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Last updated: April 24, 2026

Welcome! These Terms of Service govern your use of Animal Company (the "Game"). The Game is a copyrighted work belonging to Wooster Games ("Company", "us", "our", and "we"). These Terms of Service, together with our Privacy Policy, (collectively, the "Terms") set forth the legally binding terms and conditions that govern your use of the Game. The Game is licensed, not sold to you.

BY CLICKING THE "AGREE" BUTTON IN THE GAME, YOU (A) ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS AGREEMENT; (B) REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE EITHER (i) OF LEGAL AGE TO ENTER INTO A BINDING AGREEMENT or (ii) YOU ARE OVER THE AGE OF 13 AND HAVE THE CONSENT AND ARE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN; AND (C) ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY BOUND BY ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THE GAME AND DELETE IT FROM YOUR DEVICE.

1. Access to the Game

1.1. Eligibility

Only persons meeting the following requirements may use the Game:

(a) Persons who are at or above the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction (18 years old in most states) who agree to be bound by all of these Terms; or

(b) Persons who are between the ages of 13 and the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction, who have the consent and are under the supervision of their parent or legal guardian and who agree, and consent, along with their parent or guardian, to these Terms; or

(c) Where supported by the applicable platform, persons who are below the age of 13 may access the Game only through a platform-level account arrangement that is set up and managed by their parent or legal guardian and only to the extent permitted by the applicable platform and applicable law. For example, users who are between the ages of 10 and 12 years old may be able to access the Game through a Meta account that is set up and managed by their parent or legal guardian (Parent-Managed Account), provided that their parent or legal guardian has reviewed and accepted the account request for their child to download and play the Game. Additional eligibility, account, and platform requirements may apply when accessing the Game through Steam, Meta Quest, or any other Marketplace or platform.

1.2. License

Subject to these Terms, your acceptance of and compliance with the same, and provided that you meet the eligibility requirements in Section 1.1 above, Company grants you a limited non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable license to download, install and use the Game for your personal, non-commercial use on a single device owned or otherwise controlled by you ("Device") strictly in accordance with the Game's documentation.

1.3. Certain Restrictions

The rights granted to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions. You shall not:

(a) copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, display, post or otherwise transmit the Game in any form or by any means, except as expressly permitted by this license

(b) license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, publish, host, exploit or otherwise make available the Game, or any features or functionality of the Game, to any third party for any reason, including by making the Game available on a network where it is capable of being accessed by more than one device at any time

(c) modify, translate, adapt, make derivative works or improvements of the Game, whether or not patentable

(d) disassemble, decode, reverse compile or reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to the source code of any part of the Game

(e) access the Game in order to build a similar or competitive product, game or service

(f) remove, delete, alter, or obscure any trademarks or any copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights notices from the Game, including any copy thereof

(g) remove, disable, circumvent or otherwise create or implement any workaround to any copy protection, rights management, or security features in or protecting the Game

(h) use, develop, distribute, or make use of cheats, automation software, bots, hacks, mods, exploits, unauthorized overlays, or any other unauthorized software, scripts, tools, or methods designed to gain an unfair advantage, evade enforcement, or interfere with gameplay integrity, moderation, or anti-cheat systems

1.4. Modification

Company reserves the right, at any time, to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Game (in whole or in part) with or without notice to you. You agree that Company will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Game or any part thereof.

1.5. No Support or Maintenance

You acknowledge and agree that Company will have no obligation to provide you with any support or maintenance in connection with the Game.

1.6. Ownership; Reservation of Rights

You acknowledge and agree that the Game is provided under license, and not sold, to you. You do not acquire any ownership interest in the Game under these Terms, or any other rights thereto other than to use the Game in accordance with these Terms. Company and its licensors and Game providers reserve and retain their entire right, title, and interest in and to the Game, including all copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights therein or relating thereto, except as expressly granted to you in these Terms.

