Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are an agreement between you and Riley Zilka, an individual (“we”, “us”), covering your use of Islanders, including the website, the game, and the subscription (together, the “Service”).

By using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you subscribe, you also confirm your agreement when you check out. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. To buy a subscription you must be old enough to enter a binding contract where you live, or have the permission of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.

You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so by law.

Islanders is an online multiplayer strategy game. You can play the standard game for free, without an account. A subscription lets a host start games with any rule changed, and save, load and export rulesets.

The Service is under active development. We may add, change or remove features, including features that are part of the subscription, at any time. If we remove the Service entirely, see Ending your use.

You do not need an account to play. You need one to subscribe. Accounts are created by signing in with Google, and your use of Google sign-in is also subject to Google’s terms.

You are responsible for keeping access to your Google account secure and for everything that happens under your account. If you think someone else has used it, use “Sign out everywhere” on your account page and tell us through our contact form.

Price. The subscription costs $5.99 USD per month or $47.99 USD per year, plus any taxes that apply where you live. The price and billing period are shown before you pay.

Automatic renewal. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, and you authorise us to charge your payment method for each renewal, until you cancel.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time with the “Cancel subscription” button on your account page, or by contacting us through our contact form. Cancelling stops future renewals. You keep full access until the end of the period you have already paid for, and are not charged again.

Refunds. Payments are non-refundable, and we do not give refunds or credits for partial periods or unused time, except where the law requires it or as described in Ending your use. If you believe you were charged in error, contact us.

Price changes. We may change the price. We will tell you before a new price applies to you, and it will take effect from your next renewal, so you can cancel first if you do not want to pay it.

Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, we may suspend subscription features until it succeeds.

Your table. When a subscriber hosts a game, everyone at that table may play the custom rules. Guests do not receive a subscription of their own.

Free access. We may, at our discretion, give some people subscription features for free, for any period. Free access can be changed or withdrawn at any time and is not a paid subscription.

Payments are processed by Stripe. We never receive or store your full card number. Stripe’s own terms and privacy policy apply to the payment itself.

“Your content” means anything you put into the Service: nicknames, chat messages, images and links you share, rulesets, and maps. You keep ownership of it.

You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, display and transmit your content only as needed to run the Service — for example, to show your chat message to the other players in your game, or to show a finished game in replays.

You are responsible for your content, and you confirm you have the right to share it. Chat and nicknames are seen by other players, and nicknames in finished games are visible to anyone in replays.

You agree not to:

• share anything unlawful, hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, or that exploits or harms minors;
• share content you do not have the right to share, or that infringes anyone’s rights;
• impersonate anyone, or mislead other players about who you are;
• cheat by exploiting bugs, or interfere with other players’ games;
• attack, overload, probe or disrupt the Service or its servers, or try to get around security or payment;
• access the Service by automated means, scrape it, or resell it without our written permission.

We do not actively monitor games or chat, but we may remove any content, and suspend or close any account, that we believe breaks these Terms or puts the Service or other people at risk.

You can stop using the Service at any time. To also stop a subscription renewing, cancel it.

We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, if we are required to by law, or to protect the Service or other players. If we end your access because you broke these Terms, you are not entitled to a refund.

If we shut down the Service entirely, or end your paid subscription for any reason other than your breach of these Terms, we will refund the unused part of your current prepaid period.

The Service, including its software, design, text and graphics, belongs to us and is protected by law. Apart from the rights these Terms give you to use it, you receive no rights in it.

Islanders is an independent game. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Catan GmbH, Catan Studio, Colonist, or any other game or publisher. CATAN is a registered trademark of Catan GmbH; other names are used only to describe the kind of game this is.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

In particular, we do not promise that the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, or that games, chat, rulesets, maps or other data will never be lost. Games in progress may end unexpectedly, and chat is not saved. Keep your own copy of anything that matters to you.

Players are responsible for how they treat each other. We are not responsible for the conduct of other players or for content they share.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL OR ENJOYMENT, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, HOWEVER CAUSED AND EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) FIFTY US DOLLARS (USD $50).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be excluded or certain liability to be limited, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and nothing in them takes away rights you have under consumer protection laws that cannot be waived.

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend and compensate us against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) brought by third parties that arise from your content, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of anyone’s rights.

We may update these Terms. We will change the date at the top when we do, and for material changes — especially anything affecting price, renewal or cancellation — we will give subscribers reasonable notice, such as by email, before the change applies to them. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it. If you do not, stop using the Service and cancel your subscription.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of any mandatory laws of the country where you live.

If you have a problem, please contact us first through our contact form — most things can be sorted out quickly. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be decided by the state and federal courts located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it in your local courts.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a right, we have not waived it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours, for example if the Service changes hands.

Islanders is run by Riley Zilka. You can reach us through our contact form, and manage your subscription and data on your account page.