Terms of Service
These terms are an agreement between you and J&A Interactive (“we”, “us”) about your use of Stories of Shinobu (the “Game”). By installing or playing the Game you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not play.
1. Who can play
You must be at least 13 years old, or older if that is the minimum age for entering into this agreement or consenting to data processing where you live. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian’s permission, and they are responsible for any purchases made on your device.
2. Your licence to play
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play the Game on your own devices for your own entertainment. You may not copy, sell, rent, reverse-engineer, decompile or modify the Game, extract its assets, or build tools that interfere with it, except where the law expressly allows.
3. Your save data
Your progress is saved on your device. If you create a login, a copy is also kept in cloud storage so you can restore it on another device; without a login, progress lost with your device cannot be recovered. Data for the online features (Orders, the Arena, chat and cloud save) is stored on our servers as described in the Privacy Policy.
4. Playing fairly
You agree not to:
- cheat, or use bots, scripts, memory editors, modified apps or exploits to gain an advantage or to change the Game’s online services;
- attack, overload or try to gain unauthorised access to our servers or other players’ data;
- impersonate others or misuse the Game’s reporting tools;
- sell, trade or transfer Game items or your data for real money or outside the Game.
5. Virtual items and currencies
The Game contains virtual currencies (such as gold, red gems, platinum coins and tickets), items, apprentices, skills and other digital content (“Virtual Items”). Virtual Items have no cash value, are not property, cannot be exchanged for money, and are licensed to you rather than sold. We may change, rebalance, add or remove Virtual Items and game systems at any time to keep the Game fair and fun.
6. Random rewards
Some features award items at random, including unsealing scrolls, summoning apprentices, learning shadow arts, and the Relic and Mount event wheel. The chance of each result is fixed by the Game’s rules and depends on factors such as your progress and level of the feature. Some features include a guaranteed result after a set number of attempts. Winning any particular item is never guaranteed unless the feature says so. The exact odds for every one of these features are shown inside the Game, under Settings → Drop Rates and from the Odds or Drop Rates button on each feature’s screen. They always show the rates the Game is actually using.
7. Purchases
- The Game is free to play. Optional purchases (for example packs of currency, one-time upgrades and event offers) are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play under their terms, in your local currency where available.
- Prices are shown in the store before you confirm. You are responsible for purchases made on your account or device.
- Except where the law requires otherwise, purchases are final and refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their refund policies. Purchased Virtual Items are delivered immediately.
- One-time upgrades can be restored on a new device using Restore Purchases in the Settings screen. Consumable items, such as currency packs already spent, cannot be restored.
- “Remove Ads” (and any pass that includes it) means you receive the rewards of the Game’s optional rewarded ads without having to watch an ad.
8. Ads
The Game may offer optional rewarded ads. Ads are provided by third parties and we are not responsible for their content. See the Privacy Policy for how ad data is handled.
9. Orders and player-created content
Orders let players group together online. The name of an Order you create is visible to all players. You may not use names or other player-visible text that is hateful, sexual, harassing, unlawful, that infringes others’ rights, that impersonates someone, or that shares personal information. Names are checked automatically and any player can report an Order. We may hide, rename or delete an Order, remove players from it, or restrict access to Order features where these rules are broken, at our discretion and without prior notice.
10. Ending your access
You can stop playing at any time by uninstalling the Game. We may suspend or end your access, including to online features, if you break these terms or use the Game in a way that harms others or the service. We may also change, suspend or discontinue the Game or any feature at any time. If we permanently shut down the Game we will try to give reasonable notice.
11. The Game is provided “as is”
We work hard to make the Game enjoyable and reliable, but we provide it “as is” and “as available” without promises that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or that your data will never be lost. Online features depend on third-party services that may be unavailable. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be excluded.
12. Our liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, loss of Virtual Items or progress, or loss of data, and our total liability to you for any claim relating to the Game is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US$50. This is a limit on what we could owe in the unlikely event we are found legally responsible for a loss; it is not a promise to refund purchases, which are covered in section 7. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
13. Intellectual property
The Game, including its art, characters, story, music, code and name, belongs to J&A Interactive or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. These terms give you no ownership in them. If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without obligation to you.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms, for example when we add features. If we make important changes we will update the date above and, where required, tell you in the Game. Continuing to play after a change means you accept the new terms.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Kentucky, USA. Disputes will be handled in the state and federal courts located in Warren County, Kentucky, except that consumers may also have the right to bring claims in their home country under local law.
16. Contact
J&A Interactive
Email: storiesofshinobu@gmail.com