Terms and conditions

1. The publisher

This site is published by an individual, Emily Patterson, Ground Floor/143 York St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia, telephone +61 2 9061 3409, e-mail letters@puzzleread.com. In these conditions “the publisher” means that person and “the site” means the pages served at puzzleread.com.

2. What the site is

PuzzleRead is an editorial page about free-to-play match-3 puzzle applications for Android. It publishes written notes, timings and comparisons based on the publisher's own play sessions. It is not a shop, not a game operator and not a distribution channel: nothing can be bought, downloaded or installed here. Links to the Google Play store open in a new tab and leave this site.

3. Independence

The publisher has no commercial arrangement with the studios behind Candy Pop Story: Match 3, Sweet Candy Mania or Candy Bomb Smash, and none with Google LLC. No entry on the shelf was requested, supplied, approved or paid for. The site carries no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate link. Google Play and Android are trade marks of Google LLC, used only to identify where an application can be found.

4. Intellectual property

The written notes, the comparison table, the page design and the PuzzleRead name belong to the publisher and are protected by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). You may quote a short passage with a visible link back to the page it came from. Reproducing a whole section, or republishing the notes elsewhere, needs written permission.

Application icons and screenshots belong to the studios that created the games. They appear in low resolution, unaltered, only to illustrate the passage they sit beside — an editorial use consistent with the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) for criticism and reporting. A rights holder who would rather an image were removed can write to the desk, and it is taken down within 5 business days.

5. The Read Room subscription

5.1 What it is and what it costs

Read Room is a paid e-mail subscription costing A$0.99 per month, charged monthly in advance. A subscriber receives two letters a month. Each letter contains a full write-up of a puzzle level designed at this desk, a step-by-step walk-through, a diagram showing where each booster is best spent, and an explanation of the mechanic the level was built to teach. Letters are plain e-mail; there is no application, no login and no separate platform.

5.2 How a subscription starts

There is no checkout on this site. You write to the desk with “Read Room” in the subject line; a reply sets out the price, the billing date and a request to confirm. Nothing is charged until you answer that reply in writing. The arrangement begins the day the confirmation arrives.

5.3 How a subscription ends

Reply to any Read Room letter with the word “stop”, or write to the desk at any time. Cancellation is confirmed by return e-mail within 5 business days and takes effect from the next billing date; there is no notice period, no exit fee and no minimum term. Letters already delivered remain yours. A charge taken after a cancellation was received is returned in full.

5.4 Consumer guarantees

The subscription is supplied to consumers with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)). Among other things the service must be supplied with due care and skill and must be reasonably fit for the purpose described on this page. If the service is not supplied as described, you are entitled to a remedy: the letters put right, the subscription cancelled, or a proportionate return of the amount paid, depending on whether the failure is major. Write to the desk and the matter is dealt with directly. The consumer regulator is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, www.accc.gov.au.

6. Using the site sensibly

You may read, print and share links to these pages freely. You may not interfere with the delivery of the site, scrape it in bulk for republication, or present its notes as somebody else's work. The site has no accounts, so there is nothing to hand over.

7. Accuracy and limits

Every figure on the site was measured by hand on a mid-range Android handset in Sydney during the reading fortnight, and every star rating was read from the public Google Play listing for Australia on the date shown. Applications change: stages are rebalanced, features are added, ratings move. The notes describe the versions played at the time of writing and are opinion, not advice about what to install. To the extent the law allows, and without limiting the guarantees in clause 5.4, the publisher is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from a decision taken on these notes.

8. Complaints before court

If something goes wrong, write to the desk first with “complaint” in the subject line and a plain description of the problem. The message is acknowledged within 5 business days and answered in writing within 30 days. If that does not resolve matters, a consumer may take the issue to NSW Fair Trading or to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission before proceedings are started. A privacy issue goes to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, as set out in the privacy notice.

9. Governing law

These conditions are governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales and of the Commonwealth of Australia. The courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction, and nothing here takes away a right you have to bring a matter in another Australian court.

10. Changes

These conditions may be rewritten as the site changes. The effective date at the top always shows the current version. A change that affects Read Room subscribers is sent to them by e-mail at least 30 days before it applies, and a subscriber who does not accept it may cancel under clause 5.3 with no charge for the following month. This version is effective from 2 September 2026.