Terms of Service — Thricebound

Effective date: 2 September 2026 Last updated: 2 September 2026

1. Who we are

Thricebound ("the Game") is made and operated by No Crunch Games, LLC, trading as No Crunch Games ("we", "us", "our"), a limited liability company established in California, United States.

You can reach us at [email protected].

2. Agreement to these terms

By creating an account, playing the Game, or otherwise using our services, you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Game.

These Terms work together with our Privacy Policy and our Refund Policy, both of which form part of this agreement.

3. The Game is in development

Thricebound is currently in playtest. That means:

• Features, rules, balance, prices, and the content of the Game may change at any time.
• The service may be unavailable, interrupted, or reset without notice.
• Progress, accounts, currency, and unlocked items may be wiped during the playtest period as part of testing or when moving to a new server.
• The Game is provided as-is during this period, with no guarantee of availability or data preservation.

We will make a reasonable effort to tell players in advance before a planned wipe, but we cannot guarantee it.

4. Eligibility and age

Thricebound's full experience is for players 13 and over, and younger players get a restricted account rather than a closed door. You are asked once, when you create an account: are you 13 or over? We do not ask your birth date, your birth year or your age, and we do not store an answer beyond the fact that the question was answered.

If you answer under 13, we create a child account rather than turning you away. It plays the Game normally — every mode, all progress, all items — and the restrictions are on being reachable and being identifiable, not on playing:

• No email address is stored on it at all. Any address typed into the form is discarded.
• No friends and no direct contact, refused in both directions, so nobody can add you either.
• Custom boards stay private — you can build and play them, but not publish them.
• The name you chose is never displayed. An automatically generated handle is shown instead, including on the leaderboard.
• Clans can be joined (under that generated handle); clan invites to you are refused.

If you already had an account before this check existed, the Game asks you once before you can carry on playing.

Notifications are optional and off by default — you turn them on yourself, and can turn them off again at any time in Settings.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the Game with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. A parent or guardian who wants a child's account deleted may contact us at [email protected].

5. Accounts

• You are responsible for keeping your password safe and for everything that happens under your account.
• Accounts are personal. Do not share, sell, buy, rent, or transfer an account.
• One person per account. Do not create additional accounts to evade a suspension or to manipulate matchmaking, rankings, or rewards.
• Tell us at [email protected] if you believe someone else has accessed your account.

Guest ("Play Now") accounts. The Game lets you start playing immediately with a provisional guest account. Guest accounts are real accounts and these Terms apply to them, but they are not protected by a password you have chosen and their progress may be lost. Set a username and password if you want your progress to persist.

6. Fair play

You agree not to:

• Cheat, exploit bugs, use bots, scripts, automation, or modified clients.
• Interfere with matchmaking, ratings, seasons, quests, or the in-game economy — including win-trading, boosting, smurfing, or deliberately losing.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or tamper with the Game or its network traffic, except where that right cannot be excluded by law.
• Attack, overload, probe, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our servers or other players' accounts.
• Harass, threaten, abuse, impersonate, or discriminate against other players.
• Use the Game for anything illegal.

If you find a bug or an exploit, please report it through the in-game report tool or to [email protected] rather than using it.

7. Content you create

The Game lets you create and share custom boards, and lets you type free text in usernames, clan names, and bug and abuse reports. This is "Your Content". Custom boards are text and layout data only — the Game does not accept image, audio, or file uploads.

• You keep ownership of Your Content.
• You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display, and distribute Your Content for the purpose of operating and promoting the Game. This licence lasts as long as we host the content, and ends when the content is deleted, except for copies we are required to keep (for example in backups until they expire, or in abuse records).
• You promise Your Content is yours to share and does not infringe anyone's rights, and is not unlawful, hateful, harassing, sexual, or otherwise inappropriate.
• We may remove Your Content, refuse to publish it, or suspend accounts, at our discretion, and we are not obliged to monitor content in advance.

Reporting. Any player can report a published custom board from inside the Game. Reports go into a review queue. We aim to review reports within 14 days, though we cannot promise a response time.

8. Virtual items and in-game currency

The Game includes an in-game currency ("TP") and virtual items including chests, boosters, characters, upgrades, cosmetics, and a custom-board unlock.

• Virtual items and TP are a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to use them inside the Game. You do not own them.
• They have no monetary value, cannot be redeemed for cash, and cannot be sold, traded, or transferred outside the Game.
• We may add, remove, change, rebalance, or re-price virtual items, and we may change how much TP things cost or award, at any time. Balance changes are a normal part of a live game.
• Purchased items are non-refundable except as set out in the Refund Policy or as required by law.
• If your account is terminated for breaking these Terms, you lose access to your virtual items and we are not required to compensate you.
• If we discontinue the Game, virtual items and TP stop working. See §12.

9. Purchases and payment

NO PAYMENTS ARE CURRENTLY TAKEN. Thricebound is free. This section applies only from the point real-money purchases go live, and we will finalise it before then.

No processor is engaged today. The Game is free and takes no payments, so nothing in this section is currently in operation. It is kept here, rather than deleted, because purchases may open later — and if they do, these are the terms that will apply.

If and when purchases open, we will name the payment processor here before the first sale. Payments would be handled by that third-party processor: we would never receive or store your full card details. Prices would be shown in US dollars (USD), with any applicable taxes calculated at checkout. Virtual items would be delivered to your account immediately after payment is confirmed, and by buying you would be asking for immediate delivery — see the Refund Policy for how the statutory right of withdrawal works in the EU and UK.

We may change prices at any time. A price change never applies to a purchase you have already made.

10. Suspension and termination

By you. You can delete your account at any time using Start Fresh in Settings. This deletes your account and its data as described in the Privacy Policy. Deletion is permanent, and you will not be refunded for unused TP or virtual items unless the law requires it.

By us. We may suspend or terminate your account, remove content, or restrict access if we reasonably believe you have broken these Terms, if it is needed to protect the Game or other players, or if we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you a way to respond at [email protected].

11. Intellectual property

The Game, including its code, artwork, characters, board designs, music, and the names "Thricebound" and "No Crunch Games", belongs to us or our licensors. These Terms do not transfer any of those rights to you. You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to play the Game for your own non-commercial enjoyment.

You may make and share videos, streams, screenshots, and similar content featuring the Game, including monetised ones, provided you do not claim to be us or officially endorsed by us, and do not use our names or artwork in a way that suggests we made or approved your content.

12. Changes to the Game, and discontinuation

We may change, suspend, or stop offering the Game or any part of it. If we permanently shut the Game down, we will try to give reasonable advance notice through the Game or at nocrunchgames.com, and we will describe at that time what, if anything, we will do about unused paid virtual items. Nothing in this section removes rights you have under consumer law.

13. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Game is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Game will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that any defect will be corrected.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any right you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost virtual items, or lost progress.
• Our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Game is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or US$100.

This does not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

15. Indemnity

We do not ask you to indemnify us. If that ever changes, we will say so before it takes effect.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to conflict of law rules. Disputes will be handled by the state and federal courts located in California.

If you live in the EU or UK, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings there.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will give notice in the Game or by other reasonable means before it takes effect, and we will update the "Last updated" date above. If you keep playing after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Game and delete your account.

18. General

• If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
• Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them as part of a sale or reorganisation of the business, on notice to you.
• These Terms, plus the Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, are the whole agreement between us about the Game.

19. Contact

No Crunch Games, LLC (No Crunch Games) [email protected]