1.7. Third-Party Platforms

Your access to and use of the Game may also be subject to the terms, conditions, rules, and policies of the applicable Marketplace or platform through which you download, purchase, access, or use the Game, including Steam and Meta Quest. Company is not responsible for the operation of such third-party platforms. In the event of a conflict between these Terms and the mandatory terms of the applicable Marketplace or platform, the applicable Marketplace or platform terms will control solely to the extent of that conflict with respect to that platform.

2. Acceptable Use and Information Submitted Through the Game

2.1. User Content

"User Content" means any and all information and content of any kind that you or any other user submits to, or uses with, the Game, or any group, server or other manner of forum on social media organized by or associated with Company including without limitation, our Discord server, TikTok account, Twitter/X account and any of our other social accounts or pages ("Outside Platform(s)"), including without limitation voice chat, text chat, gameplay clips, recorded footage, screenshots, livestream content, feedback, creator content, channel links, and other materials created, uploaded, transmitted, or shared through the Game or related creator tools.

By submitting User Content, you make the following representations, warranties and agreements:

(a) You meet the eligibility requirements in Section 1.1 above

(b) You agree that you are solely responsible for, and you assume all risks associated with your User Content

(c) You consent to our use of your personal information as outlined in the Privacy Policy

(d) To the extent that you submit Third Party Information, you represent that all such information is of persons who are at least 18 years of age, and that you have validly obtained all consents required by applicable law

(e) All information or material that you submit is true, accurate and complete

(f) Your User Content on all Outside Platforms is in full compliance with all terms, rules and guidelines of the applicable platforms

(g) Your User Content does not violate our Acceptable Use Policy

(h) If you use creator, camera, capture, or streaming tools made available in connection with the Game, including through LIV or similar third-party tools, you are responsible for complying with the terms, rules, and policies of those tools and of any third-party platform to which you upload, stream, transmit, or publish content, including YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Discord, Steam, and Meta.

2.2. License

You hereby grant to Company an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use and exploit your User Content, solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Game or Outside Platform and otherwise promoting and improving the Game.

You further acknowledge and agree that certain User Content may be processed by our third-party service providers on our behalf in order to provide moderation, community management, creator tools, cloud infrastructure, gameplay integrity, customer support, feedback analysis, and related Game functionality.

2.3. Acceptable Use Policy

You agree not to use the Game to submit, collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any information and content, whether in the form of text, queries, prompts, spoken words or sounds, images, code, games, video or any other content or materials of any kind (the foregoing "User Content") that:

(a) violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right

(b) is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another's privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual or is otherwise objectionable

(c) is harmful to minors in any way

(d) is in violation of any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party

In addition, you agree not to:

(i) upload, transmit, or distribute any computer viruses, worms, or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data

(ii) send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or unsolicited messages

(iii) use the Game to harvest, collect, gather or assemble information or data regarding other users without their consent

(iv) interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on servers or networks connected to the Game

(v) attempt to hack or otherwise gain unauthorized access to the Game

(vi) harass or interfere with any other user's use and enjoyment of the Game

(vii) circumvent Game rules or otherwise cheat during or in connection with playing the Game

(viii) use software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the Game

(ix) evade, disable, interfere with, probe, or test the vulnerability of any moderation, safety, or anti-cheat tools used in connection with the Game;

(x) use the Game, any Outside Platform, or any creator or camera features in a manner that violates the terms of any applicable third-party platform or service;

(xi) record, stream, upload, or share content using the Game or related creator tools in a manner that violates applicable law, infringes third-party rights, or violates the privacy, publicity, or other rights of any person; or

(xii) submit false reports, abuse reporting channels, manipulate moderation outcomes, or otherwise misuse player safety, enforcement, or community tools.

2.4. Enforcement

We reserve the right to review any User Content, and to investigate and/or take appropriate action against you in our sole discretion if you violate the Acceptable Use Policy or any other provision of these Terms.

