Terms & Conditions
Last updated: November 2026
Welcome to Fool the Bot. The Service is operated by Novologia Ltd, a company registered in Israel (“we”). By using our website and game (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.
1. The Service
Fool the Bot is a browser-based party game. In each round one player communicates a secret word, by drawing it or by writing short text clues, and the other players guess it. An AI model is also checked at the moments players guess correctly, and players score more when they guess before it. A player can also record a drawing and send it to friends as a challenge.
You can play free, without an account, with a starter set of about 18 words. A pass (section 3) unlocks the full word catalogue for the games you host.
2. Your account
You can play without an account. An account is created when you buy a pass, attached to the email address you give at checkout. Sign-in is passwordless: we email a one-time code. You’re responsible for keeping access to your email secure. You must use an email address you own.
3. Purchases & payments
We sell one pass. It lets you host Fool the Bot games with the full word catalogue, with no fixed expiration date. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription: it does not renew and nothing is charged again. The players in games you host play free. A pass is a licence to use the Service; it doesn’t give ownership of its software or content. Prices, currency and taxes are shown at checkout. [TODO: OWNER REVIEW: confirm the pass terms for Fool the Bot]
Service availability. A pass grants access for as long as the Service operates. If we plan to permanently discontinue the Service, we will give at least 90 days’ notice on the website and by email to the address on your account, and stop selling passes on the day of the notice.
Fair use. A pass is for normal personal and social use. We use automated protections such as rate limits and usage caps to keep the Service running fairly; normal play does not reach them.
A pass is personal and non-transferable and may not be resold. Our payment partner and merchant of record is Paddle (Paddle.com Market Ltd): your order is processed by Paddle, Paddle’s checkout terms apply, and your receipt comes from Paddle. We never receive your card details. Refunds are handled under our Refund Policy.
4. What you draw and write
Your drawings, clues, guesses, name and avatar are shown to the other players in your game (or to the people you send a challenge link to). You keep any rights you have in them; you give us permission to store them, show them to those players, and send them to the AI providers named in our Privacy Policy so the game can be scored. Don’t draw or write anything unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit or targeting a real person. We may remove content and end games that break these rules.
5. Fair play and the AI
Drawings must not spell out the word with letters or numbers; clues must not contain the word or its forms, or address the AI. A turn that breaks these rules may score zero. The AI’s decisions are automated, sampled only at the moments players guess correctly, and can be surprising or wrong. Points have no monetary value and confer no prize.
6. Acceptable use
- Don’t use the Service for anything unlawful or abusive.
- Don’t attempt to disrupt, overload, reverse-engineer or gain unauthorised access to the Service, or to automate play.
- Don’t scrape, copy or redistribute our game or content except as allowed by law.
7. Content & intellectual property
The game, word lists, artwork, text and software are owned by Novologia Ltd and protected by law. You get a personal, non-commercial licence to play. Many of our words come from the category list of Google’s Quick, Draw! dataset, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Fool the Bot is not affiliated with Google.
8. No warranty
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind.
9. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Novologia Ltd is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service.
10. Changes
We may update these Terms. If we make material changes we’ll update this page; continued use means you accept the updated Terms.
11. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel. If you are a consumer in the EU, UK or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer protections, nothing here limits those rights.