individual capacity, no class actions or class arbitrations.
We respect copyright. If you believe content hosted on Heat Trivia infringes a copyright you own, send a DMCA takedown notice, in writing, signed (physical or electronic), to our designated agent at the contact below. Your notice must include:
On receipt of a valid notice we will remove or disable access to the claimed material and notify the host who uploaded it. Repeat infringers will have their accounts terminated.
Counter-notices follow the standard DMCA §512(g) process. The alleged infringer may submit a counter-notice identifying the material and stating under penalty of perjury that removal was a mistake or misidentification. We'll restore the content unless the original complainant files a court action within 10–14 business days.
Designated agent: Craig Sutton, Ikon Marketing Group LLC, heattriviaforbiz@gmail.com (preferred, with "DMCA" in the subject).
Some Heat Trivia games include an audio round that requires you, the host, venue, or event organizer, to provide your own music files ("BYOM Files"). As a convenience we may provide track titles, artist names, ISRCs, release identifiers, suggested clip timestamps, and links to third-party retailers (see "Affiliate Links & Third-Party Retailers"). We do not sell, provide, license, distribute, transmit, or grant any rights in any music, sound recording, composition, lyric, or album artwork unless expressly stated in a separate written license.
You are solely responsible for obtaining and maintaining every right, license, permission, and clearance required to possess, copy, and publicly perform your BYOM Files at your events. A trivia night at a bar, restaurant, or other public venue is a public performance under U.S. copyright law (and equivalent laws in other jurisdictions), which is generally not covered by simply buying or downloading a song. That typically requires public-performance licenses from the performing-rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR) and/or other rights holders. Securing those licenses is the responsibility of you and/or your venue, not Ikon Marketing Group LLC.
Purchasing or downloading a music file from a third-party retailer does not by itself grant you public-performance rights, commercial-use rights, reproduction rights, or the right to upload, stream, share, or redistribute that file. You are responsible for complying with the terms of any retailer, service, or source you obtain a BYOM File from.
BYOM Files are selected and played locally from your own device. We do not require you to upload BYOM Files to our servers for audio-round playback, and we do not receive, host, inspect, store, share, sell, or redistribute the files you play locally. You may not use the Service to upload, copy, transmit, stream, share, sell, sublicense, redistribute, or publicly perform any music unless you hold all rights required to do so, and you may not use the Service to circumvent DRM, copy protection, access controls, or any retailer or music-service restriction.
We do not determine whether you or your venue hold appropriate music licenses, and we are not responsible for doing so. In addition to the indemnity elsewhere in these terms, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ikon Marketing Group LLC and its affiliates from any claim, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your BYOM Files, your music use, your venue's licensing status, your violation of a third party's terms, or your failure to obtain required rights or permissions.
Some music-purchase links and product links shown inside the Heat Trivia web app are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, Ikon Marketing Group LLC earns from qualifying purchases. This means we may receive a commission if you click certain links and make a qualifying purchase, at no additional cost to you. (This is in addition to, and separate from, the Referral Program in the section above.)
Affiliate links are provided for convenience only. We do not control third-party retailers, and a link to a song, album, or product does not mean we grant you any rights in that music or that the item is cleared for public performance, commercial use, copying, or upload. We do not control retailer pricing, availability, formats, download terms, refund policies, or account requirements. You are responsible for reviewing the retailer's terms and confirming that any purchase or download is appropriate for your intended use.
Affiliate listings, retailer availability, formats, and product references may change without notice; we do not warrant that any specific track, listing, or retailer offering will remain available, accurate, or in the same format. If a curated purchase link becomes unavailable, you remain free to source the same recording from any lawful retailer of your choosing.
We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced by email or in-dashboard banner at least 14 days before taking effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. The current version lives at this URL.
Questions, takedown requests, or legal notices:
heattriviaforbiz@gmail.com
Ikon Marketing Group LLC, on behalf of Heat Trivia