Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions are the agreement between you and Bilal Saeed ("we", "us" or "our"), who runs PlaywithBuddies (the "Service"), a website at playwithbuddies.com where you can create or join a room and play browser games with other people, and they apply to every part of it, including the website, game pages, guides and tools, lobbies, chat, the friends list, the inbox and each game. You can reach us at bilalsaeed10b@gmail.com. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information and what is stored in your browser, and forms part of these Terms. By accessing or using the Service you confirm that you have read these Terms and agree to be bound by them, and if you do not agree, please do not use the Service. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, and if the law where you live sets a higher age at which you can use online services without a parent's consent, you must be at least that age or have that consent. If you are under the age of legal adulthood where you live, you may only use the Service with the permission of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the Service. Before you play we ask your month and year of birth, and you must answer truthfully; if you are under 13 you cannot use the Service, and if you are under 18 you cannot buy random crates with gems. You may not use the Service if we have removed your access before, or if the laws that apply to you bar you from doing so. You can use the Service by signing in with a Google account, in which case we never see or store your Google password and you are responsible for keeping that account secure, or as a guest, by typing a name, in which case we create an anonymous account that only your browser can return to. A guest cannot add friends, receive invitations, send bug reports, hold gems or keep statistics on the Service; coins a guest earns last only while that browser tab is open, unless the guest signs in with Google from that tab, when they move into the new account, and a guest's progress in games that keep it in the browser stays in that browser; and a guest account that goes unused for 30 days is deleted, together with everything linked to it, although a guest who signs in with Google keeps the same account and its progress from then on. You are responsible for everything that happens through your account, including activity in any room you host, and if you think someone else has used it, tell us straight away. The display name, guest name and profile picture you use must not be offensive, misleading or someone else's, and must not suggest that you are us or speak for us; a word filter stars out swear words and slurs in names, and we may change or remove a name or picture that breaks this rule. You may stop using the Service at any time, and you can delete your account and its data yourself on your profile page or by emailing us from the address linked to it, as the Privacy Policy explains. The Service is free. We do not sell anything through it, we do not take payments, the only adverts are Google's, on the home page, game pages and guides (the Privacy Policy explains them), and we will never ask you for card or bank details; the Service may show prices for items that are not on sale, and showing a price is not an offer to sell. If we ever introduce paid features, we will tell you before they go live, and any purchase will be governed by separate terms that you will be asked to accept at the time, and nothing in these Terms obliges you to pay for anything. Because we never charge you, there is nothing to refund, and no refund can be owed for anything on the Service. We have no shops, resellers or payment pages, so if you are ever asked to pay for anything connected with PlaywithBuddies, the request did not come from us: anyone offering to sell you accounts, coins, gems or items is running a scam, we cannot refund what you pay them, and we would like to hear about it at bilalsaeed10b@gmail.com, and if you believe you have been charged for anything to do with the Service, your bank or card provider is the right place to dispute it. If we ever sell anything, we will publish its terms of sale and a refund policy before taking a single payment, setting out at least who the seller is, the full price including any taxes and exactly what is sold; your right, if you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, to cancel within 14 days, and that for digital items delivered straight away you would be asked to agree to immediate delivery and so give up that right once delivery starts; how to ask for a refund, what we will do about a purchase that failed, was charged twice or never arrived, and how long a refund takes; what happens to paid items if your account is closed or the Service shuts down; and how to complain about our decision. Nothing here is a promise that paid features will be added. The Service lets you earn and use virtual items, such as coins, gems, unlocks, cosmetic looks, crates and badges ("Virtual Items"). Coins are earned by playing and belong to the game they were earned in. Gems come only from us, through the daily reward for returning on consecutive days, daily challenges and occasional rewards we give, and they can be spent within the Service on things such as cosmetic looks, some Tower Siege machines, Dragon Battle dragons with different attacks, and the Broadside Bay Legendary crate. Some Virtual Items change how a game plays: Dragon Battle offers two free starter dragons and gem dragons with different shapes and attack styles, several Tower Siege machines expand what you can build, and some can only be obtained with gems, and in Broadside Bay items from crates and merging make a ship stronger. A crate gives items at random; its odds, the number of items inside and any guarantee are shown before you buy or open it, on the game's own page as well as in the game, and you accept that its contents are random when you open it. Crates bought with gems are