Terms of Service

About these terms

Playthroughs is a game journal and community service operated by Callum Byrne. In these terms, “Playthroughs”, “we” and “us” refer to Callum Byrne as operator of the service; “you” means the person using it.

By creating an account or using Playthroughs, you agree to these Terms and the Community Guidelines. The Privacy Policy explains how personal data is handled; agreeing to these Terms is not consent to unrelated uses of your data.

Who can use Playthroughs

You must be at least 13. If the law where you live sets a higher minimum age, or requires a parent or guardian’s permission, that rule also applies. You must confirm the age requirement and separately accept these Terms and the Community Guidelines before sign-up can begin.

You may use Playthroughs only if you can lawfully enter this agreement and have not been suspended from the service.

Your account

Give us accurate sign-up information, keep your password and devices secure, and tell support@playthroughs.app if you think someone else has access to your account. You are responsible for activity under your account unless it happened after you told us the account was compromised.

Do not impersonate someone, transfer or sell an account, evade a suspension, or use accounts to manipulate follows, likes, reports or other community features.

Using the service

We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, revocable right to use Playthroughs and its apps for their intended purpose. You may not interfere with the service, probe its security, introduce malicious code, overwhelm it with automated requests, scrape it, resell access, or use its catalogue or community data to build a competing dataset.

Reasonable personal exports, search-engine indexing of public pages and accessibility tools are not prohibited by that rule.

Your content

Your reviews, comments, lists, playthroughs, notes and profile remain yours. You are responsible for them and confirm that you have the right to publish them.

You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, format and display that content only as needed to operate, secure and improve Playthroughs. This includes showing public content to other people and creating the technical copies needed to deliver it. The licence ends when the content or account is deleted, except for de-identified safety records and copies that law requires us to keep.

Some content is public by design; other areas have audience controls. Check the audience before publishing and do not assume deleting something will erase copies made while it was visible.

Profile photos

You may choose one profile photo from your device photo library. You confirm that you have the right to upload it and that it follows the Community Guidelines. Playthroughs technically validates and reformats the image before showing it; a current visible avatar is public to people who can view that profile.

Replacing or removing a photo normally queues the old image for deletion. If it has an open report, we may retain the exact evidence until a human moderator decides it. A report can temporarily hide an avatar after three distinct eligible reports, but that automatic precaution is not a finding against you; a moderator makes the final decision.

Community rules

The Community Guidelines form part of these Terms. They prohibit harassment, hateful conduct, threats, sexual exploitation, doxxing, impersonation, spam, scams and unlawful content, while leaving room for honest discussion of mature or difficult games.

Do not infringe copyright or other rights. Quoting a small amount to discuss a game is different from copying someone else’s review, distributing a game or posting material you have no right to share.

Reports, moderation and complaints

Users can report comments, reviews, lists, playthroughs, avatars and profiles, and can block another account separately. Reports are reviewed by a person. We may dismiss a report, permanently remove content or an avatar, reset profile fields or suspend an account. The owner of a review, list or playthrough may also remove comments from it.

We aim to use the least disruptive action that addresses the problem, but serious safety breaches can lead directly to removal and suspension. We may also act without a report when we discover a breach ourselves or must comply with law.

To complain about content, a report or an action on your account, email support@playthroughs.app with your username and enough detail to identify the decision. We will review the complaint and reconsider the decision. If we restrict content or an account contrary to these Terms, nothing here removes any right you may have to bring a claim for breach of contract.

Game data, imports and external services

Game titles, artwork and catalogue information principally come from IGDB and belong to their respective owners. Catalogue data can be incomplete or wrong.

Optional imports and barcode lookups depend on services such as Steam, OpenXBL, PlayStation, Nintendo and ScanDex. Some integrations use public information or unofficial interfaces. Playthroughs is not endorsed by those services, cannot guarantee their availability or accuracy, and may disable an integration when it stops working or its rules change.

External links and services have their own terms and privacy practices. You decide whether to use them.

Our service and intellectual property

The Playthroughs software, logo, design and original material belong to us or our licensors. These Terms do not give you ownership of them or permission to use Playthroughs branding as your own.

We may change, pause or discontinue features. We will give reasonable notice of significant changes where we can, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free availability. We will provide the service with reasonable care and skill.

Ending an account

You may stop at any time. Settings lets you deactivate an account temporarily or delete it permanently. Deactivation hides the profile and content until reactivation by emailed code. Deletion is immediate, irreversible and handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or close an account for a serious or repeated breach, a legal requirement, a security risk or if Playthroughs itself closes. Where appropriate, we will explain the reason and how to contact us.

Responsibility when things go wrong

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or remedies that consumer law gives you, or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

If we breach these Terms or fail to use reasonable care and skill, we are responsible for loss that was a foreseeable result. We are not responsible for loss caused by circumstances outside our reasonable control, your failure to follow reasonable instructions, another user, or an external service. Playthroughs is for personal use, so we are not responsible for business losses such as lost profit or opportunity.

Privacy

The Privacy Policy explains what we collect, why we use it and how to exercise your rights.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms when the service, law or risks change. The date above shows the latest revision. We will give notice in the app or by email before a material change takes effect where appropriate. If you do not agree, you can stop using Playthroughs and delete your account.

Law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer elsewhere, this does not remove mandatory protections or access to courts that the law where you live gives you.

Contact

Email support@playthroughs.app with a question, complaint or safety concern about these Terms.