Terms of Service
Effective: 10 September 2026 · Version: 2026-09-10
Drift gently. Share carefully. Respect every other player.
1. Agreement, operator and scope
These Terms of Service govern Drifting Dad / 漂流爸爸 at https://drifting.softofu.com, including guest play, accounts, cloud saves, bottle mail and related game support. The service is operated by Softofu (softofu.com), referred to as “Softofu”, “we” or “us”. Contact: softofu.app@gmail.com. “You” means the person using the service or a person legally authorized to accept on their behalf. By selecting an acceptance control that links to these terms, creating an account after being shown these terms, or using the service after reasonable notice of them, you agree to the extent recognized by applicable law. If you do not agree, do not use the service. These terms do not replace separate terms for unrelated Softofu products. Our Privacy Policy explains personal-data handling; it is not a waiver of privacy rights.
2. Eligibility and parental responsibility
You must be at least 13 and meet any higher minimum age required in your location. If you are below the age at which you can enter a binding agreement, use the service only with legally valid parental or guardian permission and appropriate supervision. Do not misrepresent your age or bypass restrictions. Parents and guardians should explain stranger-contact risks and help young users protect their information. We do not guarantee that other players’ ages, identities or claims have been verified.
3. Accounts and security
Provide accurate account information and use only accounts you are entitled to access. Protect your password, email, Google account, device and recovery key. Do not share, sell, rent, transfer or impersonate accounts. Notify us of suspected unauthorized use. You are responsible for actions you authorize and for reasonable account-security precautions, subject to applicable law and without making you automatically liable for events outside your control. We may request proportionate verification before restoring access or disclosing information. Lost guest storage, lost recovery credentials or third-party account restrictions may make recovery impossible.
4. Nature of the game
The game is a casual entertainment service. Exploration, letters, characters, currencies and objects are fictional or digital. Pearls, levels, items and accounts have no promised monetary, investment, redemption or ownership value. The current web game is free, without in-game purchases. We do not promise permanent availability, a minimum period of service, uninterrupted cloud synchronization, delivery of every message, unlimited storage, particular encounters or preservation of every save. Random encounters and changing game rules are part of the experience. Any future paid product requires its own disclosed terms; this clause does not authorize undisclosed charges.
5. Stranger messages and personal safety
Bottle messages come from other users, not necessarily from Softofu. A message can be inaccurate, deceptive, offensive or unsafe. Delivery does not mean we endorse, verify or recommend its author or content. Never disclose passwords, one-time codes, recovery keys, identity documents, private contact details, addresses, exact location, intimate material or financial information. Do not trust requests for money, investments, gifts, emergency assistance, prize fees, account verification or off-platform contact merely because they arrived in the game. Verify independently using trusted channels. Do not open suspicious links, download files or meet a stranger based on a bottle message. The game is not a dating, identity-verification, financial-advice, medical-advice or emergency service. These precautions do not remove duties the law places on us.
6. Fraud, phishing, catfishing and exploitation are prohibited
You must not scam, trick, defraud, blackmail, extort, manipulate or exploit anyone. Prohibited conduct includes phishing, credential harvesting, fake login pages, malware links, impersonating a real person or Softofu staff, catfishing, fake romantic relationships used to deceive, romance scams, advance-fee fraud, fake giveaways or prizes, fraudulent fundraising, investment/crypto/gambling schemes, money laundering, payment diversion and requesting passwords or authentication codes. Do not use invented identities or emergencies to gain money, private information, sexual material, trust or access. Do not recruit others into such conduct or help them evade enforcement.
7. Other prohibited content and behavior
Do not post, request, facilitate or threaten unlawful conduct; harassment, stalking, bullying, hate or targeted discrimination; threats of violence; doxxing or non-consensual personal information; sexual exploitation, grooming or any sexual content involving minors; non-consensual intimate material; encouragement of suicide or serious self-harm; terrorism or violent extremism; trafficking; illicit goods or services; infringements of intellectual property or privacy; deceptive advertising, spam or unsolicited commercial recruitment. Do not solicit private meetings or personal contact with children. Do not use the game to coordinate attacks, evade sanctions where applicable, distribute malicious code, probe other users’ accounts or interfere with service security. Context and applicable law matter, but labeling harmful conduct a joke, roleplay or experiment does not excuse it.
8. Fair and authorized use
Use the game only through authorized interfaces and for lawful personal entertainment unless we agree otherwise. Do not cheat in a way that harms others or the service; exploit vulnerabilities; bypass authentication, rate limits or moderation; scrape or harvest player information; automate spam; overload infrastructure; reverse engineer or circumvent protections where prohibited by law; introduce bots for abusive purposes; or reproduce or commercially exploit the game without permission. Exceptions and rights that applicable law expressly grants, including legally protected interoperability or research, remain available. Report vulnerabilities privately to our support contact without accessing unnecessary data or disrupting users.
9. Your content and the permission needed to deliver it
You retain any rights you have in messages you write. You must have the legal right to submit the content and must not disclose another person’s information unlawfully. By submitting a message, you grant Softofu a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to store, reproduce, transmit, display to its recipient, back up and technically process it as needed to provide, secure, support and enforce the service and comply with law. This is not permission to sell your private letters or use them for unrelated advertising. Necessary service providers may process content for those purposes. The permission lasts while the content is legitimately retained; a recipient’s independently saved copies may remain after you delete your account. You remain responsible for unlawful or infringing content you submit, subject to applicable law.
