Terms of Service

1. Who runs GameTome

GameTome is run by Dan Adrian Radut, a private individual, who operates the site https://gametome.app and the apps that go with it. There is no company behind it: it is a personal, independent project, with no advertising and no sale of data. For anything concerning these terms the address is info@gametome.app, the same one named in the Privacy Policy as the data controller. These terms are the contract between you and him, and art. 7 of Italian Legislative Decree 70/2003 requires that you know who you are entering into it with.

2. Acceptance and minimum age

By using GameTome — from the website, the desktop app for Windows and Linux, the Android app or the browser extension — you accept these terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not accept them, do not use the platform. There is no iOS app today; if one arrives, these terms will cover it too. To sign up you must be at least 13, the minimum age the app is published under on Google Play. In Italy, though, the law requires 14 to sign up to an online service on your own, and across the rest of the Union the threshold ranges from 13 to 16: below it, the consent of whoever holds parental responsibility is required. We do not ask for a date of birth and we do not verify age.

3. Account and security

To track games, write reviews, build lists and found clubs you need an account. You sign in with a password, with Google, with a passkey or, if you have already linked it in the settings, with Steam: whichever way you use, there is one account and these rules cover all of them. You are responsible for keeping your credentials safe, and the devices where you store a passkey, and for what happens from your account. If you use a password, it must be at least 8 characters and contain uppercase, lowercase, digits and symbols — all four, not one of them — must not repeat the same character three times in a row, and must not be a password known to have appeared in a breach. You can turn on two-factor authentication in the settings, and it is recommended. If you suspect someone else has signed in, change the password and write to info@gametome.app.

4. Community rules

GameTome is a space for the love of video games. When you write reviews, comments, notes, lists, tags, club posts or direct messages, and when you create a game that isn’t in the catalogue, you agree to:

• Respect other people: no harassment, hate speech, threats, spam, defamation or discriminatory language.
• Turn on the “Spoiler” tag on any text that reveals important parts of a game’s story.
• Not publish contact details — email addresses, phone numbers, messaging handles — whether your own or someone else’s: a public text can be read by anyone, and the site blocks these before they go out. The same block applies in direct messages.
• Not tamper with or overload the infrastructure: no working around rate limits, no automated harvesting outside the public API, no attacks. The public API exists for exactly this and is open to everyone; its rules are in section 8.

5. Reports, sanctions and appeals

Every public text can be reported from the content’s own menu — reviews, comments, list comments, session notes, list notes and descriptions, clubs, club posts, game discussions, games added outside the catalogue (title, description and cover) and profiles (username and picture) — and so can every direct message, though only the person who received it can report it. Reports are read by a person, one at a time; for a direct message they see that message and the five before it in the conversation, nothing else. When a rule is broken there are three possible sanctions, in order of severity:

• 1Warning: the content is removed and you get a notice with the reason. The account stays intact.
• 2Temporary suspension: for a set period you cannot post or edit anything. You can still read, browse your library and export your data.
• 3Ban: the account can no longer post, and this does not expire. It is reserved for serious or repeated breaches.

Every sanction comes with a written reason, in the app and by email. If you think it is wrong you can challenge it by writing to info@gametome.app within 30 days: we answer within 14 days with reasons, and the sanction can be lifted in whole or in part. A person decides, not an automated system. A record of the sanction stays in an internal log even when it is lifted, because that log has to say what actually happened.

Inside a club, the founder and the moderators they appoint also have a say: they can remove a post from the board and remove a member, including with a ban on coming back until a moderator lifts it. The founder can remove anyone but themselves, a moderator only ordinary members. That is a club rule, not a GameTome sanction: your account stays intact and there is nothing to challenge here, but if a club uses these powers to break the community rules you can report it.

6. Your content

It stays yours. Reviews, ratings, comments, session notes, list notes and descriptions, club names and descriptions, club posts, direct messages, the title, description and cover of the games you add outside the catalogue, and the profile pictures you upload belong to whoever wrote or uploaded them.

By publishing them you grant GameTome a free, non-exclusive, revocable licence to store them, display them, machine-translate them into the reader’s language and include them in preview images and in the read-only public API, as far as you have made them public. A direct message is not public: there the licence only covers storing it, showing it to the recipient and translating it when one of you asks. A game that isn’t in the catalogue does not show up in other people’s searches; on your profile it shows up like any other game. It exists to make the site work, and it ends when you delete the content or the account.

