Terms of Service

Last updated: 19 August 2026

These terms cover your use of Deshelved — the website at deshelved.com and the Android app. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the service.

1. What this service is

Deshelved helps a group pick a board game and a date for game night. It is a free, independent project operated by one person (Devrin Cakali) in the United Kingdom. It is not a company, it is not funded by advertising, and it does not sell anything.

That shapes everything below. There is no support team and no service-level agreement — just one person maintaining a hobby project in their own time.

2. Your account

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account, so tell us via the support page if you think someone else has access to it.
Guests can join an event and vote without an account. If you invite people, you're responsible for sharing the link only with people you intend to invite — anyone holding the link can see the event and vote on it.

3. Acceptable use

Please don't:

Post anything unlawful, abusive, harassing, or sexually exploitative. We have zero tolerance for content that endangers children — see our child safety standards.
Impersonate someone else, or add other people's details without their agreement.
Try to break, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the service — including scraping it, hammering the API, or working around rate limits.
Use the service to send unsolicited messages.
Upload material you don't have the right to upload.

4. Content you add

Your events, game lists, votes, play log entries and uploads stay yours. You give us permission to store and display them to the extent needed to run the service — for example, showing your vote to the other people in your event, or your shared collection to someone you've shared it with. We don't claim ownership and we don't use your content for anything else.

If you upload a rulebook PDF, you are confirming you have the right to do so. We may remove content that breaches these terms or that a rights holder asks us to remove.

5. BoardGameGeek

Deshelved is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by BoardGameGeek. Game data, images and play history come from BGG's public data and API, and remain subject to BGG's own terms.

If you connect your BGG account, you are asking us to sync data on your behalf. BGG can change or withdraw that access at any time, and if they do, the sync will stop working — that is outside our control.

6. AI-generated content

Rulebook cheat sheets and rules answers are generated by a large language model from the PDF you supply. They can be wrong. Treat them as a reading aid, never as the authority — the published rulebook is. Don't rely on them to settle a dispute, and please don't rely on them for anything that matters outside a game.

7. Availability

The service is provided as is, with no warranty of any kind. It may be unavailable, lose data, or change without notice, and features may be added or removed. We back up the database daily, but you should not treat Deshelved as the only copy of anything you care about — your play log lives on BGG too, and you can export your data on request.

We may suspend or discontinue the service entirely. If that ever happens, we'll give as much notice as circumstances allow and provide a way to export your data.

8. Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the service — including lost data, a missed game night, or anything that follows from an incorrect AI-generated answer.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under UK law. Nothing here affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

9. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or remove an account that breaches these terms — immediately and without notice where the breach involves child safety, harassment, or an attack on the service, and with notice otherwise wherever it is practical to give it.

You can close your account at any time by asking via the support page. Deleting your account removes your personal data; see the privacy policy for what that covers and how long it takes. Some things stay: entries in another person's play log that name you, and events other people created, are their records rather than yours, so those are anonymised rather than deleted.

10. Changes to these terms

If we make a material change, we'll update the date at the top of this page and note it on the what's new page. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept it. If you don't, close your account.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you're a consumer elsewhere, this doesn't take away rights you have under the law of your own country.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms? Use the support page.

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