Terms of Use and End User Licence Agreement

Summary for Parents

The summary above is for convenience only. The numbered sections below are the operative agreement.

1. Acceptance and Who These Terms Bind

These Terms of Use and End User Licence Agreement (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between PPLST Tech (“we,” “us,” “our”) and the adult parent or legal guardian who downloads, installs, accepts these Terms, or permits a child to use the Lady Beetle game (the “Game”) or this website (the “Site”, together the “Service”).

By accepting these Terms or allowing a child to play, you confirm that:

• you are at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority where you live;
• you are legally able to enter into a binding contract;
• you are the parent or legal guardian of every child you allow to use the Game, or you are otherwise lawfully responsible for that child at the time of use;
• you accept these Terms on your own behalf and on behalf of every child you permit to play, and you remain responsible for their use of the Game; and
• you have read our Privacy Policy and our Health, Safety & Wellbeing Notice, both of which are incorporated into these Terms by reference.

A child may not accept these Terms. If you are under 18, do not accept them; ask a parent or guardian to review this page. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not install or use the Game, and uninstall it if it is already installed.

2. About the Game and Its Intended Audience

Lady Beetle is a tilt-maze game designed for children aged approximately 2–6, to be played with adult supervision. Normal gameplay remains available offline without an account. In the current version the Game has:

• optional Google sign-in and, on iOS, Sign in with Apple for cloud progress and per-level leaderboards;
• no advertising of any kind, and no advertising SDK;
• no in-app purchases, virtual currency, loot boxes, or paid content;
• no chat, messaging, multiplayer play, player search, or free-form profile content beyond a validated public nickname;
• no third-party analytics, behavioural tracking, or profiling;
• no push notifications, streaks, daily rewards, or engagement mechanics;
• no links to external content other than the adult-directed legal and support links described in section 8.

The Game is entertainment. We make no representation that it is educational, developmental, therapeutic or diagnostic, and we make no claim about any outcome from playing it.

3. Licence Grant

Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms and with the rules of the app store you obtained the Game from, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to download and install one copy of the Game on a device you own or control, and to permit the children in your care to use it, for private, non-commercial, family entertainment.

This is a licence, not a sale. All rights not expressly granted are reserved to us and our licensors. The licence continues until terminated under section 18.

4. Restrictions on Use

You must not, and must not permit anyone else to:

• copy, sell, rent, lease, lend, distribute, sublicense, host, or commercially exploit the Game or Site;
• use the Game in a commercial setting, or in a childcare, school, clinical or public venue, without our prior written consent;
• modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works from the Game, or extract its assets, artwork, audio, fonts, level data or code;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Game, except strictly to the extent applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction;
• remove, obscure or alter any proprietary notice, branding or attribution;
• circumvent, disable or interfere with any parental gate, security measure, licence check, or platform protection;
• use cheats, automation, emulators or modified clients to alter gameplay, or distribute modified builds;
• use the Service unlawfully, or in a way that damages, overburdens or interferes with it or with anyone else's use of it;
• probe, scan or test the Site's security, or attempt unauthorised access to any system or data;
• misrepresent ownership of, or affiliation with, Lady Beetle or PPLST Tech.

5. App Store Terms

You obtained the Game from a third-party app store (such as the Apple App Store or Google Play). Your use is also subject to that store's own terms, and the following apply where you obtained the Game from the Apple App Store:

• these Terms are between you and PPLST Tech only, and not with Apple Inc. (“Apple”);
• we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the Game and its content, maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support;
• if the Game fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the Game;
• we, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim relating to the Game, including product liability claims, claims that the Game fails to conform to a legal requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or privacy law;
• we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and resolving any third-party claim that the Game infringes intellectual property rights;
• you represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce them against you.

Where you obtained the Game from Google Play, Google's terms apply in addition to these Terms, and Google is not a party to, or responsible under, this agreement.

6. Price, Purchases and Refunds

The current version of the Game contains no in-app purchases, subscriptions or virtual currency. If you paid a purchase price, it was charged by the app store, not by us. Refunds, cancellations and billing are handled under that store's refund policy, and we cannot process a refund on the store's behalf. If we introduce any paid feature in future, we will update these Terms, and any purchase mechanism will be placed behind a parental gate before any charge can be initiated.

7. Parental Responsibility, Supervision and Assumption of Risk

This section is central to these Terms. Read it with our Health, Safety & Wellbeing Notice, which sets out the practical precautions in full.

7.1 Supervision is a condition of the licence. The licence in section 3 is granted on the basis that a responsible adult sets the Game up, supervises play, and remains present and able to intervene. The Game is not designed or licensed for unsupervised use by a young child.

7.2 Matters you control, not us. You are solely responsible for the decisions that determine whether play is safe, including:

• whether the Game is suitable for a particular child's age, ability, health and temperament;
• the physical location and surroundings in which the child plays, and their safety;
• the device used, its condition, its case or strap, its temperature, and whether the child can hold it safely;
• the device's media volume and any connected headphones, speakers or car audio;
• screen brightness, display settings and ambient lighting;
• the length, frequency and timing of play sessions, and enforcing breaks;
• the settings you choose in the Game, including tilt sensitivity, sound and haptics;
• whether the device is secured against access to other applications, stores or content.

