Hearth Terms of Use

These terms apply when you use Hearth, the 5e-compatible tabletop RPG companion, on the Hearth website or in the Android app. Hearth is made and run by Thomas Dalton, trading as Castlegate Studios, based in the United Kingdom ("Hearth", "we", "us"). Official contact: info@castlegatestudios.co.uk. For help with the app: support@castlegatestudios.co.uk. Postal address available on request. By using Hearth you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it.

If you buy Hearth+ or a one-off pack, the Terms of Sale and Refunds policy also apply to that purchase.

1. What Hearth is

Hearth is hobby software for keeping track of characters and running games at your table. You can use the core app without paying. Hearth is still being developed, so free features may change or be removed. If you pay for Hearth+ or a pack, we will not take away or materially reduce what you paid for during a period you have paid for. See section 11.

Optional paid features are also available: Hearth+, a subscription, and one-off packs. What you get, the price, how auto-renewal and cancellation work, and your refund rights are set out at checkout and in the Terms of Sale and Refunds policy. There are no ads.

A purchase on one platform does not unlock the other. Voice chat is not included.

2. Unofficial fan content

Hearth is unofficial, fan-made software. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. Dungeons & Dragons and D&D are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Rules material from the System Reference Documents 5.1 and 5.2.1 is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; the full attribution is on the legal notices page.

3. Your content

Your characters, campaigns, notes, maps and homebrew belong to you. They stay on your device unless you use an optional feature that sends them somewhere (see the privacy policy). Please keep backups: if you clear your browser data or uninstall the app, your data on that device is lost.

Only add content you have the right to use. Don't import, upload or share material that infringes someone else's copyright or trade marks (for example, text copied from published rulebooks you don't have permission to copy), or that is unlawful, abusive or harmful.

4. Community Content Library

Items in the Community Content Library are made and shared by their authors under the licence shown on each item (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 or the Open Game License 1.0a). If you submit content to the library, you confirm that it is your own work or that you have permission to share it under that licence, and you agree to the rules in the library's contributing guide. We review submissions before they appear and may remove any item at any time.

5. Live games and invites

Use the live game link and email invites only with people you play with. Be kind: don't use names, notes or invites to harass anyone. The GM controls who joins a game and can remove anyone.

6. Acceptable use

Don't misuse Hearth: don't try to break, overload or get unauthorised access to its services (including the Firebase back end), don't use it to break the law, and don't use it in a way that harms other people.

Paid remote play is still join-code only. There is no public matchmaking and no voice, video or text chat in Hearth.

7. Copyright and takedown requests

We respect intellectual property. If you believe something in Hearth, on the Hearth website or in the Community Content Library infringes your copyright, trade mark or other rights, email info@castlegatestudios.co.uk with the subject "Copyright or takedown request" and include:

• your name and contact details, and who you represent;
• the work you say is infringed;
• exactly where the material is in Hearth (screen, item name, link or file);
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law; and
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.

We aim to acknowledge requests within 5 working days and will remove or disable material that we find, or reasonably believe, infringes. If your community item was removed and you think that was a mistake, email us and explain why. Material hosted on GitHub can also be reported to GitHub under its own DMCA policy.

8. Age

Hearth is for players aged 13 and over. Do not create an account, sign in, or buy Hearth+ or packs for someone under 13.

9. No warranty

Hearth is provided "as is". We try to make it accurate and reliable, but we don't promise that it will always be available, error-free or that its rules calculations are correct. You remain responsible for your rulings at the table and for keeping backups of your data.

If you paid for Hearth+ or a pack, you also have legal rights if the paid digital content is not of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose or as described, or if a paid service is not provided with reasonable care and skill. Those rights are explained in the Terms of Sale and the Refunds policy, and they are not taken away by this section.

10. Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded under the law of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, you have legal rights that these terms do not affect. For example, paid digital content must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described, and paid services must be provided with reasonable care and skill (Consumer Rights Act 2015). If paid digital content we supply damages your device or other digital content because we did not use reasonable care and skill, we will repair the damage or compensate you.

Subject to that, if we break these terms or fail to use reasonable care and skill, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of that. We are not responsible for loss that was not foreseeable, or for business losses (Hearth is for personal, non-business use). We never limit our liability to less than the price you paid for the paid feature concerned.

11. Changes and ending

We may update these terms. We will post the new version here with a new date. If a change significantly affects a paid subscription, we will tell you by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, and you can cancel before then and get a refund for any paid time you have not used. You can stop using Hearth at any time and delete your cloud data from the app (see the privacy policy). We may suspend or end access to online or paid features if they are seriously or repeatedly misused (for example harassment, fraud or illegal content). Where we can, we will warn you first. If we end a paid subscription for a reason that is not your fault, we will refund any paid time you have not used. Cancelling a subscription is covered in the Terms of Sale.

12. Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live elsewhere in the UK or in the EU, you can also rely on the mandatory consumer protections of where you live, and bring proceedings in your local courts.

Contact

Official contact: info@castlegatestudios.co.uk · App help: support@castlegatestudios.co.uk · Privacy policy · Terms of Sale · Refunds policy · Legal notices and licences

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