Terms of Use

App: Bootstrapped: Startup Tycoon

Last updated: 4 November 2026

1. Provider and scope

These terms apply to the use of the game Bootstrapped: Startup Tycoon ("Bootstrapped"). The provider is:

If you download the game from the App Store, Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to your licence to the app: www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula. These terms supplement it.

2. What Bootstrapped offers

Bootstrapped is a business game in which you build a startup. It is free and fully playable without any purchase. Ads appear only as voluntary rewarded videos: you start them yourself by tapping and then receive the reward shown. The game has no user accounts. Bootstrapped is made for players aged 13 and over. If you are not yet of age, you need the consent of a parent or guardian to make purchases.

3. One-time purchases

Bootstrapped offers optional packs as one-time purchases. None of them is a subscription; nothing renews and nothing is charged again later. What a pack contains is shown on its page in the Shop before you buy.

• Founder Pack: extra industries and products, an exclusive style, several companies at once and more progress while you are away.
• Style pack: more app styles, purely cosmetic.
• Creative Pack: a sandbox with your own starting values and switchable events; these runs do not count for the leaderboard or achievements.
• Bonuses without ads: every bonus that would otherwise need a rewarded video, without the video.
• Complete Bundle: all packs together. If you already own at least one pack, you are offered "Everything Else" with the packs you are still missing instead.

You see the price before buying, in the game and in the store's purchase dialog. Your contract partner for purchase and payment is Google (Google Play) or Apple (App Store); payment and refunds follow their terms. Your statutory rights as a consumer, including the right of withdrawal, remain unaffected. If a purchase is refunded, the game locks the pack again on the next launch.

A purchase belongs to your Google or Apple account. On a new device or after reinstalling, get it back in the settings with "Restore purchase".

4. Your progress

Your save is stored on your device. On Android you can choose to back it up through Google Play Games ("Back up your game" in the settings). Without that backup we can neither view nor restore a lost save; purchases can be restored as described above.

5. Leaderboard and names

The leaderboard is voluntary. If you take part, you choose a name that all other players can see. Please do not use your real name. Names are not allowed if they:

• insult, threaten, discriminate against or spread hatred,
• contain sexual, violence-glorifying or extremist content,
• impersonate another person, us or a brand, or contain other people's data,
• advertise, point to websites or otherwise break the law.

A filter checks every name when you enter it. You may not get around the filter, manipulate results or use the game by automated means.

6. Reporting, moderation and point of contact

You can report any name on the leaderboard with "Report name"; it is then hidden for you right away. If several players report the same name, nobody sees it any more and "Player 1234" appears in its place; rank and time stay. You can also send reports by email to support@gamificationlp.com. We review reports and may replace names, remove entries or exclude players from the leaderboard if they break these terms or the law. When we take action and can reach you, we give the reason.

The single point of contact for users and for authorities under the Digital Services Act is support@gamificationlp.com. You can reach us in German and English.

7. Rights of use

The game, its graphics and texts are protected by copyright. You may play Bootstrapped for yourself. You may not copy, redistribute or modify the game, technically get around purchases or rewarded videos, or use parts of it in your own products.

8. Availability and changes to the game

We keep developing Bootstrapped and may change its content, balance and features as long as the core of a purchased pack stays. The leaderboard and rewarded videos depend on third-party services; we aim for uninterrupted operation but cannot promise it.

9. Liability

We are liable under the statutory provisions for intent and gross negligence and for personal injury. For slight negligence we are liable only for personal injury. Your statutory warranty rights remain unaffected.

10. Contact

We answer questions about the game or a purchase at support@gamificationlp.com, in German and English.

11. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we publish the new version on this page. Changes that materially restrict your rights from a purchase you have already made apply only with your consent.

12. Governing law and jurisdiction

Austrian law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the conflict-of-law rules. As a consumer you keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of the country where you habitually reside. Claims against consumers are subject to the statutory place of jurisdiction.

General information on consumer dispute resolution is available at consumer-redress.ec.europa.eu.

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