Halcyon Terms of Service

1. Agreement and assent

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are between you and Myworkingmemory LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), for Halcyon, its product-specific pages, optional purchases, and related support (together, the "Services"). The Privacy Policy is a separate factual notice.

Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement ("Standard EULA") governs the license for an Apple-distributed copy of Halcyon unless a valid custom license is separately presented by Apple. These Terms supplement the Standard EULA and do not reduce rights that Apple terms or applicable law make non-waivable.

Where an App or purchase surface clearly presents these Terms and asks you to agree, selecting the acceptance control or completing that purchase manifests acceptance. Company does not rely on passive use or a footer link alone as proof of assent when applicable law requires affirmative acceptance.

Section 19 contains an agreement to arbitrate most disputes individually, a class-action waiver, and a jury-trial waiver. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days as explained there.

2. Eligibility and contracting party

You may use the Services if you are legally able to enter this agreement. If you are not old enough or otherwise able to form a binding contract where you live, a parent or legal guardian must review and accept these Terms as permitted by law. If you use the Services for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it.

"Company Parties" means Company and, only to the maximum extent allowed by law and applicable to the claim, its affiliates, members, managers, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, licensors, service providers, successors, and assigns. Your contract is with Company only. No individual becomes a party merely by working for Company, and nothing creates immunity for a person's own conduct where law does not allow it.

3. The core game and its limits

Halcyon is a local-first word game for iPhone and iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro where those versions are offered. Open Sky is an endless board with no clock, lives, or fail state. Passages add exact word-length objectives, a short completion, Crystal rewards, a continuing level ladder, a 30-level First Constellation beginner challenge, and three daily missions.

Crystals, threads, Moon Hold, the Lantern, figures, the Moon Jar, Passages, missions, palettes, onboarding, settings, and local product counters are game systems. The Lantern may reveal the length and first letter of a longer word already present or trace its tiles. It does not add a word or guarantee that you will recognize or choose it.

The bundled word list is a general word-game list. It may include uncommon words and omit words you expect, and it excludes categories such as proper nouns, abbreviations, and hyphenated expressions. Halcyon is a game, not an authoritative dictionary, language course, cognitive test, therapy, or health service.

Features depend on supported hardware, operating systems, Apple services, region, network access for Apple features, and continued platform availability. Company does not promise that a particular word, board, score, reward, price, platform, feature, or third-party service will remain available.

4. License and ownership

Subject to these Terms, the Standard EULA, and applicable Apple usage rules, Company grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use Halcyon for personal entertainment on Apple-branded devices you own or control.

The Services are licensed, not sold. Company and its licensors retain all rights not expressly granted, including rights in the software, source and object code, word-list arrangement, design, interfaces, artwork, animation, text, game systems, documentation, branding, and Company content.

Except where non-waivable law permits it, you may not copy, distribute, rent, lease, sell, sublicense, commercially exploit, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, derive source code from, scrape, crawl, automate, tamper with, bypass, or create an unauthorized derivative of the Services; evade purchase or entitlement verification; redistribute bundled data; introduce malware; interfere with the Services or Apple systems; or use Company marks or assets without permission.

5. Permanent purchases, Founder's Sky, and Apple billing

Where offered, First Light is one optional non-consumable in-app purchase. It permanently unlocks all eight current visual palettes and one complimentary Glimpse in each Halcyon night. A Halcyon night resets at 4 a.m. local time. An unused Glimpse does not accumulate. First Light does not buy Crystals, a word, Passage access, a score, or a Passage Ladder advantage. It is not a subscription and does not renew.

Constellation Collection is another optional non-consumable. It permanently unlocks the Moon Garden, The Fox, and Aurora Trail figure patterns. The Whale remains included free. A purchased pattern is not a completed picture; the user's words place every dot.

Apple's purchase sheet shows the controlling product name, localized price, currency, and tax treatment before you confirm. Apple processes payment through your Apple Account and controls receipts, Ask to Buy, refund requests, reversals, chargebacks, storefront rules, and Family Sharing. Company does not receive your full payment-card number, bank-account number, or Apple Account credentials and does not control Apple's refund decision.

Choose Restore permanent purchases while using the Apple Account that made an eligible purchase. Restoration restores a verified permanent entitlement where Apple and the product configuration allow it; it does not restore consumable Crystals, local words, Passage progress, settings, or other gameplay. A pending transaction is fulfilled only after Apple verifies it. A verified refund or revocation removes the permanent benefits supplied by that transaction, except that an independently verified Founder's Sky remains.

