Acceptable Use Policy

Guilty Party writes a murder mystery about your actual friends. That only works — and is only legal — when everyone in the story chose to be there. This policy is the line between a great party and a bad night for a real person.

It's written for everyone who plays. Sections that apply only to hosts say so; everything else applies to every person at the table.

1. The One Rule

   Everyone depicted said yes. Characters are built from the real people at your table, and the rule applies the moment a character draws on one — their name, their traits, their details. (A wholly invented character needs nobody's permission.) Hosts: before you add someone to a party, or upload anything about them, you must have their express permission to use their name and details in the game. Nobody gets written into a mystery they didn't agree to be in, and calling a character invented doesn't change that if a real person is recognizable in it.

2. Your Name in the Story

   This one is for everyone at the table — players and hosts alike, since hosts play too.

   Guilty Party can't write a mystery about you without using your name. So when you join a party and accept the Terms, you give us permission to put your first name, the answers you gave, and the character built from them into that party's story and into the casebook you keep afterward.

   That's the whole permission. Not ads, not marketing, not anywhere outside your own party — if we ever want to show your story off, we'll ask you first.

   You may only give this permission for yourself. For a player under 18, a parent or legal guardian gives it on their behalf.

3. What the Game Depicts

   Guilty Party is a murder mystery. Every game turns on a fictional death and fictional wrongdoing, and the story runs on secrets, betrayal, motive, suspicion, and accusation — including invented secrets and accusations attached to characters carrying real first names.

   Your host picks settings that change how dark or how comic a game runs. By joining a party you're confirming you're okay with these themes. If you're not, don't join — and hosts, don't push a guest who says no.

4. Hosts Must

   • Invite, don't conscript. Only add people who expressly agreed to play, and only upload details about them with their permission. If a guest drops out, remove them (reshuffle handles the story).
   • Confirm ages. Every player is 13 or older. For players under 18, a parent or legal guardian has approved their participation and accepts the Terms on their behalf. No exceptions — the game's themes are murder-mystery themes.
   • Keep uploaded context fair. Context you upload about guests must be things you have the right to share and would say to their face. It is seasoning for fiction — not a dossier of real secrets, grudges, or rumors.
   • Attest before launch. You'll confirm the above before the party goes live. That confirmation is stamped on the party and it means something: if it's false and someone gets hurt, that's on you.

5. Nobody May

   • Target a person. No using surveys, context, peer questions, planted evidence, or any mechanic to humiliate, harass, intimidate, out, or expose a specific person. The game invents secrets; smuggling in real ones is the prohibited move — and that includes smuggling by implication: hints, in-jokes, and "seasoning" written so the AI reconstructs a real secret count exactly the same as typing it out. So does recruiting other players to carry a theme into someone's game, and re-rolling the story to fish for crueler versions of someone's character. We look at what the inputs did together, not just what each one says alone.
   • Present fiction as fact. No republishing game content — casebooks, dossiers, accusations — as though it were true, or in a way designed to make it look true.
   • Put real private facts in. No health conditions, sexual life, immigration status, criminal history, addictions, family secrets, or financial details about another person — in any input field. (This protects you too: several states regulate "sensitive data" strictly, at any company size.)
   • Include celebrities or public figures as characters, victims, or suspects. Fictional strangers only, plus the consenting people at the party.
   • Violate the AI providers' rules. The models that write your game prohibit impersonation, harassment, and processing people's personal data without consent. Those rules flow through to you.
   • Break the game for others — no scraping, probing, reverse engineering, or automating play.

6. Host Indemnity

   By acting as a Host, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold Plot Twist Games harmless from any claims, lawsuits, or damages arising from your failure to obtain consent or your violation of these rules, including reasonable attorneys' fees, damages, and settlement amounts. We may assume our own defense with counsel of our choosing, and we will not settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on you without your consent. This obligation does not apply to any claim to the extent it arises from our own conduct, does not cover our own negligence or willful misconduct, and is secondary to any insurance we hold.

7. Reporting and What Happens Next

   Every screen that shows generated content has a report control. Flags go to our team for review. Depending on what we find we may pause or stop a game, regenerate content, purge data, suspend accounts, or — for credible threats or safety issues — contact authorities. Credits for undelivered games are restored; games already played are not refunded because their host broke this policy.

   If you're at a party and content about you crosses a line: report it in the app, or email support@guiltypartygame.com — including if you don't have an account. Tell us the host's name and roughly when the party happened; we can find and act on the rest.

8. Enforcement Discretion

   We may act on violations whether or not anyone reported them, and "we didn't know the rule" is not a defense — this page is short on purpose.

9. Contact

   Questions about these house rules: support@guiltypartygame.com.

Everyone depicted said yes. That's the whole policy.