Terms of Use

1. About these terms

Go N Stop! is a game for iPhone in which friends play 고스톱 (go-stop) and 맞고 (matgo), Korean card games played with 화투 (hwatu) cards, together in real time. These terms are an agreement between you and the people who make Go N Stop! (“we”, “us”). They cover the Go N Stop! app and this website, gonstop.com.

By creating an account or playing, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use Go N Stop!.

2. Who can play

• You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 18, play with the knowledge of a parent or guardian. The game involves betting with play coins, which have no cash value, and its chat is between the people you choose to play with.
• You may have one account, and it is for you alone.
• You may not play where playing a game like this is against the law.

3. Your account and your handle

• You sign in with Sign in with Apple. We never see your Apple password.
• You choose a handle, such as @sunny. Your handle is public: the people you play with, your friends and anyone you send an invite link to can see it. A handle is 3 to 15 characters (letters a to z, numbers, a full stop or an underscore) and can be changed once every 30 days.
• A handle may not pretend to be someone else, and it may not contain anything these terms forbid in chat. We may change or take back a handle that breaks these rules.
• You are responsible for what happens in your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has used it.

4. Coins

The game is played with coins, drawn as 엽전 (yeopjeon), old Korean coins. A new account starts with 10,000 coins. You can get more from free daily rewards in the app, from winning rounds, as a gift from a friend, or by buying them.

• Coins have no cash value. They are not money and they are not property. They are a limited permission to use a feature of the game.
• Coins cannot be cashed out, sold or exchanged. You cannot turn coins into money, goods, services, prizes or anything else of value, inside or outside the app, and neither can anyone else.
• Go N Stop! is entertainment. It does not offer real-money gambling, and there is nothing to win except coins and bragging rights. Winning here does not mean you would win at real-money gambling.
• Coins do not expire while your account exists.
• We may change how coins are given out, what they cost and what things cost in coins. If your account is deleted or closed, its coins and decks are gone and are not refunded, unless the law says otherwise.

5. Buying coins

• You can buy packs of coins as In-App Purchases. Apple takes the payment, through your Apple account. The price is shown before you buy.
• Purchases are final. Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s own rules; you can ask for one at reportaproblem.apple.com. Nothing here limits rights the law gives you.
• If Apple refunds or reverses a purchase, we take the coins from that purchase back out of your balance.
• If you paid and the coins did not arrive, write to support@gonstop.com and we will put it right.

6. Gifting coins to friends

• You can send coins to people on your friends list. There is a minimum gift and a limit on how much you can send each day.
• A gift is final once it is sent.
• A gift must really be a gift. You may not ask for, offer or accept money or anything else of value in return for coins, and you may not buy or sell coins or accounts anywhere. Accounts that do are closed.

7. Decks

Card decks are bought with coins. Buying a deck lets you use it in the game; it does not make its artwork yours. When you bring a deck to a table, the other players see it for that game but do not own it. We may stop offering a deck in the shop; you keep the decks you already have.

8. Chat and how to behave

Tables are private, and chat is between the people sitting at one. Trash talk is part of the game, and swearing is allowed. If you would rather not read it, turn on “Soften swearing” in the app’s settings.

These things are never allowed, in chat, in a handle, in a group name or anywhere else in Go N Stop!:

• Slurs, and attacks on people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability.
• Threats of violence, harassment, stalking, or urging someone to hurt themselves.
• Any sexual content that involves minors. We report it to the authorities where the law requires us to.
• Selling, buying or trading coins or accounts, or advertising any way to do so.
• Sharing another person’s private information without their permission.
• Spam, scams, or pretending to be another person or to be us.
• Cheating: using a modified app or a bot, exploiting a bug, or arranging rounds to move coins between accounts.
• Anything that is against the law.

We have no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. A filter that is always on refuses slurs and threats. Content that breaks these rules is removed, and the people who post it are muted, suspended or banned.

9. Reporting and blocking

• You can report any message, player, handle or group name from inside the app.
• You can block any player. A blocked player’s chat is hidden from you, and they can no longer send you invites, friend requests or gifts.
• We review every report and act within 24 hours. When a report is right, we remove the content, and we mute, suspend or permanently ban the account that posted it.
• You can also write to support@gonstop.com.

10. Fair play and interruptions

Our servers deal the cards, check every move and keep the score, so that everyone plays by the same rules. If you lose your connection or run out of time, the game plays your turn for you so the others are not left waiting, and you can rejoin. If a technical problem spoils a round, we may cancel it. We do not promise to give back coins lost because of a connection problem, but write to us and we will look into it.

11. Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app at any time, under Me, then Delete account. Deleting it removes your profile, your handle, your friends list, your coins and your decks, and it cannot be undone. Our Privacy Policy explains what is kept afterwards and why.

12. What is ours and what is yours

We give you a personal permission to use Go N Stop! for your own enjoyment, which you cannot pass on to anyone else. The app, its name, Nelly the mascot and its design belong to us. The card art of the default deck is used and shared under a Creative Commons licence; see the Credits.

What you write in chat stays yours. You give us permission to store it and show it to the people at your table, and to review it when it is reported.

13. Suspending and ending accounts

You can stop using Go N Stop! whenever you like. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we may refuse service to anyone who abuses other players or the game. If we close your account for breaking these terms, its coins and decks are not refunded.

14. Changes

Go N Stop! will change over time: features, rules, prices and the coins themselves may be added, changed or removed. We may also update these terms. When we do, we change the date at the top of this page, and we tell you in the app if the change is an important one. If you keep playing after a change, you accept the new terms.

15. No promises, and limits on what we owe

We work to keep Go N Stop! running well, but it is provided as it is, without any promise that it will always be available, free of errors or right for a particular purpose. As far as the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect or unexpected losses, and the most we can owe you for any claim is the amount you paid us in the twelve months before it arose. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

16. Apple

These terms are between you and us, not between you and Apple. Apple is not responsible for Go N Stop! or its content, and has no duty to provide maintenance or support for it. If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies, you may tell Apple, and Apple may refund the price you paid for the app, if any; Apple has no other warranty duty. Apple is not responsible for handling claims about the app, including claims that it infringes someone’s rights. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You must also follow the App Store’s own terms when you use the app.

17. The law that applies

This section is not written yet. The legal name and address of the company behind Go N Stop!, the law that governs these terms and how disputes are settled will be added after legal review.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms: support@gonstop.com.