A customer whose original paid Halcyon acquisition is verified by Apple as predating the planned free update receives Founder's Sky, which includes First Light benefits without another charge. Eligibility depends on Apple's verified App transaction record. If Apple cannot resolve eligibility, Halcyon may withhold the First Light offer until verification succeeds.

Request a refund through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. Nothing in these Terms limits a refund or consumer right that cannot lawfully be waived.

6. Crystals

Crystals are local game credits earned through play or purchased in exact consumable packs. Earned and purchased Crystals use the same wallet. Purchased Crystals do not expire. Crystals are not deposits, stored value, money, currency, property, securities, or transferable assets. They have no cash value, cannot be redeemed, sold, transferred, pooled, or used outside Halcyon, and consumable balances are not restored by StoreKit.

Halcyon displays the Crystal cost and result before use: Glimpse shows a length and first letter, Trace lights the correct tiles without ordering them, Moon Hold preserves one otherwise broken valid thread, and a displayed sky or figure pattern may be unlocked permanently. These uses do not buy a word, Passage completion, score, or Game Center progress.

The Moon Jar accumulates bonus Crystals without removing Crystals from the wallet. Before an opening purchase begins, the App freezes and displays the exact amount that transaction will deliver. Halcyon also grants a small free variable Starfall bonus after each completed Passage and may spill part of the Moon Jar free on a full-moon night. It does not sell randomized rewards or loot boxes and has no subscription or advertising.

Company may change future earning rates, free rewards, costs, or game balance, subject to applicable law and paid-feature commitments. The App may correct duplicate, corrupted, fraudulent, refunded, reversed, or technically erroneous rewards or fulfillment records, subject to applicable law.

7. Apple Game Center

Game Center is an optional Apple service. Halcyon asks Apple to authenticate Game Center when the App starts. If authenticated, the App may submit your highest completed Passage and progress toward four achievements. Local play, rewards, and progress do not depend on successful Game Center authentication or submission.

Apple controls Game Center accounts, aliases, authentication, visibility, scores, achievements, retention, security, availability, privacy settings, and deletion. Company operates no Game Center server and does not promise that Apple will accept, display, preserve, restore, rank, or delete a submission in any particular way.

You may not falsify, manipulate, automate, replay, or tamper with scores, achievement progress, Game Center identity, purchase status, or Halcyon's local record. You may not use Game Center or the Services to deceive, harass, threaten, infringe, or violate Apple rules or law.

8. No Company account; local storage and backups

Halcyon does not require or provide a Company account, password, gameplay server, or Company cloud save. Your gameplay and settings are stored locally. Company cannot see, edit, recover, export, transfer, synchronize, or delete that record for you.

You are responsible for securing your device and Apple Account, managing device access and backup settings, and preserving anything that matters to you. Removing the App or its data may permanently delete local gameplay. Apple App Store and Game Center records are separate and follow Apple's policies.

9. Support content and feedback

You are responsible for material you choose to send Company in a support request and represent that you have the right to send it. Do not send passwords, payment credentials, regulated information, or another person's private material unless necessary and authorized.

If you submit suggestions, ideas, reviews, bug reports, or other feedback, you grant Company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use it for any lawful purpose without restriction, attribution, or compensation. This does not grant Company rights in local gameplay and does not restrict an honest consumer review.

10. Acceptable use

You may not use the Services to violate law or another person's rights; misrepresent identity, authority, payment, refund, progress, or affiliation; interfere with, overload, probe, attack, automate, or bypass the App or related systems; distribute malware; evade technical, entitlement, or safety controls; scrape or redistribute App content or word data; or help another person do so.

A material violation may result in restricted support, termination of the license rights Company controls, preservation of evidence, notice to Apple or authorities where appropriate, or lawful relief.

11. No professional advice or guaranteed outcome

Halcyon is entertainment. It is not medical, mental-health, therapeutic, clinical, diagnostic, educational, emergency, or other professional advice; is not a medical device; and does not diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, monitor, or mitigate a condition. Descriptions such as calm, quiet, or restful describe design, not a clinical benefit.

Words found, Crystals, threads, Passages, missions, achievements, and leaderboard position do not measure intelligence, vocabulary mastery, health, wellbeing, employability, or professional competence. Do not rely on Halcyon for an emergency, safety-critical decision, or professional judgment.

12. Third-party services

The Services may interact with or depend on Apple, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, the App Store, StoreKit, GameKit, Game Center, device settings, backups, network providers, email, website hosting, and links you choose to open. Those services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

Company Parties are not responsible for a third party's independent acts, omissions, outages, account decisions, rules, prices, refund decisions, privacy practices, compatibility changes, policy changes, or discontinuation, except where applicable law makes Company responsible.