only for players aged 18 or over. Broadside Bay keeps its items, coins and progress in your browser and, if you are signed in with Google, on your account too, so they survive changing device; a guest's progress stays in that browser only, and clearing your browser data removes it. The daily reward pays according to a streak that starts again if you miss a day, and we may change or end it. Virtual Items have no monetary value: they are not money, currency, property or a financial instrument, and they cannot be exchanged for money or anything of value, with us or with anyone else. You do not own them; we grant you a limited, personal, revocable and non-transferable licence to use them within the Service while your account is in good standing. You may not sell, buy, trade, gift or transfer Virtual Items or accounts, or offer to, inside or outside the Service, and anyone offering to sell them to you is not acting for us. We may change how Virtual Items are earned, what they do and what they cost within the Service, correct balances that result from a bug, an error or a breach of these Terms, and reset or replace them when a game is rebuilt or removed, and if your account is closed for any reason, the Virtual Items linked to it are lost. Because Virtual Items are free and have no monetary value, we will not compensate you for any change to, or loss of, Virtual Items. We want the Service to be a friendly place to play, so when using it you must not harass, bully, threaten, abuse or intimidate anyone, or post or draw anything hateful, sexually explicit, violent or otherwise unlawful; share anyone's personal information without permission or try to find out personal information about other players; pretend to be another person, another player or us; cheat, exploit bugs, use bots or scripts, or alter game data, network traffic, balances, saved progress or results; access or try to access any account, room, data or part of the Service that is not meant for you, including by getting around security rules, the word filter, the age check or the limits on how often actions such as chat messages, invitations, friend requests, reports, bug reports and new rooms can be repeated, which are longer for guests; interfere with, overload, disrupt or damage the Service or anyone's use of it, or introduce malware; collect, look up, share or use another player's IP address or other connection details, which games pass between players' devices so they can connect directly; scrape, copy or harvest data from the Service by automated means; use the Service for advertising, spam or any commercial purpose without our written permission; or use the Service in a way that breaks any law or anyone else's rights, or help anyone else do any of these things. If you find a security weakness, please report it to us privately rather than testing or using it. Your content includes chat messages, your display or guest name, any picture you upload, drawings, answers, prompts, descriptions, word lists, reactions and votes you make in games, bug reports, screenshots, and any other material you submit ("Your Content"), and you keep whatever rights you have in it. So that we can run the Service, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display and transmit Your Content for as long as it is held on the Service and only for operating, securing, supporting and improving the Service, ending when Your Content is deleted, except for copies the law requires us to keep or that are held in routine backups for a limited time. You confirm that you have the right to share Your Content and that it does not break these Terms or the law, and you accept that other players in a room will see what you post, draw or choose there. A word filter stars out swear words and slurs in English and Roman Urdu wherever players type text that others see, and refuses text that tries to get round it, but no filter catches everything and you remain responsible for what you write. Only the players in a room can read its chat and its live game data, but anyone with the room's code can see who is in it. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them freely and without any obligation to you. A room's host can remove players from the room, and in some games the players in a room can vote to skip a turn or to remove a player, and you accept those decisions as part of playing in that room. You can report a chat message, a drawing or a player with the report button next to it, and anyone, whether or not they play, can report illegal content or a breach of these Terms by emailing us with the room code, the game, what happened and why they believe it is illegal or against the rules. Our moderators read every report, usually within a few days, and look first at anything suggesting that someone is in danger or is under 13. If we find that these Terms or the law have been broken, we may remove the content, warn the player, suspend the account for 24 hours, 7 days or indefinitely, or close it, depending on how serious it was and whether it has happened before, and we close any account we find belongs to someone under 13, and we may do the same, or close rooms and adjust or reset Virtual Items, where someone is at risk or we need to act to protect the Service or its players, whether or not anyone reported it. We cannot watch everything that happens on the Service and do not promise to. We never tell a player who reported them, and making reports you know to be false is itself a breach of these Terms. Whenever we remove your content or restrict your account, we tell you what we did, which part of these Terms or which law it was under, whether it followed a report or our own checks, and how to ask us to look again, in your inbox and, for a suspension, on screen; if you think we have got it wrong, email us and a person will review the decision. Where we learn of something that suggests a threat to someone's life or safety, we report it to the police or other relevant authority. If