Acceptable Use Policy

Effective and last updated: 23 July 2026

This Policy is part of the Terms of Service. It applies to games, code, media, profiles, links, reviews, scores, messages and every other use of GameFoundry. Context matters, but safety, legality and honest participation are mandatory.

1. Illegal, abusive or rights-violating content

Do not upload, publish, link to, solicit or facilitate:

• content or activity illegal in the place it is uploaded, hosted or made available;
• child sexual abuse material, sexual exploitation or grooming, non-consensual intimate content, trafficking, or sexual content involving or presented as involving a minor;
• credible threats, targeted harassment, stalking, doxxing, incitement to violence, encouragement or instructions for suicide, self-harm or eating disorders, terrorist/extremist recruitment, or instructions intended to enable serious harm;
• hateful content that attacks or dehumanises people based on protected characteristics;
• pornographic or sexually explicit content, or graphic content primarily intended to shock, because the service has no adult-content age gate;
• fraud, scams, phishing, impersonation, deceptive claims, unlawful gambling, sale of regulated/illegal goods, or evasion of sanctions;
• content that infringes copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, database or other rights. A licence, fair-use/fair-dealing exception, or other lawful basis must actually apply.

2. Malicious or deceptive software

Do not submit malware, ransomware, spyware, credential theft, destructive code, hidden cryptocurrency mining, unauthorised remote control, unwanted installers, deceptive downloads, or code designed to evade scanning. Do not disguise a file's type, origin, permissions, network behaviour or purpose. Security research requires prior written permission and must not access real user data or disrupt the service.

3. Privacy and in-game data

A hosted game must not collect credentials, private keys, financial information, precise location, contacts, special-category data, or data from children. Any other personal-data processing by a developer must be necessary, lawful, proportionate, clearly disclosed before collection and supported by the required consent/controls. Hidden trackers, fingerprinting, cross-game profiling, sale of data and advertising surveillance are prohibited. Never claim that GameFoundry endorses your privacy practices.

4. Platform and contest abuse

• Do not manipulate ratings, reviews, scores, downloads, plays, referrals, rankings, eligibility or prizes through fake/multiple accounts, bots, scripts, coordinated voting, incentives conditioned on a rating, or misleading campaigns.
• Do not spam, scrape at scale, overload, probe, reverse engineer security, bypass access controls/rate limits, exploit vulnerabilities, or interfere with another user. Normal indexing and good-faith, low-volume interoperability consistent with published interfaces are not prohibited where law protects them.
• Do not evade a restriction, recreate a suspended account, conceal control of related accounts/games, falsify eligibility or prize-claim information, or retaliate against a reporter.
• Do not misuse support/reporting tools, submit knowingly false notices, or expose personal/confidential information unnecessarily in a report.

5. Honest presentation

Accurately identify the developer, game, AI involvement, supported platform, permissions, network behaviour, material risks and any cost charged by an external service. Screenshots and descriptions must substantially represent the submitted build. Tip links must belong to the stated developer, be clearly optional and never be described as a GameFoundry payment.

6. Enforcement

GameFoundry uses automated file-type, archive-safety and malware checks plus administrator review prompted by reports or other signals. Automated tools can make mistakes. Depending on context, severity, history and risk, we may reject or quarantine an upload; remove or restrict content; disregard activity; disqualify a game from a round; warn, suspend or terminate an account; preserve evidence; and notify affected parties or competent authorities where lawful.

We aim to act proportionately and consistently, but urgent or serious harm may require action without advance notice. No scanning or moderation process guarantees that all harmful content will be detected.

7. Reporting illegal or prohibited content

Use Report this game on the relevant page or the Support button. Identify the exact game/content, explain the reason, provide a direct URL and, where relevant, describe the legal right and your authority to act. Provide truthful contact details if you want a response. Do not send sensitive evidence unless necessary.

8. Notice, reasons and appeal

Where practical and legally permitted, we notify the affected account of a material restriction and give the main reason. To appeal, contact Support, identify the decision and provide relevant context/evidence. A different review will be used where reasonably available. Repeated, abusive or substantially identical appeals need not be reconsidered. This process does not limit any mandatory external remedy.

9. Changes and questions

We may update this Policy prospectively to address new risks, law or service features. Material changes will be dated and, where appropriate, additionally notified. Questions and good-faith requests for clarification may be sent through Support.

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