Terms of Service

Old Light is free to play, with an optional paid feature described under Premium below. These terms are the rules for playing and describe how the service is provided.

Your account

An account is the display name you choose at signup. You are responsible for what happens under it, so keep control of the device and email address you use to log in.

You must be at least 13 years old to play. If the law where you live sets a higher age for using online services without parental permission, that higher age applies.

Fair play

The galaxy is shared, and one player breaking the rules makes the game worse for everyone else. By playing you agree to the following:

• Do not automate play. Software that plays the game for you, such as a bot or script, is not allowed.
• Do not exploit bugs. If you find one that gives an unfair advantage, report it through the contact page instead of using it.
• Do not send abusive messages. Harassment of other players is not tolerated.
• Do not try to access accounts that are not yours.
• Do not play more than one account. People who share a home or network can each have their own, as long as every account belongs to a different person.
• Do not abuse invites. Creating accounts to invite yourself, or using bots or scripts to hand out invite links, is not allowed.

We may review messages sent in the game to enforce these rules. We may suspend or remove accounts that break these rules, and we may limit how many actions an account can take in the game. Where reasonable, we will warn you first. Data belonging to a removed account is handled as described in the privacy policy.

The game and your content

Old Light, including its name, code, artwork, and design, belongs to us. Playing gives you a personal licence to use the game for your own play. It does not transfer any ownership to you, and you may not copy, sell, or reuse parts of the game outside of playing it.

The display name you choose and the messages you send stay yours. By submitting them you give us permission to store and show them inside the game, where other players can see them, for as long as you keep the account. Your display name also appears on your public profile page and on the social-sharing card image generated for it. You are responsible for what you send, and we may remove content that is abusive, illegal, or breaks the fair play rules above.

The service

Old Light is provided as-is. We work to keep it online and stable, but we make no warranty about uptime or availability, and features of the game may change as it develops. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss of in-game progress or for the service being unavailable, except where the loss is caused by intent or gross negligence on our part.

Invites cannot be sold or transferred. Inviting players who buy Starlight earns you Starlight of your own, which is described under Premium. We may change or withdraw the invite feature at any time.

You can stop playing at any time, and you can have your account and its data deleted whenever you want, as described in the privacy policy.

Premium

Old Light stays free to play. Premium is an optional paid feature that pays for the game's running costs and adds convenience. It does not sell power, so nothing in it gives you an advantage another player cannot reach without paying.

Payment is handled by Stripe. Stripe sells you Starlight through Link as merchant of record, and Premium is what you redeem that Starlight for afterwards. Because Link is the seller, the charge on your statement reads LINK.COM with our name after it, and your receipts and invoices come from Link. Link's terms cover the payment itself. These terms cover the game and your access to it.

Premium is bought with Starlight, not by subscription. Starlight is sold in packs, and 100 Starlight buys one month of Premium. Nothing renews automatically and nothing is charged again unless you buy another pack.

Starlight has no cash value and cannot be transferred or paid out. It does not expire. Inviting players who buy Starlight earns you Starlight of your own, at half of what they bought.

If a payment is refunded or reversed, we take back the Starlight it bought. If you have already spent it, the balance goes below zero, and Starlight you buy or earn after that clears the difference before it can be spent again. Premium time you already hold is not taken away.

Access starts as soon as you spend Starlight. By buying Starlight you ask for it to be available straight away, and you accept that once a pack has been delivered you no longer have the 14-day right of withdrawal that EU consumer law would otherwise give you. We do not refund Starlight that has been spent.

Link handles the payment, so a refund can also be decided there, and Link's own terms apply to that decision. Where the law where you live gives you a right these terms cannot exclude, that right still applies. Outside of that we may still refund at our discretion, so ask through the contact page if you think your case warrants it.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of the Netherlands. If you play as a consumer, you keep the mandatory protections of the law of the country you live in, which these terms cannot take away. A dispute we cannot settle through the contact page can be brought before the competent court in the Netherlands, unless the mandatory rules that protect you as a consumer give you the right to bring it before a court where you live.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change. When they do, we will post the updated version here with notice on the site. A material change is posted at least 14 days before it takes effect.

Privacy

How your data is handled is covered separately in the privacy policy. Questions about any of this can go to the contact page.