Terms of Service

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use PolyWorld. We ask for a birthday at sign-up only to check that age. We do not store the date of birth; we store that you completed the check. That check is self-attested. We do not independently verify age or parental identity.

If you are 13 or older but under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms on your behalf, authorize the account, and authorize any real-money payments. Checking the 13+ box is your confirmation of that, not a separate verified parental consent flow.

Where the law lets a minor void a contract, that law still applies. We may refuse, reverse, or limit purchases if we believe a minor paid without authorization.

2. Accounts

• You are responsible for keeping your password and session secure. We do not collect email on the account, so we cannot send password-reset mail. If you lose access, open a Ticket or email epic.gdps@gmail.com; we may require proof of account control.
• Registration information must be accurate for what we actually collect: a username and password that you control. We do not require a real name. Important account messages are sent in-site (banners, notifications) and sometimes via Discord, not by email.
• Usernames must pass the chat filter and the Community Rules. “Offensive” here means a name that breaks those rules (for example hate, sexual content, harassment, or misleading impersonation of staff, players, or brands).
• We may suspend (temporary lockout, including a temp ban) or terminate (permanent site ban / account closure) accounts that violate these Terms or the Community Rules.
• We may change an abusive username, or delete unused accounts that have never played a game, commented, voted, or bought a non-default item (staff, protected, verified, and creator accounts are skipped; an unused starter place does not count as owning a game). If we only change a username, the account id, inventory, places, and purchases stay with the account. If we delete an unused account, remaining items and currency on it are removed. We try to notify you in-site when staff changes your username.

3. The Service

PolyWorld is an online platform for playing and creating multiplayer experiences, including user-generated places, avatars, catalog items, and scripts. Features may change, break, or be discontinued at any time. The Service is provided as is and may include bugs, downtime, or data loss.

If we shut down or drop a paid feature, unused Bricks, Bux, catalog items, and places are still virtual items with no cash value. We will post notice on the site and Discord when we can. Except where law requires a refund of amounts you actually paid us, shutdown is not a cash-out of virtual items or user-created places. We may keep, transfer, or take down user-created places at our discretion as part of winding down.

PolyWorld is inspired by classic-era ROBLOX-style experiences. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Roblox Corporation. ROBLOX is a trademark of its respective owners.

4. User content

• You retain ownership of original content you create (places, scripts, images you upload, and similar), subject to the licenses below.
• By uploading or publishing content on PolyWorld, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, display, reproduce, modify (for formatting, thumbnails, and technical needs), distribute, and promote that content as needed to operate, secure, and market the Service, including through hosting and network providers. “Promote” means showing the content in the Service, screenshots, trailers, and similar PolyWorld marketing, without extra consent or payment to you.
• You also grant other users a limited license to play, view, and (where the Service allows) copy or remix your places and scripts on PolyWorld.
• These licenses last while the content is on the Service and for a reasonable time after removal so we can drain caches, keep backups, and handle moderation or legal requests. If you delete content or your account, we stop ordinary public display; residual copies may remain in backups and logs as described in the Privacy Policy.
• You represent that you have the rights to the content you upload and that it does not violate law, these Terms, or the Community Rules.
• We may remove content or restrict visibility without notice.
• Copyright complaints, counter-notices, and repeat-infringer action are handled as described in section 13.

5. Virtual items, currency, and trading

• Bricks and Bux are licensed virtual items for use only on PolyWorld. They have no real-world cash value and are not redeemable for money, credit, or other value outside the Service.
• Catalog items, including supporter cosmetics, are likewise virtual items with no cash value, even if players treat them as scarce.
• Claims are free in-Service grants (for example daily Bux or challenge rewards). Exchanges convert Bricks and Bux through the in-Service exchange. Catalog trades are limited-item swaps between friends using the Trading feature; only limited copies can be traded. Trading is not a real-money marketplace.
• You may not buy, sell, or trade accounts, Bricks, Bux, or catalog items for real money or value outside PolyWorld, and you may not scam others in trades.
• Purchases, claims, exchanges, supporter payments, and catalog trades are final except where law requires a refund. We may also reverse or adjust a transaction at our discretion to fix errors, fraud, chargebacks, or abuse. That extra discretion does not apply to ordinary “I changed my mind” refunds.
• Where consumer cooling-off rules for digital content apply, by completing a payment you ask us to supply the digital content immediately and you acknowledge you lose any right to cancel that would otherwise apply.
• We may adjust balances, rates, prices, packs, or item availability to fix errors, abuse, or economy issues. “Economy issues” means exploits, duplicated currency, broken converters, runaway inflation from a bug, or similar failures of the virtual economy. We will not reduce Bricks or Bux you paid real money for as a general devaluation without notice on the site or Discord, except to reverse fraud, duplication, chargebacks, or an obvious granting error. Other virtual items may still be changed or unpublished.
• A temporary ban or mute does not forfeit inventory or unused currency. A permanent site ban is account termination for this section: virtual items and unused currency on that account may be forfeited without refund. A game / IP ban blocks joining games and does not by itself delete the account or inventory; if we also permanently site-ban the account, forfeiture may apply.
• Buying Bricks or Bux (when offered) is a purchase of a limited license to use virtual currency on PolyWorld, not a purchase of property or a stored-value account.

