Terms of Use

Playing Nova Drop means agreeing to what is below. It is short on purpose.

01The service

Nova Drop is a physics arcade game for phones. You aim a launcher, drop a ball, and clear the orange cores. The game runs on your device; our servers exist to carry your save between devices, deliver new levels and mirror your purchases. They are not required to play.

These terms are between you and Evgenii Isupov, the individual who operates Nova Drop. They are governed by the laws of Portugal, without affecting any mandatory consumer rights you have where you live. Your use of the game is also subject to the rules of the store you installed it from.

02Your account

You must be at least 13 (or the minimum age in your country) to play. No sign-up is needed: the game creates an anonymous account for your device the first time it runs.

That account belongs to the installation. If you delete the app, reset the device or lose the phone without having linked Google or Apple sign-in, the save is unrecoverable — we have no way to tell which anonymous account was yours. Linking an account in Settings is what makes progress survive. Keep your sign-in details to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under a linked account.

03The game is licensed, not sold

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and play Nova Drop on devices you control, for as long as these terms are respected. Everything in the game — code, art, levels, sound, the name and the logo — stays ours.

You may not copy, sell or redistribute the game, reverse-engineer it except where the law expressly allows, run it through modified or automated clients, or interfere with our servers or other players' access to them.

04Crystals, lives and other virtual items

Crystals, lives, boosters, drones and cosmetics are a limited licence to use a feature inside the game. They are not money, not property and not a stored balance you hold with us. They have no value outside Nova Drop, cannot be transferred, sold or exchanged between players, and cannot be redeemed for cash.

• Lives regenerate over time and cap out; the wait is a deliberate part of the design.
• Items are consumed when used, and consumed items are not restored.
• We may adjust prices, rewards, drop rates and balance at any time, including after you have bought something. Balancing a game is part of running it.
• Unused crystals do not survive the closure of the service (see section 07), except where your local law says otherwise.

05Payment and refunds

Purchases are one-time in-app purchases sold through the App Store or Google Play, billed to the account you use there. Prices are shown in the game before you confirm, in your local currency. Non-consumable items and entitlements can be restored with Restore purchases in the in-game shop, on any device signed in to the same store account.

Refunds are handled by Apple and Google under their own policies, not by us; we cannot issue a store refund directly, though we will help where we can. If you live in the EU or the UK you may have a statutory 14-day withdrawal right for digital content — note that it normally ends once delivery has begun with your consent, which for crystals means the moment they land in your balance. Contact us and we will help you exercise whatever right applies to you.

06Fair play

Nova Drop is offline-first, so the game is simulated on your device and we do not pretend to run anti-cheat. What we do reserve is the right to reject implausible data during sync, to remove scores from the leaderboard, and to suspend an account that is clearly attacking the service or fabricating currency. We will not take away something you actually paid for.

07Availability and changes to the game

We aim to keep the service up, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. We may add, change, pause or retire levels, drones, offers and features, and we may stop supporting older versions of the app. If we ever shut the service down we will give reasonable notice in the game where we can; the copy already installed on your device may keep working offline, but cloud saves, leaderboards and new content will stop.

08Liability

The game is provided “as is”, to the fullest extent the law allows. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost progress or virtual items — including a save lost with a device that was never linked to a sign-in provider. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited — and your mandatory consumer rights are unaffected.

09Ending things

You can stop at any time by deleting the app; to remove the account on our servers, see the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, and will give notice unless the law or a serious risk prevents it.

10Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced in the game before they take effect; continuing to play afterwards means you accept them.