Terms of Use & End User Licence

1. Accepting these terms

By using the archevia.com website, or by installing or playing ARCHEVIA, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site and do not install the game.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only accept these terms with the involvement of a parent or guardian, who accepts them on your behalf.

2. Definitions

• “We”, “us”, “our” — BORMANSA, the developer and publisher of ARCHEVIA.
• “The Game” — ARCHEVIA, in any version, on any platform, including builds distributed for testing.
• “The Site” — the website at archevia.com and everything served from it.
• “Storefront” — Steam, the Apple App Store, Google Play or any other platform through which we distribute the Game.
• “Content” — the images, video, audio, text, code, models and design of the Game and the Site.

3. Your licence to play

When you obtain the Game through a Storefront, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play it for your own private entertainment on the devices that Storefront allows.

The Game is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors keep all ownership of it. Your licence lasts as long as you comply with these terms and with your Storefront's own agreement.

4. What the licence does not allow

You may not:

• Copy, sell, rent, sub-licence or redistribute the Game or any part of it, including its assets, models, audio, text or code.
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Game, except to the narrow extent that applicable law says you may despite this clause.
• Circumvent, disable or interfere with any technical protection, licence check or anti-cheat measure.
• Use cheats, trainers, bots or modified builds in any online or leaderboard context.
• Remove or obscure any copyright, trademark or attribution notice.
• Use the Game or its assets to train a machine-learning model, or to generate a competing product or dataset.
• Use the Game for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that harms other players or us.

5. Your storefront's terms apply too

These terms sit alongside, and do not replace, the agreement you have with the Storefront you bought from: the Steam Subscriber Agreement, the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, or the Google Play Terms of Service. Where a Storefront's rules are stricter than ours, theirs win.

For the App Store specifically: this licence is between you and us, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for the Game. If the Game fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim that the Game or your possession of it infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, and for any product liability or legal claim relating to the Game. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

6. Purchases

All purchases are made through the Storefront, not through us. We never see or hold your payment details. The price you pay, the currency, the taxes and the receipt are all the Storefront's responsibility.

Prices may change, and we may run discounts. A discount after your purchase does not entitle you to a refund of the difference.

7. Refunds

Refunds are handled entirely by the Storefront you bought from, under its own policy — Steam's refund policy, Apple's report-a-problem process, or Google Play's refund rules. Requests sent to us have to be redirected there, which only slows you down, so please go to the Storefront first.

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, your statutory right of withdrawal applies, subject to the usual exception for digital content you asked to have delivered immediately and acknowledged would end that right. Nothing in these terms limits a right your local consumer law gives you.

8. Videos, streams and screenshots

You may record, stream and publish footage of the Game on any platform, and you may monetise it — advertising revenue, subscriptions, memberships, sponsorships, tips. You do not need to ask us and you owe us nothing. This permission is free, worldwide and lasts as long as you follow the rest of this section.

You may also use our screenshots, key art and trailers in articles, reviews, videos and thumbnails about the Game.

• Do not present the Game as your own work, or imply that we endorse, sponsor or produced your channel or product.
• Do not upload our trailers or assets on their own as a standalone video with no commentary or added value.
• Do not use the footage in advertising for something unrelated, or in anything hateful, harassing or illegal.
• Do not distribute the Game itself, its build files or its assets, and do not use footage to help anyone play it without buying it.
• Do not sell merchandise using our art, logos or characters.
• If we ask you to take something down for a specific, well-founded reason, please do.

Press outlets and content creators can request a review key or the press kit at info@bormansa.com.

9. Feedback and bug reports

If you send us a suggestion, a bug report or an idea, you allow us to use it in the Game and in our work without owing you payment, credit or confidentiality. We say this plainly so that nobody is surprised later: it is the only way a small studio can safely read what players send it.

You keep ownership of anything you create yourself, such as your videos or your screenshots.

10. Intellectual property

ARCHEVIA, its name, its logo, its world, its characters, its art, its music and its code belong to BORMANSA or to our licensors, and are protected by copyright and trademark law. The permissions in section 8 are the exception, not a general licence.

Real archaeological sites, artefacts and terminology referenced in the Game are used for cultural and educational purposes; where a depiction is inspired by a real object, that object belongs to its custodians, not to us.

11. The Game is still in development

Everything shown on this site — screenshots, trailers, feature descriptions, region counts, mechanics — comes from a build that is still being made. Features can change, be delayed or be cut. Nothing on this site is a contractual promise about the final product.

If you buy an early-access or test build, you are buying the build as it exists on the day you buy it, not the build you hope it will become.

12. Availability of the site

We try to keep the Site up, but we do not guarantee it will be available without interruption. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it, and we may stop publishing the Game on a given platform, without being liable to you for doing so.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent the law allows, the Site and the Game are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Game will be free of defects or that it will run on any particular hardware configuration.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties. If you live in one, this section applies to you only to the extent that jurisdiction permits, and your statutory rights are unaffected.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost data or lost playtime, arising out of your use of the Site or the Game.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for the Game in the twelve months before the claim arose, or fifty euros, whichever is greater. Nothing here limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

15. Indemnity

If a third party brings a claim against us because of how you used the Site or the Game — in breach of these terms or of the law — you agree to cover the reasonable costs and damages that result, provided we tell you about the claim promptly and let you take part in the defence.

16. Ending the licence

Your licence ends automatically if you materially breach these terms. We will normally warn you first and give you a chance to put it right, unless the breach is serious enough that we cannot.

You can end it at any time by uninstalling the Game and, if you wish, removing it from your Storefront library. Sections 9, 10, 13, 14, 15 and 17 survive the end of the licence.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, and the courts and enforcement offices of Türkiye have jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another country whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings locally and to rely on your own consumer protection rules, that right is untouched by this section. We would always rather resolve a complaint by email first — it is faster for both of us.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the Game develops and as it reaches new platforms. The date at the top of this page shows the current version. Continuing to use the Site or the Game after a change means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, stop using them.

We will not apply a change retroactively to a dispute that arose before it.

19. Contact

Questions about these terms, licensing enquiries, press requests and takedown notices all go to info@bormansa.com.