Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Piped Creations ("we", "us"), covering 3D Printing Empire Idle Tycoon (the "Game"), covering the web version at 3dprintingempire.com and the Android app. By playing the Game you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not play.

1. Who may play

You must be at least 13 years old to play. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only play with the involvement of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for any purchases made.

2. Your licence to play

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to play the Game for your own non-commercial entertainment. You may not:

• sell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute the Game or its assets;
• modify, decompile, or reverse-engineer the Game, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it;
• use cheats, bots, memory or save editors, or any tool that alters normal play, to obtain virtual items or to gain an advantage you would otherwise pay for;
• attempt to obtain ad rewards or purchases without genuinely completing the ad or the transaction, or otherwise interfere with our advertising or billing partners;
• use the Game to break the law or to harm, overload, or disrupt our services.

3. Your save data

Playing without an account. If you do not sign in, your progress lives only in your device's local browser storage or app storage. It can be lost if you clear your browser data, uninstall the app, switch devices or browsers, or use private or incognito browsing. We cannot recover, restore, or transfer a save we never held, and we are not responsible for progress lost this way.

Signing in. You can sign in with a Google account so that one save follows you between the web version and the Android app. If you do, we store a copy of your save on our server and it is restored when you sign in again. You are responsible for keeping access to that Google account: if you lose it, you lose the save filed under it, and we have no way to prove a save belongs to you.

What we do not promise. Cloud saving is offered as-is. We back it up on reasonable terms but we do not guarantee that a stored save will always be available, and we are not liable for lost progress, whether or not you signed in. You may ask us to delete your stored save at any time, as described in the Privacy Policy.

One save, one account. If the same account has been played on two devices, the Game may ask you to choose which copy to keep. Choosing one discards the other, and that cannot be undone.

4. Virtual items and in-game currency

Coins, spools, filament, printers, boosts, awards, and every other in-game item (together, "Virtual Items") are part of the Game, not property. Specifically:

• Virtual Items have no monetary value and cannot be redeemed for real money, goods, or anything of value outside the Game.
• You do not own Virtual Items; you receive a limited licence to use them inside the Game, which ends when your licence to play ends.
• Virtual Items may not be sold, traded, or transferred outside the Game.
• We may change, rebalance, add, or remove Virtual Items and game mechanics at any time as we tune and update the Game. Balance changes are a normal part of an idle game and are not a refundable defect.

5. Purchases and refunds

The Game may offer optional one-time purchases (for example, removing ads or a bundle of spools). In the Android app, purchases are processed by Google Play; our purchase records are handled through RevenueCat. We never receive or store your payment card details.

All purchases are for a licence to use Virtual Items and are final and non-refundable, except where a refund is required by law or granted under Google Play's refund policy. Refund requests for app purchases must go to Google Play, not to us. If a purchase you paid for was never delivered in the Game, contact us and we will try to put it right.

The web version does not currently sell anything.

6. Advertising

The Game is free to play and supported by ads, including optional rewarded video ads you choose to watch in exchange for an in-game bonus. Ads are served by Google (AdSense H5 Games Ads on the web, AdMob in the Android app) and their content is theirs, not ours. we do not endorse advertised products. If an ad fails to load or finish, the reward may not be granted; that is not a defect in the Game. What ad partners collect is described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Ownership

The Game, including its code, art, models, music, sound, text, and name, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. These Terms give you no rights in it beyond the licence in section 2. Screenshots and video of your own gameplay may be shared freely, including on monetized channels.

The Game is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to any 3D printer manufacturer. Every machine, brand, and product inside the Game is fictional and was designed and modelled by us. Any resemblance to a real printer is affectionate parody of a hobby we love, not a claim of association. All third-party trademarks remain the property of their owners.

8. Beta software

The Game is in closed beta and is offered as an evolving work in progress. Features may change or disappear, bugs happen, and in rare cases a bad update or a browser-storage problem can corrupt or reset a save. We aim to avoid that, but you should treat your progress as impermanent.

9. Availability and changes

We may update, suspend, or discontinue the Game or any part of it at any time, without liability to you. If we discontinue the Game, Virtual Items and progress will stop being available and, except where the law requires otherwise, no refunds will be owed for unused Virtual Items.

10. Termination

You may stop playing at any time by uninstalling the app or clearing the site's data. We may suspend or end your licence to play if you materially breach these Terms, in particular section 2.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

The Game is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Game will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that saves will be preserved. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost progress, lost Virtual Items, lost data, or lost profits, arising out of or relating to the Game. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Game is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Game in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) US $50. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims and costs arising out of your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Game.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The current version is always posted at this address with an effective date, and continuing to play after a change means you accept the updated Terms. If a change materially reduces your rights, we will make a reasonable effort to signal it in the Game or on this site.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Hillsborough County, Florida will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that you may bring a claim in your local courts where consumer-protection law in your country of residence gives you that right, and nothing here removes mandatory consumer rights you have under local law.

16. Apple / Google store terms

Where you obtained the Game from an app store, that store's own terms also apply to your download and purchases, and the store is not responsible for the Game or for support.

17. Contact

Piped Creations · support@pipedcreations.com