Without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that Company and its service providers may use automated tools and human review to detect, investigate, review, moderate, flag, or enforce against suspected cheating, abuse, harassment, fraud, misconduct, or other violations of these Terms or applicable community rules. Such tools may include moderation tools, anti-cheat tools, gameplay integrity tools, and automated feedback or sentiment analysis tools.

2.5. Feedback

If you provide Company with any feedback, information, ideas, comments or suggestions, you hereby assign to Company all rights in such Feedback and agree that Company shall have the right to use and fully exploit such Feedback in any manner it deems appropriate.

You acknowledge that Company may use third-party service providers, including artificial intelligence-enabled tools, to help process, categorize, analyze, summarize, or evaluate feedback and related metadata for internal business purposes such as sentiment analysis, service improvement, moderation support, and community management.

3. AI System Disclosure and Warning

3.1. Use of Artificial Intelligence. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term "AI Systems" refers to artificial intelligence systems, models, or technologies that are capable of generating content, including but not limited to text, images, audio, video, software code, or other data outputs, based on prompts, or other inputs, including without limitation large language models (LLMs), diffusion models, and other machine learning technologies that produce novel or synthetic outputs, whether or not such outputs are derivative of existing content. AI Systems may include, but are not limited to, natural language processing, predictive analytics, and automated decision-making technologies.

3.2. Data Ingestion and AI Training Disclosure and Warning. We use AI systems to perform certain functions in connection with the Game, which may include but not be limited to sentiment analysis, anti-cheat monitoring and moderation. By playing the Game or submitting User Content, you acknowledge, agree, and consent that your User Content may be processed by these AI systems for the purposes described above. We do not use User Content or Personal Data to train general-purpose artificial intelligence models. Where AI tools are used, they are used solely to analyze or process data on our behalf (for example, for moderation or sentiment analysis) and are subject to contractual restrictions limiting the provider's use of that data.

3.3. User Responsibility and Privacy Considerations. YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED NOT TO INPUT SENSITIVE, CONFIDENTIAL, PROPRIETARY, OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION INTO THE GAME OR ANY GAME FEATURE. WHILE WE TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT DATA INTEGRITY AND SECURITY, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE TRAINING PROCESSES OF THE AI SYSTEMS WILL EXCLUDE OR ANONYMIZE USER-SUBMITTED CONTENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT USE OF THE GAME AND SUBMISSION OF USER CONTENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

4. Device Requirements

The Game can only be used via certain devices for a list of which are provided on the Company website and/or the third-party application marketplaces ("Marketplaces") where the application can be downloaded.

5. Updates

Company may from time to time develop and provide Game updates, which may include upgrades, bug fixes, patches, other error corrections, and/or new features. You agree that Company has no obligation to provide any Updates or to continue to provide or enable any particular features or functionality.

6. Free Content

Upon downloading the Game, users will have access to certain features of the Game ("Free Features"). Company may add, remove, modify or otherwise change the free features at any time with or without notice to you.

7. Making Purchases Through the Game

Purchases through our Game are processed by the Marketplace where you download the Game and are governed by the Terms of Sale of the relevant Marketplace. We reserve the right to revise pricing for features offered for purchase through the Game at any time.

For clarity, purchases, subscriptions, refunds, wallet balances, and other platform commerce functions may be administered by the applicable Marketplace or platform provider, including Steam or Meta, and may be subject to their separate terms, policies, and procedures.

8. Digital Items

8.1. Virtual Currencies and Items

The Game may include virtual currencies such as virtual tokens or coins or make virtual items, resources or services available for purchase in connection with the Game (collectively "Digital Items"). If you are over 18 years old, you may be able to buy Digital Items.

8.2. License, Not Ownership

You do not own Digital Items but instead you purchase a limited personal revocable license to use them - any balance of Digital Items does not reflect any stored value. Digital Items have no real-world monetary value and cannot be redeemed, exchanged, or converted for cash or any real-world monetary equivalent from Company.

