Terms of Service

1. Who can use Emberfall

Anyone may play the free chapter. To make an account or buy, you must be at least 13 years old, and if you are under 18 you need the permission of a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms for you. You must give a real email address you control.

2. Your account

Keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us at apolloprojectsllc@gmail.com if you think someone else has used it. You can delete your account at any time from the Account page; deleting it removes your saves, and access to anything you bought goes with it.

3. What you get, and what buying means

• Free: chapter one of The Unsealing, playable without an account.
• The campaign purchase (a single payment, not a subscription) unlocks, on the account you bought with, every other chapter of The Unsealing and its side tales, as they are offered at the time, and any further chapters or tales we add to that campaign later. The price is shown on the Pricing page and at checkout, including any tax Stripe calculates.
• Buying gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to play that content through Emberfall for as long as we offer the service. You are buying access, not ownership of the content or the software.
• Gift codes we hand out open the same content as the purchase, on the account that uses them, under these same terms. A code has no cash value, cannot be exchanged for money, and may carry an expiry date or a limited number of uses. Nothing was paid for a gifted campaign, so there is nothing to refund. We may stop a code that was shared or sold beyond the person it was given to.
• We do not promise that further content will be made, or when.

4. Payments and refunds

Payments are processed by Stripe under Stripe's terms. You can have a full refund within 14 days of buying, for any reason; see the Refund Policy. A refunded or disputed payment locks the paid content again.

5. Playing fair

Please do not:

• share, sell or transfer your account or paid access, or copy and redistribute the paid chapters;
• try to get around the paywall, access other people's accounts or data, or probe or attack the service;
• overload the service with automated requests, or scrape it;
• use Emberfall to break the law or to harass anyone.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules. If we close an account for something other than a serious breach, we will refund a purchase made in the previous 14 days.

6. Modules you write

Emberfall lets you paste and play modules you have written. They remain yours. When a module travels with a save on your account, you let us store and process it only to run the game for you. You are responsible for having the right to use whatever you paste, and it must not be unlawful.

7. Our content

Emberfall, The Unsealing, its text, world, maps, art and software are owned by Apollo Projects LLC and protected by copyright and other laws. Apart from the licence in section 3 and ordinary personal use such as sharing a screenshot or a short quotation, no rights are granted to you.

8. Changes and availability

We improve Emberfall over time, which means content, balance and features may change. We work to keep it running, but it may sometimes be unavailable for maintenance or reasons outside our control. If we ever stop offering Emberfall, we will give account holders at least 30 days' notice by email and, where your purchase was within the previous 14 days, a refund.

9. Disclaimers

Emberfall is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties such as merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we do not promise the service will be uninterrupted or free of errors, or that saves kept only in your browser will survive (please export anything precious).

10. Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Apollo Projects LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data or profits, arising from your use of Emberfall, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$50. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you; nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

11. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Please contact us first: most problems are solved by an email. Any dispute that cannot be resolved that way will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction, except that either of us may bring a claim in a small-claims court where it qualifies. If you are a consumer living outside the United States, you keep any protections and choice of courts that your local law gives you.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will change the date at the top, and for material changes tell account holders by email at least 14 days before they apply. Continuing to use Emberfall after that means you accept the new terms; if you do not, you may delete your account.

13. The rest

If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. These terms, the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy are the whole agreement between us about Emberfall. You may not transfer these terms; we may transfer them to a successor running Emberfall.