Terms of Use

1. What the service is

HushDare is a set of social party games designed to be played by people in the same room, each on their own phone. One player creates a room and shares a four-letter code; the others join with it. There is no profile and no friends list, and you never need an account to play.

We provide the service as an entertainment product. We may add games, change them, or retire them, and we may change how the service works over time.

2. Who may use it

You must be at least 16 years old to use the service. If you are under 16, you may not use it, and you should not provide us with any information.

Some content is intended for adults only and is kept behind an age check. You must be at least 18 to reach it. Confirming an age you do not hold in order to reach that content is a breach of these terms.

If you use the service somewhere its content would be unlawful, you may not use it there.

3. What you write

Some games ask you to type something: a display name, an answer to a prompt, or a question for other players. We call all of that your content, and you keep ownership of it.

You give us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store your content, to transmit it to the other players in your room, and to display it there as the game requires. That licence exists only so the game can work, it lasts only as long as we hold the content, and it ends when the content is deleted, which happens automatically about a day after the room’s last activity, or, where another player has reported the content to us, when the copy held with that report is deleted 90 days later. We do not use your content for anything else, we do not publish it outside your room, and we do not use it to train any AI model.

You are responsible for what you write. You confirm that you have the right to submit it and that it does not breach section 5.

Please remember that a room is a shared space. Anything you type will be shown to the other players in it, and once shown it cannot be recalled.

4. Purchases

The service is free to play. Some content can be unlocked by a one-off purchase. It is not a subscription, and nothing recurs. An unlock is permanent, and what it is attached to depends on where you bought it: a purchase made in the app is attached to the store account that made it, and a purchase made on hushdare.com is attached to the anonymous session that made it.

There are two places to buy, and different companies handle each. In the app, the purchase is made through Apple’s App Store or Google Play. On hushdare.com, the purchase is made through Polar, which is the merchant of record for our web sales: Polar runs the checkout, takes the payment, issues the receipt, and accounts for sales tax. Whichever route you take, that company’s terms govern the transaction and the payment, and we never see your card details.

Because your session is anonymous and tied to the installation, reinstalling the app creates a new session. Use the restore option in the app to reattach a purchase made through a store. If restore does not work, write to us and we will help.

After a purchase, and only after one, you may choose to attach an email address so the unlock follows you to your other devices. It is always a choice. Nobody is asked for an email address in order to play, and declining costs you nothing you have already paid for.

If you attach an email address, you can delete that account from inside the app at any time. Account deletion removes the email address and the record that carries your unlock between devices. A purchase made through Apple or Google can still be restored afterwards from the store that took the payment, because the store holds its own record. A purchase made on hushdare.com cannot be carried to another device once its account is deleted, so we will say so and ask you to confirm before we do it. You can also write to privacy@hushdare.com and we will do it for you.

Prices may change, and we may change which content is free and which is paid. A change never removes content you have already unlocked.

Refunds for App Store and Google Play purchases are requested from Apple or Google, under their own refund policies. For a purchase made on hushdare.com, write to us at support@hushdare.com and we will arrange it with Polar, which processes the refund as merchant of record. This does not limit any remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any equivalent law where you live, as set out in section 10.

5. Acceptable use, and the content we will not tolerate

We have no tolerance for objectionable content or for abusive users. HushDare is meant to be played among people who chose to sit at a table together, and that is the standard we hold it to.

You must not submit or do any of the following

• Content that harasses, bullies, threatens, or intimidates any person.
• Content that is hateful or that demeans a person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, age, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• Sexual content involving a minor, in any form. We report this to the appropriate authorities.
• Content that is obscene, gratuitously violent, or designed to shock or disgust.
• Content that encourages self-harm, suicide, or an eating disorder.
• Content that encourages or depicts illegal activity.
• Content that infringes anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.
• Impersonating another person, or naming yourself in a way designed to deceive.
• Choosing a display name that is offensive, harassing, or otherwise breaches this section. The name you pick is content like any other, and this section applies to it.
• Publishing private information about another person, including their address, contact details, or images, without their permission.
• Spam, advertising, or links to unrelated services.
• Interfering with the service: probing or attacking it, evading its limits, automating access to it, or attempting to reach data that is not yours.
• Reverse engineering, decompiling, or attempting to extract our source code or game content, except where the law expressly permits it despite this term.

