Terms of service

Last updated: 6th August 2026.

These terms apply when you create a developer account or register an app with Kickstart Exchange.

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 Points have no cash value and cannot be bought, sold, transferred, withdrawn, or redeemed.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 authorised to represent. You must confirm that the app is not marked as Made for Kids in App Store Connect, verify the website listed on the App Store, and wait for approval. Apps with an App Store age rating of 18+ cannot participate. 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.

You authorise Kickstart Exchange to use and display the app’s public App Store listing. The app and its listing must remain live, accurate, lawful, and suitable for their audience. If your authority ends, you must remove the app from Kickstart Exchange.

Fair participation

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

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, pause, 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.

Ending participation

You may remove your apps or delete 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 [email protected] with questions.