Terms of use

1. This agreement

These terms are between you and LynchPin Games LLC ("LynchPin Games", "we", "us"). By downloading, installing, or using one of our games, or by using this website, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use our games or this site.

Apple and Google impose their own terms on apps distributed through their stores. Where an app store's standard end-user licence agreement applies to a game you obtained there, it applies in addition to these terms; if the two genuinely conflict, the store's terms govern for that store's distribution. Apple's standard EULA is published at apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula.

2. Your licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use our games on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial entertainment, in accordance with the rules of the store you obtained the game from.

You may not sell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute a game; reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law; remove or alter any copyright or trademark notice; or use a game in a commercial product or service without our written permission.

Recording, streaming, and publishing video of our games — including on monetised channels — is expressly permitted, and you do not need to ask.

3. Purchases and restoring them

Some of our games offer in-app purchases. Where they do:

• Purchases are non-consumable. You buy them once and they stay unlocked.
• They are tied to your Apple Account or Google account, not to a device. Signing in to the same account on another device and using Restore purchases reinstates the unlock at no extra cost.
• There are no subscriptions, consumable currencies, loot boxes, or randomised rewards in any of our games.
• Payment is taken and processed by Apple or Google. We never receive your payment details.
• What a purchase unlocks is described in the store listing and on the in-game purchase screen before you buy it.

Refunds are handled by the store that sold you the item, under its own policy — Apple through reportaproblem.apple.com, and Google through your Google Play order history. We cannot issue a refund directly, but if a defect on our side caused the problem, email support@lynchpin.games and we will support your request.

4. Our content

The games, their code, art, audio, level designs, names, and the LynchPin Games name and logo are owned by LynchPin Games LLC and protected by copyright and trademark law. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of any of it to you.

Press and content creators may use the screenshots and logo files published on our press page for editorial coverage of our games, unmodified apart from cropping and scaling.

5. Your game data

Game progress is stored on your device. We do not host it, back it up, or have any way to recover it. Deleting the app deletes the data; reinstalling starts fresh, except for purchases, which restore through the store. Please treat a device backup as your only safety net.

6. Availability and changes

We may update, change, or discontinue a game or any part of it, and we may stop supporting older operating system versions. We may also change these terms; if we do, we will update this page and the effective date above. Continuing to use a game after a change means you accept the revised terms.

7. Acceptable use of this site

This is a static informational website. Do not attempt to interfere with it, scrape it abusively, or use it to distribute malware. That is the entire list.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our games and this website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that a game will be uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every device.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer rights.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, LynchPin Games LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data or lost profits, arising out of your use of our games or this website. Our total liability for any claim relating to a game is limited to the amount you actually paid us for that game in the twelve months before the claim, or, where you paid nothing, to zero.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

10. Apple and Google

Apple and Google are not parties to this agreement and are not responsible for our games or their content. Any claim about a game — including product liability, a failure to conform to legal requirements, or a consumer protection claim — is our responsibility and not theirs. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms with respect to games obtained from the App Store, and may enforce them against you.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and the state and federal courts located in New Jersey have exclusive jurisdiction — except where the mandatory consumer protection law of your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings locally, which these terms do not take away.

12. Contact

LynchPin Games LLC
Legal: legal@lynchpin.games
Support: support@lynchpin.games