Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By downloading, installing or playing PupGrid: Puppy Sudoku("the App"), developed and operated by ShelNova Labs Ltd. ("ShelNova Labs", "we", "us", or "our"), you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, please do not install or play the App.

2. The App

PupGrid is a dog-themed logic puzzle. You place dogs on a grid following one-star Star Battle rules: one dog per row, column and region, and no two dogs touching, including diagonally. The App includes a campaign of levels, a daily puzzle, hints, and leaderboards. It is provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial entertainment.

3. Anonymous Play and Leaderboards

The App signs you in anonymously. You do not need an email address or an account. When you submit a score, your chosen display name and your scores are shown publicly. You agree that:

• your display name will not be offensive, hateful, sexual, threatening, impersonate another person or brand, or contain personal information;
• we may change or remove any display name or score that breaks these rules, and we may block a player who keeps doing so;
• you will not use cheats, modified apps, bots, or tools that alter scores or progress on the leaderboards.

4. Fair Play and Conduct

You agree not to:

• decompile, reverse engineer or extract the puzzles, code or artwork from the App, except where the law allows it;
• interfere with or disrupt the App, its servers, or the services it relies on;
• send requests designed to create fake scores, fake ad views, or fake hint rewards;
• use the App in any way that breaks the law or these Terms.

5. Hints and Virtual Items

PupGrid has hints (Think, Sniff and Fetch) and an extra life after a game over. A new player starts with five of each hint. When you run out of a hint, you can watch a short video to unlock one more.

• No monetary value: hints and lives have no cash value. They cannot be sold, exchanged or redeemed for money or goods.
• Not transferable: they belong to your install of the App and cannot be given to another player.
• We may change them: we can change the number of hints, the rewards, and how they are earned, to balance the game.

6. Advertising

PupGrid is free and supported by advertising from Google AdMob: banner ads, full-screen ads between some levels, and optional rewarded videos. You decide whether to watch a rewarded video. Do not click on ads in a way that is designed to generate clicks, and do not ask other people to do so. Our privacy policy explains how advertising works and how to change your choices.

7. Intellectual Property

All rights in PupGrid, including its software, puzzles, level designs, artwork, the Bosco the Corgi character, sound, the logo and the name "PupGrid", belong to ShelNova Labs Ltd. or its licensors. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to play the App on a device you own or control, for your own entertainment.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

PupGrid is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not promise the App will always be error-free, uninterrupted, or work on every device. Leaderboards, ads and updates depend on third-party services that we do not control.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, ShelNova Labs Ltd., its founders, directors, employees and partners are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, including lost progress, scores or data, arising from your use of, or inability to use, the App. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

10. Changes to the App and Terms

We may update, change or stop features of PupGrid, including levels, hints, leaderboards and ads. Where a change is needed for you to keep playing, we may ask you to update the App. We may also revise these Terms. The date above shows the latest version, and continued use after a change means you accept it.

11. Ending Use

You can stop using PupGrid at any time by uninstalling it. We may suspend or end access for anyone who breaks these Terms.

12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Kenya, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from them will be resolved in the competent courts of Nairobi, Kenya, without limiting any mandatory consumer rights you have where you live.

13. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact: