Terms of service

Last updated: September 10, 2026.

These terms apply when you create a Kickstart developer account or register an app with a Kickstart service operated by Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd. Rules specific to Kickstart Exchange apply only when you use Kickstart Exchange. Where you and Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd agree separate written terms for a specific feature, those terms prevail over these for that feature.

The service

Kickstart Exchange is a free service for independent developers to promote one another’s apps, operated by Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd. Participation may earn points used to promote your own apps. Points have no cash value and cannot be sold, transferred, withdrawn, or redeemed.

Kickstart Exchange may be unavailable or return no ad. Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd does not promise any particular result.

Your apps

You may register only an app that you own or are authorized to represent. Each app can be registered with only one account at a time, and each App Store developer’s apps can be linked to only one account.

To participate in Kickstart Exchange, you must confirm that the app is not marked as Made for Kids in App Store Connect, verify control through the app’s listed website or App Store promotional text, and wait for approval. Apps with an App Store age rating of 18+ cannot participate in Kickstart Exchange.

You authorize Kickstart Exchange to use and display the app’s public App Store listing when your app participates in Kickstart Exchange. The app and its listing must remain live, accurate, lawful, and suitable for their audience. If your authority ends, you must delete the app from the Kickstart services where it is registered.

Public promotion

You grant Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use your app’s name, icon, and public App Store listing materials to promote your app and the Kickstart services it uses, including on our websites, social media, and marketing materials, while your app participates in those services. We may publicly identify your app as using those services and include it in aggregate counts of participating apps. This permission does not transfer ownership of your materials or authorize us to imply an endorsement beyond your app’s participation.

Fair participation

Do not manipulate ad views, activity, reports, accounts, apps, or points, or otherwise act in ways that harm Kickstart Exchange or its members.

Once a Kickstart Exchange advert appears, you must not hide it, replace it, or rotate it with another advert while its placement remains visible.

To use the official Kickstart Exchange service, you must use an unmodified release of KickstartSDK published by Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd. You may configure the SDK through its documented public API. You may modify the SDK under the MIT License, but modified versions may not connect to the official Kickstart Exchange service. Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd may block modified SDKs and reject, suspend, or remove any app or developer account that uses one with the service.

You remain responsible for your app, including its App Review compliance, ad placement, accessibility, privacy disclosures, and consent requirements.

Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd may reject, suspend, or reactivate an app, and may suspend or reactivate a developer account, when reasonably needed to operate Kickstart Exchange, address a report, comply with law, enforce these terms, or protect the service, its members, or their users. This includes conduct these terms do not specifically describe.

Changes to these terms

Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd may update these terms to reflect changes in law, the Kickstart services we provide, or how those services operate. We will email you at least 30 days before any material changes take effect. The notice will explain the changes, link to the updated terms, state their effective date, and explain how continued use signifies acceptance.

By continuing to use the affected services on or after the effective date stated in that notice, you agree to the updated terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the affected services before that date. You may delete your apps or your account at any time.

Ending participation

You may delete your apps or your account at any time. Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd may suspend or end participation for a breach of these terms, loss of authority, legal or security concerns, or closure of the service. Unused points then expire.

Kickstart Exchange is provided free of charge and as available. To the extent permitted by law, Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd is not responsible for lost revenue, lost business, or other indirect loss caused by use or unavailability of the service. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

The privacy notice explains Kickstart Exchange’s limited data use. Contact hello@kickstart.tools with questions.