7.3 Assumption of risk. Motion-controlled play carries ordinary, foreseeable physical risks — among them dropping or throwing the device, collisions with nearby objects, loss of balance, fatigue or strain in hands, wrists, arms or neck, discomfort resembling motion sickness, and exposure to sound at whatever level the device is set to. By allowing a child to play, you confirm that you have read the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Notice, that you understand these risks, and that you voluntarily accept them for yourself and on behalf of each child you supervise.

7.4 Allocation of responsibility. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and subject always to section 7.5, we are not responsible for personal injury, illness, property damage, damage to or loss of a device, loss of saved progress, or other loss arising from the manner, place, timing, duration or circumstances of play — including play that is unsupervised, contrary to the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Notice, or in an unsuitable environment. Our responsibility is for the software we supply and for meeting our obligations under these Terms and applicable law.

7.5 What this section does not do. Nothing in this section or these Terms excludes or limits our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; gross negligence or wilful misconduct; breach of any statutory guarantee, warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded; or any other liability that applicable law does not permit to be excluded or limited. Where a limitation in these Terms is not permitted by the law that applies to you, it does not apply to you.

8. Adult-Directed Links and Parental Gates

The Game contains a small number of links intended only for adults — this Site's legal pages. They appear on the first-launch screen and, so that they remain available for the life of the install, again in the Settings screen. Every action intended for an adult, including resetting progress and opening any of those links, sits behind a parental gate. A parental gate is a barrier to casual access by a young child; it is not identity verification and is not a substitute for supervision. You are responsible for handling anything that opens outside the Game, including web pages and your browser.

We are not responsible for the content, policies or practices of any third-party website or service reached from the Service.

9. Privacy and Children's Data

Our Privacy Policy and Children's Privacy Notice forms part of these Terms and explains what the Game and Site process. Normal gameplay requires no account and local progress remains on the device. If a parent creates an optional account, Firebase processes authentication, consent, a public nickname, integer age, confirmed country, progress, stars, best times, and leaderboard results. The Game does not show targeted advertising or provide chat. The Privacy Policy explains public rows, provider processing, retention, and parent controls.

10. Local Data, Backups and Loss of Progress

Signed-out progress lives only on the device and can be lost if app storage is cleared, the Game is uninstalled, progress is reset, the device is lost or damaged, or the operating system reclaims storage. Optional accounts merge eligible local and cloud progress, but synchronization is not a guaranteed backup service and may be unavailable. Reset Progress removes local and cloud progress and leaderboard entries for the player while retaining the account. Sign out retains both local and cloud data. Account deletion removes account-linked cloud data but leaves local progress for signed-out play unless reset separately.

10A. Optional Accounts and Leaderboards

A parent or guardian is responsible for account setup, the versioned privacy acknowledgement, the public nickname, age and country, profile corrections, and account lifecycle actions. One Firebase account maps to one player. Google and Apple provider linking is not supported; use the same provider on every device. We do not silently merge identities after a provider conflict.

Leaderboard rows show rank, nickname, completion time and same-run stars. Email, provider ID, Firebase user ID, raw age and country are not shown. A nickname may be trimmed, rejected or replaced with a generated name. There is no chat, report button, or moderation console in version 1; contact Support about a concern. We may remove abusive names or scores and restrict service access where reasonably necessary.

Scores come from a client-timed game. We use validation, rate limits and App Check, but cannot promise that every time is genuine or that the service will always be available. Rankings are entertainment and have no cash value. Viewing a different board does not change the profile.

11. Intellectual Property

The Game and Site — including their code, level design, characters, artwork, animation, audio, music, sound effects, text, layout, names, logos and branding — are owned by or licensed to PPLST Tech and are protected by copyright, trade mark and other intellectual property laws. These Terms grant permission to use the Game; they transfer no ownership. Our names and logos may not be used without our prior written permission.

Reporting Claimed Infringement

We respect the intellectual property of others. The Game and Site host no user-generated content, so material appearing in them is our own or is licensed to us. If you believe something in the Game or on the Site infringes your copyright, trade mark or other right, write to admin@pplsttech.com, marked for the attention of the Grievance Officer, with:

• identification of the work or mark you say is infringed;
• identification of the material complained of, and where it appears;
• your contact details;
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf.

We will acknowledge within 48 hours, investigate promptly, and remove or alter infringing material where a complaint is well-founded.

12. Third-Party Components and Attribution

The Game and Site incorporate third-party software and typefaces made available under open-source and open-font licences, including the Flutter framework and Dart, the Flame game engine and Forge2D physics, and device-integration components for sensors, local storage, audio playback and link handling, together with the Titan One and Fredoka typefaces. These components remain the property of their respective owners and are used under their licence terms, which are preserved in the distributed application. A copy of the applicable licence notices is available on request from admin@pplsttech.com.

13. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, bug reports or ideas, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use them without restriction, obligation or compensation. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential, and please do not include a child's personal details.

