Terms of Service

01Who these terms are between

Valeon is an independent game. In these terms, “Valeon”, “we” and “us” mean the developer and operator of the Valeon mobile game and the website at valeongame.com. “You” means the person using them.

How we handle your data is a separate document, and the more important one: see the Privacy Policy. Where the two overlap, the privacy policy governs anything about personal data.

02Accepting them

Installing or playing Valeon means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, the remedy is simple and complete: delete the app. You do not need to contact us first, and nothing of yours is held back if you go — see §12.

03How old you need to be

You must be at least 13 to play Valeon, or at least 16 if you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. Valeon is not directed at children under those ages and we do not knowingly collect their data.

If you believe a child below that age has an account, write to [email protected] and we will remove it. We would rather hear from you than not.

04Your licence to play

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play Valeon on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial enjoyment.

That licence does not include the right to sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the game, to reverse-engineer or decompile it except where law says you may regardless of what a contract states, or to strip out its assets — the music, the art, the level data — for use elsewhere.

05Your account

You do not need one. The whole game is playable without signing in; the app gives your device a random identifier so your scores can belong to somebody on a leaderboard.

If you do sign in — with Apple, Google, Facebook or Discord — that account adopts the scores you already earned anonymously. You are responsible for keeping access to the provider account you signed in with. We cannot restore an account you have lost the ability to sign in to, because the provider is the one that vouches for you and we do not hold a password of our own.

One person, one account, please. Accounts are not transferable and may not be sold, shared or traded.

06The leaderboard and your name

A leaderboard is a public thing. When you publish a score, your display name, your scores, your level completions and your per-family shatter counts become visible to anyone — in the app and on valeongame.com/leaderboards. Your email address never is. That split is described precisely in the Privacy Policy.

If you sign in with a provider, your display name starts as the name that provider gives us, trimmed to fit. You can change it. Whatever it is, it must not impersonate somebody else, contain slurs or harassment, advertise anything, or pretend to be an official Valeon account.

We may rename or remove an entry that breaks that rule. We will not silently edit your scores to something you did not earn.

07Fair play

Don't:

• Modify the game, its memory or its network traffic to produce scores you did not play for.
• Automate play — bots, macros, emulated input driving the board for you.
• Submit scores through anything other than the game itself, including by calling our API directly.
• Attack, overload or probe our servers, or try to reach data that is not yours.
• Use Valeon to harass anyone, including through a chosen display name.

Scores that did not come from playing get removed, and the account behind them may go with them. There is no appeal process worth the name here — Valeon is a small operation and this is a judgement we make by hand.

08Purchases

Valeon currently sells nothing. There are no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no currency. We would rather say that plainly than leave a hypothetical section here pretending otherwise.

We intend to monetise Valeon in future. When we do, these terms will be updated before anything is offered for sale, and any purchase will be handled by Apple or Google — not by us. Refunds for anything bought through their stores follow their policies, and they are the ones to ask.

09Who owns what

Valeon — its code, its name, its wordmark, its artwork, its level designs and all thirteen original music tracks — belongs to us and is protected by copyright and trade mark law. Nothing in these terms transfers any of that to you.

You may record, stream, and publish video of your own play, including monetised video on platforms like YouTube and Twitch. That permission covers the gameplay footage and the music as it appears within it. It does not extend to distributing the soundtrack as audio on its own, or to using Valeon's name or wordmark in a way suggesting we endorse or are affiliated with you.

If you send us feedback, a bug report or an idea, we may act on it without owing you anything for it. We mention this because it is the honest position, not because we expect it to come up.

10Apple and Google

This agreement is between you and Valeon alone. Apple and Google are not parties to it and are not responsible for the game.

Where you obtained Valeon from the App Store: Apple has no obligation to provide support for it — that is ours, at [email protected]. If the app fails to conform to any warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any; beyond that refund, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app, including product liability, regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims, nor for investigating or defending any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property. You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

11Availability and change

Valeon's leaderboards run on a server we operate. We do not promise it will always be reachable, and we do not offer an uptime guarantee. If it goes down, your saved progress is unaffected — the phone is the record and the server holds a published copy, which is deliberate.

We may change the game: rebalance levels, retune scoring, add or remove features, reset a leaderboard that has been corrupted. We may discontinue the online service entirely. If we shut the service down for good, we will give notice in the app beforehand where we reasonably can.

12Ending this agreement

You can end it whenever you like by deleting the app. To also remove what is on our server, use Delete My Data inside the app — it works whether or not you are signed in, and it is permanent. There is no email to send and nobody to persuade.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you break these terms, particularly §7. Sections that by their nature should survive — ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law — survive termination.

13Disclaimers

Valeon is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the game will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that scores and rankings will always be accurate.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits any right you have as a consumer under the law of your own country that cannot be limited by agreement.

14Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Valeon will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost leaderboard standing, arising out of your use of the game.

Our total liability for any claim relating to Valeon is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or US$25. Since Valeon currently costs nothing, that figure is usually the latter.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

15Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Ohio have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute — except that you may bring a claim in your local courts where consumer law in your own country gives you that right, and except that either of us may seek injunctive relief anywhere.

16Changes to these terms

If we change these terms we will update the “last updated” date above. If a change materially affects your rights — new purchases, a different licence, a narrower permission — we will say so in the app before it takes effect. A quietly rewritten agreement is not an agreement.

Questions about any of this: [email protected].