AURUM · The Great Work
Terms
The whole agreement, in plain words.
Who we are
These terms are an agreement between you and STUDIO KIRILOV EOOD, the company that made AURUM. It is entered in the Bulgarian commercial register under company number (UIC) 208911968, and its seat is 96 Kostenski Vodopad Street, floor 6, flat 42, 1404 Sofia. On this page we means that company, and for anything in these terms the address is aurum@kirilov.studio.
The agreement
By installing or playing AURUM, or by using this website, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not play the game. The game is not directed at children under 13.
Your licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to play AURUM for your own private use on devices you own. The game and everything inside it, including its code, its art, its music, its names and its fiction, belong to us. You may not copy, sell, rent, decompile or extract any of it, and you may not use it outside the game, except where the law expressly allows you to.
Accounts
At first launch the game makes an anonymous account for the device, so progress can be held and returned. It asks for no name and no password. There is no sign-in, which means access to the account is access to the device. You may end it at any time. The steps live at account and data deletion, and what is kept is written in the privacy policy.
Purchases
Where the game sells anything, it is cosmetic: the look of a night, its sound, what the vessel wears, never an advantage. Purchases are made through Apple’s App Store or Google Play under their payment terms, and the price is shown before you confirm. Virtual items live inside the game: they have no value outside it and cannot be exchanged for money.
Digital content is delivered at once. European law gives you fourteen days to withdraw from a distance purchase, and for digital content that right falls away only where you expressly asked for delivery to begin immediately and acknowledged that asking costs you the right. The store takes you through that step and handles the refund, so a refund is asked of Apple or of Google rather than of us. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have.
Fair play
The Great Work is honest work. Do not cheat, automate play, exploit defects or interfere with the service. The game carries protections against this, and an account that breaks the work of everyone else may be suspended or closed.
Changes and availability
The game, its online features and these terms will evolve. Meaningful changes to the terms are announced in the game and appear on this page with a new effective date. Online features may be updated or, if it ever comes to that, retired. Whatever becomes of them, the account stays yours to end whenever you like, from inside the game, at account and data deletion.
For as long as the online features are provided, the game is kept in conformity with what these terms describe, and it gets the updates that conformity needs, security ones among them. If those features are ever retired, it is said in the game and on this page at least 90 days beforehand, which leaves time to use up anything already bought. On that date the cloud save is deleted, and what was bought stays on the device for as much of it as works with no server behind it. Nothing sold here is a subscription, so nothing goes on being charged.
If we part ways
You may leave at any time. The door is described under leaving. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms, and only ever after a judgement a person has actually made.
That judgement can be argued with. Write to us, a person reads it again, and where it was wrong the account comes back with everything that was bought under it.
Liability
The game is provided as it is, to the extent the law allows. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury, for anything caused deliberately or by gross negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Nothing in them touches your statutory rights as a consumer, including your right to digital content that matches what was described. Where these terms and those rights disagree, those rights win.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of Bulgaria. That choice cannot take from you the protection given by the law of the country you live in, wherever that law protects you more.
If something goes wrong
Write to us. One letter reaches a person who can act on it, and very nearly everything ends there. Say what happened and what you would like put right. The answer comes within one month.
How to reach us
One letter reaches a person: aurum@kirilov.studio.
What other people made
A few of the recorded instruments in AURUM were played by musicians outside this studio and are used under open licences. This is where we say so, and where we thank them.
The piano you hear in the game and on the soundtrack is the Salamander Grand Piano V3, recorded by Alexander Holm. He released it under a Creative Commons licence and then, in March 2022, placed it in the public domain, which is where it stands today: it asks nothing of anyone. We wrote the music, performed it with those recordings and mixed the result, so what you hear is our arrangement of his piano. We name him because a recording that good is a gift, and a gift is worth saying out loud.
The harp and the chimes come from the Versilian Community Sample Library, the strings from VSCO 2 Community Edition, both by Versilian Studios. The archtop guitar is Shinyguitar by D. Smolken, and the nylon guitar is the Spanish Classical Guitar of the FreePats project. All four are released under Creative Commons Zero and ask for nothing in return. We name them anyway, because good work deserves its name.
The lettering is Inter and Cormorant Garamond, with Noto Sans JP, Noto Sans KR, Noto Serif JP and Noto Serif KR for Japanese and Korean, all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
On Android the game links two of Google’s own libraries: the Play Billing Library, which takes a payment, and Firebase Cloud Messaging, which delivers a notification. Both are used under Google’s terms for those libraries.
Licences
The six typefaces travel inside the game under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and the licence asks that its text travel with them. Inter is copyright 2020 The Inter Project Authors. Cormorant Garamond is copyright 2015 the Cormorant Project Authors. Noto Sans JP and Noto Sans KR are copyright 2014-2021 Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/), with Reserved Font Name ‘Source’. Noto Serif JP and Noto Serif KR are copyright 2017-2024 Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/). The licence reads:
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