Terms of Service

Draft — not legal advice; have a lawyer review before launch. Items in [square brackets] are placeholders the operator must fill in or confirm.

Domain Guardian II (the "Game") is operated through sunmew.com (the "Operator", "we", "us"). Last updated: [date of publication].

By playing the Game, creating an account, or otherwise using the site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Game.

1. Who may play

• You must be at least 13 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not create an account or play with a login. If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 13, we will delete it.
• If you live in the European Economic Area, the UK, or another place where the age of digital consent is higher than 13 (up to 16), you must have permission from a parent or guardian where your local law requires it. We may ask for proof of that permission.
• You may play as a guest without an account. Guests can play all story content but cannot appear on leaderboards, claim welcome packs, or use the lottery (see sections 6 and 7).

2. Your account

• You can sign in with Google, email and password (email verification is required), an email sign-in link, Microsoft, or GitHub. Sign-in is provided by Google Firebase Authentication. We do not see your password.
• Keep your login secure. You are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us at support@sunmew.com if you think it was taken over.
• One person, one account. Do not create accounts to get around a ban, a limit, or a one-time reward (for example the welcome pack).
• Display names must not be offensive, impersonate others, or advertise anything. We may rename or hide names that break this rule.

3. Virtual items and "chips"

• Chips, cosmetic items (skins, commander outfits), tickets, shards, season-pass progress, and any other in-game items are virtual items with no cash value.
• We do not currently sell anything for real money. Chips cannot be bought with money, sold, traded, transferred between accounts, or exchanged for cash or anything of real-world value. If we ever add real-money purchases, we will update these Terms first and ask for your agreement, and will keep chips used for lotteries separate from anything bought with money.
• Virtual items are licensed to you for personal use inside the Game. You do not own them. They can be changed, rebalanced, or removed (for example, if a bug made them too easy to get). Where we remove an item that you paid for with in-game chips because of our own change, we will try to give you equivalent value.
• The server is the source of truth. Balances, progress, entitlements and bans are kept on our servers. Changing local data on your device does not change your real balance. Progress made offline is marked "pending" and only counts after the server checks it.
• Some temporary equipment items expire (for example after 7 days). The Game shows the expiry.

4. Advertising and rewarded ads

• The Game shows ads served by Google (AdSense / H5 Games Ads). Rewarded ads are optional: you choose to watch one in exchange for a reward such as a few chips, a supply drop, a level-score bonus, a speed unlock for one level, or progress on the season pass.
• Watching ads only saves time. Anything you can get from an ad you can also get by playing more, without watching.
• A reward is granted only after the server has confirmed the ad was watched for the minimum time. If an ad fails to load or you close it early, no reward is given. We may limit how many ad rewards you can claim per day.
• In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland we ask for your consent (through a consent management platform) before personalized ads and before analytics. If you decline, you may only see non-personalized ads, or no ads. Without ads you may not be able to earn ad-based rewards. You can change your choice at any time in Settings.
• Ad-free status. The Operator may switch on ad-free status for specific accounts, with or without an end date. It is stored on the server and can be removed at any time. Ad-free accounts do not see interstitial ads; rewards from rewarded ads are granted without watching, still subject to the daily limits.
• Do not click on ads in bad faith, use bots to watch ads, or ask others to do so. That can get your rewards removed and your account banned, and is against Google's policies.

5. Leaderboards, anti-cheat, bans and appeals

• Leaderboards are open only to signed-in players. Your display name and score are public.
• To keep rankings fair we record the data needed to verify a run: the server-issued random seed, your list of actions, timing, and a fingerprint of the game code version. New scores may show "under review" and only enter the public top 100 after the server has replayed and verified them. Seasons last about 8 weeks. Main-campaign and endless boards reset each season, and old boards are archived. Equipment bonuses and ad-based supplies do not count on ranked boards.
• You must not: modify the game or its network traffic, use bots or scripts to play or to watch ads, exploit bugs for gain, trade or sell accounts, operate multiple accounts to farm rewards, or help others do any of this. Please report bugs instead (see section 12).
• Our systems give each account a suspicion score. Enforcement is in steps, depending on severity and history: 1 watch only, 2 hide scores, 3 removal from leaderboards, 4 temporary ban, 5 permanent ban. From step 3 a human reviews the case. We may also remove scores, rewards or items obtained by cheating. Several accounts on one IP address are only a clue and do not cause an automatic ban.
• Appeals. If you think a decision is wrong, email support@sunmew.com from the address of your account (or give your account name) with your explanation. We aim to answer within [30] days. We will tell you the reason for a ban in general terms; we may not reveal exact detection methods.

