Terms of Service

By downloading, accessing, or using Season, you agree to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Season. If you use Season on behalf of another person or organization, you represent that you have authority to accept these terms for that party.

Season is intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority where you live, to use Season. The current build does not use a separate age-verification step. If you do not meet the applicable age requirement, do not use Season.

You must comply with the laws that apply to you. You may not use Season where your use would be unlawful or where access to Season has been prohibited.

Season is a fictional civic strategy game. Campaign statements, candidate roles, practice ballots, election outcomes, public works, town conditions, resident reactions, reports, budgets, and succession records are simulated game content. You may not represent a Season practice ballot as an authenticated vote in a real election or use Season to impersonate an election authority.

The current build is local-first. It includes local Chats and Town Square features, optional selected photos, and local safety controls. It does not provide authenticated multiplayer, real voting authority, remote moderation, delivered public services, remote AI gameplay, or a remote Season account. Features identified as local, sample, practice, or fictional must be understood according to those labels.

Season does not provide legal, financial, political, election-administration, or professional advice. You are responsible for evaluating information before relying on it outside the game.

Season may allow you to continue in practice mode or use optional Sign in with Apple. The current build stores the Season account projection and app-owned records locally. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your device, Apple ID, and any credentials used with Season.

You must provide accurate information when a field requests it and must not use another person's identity or account without authorization. You are responsible for activity that occurs through your device or local Season session.

We may suspend or terminate access, remove content, or take other appropriate action if we reasonably believe you have violated these terms, created a security or legal risk, or used Season unlawfully. Where practical, we will provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue. Termination does not limit rights or obligations that by their nature should survive.

You retain ownership of the original content you create in Season, such as fictional town names, candidate statements, campaign promises, notes, reports, chat messages, Town Square posts, and profile or post photos you select. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process, display, transmit, and create derivative technical copies of that content only as reasonably necessary to operate Season, provide the features you request, and respond to support or legal matters. In the current local build, this license is primarily exercised through local processing and display on your device.

You are responsible for your content and for having the rights needed to use it. You must not upload, author, or share content that is unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, invasive of privacy, infringing, malicious, or otherwise harmful. You must not use Season to impersonate a real person, misrepresent a practice ballot as a real election, distribute malware, interfere with the app, or violate another person's rights.

You must not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, bypass security controls, scrape, or attempt to derive source code from Season except where applicable law expressly permits it. You must not use automated means to overload or interfere with Season.

The current build provides local report and block controls. Those actions create local safety records and do not create a remote moderation case or contact another participant. We may remove or restrict content where we have the technical ability and where doing so is appropriate.

The current Season build does not enable StoreKit purchases, subscriptions, entitlements, or restore flows. If paid features are added later, the applicable App Store terms and checkout disclosures will govern the transaction.

For any future subscription, the price, billing period, auto-renewal terms, cancellation method, and refund rules will be disclosed before purchase. Purchases will be processed by the platform provider. You will manage cancellation and refund requests through the platform account and its rules. Deleting Season or closing a local account does not by itself cancel a platform subscription.

Season, its interface, original artwork, typography arrangements, software, text, branding, and other materials provided by us are owned by us or licensed to us and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Subject to these terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Season on an Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store rules.

This license does not transfer ownership. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, sublicense, publicly perform, or create derivative works from Season except as expressly permitted by these terms or applicable law. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

If you provide feedback or suggestions, you grant us permission to use them without restriction or compensation, provided we do not identify you publicly without consent.

We may modify, suspend, discontinue, or limit parts of Season at any time. We do not guarantee that any feature will remain available, that data will never be lost, or that the app will work on every device or operating-system version. Some features depend on Apple services, device settings, or other providers outside our control.

You may stop using Season at any time. You can use the app's local account deletion control to remove app-owned local data and may remove the app from your device. These terms continue to apply to conduct that occurred while they were in effect and to provisions that by their nature should survive termination.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SEASON IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WE DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. We do not warrant that Season will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, complete, or free of harmful components.

You use Season at your own risk. You are responsible for maintaining backups of information you need and for evaluating the accuracy of content, including fictional resident reactions, simulated reports, and user-authored statements. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO SEASON OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED THAT THE DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO SEASON OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (USD 50.00) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR SEASON IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

These limits do not apply where liability cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, or other non-waivable rights. If a limitation is unenforceable, it will apply only to the extent permitted by law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Season's operator, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, and licensors from and against claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from your access to or use of Season, your content, your breach of these terms, your violation of law or another person's rights, or a dispute between you and another person.

We may assume the defense and control of a matter otherwise subject to indemnification. You agree to cooperate with that defense and may not settle a matter in a way that admits fault or imposes obligations on us without written consent.

These terms and any dispute arising from them or from Season are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to these terms.

Subject to the arbitration provisions below, the state and federal courts located in Delaware will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes that are not subject to arbitration, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

Informal resolution first

Before starting arbitration, send us a written notice describing the dispute and the relief requested. Use the contact method in Section 14 and include enough detail for us to identify the issue. The parties will try in good faith to resolve the dispute for 30 days from receipt of the notice.

Binding individual arbitration

To the maximum extent permitted by law, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising from or relating to these terms or Season will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. The arbitration will be heard by one arbitrator, in English, and may proceed by written submissions, telephone, or video unless the arbitrator requires an in-person hearing. Any in-person hearing will occur in Wilmington, Delaware, or another reasonably convenient location for the consumer.

The arbitrator's award will be final and binding and may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration provision. Judgment on the award may be entered only in favor of the individual party seeking relief.

You may opt out of this arbitration provision by sending written notice through the contact method in Section 14 within 30 days after first accepting these terms. The notice must identify you, the Season account or device use to which it relates, and clearly state that you are opting out. Opting out will not affect any other part of these terms.

Class action waiver

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH PARTY WAIVES THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, COLLECTIVE ACTION, CONSOLIDATED ACTION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Each party may bring claims only in an individual capacity. This class action waiver is an essential part of this agreement.

Exceptions

Either party may bring an eligible individual claim in small-claims court. Either party may seek temporary or permanent injunctive relief, specific performance, or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual-property rights or prevent unauthorized use, disclosure, or access. Nothing in this section prevents a party from reporting a matter to a government agency or exercising a right that cannot be waived by law.

Severability of this section

If any part of this arbitration section is held unenforceable, the remaining parts will continue in effect, except that if the class action waiver is held unenforceable as to a claim, this arbitration section will be void as to that claim and the dispute will proceed in court.

We may update these Terms of Service to reflect changes in Season, our practices, or applicable law. We will post the updated terms at this location, update the version or date, and provide additional notice where required. The updated terms will take effect on the date stated in the notice unless the law requires otherwise.

Your continued use of Season after the effective date of an update means you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, stop using Season and use the available local controls to remove app-owned data.

For questions about these terms, privacy, support, account deletion, legal notices, or the dispute process, use the verified support contact published with Season's App Store product listing. A dedicated legal contact address must be confirmed before this draft is published.