Terms of Use

Version 1, in effect from 9 October 2026

1. About these terms

Sylvorama, the game at sylvorama.world, is run by Aurel Canciu, a private individual in Germany, as a non-commercial project. There is no company behind it. “We” and “us” in these terms mean him; “you” means you, the player.

These terms are the agreement between you and us about playing Sylvorama. You accept them when you ask for your first sign-in link on the sign-in screen, where they are linked. If your account is older than these terms, or when we change them (section 12), you accept them by confirming in the game. How we handle your personal data is explained separately, in the Privacy Policy.

2. Who may play

• For now, you need an invitation to create an account.
• You must be at least 16 to play, or have the permission of a parent or guardian if you are younger. If you are under 18, German law lets you enter into this agreement only with the permission of a parent or guardian, so please ask them before you sign up.
• An account is for one person. Sign up with an email address that is yours and that you can receive mail at.

3. Your account

You sign in with links we email to you, so whoever can read your inbox can enter your account. Keep your email account secure, don’t pass sign-in links on, and tell us if you think someone else has been in your account. Under Settings you can change your name and email address, sign out on your other devices, and delete your account.

4. The game is free

Playing Sylvorama costs nothing, and these terms never oblige you to pay. There are no purchases in the game and no advertising. If we ever offer something for a price, we will set out its terms separately and ask for your agreement to them first.

5. What we provide

You can grow up to five terrariums in your account, and we keep them on our servers so you can return to them from any device. We may raise that number, for everyone or for your account. We lower it only by changing these terms as described in section 12, and terrariums you already have always stay.

Sylvorama is a game in development, made and run by one person in their spare time. We look after it and your terrariums with care, but we can’t promise that it will always be available or free of errors. It may be offline for maintenance or because of faults, and we keep developing it, so features and the way the forest behaves will change. We make only changes that are reasonable for you, bearing in mind that the game is free and still being developed. If a change significantly limits what you can do in the game, we will tell you by email at least 30 days in advance.

6. Playing fair

You agree not to:

• attack, overload or disrupt the game or the servers it runs on;
• get around the invitation system, the bot check, rate limits or the limit on terrariums;
• access, or try to access, anyone else’s account or data;
• use bots or other automated means to play or to sign in, beyond what the game itself does in your browser;
• use the game for anything unlawful.

Looking for security problems in good faith is welcome when you follow our security policy.

7. Your names and your worlds

The names you give, to yourself and to your terrariums, stay yours. You allow us to store and back them up together with your terrariums, to show them to you, and to look at them where we need to deal with a report or a breach of these terms (section 9), as far as needed to run the game. No other player can see them. Don’t use names that are unlawful or that infringe someone else’s rights.

You may share screenshots and videos of your terrariums wherever you like.

8. The game’s own content

The game itself, including its software, art, music, sounds, names and texts, belongs to us or to those who licensed it to us. You may use it to play Sylvorama for your own, non-commercial purposes. Beyond that, and beyond sharing screenshots and videos as in section 7, you may not copy or distribute it, except as the law allows.

9. If something breaks these rules

We don’t monitor what you write in the game. If we learn that something unlawful has been put into it, or that an account breaks these terms, we may remove the content concerned, or suspend the account for as long as is needed to deal with the breach. We close an account only as described in section 10. We choose the mildest step that is enough, taking into account how serious the breach is and whether it was deliberate, and we warn you first unless the breach is serious or a warning would clearly be pointless.

If we remove something of yours or restrict your account, we tell you by email, at the latest when we do it, which step we took and for how long, the facts behind it, which rule of these terms or of the law it is based on, and that you can reply to ask us to look at it again or take the matter to court.

To report unlawful content, email privacy@sylvorama.world. Tell us what the content is and where in the game it is, explain why you believe it is unlawful, and confirm that you believe your report is accurate and complete. Unless your report concerns child sexual abuse material, also give your name and email address. We confirm that we received it, decide on it carefully and without delay, and tell you what we decided and how you can challenge that decision, including in court. Every report and decision is handled by Aurel Canciu personally; we use no automated tools to find or decide on content.

10. Ending the agreement

You can end the agreement at any time by deleting your account under Settings (“Delete account”), or by emailing us at privacy@sylvorama.world, ideally from the address of your account. Your account and terrariums are then deleted, as explained in the Privacy Policy.

We can end the agreement by giving you at least 30 days’ notice by email, for example if we stop running the game, or if nobody has signed into your account for three years. Before your account is closed you can ask us for a copy of your data, including your save files.

Either of us may end the agreement at once for good cause, in particular if you seriously break these terms, or keep breaking them after we have warned you, or if the law requires us to.

11. Liability

1. We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), wherever we have given a guarantee, and wherever the law does not allow liability to be limited, in particular under Art. 82 GDPR.
2. For slight negligence, we are liable only if we breach an obligation that is essential to this agreement: one whose fulfilment makes playing the game possible at all and on which you may regularly rely. Our liability is then limited to the damage that was typical and foreseeable when the agreement was made.
3. Otherwise, we are not liable for slight negligence.

12. Changes to these terms

We may need to change these terms, for example because the law changes or the game does. We will email you the new terms at least 30 days before they are meant to apply, and they apply to you only once you accept them in the game. If you don’t accept them, you can delete your account, and we may end the agreement as described in section 10.

13. Law and disputes

German law applies. If you are a consumer living in another country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live.

We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. If something goes wrong, please write to us first: privacy@sylvorama.world.