6. Payments and supporter payments

• Optional payments through Stripe that support servers and development are supporter payments, not charitable donations and not tax-deductible. They are not a purchase of Bricks, Bux, or any guaranteed feature beyond the thank-you cosmetics we currently grant as described on the Donate page.
• We currently grant the Donor Hard Hat once per account on the first successfully recorded supporter payment of any amount, and the Super Donor Shirt once when recorded supporter payments to PolyWorld total at least USD $50. Later payments still help the project. Thresholds and which items we grant may change; the live thresholds are on the Donate page. If we change a threshold, we will not take back an item you already received solely because of that change, except for refunds, chargebacks, fraud, or Terms/Rules violations.
• Totals are the sum of recorded Stripe payment amounts in USD as charged (we currently charge in USD). We do not convert other currencies. The total is the charged amount, not net of Stripe fees. Refunded or charged-back payments may be excluded, and granted items may be reversed.
• Paid Bricks and Bux, when that shop is available, are optional virtual-currency packs. They are not supporter payments. Pack contents and prices may change.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store card numbers or other payment-method details. Stripe’s terms and privacy policy also apply to the payment step.
• Except where required by law, all real-money payments (supporter payments and virtual-currency packs) are non-refundable. Chargebacks, payment disputes, or fraud may lead to reversal of granted items/currency and account action.
• You represent that you are authorized to use the payment method, that you meet the eligibility rules in these Terms (including 13+), and that if you are under the age of majority a parent or guardian authorized the payment.

7. Acceptable use, APIs, and security research

You agree not to misuse the Service, including by cheating, exploiting, attacking infrastructure, harvesting data, reverse engineering to bypass security, anti-cheat, access controls, payments, or filters, distributing malware, or violating the Community Rules. We may investigate and take technical or legal action.

HTTP APIs exist so official desktop, Studio, and web clients can talk to PolyWorld. Using those APIs the way the official clients do is allowed. Automated use that degrades the Service, bypasses authentication, harvests other people’s data, or exceeds what official clients need is not allowed (“abusive” scraping). We do not publish a guaranteed rate limit and may throttle or block clients.

Gameplay bots, hacks, and clients that play, farm, or fight for you are not allowed. Report bugs and vulnerabilities with an on-site Ticket (topic: Bug / security) or email epic.gdps@gmail.com instead of abusing them. Good-faith testing that does not harm users or the Service, does not access other people’s accounts or data, and is promptly reported will not be treated as a Terms violation solely because of that testing.

8. Software clients

Desktop clients, Studio, and web clients are licensed to you as a personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable license to use with PolyWorld. You may not redistribute our binaries as your own product or remove branding in a deceptive way.

Unofficial or third-party clients, including accessibility tools, are allowed only if they do not bypass security, cheat, or grant unfair gameplay advantages. They are unsupported; we may block them. Community Rules section 3 uses the same standard.

9. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE AND THE PEOPLE WE AUTHORIZE TO OPERATE THE SERVICE (STAFF AND CONTRACTORS) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, OR VIRTUAL ITEMS, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. VIRTUAL ITEMS AND CURRENCY HAVE NO CASH VALUE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATED TO THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) AMOUNTS YOU PAID US (IF ANY) IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) USD $50.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including (where such law applies) death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or a failure to provide digital content with reasonable care.

11. Ending your use

• You may stop using the Service at any time. You may schedule account deletion in Settings. That logs you out and, unless you log in again within 7 days, removes your profile, places, inventory, and login. Ban records, IP records, chat logs, and backups may remain as described in the Privacy Policy.
• Deleting an account ends ordinary public display of your content under section 4. It does not refund supporter payments, Bricks, Bux, or items, except where law requires. If the account was permanently banned, section 5 forfeiture still applies.
• We may suspend or terminate access as described in section 2. After termination you may not use the Service without our permission.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms by posting a new version on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Changes take effect when posted. We will also announce material changes via site banner or Discord. Continued use after the new date means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and delete your account. We do not currently publish an archive of old versions; the page you are reading is the current one.

13. Contact, reports, and copyright

Questions about these Terms, legal notices, copyright complaints, privacy requests, rule reports, child-safety reports, and vulnerability reports: open an on-site Ticket or email epic.gdps@gmail.com. You can also use in-product Report on profiles, games, comments, and forum posts. Discord is optional and not required for these requests. We do not currently publish a postal address.

If you believe content on PolyWorld infringes your copyright, send a Ticket (topic: Copyright) or email that includes: your contact details, the work claimed, the URL or id of the material, a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act, and your signature (typed is enough). We may remove the material and, for repeat infringers, terminate accounts. If we removed your content and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice with your contact details, the material and its location, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake, and your consent to the forum in section 14 if a court action follows.

14. General

• We do not designate a governing-law country or exclusive court. Mandatory consumer-protection rights where you live still apply. For other disputes, contact us first through an on-site Ticket or epic.gdps@gmail.com.
• If a part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
• You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them if the Service is transferred.
• Sections 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14 survive termination or deletion, as do any other terms that by their nature should survive.
• These Terms are the agreement between you and us for the Service. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.