Terms, conditions & GDPR
Castled · last updated 9 November 2026 · The full privacy policy is a separate page.
Terms and conditions
These terms are an agreement between you and Tom O C ("we", "us"), who makes the game Castled. They cover the game (including its test versions), its online server and this website. By installing or playing Castled you accept them.
1. Your licence to play
We give you a personal, non-transferable licence to install Castled on your own devices and play it for your own enjoyment. The game, its pictures, music and code belong to us or to those who licensed them to us. Don't copy, sell or rent the game, and don't take it apart or change it, except where the law lets you.
2. The free part, and playing with friends
Castled is free to install and play: the Continental map at Small and Medium size, against one rival on Easy or Normal, with every building, soldier and siege engine, the tutorial and the missions. Joining friends' online matches is always free, and so is hosting them in your first week.
3. The full game
One purchase unlocks the full game: every map and size, up to three rivals, Hard, dragons, and hosting online matches with any settings. It costs €4.99 (Google Play shows the price where you live) and is paid once: there is no subscription and nothing else to buy. You buy it, and ask for any refund, through Google Play, under Google Play's terms and refund rules. Once bought, it works offline and comes back on a new phone. A refunded purchase no longer unlocks hosting. Nothing in these terms takes away your rights as a consumer.
4. Playing online
Play fair. Don't cheat, don't tamper with the game, its files or its connection to our server, don't attack or overload the server, and don't use online play to harass or abuse other players. Every online match is recorded (the settings and each player's moves, with players as numbered seats and no names), and we may use these recordings to look into reports of cheating. See the privacy policy for what a recording holds and when it is deleted.
5. No accounts
Castled has no accounts and no sign-in. Your settings, saved games and progress are kept on your phone only, and leave it only through your phone's own backup, if you use one. We cannot recover them for you. Your purchase is tied to your Google Play account, not to us.
6. Availability and liability
Castled is provided "as is". We work to keep the game and its online server reliable, but we don't promise that online play will always be available or free of faults. As far as the law allows, our liability to you is limited to the amount you paid for the game. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that the law does not allow us to limit, or takes away your rights as a consumer.
7. Ending this agreement
You can stop at any time: uninstalling the game removes everything it keeps on your phone, and what our server keeps deletes itself (see below). If you break these terms, we may stop you from playing online.
8. Changes and governing law
When these terms change, we update them here and change the date at the top. These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland; if you are a consumer in the European Union, you also keep the protections of the law of the country where you live.
GDPR and data protection
The short version. The privacy policy is the complete statement.
- Controller: Tom O C, support@playcastled.com.
- What we keep: recordings of online matches (the settings and each player's moves, no names); for a host with the full game, a scrambled copy of the Google Play purchase token and Google's answer; and, only if your phone fails the game's online self-check, its model and system version. Playing alone sends nothing anywhere. No accounts, no ads, no analytics or tracking, no advertising ID, no location, and we do not store your internet address.
- Legal basis: purchase checks to give you what you bought (performance of a contract) and our legitimate interest in stopping copied purchases; match recordings and self-check reports for our legitimate interest in online matches that work, are fair, and are the same game on every phone; e-mail for our legitimate interest in answering you.
- Retention: recordings and self-check reports are deleted after 30 days; purchase records 90 days after their last use; e-mails once they are no longer needed.
- Where: our server runs at Hetzner in Germany. Cloudflare carries connections to it, and may carry them through countries outside the European Union under the EU's standard contractual clauses. Google answers our purchase checks and handles payments under its own terms.
- Your rights: a copy of your data, correction, deletion, restriction, objection and portability. Write to support@playcastled.com; we answer within one month. You can also complain to Ireland's Data Protection Commission, or to the data protection authority where you live.
We never sell or share your data.