Player Terms

Last updated 15 September 2026 / Version Effective 15 September 2026

1.  Who these terms are for

1.1 You must be at least 16 years old, or the higher applicable legal age where you live, to use our products.

1.2 You accept these terms by pairing a supported watch and completing onboarding in the Ovomind app.

1.3 If you do not accept them, do not complete onboarding. Nothing is processed before you do.

2.  What Ovomind does

2.1 Ovomind reads physiological signals from your watch — heart rate, skin response, skin temperature, breathing-related and movement data — and converts them into an emotional-response signal that a compatible game can use while you play.

2.2 Supported hardware: Samsung Galaxy Watch series 8. Other devices are not supported and may be added or removed over time.

2.3 Ovomind also provides self-regulation and relaxation tools. These are for wellbeing and entertainment only. They are not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you are in distress or in crisis, please contact a qualified health professional or your local emergency service.

2.4 Ovomind operates an emotion recognition system. It infers an emotional state from the physiological signals described in clause 2.1 and makes that inference available to the game you are playing. The inference is a probabilistic estimate and not a measurement of what you actually feel; clause 7.1 applies to it.

3.  Your consent and your data

3.1 Before your first session, you will be asked to give your explicit, written, separate consent to the collection and processing of your Biosignals, as described in our Privacy Policy (ovomind.com/privacy). Using the app is not consent; ticking the consent box is. You can withdraw that consent at any time as described in clause 3.4.

3.2 Your Raw Biosignals are retained and used strictly for the purposes described in this clause 3. Retention periods, security measures and the anonymisation process are described in the Privacy Policy.

3.3 We do not show you advertising of any kind, on any plan. We never sell, lease or otherwise profit from your Biosignals or personal data.

3.4 You may withdraw any consent given under clause 3.1 at any time in the app, free of charge and without giving a reason. Withdrawal of your session consent stops all Biosignal processing immediately; your account and all associated personal data are deleted within thirty (30) days. Withdrawal of your R&D consent (clause 3.5) does not delete your account or the Raw Biosignals we retain for the service under clause 3.2, but we immediately stop using them for model development, and Raw Biosignals kept beyond twelve (12) months solely for that purpose are deleted within thirty (30) days. Raw Biosignals that have already been anonymised before your withdrawal cannot be traced back to you and are not deleted. Models already trained before your withdrawal are not reversed; we apply technical measures to prevent them from being used to identify or reconstruct your signal.

3.5 We improve our emotional-inference models using two types of data. Anonymised data, which cannot be linked back to you, may be used freely without your consent. Raw Biosignals may only be used for that purpose if you give a separate, explicit consent; you can decline or withdraw it at any time in settings without losing access to any feature. If you give it, we may keep your Raw Biosignals for that purpose for up to thirty-six (36) months after each session. We never license or sell your Raw Biosignals to third parties for their own model development.

3.6 Consent to the collection and processing of your Raw Biosignals is given only by the explicit opt-in described in clause 3.1. No other Ovomind notice, policy or interface may be read as obtaining that consent through your use of the app, and where any other Ovomind document provides otherwise, this clause prevails.

4.  The free plan

4.1 A minimum of 60 minutes of emotional gameplay and Ovomind app usage per calendar month, shared across the applications and tools Ovomind provides and every compatible game published under the Ovomind Developer Terms. This allowance may increase automatically based on current server availability.

4.2 Your allowance resets to 60 minutes on the first of each month at 00:00 UTC. Unused minutes do not carry over.

4.3 Your balance is checked when a session starts and is counted down while it is open. You need at least five (5 ) minutes remaining to begin a session.

4.4 A session ends when your balance reaches zero. We will warn you in the app before your balance runs out. At zero, the Ovomind emotional features stop; Ovomind does not stop the game itself.

4.5 When your balance is too low to start, the Ovomind app will tell you before you begin, and your allowance returns on the first of the month.

4.6 The free plan costs nothing. There is no card, no advertising, and no obligation to answer questionnaires or provide self-reports.

4.7 If you are on the free plan, you may earn additional minutes by optionally annotating your sessions with short self-reports on your arousal and valence. Your annotations are personal data linked to the relevant session and the Raw Biosignals retained under clause 3.2. We use them together with those Raw Biosignals to train and improve our models. This feature is therefore available only if you have given your separate, explicit consent under clause 3.5 to the use of your Raw Biosignals for R&D purposes. Any minutes earned through annotations are added to your balance for the current month and do not carry over. If you do not give, or later withdraw, your consent under clause 3.5, the annotation feature will not be available, but this will not affect your 60-minute minimum monthly allowance or your access to the service.

5.  Premium

5.1 The rates are published on our website. Premium offers unlimited minutes of gameplay and Ovomind app usage across every compatible game, plus the full self-regulation tools. A valid referral or promotional code may entitle you to a discount, on the terms and for the period shown before you pay.

5.2 Premium is purchased on ovomind.com, not as an in-app purchase.

5.3 You can cancel at any time. Your subscription runs to the end of the period you have paid for and then stops. We do not auto-upgrade you or change the price of an active subscription.

5.4 Statutory withdrawal and refund rights apply and are not affected by these terms.

5.5 Premium is for personal use by one person. Sustained use above 60 hours a month may be reviewed with you; we will contact you before taking any action.

5.6 Premium subscribers are not asked to provide self-reports, and Premium minutes are never earned through annotation, giving you the full service without contributing annotations of any kind.

6.  Compatible games

6.1 A compatible game is a third-party title that has been approved by Ovomind under the Ovomind Developer Terms and issued a Game ID.

6.2 When you play, the studio receives a pseudonymous session identifier, the emotional-response output, your heart rate and your breathing rate, for that session only. It never receives your name, your account details, or your raw physiological signal, and it receives nothing once the session ends. A studio may be located outside Switzerland or the European Economic Area; in that case the transfer is limited to that data and is covered by appropriate transfer safeguards.

6.3 We do not control third-party games. A title may change, be withdrawn, or have its approval suspended, and its emotional features may stop working. Your allowance and your subscription are unaffected.

7.  Warranties and liability

7.1 The app is provided as is. We do not warrant that emotional inference is accurate, that any particular game is or remains available, or that the service is uninterrupted.

7.2 We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Our total liability is limited to the greater of what you have paid us in the twelve (12) months before it arose and USD 500. Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury, for intentional or grossly negligent conduct, for damage caused by our processing of your personal data, or for anything else that cannot be limited under the law that applies to you.

8.  What you may not do

8.1 Reverse-engineer, decompile or tamper with the Ovomind software, models or hardware.

8.2 Falsify or simulate physiological input, or use any tool that manipulates what the overlay displays.

8.3 Share your account, or use one account for more than one person.

8.4 Use the app for commercial, professional or research purposes. Those require a Developer, Creator or Enterprise agreement.

9.  Changes, governing law

9.1 We may change these terms. Material changes take effect only after we have told you and you have continued to use the app for thirty (30) days. A change that widens how we process your physiological data or your annotations never takes effect through continued use: we ask for fresh explicit consent under clause 3.1, and until you give it we continue on the basis you have already accepted. If you do not accept a change, you may delete your account and, for Premium, receive a pro-rata refund.

9.2 Swiss law applies. The courts of Geneva, Switzerland, have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection in your country of residence.