Terms of Use

Agreeing to these terms

By installing or playing WordTogether you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the game — and if you have already installed it, deleting the app ends the agreement.

Who can use WordTogether

WordTogether is not directed at children under 13, and you must be at least 13 to use it. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the game only with the involvement of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms on your behalf. This matches the privacy policy, which explains what happens if we learn a child under 13 has created an account.

Your licence to use the game

You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play WordTogether on devices you control, for your own non-commercial use. That licence is all you get: the game, its code, its artwork, its name and its level data stay ours.

You may not copy, sell, rent, sub-licence or redistribute the app, or reverse-engineer, decompile or modify it, except to the extent the law expressly allows regardless of what an agreement says.

Your account

An account is optional. The entire game works without one, offline. An account exists only so your progress survives losing or changing your phone.

If you create one, you are responsible for keeping access to it secure, and for what happens under it. Tell us at support@wordtogethergame.com if you think someone else is using your account.

You can delete your account at any time from inside the app, or by email. The delete your account page explains exactly what is removed and when. We may suspend or close an account that is being used to break these terms, or to attack or abuse the service; where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why first.

Friends

Friends is an optional way to compare the daily puzzle with people you know. It needs an account, and you must accept these terms in the app before you can turn it on.

• Only add people you know. Your friend code is for giving to friends, not for posting publicly.
• There is no chat and no free text. Your name is picked from our word lists, and reactions come from a fixed set.
• Do not cheat on the daily puzzle, pretend to be someone else, keep sending requests to someone who does not want them, or use Friends to bully, harass or threaten anyone. Friends is not for anyone under 13.
• You can remove, block or report any player from the Friends screen. We review reports, and may remove results, turn off Friends for an account and keep it off, or close an account that breaks these terms.
• Results on the friends board are sent by players’ own phones. We check them only roughly, and cannot promise they are accurate.
• Friends needs an internet connection, and may be unavailable at times. The rest of the game does not depend on it.

Tokens and hints

Tokens are an in-game score. You earn them by banking shorter words, and you spend them on hints. You can also buy them (see Purchases, below). This is worth being explicit about:

• Tokens come from playing, from token packs and the Supporter Bundle, and from the one-time gift of 50 tokens that comes with Remove Ads. Earned and bought tokens are the same tokens and are spent the same way.
• Tokens, including tokens you buy, have no monetary value outside the game, are not a currency, and are not your property. They cannot be exchanged for money, goods or anything outside the game. A purchase of tokens buys a licence to use them in WordTogether.
• Tokens cannot be transferred between accounts or devices, except as part of the progress an account restores.
• Tokens and progress can be lost — by deleting the app without an account, by deleting your account, or through a bug. We are not obliged to restore them, though we will usually try if you ask.

Ads

The game is free to play because it shows ads supplied by Google AdMob. Ad content comes from Google and its advertisers, not from us: we do not choose, endorse or vet individual ads, and we are not responsible for what an ad says or where it leads. The privacy policy explains what data advertising involves and how to limit ad personalisation.

Purchases

Everything sold in WordTogether is optional, and sold and processed by Google Play. Payment, receipts and refunds are handled by Google Play under its own terms; we never see your payment details.

Remove Ads

Remove Ads is a one-time purchase. It removes the banner ads and the full-screen ads between levels on any device using the Google account that bought it, opens the archive of the last 30 days of daily puzzles (yesterday’s is free for everyone), and adds 50 tokens once. The optional ad you can choose to watch for a hint stays available.

• If Google refunds the purchase, the ads return and the older past dailies lock again. Tokens already given are not taken back.
• It is tied to your Google account, not to a WordTogether account, so signing in or out of WordTogether does not change it.

Supporter Bundle

The Supporter Bundle is a one-time purchase that includes everything Remove Ads does, on the same terms, with 300 tokens once instead of 50.

Token packs

Token packs are consumable: each one adds its tokens to your balance once, and can be bought again. Tokens are added as soon as Google Play confirms the payment; a payment that is still pending is added once it clears.

• Bought tokens are used up when you spend them on hints, and they are kept with the rest of your progress: on your device, and in your account if you are signed in. Deleting the app without an account deletes them with everything else.
• Once added, bought tokens are not refundable by us, except as Google Play’s refund policy or the law where you live requires.
• If tokens you paid for do not arrive, or go missing because of a fault in the game, contact us and we will help.

What is never for sale

Daily streaks cannot be bought or protected with money. Past dailies played from the archive never count towards your streak; streak freezes and the streak repair are earned and free.

What you may not do

• Interfere with the operation of the game, or with other people using it.
• Attempt to gain access to accounts, servers or data that are not yours.
• Use automated tools, modified clients or exploits to manipulate progress, tokens or streaks.
• Strip out, block or tamper with the advertising the game is funded by.
• Use the game for anything unlawful.

The word list and other people’s work

Accepted words come from ENABLE, a public-domain English word list, ranked using Peter Norvig’s public-domain word-frequency data. Level descriptions are derived from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. These sources are used under their own terms and remain the work of their authors.

ENABLE is a complete English word list, so it contains some words that are offensive. The game deliberately suppresses those from ever being displayed to you, but a complete list is what makes a word game fair, and we do not claim the underlying list is inoffensive.

Availability and changes to the game

We may change, update or withdraw WordTogether, or any part of it, at any time. Levels, difficulty, token amounts and features can all change. Online features — account sign-in and progress sync — depend on services we do not control and may be unavailable at times. Offline play does not depend on them.

No warranty

WordTogether is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that progress will never be lost. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be excluded; where that is the case, this section applies only as far as the law permits, and your statutory consumer rights are not affected.

Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost progress, lost tokens or lost data, arising from your use of WordTogether.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. Because the game is free to play and its only payments are the optional purchases above, any liability that does arise is limited to the greatest extent permitted where you live.

Ending these terms

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting the app. We may end it if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms. The sections that by their nature should outlive it — ownership, no warranty, limits on liability — continue to apply afterwards.

If you installed from the Apple App Store

WordTogether is currently published for Android only. If it is ever distributed through the Apple App Store, the following applies to that version, as Apple requires:

• This agreement is between you and us, not Apple, and we alone are responsible for the app and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund any purchase price paid. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim about the app, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to conform to a legal requirement, and claims under consumer protection or similar law.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and resolving any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property rights.
• You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and that you are not on any US Government restricted-parties list.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the date at the top of this page changes with them. Continuing to use the game after a change means you accept the updated terms. If a change is significant, we will try to make it visible in the app rather than only here.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Philippines, and the courts of the Philippines have jurisdiction — except where consumer protection law in the country you live in gives you the right to bring proceedings locally, which it may.