Terms of Service (September 2026 · v2 · full text at golf-kingdom.com/terms)
1. You play at your own risk. Golf Kingdom is a video game on a handheld device. Don't play while driving, cycling, crossing streets or operating machinery. Take breaks. Some people may have seizures from flashing lights or patterns — stop and see a doctor if you feel dizzy, disoriented or unwell.
2. Coins, crowns, jewels, items and passes are virtual, licensed not sold, have no cash value, can't be exchanged for money, and may change or be removed as the game evolves. Purchases go through the App Store or Google Play under that store's refund rules; virtual items are delivered immediately and are non-refundable except where the law says otherwise (see the Refunds tab).
3. You must be 13 or older; under 18 needs a parent's permission, and the parent is responsible for purchases.
4. Your courses, creator name, kingdom name and motto can be shown to other players. Keep it clean. Cheating, modified clients, bots or multiple accounts forfeit rewards and may close your account.
5. The game is provided "as is" with no warranties. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost progress or virtual items, and our total liability is capped at the greater of what you paid us in the last 12 months or $50.
6. Disputes are settled by individual arbitration (AAA consumer rules) or small-claims court, not class actions. You can opt out by email within 30 days of accepting.
7. These terms are with the publisher (see the About tab), not Apple. Apple has no support obligation and is a third-party beneficiary of these terms. Events: see Official Rules — Apple is not a sponsor.
8. We may update these terms; the game will ask you to accept material changes. Questions: support@golf-kingdom.com

Privacy Policy (September 2026 · v3 · full text at golf-kingdom.com/privacy)
• You play anonymously. A random player id is created on your device. If you link an email to save your kingdom, we store the email (and a hashed password) only to sign you back in — no newsletters, no marketing.
• What we store: your kingdom save, published course, scores and event entries, ratings and reports you file, follows and friend challenges, your creator name and profile card, which store products you bought (never card details), crash reports (error text, stack trace, build, player id), and a few first-party milestone events (first hole built, first publish, first community round, purchase completed) with the seconds since launch.
• Public by design: your course and its name, creator name, profile card (kingdom name, motto, golfer look, level, trophies, league, stats), scores, records and event standings. Everything else is private.
• No ads, no ad tracking, no third-party analytics, no selling or sharing of data. No cookies (see Cookies & data). We don't collect location, contacts, photos or an advertising id.
• Where: Supabase (database + sign-in) and Vercel (hosting), both in the United States, under data-processing agreements with EU standard contractual clauses. Apple / Google handle payments under their own policies.
• Anti-cheat and moderation: balances are signed on the server and event rounds carry receipts; accounts whose numbers don't add up are flagged and not paid prizes automatically. Hourly rate limits apply to rounds, votes and reports. A course reported by two different players is hidden from the Community automatically until a person reviews it.
• Your rights (GDPR / UK GDPR / California and others): access, correction, deletion, a copy of your data, objection, withdrawing consent, and a complaint to your data-protection authority. Email support@golf-kingdom.com — we answer within 30 days, free.
• Delete everything: ⚙️ Settings → 🗑️ Delete account deletes your online account and every row tied to it, then restarts as a new player (needs a connection). Crash reports and milestone events are deleted automatically 60 days after they are written; until then they keep only the orphaned random id. Or email us from your linked address — deleted within 7 days.
• Children: 13 and over. We don't knowingly collect personal information from under-13s; nothing personal is needed to play.

Cookies & Local Storage (September 2026 · full text at golf-kingdom.com/cookies)
• No cookies. Not in the game, not on golf-kingdom.com. No analytics script, ad pixel, social button or consent banner — there is nothing to consent to.
• What the game keeps on this device (local storage, read only by the game): your kingdom save (gk_save_v1), onboarding/tutorial flags, your golfer look, a copy of any save that failed to load, and your Supabase sign-in session (random player id + token, plus your email if linked). All of it is strictly necessary to run the game you launched, which is why no consent is required under the EU/UK cookie rules.
• Outside services contacted: Supabase (our backend, United States); Vercel (hosting; standard server logs kept for a limited time); the App Store / Google Play for purchases. That is the whole list — the typefaces are bundled with the game, so no request leaves the device for type.
• Notifications are scheduled locally on your phone (a build finishing, a new daily or weekly event). No notification server, no device token, nothing sent to us. Switch off under ⚙️ Settings → Notifications or in your phone's settings.
• Clearing it: ⚙️ Settings → 🗑️ Delete account removes every key above and deletes your online account. In a browser, clearing site data for play.golf-kingdom.com removes the local copy; a linked kingdom comes back when you sign in.

Refund Policy (September 2026 · full text at golf-kingdom.com/refunds)
• What's sold: consumable jewel packs and the Monthly Pass premium track for the current month. No subscriptions, no auto-renewals. The browser version sells nothing.
• Delivery is immediate. Jewels land and the pass unlocks the moment the store confirms payment, so the purchase is complete then. In the EU/UK the 14-day right to cancel a digital purchase is used up when you agree to immediate delivery in the store's purchase sheet.
• Refunds come from the store, not us. We never see your card. Apple: reportaproblem.apple.com (or Settings → your name → Media & Purchases → Purchase History). Google Play: Order history → Request a refund within 48 hours; after that, email us the order number and we review it in the Play Console. If a store refunds a purchase, the items from it may be removed from your kingdom.
• We credit you ourselves when: a paid purchase never arrived (force-quit and reopen first — pending purchases are re-checked on launch; then email your creator name + the receipt to support@golf-kingdom.com), you were charged twice, or a bug stopped you using what you bought.
• Not refundable: jewels already spent and anything bought with them; a pass whose rewards were collected or whose season ended; coins, crowns, jewels or items earned or won (they were never bought and have no cash value); items lost by choosing Delete account — deleting your account forfeits every virtual item, purchased or earned.
• Minors: under-18s need a parent's permission; Ask to Buy and Play purchase approvals work normally. Unauthorised purchases by a child: ask the store for the refund, and tell us.
• Chargebacks: disputing a charge with your bank instead of the store may remove the items and, if repeated, close the account. Email us first — it's faster.
• Nothing here removes your rights under local consumer law.

