Terms of Use

01The agreement

Blinkhouse is made and provided by Yağmur Günaydın Öney, an independent developer based in Türkiye ("we", "us"). By downloading or playing Blinkhouse you agree to these terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data.

If you got Blinkhouse from the App Store, Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the Standard EULA) also applies, together with these terms. If you got it from Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service apply alongside these terms. If you don't agree, please don't play Blinkhouse.

02The game and your licence

Blinkhouse is a Morse-code lighthouse game: ships show their signals, and you answer them with your light to bring them safely home. It includes the Voyage, Night Watch with its weekly Top Keepers board, the Keeper's Logbook and the Signal Book.

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to download and play Blinkhouse on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial entertainment. You don't buy the game or its content; you get the right to use them under these terms.

Blinkhouse doesn't need an account: the game signs in anonymously in the background. It does need an internet connection, because the game loads from our servers each time you open it.

03Your progress and the board

• Your progress, pearls, lifebuoys and items are saved on your device. They aren't backed up to our servers, so if you delete the app or change devices, we can't move or restore them.
• Night Watch scores appear on the public Top Keepers board with your keeper name, emblem and ship name.
• The weekly board starts over every week. We may correct or remove scores that look wrong, for example scores reached by cheating or through a bug.

04Pearls and other virtual items

• Pearls are the game's virtual currency. You earn them by playing and from optional rewarded ads, and you can buy pearl packs. You can spend them on skies, ships, lifebuoys and other things in the game.
• Pearls, lifebuoys and other virtual items give you a limited licence to use content in the game. They aren't your property, have no cash value, and can't be exchanged for real money, goods or services, or sold or transferred, except where the law requires otherwise.
• Pearls are used up when you spend them. Because they're saved on your device, unspent pearls are lost if you delete the app.
• We may change what things cost or reward in pearls to keep the game balanced. We won't take away items you've unlocked, except as these terms allow, for example after a refund or for cheating.

05Golden Lantern subscription

The Golden Lantern is an optional, auto-renewing subscription. While it's active you get unlimited lifebuoys, no banner and no ads between runs, and rewards and hints without watching ads.

• Length1 month, renewing automatically every month.
• PriceUS$2.99 per month in the United States and ₺99,99 per month in Türkiye. In other countries, the App Store or Google Play shows the price in your local currency before you buy. Prices may include taxes and can change; if a price goes up, Apple or Google tells you first, as its store rules require.
• Free trialNew subscribers get a 3-day free trial. If you don't cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the subscription starts and you're charged. Apple or Google decides who is eligible for a trial. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
• PaymentCharged to your Apple ID or Google Play account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends.
• RenewalThe subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Manage or cancelAny time after buying, in your App Store or Google Play account settings (on iPhone or iPad: Settings › your name › Subscriptions; on Android: the Google Play app › your profile icon › Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions). Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep the Golden Lantern until the end of the period you've paid for. Deleting the app doesn't cancel the subscription.

06One-time purchases

• Remove Ads turns off the banner and the full-screen ads between runs for good on your Apple ID or Google account. Rewarded ads stay available if you choose to watch them.
• Premium skies and ships, such as Bosphorus Night, Aurora Fjord and the City Ferry, unlock that item.
• Pearl packs add pearls to your balance. They're consumable: once added, they can't be restored or moved to another device.

The App Store or Google Play shows each price in your local currency before you buy.

07Restoring purchases

The Golden Lantern, Remove Ads and premium skies and ships are linked to the Apple ID or Google account you bought them with. If you reinstall the game or move to a new device, open Settings › Restore purchases in the game while signed in to the App Store with the same Apple ID, or to Google Play with the same Google account. Pearl packs can't be restored.

08Payments and refunds

• Apple (in the App Store) or Google (in Google Play) processes all payments under its own terms. We never see your card details.
• Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com for App Store purchases, and by Google through Google Play's refund process for Google Play purchases; we can't issue them ourselves. If a purchase is refunded, we may remove what it unlocked or the pearls it added.
• Nothing in these terms limits refunds or other rights you have under mandatory consumer law.

09Ads

Blinkhouse shows ads from Google AdMob, as described in our Privacy Policy. Rewarded ads are always optional: you choose whether to watch one in exchange for a reward, such as a lifebuoy, extra pearls or a hint. If no ad is available at that moment, the reward may not be offered. We're not responsible for the content of ads or for the products and websites they promote.

10Fair play and names

Keep Blinkhouse fair and friendly. When you play, don't:

• cheat, for example with modified apps, scripts or bots, or by exploiting bugs to change scores, pearls or purchases;
• get around the purchase checks or the ad rules;
• copy, reverse engineer, scrape or resell the game or our servers, except where the law allows it;
• overload or attack our systems, or test their security without our written permission.

Keeper and ship names appear on Top Keepers for everyone to see. Don't use names that are offensive, hateful, sexual, threatening or misleading, that impersonate someone else, or that contain personal information such as a real name or phone number. We may give such players a random name, reset their scores or remove their row, and we may do the same with scores that look like cheating.

11Availability and changes

We work hard to keep Blinkhouse running, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of errors. Blinkhouse needs an internet connection to start. Top Keepers, purchases and ads also need one while you play, and they rely on other companies' services.

We may change, add or remove features, nights, items and prices. If a change significantly affects something you've paid for, we'll tell you in advance.

12Intellectual property

Blinkhouse, its name, logo, artwork, sounds, story, code and other content belong to us or our licensors and are protected by law. These terms don't give you any rights to them beyond the licence above.

13Other companies' services

Blinkhouse relies on services from Apple, Google and RevenueCat. Their own terms apply when you use their services, and we're not responsible for them.

14Warranty and liability

• Blinkhouse is provided "as is" and "as available". As far as the law allows, we make no promises that it will run without interruption or errors, or that scores, progress or virtual items will never be lost.
• As far as the law allows, we're not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for progress or virtual items lost from your device.
• As far as the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid for Blinkhouse purchases in the 12 months before the claim.
• None of this limits liability that can't legally be limited, such as for intent, gross negligence, or death or personal injury, and it doesn't affect your rights as a consumer.

15Ending your use

You can stop playing at any time by deleting the app. To have your data deleted from our servers, email us as described in the Privacy Policy. Remember to cancel the Golden Lantern in your App Store or Google Play settings as well.

We may suspend or end your access, or remove your row from Top Keepers, if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms or the law, or to protect other players.

Parts of these terms that by their nature should continue, such as the liability section, still apply afterwards.

16Apple's terms

Apple's Standard EULA applies to Blinkhouse as downloaded from the App Store, together with these terms. In addition:

• These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for Blinkhouse and its content.
• Your licence is to use Blinkhouse on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as allowed by the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the game.
• If the game fails to meet any applicable warranty, you can tell Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any. As far as the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the game.
• Apple isn't responsible for handling any claims relating to the game, such as product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, or consumer protection, privacy or similar claims.
• If someone claims that the game or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
• You confirm that you aren't located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated by the US Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you aren't on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

If you got Blinkhouse from Google Play, this section doesn't apply; instead, the Google Play Terms of Service apply alongside these terms.

17Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We'll change the date at the top, and for important changes we'll tell you in the game before they take effect. If you keep playing after that, the new terms apply. If you don't agree, you can stop playing.

18Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye. If you're a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you can bring a claim in your local courts.

If you live in Türkiye, you can apply to the consumer arbitration committees within the legal monetary limits, and to the consumer courts above them.

Before going to court, please write to us first. Most problems can be solved with an email.

19Contact

Email is the quickest way to reach us. If you'd rather write to us by post, email us and we'll send you our postal address.