Agreement
These terms are an agreement between you and Aghogho Meyoron, trading as MLabs Games (“we”, “us”), the maker of the Corporate Politics game and the website at games.mlabs.ng/corporate-politics. By downloading the game or using the website, you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use them.
Corporate Politics is for people aged 13 and over. If you are under 13, please don’t play it.
Using the game
The game is proprietary software. All rights are reserved. We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to download and play the game on devices you own or control, for your own enjoyment. The game is free to play and shows ads (see our Privacy Policy).
You agree not to:
- copy, modify, resell, rent or redistribute the game, or publish modified or repackaged versions of it;
- reverse engineer, decompile, decode or extract anything from the game, including its text, situations, storylines, data and artwork, or try to get around the checks that protect it, such as the content encoding, the licence check or save signing;
- use the game’s content, in whole or in part, to build another product, dataset or service, including to train machine learning models;
- cheat in a way that affects other players, such as editing saves to post scores to Google Play Games leaderboards;
- use the game or website in a way that could harm us, other people, or our services.
The app store you download from (Google Play or the App Store) also has its own terms that apply to your download.
It is a game, and it is fiction
Corporate Politics simulates working life. Everything in it is made up: the companies, coworkers, bosses, industries, events and storylines are generated or invented. Any resemblance to real people or organisations is coincidental. The game is not gambling.
The game is entertainment, not advice. Nothing in it is career, legal, employment, HR or financial advice, even where it mentions reviews, salaries, raises, HR processes or workplace rules, which are simplified. If you face a real problem at work, speak to a qualified person or the services where you live.
Workplace themes
Corporate Politics includes workplace conflict, office politics, mild language, and references to harassment and discrimination as HR matters, handled plainly and never graphically. If something in the game affects you, please take a break and talk to someone you trust.
Virtual items have no value
Salaries, raises, bonuses, money, reputation, achievements and anything else you earn in the game are pretend. They have no real-world value, can’t be exchanged for money or anything real, and can’t be sold or transferred. They are part of the game and can change or reset.
Your saves
Your careers are saved on your phone only. We can’t restore them if you delete the game, lose your phone or clear its data, unless your phone’s own backup does. A save that has been edited outside the game is marked as such and earns no achievements. A game update may change how things work, and we try not to break saves, but we can’t promise that every save will survive every change.
Ads
The game shows ads from third parties, through Google AdMob. We don’t control what they advertise, and we’re not responsible for their content or for what you do after leaving the game through an ad.
Testing
While the game is in closed testing, it may be unfinished, unbalanced or buggy, and things may change or disappear between versions. Feedback you give as a tester helps us decide what ships. Please don’t publish material from test builds that we haven’t released publicly.
Updates and availability
We may update the game over the air to add content, fix problems or change features, and we may stop offering a feature or the game. We try to keep everything working, but we can’t promise the game or website will always be available or free of errors.
Ownership
The game, including its code, engine, text, situations, storylines, characters, names, data, artwork, logos, sound effects and design, is owned by Aghogho Meyoron (MLabs Games) and protected by copyright and other laws. “Corporate Politics”, its logo and “MLabs Games” are our trademarks. The lo-fi background music is original work by Yung MayR. Coworker faces use the Notionists style by Zoish via DiceBear (CC0) and the fonts are used under the SIL Open Font License. Nothing in these terms gives you ownership of any of it, only the right to play described above.
Suggestions and feedback
We love hearing from you. If you send us an idea or feedback, you agree that we may use it to improve or add to our games, for free and without owing you anything. Please don’t send us anything that belongs to someone else or that you want to keep confidential. How we handle your information is explained in our Privacy Policy.
No warranty
The game and website are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond those in these terms, including about fitness for a particular purpose.
Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for losses caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Our total liability to you for anything related to the game or website is limited to ₦10,000. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow us to limit, including your rights as a consumer where you live.
Ending these terms
You can stop using the game at any time by deleting it. If you break these terms, your right to use the game ends, and we may stop your access to our online services, such as the waitlist.
Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. If there’s a dispute, we’d like to sort it out together first, so please contact us. Otherwise, the courts of Nigeria will have jurisdiction, without taking away any rights you have under the consumer laws of the place where you live.
Changes
We may update these terms. If a change matters, we’ll update the date at the top and, where it makes sense, tell you in the game. Continuing to play after a change means you accept it.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Email corporate.politics@mlabs.ng.