6. Welcome pack and daily rewards

• A free welcome pack (chips, a cosmetic, lottery tickets; the amounts are shown in the Game) can be claimed once per person by signed-in, non-guest accounts. A guest who later signs in counts as the same person for this purpose, and so does an account that is deleted and created again with the same email address (we keep a one-way coded marker for this; see the Privacy Policy). Where the lottery is switched off for your country, the pack gives cosmetic shards instead of tickets. Email/password accounts must verify their address first.
• Daily features (missions, check-ins, ad-reward limits, ticket purchase limits) reset at 00:00 UTC.

7. Lottery

• The lottery is a game feature that uses only in-game chips. Tickets are bought with chips you earned in the Game. No money, and nothing that can be bought with money, can be used to enter, and prizes are virtual items only with no cash value.
• Prizes and their probabilities are published inside the Game. Draws are done by our server and recorded in a ledger. The average return is designed to be below 100% of chips spent, and there is a pity (guaranteed) mechanism, both as described in the Game.
• Limits: at most 5 tickets bought per day (resets 00:00 UTC); a purchased ticket expires 24 hours after purchase and an expired ticket is not refunded. Tickets you are given (welcome pack, support) expire after the time shown in the Game.
• You can see your own tickets and draw results in the Game ("My records"). Admins can see all records to fix errors and handle support requests.
• Guests cannot use the lottery. The lottery may be switched off for specific countries; where it is, the interface is hidden and the server refuses requests. The country list is kept by the Operator and is currently [empty / list]. You are responsible for following your local law.
• If a draw fails after a ticket was taken, the system gives the ticket back automatically (as a new ticket with a fresh expiry time), and we can add a ticket manually after checking the records.
• Cosmetic shards can be earned in the Game or bought with chips at a higher price, and turned into some cosmetics. Lottery-exclusive cosmetics cannot be bought or made from shards. Shards and cosmetics have no cash value.
• The Operator may change the prizes, rates and limits, with the new numbers shown in the Game.

8. Your content and license

You keep rights to anything you make. By choosing a display name or sharing a score image, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to show it in the Game and in places connected with it (for example leaderboards and share cards you create) for as long as you keep it there.

9. Our rights

The Game, its code, art, music, and text belong to the Operator or its licensors and are protected by law. You may play it, but you may not copy, resell, reverse engineer (except where the law allows it), or build on it commercially without permission. Third-party open-source components remain under their own licenses.

10. Availability, changes and ending the service

The Game is provided "as is". We may change, pause, or shut down features at any time, for example for maintenance or to fix balance or security problems. If we end the whole service we will try to give notice. You may stop playing at any time and can delete your account (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms.

11. Disclaimer and limit of liability

[Lawyer to confirm for the governing jurisdiction.] To the extent allowed by law, the Game is provided without warranties of any kind, and the Operator is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for loss of virtual items, progress, or data. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law (including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud), or your rights as a consumer under mandatory law.

12. Reporting vulnerabilities

If you find a security problem, please email security@sunmew.com with details and steps to reproduce. Please:

• give us reasonable time to fix it before telling others;
• do not access, change or delete other people's data, and do not disrupt the service;
• do not use the issue to gain rewards.

We will not take legal action against good-faith research that follows these rules. We cannot promise payment. A machine-readable contact is at /.well-known/security.txt.

13. Contact

General help, deletion, export and appeals: support@sunmew.com. Security: security@sunmew.com.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For important changes we will tell you in the Game or by email before they apply. If you continue to play after the date shown, you accept the new Terms. If you do not agree, stop playing and delete your account.

15. Governing law and disputes

[Placeholder — to be set with a lawyer: governing law, courts or arbitration, and the Operator's legal entity and registered address. Mandatory consumer rights in your country of residence are not affected.]