someone is in immediate danger, contact the police or emergency services where you are first. The Service, including its games, code, artwork, sound, music, text, design, names and logos, is owned by us or used with permission and is protected by copyright, trade mark and other laws, and we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to access and use it for your own non-commercial enjoyment in line with these Terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, reverse engineer, decompile or create derivative works from any part of the Service, except where the law expressly allows it and you cannot be prevented from doing so. The games were created for PlaywithBuddies, and some belong to familiar genres, such as artillery duels, naval battles, volleyball, car football, drawing and word games, which are open to everyone; PlaywithBuddies is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any other game, studio or publisher, and any names or marks belonging to others remain theirs. If you believe something on the Service infringes your copyright or other intellectual property, email us with your name and contact details, a description of the work or right concerned, where on the Service the material appears in enough detail for us to find it, a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law, and a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner; we will review every valid notice promptly, remove or change material where appropriate, and may close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe. The Service relies on services run by other companies, including Google for sign-in and data storage and Cloudflare for delivering the website and connecting players in real-time games, which the Privacy Policy lists together with what each receives; your use of your Google account is governed by Google's own terms, and we are not responsible for services, websites or content that we do not control, including links posted by other players. We are always working on the Service and may add, change, pause, replace or remove games and features, and change how the Service works, at any time, and we do not promise that the Service, any game or any feature will always be available, uninterrupted or free from errors, or that your progress will be kept. The Service is provided free of charge, "as is" and "as available", and to the fullest extent permitted by law we make no promises or warranties of any kind about it, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of satisfactory quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or non-infringement, although nothing in these Terms affects any rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded or limited by agreement. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded. Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage that was not reasonably foreseeable, or that was caused by your breach of these Terms or by events outside our reasonable control; we are not liable for any loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunity or data, or for any indirect or consequential loss; we are not liable for the loss of Virtual Items, game progress or statistics, or for the conduct or content of other players; and our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms is limited to fifty United States dollars (US$50). The Service is for private, non-commercial use only, and you agree not to use it for any commercial or business purpose. To the extent permitted by law, you agree to compensate us for reasonable losses, costs and claims, including reasonable legal fees, that arise because you broke these Terms or the law while using the Service, or because of Your Content, except to the extent a loss was caused by our own fault. We may update these Terms from time to time, for example to reflect changes to the Service or the law, and we will change the date at the top of this page when we do; if a change is significant, we will give you reasonable notice on the Service before it takes effect, and if you keep using the Service after that, you accept the updated Terms, while if you do not accept them you should stop using the Service and may ask us to delete your account. If you have a problem with the Service, please contact us first, because most issues can be sorted out quickly and informally. These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Service, including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the courts of Pakistan have jurisdiction to settle any such dispute, but if you are a consumer living outside Pakistan you still benefit from the mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live and may bring proceedings in the courts of that country if its law gives you that right. These Terms, together with the policies they include, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service and replace any earlier agreement on the same subject; if a court decides that any part of them is invalid or unenforceable, that part will be changed as little as necessary to make it enforceable and the rest will stay in full effect; if we do not enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up; you may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone else, while we may transfer ours to a person or organisation who takes over the Service, without reducing your rights; nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these Terms; and the parts of these Terms about Virtual Items, Your Content, our intellectual property, the disclaimer, the limits on our liability, responsibility for misuse, governing law and these general terms continue to apply after these Terms end. If you have any question about these Terms, want to report a player or content, or need to send us a legal notice, email bilalsaeed10b@gmail.com, which is also our single point of contact for users and for authorities, including under the EU Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act; we answer in English.