Terms of Use

1. About these terms

Ancient Cities: Egypt (the "Game") is a city-building game provided by Adaptive Cogito LLC ("we", "us", "our"). It is available as a mobile game for Android and iOS and as a desktop game. These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Adaptive Cogito LLC about your use of the Game.

By installing or playing the Game you confirm that you have read and accepted these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not install or play the Game.

If you download the Game from the Apple App Store, Apple's standard licensed application end user license agreement also applies between you and Apple. If these Terms and that agreement conflict, the Apple agreement prevails for matters it covers.

2. What the Game is

The Game lets you build and run a city on the banks of the Nile: lay out roads and districts, grow houses, feed and serve your people, trade, build monuments and play through scenarios and a sandbox.

The Game does not need an account or a sign-in and works offline. Your saved games and progress are stored on your device.

The history, places and monuments in the Game are simplified and adapted for play. The Game is entertainment, not a reference work.

3. Free intro and the one-time unlock

• The Intro scenario is free. The rest of the Game (the story campaigns, their follow-ups and the sandbox) is unlocked with one single in-app purchase, the "full game", on the mobile versions.
• The purchase is a one-time, non-consumable purchase. It is not a subscription and it does not renew. There are no other in-app purchases, no ads, no loot boxes and no timers or speed-ups that can be bought.
• The price is shown in the Game in your local currency before you buy and is set by the store. Payment is taken by Google Play or the Apple App Store, not by us. We do not see your payment details.
• The purchase belongs to your store account. You can restore it on another device signed in to the same store account with the "Restore purchase" button in the main menu or in Settings.
• Refunds and cancellations are handled by the store under its own policy, for example through Google Play order management or Apple's "Report a Problem". If a purchase is refunded or revoked by the store, the Game becomes locked again; your saved games stay on your device.
• The desktop version is not sold through a store and is not locked.

4. Licence

Adaptive Cogito LLC gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play the Game on devices that you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, under these Terms and the rules of the store you got it from. The Game is licensed, not sold. All rights in the Game, including its code, graphics, music, text and design, remain with Adaptive Cogito LLC and its licensors.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• copy, resell, rent, sublicense or distribute the Game or any part of it;
• decompile, reverse engineer or extract the code or assets of the Game, except where the law allows it despite this restriction;
• remove, bypass or tamper with the purchase check or any other protection in the Game, or use modified copies of the Game to get the paid content without paying;
• use the Game or its content for a commercial purpose or to build a competing product.

6. Your saved games

Your saved games, progress and settings are stored on your device. The Game saves automatically and offers manual save slots. We cannot see them and we cannot restore them for you.

They can be lost if you uninstall the Game, clear its data, reset or lose the device. Android and iOS may include them in your device backup, depending on your system settings. Keep your own backup if a save matters to you.

7. Availability and updates

We work to keep the Game working but we do not promise that it will be free from errors, run on every device or always be available. We may update the Game, change or remove features, adjust the content, or stop providing the Game, with reasonable notice where possible. Updates are delivered through the store.

Prices of the unlock can change in the store. A change in price does not affect a purchase you have already made.

8. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

The Game is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we give no warranties other than those that cannot be excluded by law, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of saved games, data or profit.

Our total liability to you for any claim related to the Game is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for the Game in the 12 months before the claim and 50 euros (or the equivalent in your currency).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or your mandatory rights as a consumer.

9. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms, for example when we add features or when the law changes. The date at the top shows when they were last updated. The current version is always available on this website. If you keep playing after a change, you accept the updated Terms; if you do not accept them, you can stop playing and uninstall the Game.

10. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the country in which Adaptive Cogito LLC is established. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, and you may also bring a claim in the courts of that country.

11. Contact

If you have a question about these Terms, contact Adaptive Cogito LLC using the support contact shown on this website and on the Game's store page.