These terms are the agreement between you and Kurkisoft Oy ("we", "us") for the apps, games and websites we publish ("the products"). They are written in plain language. If anything in them is unclear, email us at info@kurkisoft.com.
1. Who we are
Kurkisoft Oy
Business ID: 3498627-7
Riskutie 15 A, 00950 Helsinki, Finland
Email: info@kurkisoft.com
Web: kurkisoft.com
We are a trader within the meaning of EU consumer law. You have the consumer rights that Finnish and EU law give you, and nothing in these terms takes them away.
2. Which products these terms cover
These terms cover every product published by Kurkisoft Oy, including:
- ReliveIt Life Simulator, a mobile game for Android
- KurkiTutoring - Mastering IB Business Management ("KurkiTutoring"), a study website for IB Business Management at kurkitutoring.com
- any other products we publish in the future
Some sections apply only to certain products, and they say so. Where a product has extra terms of its own, those apply as well.
3. Accepting these terms
By installing, playing or using a product you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not install or use it.
Some products reach you through another company's platform, and that company's own terms also apply. ReliveIt Life Simulator is distributed through Google Play, so Google's terms apply to downloading it and to purchases made through Google Play. KurkiTutoring subscriptions are sold by Polar, so Polar's buyer terms also apply to buying one (see section 6). Where these terms and a platform's terms conflict, the platform's terms apply to your relationship with that platform, and these terms apply to your relationship with us.
Age. ReliveIt Life Simulator is meant for players aged 16 and over. If you are under 18, make sure a parent or guardian agrees to these terms before you make any purchase in the game.
KurkiTutoring is meant for students of the IB Diploma and their teachers. Students of any age may use it, but a KurkiTutoring subscription may only be bought by an adult:
- a student aged 18 or over, buying for themselves
- a parent or legal guardian, buying for a student
- a school, buying for its students and teachers
Students under 18 must not buy a subscription themselves. A parent or guardian who buys one for a student accepts these terms on the student's behalf and is responsible for the subscription and its payments.
4. Your licence to use the products
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use our products for your own entertainment or study, on devices you own or control. The products are licensed to you, not sold. We and our licensors keep all rights in the products, including their characters, text, questions, art, music, code and names.
Schools that we have given access to KurkiTutoring may let their own students and teachers use it, on the terms we agree with the school.
5. What you may not do
- Copy, modify, decompile or reverse-engineer a product, or make derivative works from it, beyond what the law expressly allows.
- Sell, rent, lend, publish or otherwise distribute a product or any part of it, for example by reposting notes, questions or model answers from KurkiTutoring elsewhere.
- Cheat, tamper with save files or purchases, or use tools that change how a product or its purchases work.
- Use our products' names, art or other material for your own products or services without our written permission. Sharing screenshots and videos of your play, including for streaming, is fine.
- Use a product in any way that breaks the law.
6. Prices, subscriptions and in-app purchases
KurkiTutoring has a free part, which is unit 1, the first section of units 2 to 5 and one practice exam paper. The full course needs a subscription.
- Who can buy. Only an adult, as described in section 3.
- Seller. Subscriptions are sold by Polar (polar.sh), which acts as the merchant of record, the legal seller. Polar takes the payment, handles VAT and receipts, and its buyer terms apply to the purchase. We never see your card or bank details.
- Price. The price is shown on the site and at checkout before you buy, including VAT where it applies.
- Free trial. A new subscription starts with a free trial, if one is shown at checkout. You are not charged if you cancel before the trial ends.
- Renewal. The subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, and you are charged for the next period, until it is cancelled.
- Cancelling. You can cancel at any time in Polar's customer portal, or by emailing us. Access continues until the end of the period already paid for, or until the end of the trial, and then the site returns to the free part.
- Your key and devices. After buying you receive a key by email. It unlocks the full course on up to 2 devices at a time. Each browser where the key is entered counts as one device. You can see your devices and remove ones you no longer use in Polar's customer portal, or by pressing "Remove the key from this browser" on the site. The key is for the buyer's household, or for the school that bought it. Sharing it publicly is not allowed, and a key that is shared publicly may be blocked.
- Refunds and withdrawal. Refunds are handled by Polar under its buyer terms. If you are a consumer in the EU, your legal rights, including any right of withdrawal and your rights if the content is faulty, are not affected.
Tutoring offered through KurkiTutoring's contact page is a separate service, arranged directly with you.
ReliveIt Life Simulator is free to download and contains optional purchases:
- Content unlocks, such as additional career storylines (the "Tree DLCs"), the "No Ads" option, "Back In Time" and the "Everything Bundle". These are one-off purchases, not subscriptions.
