Game Rules
Taro Bay is a shared bay. These rules keep it fair and friendly for everyone — in the game, in chat, and around your account. They are the terms of use for Taro Bay: by creating an account, you accept them.
1. Your account
You must be at least 14 years old to play Taro Bay. The game is not aimed at younger children; if we learn that an account belongs to someone under 14, we close it. If you are not yet of full age, please play with the agreement of your parent or guardian.
One account per person. Sharing, selling, or passing on your account is not allowed.
Your account and all virtual content in it — mon, items, progress — remain the property of the operator. What you get is a revocable right to use them for playing Taro Bay. Virtual goods have no monetary value, and there is no entitlement to a payout.
2. Respect in chat
No insults, abuse, hate speech, harassment, or discrimination. No NSFW or illegal content. No spam, no advertising, and no posting other people's personal data.
Chat languages are English and German. All of this applies to character names too.
3. Fair play
No bots, scripts, macros, or any other kind of automation.
Don't exploit bugs. If you find one, please report it — via the in-game report button, in #feedback-and-bugs on our Discord, or at hello@tarobay.io.
No real-money trading: accounts, mon, and items are never bought or sold for real money. No market manipulation — especially not through second accounts.
4. Enforcement
Violations can lead, at our discretion, to a warning, a chat mute, a temporary or permanent account ban, or deletion of the account — in severe cases without prior warning.
Banned accounts have no claim to virtual goods or to any replacement for them.
5. Open beta
Taro Bay is in development. Balance changes, new features, and downtimes are part of that — and in exceptional cases, resets or wipes are possible. There is no entitlement to availability or to the continued existence of any particular content.
6. Changes to these rules
We may update these rules, for example when new features arrive. The current version always lives on this page; we announce significant changes in the game or on Discord.
Last updated: 2026-08-07
7. Contact and reports
You can reach us at hello@tarobay.io, via the in-game report button, or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/74euHYQmWf
8. Content, moderation, and how to report
What you may post is set out in sections 2 and 3: nothing illegal, and nothing that breaks those rules. Everything you read in chat is written by players; we do not check messages before they appear.
How we moderate: by hand. A person looks at the case and decides. We use no automated filters and no automated decision-making on chat messages, character names, or accounts. Should that ever change, we will say so on this page first.
Reporting illegal content or a rule breach: the fastest way is inside the game — every chat message from another player carries a flag button. You get confirmation that your report arrived straight away. You can also write to hello@tarobay.io; tell us what you saw, where, and when. Either way we look into it and tell you what we decided. Note that the Report button in the sidebar is something else — that one is for bugs and ideas.
What we can do about a violation is listed in section 4: remove content, mute a player in chat, restrict or ban an account, or delete it. If we take such a step against you or your content, we tell you what we did and on which rule we based it — by email to the address on your account.
If you think we got it wrong, write to hello@tarobay.io. A person reads it, we look at the case again, and we answer you. Your right to take the matter to a court remains untouched; the Austrian supervisory authority under the Digital Services Act is KommAustria.
9. Point of contact under the Digital Services Act
Our single point of contact for authorities (Art. 11 DSA) and for users (Art. 12 DSA) is hello@tarobay.io. It is read by a person, not a bot, and we answer in German and English. Postal address: see the Imprint.
Taro Bay is operated by one person as a micro-enterprise. As such we are exempt from the additional platform duties in Art. 20–28 DSA; everything described in section 8 applies regardless.
Austrian law applies. Where the choice of court is legally permitted, the court with jurisdiction for Wiener Neustadt, Austria, decides disputes arising from these rules. If you play as a consumer, this changes nothing about the mandatory consumer protection rules of the country you live in: we can only bring a claim against you at the court of your place of residence, and you can sue us there or at our seat.