Terms of play

Draft, to be reviewed by a lawyer before launch.

Version 2026-11-03-draft. These terms are an agreement between you and [the operator’s legal name and address, to be filled in before launch] (“we”), who runs Tidebell.

1. Who may play

• Tidebell is for adults. You must be 18 or older to make an account or play.
• Give your real date of birth. We close accounts we find belong to someone under 18.
• One account per person. Keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for what happens on your account.

2. The game

• Tidebell is played online. Our servers run the game’s rules, roll its dice and keep your progress.
• We may change, rebalance, pause or end parts of the game, and we may reset progress when a fault or an exploit requires it. We will tell you in the game when we can.
• We aim to keep the game available but cannot promise that it always will be.

3. Fair play

• Do not cheat: no modified clients, bots, scripts or automation, no exploiting bugs, and no extra accounts to farm rewards or rivals.
• Choose a display name that does not insult, impersonate or harass anyone.
• We may warn, suspend or close accounts that break these rules, and remove what they gained.

4. No gambling

• Nothing random is sold for money. There are no loot boxes, no paid draws and no paid rerolls of random results.
• Items, tools, currencies and progress in Tidebell have no money value. You cannot sell, trade, transfer or cash them out, and we will never buy them back.
• There are no real-money prizes. Rewards for boards, seasons and events are in the game only, and entering them never costs money.

5. Purchases

• The store is not open yet. When it opens, every price is shown in real money, including tax where the law requires it.
• Payments are handled by a third-party payment provider, which may act as the seller of record and collect tax. Your card details go to that provider, never to us.
• Before you pay we show what you get, the total price and any renewal terms. Where you have a right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content, we ask for your consent before delivery starts, and tell you when that right ends.
• Refunds follow the law of your country and the refund policy we will publish with the store.

6. Ending your account

• You may stop playing and ask us to delete your account at any time (see the Privacy notice).
• We may close an account that breaks these terms. Where the law allows, we tell you why.

7. Liability

[To be written with a lawyer: what we are and are not responsible for, within what the law of the player’s country allows.]

8. Changes

When these terms change we will say so in the game, and ask you to accept the new version before you carry on.

9. Contact

Questions about these terms: [a contact email address, to be filled in before launch].