Gold Miner: Hook & Strike · Terms of Use

Terms of Use — Gold Miner: Hook & Strike

App: Gold Miner: Hook & Strike (com.lonkerostudio.goldminer)
Publisher: LonkeroStudio, established in Finland (European Union)
Contact: support@lonkerostudio.com
Last updated: 14 September 2026

Gold Miner: Hook & Strike is a free single-player arcade game for Android. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no purchases of any kind, and no way for one player to reach another. It is paid for by an optional rewarded video ad.

These terms are short because the app is simple. They are the agreement between you and LonkeroStudio for your use of the app.

LonkeroStudio is an EU trader, so EU consumer law applies to this agreement and these terms are written to sit inside it rather than around it. Where a term below would take away a protection the law gives you, the law wins and the term does not bind you — that is not a courtesy, it is Article 22 of Directive (EU) 2019/770 and Article 6 of Directive 93/13/EEC, and it is stated here so you do not have to take our word for anything.

This is not legal advice and no lawyer has reviewed it — see the note at the end.

1. Accepting these terms

By installing or playing Gold Miner: Hook & Strike you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not install it, or uninstall it — that is the whole of the remedy and it costs you nothing, because the app is free.

If you are under the age at which you can agree to terms like these where you live, a parent or guardian must agree on your behalf.

Google Play's own terms apply to the download and to any dealings you have with Google about it. Nothing here changes them.

2. This is a consumer contract, even though it is free

You pay no money for Gold Miner: Hook & Strike. You do, if you leave the ads or the statistics on, provide personal data. EU law treats that as a contract for the supply of digital content all the same. Article 3(1) of Directive (EU) 2019/770 applies the Directive

"where the trader supplies or undertakes to supply digital content or a digital service to the consumer, and the consumer provides or undertakes to provide personal data to the trader, except where the personal data provided by the consumer are exclusively processed by the trader for the purpose of supplying the digital content or digital service … and the trader does not process those data for any other purpose."

The advertising and the gameplay statistics are other purposes. So you get the conformity rights in section 10 and the remedies in section 11, and we do not pretend that "free" means "no obligations".

The privacy policy at docs/store/privacy-policy.md says exactly what data is involved, and it is switchable off from inside the game.

3. Your licence to play

LonkeroStudio grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play Gold Miner: Hook & Strike on devices you control, for as long as these terms are in force.

The app, its code and its art stay ours (and, for the third-party components inside it, their authors' — the inventory is in docs/legal/third-party-notices.md). You get permission to play, not ownership.

4. What you may do with recordings, screenshots and streams

A lot, and we have written it down separately. Video of you playing — on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, anywhere — including video you run ads on and make money from, is expressly permitted, with no fee, no permission request and no required credit. The grant, its limits, and our commitment to back you up if a video of yours is ever wrongly claimed, are in ASSETS_LICENSE.txt at the root of the project, which forms part of these terms.

5. What you may not do

Distribute, sell, rent or sublicense the app or a modified copy of it, or upload it to another store or download site.
Reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, except exactly so far as applicable law permits despite a term like this one — which in the EU includes the interoperability and error-correction rights in Directive 2009/24/EC.
Interfere with the advertising: automating, spoofing, faking or scripting ad views or rewards, clicking your own ads to generate revenue, or using an emulator farm or similar to do either. This is the one prohibition with a real victim — ad fraud is what gets a small developer's advertising account terminated.
Use the app to break the law, or to attack, disrupt or overload any service the app talks to.
Remove, obscure or alter any notice of ownership or licence in the app or its files.
Use "Gold Miner: Hook & Strike", "LonkeroStudio", the logo or the icon in a way that suggests we made, endorsed or are affiliated with something we did not.

6. Advertising

The game shows rewarded video ads only. They are never forced: one is offered after you lose a level, and watching it gives you extra seconds to retry. Ignoring it changes nothing about the game.

The ads are served by Google AdMob. We do not choose, write, review or control the individual ads you are shown, and showing one is not an endorsement of the advertiser or its product. Your dealings with an advertiser are between you and them.

What the ad SDK collects, what Google does with it, and how you limit or reset it is in the privacy policy.

If you are shown an ad that is illegal, deceptive or otherwise seriously wrong, tell us at the contact address — we can report it to Google, and we would like to.

7. Gameplay statistics

If gameplay statistics are switched on, the game sends five progression events — which level, which act, won or lost — to Google Analytics, so the difficulty can be balanced. You control this with the CONSENT row in the settings screen on the title screen. Where consent is required, it is off until you say yes. The detail, including what it carries and what it does not, is in the privacy policy.

8. Your saved game

Your progress is a file in the app's private storage on your device. We do not hold a copy and cannot restore one. Uninstalling the app deletes it. Android's own Auto Backup may keep a copy in your Google account if you have that switched on; that copy is yours, not ours, and we cannot read it.

There is no cloud save, no account recovery and no transfer between devices other than through Android's own backup. Save data can also be lost by a device fault, a factory reset or a storage problem.