8.3. Final Sales

You agree that all sales by us or the applicable Marketplace to you of Digital Items are final and that we will not refund any transaction once it has been made. If you live in the European Union you have certain rights to withdraw from distance transactions; however, please note that when you purchase a license to Digital Items from us, you acknowledge and agree that we will begin the provision of the Digital Items to you promptly once your purchase is complete and therefore your right of withdrawal is lost at this point. For the purposes of this Section, a "purchase" is complete at the time our servers validate your purchase of the license and the applicable Digital Items are successfully credited to your account on our servers.

8.4. Account Linking

The Digital Items that you purchase will be linked to your account with the Marketplace where you make the purchase. You understand and agree that you cannot transfer Digital Items from one account to another.

8.5. Control and Regulation

We reserve the right to control, regulate, change or remove any Digital Items without any liability to you.

8.6. Purchase Limitations

We may revise the pricing for Digital Items offered through the Game at any time. We may limit the total amount of Digital Items that may be purchased at any one time.

8.7. Account Termination

If we suspend or terminate your account in accordance with these Terms of Service you will lose any Digital Items that you may have accumulated, and we will not compensate you for this loss.

8.8. Platform Availability

Digital Items, entitlements, and account features may vary by platform, may not be interoperable across platforms, and may be subject to platform-specific technical or policy limitations. Company makes no representation that any Digital Item, entitlement, or feature available on one platform will be available on another platform.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold Company harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, claims, actions, judgments, settlements, interest, awards, penalties, fines, costs, or expenses of whatever kind arising out of your use of the Game, your User Content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of applicable laws or regulations.

10. Third-Party Services

The Game may display, include, make available or contain links to third-party content, websites and services. Such Third-Party Services are not under the control of Company, and Company is not responsible for any Third-Party Services.

Without limiting the foregoing, the Game may interoperate with or rely upon third-party platforms and providers, including without limitation Steam, Meta Quest, LIV, GGWP, Railway, Discord, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and other third-party services used for hosting, moderation, creator tools, communications, feedback analysis, gameplay integrity, or related functionality. Your use of such Third-Party Services may be subject to separate terms, licenses, and privacy policies between you and the applicable third party. Company is not responsible for the content, policies, functionality, availability, or practices of any Third-Party Services.

11. Release

You hereby release and forever discharge the Company from each and every past, present and future dispute, claim, controversy, demand, right, obligation, liability, action and cause of action that has arisen or arises directly or indirectly out of, or that relates directly or indirectly to, the Game.

12. Disclaimers

THE GAME IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" AND WITH ALL FAULTS AND DEFECTS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE GAME.

COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICE, PLATFORM INTEGRATION, CREATOR TOOL, MODERATION TOOL, ANTI-CHEAT TOOL, CLOUD SERVICE, OR AI-ENABLED FUNCTION WILL BE AVAILABLE, ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR DEVICE OR PLATFORM, OR FREE FROM LOSS, DELAY, MISIDENTIFICATION, OR INACCURACY.

13. Limitation on Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY HAVE ANY LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE GAME FOR:

(a) PERSONAL INJURY, PROPERTY DAMAGE, LOST PROFITS, COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER OR DEVICE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES

(b) DIRECT DAMAGES IN AMOUNTS THAT IN THE AGGREGATE EXCEED THE AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU FOR THE GAME

14. Term and Termination

The term of this Agreement commences when you download the Game. We may suspend or terminate your rights to use the Game at any time for any reason at our sole discretion. Upon termination of your rights under these Terms, your right to access and use the Game will terminate immediately and you must immediately cease all use of the Game and delete all copies of the Game from your Device.

Without limiting the foregoing, we may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to the Game or any feature of the Game, or take enforcement action against your account or content, if we reasonably suspect cheating, fraud, abuse, harassment, platform-policy violations, misuse of creator tools, security risks, or violations of these Terms or applicable community rules.

15. Copyright Policy and Takedown Requests

We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask you to do the same. In connection with our Game, we have adopted and implemented the policy below respecting copyright law that provides for the removal of any infringing materials and for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users of our Game who are repeat infringers of intellectual property rights, including copyrights.

