Terms of Use

What Tell Someone is

Tell Someone is a social game for fun. A player shares a self-referential or clearly fictional statement, other players make choices and may pass it on, and the game later shows its causal result. It is not a secure vault, confidential messenger, emergency service, counselling service or fact-checker.

Who may play

V1 is for people aged 16 or over who are eligible to use the Great Britain service. Give an accurate age lane and region declaration. Do not evade an eligibility decision or account restriction.

Your account

Keep control of the email account and device you use to sign in. Do not share one-time codes, impersonate another person or use another person’s email without authority. Your Tell Someone account and sessions—not an email-address match—own game authority.

What you may share

Share only material you have the right to use. V1 accepts statements about yourself and clearly fictional material that does not identify a real third person.

Do not use Tell Someone for unlawful or abusive conduct, threats, exploitation, child sexual abuse, intimate-image abuse, doxxing, hate, harassment, self-harm encouragement, impersonation, scams, malware, credential theft, illegal goods or services, block or ban evasion, malicious reporting, scraping or attacks. The Community and Safety Rules give the full practical boundary.

Pressing Send is your decision to share under the game rules. Words such as ‘keep this between us’ do not change forwarding, retention or game authority, and they do not bypass an independent safety rule.

Your content and the game

You keep the rights you have in material you create. You give Boubacar Dembele a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty-free permission to host, encrypt, transmit, format and display it only as needed to operate the game, protect people and the service, investigate reports, enforce these Terms and comply with law. That permission ends when its purpose and lawful retention end.

A recipient may remember, copy or disclose what they receive outside Tell Someone. Account deletion cannot erase another person’s memory or an external copy.

Reports, blocks and decisions

You can report the exact content or immediate profile you encountered and can separately block the immediate route participant. A report can make the minimum case material available to specifically authorised reviewers. Boubacar Dembele may restrict a route or account, make content unavailable, preserve required evidence or refer a matter where lawful and proportionate.

Where appropriate, a person affected by a material decision can use the available complaint or appeal route. Explanations will not expose another person’s private information or security details.

Availability, changes and responsibility

The service depends on networks, devices and providers and may not always be available. Material Terms changes will be explained and, when a new agreement is required, Tell Someone will request versioned acceptance.

Nothing in these Terms removes rights or responsibility that law does not allow us to exclude, including statutory consumer rights, responsibility for fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Ending your account

You may start account deletion in the app or through the authenticated web route. Sessions are revoked and governed deletion begins. Bounded backups, safety evidence or legal records may remain only for their stated purpose and period. Read the Account deletion page before proceeding.

Law, help and complaints

For the GB service, the law of the UK jurisdiction in which you normally live applies and you may use its competent courts. Mandatory rights remain unchanged.

Use Support for service help, Safety for urgent safety concerns, Privacy for data rights, or the general Complaints route for a formal complaint. These routes do not remove regulator or court rights.