Terms of service

Effective 25 July 2026 · Last updated 25 July 2026 · These terms form a binding agreement between you and BaruzoTech

1. The short version

Fort Wars is free. You get a personal licence to play it on devices you own. Don’t redistribute it, don’t pull it apart, don’t pretend you made it. We’ll do our best to keep it working, but it is a game, provided as it is, and our liability is limited. This summary is for orientation only. The numbered sections below are the actual agreement.

2. Accepting these terms

By downloading, installing, opening or playing Fort Wars (the “Game”), or by using www.fortwars.baruzotech.com(the “Site”), you agree to these Terms of Service (the “Terms”). If you do not agree, do not install the Game and do not use the Site.

Together with our Privacy Policy, these Terms are the entire agreement between you and BaruzoTech regarding the Game and the Site.

3. Who may use Fort Wars

The Game is suitable for all ages and contains no chat, no user-generated content, no advertising and no purchases. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Game with the involvement of a parent or guardian, and that parent or guardian accepts these Terms on your behalf.

You may not use the Game if you are barred from doing so under the laws of your country or of the United Arab Emirates, or if you are located in a country subject to a government embargo that would make distribution to you unlawful.

4. Your licence to the game

Subject to these Terms, BaruzoTech grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to download and use one copy of the Game, in object-code form, on devices that you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial entertainment.

Where you obtained the Game from the Apple App Store, this licence is further limited to use on Apple-branded products that you own or control, and as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the Game may be accessed by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing.

This is a licence, not a sale. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by BaruzoTech.

5. What you may not do

You agree not to, and not to help anyone else to:

• copy, redistribute, publish, sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense or otherwise make the Game available to anyone else, other than through the app store you obtained it from;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Game, except to the exact extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction;
• modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works of the Game, or repackage it into another application;
• tamper with saved progress, memory, timers or level data in order to falsify stars, par times or completion, or use cheats, bots, automation or modified clients;
• remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice in the Game or its art;
• use the Game or the Site to distribute malware, to attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system, or to interfere with anyone else’s use of either;
• use the Game’s name, logo or artwork to imply that we endorse your product, service or content;
• export or re-export the Game in violation of any applicable export control or sanctions law, or use it for any purpose prohibited by such laws, including the development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

Recording, streaming and making videos of your own play, including monetised videos on platforms such as YouTube or Twitch, is expressly permitted and encouraged, provided you do not present the Game as your own work.

6. Price, ads and purchases

The Game is free. It contains no advertising, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no loot boxes, no energy timers and no virtual currency that can be bought with money. The only currency in the Game is stars, which are earned by playing.

Because nothing is sold to you inside the Game, there is nothing for us to refund. If you were somehow charged for Fort Wars, that transaction was handled by Apple or Google and their refund processes apply; contact them, and tell us too, because it would mean something has gone badly wrong.

We reserve the right to change the Game’s business model in a future version. If we ever did, we would say so plainly before that version shipped, and it would not retroactively affect a version you had already installed.

7. Your progress and saves

Your progress is stored locally on your device, as described in the Privacy Policy. We do not hold a server-side copy, which means:

• your progress is private to you and cannot be leaked from our systems;
• deleting the Game deletes your progress, and we cannot restore it. Recovery depends entirely on your own device backups;
• progress does not automatically follow you to a different device.

Levels, stars and times are entertainment, not property. They have no monetary value, cannot be transferred or sold, and confer no rights.

8. Updates and availability

We may release updates, and your device may install them automatically depending on your settings. Updates may add, change or remove features. We may also, at our discretion, stop distributing the Game, discontinue support for older operating system versions, or withdraw it from a particular store or territory.

A copy of the Game already installed on your device will normally keep working offline after such a withdrawal, but we cannot guarantee that a future operating system update will not break it.

The Site is provided on an “as available” basis and may be interrupted for maintenance or for reasons outside our control.

9. Intellectual property

The Game and everything in it, from its code and level design, artwork, characters, buildings, music, sound effects, user interface, to the Fort Wars name and the Fort Wars logo, is owned by BaruzoTech or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws.

Nothing in these Terms transfers any of those rights to you. You may use screenshots and short clips of the Game for reviews, coverage, videos and social posts; a press kit with assets we are happy for you to use is at /press.

10. Feedback you send us

If you send us an idea, a bug report, a level suggestion or any other feedback, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable licence to use it in the Game or elsewhere without any obligation to you, and without any obligation to keep it confidential. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential or proprietary. We are grateful for the feedback either way.

11. App Store terms (Apple)

If you obtained the Game from the Apple App Store, the following applies and prevails over anything in these Terms that conflicts with it:

1. These Terms are between you and BaruzoTech only, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the Game or its content.
2. The licence granted to you in §4 is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the Game on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
3. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services for the Game. All support requests go to info@baruzotech.com.
4. In the event of any failure of the Game to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the Game to you, which for a free app is nothing. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Game, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty are our responsibility alone.
5. BaruzoTech, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the Game or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the Game fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
6. In the event of a third-party claim that the Game or your possession and use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, BaruzoTech, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
7. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

12. Google Play terms

If you obtained the Game from Google Play, your use is additionally subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. These Terms are between you and BaruzoTech only; Google is not a party to them and is not responsible for the Game. Support requests go to info@baruzotech.com, not to Google.

13. Privacy

Our handling of data is described in full in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms. In short: the Game collects nothing, stores your progress only on your own device, and makes no network calls during play.

14. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Game and the Site are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Game will be uninterrupted, error-free, free of harmful components, or compatible with every device or operating system version, nor that any defect will be corrected.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits any non-waivable statutory rights you have as a consumer.

15. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, BaruzoTech and its officers, employees and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or lost progress, arising out of or relating to the Game, the Site or these Terms, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Game, the Site or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Game, which is zero, or (b) US$50.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

16. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless BaruzoTech from any claim, demand, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Game or the Site, or your violation of any law or of the rights of a third party.

17. Termination

These Terms apply for as long as you use the Game. Your licence terminates automatically if you breach any of its terms, and we may suspend or terminate it if we reasonably believe you have done so or that continued use would expose us or others to legal risk.

You may end this agreement at any time by deleting the Game from your devices. Sections 9, 10 and 14 through 20 survive termination.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates, without regard to its conflict of law rules. You and BaruzoTech agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Dubai, United Arab Emirates for any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Before starting any formal proceedings, please email info@baruzotech.com. Almost everything is faster to resolve that way.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms, for example to reflect a new feature or a change in the law. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date at the top of this page, and for material changes we will describe what changed. Continuing to use the Game after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms; if you do not, delete the Game.

20. General terms

• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and the unenforceable provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, on notice to you.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Game and the Site, and supersede any prior understanding.
• Language. These Terms are drafted in English. Any translation is provided for convenience, and the English version governs.

21. Contact

BaruzoTech
info@baruzotech.com
baruzotech.com

See also our Privacy Policy and Support page.