15.1. DMCA Notices

If you are a copyright owner or an agent of a copyright owner and believe that any content in the Game infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by contacting our Copyright Agent at: legal@animalcompanyvr.com

You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section, your DMCA notice may not be valid. You must provide the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) for further detail):

(a) An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other right being infringed;

(b) A description of the copyright-protected work or other intellectual property right that you claim has been infringed;

(c) A description of the material that you claim is infringing and where it is located in the Game;

(d) Your address, telephone number, and email address;

(e) A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of those materials is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

(f) A statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

We will remove infringing materials pursuant to valid DMCA notices as required by the DMCA. Please note that, under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any misrepresentation of material fact (falsities) in a written notification automatically subjects the complaining party to liability for any damages, costs and attorney's fees incurred by us in connection with the written notification and allegation of copyright infringement.

15.2. Counter-Notices

Regarding any content that was removed or disabled, if you believe that your content is not infringing or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your content, you may send a counter-notice to our Copyright Agent. Your counter-notice must include all the following information:

(a) The material alleged to be infringing, including its location.

(b) A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material at issue was either misidentified or mistakenly removed.

(c) Your name, address, email address, physical address and telephone number.

(d) One of the following two statements:

(i) If you are located within the United States: "I consent to the jurisdiction of the United States federal district court for the judicial district in which my address is located and will accept service of process from the person who provided the notice set forth above or their agent."

(ii) If you are located outside of the United States: "I consent to the jurisdiction of any United States federal district court where Wooster Games is located and will accept service of process from the person who provided the notice set forth above or their agent."

(e) Your physical or electronic signature.

If your counter-notice does not meet all of the above requirements, it will not be valid. As with DMCA Notices, making false statements in connection with a counter-notice may result in criminal or civil penalties.

When our Copyright Agent receives a counter-notice, we may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that party that we may, in 10 business days, replace the removed content or stop disabling it. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the provider of the content, the removed content may be replaced or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, in our sole discretion.

15.3. Repeat Infringer Policy

Our intellectual property policy is to: (i) remove or disable access to material that we believe in good faith, upon notice from an intellectual property rights owner or his or her agent, is infringing the intellectual property rights of a third party by being made available through the Service; and (ii) in appropriate circumstances, to terminate the accounts of and block access to the Service by any user who repeatedly or egregiously infringes other people's copyrights or other intellectual property rights.

16. General

16.1. Changes

These Terms are subject to occasional revision. Any changes to these Terms will be effective upon thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of notice to you or posting of notice of the changes on the Game.

16.2. Export

The Game may be subject to U.S. export control laws. You must comply with all applicable federal laws, regulations, and rules prior to exporting, re-exporting, releasing, or otherwise making the Game available outside the US.

16.3. Electronic Communications

For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from Company in an electronic form and agree that all communications that Company provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if they were to be in a hardcopy writing.

16.4. Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York. All legal suits, actions, or proceedings shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of New York.

16.5. Waiver of Jury Trial

THE PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY RIGHTS TO HAVE A TRIAL IN FRONT OF A JUDGE OR A JURY.

16.6. Waiver of Class or Consolidated Actions

THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT ALL CLAIMS AND DISPUTES MUST BE LITIGATED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS BASIS.

16.7. Limitation of Time for Claims

ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES OTHERWISE SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

16.8. Severability

If any provision of this Agreement is illegal or unenforceable under applicable law, the remainder of the provision will be amended to achieve as closely as possible the effect of the original term and all other provisions will continue in full force and effect.

16.9. Waiver

No failure to exercise, and no delay in exercising, on the part of either party, any right or any power hereunder will operate as a waiver thereof.

16.10. Entire Terms

The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the Game.

16.11. Copyright/Trademark Information

Copyright © 2026 Wooster Games. All rights reserved. All trademarks, logos and service marks displayed on the Game are our property or the property of other third parties.

16.12. Contact Information

Wooster Games
Email: legal@animalcompanyvr.com