Terms of use

Last updated: 10.10.2026

This is a translation. The German version is the authoritative one; in case of discrepancy, it prevails.

1. What this is about

These terms govern the use of the game Typical — as an app on iPhone and Android devices and as a web version in the browser. The provider is:

Schwartz & Zuhmann GbR
Represented by the partners Gabriel Schwartz and Marcel Daniel Zuhmann
Badener Str. 122/1, 74074 Heilbronn, Germany
Email: support@typical.cloud

On first launch of the app a free user agreement on these terms comes into being between you and us. If you do not agree with them, do not use the app.

2. What Typical is

Typical is a group game. Everyone writes predictions about the behaviour of the others; over the days what was predicted comes true; whoever completes a line first wins. The app keeps the game state and holds all players at the same state. Every round comes with a chat — one channel for everybody, and in group mode an additional one just for your own team.

The game itself is free of charge and stays that way. Alongside it there may be paid extras (section 8) and advertising (section 9). Neither is required in order to play: without a single purchase, Typical is fully playable.

3. Your account

You can play without signing in; the app then creates an anonymous identifier. If you sign in with Apple or Google, you can use your rounds on several devices.

You are responsible for ensuring that no unauthorised person has access to your device or to your personal return link for the web version. That link is like a password: whoever holds it steps into your role.

You can delete your account at any time in the settings. What happens in the process is set out in the privacy policy.

4. What you write — and what you answer for

The core of this game is sentences about other people. That makes this the most important section.

You are responsible for your own content. For every prediction, every round name, every prize, every display name and every message you write in the chat.

The yardstick you can measure yourself against: write only what you would say to the person's face while they are listening.

The rule you agree to before your first prediction and your first message applies here word for word: No insults, no threats, nothing sexual about others, nothing that puts someone down for their origin, faith, gender or disability. Not as a prediction, not in the chat, not as a joke either.

How we enforce this. As you write, the app warns you about coarse words; that is a hint, not a review — it does not understand sentences, it recognises words. In addition, before storing them, the server holds every prediction and every chat message against a fixed list of coarse expressions and rejects them where they match. This check runs automatically, with nobody reading along, and decides about the single text, not about you. Conversely it means nothing if a sentence gets through: everything beyond that is decided by a person, and only upon a report (section 6).

Indemnity. If you culpably infringe a third party's rights and a claim is consequently brought against us, you shall indemnify us against that claim and reimburse the necessary costs of legal defence. We will inform you of such a claim without delay and give you the opportunity to comment.

5. Rights in your content

What you write is yours. You grant us only the non-exclusive, territorially unlimited right to store and reproduce your content and to display it to the players in your round — that is, exactly what is needed for the game to work. This right ends when the content is deleted. We claim no other use.

6. Reporting content — and what happens then

If you consider content in a round unlawful or in breach of these terms, there are two routes.

In the app: open the person in the Players tab and tap “Something wrong here?” at the bottom. There you choose what it is about — the person or a single sentence — give a reason and can add a note. In the same step you can hide the person from now on: their sentences then stay on your card, but you no longer read them. You report a single chat message by pressing and holding it.

By email to support@typical.cloud: state the round, the content and the reason precisely enough for us to find and assess it. This route is open to any person, including without an account of their own and also once you have left the round.

We examine every report without undue delay. Where the examination produces a result, we communicate it to you and — as far as possible — to the person whose content is affected, in each case with reasons. Depending on severity we may:

You may object to our decision at the same address; we will then look at it again. Your right to go to court remains unaffected.

What we do not do: we do not search the rounds for infringements on our own initiative and do not read predictions and messages. Beyond the automated word check in section 4 we act only upon a report. That is not convenience but a consequence of data minimisation.

7. Availability and updates

We operate the service with the care you are entitled to expect. Maintenance, disruptions and outages at our infrastructure provider may mean that a round is temporarily unreachable; we fix that as quickly as we can. Nobody who uses a network can guarantee uninterrupted availability.

Updates. We provide you with the updates required to keep the app in conformity with the contract — security updates included — and inform you about them. This applies for the period you may expect given the type of app and the circumstances.

