Emberpaw is in development. This page describes the game as built for testing in October 2026 and will be updated before launch. Questions: support@vibecoredigital.com.

Terms of Service for Emberpaw (Android)

Effective Date: October 2, 2026  ·  Last Updated: October 2, 2026

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1. Acceptance

By downloading or playing Emberpaw (the “Game”), developed by VibeDeV and published by VIBECORE DIGITAL (“we”, “us”, “our”), you agree to these Terms of Service and to the rules of play in section 11. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information. If you do not agree, please do not use the Game. This page covers the Android version from Google Play. The same game is published on the App Store and has its own Terms.

2. Who can play

• The Game asks for your year of birth once and adapts features to your age (chat, ads, spending limits). Please answer honestly.
• If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms for you and is responsible for purchases made on the account. Google Play’s parental controls (Family Link, purchase approval) also apply.
• Colony chat and free-text names are available only to players 13 and older.

3. Your account

• The Game creates an account for you automatically, identified by a random Player ID (Settings → Account). Your village is saved to our servers so it survives a lost or replaced device. Please note your Player ID: it is how we find your account if you contact us.
• Accounts are personal. You may not sell, trade, rent, share or transfer your account or anything in it, or buy them from others.
• You can stop playing at any time and ask us to delete your account (how to delete your account).

4. License

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to download and play the Game for personal, non-commercial entertainment on devices you own or control, under these Terms and the Google Play Terms of Service. We and our licensors own the Game, including its characters, art, music, text and code. You may not copy, modify, decompile or reverse engineer the Game (except where the law allows it), distribute it, or use it to build a competing product. You are welcome to share screenshots and videos of your gameplay for non-commercial purposes.

5. Embers and other virtual items

• Embers are the Game’s only premium currency. You can earn them by playing or buy them in packs through Google Play. Wherever something costs Embers, the Game also shows an approximate price in your local currency.
• Embers, coins, resources, heroes, gear, cosmetics and every other virtual item are a limited license to use content in the Game. They are not your property, have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for real money or goods, cannot be sent to other players or used outside the Game, and are not refundable except where the law or Google Play’s policies require it.
• We do not operate or allow any outside market for Emberpaw items or accounts. Buying or selling them anywhere else breaks these Terms.
• We may change, rebalance or retire virtual items as we update the Game, but we will not take away paid content you already own without a fair replacement or remedy.

6. Purchases

• Purchases are made through Google Play and are also subject to Google Play’s terms. We never receive your payment details.
• Every product shows its fixed contents and price before you buy. The same product costs the same for everyone in the same store and country.
• We deliver a purchase once Google confirms it and our server verifies it. If something you paid for did not arrive, contact us with the Google Play order number; we never keep money without delivering the goods.
• Use Restore purchases in the Game to recover permanent items and subscriptions on a new device.
• Refunds are handled by Google under Google Play’s refund policy. If a purchase is refunded, we remove what it delivered. If its Embers were already spent, the shortfall is carried as an Ember debt that blocks Ember spending until it is repaid from Embers you earn; we never remove heroes, levels or unrelated progress because of a refund.
• Players under 18 have monthly spending limits that our server enforces (see the Privacy Policy, section 5).
• In the EU and UK, by buying digital content that is delivered immediately you agree that delivery starts at once and that you lose the 14-day withdrawal right once it does (Google Play shows this consent). Your rights for faulty digital content are not affected.

7. Lanterns are free, and we never sell random items

• No product we sell contains random contents. No pack, bundle, pass, subscription, colony gift or Ember purchase includes Lanterns or any other random reward, and nothing you can buy can be turned into Lanterns.
• Lanterns are free. You earn them only by playing, and each one finds a hero or hero shards at random. Lanterns are never sold.
• Even though Lanterns cannot be bought, the Game shows their exact odds and the guarantee counters at the Lantern Shrine. Draws are made on our server against those published odds.
• In some countries Lanterns may be replaced with fixed rewards to follow local rules.

