Terms of Service

Welcome to Fat TCG. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Gormless Games LLC, the company that operates Fat TCG ("we", "us", or "our"). By creating an account or using the game, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Fat TCG.

1. Age Requirement & Mature Content Notice

If you are under 18, you may not create an account or use the game, and registration will be refused if the date of birth you enter shows that you are under 18. We will terminate any account we believe belongs to a minor.

2. Your Account

• You must provide accurate information when registering and keep your login credentials confidential.
• You are responsible for all activity that happens under your account.
• Each person may hold one account only. Creating multiple accounts to gain an unfair advantage (for example, to inflate leaderboards or manipulate the in-game economy) is prohibited.
• Do not share, sell, or transfer your account to anyone else.
• Notify us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

3. Virtual Items, Cards & Coins

Fat TCG includes virtual items such as cards, card packs, and coins. These items:

• Have no real-world monetary value and cannot be exchanged, redeemed, or cashed out for real money or anything of real value.
• Are licensed to you for personal, non-commercial use within the game; you do not own them.
• May be added, changed, adjusted, or removed by us at any time as we balance and maintain the game.

4. Trading

The trading feature is provided as a convenience and may be offered in beta. Trades are made at your own discretion. You are responsible for the trades you propose and accept. We may place limits on trading, reverse trades that result from fraud, exploits, or error, and suspend the feature at any time to protect players or the game economy.

5. Acceptable Use: What You May Not Do

As a live online game, Fat TCG relies on fair play. You agree not to:

• Cheat, use unauthorized third-party software, bots, scripts, automation, or macros to play or to farm packs, coins, or cards.
• Exploit bugs, glitches, or errors instead of reporting them to us.
• Tamper with, decompile, reverse engineer, or interfere with the game, its servers, or its security.
• Use multiple or fake accounts to manipulate leaderboards, trades, or the economy.
• Buy, sell, or trade accounts, cards, or coins for real-world money or goods.
• Harass, threaten, impersonate, or abuse other players or staff, or choose an offensive or impersonating username.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to other accounts or to our systems.
• Use the game for any unlawful purpose.

6. Enforcement, Suspensions & Bans

We may investigate suspected violations of these Terms and take any action we consider appropriate, including:

• Issuing a warning.
• Removing, resetting, or adjusting cards, coins, or other in-game items.
• Reversing trades or transactions.
• Temporarily suspending your account.
• Permanently banning your account and blocking future access.

We may take these actions at our discretion, with or without prior notice, depending on the severity of the violation. Because Fat TCG is free and contains no purchases, you are not entitled to any refund or compensation for items, progress, or access lost as a result of enforcement action. If you believe an action was taken in error, you may appeal through our Contact page.

7. Service Availability & Changes

Fat TCG is a live, evolving online service provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not guarantee that the game will always be available, uninterrupted, or error-free. We may, at any time and without liability to you:

• Update, change, add, or remove features, cards, or game mechanics.
• Perform maintenance that temporarily takes the game offline.
• Reset, wipe, or migrate game data when necessary for balance, security, or technical reasons.
• Suspend or permanently discontinue the game in whole or in part.

8. Intellectual Property

The Fat TCG name, logo, game design, and card artwork are owned by us or by their respective creators and are protected by applicable laws. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from the game or its content without our permission, except as allowed by these Terms for normal personal play.

9. Artist Submissions

Every card in Fat TCG is brought to life by independent artists, and we want our partnership to be clear and fair for everyone. Whenever you share artwork with us for use in Fat TCG (whether on Discord, by email, or through any other channel), the following terms apply to that artwork and to any variants or files you include with it (the "Submitted Artwork"):

1. Your art remains yours. You keep full ownership and all rights to your artwork. You are free to keep using it, selling it, and licensing it to anyone else. We will credit you as the artist wherever practical.
2. Permission to use your artwork. You give Fat TCG and its creator a royalty-free, non-exclusive permission to display and distribute the Submitted Artwork as part of the game. To fit it on a card, we may make technical adjustments only, such as cropping, resizing, compressing, or placing it inside the card frame alongside the card's name, stats, and text. Any other change to the artwork itself will only be made with your agreement.
3. Only for Fat TCG. Your artwork will only be used in:
   • Fat TCG itself;
   • sequels or spin-offs of Fat TCG (for example, a possible future offline mode where you play against bots);
   • promotional content for the above, such as trailers, gameplay showcases, news posts, and social media posts.
   It will never be used in unrelated projects, never sold or given to third parties, and never used to train artificial intelligence.
4. Commercial use. Fat TCG is free to play. The only commercial use of artwork is for Special cards offered as Patreon rewards, and only when you have agreed to it with us beforehand. Your artwork will never appear on merchandise or in any other paid product unless we have reached a separate agreement with you first.
5. You can withdraw your art at any time. This permission is not permanent. You can withdraw it whenever you want, for any or all of your artwork, by contacting us. Once we receive your request, we will remove the artwork from the game and stop using it in any new material. For technical reasons (such as caches and players' devices storing old copies of the game), the removal may take up to 72 hours to take full effect on the website. If a sequel or spin-off is distributed as a downloadable version, the artwork will be removed in its next update. We will also take down or edit promotional content that features your artwork wherever we are able to.
6. No payment owed. Unless we have agreed otherwise with you, no fee or royalty is owed for the use of the Submitted Artwork described in this section.
7. Your guarantee. You confirm that you created the Submitted Artwork, or otherwise hold the rights needed to give this permission, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights. Please never share artwork created by other people without their permission.

10. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fat TCG is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for loss of in-game items, progress, or data arising from your use of the game. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

11. Termination

You may stop using Fat TCG and request deletion of your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or if we discontinue the service. Sections relating to virtual items, intellectual property, disclaimers, and limitation of liability survive termination. Section 9 (Artist Submissions) continues to apply until the artist withdraws their permission as described there.

12. Governing Law & Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Mexico, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and disputes will be handled by the courts located in New Mexico. If you are a consumer living in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another country whose law gives you mandatory consumer protections, nothing in these Terms takes those protections away, and you may also bring a claim in the courts of the country where you live. Before going to court, please contact us so we can try to solve the problem together.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above and, for significant changes, notify players within the game or by email. Continued use of Fat TCG after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach us through our Contact page or by email at DSBx1@protonmail.com. Full company details are in our Legal Notice.