01 Publisher and host
The Tier mobile application ("Tier", "the service", "we") is
published by Riccardo Accardi, an independent entrepreneur
(sole trader) based at Chaussée de Mons 356, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium,
registered with the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (BCE) under company /
VAT number BE1006414491.
Contact: contact@yourtier.com.
Website: yourtier.com. The mobile app is distributed under the
bundle identifier com.yourtier.tier on the Apple App Store and
Google Play.
Publication director: Riccardo Accardi.
Hosting provider: Contabo GmbH, Welfenstrasse 22, 81541 Munich, Germany.
02 Purpose and acceptance
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern access to and use
of the Tier mobile application and any related services. By creating an
account or by using the service, you accept these Terms in full. If you do
not accept them, please do not use the service.
The Terms apply alongside our Privacy Policy
and our Community Guidelines, which form an integral part of this agreement.
03 The service
Tier is a social journal for video-game players. It lets you:
- Browse a game catalog synced from third-party sources (IGDB, RAWG, Steam, HowLongToBeat).
- Track your progress through four states:
to do, playing, completed, abandoned.
- Write reviews scored on a 1-to-10 scale.
- Build custom lists and follow other players.
- Earn XP and progress through gamification levels.
- Receive push notifications you opted into.
The service is provided free of charge. There are no ads and we do not resell your data.
04 Account, security and age
Most features require an account. The service is reserved for people aged
13 or older. Under Belgian law (loi du 30 juillet 2018, art. 7),
the digital age of consent is 13 years. In EU Member States that set a higher
local digital-consent age (up to 16), the local threshold applies.
You agree to:
- Provide accurate information at sign-up and keep it up to date.
- Keep your credentials confidential — choose a strong password, do not share it.
- Notify us at contact@yourtier.com as soon as you suspect unauthorized use of your account.
You are responsible for any activity carried out from your account.
05 Your commitments
You agree to use Tier in good faith and to follow our Community Guidelines.
The following are strictly prohibited:
- Any unlawful content: hate speech, harassment, threats, child sexual content, terrorism-related content, infringement of third-party rights.
- Spam, fraud, paid-for ranking manipulation, sockpuppet accounts.
- Creating alternate accounts to evade a sanction.
- Mass scraping, reverse-engineering, attacks on the security or technical integrity of the service.
- Impersonation of another person, brand or studio.
06 Your content
You keep ownership of the content you post on Tier (reviews, lists,
comments, avatar, banner, etc.).
To operate the service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide,
royalty-free, sub-licensable licence, for the duration of the rights,
limited to hosting, reproducing, technically adapting, displaying and
distributing your content as part of the service and its promotion.
This licence does not allow us to sell your content to third parties for
their own commercial use, nor to train third-party AI models on your content.
You warrant that:
- You hold all the rights necessary to publish the content you post.
- Your content does not infringe any third-party right (copyright, trademark, image rights, privacy).
- You will indemnify us for any third-party claim arising from a breach of these warranties.
You can delete your content at any time from the app. The licence ends with
the deletion, subject to short-lived technical copies (backups, caches) and
legal retention obligations.
07 Moderation and reporting (DSA)
In line with the European Digital Services Act (DSA), an in-app
reporting mechanism is available on every piece of content
(the ⋯ → Report menu). We commit to a first review of
every report within 24 hours of receipt; reports left untouched past
this deadline are automatically escalated to a senior moderator. Depending on
severity, the response may:
- Remove or hide the reported content.
- Send a warning to the author.
- Temporarily restrict, suspend or terminate the account.
Appeal mechanism. You will be informed of moderation
decisions concerning you and can challenge them either through the in-app
appeal flow or by email at contact@yourtier.com
(subject: MODERATION APPEAL). Appeals are handled by a human
reviewer who was not involved in the initial decision and are processed
within 14 days of receipt.
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Manifestly illegal content (e.g. CSAM, terrorism-related content) is removed without prior notice and reported to the competent authorities.
08 Tier intellectual property
The Tier name and logo, the application, its source code,
its interfaces, its copy and the structure of its database are protected by
copyright, trademark law and the sui generis database-maker right
(Book XI of the Belgian Code of Economic Law, transposing Directive 96/9/EC).
Any unauthorized reproduction, representation, extraction or substantial
reuse of these elements is prohibited and exposes you to civil and criminal
sanctions.
09 Third-party content and links
Game metadata, cover art, trailers and store availability come from
third-party APIs (IGDB, RAWG,
Steam, HowLongToBeat, and others).
These elements remain the property of their respective right-holders and
are provided "as is", for information only.
Tier may include links to external websites (publisher pages, store pages,
news articles). We are not responsible for the content, availability, or
privacy practices of those external sites.
10 Availability, maintenance, changes
We aim for round-the-clock availability but do not guarantee an
uninterrupted, error-free service. Scheduled maintenance, updates and
unforeseen incidents can cause temporary interruptions.
We may add, change or remove features for technical, legal or editorial
reasons, including to comply with applicable law or with the rules of the
Apple App Store and Google Play.
11 Liability
The service is provided free of charge. Our liability can only be engaged
for proven fault and within the limits permitted by law.
We remain fully liable for:
- Damage caused by gross or wilful misconduct.
- Harm to life, physical integrity or health.
- Breaches of mandatory consumer-protection or data-protection laws.
Nothing in these Terms limits the non-waivable rights you hold under Book VI of
the Belgian Code of Economic Law (consumer protection) or the GDPR.
12 Suspension and termination
If you breach these Terms or the Community Guidelines, we may, depending on
severity, remove the offending content, temporarily suspend your account, or
terminate it. Except in clear-cut cases (manifestly illegal content, ongoing
security risk), you will be informed of the reasons and can challenge the
decision via the appeal mechanism described in §07.
13 Deleting your account
You can delete your account at any time from the app:
Settings → Account → Delete my account.
Deletion is permanent. Some data may be kept in anonymized form, or for a
limited time to meet a legal obligation (e.g. moderation audit trail,
accounting records). Full details are provided in the
Privacy Policy.
Inactive accounts. Accounts with no login or activity for
18 months will be notified by email and may be subject to
deletion in order to comply with the data-minimisation principle
(GDPR Art. 5(1)(c)) and the Google Play Inactive Account Policy. You can
reactivate your account at any time before the deletion deadline simply
by signing in.
14 Personal data
The processing of your personal data is described in detail in our
Privacy Policy, which forms part of these
Terms. It covers purposes, legal bases (GDPR Article 6), retention
periods, third-party sub-processors, and how to exercise your rights of
access, rectification, erasure, objection, portability, and to lodge a
complaint with the Belgian data protection authority (APD/GBA).
15 Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. Material changes are announced in-app at least
30 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the
service after that date means you accept the new terms. Otherwise, you can
delete your account before the new terms take effect.
The "Effective" date at the top of this page always reflects the current
version.
16 Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by Belgian law. Any dispute will
be brought, failing amicable resolution, before the competent Belgian courts
of Brussels.
If you act as a consumer, you may bring proceedings before the court of your
place of residence within the European Union, in accordance with EU Regulation
1215/2012 (Brussels I bis).