Your statutory rights remain unaffected. Typical and any paid extras you buy are governed by §§ 327 et seq. of the German Civil Code (BGB) on contracts for digital products: if the app is defective, you have the statutory remedies for defects, and any agreement to your disadvantage is ineffective (§ 327s BGB). We do not restrict these rights through these terms, and wherever a provision of these terms would fall short of the law, the law applies.

We may develop the service further, change it and discontinue individual functions, provided there is an objective reason and you are left no worse off than this contract provides for. If we discontinue the service entirely, we will announce this with reasonable notice so that you can finish your rounds.

8. Paid extras

The game itself remains free of charge. Alongside it we offer Typical Pro — a one-off purchase. Whether you buy it is your decision; without it Typical is fully playable.

What Typical Pro covers: all extras permanently and in every round, without an ad having to be watched for them; emoji reactions in the chat, likewise in every round; no more advertising; and the Flashback — the tile that brings back one fulfilled sentence from an earlier round each day. Which extras exist may change over time; what you have bought we do not take away from you. This also includes the whole collection for your mark – ring, background and symbol on your picture.

One-off and permanent. Typical Pro is not a subscription: there is no term, nothing renews, nothing is charged recurrently, and there is nothing to cancel.

Tied to your store account. The purchase is attached to the account you made it with — your Apple ID or your Google account — not to your Typical account and not to a single device. On a further device with the same store account it is available to you again.

Who the purchase is concluded with. Purchases run through the store you downloaded the app from — the App Store or Google Play. The contracting party for the purchase is the respective store operator, not us. Payment, invoicing, withdrawal and refunds are governed by their terms. Accordingly, a right of withdrawal exists against the store operator, not against us.

Your right of withdrawal. For paid digital content there is in principle a right of withdrawal of fourteen days. It lapses where performance has begun after you expressly consented to this and at the same time confirmed that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal (§ 356 (5) BGB). Because the purchase contract is concluded with the store operator, it is they who obtain this consent and who decide on the withdrawal; turn to them for that.

What we learn of it is the store's confirmation that a purchase applies to your account. We do not see payment data — neither card number nor billing address.

Prices are shown in the store before purchase, including the applicable taxes.

If you are a minor, you need your parents' or guardians' agreement for a purchase (§§ 104 et seq. German Civil Code). Set your device's purchase restrictions accordingly.

After changing device, you restore Typical Pro in the settings via “Restore purchases”. If that does not work, write to us — we will help, even though we are not the contracting party for the purchase.

9. Advertising

This section applies wherever the app displays advertising — and the undertakings in it hold regardless of whether advertising is running at any given moment. If we introduce advertising somewhere new, we announce it under section 14.

Contextual only, never personalised. No user profile, no advertising identifier from your device, no recognition across apps or services, no evaluation of your behaviour. Which advertisement appears depends at most on where in the app it sits.

Your content stays out of it. Predictions, player names, round names and profile pictures are never transmitted to an advertising partner and never used to select advertising. This undertaking applies without exception and is at the same time part of our contract with every advertising partner.

Where advertising may sit — and where not. Not next to or between predictions, where they are written or read, and not on the bingo card.

The exception is an ad you request yourself to unlock something — an extra, a piece of your mark or the reactions of a round. It appears only after you tap for it, as a separate screen that covers the game, never embedded between your sentences. As with every ad, “Your content stays out of it” applies to it too: the advertising partner receives no game content.

Watch an ad, unlock an extra. The host can unlock an extra for a round by voluntarily watching a short ad for it – in the app as in the web version; the extra then applies to that round and to everyone playing. This is an offer, never a condition: whoever does not want to plays the round without the extra, and whoever has Typical Pro does not need this route. The other players are shown no ad in the process. In the same way, you can unlock a single piece of your mark by voluntarily watching a short ad. In the app, it then stays unlocked on this device for good, but is lost when you switch devices. In the web version, it stays unlocked only in this browser and only as long as its site data remains: if you delete it, or play in a private window or another browser, the piece is not unlocked there. We cannot restore it, because only your browser stores which pieces you have unlocked.

