Terms & Conditions — Hide & Seek

Acceptance of These Terms

By accessing, creating, joining, or participating in a Hide & Seek game room, you agree to these Terms & Conditions.

If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the game.

1. About the Service

Hide & Seek is a multiplayer location-based game that allows players to create or join rooms and participate as Seekers or Hiders.

During an active round, the game may use device location information to calculate the distance between relevant players.

2. Player Responsibility

You are responsible for your actions while using Hide & Seek. You must use the game responsibly and comply with applicable laws, regulations, and rules of the location where you are playing.

You are also responsible for ensuring that you have permission to play in the location you choose.

3. Physical Safety

Hide & Seek involves real-world movement and location information. Your safety is more important than winning the game.

Never use the game in a way that puts yourself or another person in danger.

Do not play while driving a vehicle.
Do not play while operating machinery.
Do not run into roads or traffic.
Do not enter railway tracks or railway property.
Do not enter construction sites.
Do not climb rooftops, walls, trees, or other dangerous structures.
Do not enter private property without permission.
Do not enter bodies of water or other dangerous areas.
Follow local laws, venue rules, and instructions from authorities.

If a situation becomes unsafe, stop playing immediately.

4. Location Services

The game may request permission to access your device's location.

Location information is used to provide the game's distance-tracking functionality.

GPS and browser location services are not perfectly accurate. Distances displayed by the game should therefore be considered estimates and should never be used for safety-critical decisions.

5. Multiplayer Rooms

A player may create a room and receive a room code. Other players can use that code to join the room.

Room hosts should only share room codes with people they trust.

Players understand that information necessary for gameplay may be shared with other participants in the same room.

6. Player Names

Players may choose a display name when entering the game.

You agree not to use a name that:

Impersonates another person.
Contains abusive or threatening language.
Promotes illegal activity.
Contains another person's private information.
Is intentionally designed to harass another player.

7. Chat Rules

The game may provide a chat feature for Hiders when enabled by the host.

You agree not to use chat to:

Harass or threaten another player.
Share passwords or financial information.
Share private addresses or sensitive personal information.
Send malicious links or code.
Promote illegal activities.
Encourage dangerous physical behavior.

Do not share information through chat that you would not want another player to see.

8. Fair Play

Players are expected to participate fairly.

You must not intentionally attempt to manipulate, disrupt, or compromise the game.

Examples of prohibited behavior include:

Attempting to gain unauthorized access to another player's account, device, or connection.
Attempting to access rooms without authorization.
Intentionally attacking or overloading multiplayer services.
Uploading malicious software or code.
Attempting to interfere with another player's device.
Using technical methods to intentionally disrupt gameplay.

9. Third-Party Services

Hide & Seek uses third-party technologies to provide certain functionality.

The game currently uses PeerJS for multiplayer peer connections and may load the PeerJS library through a third-party CDN.

Third-party services may have their own terms, policies, limitations, and availability requirements.

We are not responsible for failures caused by third-party services, network infrastructure, browser limitations, or device limitations.

10. Service Availability

We aim to keep Hide & Seek available and functional, but we do not guarantee that the game will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

Gameplay may be affected by:

Internet connectivity
GPS availability or accuracy
Browser permissions
Device hardware or software
PeerJS/WebRTC connectivity
Third-party service outages
Server or network maintenance

11. No Guarantee of GPS Accuracy

Location information provided by your device may be inaccurate, delayed, or unavailable.

Buildings, weather, satellites, device hardware, network conditions, and other environmental factors can affect GPS accuracy.

You agree not to rely on the game's displayed distance as an exact measurement.

12. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the original Hide & Seek website, interface, source code, graphics, text, branding, and other original materials are owned by the developer or their respective licensors.

You may use the game for its intended personal or permitted purposes, but you may not copy, redistribute, sell, or commercially exploit protected materials without appropriate authorization.

13. Prohibited Use

You must not use Hide & Seek for unlawful, harmful, abusive, fraudulent, or malicious purposes.

You must not use the game to stalk, threaten, harass, intimidate, or deliberately endanger another person.

14. Children and Minors

Hide & Seek is not specifically designed as a service for children.

Because the game can involve real-world location information, parents or guardians should supervise minors and determine whether the game is appropriate for them.

Minors should never be encouraged to meet unknown people or travel to unsafe locations as part of the game.

15. Leaving the Game

You may leave a room at any time using the game's Exit button.

When you leave, the application stops active location tracking and clears the saved game session from the device according to the application's current functionality.

16. Suspension or Termination

Access to a particular room may end when the host ends the session, the room becomes unavailable, or a technical problem interrupts the connection.

We may restrict access to the service where reasonably necessary to protect the game, its users, or its infrastructure.

17. Disclaimer

Hide & Seek is provided for entertainment purposes.

The game is not a safety, navigation, emergency, or professional location service.

Players are responsible for making their own decisions and maintaining awareness of their physical surroundings.

18. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the developer is not responsible for losses, injuries, property damage, connection failures, inaccurate GPS information, or other consequences resulting from unsafe, improper, or unauthorized use of the game.

Nothing in these terms is intended to exclude or limit liability where such exclusion or limitation is not permitted by applicable law.

19. Changes to These Terms

These Terms & Conditions may be updated when the game, technology, features, or applicable requirements change.

The latest version published on this page will contain the current terms.

20. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms & Conditions, please contact the developer through the information provided on the About Us page.