14. Updates, Availability and End of Support

We may release updates, and may fix, change, add, remove or discontinue features, worlds, levels or the Service as a whole. An update may be required for the Game to keep working. Operating system changes, device capability, storage, and app store availability are outside our control and can affect operation. We do not promise that any particular version will remain available or supported indefinitely. Where we discontinue the Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice on this Site where it is practical to do so. Copies already installed will generally keep working until the device or operating system stops supporting them.

15. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, quiet enjoyment and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that:

• the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free;
• defects will be corrected;
• the Game will work on every device, operating system version or configuration;
• the Game will produce any educational, developmental or other outcome;
• saved progress will persist or be recoverable.

Nothing in this section excludes warranties, guarantees or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, or affects section 7.5. If you are a consumer, you may have statutory rights that operate alongside these Terms.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and subject to section 7.5:

• we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill, saved progress, or anticipated savings, however caused and whether or not we were advised of the possibility;
• our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid for the Game in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) INR 1,000 (or its equivalent in your local currency);
• these limits apply to all theories of liability, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute or otherwise, and survive termination.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limits above apply only to the extent permitted, and your statutory rights are unaffected.

17. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless PPLST Tech, its owners, officers, employees and contractors from any third-party claim, loss, liability, damage or reasonable cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, your failure to supervise a child you permitted to play, or your violation of any law or third-party right. This does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own breach, negligence or wrongdoing, and it does not apply where you are a consumer and the applicable consumer law does not permit it.

18. Termination and Survival

You may end this agreement at any time by uninstalling the Game and ceasing to use the Site. We may suspend or terminate your licence with immediate effect if you materially breach these Terms, or where reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users, or address misuse or a security risk. On termination, the licence in section 3 ends and you must stop using and delete the Game. Sections 4, 7, 10–13 and 15–24 survive termination.

19. Export Control and Sanctions

You must comply with all applicable export control, re-export and economic sanctions laws, including those of India, the United States and the European Union. You confirm that you are not located in, and will not use or export the Game to, any territory subject to comprehensive sanctions, and that you are not a person or entity on any applicable restricted-party list.

20. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them or the Service are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts at Gurgaon, Haryana, India will have jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you habitually reside, and you may also be entitled to bring proceedings before the courts or consumer forums of that country. Consumers in India retain their rights under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, including the right to approach the appropriate Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.

21. Resolving a Dispute

If you have a problem, please contact us first at admin@pplsttech.com with a description of the issue and the outcome you are seeking. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days. Most matters are settled this way. If we cannot resolve it informally, either of us may pursue the remedies available under section 20. Nothing in these Terms requires you to arbitrate, and nothing prevents you from approaching a consumer forum, data protection authority or other competent regulator at any time.

22. Grievance Redressal

Complaints about the Game, the Site, content, privacy, or these Terms may be sent to our Grievance Officer using the details below. We will acknowledge a complaint within 48 hours of receipt and aim to resolve it within 30 days. Please include enough detail for us to identify and investigate the issue, without including a child's personal information.

Arjun Bhilare — Grievance Officer, PPLST Tech
Office No. 933, B-3, Spaze I.T. Park, Sector 49,
Gurugram, Haryana 122018, India
Telephone: +91 99107 91039, +91 84280 58239
Email: admin@pplsttech.com

23. Events Outside Our Control

We are not liable for failure or delay in performing our obligations where it results from an event beyond our reasonable control, including natural disaster, epidemic, war, civil unrest, act of government, labour dispute, power or internet failure, or failure of a third-party platform, app store or hosting provider.

24. General Provisions

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Notice, are the entire agreement between us about the Service and replace any earlier understanding, other than any statement we made fraudulently.

Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to be enforceable, or severed if it cannot be, and the remaining provisions continue in full force.

No waiver. A delay or failure to enforce any right is not a waiver of it.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your licence. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, provided your rights under these Terms are not reduced.

No third-party rights. Except for Apple and its subsidiaries under section 5, no one other than you and us has any right to enforce these Terms.

Notices and electronic communication. You agree that we may communicate with you by email, through the Game, or by posting to this Site, and that such communications satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing. Notices to us should be sent to admin@pplsttech.com.

Language and headings. These Terms are written in English; any translation is provided for convenience, and the English version governs in the event of a conflict. Headings are for reference only.

Relationship. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency, employment or joint venture between us.

25. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms when the Game, app store rules or legal requirements change. We will update the effective date at the top of this page, and for changes that materially affect your rights or a child's safety or privacy we will give reasonable prior notice — within the Game where practical, and on this Site. Continued use after an update takes effect means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the Game and uninstall it.

Document History

We keep a record of every version of this document so it is always possible to establish which text was in force on a given date. Superseded versions are available on request from admin@pplsttech.com.

26. Contact

Operator: PPLST Tech
Office No. 933, B-3, Spaze I.T. Park, Sector 49,
Gurugram, Haryana 122018, India
Telephone: +91 99107 91039, +91 84280 58239
Legal, privacy and grievance contact: admin@pplsttech.com
Related documents: Privacy Policy · Health & Safety Notice · Parent Guide · Support