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Terms of service

The agreement between you and us. Short version: play fair, don't break the leaderboard, and cancel in the store whenever you like.

Last updated 7 August 2026 · Effective 7 August 2026

Before launch: fill in the entity details in § 1 and have these terms reviewed against the South African Consumer Protection Act, the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, and the App Store and Google Play developer agreements.

1. The agreement

These terms are between you and [REGISTERED ENTITY NAME] (registration number [REG NO]), of [REGISTERED ADDRESS], South Africa — "we", "us", "ANTE".

By installing or playing ANTE you accept these terms and our privacy policy. If you do not accept them, don't play. You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum digital-consent age where you live, whichever is higher.

Where you obtained the app from the App Store or Google Play, that store's own terms also apply to your download and your purchases. Apple and Google are not parties to this agreement and are not responsible for ANTE.

2. Your account

  • You can play without an account. You need one for leaderboards, leagues, streak sync and subscriptions.
  • One account per person. Keep your sign-in details to yourself — you are responsible for what happens under your account.
  • Tell us promptly at support@ante-game.com if you think someone else has got into it.
  • Display names must not impersonate anyone, contain slurs or harassment, or advertise. We may rename an account that breaks this without warning.

3. Fair play

The shared daily seed only works if everyone plays the same game. So you must not:

  • Modify, decompile or tamper with the app, or run it on a modified client.
  • Automate play, use a bot, or submit a score you did not produce by playing.
  • Manipulate your device clock, network or storage to replay a seed or extend a streak.
  • Exploit a bug for score once you know it is a bug — report it instead.
  • Share solutions for the current day's seed in a public in-game space before the day ends. Your own group chat is your business; our leaderboards and league chat are ours.
  • Sell, buy or transfer accounts.

We validate scores by replaying your input log against the seed on our servers. Where a score cannot be reproduced we may remove it. For repeated or deliberate cheating we may suspend or close the account. If we close a paid account for cheating you are not entitled to a refund of the unused period.

If you think we got it wrong, appeal to support@ante-game.com — a person will look at it.

4. Subscriptions, billing and refunds

4.1 What is on sale

ANTE Club and League Host are optional recurring subscriptions. Cosmetic items are optional one-off purchases. Nothing we sell affects the outcome of a scored run — no revives, no rerolls, no additional cards, no advantage of any kind. This is a commitment, not a current-version description.

4.2 How you are billed

Purchases are processed by Apple or Google, not by us. The price you see in the store before confirming is the price you pay, in your local currency, inclusive of any tax the store collects. Prices differ by region.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Your store account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours of the period ending.

4.3 Cancelling

Cancel any time in the store — iOS: Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Android: Play Store → profile → Payments & subscriptions. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for; we do not pro-rate part periods.

When a subscription ends you keep your account, your streak, your statistics, your cosmetics and today's free run. You lose access to the Archive, the full replay browser and, for hosts, the ability to record new results in your league.

4.4 Refunds

Because Apple and Google take the payment, they handle refunds under their own policies. Use reportaproblem.apple.com or your Google Play order history. Nothing here limits any refund or cancellation right you have under the South African Consumer Protection Act or the consumer law where you live.

If a store refuses a refund and you believe our billing was at fault, write to support@ante-game.com with the order number and we will take it up with them on your behalf.

4.5 Price changes

We may change subscription prices. Existing subscribers get at least 30 days' notice in the app and by email, and the new price only applies from the renewal after that notice. You can cancel before it takes effect.

5. League hosts

Hosting a league makes you responsible for who you invite and for what gets posted in your league's chat. You may remove any member at any time. We may close a league that is used for harassment, spam or illegal content, and we will tell the host why.

If a host's subscription lapses the league becomes read-only: standings and history stay visible, no new results are recorded, and any member may take over by subscribing. We do not delete league history when a subscription ends.

6. Content and ownership

ANTE, its name, its card and relic designs, its artwork, its sounds and its code belong to us. You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to play it on devices you control, for as long as these terms are in force. You do not get to copy, resell or redistribute it.

Cosmetics are a licence, not property. Buying a card back grants you the right to use it in ANTE. It is not an asset, it has no cash value, and it cannot be transferred or sold.

What you make. Display names, league names and messages you post stay yours. You give us the licence we need to store them, show them to other players and moderate them.

Streaming and video. You may record, stream and monetise ANTE footage on any platform, including with sponsorship, as long as you don't imply we endorse you. You don't need to ask.

7. Availability and changes

ANTE is an online service and we cannot promise it will never go down. We may add, change, rebalance or remove cards, relics, bosses and features — a live game that never changes stops being interesting.

If we ever have to shut ANTE down we will give at least 60 days' notice in the app, stop selling subscriptions immediately, and let existing subscriptions run to the end of their paid period or refund the unused part.

8. Ending the agreement

You can stop at any time by deleting your account — in the app under Settings → Privacy, or through the deletion page. Deleting is permanent.

We may suspend or close your account if you materially break these terms, if we are required to by law, or if the account has been inactive for more than three years. We will tell you why, unless the law stops us.

9. Disclaimers and liability

ANTE is provided as it is. To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, or lost data beyond what we could reasonably have foreseen.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability to you in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in that period, or USD 50.

Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded — including your rights under the South African Consumer Protection Act.

10. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa, and the courts of South Africa have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer somewhere else, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections of your home country's law.

Talk to us first — almost everything gets sorted at support@ante-game.com.

Questions about these terms go to support@ante-game.com.