Terms of Use

1. Agreement and operator

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between the person using SeaRealm and Sea Realm, LLC (“Sea Realm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), the operator of SeaRealm TCG. By using the site or creating an account, an adult agrees to these Terms and acknowledges the Privacy Policy.

If the user is under 18, a parent or legal guardian must review and approve use of the service. A child under 13 must not create an account with the child’s own email address or submit personal contact information through the site.

2. The SeaRealm service

SeaRealm includes a card-game website, educational marine-life content, game instructions and tools, surveys, a store or store preview, and the Reefbound browser adventure. Features may be added, changed, paused, or removed as the project develops.

Marine-science and educational content is provided for general learning and entertainment. It is not professional, medical, veterinary, legal, boating-safety, or environmental-management advice.

3. Family accounts and synchronized saves

• An adult must provide accurate account information and keep access to the email or Google account secure.
• One adult-managed account may be used as a family account, subject to reasonable technical and security limits.
• The adult is responsible for activity performed through the account and should sign out on a shared or public device.
• Reefbound keeps a local save cache and synchronizes the account's three save slots through Supabase. Synchronized saves can include player-entered player and best-friend names, progress, settings, decks, and other game state so the same account can continue on another device or restore an account copy.
• If devices independently change one slot, Reefbound preserves the conflicting copies and asks which version to keep. Availability of a particular local or cloud copy is not guaranteed.
• Removing a profile synchronizes its deletion. Deleting the family account removes its active cloud saves and save history, although provider backups may take a limited additional period to age out. An offline device may retain a local copy until it reconnects, the profile is removed there, or its browser data is cleared.

Contact maker@seapalstcg.com to request access, export, correction, or deletion of account and cloud-save information, or to report suspected unauthorized access.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use SeaRealm to:

• break the law or violate another person’s rights;
• probe, disrupt, overload, bypass, or interfere with security or access controls;
• automate abusive account creation, email delivery, survey submissions, or store requests;
• impersonate another person or submit another person’s contact information without permission;
• place harmful code, harassment, personal contact information, or inappropriate material in a free-text submission; or
• copy, scrape, resell, or commercially exploit SeaRealm content except as permitted by law or written permission.

5. Surveys and submissions

Use a first name or display name rather than a full legal name in a survey. A parent or guardian should make submissions for a player under 13. Do not include an address, phone number, school, private account credential, or other sensitive information in a survey answer or other free-text field.

You retain ownership of original material you submit. You give Sea Realm a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, format, review, and display that material only as reasonably needed to operate the submitted survey or related SeaRealm feature.

We may reject, remove, de-identify, or moderate a submission that violates these Terms, risks someone’s privacy or safety, or disrupts the service.

6. Email communications

Authentication and account-security messages are transactional and may be needed to use the account. Marketing emails are optional, require a separate request at account setup or through the adult-facing post-play invitation, and can be stopped with the unsubscribe link. Declining updates does not restrict game access or progress.

7. Store and purchases

No item is available for purchase unless checkout is expressly enabled and the item is marked available. Prices, taxes, shipping charges, delivery estimates, product availability, and any applicable return or cancellation terms shown before purchase form part of that transaction. Stripe provides hosted payment processing and may apply its own terms.

Mailed orders require a delivery address and the selected Shipping & Handling charge. Free scheduled local pickup is available in Elverson, Pennsylvania, and does not include shipping. No pickup appointment is selected or confirmed during checkout. After the order is built, Sea Realm will email the purchaser to arrange a pickup time and privately provide the pickup address and instructions. The purchaser should not travel to pick up the order until that time is confirmed.

Production timing is separate from carrier transit. Standard production means we hand mailed orders to the carrier, or mark pickup orders ready, within five business days after payment. If purchased, one-business-day production changes that production window to one business day for the whole order; it does not promise one-business-day delivery. Expedited production is limited to ten orders per SeaRealm production day and remains subject to server-confirmed availability when checkout begins.

Do not complete a purchase unless an adult authorized to use the payment method reviews and approves it. We may cancel or refund an order affected by a pricing error, unavailable inventory, suspected fraud, or a legal restriction.

Cancellation, returns, and order problems. To request help, email maker@seapalstcg.com from the purchaser's email address and include the order number. Do not mail a return until we provide return instructions.

• You may cancel an order by emailing us within two hours after purchase. A request sent after that window is handled under the return policy below.
• You may request a return for an unopened item within 30 calendar days after carrier tracking shows delivery or, for local pickup, after the order is picked up. The purchaser pays return postage for an ordinary unopened-item return.
• Opened or played products are final sale except when an item is damaged, defective, missing, or incorrect. Report one of those problems within 14 calendar days after delivery or pickup so we can review it and provide return or remedy instructions.
• If tracking suggests that a mailed order may be lost, contact us so we can investigate with the carrier. Once carrier loss is confirmed, we will replace the affected order, subject to product availability, or refund it.
• Once we approve a refund, we issue it to the original payment method within five business days. For a physical return, that period begins after the accepted item is received and inspected. A bank or card issuer may take additional time to post the credit.

8. SeaRealm content and ownership

SeaRealm names, logos, card designs, artwork, text, game rules, software, music, and other original materials are owned by Sea Realm or used with permission and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. These Terms give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the service for its intended family, educational, and entertainment purposes.

9. Third-party services

SeaRealm relies on service providers such as Supabase, Google, Cloudflare, Kit, Stripe, and Resend. Their services may have separate terms and privacy practices. Sea Realm is not responsible for a third-party service outside its reasonable control, but our Privacy Policy describes why information may be shared with these providers.

10. Availability and account action

We may suspend or limit access when reasonably necessary to protect users, investigate abuse, maintain the service, follow the law, or enforce these Terms. We may also discontinue a preview or unfinished feature. Where practical, we will provide notice of a material service change.

11. Disclaimers and limits

To the extent permitted by law, SeaRealm is provided “as is” and “as available.” Sea Realm does not guarantee that every feature will be uninterrupted, error-free, compatible with every device, or that every local or synchronized version of progress can be recovered.

To the extent permitted by law, Sea Realm will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost saves, synchronization conflicts, lost profits, or lost data resulting from use of the service. Nothing in these Terms excludes a right or remedy that cannot legally be excluded, including applicable consumer protections.

12. Pennsylvania law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing a formal dispute, the parties should first try in good faith to resolve it by contacting maker@seapalstcg.com. Any non-waivable rights under applicable consumer or children’s privacy law remain in effect.

13. Changes and severability

We may update these Terms as the service develops. The effective date will be revised when changes are posted. If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.