Use it for what it’s for
HNW is a selection mechanism, not a giveaway platform. It picks a winner from a pool using a provably fair randomizer. What happens next — awarding a prize, settling a bill, deciding who drives — is your call, not HNW’s. HNW never holds prizes, never promises them, never processes redemptions.
If you’re the host of a shared-link selection, you’re responsible for any prize, promotion, or sweepstakes rules attached to your use of the tool. Local law varies. Don’t use HNW as a gambling service, a regulated lottery, a sweepstake, or a substitute for a notarized random draw — it’s not built or licensed for any of that.
Restaurant listings come from open data (Overture Maps Foundation and GeoNames) and from restaurants that manage their own listing; a listing may be out of date or incomplete. Maps are drawn with OpenFreeMap from OpenStreetMap data. The optional wider search uses Google Maps Platform, and your use of it is also subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy. A listing and a selected outcome do not establish opening hours, available booking slots, a reservation, an order or a confirmed restaurant redemption. Dishes labelled as added by a visitor's AI were collected from the restaurant's own website by a visitor's assistant, not entered by the restaurant; they may be incomplete or out of date, and HNW reviews them after they appear. If you add dishes this way, send only what the restaurant itself publishes, in your own words, and no prices.
Be reasonable to other players
- Don’t enter names that harass, defame, or impersonate others.
- Don’t scrape, brute-force, or otherwise abuse the API.
- Don’t fake fairness receipts. Participants can verify their rounds through /fairness. Circle game records remain private; a participant may deliberately publish an immutable result snapshot. Place and menu selections use a separate committed-pool receipt and do not claim public-beacon attestation.
- Don’t claim merchant pages you don’t actually represent. Claim verification is email-based but is not a legal proof of ownership; abusing it may result in the claim being revoked.
Payment terms
Paid plans (Ad-free, Creator and Restaurant Pro) are sold through our online reseller Paddle.com. Our order process is conducted by Paddle.com, which is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries about payments and handles returns. The price you see at checkout is the price you pay, in the currency Paddle displays for your billing address; applicable sales tax or VAT is calculated by Paddle at that step. Current prices are listed at /pricing.
Plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period (yearly, or monthly for Restaurant Pro when you choose monthly) unless you cancel. The renewal charge runs against the payment method Paddle has on file. You can cancel any time from /account/billing; your plan then stays active until the end of the period you paid for and does not renew.
If a renewal charge fails, the subscription enters a grace period. You’ll receive a notice email; the subscription stays active until the grace window ends, at which point access to the paid feature drops back to the free tier.
Refund policy
You can ask for a full refund within 14 days of any payment, whether it is a first purchase or a renewal. The full policy is at /refunds.
To ask for a refund, submit a request from /account/billing, reply to your Paddle receipt, or contact Paddle’s buyer support at paddle.net. Refunds are issued by Paddle to the original payment method.
Cancelling a plan stops future charges. It does not by itself refund the current period, so ask for a refund as well if you are within the 14 days.
Restaurant partner terms
Listing a restaurant is free. By claiming a restaurant page you confirm that you operate that restaurant or are authorised to manage its listing. The account that claims the page is the owner contact for it. You may publish your menu, table cards and, on Restaurant Pro, offers; you may not post content that violates third-party trademarks, mislead about your relationship with HNW, or use the page to drive traffic to a different business than the one named.
Disputed claims (a second party asserts ownership of the same page) trigger a 72-hour notice to the current claim holder. If unresolved, the claim is reversed and both parties are invited to submit documentation; HNW makes the final call. Disputes are not a substitute for legal proceedings between the parties.
HNW may revoke a claim for cause: persistent abuse reports, fake or expired offers, or evidence the claimant is not the operator of the named restaurant. If a paid Restaurant Pro plan is active when a claim is revoked, the refund policy at /refunds applies.
Public games
A host can open a game to everyone and list it at /public-games. The host is the organiser of that game. HNW’s part is limited to listing it, giving each signed-in person one number, and showing which number came out on top.
HNW is not a giveaway, contest, lottery or sweepstakes operator. It does not organise, sponsor, fund or endorse public games, does not hold, promise, award or deliver anything, and is not a party to any arrangement between a host and the people who join. If a host says entrants will receive something, that statement is the host’s alone, and so is the duty to honour it and to follow the promotion, tax and consumer rules that apply where the host and the entrants live.
A listing shows the links a host has given to their own accounts elsewhere. Those links are the host’s own statement unless the listing says HNW has checked them. Join only games from hosts you know or already follow. HNW never asks you to pay to join a public game. We may hide a listing or remove a host at any time, and you can report a game from its page.
Brand partner terms
Brand partnerships during this phase are negotiated 1:1; the terms of each engagement live in the signed deal, not on this page. Self-serve brand merchant signup is not yet open. If you’re a brand interested in a sponsored surface, the contact form at /for-brands is the way in. The general principles in these terms (no warranty, limitation of liability, dispute resolution) still apply on top of any deal-specific addendum.
Dispute resolution
If you have a dispute with HNW or its operator, please contact us first via the channel in /privacy’s Contact section and let us try to resolve it informally. Most issues turn out to be billing or claim-state misunderstandings that resolve within a few days.
If informal resolution fails, the home jurisdiction of the operator, Borialas Enterprises, governs. Nothing in these terms waives any non-waivable consumer-protection rights you may have under the law of your country of residence.
Acceptable use of the API and MCP
HNW exposes a public verify endpoint and an MCP server (/developers/mcp) for agents. Both are free to call within posted rate limits. Don’t use them to: send spam-volume traffic from many keys to circumvent the limit; submit obviously malicious payloads; or scrape resolved-game data en masse for resale.
Per-API-key rate limits exist to keep the surface healthy for everyone; we may temporarily revoke a key that’s harming throughput, with a notice email and a path to reinstate it.
Use of the code
You may host your own deployment, fork the code, or read it to audit any claim made by the app. The license conditions accompanying the code govern its use.
No warranty
HNW is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The randomness is provably fair (drand beacon + commit-reveal), but no other promises are made about uptime, data preservation, suitability for your use case, or absence of bugs. Use at your own discretion.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the authors and operators of HNW are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service or any decisions you make based on its output.
Changes
These terms can change. We will note material changes in the project changelog and update the “last updated” date above. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it.
▸ This document is best-effort, not legal advice. Operators deploying HNW commercially or into a regulated context should replace it with lawyer-reviewed terms.