1. Who these terms are with
couchslop.com and the games on it are run by Couchslop LLC, a Georgia limited liability company ("we", "us"). By using the site, joining a room or buying something, you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you're setting up a room for other people, you're agreeing for your own use; each player is responsible for what they do in it.
If you're under 18, a parent or guardian should agree to these terms with you, and must be the one to buy anything.
2. The games
The games run in a web browser. One screen hosts the room and phones join with its code. They're free to play, and we may add, change, rename or retire games, features and questions at any time. Something that's free today won't be put behind a paywall without notice on this site first; Spud Ridge Defense stays free.
The games depend on your browser, your network and our server. We work to keep them running, but a room can drop, and we don't promise any particular uptime.
3. How to behave in a room
Players type names and answers, draw faces, write trivia questions and leave reviews. Don't use any of them to:
- harass, threaten or bully anyone, or attack people for who they are;
- post sexual content involving minors, or sexual content anywhere it can be seen in public, such as the wall or a stream;
- post someone else's private information, like an address or phone number;
- pretend to be someone else in a way meant to mislead;
- break the law, or infringe someone else's rights.
Don't attack the service either: no flooding it with traffic, scraping it in bulk, getting into rooms or admin pages you weren't given, or getting around its limits.
We can remove anything that breaks these rules, close a room or a trivia board, and block access, without notice. Report content to nick@couchslop.com.
4. Streaming and recording
You can stream, record and post videos of our games, including on monetised channels, and the music is cleared for that. In streamer mode, the streamer is responsible for their stream and for the moderators they choose to approve chat's questions.
5. What you make
What you type, draw or write stays yours. By submitting it, you give us a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to store it, show it in the game and on our site (for example a review or a drawing on the wall), and adapt it to fit, for as long as we run the service. You can ask us to take it down at any time and we will; copies already shown on a stream or in a video are beyond our reach.
You promise you have the right to submit what you submit.
6. Buying something
Prices are in US dollars and shown before you pay. Payment is taken by Stripe, and Stripe's own terms apply to the payment itself.
Party editions
A party edition is a custom version of Spud Ridge Defense for one party: a board where your guests write trivia, a TV link and a room code of its own. You get its links on screen and by email straight after paying. Anyone with the board link can write questions and anyone with the TV link can see the answers, so share them the way the email tells you to. Keep them for as long as you'd like to play it again.
The Expedition Pack
The Expedition Pack is a pre-order: you pay now for adventures that are still being built. Each one is added when it's finished, on the dates shown on the Expedition page. If a date moves, every buyer hears it from us by email, with a refund offered in the same message. One purchase covers one household: it unlocks on the TV that starts the game, and everyone who joins from a phone plays for free.
Refunds
Our refund policy is part of these terms. It doesn't take away any right you have under consumer law where you live.
7. Ours, and other people's
The games, their characters, art, voices, code and this website belong to Couchslop LLC. Using them doesn't give you any ownership of them. Some parts are made by other people and used under their licences: the 3D models by Kenney and every music track are CC0 or public domain, and each game's end screen credits its music.
Trademarks of other companies mentioned on this site belong to them, and their mention doesn't mean they endorse us.
8. No warranties
The service is provided "as is" and "as available". As far as the law allows, we make no promises beyond those written in these terms and the pages they link to, including any implied promise that the service is fit for a particular purpose, uninterrupted or free of errors.
9. Limits on our liability
As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profits or lost data, and our total liability to you for any claim about the service is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US $50. Some places don't allow these limits, and where they don't, they don't apply to you.
10. If something goes wrong between us
Write to nick@couchslop.com first; most problems end with a reply. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Georgia, unless the consumer law where you live gives you the right to bring it in your own courts.
11. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version, and changes apply from that date. A change won't take away a refund or delivery promise made for something you've already bought.
12. Contact
Couchslop LLC, Georgia, USA. nick@couchslop.com.