Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and Sparrow ("we", "us"), New Zealand, for the Sparrow website, launcher and client (together, "the Service"), including the closed beta. By creating an account, or by accepting these terms in the launcher, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Age

You must be 18 or over to create an account or use the Service. By using it, you confirm that you are. If we find that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it.

2. The closed beta

• The beta is by invitation only. You need a Sparrow account that we have given beta access.
• Your access is personal. Do not share your account, your launcher or any build with anyone.
• Beta builds are unfinished. They may have bugs, may change or stop working without notice, and we may switch off any macro or build remotely at any time (for example if it becomes unsafe to use).
• We can end the beta, or your access to it, at any time.

3. Confidentiality

The beta is confidential. Do not publish or share builds, screenshots, videos, settings, documentation or details of unreleased features without our written permission. This duty continues after the beta ends, until we make the information public ourselves.

4. Your licence

The Sparrow software is ours and all rights are reserved. While you have access, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use it on your own computers for your own play. You must not:

• copy, sell, rent, share, redistribute or publish it;
• crack it, or try to get around, disable or interfere with its licence, account, device or update checks;
• modify or tamper with it, use or share a cracked, modified or unofficial copy, or help anyone else make or use one;
• decompile, disassemble, deobfuscate or reverse engineer it, except where the law allows this despite these terms;
• remove or alter any notices, or build anything from its code;
• use it to harm the Service, other players or anyone's systems.

Sparrow checks for cracked and tampered copies. If it finds one, or we believe you have broken this section, we may end your access straight away and without warning, block your account and any accounts or devices linked to it, and stop Sparrow from running on them.

5. Minecraft, Hypixel and other services

Sparrow is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Mojang Studios, Microsoft, or Hypixel. Some Sparrow features automate gameplay. Many servers, including Hypixel, do not allow automation and may ban or restrict accounts that use it, and you could lose access to your account, items or progress. You are responsible for following the rules of the games and servers you play on. You use the Service at your own risk, and we are not responsible for any action a game or server takes against your account.

6. Your account and conduct

• Keep your sign-in details and authenticator safe. Tell us straight away if you think someone else has used your account.
• Give us accurate information, and do not create accounts for other people.
• Do not attack, overload or probe the Service, or try to access anything you are not allowed to.

7. Feedback and reports

We welcome bug reports and ideas. You agree that we may use any feedback you send us freely, without owing you anything for it. The client sends crash reports and usage stats as described in the Privacy Policy. You can turn them off in the client.

8. Ending your access

You can stop using the Service at any time and ask us to delete your account.

We may suspend, limit or end your access, or close your account, at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without notice. If you have paid for a plan and we end it for a reason other than a breach of these terms, we will refund the unused part of the period you paid for.

When your access ends, your licence ends too, and you must delete any Sparrow builds you have.

9. No warranty

The beta is provided free and "as is", for testing. To the extent the law allows, we make no promises that it will work without errors, be available, or suit any purpose.

10. Our liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of game accounts, items, progress, data or profit, however it is caused. Our total liability to you for anything to do with the Service is limited to NZ$100.

Nothing in these terms limits any right you have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, the Fair Trading Act 1986 or any other law that cannot be excluded by agreement. If you use the Service for the purposes of a business, the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 does not apply.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the date and version above, and the launcher will ask you to accept the new version before the next download. If you do not accept it, stop using the Service.

12. General

• These terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand, and the courts of New Zealand have jurisdiction.
• If part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we do not enforce part of these terms straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours if the Service changes hands.

13. Contact

Sparrow, New Zealand. Questions about these terms: the support form.