8. Warmth Club subscription (auto-renewing)

• Warmth Club is an optional monthly subscription: US$6.99 per month in the US; your local price, including any tax, is shown by Google Play before you confirm. The current perks (for example daily Embers you claim in the Club panel, reward videos granted without watching, and convenience features) are listed on the Warmth Club panel before you subscribe. Warmth Club never includes Lanterns, stat boosts or build-timer reductions.
• Payment is charged to your Google Play account when you confirm the purchase.
• The subscription renews automatically every month at the then-current price unless you cancel before the renewal date. Google Play charges the renewal at the start of each new period. If the price changes, Google Play tells you in advance and, where required, asks for your agreement.
• How to cancel: Google Play → your profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Emberpaw → Cancel, or the Manage subscription link on the Warmth Club panel. You keep the perks until the end of the period you paid for. Embers and items you already received stay yours.
• Uninstalling the Game or deleting your Emberpaw account does not cancel the subscription. Cancel it in Google Play.
• There is no free trial. Refunds for subscriptions are handled by Google.

9. Seasons, passes and time-limited items

Hearth Pass and other season or event products apply to the season or event they are bought for, as their product card says. Countdowns in the Game show the real end of a season, event or sale window. Premium rewards for pass tiers you already reached are granted when you buy the pass.

10. Ads

The Game shows only optional reward videos, served by Google AdMob, which you choose to watch for a stated reward. There are no banner or forced full-screen ads. How ad data is handled is described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Rules of play and community rules (chat, names and colonies)

Colonies, chat, friends, Friendly Challenges and Showcase contests are shared spaces. You agree not to:

• harass, bully, threaten or insult anyone, or encourage self-harm;
• post hateful content or slurs about race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or similar traits;
• post sexual content, or anything that sexualises minors (we report this to the authorities);
• share your own or anyone else’s personal information (real name, address, phone number, school, social accounts, photos), ask others for it, or try to move younger players to other apps;
• post dangerous or illegal content, scams or phishing, spam or advertising, or offer to sell accounts, items or “cheap Embers” outside the official store;
• impersonate VIBECORE DIGITAL staff, moderators or other players;
• use offensive player or colony names;
• cheat: use bots, exploits, modified clients, save editing, clock manipulation or other tools that give an unfair advantage, or interfere with our servers or other players.

Reporting and blocking. You can report any chat message, player name or colony name, and block any player, from the Game. Chat is filtered automatically (strictly for players 13 to 15), links are blocked, and messages that several players report are hidden until a moderator reviews them.

Your content. You keep any rights you have in what you write (names, colony descriptions, chat messages) and give us a worldwide, royalty-free license to host, show, filter and moderate it in the Game for as long as we operate it.

12. Suspension and termination

• If you break these Terms we may, in proportion to what happened: remove content, reset a name, warn you, mute chat, remove you from a colony, reset progress or items obtained unfairly, or suspend or close your account. Automated filters may hide content instantly; account actions are decided or reviewed by a person.
• When we act against your account we will tell you why and how to appeal, where the law requires it. You can also appeal by emailing support@vibecoredigital.com.
• You may stop playing at any time and ask us to delete your account. Unused Embers and items are lost when an account is deleted or closed for a serious breach, except where the law requires otherwise.

13. Online features, updates and ending the Game

• The Game needs an internet connection for cloud save, purchases, colonies, chat, events and leaderboards.
• We update the Game to fix problems, add content and keep it balanced. Updates can change features, items or rules.
• If we ever decide to shut the Game down, we will give at least 60 days’ notice in the Game and on our website, and we will stop selling Embers and other purchases at least 60 days before the servers close. Refunds for unused content follow the law and Google Play’s policies.

14. Intellectual property

Emberpaw, Mochi and every other character, the artwork, music and sound, text and related trademarks are owned by VibeDeV and VIBECORE DIGITAL or their licensors and are protected by law. Your license does not transfer any of these rights to you.

15. Google

Google is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the Game. Your use of Google Play, including purchases made through it, is also governed by the Google Play Terms of Service.

16. Disclaimer

To the extent the law allows, the Game is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any item, event or feature will stay available. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be limited by contract.

17. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of the Game, including lost progress or lost virtual items, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. This does not limit liability that cannot be limited by law (for example for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence).

18. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the applicable laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory laws, or your right to go to the courts, of the country where you live.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For important changes we will tell you in the Game before they take effect. If you keep playing after that date, the updated Terms apply; if you do not agree, you can stop playing and delete your account.

By playing Emberpaw, you agree to these Terms of Service.