Terms of Use

Who can play

The beta is for adults (18 or older), by invitation only.

One account per person. Tell us your real age range when you join.

Your account

Your phone makes its own key when you join, and that key is your account. Keep your phone locked: anyone holding it unlocked can play as you.

We may pause or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will tell you why unless the law or someone's safety stops us.

The game is free, and its points are only points

Nothing in Birderlands is for sale. There are no purchases, loot boxes or random packs.

Game points, energy, territory, ranks, cards and other game items have no money value. They can't be bought, sold or traded for money, and they never turn into HONE.

This is a beta. We may change, rebalance or reset parts of the game, and we will try to warn you first.

HONE is separate

HONE is earned for real listening on Hone's network, under Hone's own terms. The game never changes it, and Birderlands makes no promise about HONE, its amount or its value.

Listening and recording

The app listens for birds. Human voices are deleted on your phone, and passive listening never saves or sends audio.

Don't use Birderlands to record people. Tell the people you live with when bird listening is on. Recording laws differ from place to place; following yours is up to you.

Going out safely, and leaving birds in peace

Stay on public land or where you are allowed to be. Follow posted hours and rules, and never trespass. Don't play while driving or anywhere it isn't safe. You play at your own risk.

No playback to call birds in, no lights at roosts, and keep away from nests. Some birds are protected by law, and the game hides or blurs where they are. Never use Birderlands to find, harm, capture or sell a bird.

Your photos and recordings

They stay yours. They go to the Birderlands bird library only if you accept the separate Library Terms in the app, which say what rights the library gets.

Live streams and the overlay

Adults can show their Birderlands birds on a live stream with the overlay. Pair it only from your own phone and computer, and keep your overlay link private: anyone with it can show your overlay.

What "live" means on an overlay: to keep birds safe, the overlay never says when or where a bird was heard. It treats every bird the streamer's phone found in the past 7 days as live, and shows it as if just heard. "Live" on a Birderlands overlay means "heard by the streamer's phone within the past 7 days". The same goes for the streamer's game moments, like claiming, taking, holding or losing a patch: to keep the streamer safe, each one appears only 12 to 48 hours after it happened, never with a place, and is shown as if it just happened.

The overlay never shows a map, a place or a time. If a bird's name could narrow down where the streamer is, it shows only the kind of bird. Protected birds are always hidden.

The viewer game is free and for fun. No purchase or gift ever changes it, and its points have no value, last for one stream and win no prizes.

You are responsible for what you stream and for following the streaming platform's rules. The optional chat bridge is unofficial third-party software; using it is your choice, under the platform's terms.

Fair play

Don't fake your location, play recordings to fake birds, run more than one account, play on someone else's, automate or scrape the game, or attack or overload our servers.

Never use anything you can see about friends (cities, hexes, live sharing) to follow, pressure or harm anyone.

We may void points, finds and cards gained by breaking these rules.

Our app and name

The app, its art and its name belong to us or our licensors. You may use the app for your own play. Open-source parts keep their own licences, credited in the app's settings.

The beta comes as it is

Birderlands is a beta. It may have mistakes, lose data or stop. As far as the law allows, it comes as it is, without warranties.

As far as the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to one day of the minimum wage in El Salvador (commerce and services) at the time of the claim. This doesn't limit any liability the law doesn't let us limit.

Ending

You can stop and delete your account at any time in the app (You › Delete my account) or by writing to us. We may end the beta or your access, with notice where we can.

Changes

We will tell you in the app before these terms change. If you keep playing after a change, the new terms apply.

Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of El Salvador, and any claim must be brought in the courts of El Salvador.

If you live in another country, you keep the protections of its consumer laws that can't be given up by agreement, including any right they give you to bring a claim where you live. Nothing in these terms takes them away.

Contact

Snix, S.A. de C.V., El Salvador: ornigo@honemesh.net