User Agreement

Effective date: 28 September 2026

1. The service

boards.gg is a website where people create boards, post, comment, vote, and message each other about games. These terms govern your use of boards.gg. By creating an account or using the site you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the site.

Publishers such as CCP Games, Cloud Imperium Games, and Hello Games do not operate boards.gg and are not parties to this agreement.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old. You must give a real email you control and a username that is not already taken (names are matched without regard to capital letters). One person may not run extra accounts to evade a ban, inflate votes, or harass someone.

3. Your account

You are responsible for the password and for activity under the account. Keep the email reachable; we use it to confirm the account and reset the password. We may refuse a name that impersonates a person, a brand, or staff.

You may close the account from the account pages after you transfer or give up any board of which you are the last owner. Closing hides the profile. Content you posted on boards can remain with the author shown as "[deleted]".

4. What you may post

You may post text, links, and images that you have the right to publish. You grant boards.gg a non-exclusive licence to host, display, and distribute that content on the service so the boards can function (including caches and backups).

You must not:

- Break the law, including copyright, scams, or credible threats

- Post malware, dox someone, or try to break into the site

- Spam, vote-manipulate, or scrape the service in a way that harms other users

- Harass, impersonate staff, or evade a ban or mute

- Upload images that you do not have the right to publish

Board moderators may set extra rules for a single board. Those rules apply on that board if they do not conflict with this agreement.

5. Moderation

We and board moderators may remove content, lock threads, ban or shadow-restrict an account, or refuse registration. We do not have to give a public reason. A ban ends your right to use the site. Shadow restriction may hide your new posts from others without a public notice. Enforcement can use the registration IP and related signals so evading accounts can be closed too.

Reports help us review material. Filing a false report to harass someone is itself a violation.

6. Messages and notices

Direct messages are only as private as the other person. Do not send illegal content in mail. We may send service mail (confirm, reset, security). You can stop using the site if you do not want that mail.

7. Intellectual property

The boards.gg name, layout, and original site code are ours or our licensors'. Game names, art, and trademarks belong to their owners. You may not copy the site or use our name to imply an official publisher partnership.

If you believe content infringes your copyright, email a notice with the URL, your contact details, and a statement that you are the owner or agent. We may remove the material and, for repeat abuse, close the account.

8. The site is provided as is

boards.gg is a free community service. We do not warrant that it will stay online, stay error-free, or keep every post forever. To the fullest extent allowed by law we are not liable for lost posts, lost accounts, moderator decisions, or what another user writes. If a court finds liability anyway, it is limited to fifty US dollars (US $50).

Some places do not allow these limits. In those places the limit is the minimum the law requires.

9. Changes and termination

We may change the service or these terms. The version on this page is the current one. We may stop the service. We may close an account that breaks these terms. Surviving sections are those that by nature should survive: licence to keep existing threads readable, disclaimer, and liability cap.

10. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where a mandatory consumer law in your country says otherwise. Courts in California have venue for disputes that can be brought in court, except where the law requires otherwise.