Terms of use

Last updated: 10.09.2026

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. If the app is defective, you have your statutory rights. We do not restrict them 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 may offer paid extras — one-off or as a subscription. Whether you buy them is your decision; the game is fully playable without them.

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, refunds and the term and cancellation of a subscription are governed by their terms; you also manage running subscriptions there. Accordingly, a right of withdrawal exists against the store operator, not against us.

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 purchased functions via "Restore purchases" in the respective store. 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 where predictions are written or read, and not on the bingo card.

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.