- Support us, a voluntary contribution that unlocks nothing. It can be bought more than once.
Prices are shown in the store before you buy and include VAT where it applies. All payments are made through the store's own payment system, such as Google Play Billing. We never see your card or bank details.
In the countries where Google Play sells on our behalf, Google is the seller of record for these purchases, and Google's refund policy applies. If you have a problem with a purchase, contact Google Play first. If Google cannot help, contact us and we will try to resolve it.
Purchases are tied to the store account you used to buy them. If you reinstall a product or change device, sign in with the same account and your purchases will be restored.
Digital content and your right of withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the EU, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a purchase of digital content. When you buy through the store you agree that the content is delivered immediately, and that you therefore lose this right of withdrawal once delivery has begun. This does not affect your right to a remedy if the content is faulty.
In-game money, items and progress have no real-world value, cannot be exchanged for money, and cannot be transferred to other players.
7. Advertising
KurkiTutoring shows no ads.
ReliveIt Life Simulator shows ads provided by Google AdMob. Some ads are optional. The game offers you an in-game reward for watching them, and you can always decline. Buying "No Ads" removes the ads that are not optional. The rewarded ads remain available for you to choose.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland the game asks for your consent before showing personalised ads. You can change your ad and statistics choices at any time in Options > Manage privacy options.
8. Saved progress
Our products store your saved games and progress on your own device. We do not keep copies on our servers, so we cannot recover progress that has been deleted, corrupted or lost when a device is replaced.
- In ReliveIt Life Simulator, uninstalling the game deletes your saves. Your purchases are not affected and can be restored as described in section 6.
- In KurkiTutoring, your progress is kept in your browser. Clearing your browser's data for the site, or using a different browser or device, starts you from the beginning. A subscription is not lost this way. Enter your key again to unlock the full course.
9. About the products' content
ReliveIt Life Simulator is a work of fiction and satire. It lets you play out a character's life, including bad decisions, crime, relationships, money, politics and death. Nothing in the game is advice, not financial, legal, medical or health advice, and not a guide to how anything works in real life. Any resemblance to real people, companies or events is coincidental or parody. Casino, lottery and betting in the game use in-game money only. No real money can be wagered or won. The game is rated for players aged 16 and over through the IARC rating system shown on Google Play.
KurkiTutoring is an independent study aid. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization, and it does not contain official IB papers or markschemes. The businesses, people and figures in its questions and case studies are fictional, and any resemblance to real ones is coincidental. Automatic marks and example answers are a guide to help you practise. They are not official marks and they do not guarantee any grade. Check your school's and the IB's own guidance for your course and exams.
10. Changes to the products
We update our products from time to time, and updates may change, add or remove features and content. We will not remove content you have paid for except where the law or a third party requires it. If that happens, we will offer a reasonable replacement or a refund for that content.
We may stop offering or supporting a product. If we do, we will give notice in the product or in its store listing where we reasonably can. Purchases made in the 12 months before a product is withdrawn will be refunded if you ask.
11. Privacy
How our products handle data is explained in our . Our products do not require an account with us and do not collect your name, email address or contacts, unless you choose to contact us or buy a KurkiTutoring subscription.
12. Faults, warranty and liability
If you are a consumer in the EU, you are entitled under law to digital content that works as described. If a product or content you have bought does not, you can ask us to fix it, and if we cannot fix it within a reasonable time, you can ask for a price reduction or a refund for that content.
Beyond what the law requires, the products are provided as they are. We do not promise that they will be free of bugs or errors, or available at all times, and we are not responsible for losses that we could not reasonably have foreseen, or that result from your own breach of these terms. Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death, personal injury, fraud, or anything else that the law does not allow us to limit.
13. Ending the agreement
You can end this agreement at any time by uninstalling a product or no longer using it. We may end it, or stop you from using a product, if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, for example by tampering with purchases or redistributing our content. If we end it for that reason you are not entitled to a refund, unless the law says otherwise.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms, for example when a product or the law changes, or when we publish a new product. The current version is always available here with its "Last updated" date. If a change is significant and affects your rights, we will tell you in the product or in its store listing before it takes effect. If you do not accept the new terms, stop using the product and, where the law provides, you can ask for a refund of content you can no longer use.
15. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of Finland. If you are a consumer living in another EU country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of that country.
If you have a complaint, contact us first and we will try to sort it out. If we cannot, consumers in Finland can contact the Consumer Advisory Service (kuluttajaneuvonta) or take the matter to the Consumer Disputes Board (kuluttajariita.fi). Consumers in other EU countries can use their national consumer bodies or the European Consumer Centres Network. You can also bring a claim in the courts of your home country.
16. Contact
Kurkisoft Oy
Email: info@kurkisoft.com