Official Rules — Events (Daily, Weekly, Monthly Major, Design Challenge) (full text at golf-kingdom.com/rules)
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A purchase does not improve your chances of winning.
• Eligibility: players 18 or older in places where such contests are lawful. Void where prohibited. One account per person.
• How to enter: play the event round in the app during the event period. One ranked attempt per player per event (the Monthly Major is three 18-hole rounds, ranked on total strokes; the Design Challenge is one hole per day, ranked by votes).
• Winners: determined by lowest score (or most votes) among verified, unmodified rounds; ties share the tied prize slots. Rounds carry a receipt and may be re-checked before prizes are paid.
• Prizes: virtual currency (jewels, crowns, coins) and virtual items only, credited in-app. They have no cash value and cannot be exchanged for money. Claiming jewel prizes requires a linked account.
• Multiple accounts, automation, or tampering disqualify all related entries. The sponsor may cancel or modify an event if fraud or technical failure impairs it; decisions are final.
• Sponsor: the publisher of Golf Kingdom (see the About tab). Apple is not a sponsor of, and is not involved in, these events in any way.

Accessibility Statement (reviewed September 2026 · full text at golf-kingdom.com/accessibility)
• Where we stand: menus, settings, store, community and these pages are ordinary HTML and work with VoiceOver / TalkBack; the 3D course, the base view and the swing itself do not yet. We measure against WCAG 2.1 AA and partially conform.
• Settings that help (⚙️ Settings): Screen shake off · Haptics off · Sound off (nothing is conveyed by sound alone) · Hole fly-over off (straight to the tee) · Aim guide · Tutorial tips · Battery saver · Notifications off · 🎚 Swing tuning slows the windup and downswing. Your phone's Reduce Motion setting also removes card and menu animations and the camera shake.
• What works: real buttons with text labels, switches that announce on/off, taps anywhere on a settings row, colour never the only signal (scores as numbers and words, hazards differ in texture and shape), dark ink on parchment above the 4.5:1 contrast ratio, no deliberate flashing, no timed reading of cards or dialogs, playable offline.
• Known limits: the 3D scene has no text description; the swing is timed (no untimed mode yet); touch only — no keyboard or controller play, and the focus outline is missing on some controls in the browser; text size is fixed and pinch zoom is a camera gesture; the fly-over and base view have no text equivalent; no colour-blind palette option yet.
• Planned after launch, in order: focus outline on every control · untimed swing option · text description of each hole for screen readers · larger-text option · colour-blind check of the course palette.
• Tell us what's in your way: support@golf-kingdom.com with "Accessibility" in the subject — your device, your assistive tech, what happened. A blocking issue we can fix goes to the front of the queue.

About Golf Kingdom (business details · full page at golf-kingdom.com/about)
• Publisher: —
• Form and registration: —
• Registered address: —
• Responsible for content: —
• Contact (support · privacy · legal · press): support@golf-kingdom.com
• Websites: golf-kingdom.com · play.golf-kingdom.com
• The publisher above is the "Publisher" in the Terms, the data controller under the Privacy Policy, the sponsor of every event in the Official Rules, and the merchant shown by the App Store / Google Play. Golf Kingdom is an independent game made by one founder; bracketed details are completed on registration of the company, and until then the founder personally publishes the game and the same email reaches them.
• Stores: the iOS app is distributed by Apple through the App Store; the Android app, where available, by Google through Google Play. Apple Inc. and Google LLC are not sponsors of Golf Kingdom events and are not otherwise involved in the game.
• Version: — · Terms v2 · Privacy v3

Licences & credits (full text incl. the MIT licence at golf-kingdom.com/about)
• Open-source software, each under its own licence, reproduced with the software: three.js (© three.js authors, MIT) · Supabase JS client (© Supabase Inc., MIT) · Capacitor core, iOS, Android, App, Haptics, Keyboard, Local Notifications (© Ionic, MIT) · @capacitor-community/in-app-review (MIT) · cordova-plugin-purchase (© Jean-Christophe Hoelt and contributors, MIT) · qrcode-generator (© Kazuhiko Arase, MIT). Build tooling (Vite, TypeScript, Vitest, ESLint, Prettier) is not shipped in the app.
• Fonts: Nunito (Vernon Adams, Cyreal, Jacques Le Bailly) and Fredoka (Milena Brandão, Hafontia), SIL Open Font License 1.1, bundled with the app.
• Art, audio and text: buildings, characters, props, textures, icons, loading screens and the app icon are original works made for Golf Kingdom with generative image and 3D tools, finished by hand to the game's art bible — © the Publisher. Player-built courses belong to their creators (Terms §6). No real golfer, real course name or logo, or licensed footage appears in the game.
• Trademarks: Golf Kingdom and its icon are trademarks of the Publisher. Apple, App Store, iPhone and TestFlight are trademarks of Apple Inc.; Google Play and Android of Google LLC.
• Copyright complaints: support@golf-kingdom.com with the work, where it appears in the game, your contact details, a good-faith statement and a statement under penalty of perjury that you may act (Terms §15).