Terms of Use and Sale: Boop the Blob
The short version
- The game is free to play. Ads are optional and only play when you ask for a bonus.
- Your progress lives on your device. If you delete the app, it is gone, and so are gems and Goo Pass premium you bought. Non-consumable items (starter pack, ad-free bonuses) can be restored.
- Gems and other in-game items have no cash value. Nothing you buy with real money contains random items.
- Purchases are delivered right away. In the EU and UK, once delivery starts with your agreement, the 14-day withdrawal right no longer applies. Refunds are handled by Apple.
- New York law applies, and you keep every protection that the consumer law of your country gives you.
1. Who we are and what these terms cover
Boop the Blob (the "app") is a Pocket Gremlin game, published by Studio Power-Up LLC, a New York limited liability company (registered as "Studio PowerUp LLC"), 157 Post Avenue, Apt 305, Westbury, NY 11590, United States, Anastase@studio-powerup.com ("we", "us"). Pocket Gremlin is our games label. Full publisher details are in the publisher information below.
These terms apply when you download, play or buy anything in the app. They add to Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement and the App Store terms, which also apply. How we handle data is explained in our privacy policy.
If you are under 18, please read these terms with a parent or guardian, and ask them before buying anything.
2. Your licence to play
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial entertainment, in line with the App Store usage rules. You may not:
- copy, modify, resell or redistribute the app or its content;
- decompile or reverse engineer it, except where the law expressly allows it;
- use cheats, bots, modified versions or exploits, or interfere with the game's services or other players;
- buy, sell or trade in-game items or progress outside the app.
3. No account: your progress is stored on your device
The app has no account and no cloud save. Your progress and the items you own are stored only on your device. If you delete the app, reset your device, lose it or change phones, your progress cannot be recovered by us. Use the in-app "Reset progress" option only if you want to start again from zero.
4. Virtual items
The game uses virtual currencies and items, including goo, gems, stickers, skins, hats, boosts and Goo Pass rewards ("virtual items").
- Virtual items are part of your licence to use the app. They are not money, have no value outside the game, and cannot be exchanged for cash, transferred, sold or refunded, except where the law requires otherwise.
- Gems can be earned by playing or bought with real money. They are spent on boosts and other in-game items shown with a gem price.
- No paid random items: everything you buy with real money gives exactly what is shown. The rewards of the premium Goo Pass track are fixed and shown by name, tier by tier, before you buy.
- Free random rewards: stickers earned through free play (for example from golden goobers and pops) are chosen at random. A sticker you already own is converted into 1 gem.
- We may adjust the game for legitimate reasons, such as balancing, bug fixes, security or new content. We will not take away items you paid for, and any change will be made at no extra cost to you. If a change affects your access to paid content more than slightly, we will tell you in advance and you may have the rights described in section 7.
5. In-app purchases
5.1 How buying works
All purchases are made through Apple's App Store and charged to your Apple account. Apple processes the payment and collects any applicable taxes (such as VAT or sales tax); we never see your payment details. Prices are shown in the store in your local currency, including VAT where applicable, before you confirm. An approximate euro equivalent is shown next to items priced in gems.
5.2 What you can buy
| Product | Type | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Gem packs (80, 450, 1,000, 2,200 or 6,000 gems) | Consumable | The number of gems shown, added to your balance on this device |
| Starter pack | Non-consumable, once only | 300 gems, the Crown hat and 2 hours of double goo. Offered for 48 hours after your first pop |
| Ad-free bonuses | Non-consumable | Every â–¶ bonus is granted instantly without watching a video, plus the Top hat. Rewarded videos are the only ads in the game, so you will see no ads at all |
| Goo Pass premium | Consumable, one month | Unlocks the premium reward track of the Goo Pass for the current calendar month only. Its rewards are fixed and listed before you buy. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and does not renew. The season ends at the end of the month (device local time), so buying later in the month leaves less time to reach the tiers. Premium rewards you have not claimed when the season ends are lost |
5.3 Restoring purchases
Non-consumable products (starter pack, ad-free bonuses) can be restored on a new installation or another device signed in to the same Apple account, using Settings → Restore purchases. Consumable products (gem packs and Goo Pass premium) are used up when delivered: because progress is stored only on your device, they cannot be restored after you delete the app or change devices.
