Terms of Service

Last updated: 27 September 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the Herd Game website at herdgamesonline.com, or the Herd Games Android app (together, the “Service”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”). If you disagree with any part of the Terms, you may not use the Service.

2. Description of Service

Herd Game is a free collection of party, team and puzzle games. It includes multiplayer games played with friends in a shared room, single-player games you play on your own, and daily puzzles that change every day. The Service is provided in two forms: a website that needs no download, and an Android app distributed through Google Play.

The app contains the same games as the website. It shows no advertising, offers no in-app purchases and has no subscription. It may ask for permission to show notifications, purely so it can remind you when the day’s new games are ready; you can refuse, and every game still works. Updates are delivered through Google Play, and your use of the app is also subject to Google Play’s own terms.

We may add, change or remove games at any time. Because the games are free, we do not promise that any particular game will remain available.

Separately, companies can pay for a private space for their own people, called Herd Games at work. Section 7 covers it. The rest of these Terms applies to it too, except where section 7 says otherwise.

3. Accounts are optional

You do not need an account to play any game on the public site. To join a multiplayer room you type a display name, which is shown to the other players in that room. It does not need to be your real name. A company space (section 7) is the exception: you sign in to it with your work email.

You can create an account so the games you have played follow you to another device. If you do, keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for what is done with your account. A work account (section 7) has no password: you sign in with a single-use link sent to your work email, so keep access to that mailbox to yourself. You can delete any account at any time from the account deletion page.

4. User Conduct

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Violate any applicable laws or regulations
• Impersonate any person or entity
• Engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Service
• Post or transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service
• Use the Service for any commercial purpose without our express written consent

5. Intellectual Property

The Service and its original content, features, and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of Herd Game and its licensors. The Service is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without the prior written consent.

6. User-Generated Content

During a game you type things: a display name, and answers or clues that are shown to the other players in your room. That is the whole of the user-generated content here — there is no public profile, no comment section and no way to publish anything to other users outside your own game room. By submitting content you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use it for the purpose of operating and improving the Service.

Please do not type anything private, and do not submit content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing or obscene. The result of a finished game (the display names and the scores) is kept, so players can see their history and leaderboards, and some games also keep a recap of each round (for example the words each person wrote in Scattergories). Anything else you type is not kept once the room is gone. If you write your own questions (a custom pack), they are stored so that anybody you give the pack’s code to can play them, and in a company space they are shown to the people in that company.

7. Herd Games at work (company spaces)

A company space is a private area where one company’s people play together and see their own results. It is a paid subscription, bought by a person on behalf of their company (the “Customer”). By subscribing, you confirm you are allowed to do that for the company.

• Who gets in. People who sign in with an email address at a domain the Customer has claimed join it, while its plan has room for them (see “Size”), and admins can invite others. Admins can make the space invite-only and remove anybody at any time. The Customer is responsible for who its admins let in.
• What admins see. Admins see each member’s participation (which games they played and when), when each member was last in the space, and a monthly report of it, which is emailed to them. Every member sees the company’s results, and its standings unless an admin turns them off. The Customer decides how it uses that information inside the company, and is responsible for doing so lawfully and for telling its people.
• Payment. Payments are handled by Polar, our merchant of record, which also issues invoices and handles sales tax. The price is the one shown on our pricing page when you subscribe. A subscription renews automatically each month or year until it is cancelled. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the space stays open until the end of the period already paid for, and we do not charge for anything after that. If you think you were charged wrongly, email us and we will look at it; refunds are also given wherever the law requires them.
• Size. Each plan covers up to a number of people, counted as the people who have joined the space and not been removed. When a space grows past its plan, everybody already in carries on as normal, and new people can still join for 14 days, or until the space is 10% (and at least 25 people) past its plan, whichever comes first. After that, new people wait until the plan covers them. Admins are emailed when this starts. Moving a plan to another size takes effect at once: Polar charges the difference for the rest of the period already paid, or credits it on the next invoice for a smaller plan, which must still cover everybody in the space.
• Nothing is free before paying. Creating a company reserves its name and its email domain, and colleagues who sign in with that domain join it. The space and its games open when the subscription starts.
• Keeping and deleting. A company’s space and its history are kept while it is a Customer, and after its subscription ends, so a company that comes back finds everything where it left it. A Customer can ask us to delete the whole space at any time, and we will do it within 30 days and confirm when it is done. Any person can delete their own account at any time (section 3).
• Where this section differs. For a company space it takes the place of anything else in these Terms. In particular, we will not end or suspend a company’s access during a period it has paid for, except for a serious breach of these Terms, and we will tell the Customer why.

7a. Bigger rooms (Host and Event plans)

Every game is free in rooms of up to 20 players. A person who hosts a bigger room can buy a plan for the rooms they host: Host (up to 50 players) or Event (up to 250 players). Only the host pays; the people who join never pay and need no account.

• What a plan is. A bigger room, and nothing else is promised. A room keeps the size it had when it was made, and a plan that ends does not shrink a room that is already open; rooms made after it ends are back to 20 players.
• Payment. Payments are handled by Polar, our merchant of record, which also issues invoices and handles sales tax. The price is the one shown on our pricing page when you buy. A monthly or yearly plan renews automatically until it is cancelled. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the plan stays on until the end of the period already paid for, and we do not charge for anything after that. The one-month Event plan is paid once, runs for one month and does not renew. You can cancel and manage billing from your account page. If you think you were charged wrongly, email us and we will look at it; refunds are also given wherever the law requires them.
• Changing a plan. Moving to another plan takes effect at once, and Polar charges the difference for the rest of the period already paid, or credits it on a move down.
• Who it is for. Host and Event are for your own family, class, club, church, wedding or community group, not for hosting games for paying clients, and not for a workplace, which has its own plan (section 7). If you host for clients, email us.
• Deleting your account. A plan that is still renewing has to be cancelled first, so your card is not charged for a plan attached to nobody. The account page shows where.

8. Termination

We may terminate or suspend your access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms. All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination.

9. Disclaimer

Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. The Service is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or course of performance.

10. Limitation of Liability

In no event shall Herd Game, its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Service.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable where Herd Game is operated, without regard to conflict of law provisions. Nothing in these Terms removes any consumer protection rights you have under the law of the country you live in.

12. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at: hello@herdgamesonline.com