13. Support, updates, suspension, and termination

Support is available at support@myworkingmemory.ai. Unless Company expressly sells a service level, it does not promise a response or resolution time.

Company may update, modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue the Services or a feature for product, security, legal, platform, or operational reasons, subject to applicable law and paid-feature commitments. Company may terminate license rights it controls for a material breach, fraud, abuse, security risk, legal requirement, platform action, or discontinuation. Sections that by nature should survive do survive.

14. Intellectual-property notices

Halcyon does not host a public gallery or user-to-user content. If you believe Company-controlled material infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property right, email support@myworkingmemory.ai with enough information to identify the work, the material, its location, your contact information, your good-faith basis, and your authority to act.

15. Warranty disclaimer

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." COMPANY PARTIES DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, SECURITY, AVAILABILITY, COMPATIBILITY, ERROR-FREE OPERATION, AND UNINTERRUPTED SERVICE.

COMPANY PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS, ACCEPT EVERY WORD, PRESERVE LOCAL GAMEPLAY OR GAME CENTER PROGRESS, RESTORE PURCHASE ACCESS, WORK ON EVERY DEVICE OR OPERATING SYSTEM, REMAIN AVAILABLE OR COMPATIBLE WITH APPLE SERVICES, OR BE FREE FROM DEFECTS, ERRORS, INTERRUPTIONS, LOSS, CORRUPTION, OR SECURITY INCIDENTS.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions. Those exclusions apply only to the extent permitted, and non-waivable rights remain.

16. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COMPANY PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GAMEPLAY, CRYSTALS, WORDS, PASSAGES, MISSIONS, PURCHASE ACCESS, ACHIEVEMENTS, OR STANDINGS; DEVICE FAILURE; BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; LOSS OF GOODWILL; COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES; OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COMPANY PARTIES' TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES, A PURCHASE, THESE TERMS, OR THE PRIVACY POLICY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR HALCYON AND ITS IN-APP PURCHASES DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS.

The exclusions and cap apply to every theory of liability and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not exclude or limit liability for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or a non-waivable right to the extent applicable law forbids limitation.

17. Third-party-claim indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Company Parties from a third party's claim, loss, liability, judgment, settlement, cost, or reasonable attorney fee arising from your unlawful or unauthorized use of the Services; your material breach of Sections 4, 7, 9, or 10; your violation of another person's rights; or your fraud, willful misconduct, or unlawful conduct.

This section does not require indemnity for a Company Party's own conduct to the extent prohibited by law. Company will give reasonably prompt notice, may control the defense and settlement, and may require reasonable cooperation. Company will not settle in a way that admits your personal wrongdoing or imposes a nonmonetary obligation on you without your consent, not to be unreasonably withheld.

18. Contract with the LLC only

Your agreement is with Myworkingmemory LLC only. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree not to bring a claim arising from the Services or these Terms against a Company member, manager, officer, employee, agent, contractor, or affiliate solely because of that person's role with Company. This does not waive a direct claim for a person's own tort, fraud, willful misconduct, or other liability that law does not permit to be waived.

19. Dispute resolution

19.1 Informal resolution

Before filing arbitration or litigation other than an eligible small-claims matter or permitted urgent provisional relief, the claimant must send an individualized Notice of Dispute to support@myworkingmemory.ai. Include the claimant's name, contact information, Halcyon, purchase platform or transaction identifier if available, the facts and legal basis, requested relief, and a good-faith calculation of claimed loss. The parties will confer individually and in good faith for 60 days after a complete notice is received. A limitations period is tolled during that period to the extent permitted by law.

19.2 Binding individual arbitration

Except for the matters in Section 19.4, you and Company agree that a dispute arising from or relating to the Services, these Terms, the Privacy Policy, a purchase, marketing, support, or the relationship will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules in effect when the demand is filed and, when applicable, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules then in effect. The Federal Arbitration Act governs. The rules are available at adr.org.

If AAA cannot or will not administer consistently with these Terms, the parties will seek a mutually acceptable administrator or a court will appoint one under 9 U.S.C. Section 5. One neutral arbitrator will decide the merits. Proceedings may occur by documents, telephone, video, or in the county where you reside unless the parties agree otherwise. Fees follow the applicable AAA rules and law. Company will not seek attorney fees from a consumer unless the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous or brought for an improper purpose under an applicable standard.

