Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service are a contract between you and Blacktop Social LLC ("Blacktop Social," "we," "us") governing your use of blacktop.social and everything on it (the "Site"). By using the Site, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Site.

Our Privacy Policy is part of these terms and describes what we do with your information.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site. If you're under 18, you may use the Site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these terms on your behalf. You must also not be barred from using it under the laws that apply to you.

3. Coming-soon games

The games shown on the Site are works in progress. "Coming soon" describes our current intent, not a release promise, preorder, reservation, or paid service. The Site now has free accounts — see Section 5 — but there are still no purchases, preorders, reservations, or paid access passes of any kind.

We may rename, change, postpone, or stop work on any game at any time. Artwork and descriptions may be placeholders and may not represent a final product.

4. Messages from us

The Site links to our email address. If you write to us, we may reply to your message. Sending an email does not enroll you in a marketing list or create an account.

The Site's footer has a sign-up form for release updates. Submitting it is your consent to receive occasional marketing email from us about new and existing projects, and the wording shown beside the form at the time you submit is the agreement. We send a welcome message automatically when you sign up, and occasional updates after that.

Every one of those emails carries an unsubscribe link, and you can use it at any time. Doing so removes you from the list; it does not close your account, because the list and the account are different things — signing up for one doesn't open the other. If we add a text list or access pass later, we will present the applicable terms and consent at that point. Questions can go to hello@blacktop.social.

5. Your blacktop

You can make a free account by giving us your email address. We email you a link; opening it signs you in. There is no password, and there is nothing to buy — an account costs nothing and gives you nothing you would otherwise pay for.

Your blacktop is a page of your own. You choose which of our projects sit on it. Drawing on it with chalk is not built yet; when it is, anything you draw there will be private. We will not publish it, show it to anyone else, or use it to make anything. There is no way for another person to visit your blacktop, and we will not add one without telling you first.

The link we email you does not expire. That is deliberate — a link that dies after fifteen minutes turns every old email into a dead end — but it means anyone who gets hold of that email can open your blacktop. Treat it the way you would treat any other link to something of yours. Your blacktop holds no payment details, no postal address, and no private messages, and we will not put any of those behind that link without changing how it works.

You can delete your account at any time by writing to us. That removes the account, the name you gave us, what was on your blacktop, and your drawings. It does not delete our record that you consented to receive email; Section 7 of the Privacy Policy explains why that record has to survive a deletion request.

We may close or suspend an account being used to break these terms. Because an account is free and holds nothing you paid for, there is nothing to refund.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Send us material you do not have the right to send.
• Scrape, crawl, mirror, or bulk-download the Site. Search engines that respect our robots.txt are welcome — that file is the permission, and this bullet is about everyone else.
• Probe, scan, or test the security of the Site, or access anything you weren't given access to.
• Interfere with the Site's operation — flooding it with requests, injecting code, or anything with a similar effect.
• Use the Site to break a law, infringe someone's rights, or harass anyone (including us).
• Misrepresent yourself as affiliated with Blacktop Social.

Good-faith security research is welcome — if you find something, tell us at legal@blacktop.social before telling anyone else, and don't access or keep other people's data while you look. We won't pursue researchers who act that way.

7. What's ours

The Site and everything in it — the writing, the drawings, the logo, the code, the layout, and the name "Blacktop Social" — belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. We give you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view the Site for your own non-commercial use. That's it: no copying, republishing, selling, framing, or building derivative works from it, and no training of machine-learning or generative-AI models on it, without our written permission.

8. What you send us

We ask for hard questions, cool ideas, and funny jokes — our welcome email asks outright for an idea you wish existed — and people send them. So to be clear about what happens next: anything you send us, whether we invited it or not — ideas, feedback, suggestions, bug reports, jokes — is non-confidential, creates no confidential or fiduciary relationship between us, and by sending it you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it for any purpose, including in what we build, without payment, credit, or any obligation to you.

We're not trying to take your startup. This clause exists because we're a small team who will inevitably have the same idea as someone who emailed us, and neither of us wants that to become an argument. If you have something you need to keep, don't send it here. Any offer to Venmo someone for a joke is a gift and a bit, not a purchase, and creates no obligation on our part.

You promise that what you send is yours to send and doesn't infringe anyone else's rights.

Your chalk drawings are not submissions. Nothing in this section applies to what you draw on your own blacktop. We claim no license over it, we do not look at it, and it is deleted when you delete your account. It is private, and this clause is not a way in.

9. Third-party links

The Site links to places we don't run. We're not responsible for them, their content, or their terms.

10. Changes and availability

The Site is a work in progress. We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of it at any time, without notice, and without liability to you. We may also update these terms; when we do, we'll change the "last updated" date at the top, and material changes will be announced on the Site or by email. Continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept it.

August 24, 2026. The Site now has free accounts. A new Section 5 describes what a blacktop is, that the link we email never expires, that your chalk drawings are private and unlicensed, and how to delete an account. The sections after it were renumbered, so earlier entries in this list refer to the numbering as it stood when they were written. Section 3 no longer says there are no accounts, Section 6 says plainly that search engines obeying robots.txt are welcome, and Section 8 now excludes your drawings from the license you grant us over things you send. The Privacy Policy changed in the same deploy: it describes the one cookie the Site now sets, the account information we hold, and the do-not-send list we keep for addresses that bounced or reported us as spam.

August 23, 2026. The Site now has a footer sign-up form for release updates, and we send email to the people who use it. Section 4 describes that list, the consent it rests on, and how to leave it, and Section 8 now says plainly that ideas we asked for are treated the same as ideas we didn't. The privacy policy was rewritten in the same change: it names our three service providers, states that the Site sets no cookies and runs no tracking of any kind, sets out how long the list and the consent record are kept, and adds sections on lawful bases and international transfers.

August 15, 2026. We removed the email access pass and sign-up form from this public version of the Site and rewrote the sections that described them to cover the coming-soon game portfolio that replaced them.

August 5, 2026. Blacktop Social was reorganized from a sole proprietorship into a limited liability company. Blacktop Social LLC is now the party on our side of these terms and has assumed the sole proprietorship's rights and obligations under them. Because the company is organized in New York and our published address is in New York, Section 14 now names New York law and New York courts, where it previously named Delaware.

11. Disclaimers

The site is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that any content is accurate or complete, or that any project described on the site will ever be built, released, or made available to you. Everything here is a description of intent, not a promise.

Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of the above may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither Blacktop Social nor anyone working with it will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to the site or these terms, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the site or these terms will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

Some jurisdictions don't allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that can't be limited by law.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Blacktop Social LLC from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Site, your breach of these terms, or your violation of anyone's rights.

14. Disputes and governing law

Talk to us first. If something's wrong, email legal@blacktop.social and give us 30 days to sort it out. Most things end there.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute that isn't resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of New York, and you and we each consent to their jurisdiction. If you're a consumer resident somewhere whose law gives you the right to bring a claim locally or under your own law, this section does not take that away.

Any claim relating to the Site must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, unless the law where you live says otherwise.

15. The rest

• Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Site.
• Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it's trimmed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. Not enforcing something once doesn't mean we've given it up.
• Assignment. You can't assign these terms; we can, in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business.
• No third-party beneficiaries. These terms don't give anyone outside them a right to enforce them.

16. Contact

Blacktop Social LLC
606 Metropolitan Avenue, 6B, Brooklyn, NY 11211
legal@blacktop.social

See also our Privacy Policy.