10. Reports and enforcement
Report suspected scams, impersonation, abusive messages, privacy violations or security issues to softofu.app@gmail.com. Include a message reference and approximate time where available, describe the concern, and provide only necessary lawful evidence. Do not send passwords or illegal imagery. We may investigate, restrict or remove content, delay delivery, suspend features or accounts, preserve relevant evidence and cooperate with lawful authorities when justified by suspected breaches, safety, security or legal obligations. We do not promise to inspect every message before delivery, verify every identity, monitor continuously or respond within a fixed time. Where appropriate and lawful, we will provide reasons and an opportunity to request review by email; urgent action or legal restrictions may limit notice. Reporting rights do not permit false or malicious reports.
11. Third parties and off-platform dealings
Google sign-in, hosting, email services and external websites are operated by third parties under their own terms. We do not control a player’s conduct outside the game, and we are not a party, agent, escrow service or guarantor for private transactions or relationships between users. Dealings with strangers and third-party links are undertaken at your own judgment and risk, subject to any non-excludable duties we owe. Nothing authorizes us to disclaim responsibility for our own unlawful acts or mandatory obligations simply by involving a third party.
12. Softofu intellectual property
The game software, presentation, artwork and other service materials are owned by Softofu or used under applicable rights and permissions, except user content and separately licensed third-party materials. You receive a limited, personal, non-exclusive, revocable permission to use the service according to these terms. No rights in our names, branding or underlying technology are transferred. Do not present yourself as an official representative, remove rights notices or misuse Softofu or Drifting Dad branding. Third-party license rights remain governed by their respective licenses.
13. Availability, changes and ending access
We may maintain, modify, limit or discontinue features for operational, safety, security or legal reasons. We may suspend or terminate access for serious or repeated breaches, unlawful use or material risks, using proportionate action where practicable. You may stop using the service and request account deletion at any time. A termination does not cancel accrued lawful obligations or rights. We will honor mandatory notice, refund, access or data rights where applicable. Clauses that logically need to continue, including content rights for lawful retention, liability limits, indemnity and dispute provisions, survive only to their lawful extent.
14. No promises beyond those the law requires
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without additional warranties of uninterrupted operation, error-free software, complete security, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of player messages or permanent retention of saves. We do not warrant that every user is trustworthy or every message is safe. This does not exclude any statutory warranty, required reasonable care and skill, mandatory security duty or other right that cannot lawfully be excluded.
15. Limitation of liability — important limits and exceptions
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Softofu, its operator/owner, personnel and service providers involved in supplying this game will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive losses, or lost profits, opportunities, goodwill or data, arising from use or inability to use the game, user content, unauthorized third-party conduct, third-party services or outages, whether a claim is framed in contract, tort or otherwise and even if the possibility was foreseeable. Where liability can lawfully be limited, their aggregate liability for claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of US$100 or the amount you paid Softofu for this game during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. This limit includes direct losses only where the law permits that limitation. Neither the exclusions nor the cap apply to fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence where non-excludable, death or personal injury caused by negligence where non-excludable, or any consumer, privacy, data-protection or other liability that applicable law does not allow us to exclude or limit. Any legally required remedy or minimum protection prevails. These terms do not make Softofu immune from all claims.
16. Disputes between players
Subject to the non-excludable rights above, you are responsible for your voluntary dealings with other players. To the extent permitted by law, you release Softofu from claims arising solely from disputes between you and another user for which Softofu has no independent legal responsibility. This does not release us from our own breach of duty, misconduct or legally imposed obligations. Seek appropriate professional or law-enforcement help for fraud, threats or injury rather than relying on game support as an emergency service.
17. Indemnity for misuse and third-party claims
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify Softofu, its operator/owner and personnel against reasonable third-party claims, damages and necessary legal costs to the extent caused by your unlawful conduct, fraud, deliberate misuse, infringement of others’ rights or material breach of these terms. This does not require you to indemnify anyone for their own negligence, misconduct, breach of law or responsibility that cannot lawfully be transferred to you. We will give reasonably prompt notice of a claim where practicable and allow reasonable participation in its defense. No settlement may impose an admission, non-monetary obligation or unreimbursed payment on you without your agreement, except as a court or applicable law requires. The scope and enforceability of indemnity, including for consumers or minors, remain subject to applicable law.
18. Law, complaints and dispute resolution
Contact softofu.app@gmail.com first so we can try to resolve a complaint. This is an invitation, not a mandatory barrier to a legal remedy, regulator complaint or urgent application. Applicable mandatory consumer, privacy and other laws remain effective. Disputes may be brought before courts or tribunals with jurisdiction under applicable law; these terms do not impose mandatory arbitration, waive a jury or class proceeding where unlawful, remove statutory complaint channels or shorten a non-waivable legal limitation period. No particular governing jurisdiction is imposed by this version of the terms.
19. Changes, severability and interpretation
We may revise these terms and will show the effective date. Material changes will receive reasonable notice through the service or another appropriate channel, and renewed agreement where required. Changes do not retroactively erase accrued rights or authorize previously unlawful conduct. If a clause is unenforceable, it applies only to the minimum extent lawful or is severed; the remaining lawful terms continue. A delay in enforcement is not automatically a waiver. You may not assign rights in your account without permission; any service transfer remains subject to applicable law and privacy protections. English and Chinese versions are provided for accessibility. If wording differs, it must be interpreted consistently with mandatory law and applicable language rights; no translation clause removes those rights.
20. Contact and emergencies
For support, privacy requests, legal notices or abuse reports, email softofu.app@gmail.com and identify Drifting Dad / 漂流爸爸. Do not send passwords, complete recovery keys or unnecessary sensitive evidence. We do not provide a 24-hour emergency response. If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. If you suspect fraud, contact your payment provider and appropriate authorities promptly.