19.3 Formation and delegation

A court decides whether an arbitration agreement was formed, whether an opt-out was effective, and any issue applicable law requires a court to decide. After formation, the arbitrator decides other questions concerning interpretation, scope, applicability, validity, enforceability, waiver, and arbitrability.

19.4 Exceptions

Either party may bring an individual claim in an eligible small-claims court, seek temporary or preliminary relief in a court with jurisdiction to prevent imminent misuse, unauthorized access, infringement, or irreparable harm while arbitration proceeds, or bring a matter that applicable law does not permit to be arbitrated. This exception is mutual and does not waive arbitration of damages or other arbitrable claims.

19.5 Individual relief only

YOU AND COMPANY AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, JOINT, MASS, REPRESENTATIVE, OR PRIVATE-ATTORNEY-GENERAL PROCEEDING. AN ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD RELIEF ONLY TO THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY AND ONLY AS NEEDED TO RESOLVE THAT PARTY'S CLAIM, EXCEPT FOR PUBLIC INJUNCTIVE RELIEF THAT APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES TO REMAIN AVAILABLE.

An arbitrator may not combine different people's claims without all affected parties' written consent, except for administrative coordination expressly permitted by the AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules.

19.6 Coordinated filings

If demands meet the definition of a mass arbitration under the AAA rules then in effect, those Supplementary Rules apply. Each claimant must satisfy the individualized pre-dispute notice and AAA filing requirements. Nothing here creates a private batching, bellwether, or delay process inconsistent with mandatory law or the administrator's rules.

19.7 Arbitration opt-out

You may opt out of this arbitration section by emailing support@myworkingmemory.ai within 30 days after first accepting these Terms. Include your name, Halcyon, purchase platform or transaction identifier if available, and a clear opt-out statement. Company will not penalize a valid opt-out. Opting out affects only this arbitration section.

19.8 Jury-trial waiver

FOR A DISPUTE PROPERLY PROCEEDING IN COURT, YOU AND COMPANY KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVE A JURY TRIAL TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

19.9 Confidentiality

No blanket confidentiality duty applies. Confidentiality applies only where law, the applicable rules, or a specific protective order requires it.

19.10 Severability

If a part of this section is unenforceable, it will be severed and the remainder enforced, except that if the individual-relief requirement is unenforceable for a claim or remedy, that claim or remedy proceeds in court after arbitration of arbitrable issues to the extent permitted. Class arbitration is not authorized without express agreement.

20. Governing law and forum

The Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 19. Otherwise, Tennessee law governs without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that mandatory consumer law of your residence remains applicable when it cannot be waived. A dispute not subject to arbitration or small-claims court belongs in the state courts located in Davidson County, Tennessee, or the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, except where non-waivable law requires another forum.

21. Time limit to bring claims

To the maximum extent permitted by law, a claim arising from or relating to the Services, a purchase, Game Center use, these Terms, or the Privacy Policy must be filed within one year after the claimant knew or reasonably should have known the facts giving rise to it. This does not shorten a period that applicable law prohibits the parties from shortening, and tolling applies where required.

22. Export, sanctions, and legal compliance

You must comply with applicable export, sanctions, import, and trade laws. You represent that you are not barred from receiving the Services and will not use or export them for a prohibited purpose. The App is commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation; government users receive only the rights granted to other users under these Terms.

23. Electronic records and changes

You consent to receive agreements, disclosures, notices, receipts, and records electronically through an App, App Store, website, device, or email surface you use. You may retain or print these pages. Electronic form does not reduce a non-waivable right.

Company may update these Terms for legal, security, product, or operational reasons. Company will post the updated version and effective date and provide additional notice or obtain affirmative assent when a change materially alters the bargain and applicable law requires it. Changes do not retroactively create consent for an undisclosed data use or waive an accrued claim where law forbids it.

24. General terms

These Terms, the Standard EULA, the Privacy Policy, and the transaction terms shown by Apple form the applicable agreement concerning the Services. A specific transaction term controls for that transaction, the Privacy Policy controls the description of privacy practices, and non-waivable Apple or consumer terms control over a conflict.

You may not assign these Terms without Company's written consent. Company may assign them with a merger, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, or operation of law and otherwise with notice where required. An unenforceable provision is modified to the minimum extent needed or severed, and the rest continues, subject to Section 19. A waiver must be written and applies only to the stated instance.

Headings are for convenience. "Including" means "including without limitation." These Terms do not create employment, partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, franchise, or exclusive relationship. Provisions intended by their nature to survive termination do survive.

25. Contact

Myworkingmemory LLC
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Email: support@myworkingmemory.ai

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