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    R O Y A L E   C O M M A N D
       TERMS & PRIVACY
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Effective: July 9, 2026

PART I: TERMS OF SERVICE

1. THE AGREEMENT

These terms are an agreement between you and ROYALE ("Royale," "we," "us") covering the game at royale.email and the email gameplay connected to it. By enlisting, or by playing, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not play.

2. ELIGIBILITY

You must be at least 13 years old to play, and at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to make purchases. You may hold one account. Creating additional accounts to gain gameplay or economic advantage is prohibited.

3. YOUR ACCOUNT AND VERIFICATION

Enlisting requires a working email address. Linking social profiles is optional: you may enlist with none and play with an army strength of zero. If you do submit a profile for verification, you confirm the profile is yours and authorize us to read its public page. Army strength is recorded once, at enlistment, and does not change afterward. You are responsible for activity conducted from your email address.

4. RUX AND PURCHASES

RUX is the game's virtual currency. RUX is a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to use a game feature. It is not money or property, has no cash value, cannot be redeemed, refunded, or exchanged outside the game, and may not be sold or transferred between accounts or persons. Battle outcomes move RUX between players by design; losing RUX in play is part of the game.

Purchases are processed by Stripe at the price shown at checkout. Purchased RUX is delivered to your war chest immediately. Except where the law gives you a right that cannot be waived, all purchases are final. We may change RUX prices, package contents, earning rates, and game economy values at any time; changes apply going forward and do not remove RUX you already hold, except as provided in Section 6.

5. THE GAME

Battle outcomes are intentionally uncertain and are decided by the game's systems; strength, choices, and chance all matter, and no outcome is ever guaranteed. Some opponents are operated by the game rather than by human players. Some game text is generated by artificial intelligence. Ranks, ratings, streaks, and leaderboard positions are game statistics with no value outside the game. The game is played by email: transactional game email is part of the service, and you can control or stop it at any time from the links in any message.

6. FAIR PLAY AND ENFORCEMENT

Prohibited: multiple or fake accounts; misrepresenting a social profile as yours; automating play; exploiting bugs; harassing, abusive, or unlawful messages to other players; and any scheme to manufacture wins, referrals, or RUX. We may investigate, adjust balances and records affected by violations, and flag, suspend, or terminate accounts that break these rules. Where a violation is involved, forfeited RUX (purchased or earned) is not compensated.

7. YOUR CONTENT

Your battlefield name and any messages you send to opponents must not be unlawful, deceptive, hateful, or abusive. You grant us the right to use, display, and transmit that content as needed to run the game (for example, delivering your message to your opponent or showing your name on the leaderboard).

8. TERMINATION

You may stop playing at any time; the "Stand down" link in any email ends all game mail immediately. We may suspend or end the service, or your access to it, at any time, including for violations of these terms. Sections 4, 6, 9, and 10 survive termination.

9. DISCLAIMERS

The game is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-interruption. Email delivery depends on systems we do not control, and we do not warrant that any message will be delivered or timely.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Royale will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill. Our total liability for all claims relating to the game is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim or fifty US dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; where a limitation is not allowed, it does not apply to you.

11. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may update these terms. The current version always lives at this address with its effective date. Material changes will be announced by email, and continuing to play after a change takes effect means you accept it.

12. CONTACT

Questions about these terms: email play@royale.email.

PART II: PRIVACY POLICY

WHO WE ARE

ROYALE ("Royale," "we," "us") operates the game at royale.email, played primarily through email. This policy explains what information we collect, why, and what we do with it.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Account information. The name you choose for the battlefield and your email address. Your email address is how you play; without it there is no game.

Social profile information. If you link a social platform, we store the handle you provide and the publicly visible follower, subscriber, connection, or karma count read from that public profile at the time of verification. We read only public pages you point us to; we never ask for your social account passwords and we never log in to your accounts. Verification happens once; we do not monitor your profiles afterward.

Game activity. Battles, choices, results, RUX balance and transactions, rank, streaks, and the content of game commands you email us (including optional short messages to opponents).

Purchase information. Payments are processed by Stripe. We receive confirmation of your purchase and a transaction identifier. We never receive or store your card number.

Email and technical logs. We log the game emails we send and receive (sender, subject, and message content needed to run the game) and standard technical data needed to operate the service.

HOW WE USE IT

To run the game: matching opponents, resolving battles, maintaining the leaderboard, crediting purchases, sending the game emails that constitute play, and protecting the game against cheating and abuse. We do not sell your personal information. We do not use it for third-party advertising. We do not send marketing email on behalf of anyone else.

WHAT IS PUBLIC

Your battlefield name, rank, record, rating, and streak appear on the public leaderboard. If you win a battle, a victory dispatch containing your battlefield name, rank, record, and the battle result is generated with a public link that you may choose to share. Your email address is never public.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We use a small number of processors to run the game, each receiving only what its job requires:

ROYALE also uses YouTube API Services to read public channel statistics when you link a YouTube channel. Google's Privacy Policy applies to that data and is available at policies.google.com/privacy.

COOKIES

The public site sets no tracking or advertising cookies. A single functional cookie is used only for administrator login to the game's control panel.

RETENTION AND DELETION

We keep account and game records while your account exists, and transaction records as long as required for accounting and fraud prevention. Unsubscribing (the "Stand down" link in any email) stops all email immediately. To delete your account and personal information, email your request from your enlisted address to play@royale.email; we will delete your personal information except records we are legally required to keep.

CHILDREN

ROYALE is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we learn that we have, we will delete it.

CHANGES

If we change this policy, we will post the updated version at this address with a new effective date. Material changes will be announced by email.

CONTACT

Questions about this policy: email play@royale.email.