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Terms of Service

The rules for using hexiles.com and the game Hexiles: Settle, Sail, Siege. Last updated: 27 October 2026.

1. Scope

These Terms apply to this website and the game Hexiles at play.hexiles.com 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

Hexiles 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 (your island keeps going meanwhile), and islands, progress and virtual items may be reset (for Diamonds 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 for as long as you keep coming back. If you do not open the game for 7 days as a guest, your island sinks and we delete your guest player together with its data; a guest who never founded their main house, after 3 hours. Once you secure your island with an account, it stays until you delete it; your account, your virtual items and your purchases remain even if you do not play for a longer time.

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;
  • give your settler a name that insults, threatens or deceives others, is hateful, sexual or illegal, infringes the rights of others, or advertises;
  • share personal data (yours or anyone else's), or harass, threaten or deceive others;
  • use the chat for spam, advertising, web addresses, insults, hate or sexual content, or flood it;
  • 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.

The name and look of your settler can be shown to other players, and may also appear outside the game, for example on this website.

The chat is public: what you write can be read by everyone in its channel. Writing needs an account secured with a confirmed email address, Google or Steam. You can report a message you think breaks these Terms right in the game; you can also write to us.

6. Moderation and Measures

Automated checks point us to possible breaches; a person decides on any measure against you.

If you break these Terms, we decide at our discretion what we do: change or remove content (such as a chat message or the name of your settler), warn you, restrict features for you (for example mute you in the chat or ban you from it), or suspend your account temporarily or permanently, for serious breaches also immediately and without a prior warning; a permanent suspension also takes away your island. 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. Several reports about a chat message can hide it until we have decided. If content suggests a threat to someone's life or safety, we inform the competent authorities (Art. 18 DSA).

7. Virtual Items

Diamonds, goods, buildings, 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; Diamonds 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 the name of your settler) 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, signing in and payments (see the Privacy Policy); their own terms also apply.

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 Diamonds 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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