5.4 Refunds
Refund requests for App Store purchases are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. If a purchase did not arrive or something went wrong, write to us too: we will try to fix it.
6. Right of withdrawal (EU and UK consumers)
If you are a consumer living in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from an online purchase. For digital content that is not supplied on a physical medium, this right does not apply once delivery has begun if you expressly agreed to immediate delivery and acknowledged that you would lose the right to withdraw (Article 16(m) of EU Directive 2011/83/EU as implemented in your country; regulation 37 of the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013).
Everything sold in the app is delivered immediately after payment. When you buy, the app asks you to confirm that you want immediate delivery and that you lose your right of withdrawal once delivery has started. Apple sends you a receipt for each purchase by email.
7. Legal guarantees
If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, you benefit from the statutory conformity rights for digital content and services that apply where you live (EU Directive 2019/770 as implemented in your country, or the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015). If the app or something you bought does not work as described, contact us at Anastase@studio-powerup.com. You may be entitled to have it brought into conformity, or, failing that, to a price reduction or to end the contract and get a refund. These rights are in addition to any refund Apple may grant and cannot be excluded by these terms.
Consumers elsewhere, including in the United States, keep any warranty rights that their local law does not allow us to exclude.
8. Rewarded ads
Ads appear only when you choose to watch one for a bonus. The bonus is given when the ad finishes; if the ad fails to load or is closed early, no bonus is given and nothing is lost. The number of bonus ads per day is limited. Ads are provided by Google AdMob and limited to family-friendly (G-rated) content; their content comes from advertisers, not from us. If you see an inappropriate ad, tell us and we will report it. How ads use data is explained in the privacy policy.
9. Updates and availability
We may release updates to fix bugs, improve the game or comply with the law. Some fixes are downloaded automatically when the app starts (see the privacy policy). Some updates may be required to keep using online features. The core game works without an internet connection. If we ever decide to stop distributing the app, we will stop selling purchases first and give at least 30 days' notice in the app or on this site.
10. Warranty disclaimer and liability
We work hard to make the game fun and reliable, but we cannot promise it will be free of every bug or interruption. To the extent permitted by law, the app is provided "as is" and "as available", and we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for loss of progress caused by events outside our control (such as device failure or deleting the app), and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us through in-app purchases in the 12 months before the claim.
Nothing in these terms limits our liability where the law does not allow it, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or your statutory rights as a consumer. If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, the limits in this section apply only as far as your local law allows.
11. Intellectual property
The app, its name, characters, artwork, music, sounds and code belong to us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property law. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved. Third-party components are used under their own licences.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms, for example when we add features or when the law changes. We will publish the new version here with a new date, and tell you in the app if a change is significant. Changes do not apply retroactively to purchases you have already made.
13. Ending the agreement
You can stop at any time by deleting the app. We may suspend or end your licence if you seriously breach these terms (for example by cheating or reselling items), after notifying you where possible.
14. Applicable law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer living in another country or US state, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the law where you live, and nothing in these terms takes those rights away.
If you have a problem, please write to us first at Anastase@studio-powerup.com; we will do our best to sort it out. If we cannot resolve it, the state and federal courts located in Nassau County, New York have jurisdiction, but as a consumer you may also bring a claim before the courts of the place where you live, as your local law allows.
EU and UK consumers: we are not established in the EU or the UK and do not take part in an alternative dispute resolution scheme there. For free advice on a cross-border dispute, EU consumers can contact the European Consumer Centres Network (ECC-Net); UK consumers can contact Citizens Advice. For App Store payment issues, you can also use Apple's reportaproblem.apple.com.
15. Additional terms for the Apple App Store version
You and we acknowledge that:
- these terms are between you and us only, not with Apple, and we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content;
- your licence is limited to use on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store usage rules;
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app;
- if the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app (if any); to the extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app;
- we, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app or your use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer protection or privacy claims;
- if a third party claims that the app infringes its intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim;
- you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, once you accept them, may enforce them against you.
16. Publisher information
- Publisher: Studio Power-Up LLC (New York Department of State filing name: Studio PowerUp LLC), a New York limited liability company, publishing games under the Pocket Gremlin label
- Address: 157 Post Avenue, Apt 305, Westbury, NY 11590, United States
- Email: Anastase@studio-powerup.com
- Website: studio-powerup.com, hosted by GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States