Watch an ad, unlock reactions. You see the emoji reactions others leave in the chat even without unlocking. You can react yourself in a round once you have voluntarily watched a short ad for it; this then applies only to you and only in that round. The ad appears only on your device; your fellow players are shown none in the process. This too is an offer, not a condition: the game plays just the same without reactions, and with Typical Pro they are unlocked in every round (section 8). Your device remembers which rounds you have unlocked – in the web version, your browser; there, the unlock is gone with the site data, as with a piece of your mark. None of these routes requires payment, and the web version has no purchase.

We ask you before the first advert. Because the advertising component stores and reads information on your device, a consent screen under § 25(1) TDDDG appears beforehand; without your consent no advert is loaded. If you are under 16, this consent requires the agreement of the holder of parental responsibility (Art. 8 GDPR) — ask them before you agree. The details and the way to withdraw are set out in the privacy policy.

10. The prize is your business — this is not gambling

The host may set a prize for first place. That prize is a private arrangement within your group. We are not party to it, hold nothing, pay out nothing and broker nothing.

No stake is payable to take part — neither to us nor to fellow players. Gambling within the meaning of § 284 of the German Criminal Code and of the German Interstate Treaty on Gambling therefore does not arise. Even so, do not agree monetary stakes; anyone doing so does it outside this service and at their own risk.

11. Liability

We are liable to you without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for fraud, for the assumption of a guarantee, for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act.

In cases of simple negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — that is, an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical of the contract. Otherwise liability for simple negligence is excluded.

These limitations also apply for the benefit of our legal representatives and the people we engage in performance.

What this leaves untouched. We cannot limit your claims under Art. 82 GDPR arising from a data protection infringement — they remain unaffected. The same applies to all other mandatory statutory claims.

We are not liable for what your fellow players write. Predictions and messages are third-party content: we store them for you and your group, nobody here reads along — the automated word check in section 4 remains unaffected by this — and under Art. 6 and Art. 8 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act) and § 10 DDG we are not obliged to search them on our own initiative either. As soon as unlawful content becomes known to us, we act in accordance with section 6.

Data loss. Game states sit on your device and on our server. In the recap you can take your rounds with you as a file – this does not impose any backup obligation on you, and we do not limit our liability to what such a backup would have saved. For the loss of game states we are liable in accordance with the preceding paragraphs.

12. Suspension and termination

You may end the agreement at any time by deleting your account or removing the app. There is no notice period.

We may terminate the agreement on 14 days' notice. In the event of a serious breach of section 4 we may suspend your account immediately; for breaches in the chat we may also merely bar you from posting, without suspending the account. We will tell you the reason and give you the opportunity to comment, unless this is unreasonable given the severity of the breach.

13. Age

Use is permitted to persons aged 13 and over. If you are a minor, you need the agreement of your parents or guardians.

14. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms where there is an objective reason to do so — changed legislation or case law, a new function, a change in the technology, or a gap that only became apparent in operation. A change must give appropriate weight to your interests and may not turn the character of this agreement into its opposite. A change of business model falls under this too: if parts of the app become chargeable or advertising is added, the same procedure applies as for any other change — an announcement, no consent through silence, and an exit that costs you nothing.

How a change applies to you. The next time you start the app we put the new version in front of you. It applies to you only once you confirm it — your silence is not enough for us, and there is no period after which you count as having agreed. Until you confirm, the old version applies. In the browser we ask in the same way.

If you do not agree, do not continue to use the app after that date. You may end the agreement at any time and without notice by deleting your account or removing the app (section 12). This costs you nothing — use is free of charge.

Without an announcement we change only what does not burden you: typographical errors, cross-references, designations and details that have changed anyway, such as a new address.

15. Governing law, dispute resolution, place of jurisdiction

German law applies. If you are a consumer and habitually resident in another state, the mandatory consumer protection provisions of that state remain unaffected.

We are not obliged and not willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36(1) no. 2 VSBG).

The statutory places of jurisdiction apply to legal actions. We do not agree a differing place of jurisdiction with consumers.

16. If a provision is invalid

If a provision of these terms is invalid, the remainder stays valid. The statutory rule takes the place of the invalid provision.