Terms of Service
Effective date: 4 November 2026
Grandpa's Checkers (the website at grandpascheckers.com, its desktop app, and the iPhone and iPad app, together the "Service") is run by William Termini (ABN 47 283 458 067), Australia ("we", "us"). By using it you agree to these terms; if you don't, please don't use it.
1. The Service
A game of checkers against the computer or other people, with no account needed. We give you a personal, non-commercial, revocable licence to use it. Online play is for players 14 and over, or older where the law where you are sets a higher age (15, 16 or 18 in some countries); anyone can play the computer. The website asks your year of birth before it first connects to our game server. Games are not saved: one in progress can be lost if the server restarts or your connection drops, and we can't recover it.
2. Fair play
Please don't:
- disrupt or overload the Service, or get around its limits or security;
- use bots, scripts or scrapers to play or access it;
- harass other players; or
- use it for anything unlawful.
We may block anyone who breaks these terms.
3. Players and chat
Players are shown only as Red and White, and any computer opponent offered to the public is marked as the computer. The one exception is Grandpa himself: some clients, such as the website, show him by name. Chat is a fixed list of phrases, and you can switch it off.
4. Ownership
The Service, including its software, design and artwork, belongs to us and all rights are reserved. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer or redistribute it, except where the law allows. Open-source components are listed, with their licences, in the apps, and for the website under Licences at the foot of the game page and in its About.
If you got the app from Apple's App Store, Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies. These terms are between you and us, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or for supporting it.
5. Consumer guarantees and liability
The Service is free, and we can't promise it will always be available or free of faults; it may change or stop. Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law, and nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies them, or any other right you have by law that can't be excluded.
We are fully liable for harm we cause intentionally or through gross negligence, for death or personal injury, and wherever the law does not allow liability to be limited. Where we are only slightly negligent, we are liable only for breaking a duty that is essential to the Service (one it cannot be provided without, and that you can rely on), and then only for loss that is foreseeable and typical for a free game like this one.
6. Law and changes
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the laws of the country where you live that can't be set aside by agreement, and any right you have to bring a claim there. If any part is unenforceable, the rest still applies. We may update these terms. We will post material changes here before they take effect; if you don't agree, you can stop using the Service at any time. The date above shows the latest version. Contact: checkers@termini.me