Draft — pending legal review. This text is not final and must not be relied upon.

Fair play policy

Rules for a fair and welcoming community.

Our principle

Ataxx Online should be a fair, welcoming place to play. These rules apply to rated and unrated games, chat, names and profiles.

Not allowed

• Using engines, bots or any outside help during a game that is not explicitly a practice game against the computer.
• Playing with several accounts to manipulate ratings, rankings or matchmaking, or deliberately losing (win trading, sandbagging).
• Abandoning games repeatedly to avoid a loss, or stalling to run out the clock.
• Harassment, hate speech, threats or spam, in chat, names or profiles.
• Exploiting bugs or attacking the service. Please report vulnerabilities to [[TO FILL: security contact email]].

How we detect problems

We use automated signals (for example move timing and rating patterns) and player reports. Automated signals lead to review, not to automatic permanent bans. [[TO FILL: confirm against the fair-play implementation]]

Consequences

Depending on severity: warning, removal of results from the rankings, temporary restriction, or account closure. We tell you the reason when we act.

Reports and appeals

Report players or content in the app or at [[TO FILL: report contact email]]. To contest a decision write to [[TO FILL: appeal contact email]]; a person reviews appeals. [[TO FILL: target response time]]