Terms of Use for Tiny Ship Defense
1. Provider and scope
These terms apply to the use of the Tiny Ship Defense app. The provider is Real Movement Analytics GmbH, Kleines Everstal 18d, 44388 Dortmund, Germany (legal notice). The terms of the store you get the app from also apply to the download and to purchases: in the App Store, Apple's Standard License Agreement (EULA), on Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service.
2. The game
Tiny Ship Defense is an idle game: your spaceship fights rocks on its own and you upgrade it with what it collects. You can download and play the game for free, without an account. You can optionally buy gems (section 3) or watch ad videos if you want to (section 4).
3. Gems and purchases
Gems are a virtual in-game currency. You earn them by playing, for example from bosses, at certain levels and from tasks, and you use them in the app: for a time warp, the coin turbo, to unlock battle upgrades and to finish research in the lab. Purchases speed up your progress. You can reach everything in the game with gems you earn by playing.
You can optionally buy gem packs as one-time purchases; there are no subscriptions. Purchases go through the App Store or Google Play: before you confirm, the store shows you the applicable price, takes the payment and sends you the receipt. This website does not accept payments.
Purchased gems are credited to your progress as soon as the store confirms the purchase. If that did not work during the purchase, the app catches up the next time it starts. Gems have no monetary value, cannot be exchanged for or paid out as money and cannot be transferred to other people. They do not expire.
Because your progress is stored only on your device, the app cannot technically restore purchased gems by itself after reinstalling, clearing the app data or on a new device, except through an operating system backup or a progress code you saved beforehand (section 5). If a paid purchase does not arrive or purchased credit is lost due to an error in the app, email us at [email protected]. Your statutory claims remain unaffected.
4. Ad videos
In some places you can choose to watch a short ad video and get a reward for it, for example a few gems or double coins for a while. The app shows how many videos per day give a reward. Once the video has played to the end, you get the reward shown. Whether a video is available at the moment is decided by the ad provider; there is no entitlement to a video being available at any time. The privacy policy explains which data is processed.
5. Progress
Your progress is stored only on your device. We do not offer our own cloud backup. If you uninstall the app or clear its data, your progress is lost unless it is included in an operating system backup.
In the settings you can save your progress as a code and load it on another device. The code contains all your progress, including your gems. Keep it yourself; we do not store it and cannot restore it. Loading a code replaces the progress on that device. The code is meant for taking your own progress with you.
6. Use of content
The app and website, including graphics, texts, sounds and software, are protected by copyright. You may use Tiny Ship Defense privately within the app's features, including sharing screenshots. Beyond that you need our prior consent, for example to copy, modify, redistribute or commercially exploit content. Uses permitted by law and rights granted under the licences of included software, fonts and other third-party components remain unaffected.
7. Development and availability
We keep developing Tiny Ship Defense and improve it with updates. We provide updates required by law. Further changes to paid services supplied continuously, including to the usability of your gems, require a valid reason (such as security, a change in the law or technical development), no additional cost and clear information. If a change affects access or use more than insignificantly, we inform you in advance on a durable medium about the change and your statutory right to terminate the contract free of charge within 30 days. Statutory exceptions remain unaffected.
8. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health and under the Product Liability Act. For slightly negligent breaches of essential contractual obligations, liability is limited to the typical, foreseeable damage. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded.
9. Your statutory rights
Your statutory consumer rights remain unaffected, in particular in the event of defects (Sections 327 et seq. German Civil Code) and your right of withdrawal. Whether and when a right of withdrawal for digital content expires is governed by law and by the information in the store's purchase dialog. Request discretionary store refunds from the relevant store. You may assert statutory claims against us directly at [email protected], including claims relating to defects, price reductions or termination. These claims do not depend on the store's refund decision.
10. Changes and final provisions
Changes to these terms for existing contracts require your agreement unless the law permits a change without it. Publishing new terms alone does not change your existing contract. German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence remain unaffected. This is a translation of the German version, which prevails in case of discrepancies.