9. Updates and changes to the game

We may update the game. Beyond what is needed to keep it working properly, we may also change it — add, alter or remove features and content — and the valid reasons we reserve for doing so are these, and only these:

keeping the game running on new Android versions, devices and screen sizes;
fixing faults, security problems and crashes;
balancing the difficulty and the economy, which is what the statistics exist for;
complying with a change in the law, in Google Play's requirements, or in the terms of a component the app depends on.

Any such change will be at no cost to you, and we will describe it in the release notes on the store listing. If a change would negatively affect how you access or use the game in more than a minor way, we will say so in advance and you may terminate these terms — uninstall the app — free of charge, unless we give you the option of keeping the unmodified version. That is the standard in Article 19 of Directive (EU) 2019/770, and we are stating it rather than reserving a free hand to change anything at any time.

We may also stop publishing the game altogether. A copy already installed keeps working until it does not.

10. Conformity — what the game is supposed to be

The game must be fit for the purpose a game of this kind is normally used for, come with the features and quality you can reasonably expect of it, and match what we say about it on the store listing and in the game. If it does not, that is our responsibility, not yours, and you do not lose that protection because you paid no money.

For a lack of conformity that becomes apparent within one year of supply, it is for us to show the game was in conformity when supplied, not for you to show it was not (Directive (EU) 2019/770, Art. 12(2)). Because the game is supplied continuously, we are responsible for conformity throughout the period we supply it.

Nothing in these terms shortens a time limit, adds a condition or imposes a formality that the law does not. A term that tried to would not bind you.

11. If the game is faulty — your remedies

Tell us at the contact address, with your device and what happened.

We fix it. You are entitled to have the game brought into conformity, free, within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience to you.
If we cannot or do not, you may terminate this agreement. Because you supply personal data rather than money, you may terminate even for a minor lack of conformity — the remedy of a price reduction does not exist where no price was paid, and EU law compensates for that by widening the right to terminate (Directive (EU) 2019/770, recital 67 and Art. 14).
On termination we stop processing your personal data except as we are required or permitted to keep processing it, and you stop using the game. The privacy policy explains what remains and for how long.

This section does not take away any other right you have under the law of your own country, including any right to compensation.

12. Liability

We are liable to you as the law makes us liable. In particular, and to be explicit about the things a form like this is usually used to smuggle away:

We do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury, for intent or gross negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
We do not exclude or limit your statutory consumer rights, including the conformity rights in sections 10 and 11 and any right to damages under your own national law.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law does allow, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit or revenue, or for lost save games — but note that a save game lost because the app was faulty is a conformity question under section 10, not something this sentence disposes of.

We do not promise the game will be available, compatible with every device, or free of every fault; we promise to deal with faults under sections 10 and 11.

13. Suspension and termination

You may end these terms at any moment by uninstalling the app.

We may end your licence if you seriously or repeatedly break section 5 — in practice, ad fraud or redistribution. Because the app has no accounts and no server, "ending the licence" means you must stop using it and uninstall it; there is nothing for us to switch off, and we will not do it without telling you why. Sections 5, 12 and 15 survive the end of these terms.

14. Changes to these terms

We may publish a revised version, and the "Last updated" date changes with it. The current version lives wherever the Play listing points. A change to these terms does not apply retrospectively to anything that happened before it, and it cannot take away a right the law gives you. If you do not accept a revised version, uninstall the app.

15. Governing law, and where a dispute goes

These terms are governed by Finnish law, and the courts of Finland have jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer, that clause cannot take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you habitually live (Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, "Rome I", Art. 6(2)), and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your own country. We will bring any proceedings against a consumer only in the consumer's own country.

Before any of that, please write to us. If we cannot settle it between us:

In Finland, you can take the dispute to the Consumer Disputes Board (kuluttajariitalautakunta, https://www.kuluttajariita.fi/en/), after contacting the Consumer Advisory Service.
Elsewhere in the EU, your national consumer ADR body, or the European Consumer Centre in your country — the ECC-Net directory is at https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/consumer-rights-and-complaints/resolve-your-consumer-complaint/european-consumer-centres-network-ecc-net_en. (The European Commission's old online dispute resolution platform closed on 20 July 2025 and is not an option; the ECCs replaced it for cross-border complaints.)

16. General

If a provision of these terms is unenforceable or not binding on you, the rest stays in force.
Not enforcing a term once does not waive it.
You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the app changes hands, and your rights are unaffected.
These terms, the privacy policy at docs/store/privacy-policy.md and ASSETS_LICENSE.txt are the whole agreement between us about the app.

17. Contact

LonkeroStudio, Finland — support@lonkerostudio.com

Not legal advice. This document was drafted against the app as it is built and against the primary sources snapshotted in docs/legal/sources/, by no lawyer. The sections most worth having reviewed by one are 9 (modification), 10 to 12 (conformity, remedies and liability) and 15 (governing law and the Finnish ADR route) — see the report accompanying this file.