We may remove any content that breaches these terms, and we may suspend or terminate access for anyone who submits it, at any time and without notice. Where the conduct is serious, we may also report it to law enforcement.

6. Reporting content or behaviour

If someone in a room writes something objectionable, or behaves abusively, report it to us at support@hushdare.com. Please include the room code, roughly when it happened, and what was written. We aim to review every report within 24 hours and to act on it, which may mean removing the content and removing the player’s access to the service.

Two practical points, stated plainly rather than implied. First, content written in a room is deleted automatically about a day after the room’s last activity, so reporting promptly gives us the best chance of acting on it while it still exists. Reporting it from inside the game keeps a copy of the reported text with your report for 90 days, as our Privacy Policy describes, so the evidence survives that deletion. Second, you do not have to wait for us. You can report another player’s name, or anything they have written, from the game itself, and the player who opened the room can remove someone from it. A removed player is refused that room code from then on, and anything they wrote in the room is deleted at the same time.

7. Our content and brand

The games, the topic packs and their card content, the software, the HushDare name, and the artwork and design of the service are owned by Self Capsule Pty Ltd or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark law.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service for your own entertainment. You may not copy, redistribute, sell, or make derivative works from our content, and you may not extract topic packs or card content for use elsewhere.

You are welcome to stream or record yourself playing, including for a monetised channel. Please do not present the game as your own.

8. Availability

We do not promise the service will be available without interruption. It depends on your network, on your device, and on providers we do not control. We may suspend it for maintenance, and we may change or discontinue any part of it.

Game rooms and everything in them are deleted automatically about a day after the room’s last activity. The service is not a place to store anything you want to keep.

9. Ending this agreement

You can stop at any time by deleting the app. There is nothing to cancel. If you attached an email address to a purchase, you can delete that account from inside the app, on the terms set out in section 4.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the service. Content you have already unlocked by purchase is not taken away because we discontinue a feature, but if we retire the service entirely, we will say so in advance where we reasonably can.

10. Disclaimers and our liability

To the extent the law allows, the service is provided as it is and as available, without warranties of any kind, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, or for loss of data or profits, arising from your use of it. Where we are liable, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For a major failure you are entitled to a replacement or refund, and to compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. Where a guarantee applies and the failure is not major, you are entitled to have the problem fixed within a reasonable time, and if that is not done, to a refund. If you live somewhere with equivalent mandatory consumer protections, those apply to you in the same way.

11. Privacy

How we handle information is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. In short: no account unless you buy something and choose to attach an email address, no third-party tracking, no advertising, and everything from a game is deleted about a day after you play, apart from a copy of anything reported to us, which is kept for 90 days. Questions go to privacy@hushdare.com.

12. If you downloaded from the App Store

These terms are between you and us alone. Apple is not a party to them.

• We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may tell Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation of any kind, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and any claim arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any third-party claim that the app or your use of it infringes that party’s intellectual property rights.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not listed on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, on your acceptance of them, have the right to enforce them against you.

Your use of the app must also comply with the Usage Rules in Apple’s App Store Terms of Service.

13. General

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. If you are a consumer somewhere else, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections of your local law, and you may bring proceedings there.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. Our not enforcing a term on one occasion does not waive it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the business is sold or restructured.

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the service.

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top, and where a change materially affects your rights we will tell you inside the app before it takes effect. Continuing to play after that means you accept the updated terms.

14. Contact us

Self Capsule Pty Ltd (ABN 34 696 418 970), New South Wales, Australia

Support and content reports: support@hushdare.com

Privacy and data requests: privacy@hushdare.com