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Terms of Service

The rules for using infectus.io and the game InfectUs. Last updated: 9 October 2026.

1. Scope

These Terms apply to this website and the game InfectUs with its community channels (the "Service") and form an agreement between you and ODY Technologies e.U. ("we", "us"). By using the Service you accept them. How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy; purchases are governed by our Terms of Sale.

2. The Game and Its Test Phase

InfectUs is in development. Until its public release it is pre-release software: features may change or be dropped, the game may be unavailable or closed for maintenance (the game world keeps running meanwhile), and game worlds, progress and virtual items may be reset (for Spores you bought, see Section 7). We do not promise that the game will be released.

3. Age

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service.

4. Your Account

You can start as a guest and play as long as you like. If you do not open the game for 7 days as a guest, we delete your guest player together with its data. If you do not play for a longer time, your territory withers under the game rules; your account, your virtual items and your purchases remain.

One account per person. It is personal and not transferable; keep your login secure, you are responsible for everything that happens under your account.

5. Rules of Conduct

Play fair and treat others with respect. In particular, do not:

  • cheat: no multiple accounts, bots or automation, no exploiting bugs, and no software that gives you an unfair advantage;
  • harass, threaten, insult or deceive others, or spread illegal, hateful, sexual or infringing content, spam or advertising;
  • share personal data (yours or anyone else's), or use the game to locate or stalk real people;
  • attack or overload the Service, or access accounts or data that are not yours;
  • reverse-engineer the game, except where the law expressly allows it;
  • buy, sell or trade accounts or virtual items outside the game.

What you write in the game (chat, names, mottos) can be seen by other players. Player names and rankings are public and may also appear outside the game, for example on this website.

6. Moderation and Measures

Anyone with an account can report content. Reports and automated checks point us to possible breaches; a person decides on any measure against you. After several reports, content may be hidden automatically until we have decided.

If you break these Terms, we decide at our discretion what we do: edit or remove content, warn you, restrict the chat or other features for you, remove you from a swarm, or suspend your account temporarily or permanently, for serious breaches also immediately and without a prior warning; a permanent suspension also takes away your territory in the game. We tell you in the game what we did and why (Art. 17 DSA). If you think a decision is wrong, write to contact@odytechnologies.com and we will review it. If content suggests a threat to someone's life or safety, we inform the competent authorities (Art. 18 DSA).

7. Virtual Items

Spores, cards, looks and other virtual items are licensed to you for use in the game only. They have no real-world monetary value, are not your property, and cannot be exchanged for money or transferred out of the game. We may change, remove or reset them, especially before the public release; Spores you bought and have not yet spent stay yours, or we refund them as in Section 11. When your account ends, unspent virtual items are lost, apart from the refund under Section 11. Your statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.

8. Intellectual Property

The Service, including the game, its name, logos, characters, artwork and code, belongs to ODY Technologies e.U. or its licensors. You receive a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use it as intended; you may not copy or distribute our content without our written permission. What you submit (such as names and messages) remains yours; you grant us a free, worldwide licence to store and show it as part of the Service.

9. Third-Party Services

The Service uses services of third parties, for example for hosting, maps and payments (see the Privacy Policy); their own terms also apply. Map and place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation.

10. Warranty and Liability

The Service is provided as it is and as available, especially during the test phase; we do not guarantee that it runs without interruption or errors or that data is preserved. We are not liable for slight negligence, except for injury to life, body or health and for breach of essential contractual obligations; to the extent permitted by law, we are also not liable for consequential damage or for the loss of data, progress or virtual items. Mandatory law, in particular Austrian and EU consumer law and the Product Liability Act, remains unaffected.

11. Termination

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your account immediately if you break these Terms (Section 6), if the law requires it, or for another important reason. We may also end your account at any time without giving reasons, with four weeks' notice; the same notice applies if we discontinue the Service. We tell you in the game or by email, and in both cases we refund you the proportional purchase price of the Spores you bought and have not yet spent. Provisions that by their nature continue after the end (such as intellectual property and liability) continue to apply.

12. Governing Law

Austrian law applies, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If you are a consumer, the mandatory protections of the law of your country of residence remain unaffected. Place of jurisdiction is, to the extent legally permissible, the competent court in Austria.

13. Changes

We may update these Terms as the game evolves. We publish the new version here and announce material changes on the website and in the game before they take effect. If you continue to use the Service afterwards, the new version applies.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: contact@odytechnologies.com. This address is also our single point of contact for users and authorities under the EU Digital Services Act (Art. 11 and 12 DSA); you can write to us in German or English. Full legal disclosure is in our Imprint.

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