Beater Pursuit — terms

Effective 23 September 2026. Back to the parking lot · Privacy

Beater Pursuit is a free browser game run by Howard Huang, one person in Texas, USA, as a hobby. By playing, posting a lap or making an account, you agree to these terms.

1. What this is

The game is provided as it is, free, with no promise that it will always be up, stay the same or keep your progress. Cars, tracks and handling change between versions, so a lap set on an older version may not compare with a newer one. Boards and saves can be reset. A save kept only in your browser is lost if the browser's data is cleared.

2. Who can play

You must be at least 13 to play. If you are under 18, you may race, use text chat and use voice only with a parent's or guardian's permission, and by playing you confirm that you have it. The camera in rooms is for players 18 and over. A profile that belongs to someone under 13, or a player under 18 using the camera, will be removed.

3. Accounts

One account per email address. The address is not verified, so use your own. There is no password reset yet. Your transfer code is the key to your profile: anyone who types it gets your name, laps, garage and cloud save, and there is no way to take it back off their device — keep it private. The code changes every time you log in with your email and password, so the one on your screen now is the only one that works. Signing in on a new device adds that device, and your other devices stay signed in. If you lose both your password and your code, the profile cannot be recovered.

4. Names

No names that impersonate someone or are offensive. There is no way for the operator to rename somebody else's profile, so a profile with a name that breaks this rule is deleted.

5. The boards

Lap times are reported by the players' own devices; nothing replays your inputs, so the boards are a notice board, not a record. The game refuses laps it cannot believe: under 45 seconds, over 12 minutes, or far faster than the standing record on a busy board. That check is crude and could refuse a real lap — if yours is refused, say so through the feedback button. A board keeps only its ten fastest laps, and at most three from any one racer, so a lap can drop off because somebody went quicker, and duplicate laps posted without an account are removed. Cheating, tampering with the game or its servers, and automated posting are not allowed, and the game refuses requests that arrive too fast. The operator may remove laps, ghosts and profiles.

6. What you post

Feedback posts and their screenshots are public and stay up once posted; there is no button to delete one, so ask the operator. Images are re-encoded before they are posted, which strips photo location data. By posting, you let the game show your posts and use your ideas to improve it. The replay of a lap you post is shown to players who race against it. Post only images you have the right to share, and nothing that shows another person without their agreement. If something posted here is yours and you want it taken down, write to the address below.

7. Rooms, chat, voice and camera

No harassment, hate, threats, sexual content or nudity, spam, or recording other players without their consent. Voice and camera are off until you switch them on; they go live through the game's server to the other players in the room and are never recorded. The camera is for players 18 and over, and the operator may remove it at any time. You can mute another player's voice for yourself. Blocking someone in your friends list stops their friend requests and challenges; it does not stop room chat, private messages or camera, so leave the room if you need to. There is no private report channel yet — the feedback button posts publicly — so email the operator about anything involving another player.

8. Other people's things

Radio streams belong to their stations. Open Road's roads and place search come from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence and credited on screen. Your browser fetches that data from OpenStreetMap directly; this game does not host or redistribute it. Ground heights come from ASTER GDEM (a product of NASA and Japan's METI) through OpenTopoData. Open Road is a toy, not a navigation aid — do not use it for real directions. Car makes and models are named only to describe the cars; the game is not affiliated with or endorsed by any manufacturer.

9. Ending things

You can stop playing at any time. To have your data deleted, email the address below — there is no delete button in the game yet, so the operator does it by hand. The privacy page lists what deletion removes. The operator may delete profiles, laps, ghosts and posts that break these terms.

10. No warranty, limited liability, and your health

To the fullest extent the law allows, the game comes with no warranty, and the operator is not liable for lost progress, lost laps or any indirect loss arising from playing it. The game has flashing police lights: if you are sensitive to flashing light, take care, and take breaks.

11. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA. If you are in the EU or the UK, nothing here takes away the data protection rights your own law gives you.

12. Changes and contact

If these terms change, the date at the top changes. Questions: howard@whatshuang.com.