By publishing you state that you have the right to do so: that the text is yours and that the images you upload — your profile picture or the cover of a game you add outside the catalogue — do not infringe anyone else’s rights. For a cover that means an image you made, or one the rights holder lets you use.

You can delete any content whenever you want, and deleting the account takes all of it at once. A direct message you delete disappears at once for both of you, but its text stays on the server for 30 days, hidden, only so the recipient can still report it; the same goes for the version from before an edit. In a collaborative list, the title, description and visibility belong to whoever created it: if they delete it, the games other people added go with it. What remains, and why, is in section 10.

7. Trademarks, metadata and IGDB

Titles, logos, cover art, descriptions, release dates and every other piece of catalogue data come from IGDB (Twitch Interactive, Inc.) and remain with their developers, publishers and rights holders; games added outside the catalogue are written by whoever creates them, who answers for them as for any other content of theirs. GameTome uses IGDB data under the IGDB API terms and the Twitch Developer Services Agreement, and is not affiliated with or sponsored by IGDB, Twitch, Google, the gaming services you can link, or any game publisher. If you link a gaming service — Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and the others listed in the Privacy Policy — your agreement with that service applies too: GameTome reads only what you authorise it to read, and stops when you unlink the account. If something published here infringes your copyright, write to info@gametome.app naming the content, the right and a way to reach you: if the report holds up, the content is removed.

8. Public API, apps and updates

The GameTome public API is open, needs no key, and stays that way. In exchange it has limits, and using it means accepting them: it is read-only, it exposes only what anyone would see on a public profile without signing in, it has a per-IP requests-per-minute limit stated on the developers page, and it serves responses cached for a few minutes. Working around those limits, passing that data off as your own, or building a service on top that resells it is not allowed. The Windows, Linux and Android apps and the browser extension are licensed to you for personal, non-transferable use: you may use them, not resell them or redistribute modified copies. The desktop apps check for a new version by themselves and install it on restart; you can decline an update, but an old version may stop working when the site changes. The extension updates through the browser store you installed it from, and you can unlink it in the settings whenever you like. Push notifications can be turned on and off in the settings.

9. Donations

GameTome is free and stays free. Donations through Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee are voluntary contributions towards server and API costs: they are not the purchase of a good or a service and they do not unlock features. Donors may receive a “Supporter” badge on their profile, which is a symbolic acknowledgement and not a subscription. Payment is handled by Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee under their own terms, so a problem with a charge goes to them; donations carry no right to a refund, save where the law provides one. If you donated by mistake, write to info@gametome.app and we will work something out.

10. Closing your account and taking your data

You can delete your account whenever you want, by yourself, from the settings. Deletion is immediate and irreversible: library, reviews, lists, clubs you founded, sessions, comments, games you added outside the catalogue, direct messages and links to external accounts all go. Direct-message conversations go whole, for the other person too. What remains is content written by other people, and the entry in the internal moderation log, without your texts. If a sanction is open, deletion is refused until it closes — otherwise deleting yourself would be enough to make it vanish. Before deleting you can export everything to a file, and export works during a suspension too.

11. Availability and liability

GameTome is a personal project, served as well as it can be, not a service with a continuity guarantee: it can stop for maintenance, it can suffer when IGDB, the linked gaming services or the hosting fail, and catalogue data comes from third parties and can be incomplete or wrong. The same goes for prices and discounts, which come from IsThereAnyDeal and can lag behind the store: the price that counts is the one the store shows you when you buy, and the purchase is between you and the store. The database is copied every night and the copies are kept for seven days; exporting your data now and then is still the better precaution.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, for personal injury, or the rights the law gives to anyone using the service as a consumer — including the digital content conformity rules of Directive (EU) 2019/770. Where the law gives more than what is written here, the law wins.

12. Changes to these terms

These terms change when the service changes. A substantial change is announced on the site and in the changelog at least 15 days before it takes effect, and the date at the top of this page always says when the last one was. If a change does not suit you, you can delete your account before it takes effect: that is how you decline it. Carrying on using GameTome after that date means accepting it.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by Italian law. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the more favourable mandatory rules of your country of residence still apply, and you can bring a case before the court where you live. Otherwise the court of the operator’s residence has jurisdiction. Before going to a court, write to us: almost everything gets settled by email. We do not subscribe to any alternative dispute resolution body, and the European Commission’s ODR platform shut down on 20 July 2025.

14. Contact

For official communications, to challenge a sanction, for copyright reports or for anything tied to these terms, the address is: info@gametome.app