The Pirate's Code, and the terms that go with it. By making an account or playing, you agree to both.

The Pirate's Code

• No cheating. Play the game as it's given to you.
• Be considerate. Everyone here came to enjoy the Caribbean.
• Privacy matters. Keep your personal details, and other people's, out of the game.
• Keep your account yours. One pirate crew to one person.

1. About New Horizons

Pirates Online: New Horizons ("New Horizons", "we", "us") is a free, non-commercial fan project that recreates Pirates of the Caribbean Online, which Disney closed in 2013. New Horizons is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by The Walt Disney Company or any of its companies. Pirates of the Caribbean Online and its names, characters, story and art belong to Disney. By using New Horizons you accept that Disney has no part in it and no responsibility for it.

These terms cover this website, the launcher and the game (together, "the services") and everyone who uses them.

2. It's Free

New Horizons will never charge a fee or a subscription, sell anything, show advertising or take donations. It makes no money. If anyone asks you to pay for New Horizons, for an account, for a game key or for anything in the game, it's a scam: don't pay, and please tell us. We can't make good anything lost that way.

3. Who May Play

• You must be at least 13 years old. If you live somewhere that sets a higher age for agreeing to terms like these on your own (16 in parts of Europe), you must be that age, or have a parent or guardian who has read these terms and agrees to them for you.
• You may not make a new account if we have closed one of yours.

4. Your Account

• An account belongs to whoever controls the email address on it. Use an address that's yours, and keep it up to date on your account page: it's the only way back in if you forget your password.
• You are responsible for everything done with your account, whoever is at the keyboard. If you share it, anything a sharer does counts as done by you.
• Keep your password to yourself, and don't use one you use elsewhere. We will never ask you for it.
• Accounts, pirates, game keys and anything in the game may not be bought, sold, traded or given away for money or anything else of value.

5. Testing, Game Keys and Wipes

New Horizons is still being built. Before it opens to everyone it will run in closed testing (alpha, then beta), and only accounts with a game key can download and play.

• A game key is for the person we gave it to. Don't sell it, trade it or post it.
• During testing the game can be down, can change without notice and will have faults. Please report the ones you find.
• Pirates, items, gold and progress may be reset ("wiped") at any time during testing, and nothing is owed for what's lost.
• We may take back a key's access if these terms are broken.

6. Playing Fair

These will get an account suspended or closed:

• Using anything but the official launcher and game to connect, or altering the game's files or memory.
• Cheats, hacks, bots, macros, auto-clickers and any other software that plays for you or gives you an unfair advantage.
• Using a fault in the game to gain by it. If you find one, report it and don't share how it's done.
• Attacking, flooding or probing our servers, this website or other players' connections, or trying to get into accounts that aren't yours.

7. Behaving Well

• No harassment, bullying, threats, hate, sexual talk or references to drugs, in chat or in the names of pirates, ships, pets and guilds.
• No spam, and no working around the chat or name filters.
• Don't ask for or share personal details: full names, ages, addresses, schools, phone numbers, email addresses or social media names. A first name or a country is fine.
• Don't pretend to be a member of the New Horizons crew.
• Names must suit a pirate game for all ages. We may change or remove a name that doesn't.

8. Moderation and Appeals

Chat and play pass through our servers and may be reviewed to keep the game safe and fair. If these terms are broken we may warn, mute, suspend or permanently close an account, as fits what was done, and we may act on other accounts held by the same person. Making a new account to get around a suspension makes things worse.

A closed account is told why on its account page. If you think we got it wrong, you may appeal once for each action: get in touch with us from the account's email address. The appeal is looked at by someone other than whoever took the action, and that decision is final.

9. What We Give You, and What Stays Ours or Disney's

While you follow these terms you may install and play the game for your own enjoyment, and you're welcome to record and stream it. That permission is personal to you, can be withdrawn, and ends if your account is closed. Nothing here gives you ownership of the game, of anything in it, or of anything that belongs to Disney. Nothing you have in the game has money value.

10. No Promises

New Horizons is run by volunteers in their own time. The services are provided as they are and as available, with no warranty of any kind. They may be interrupted, may lose data, may change, and may end. To the fullest extent the law allows, New Horizons and the people who run it are not liable for any loss or damage that comes from using the services or being unable to use them. You agree not to hold us, or Disney, responsible for such loss, and to cover costs we bear because you broke these terms.

11. Your Information

The Privacy Policy says what we collect and why. It is part of these terms.

12. Changes

We may change these terms. When a change matters we'll say so on the home page, and we may ask you to agree again. Carrying on using the services after a change means you accept it.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms, reports of faults, and appeals: get in touch with us.

Last updated November 12, 2026.