Terms of Use
SoulsDoku is a free fan project. These terms keep things fair for everyone — play the game, share your results, and don't break the service.
Last updated: August 26, 2026
1. Acceptance of these terms
By accessing or using SoulsDoku ("the service"), you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.
2. Who we are, and who may play
SoulsDoku is run by one independent developer as part of the Doku Games network of daily puzzle sites. There is no company behind it and no support desk — when you write to us, a person reads it.
You must be at least 13 years old to use the service, or older if the country you live in sets a higher age for agreeing to terms like these online. An account is optional and is the only place personal information enters at all; if you are under that age, please do not create one.
3. The service
SoulsDoku is a free, browser-based daily puzzle game. We may add, change, suspend, or remove features at any time without notice, and we make no commitment that the service will remain available in any particular form — or at all.
The game is free to play because advertising pays for it. Ads are sold and served by a third-party partner, and their presence, placement, and frequency may change at any time.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Interfere with or disrupt the service, including overloading, probing, or circumventing any technical measures
- Scrape, harvest, or bulk-download site content by automated means, or republish our puzzle data or curated datasets as your own
- Play through scripts, bots, or other automated means, or manipulate streaks, community pick statistics, or any other shared count
- Share, sell, or transfer an account, impersonate anyone, or open new accounts to get around a suspension
- Use the service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of these terms
Normal play — including sharing your daily results anywhere you like — is always welcome.
5. Your progress and your account
An account is optional — SoulsDoku is fully playable without one. Your progress, streaks, and statistics are stored locally in your own browser; clearing your browser's site data will erase them. If you do create an account, that progress is also synced to it so it follows you between devices, and you are responsible for keeping your sign-in details to yourself. When you finish a daily puzzle, your picks are submitted anonymously to power the community statistics — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what that includes.
One account per person, and you are responsible for what happens through yours. Progress is not something we can promise to keep forever: back-ups, migrations, and bugs happen, and we may reset or remove data — or an account that breaks these terms — where we have to.
6. Souls, levels, and other in-game items
Souls, levels, Embers, and anything else the game awards exist inside the game only. They have no monetary value, are not your property, cannot be bought, sold, transferred, or exchanged for anything outside the service, and we may change, reset, or remove them — including while balancing or fixing the game — without compensation.
7. Advertising and links to other sites
Advertisements are supplied by third parties. We do not choose, write, or endorse the ads you see, and we are not responsible for the products, services, or sites they lead to. What our advertising partner receives, and how to turn personalised ads off, is set out in the Privacy Policy.
The service also links to sites we do not control, including the other games in our network and community wikis. Those sites have their own terms and privacy policies, and following a link is at your own risk.
8. Intellectual property
SoulsDoku is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FromSoftware, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, or Activision. All game titles, character names, artwork, screenshots, and trademarks referenced belong to their respective owners and appear here for identification and commentary; the factual data about the games is presented for informational and entertainment purposes.
The SoulsDoku puzzle format, site design, code, and curated datasets are our own work. You may not copy or redistribute them commercially without permission. If you represent a rightsholder and have a concern about any content on this site, the next section is the fastest route — or simply contact us— we respond quickly and in good faith.
9. Copyright complaints
If you hold rights in material that appears on SoulsDoku and you want it taken down, email the address in the last section with Copyright in the subject line. Please include:
- What you own and where it appears — a URL, or a clear description of the specific material
- How to reach you: a name, an email address, and — if you are acting for someone else — who
- A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the rightsholder or by law, and that the information in your notice is accurate
We aim to reply within a few days and would far rather fix it than argue about it. If we remove something you submitted and you think that was a mistake, reply and say why — we will look again.
Accounts that repeatedly infringe someone else's rights are removed.
10. Feedback and anything you send us
If you send us suggestions, bug reports, or ideas, you grant us the right to use them without restriction or compensation. (We appreciate them — it's how the game gets better.)
Anything else you submit — a message through a form, or a name that other players can see — must be lawful and civil: nothing infringing, threatening, hateful, or made to impersonate someone. We may remove or change submitted content, including a display name, and you keep whatever rights you already had in what you sent.
11. Disclaimer of warranties
The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or that the service will be uninterrupted, accurate, or error-free. Puzzle answers are curated in good faith but may contain mistakes.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data (including local game progress), arising from your use of — or inability to use — the service. The service is free; our total liability for any claim will not exceed the amount you paid to use it, which is zero.
Nothing in these terms limits anything that cannot lawfully be limited. If you use the service as a consumer in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, your mandatory rights under the law of the country you live in are unaffected, as is liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
13. Indemnification
If a claim is brought against us because you misused the service, broke these terms, or infringed someone else's rights, you agree to cover the costs we reasonably incur defending it, including legal fees. This does not apply where the law does not allow it, and it never applies to ordinary play.
14. Changes and termination
We may update these terms from time to time; the "last updated" date above will reflect the current version, and continued use after changes means you accept them. We may suspend or terminate access for anyone who violates these terms.
You can stop at any time by closing the tab — and, if you made an account, by asking us to delete it. That is the whole of what ending this takes.
15. Disputes and governing law
If something goes wrong, email us first. Most problems turn out to be a misunderstanding and are settled in a day. We ask for 30 days from that email to put it right before either of us starts formal proceedings, and we will give you the same.
If you use the service as a consumer outside the United States, none of this takes away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, or your right to bring proceedings there.
16. General
If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. These terms are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the service.
If we do not enforce part of these terms straight away, we keep the right to do so later. We may transfer these terms if the site or the network changes hands; you may not transfer yours. Section headings are there for convenience and do not affect how the terms are read.
17. Contact
Questions about these terms? Reach us via the Contact or email thedlenetwork@gmail.com.
