Terms of Service

Who operates this service

Felyra and the game Let It Lie are operated by FELYRA STUDIO S.R.L., a company registered in Romania:

• Company: FELYRA STUDIO S.R.L.
• Trade Register No.: J2026020138008
• Tax ID (CUI): 54353095
• Registered office: Strada Soporului 8D, Bloc B1, Scara 3, Etaj 0, Ap. 148, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
• Legal contact: raresh.muresan@gmail.com (general support: team@felyra.studio)

For consumer matters you can contact Romania's National Authority for Consumer Protection, ANPC (anpc.ro), including its alternative dispute resolution service, SAL (anpc.ro/ce-este-sal), which offers a free out-of-court way to resolve disputes with traders.

1. Acceptance of terms

By accessing the site, creating an account, or making any contribution, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Service and my Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please don't use the service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old — or older if the law where you live sets a higher minimum age for online services or for mature content — to create an account, and you must have the legal capacity to enter into these terms. By using the service you confirm the information you provide is accurate.

Let It Lie is a horror work intended for a mature audience. By accepting these terms — and each time you contribute, enter a contest, or vote — you confirm that you meet this minimum age. Your age is confirmed through this acceptance; the service does not ask you to state it separately. If you do not meet it, do not use the service.

If you are under 18, you may only make a payment with the involvement and authorisation of a parent or guardian, and by paying you confirm you have that permission. If a payment is made from a minor's account without it, contact me at team@felyra.studio and I'll resolve it in good faith.

3. Your account

• You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity under your account.
• Use a password that meets my security requirements and don't share your account.
• Tell me promptly at team@felyra.studio if you suspect unauthorised access.
• One person, one account. Accounts created to abuse limits or rewards may be removed.

4. Acceptable use

When using Felyra — in particular character names, Gallery paintings and credit names — you agree not to:

• Post or draw content that is illegal, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, or that infringes someone else's rights.
• Impersonate others or submit misleading credit names.
• Attempt to break, overload, scrape, or gain unauthorised access to the service.
• Use the platform to spam, advertise, or distribute malware.

I may reject, hide or remove any name or content you submit, and reject or remove any Gallery painting, at my discretion — particularly content that breaks these rules. Owning a slot does not grant a right to display prohibited content.

5. Contributions & payments

Felyra lets you support Let It Lie through naming characters in the game, gallery paintings, and direct donations. All contributions are voluntary support for the development of the game — they are not pre-orders, investments, or a guarantee that any specific feature, idea or release date will happen.

• Prices are shown in euros (EUR) before you pay, and the amount shown at checkout is the final amount charged. Payment is taken securely via Stripe.
• Gallery paintings enter review before being hung in the game; placement follows the content rules above.
• One name in the game world is free per account; naming a character is paid at the price shown on that character at checkout.
• By contributing, your display or credit name and your contribution amount may appear publicly in the credits and leaderboards. Platform-wide and community-wide totals are never shown, and you can switch to anonymous mode in your profile at any time.

Not an investment. Contributing does not give you any share, equity, ownership, profit, dividend, security or financial return of any kind in Felyra, the game, or the company. It is support for a creative project, not a financial product, and nothing here is an offer of investment.

Development is a risk we share. Let It Lie is made by one person, in the open. Features, scope, art, timing and the roadmap can change, and while I'm fully committed to shipping it, I can't guarantee that any particular feature or release date will happen exactly as described — or, in the worst case, that the game ships at all. By contributing you accept this ordinary development risk. A delay or change is not, by itself, grounds for a refund: your contribution has already helped build the game and placed your mark in it.

Giving back. I donate 10% of all contributions — character names, paintings and donations — to animal-welfare causes. When Let It Lie launches, the community votes on which cause receives it; it's a core part of how I run Felyra.

6. Rewards & the game key

Let It Lie is a single game, not a series. As a thank-you, contributors who reach a cumulative total of €10 become eligible for a free copy (game key) of the game at its launch, and their names are included in the in-game credits. Whatever you place — names, paintings, book pages — is built into the game permanently; nothing resets. Rewards depend on the game being completed and released; while I'm fully committed to shipping it, development timelines can change. Game keys, once granted, are not revoked even if a contribution is later refunded.

7. Refunds & the right of withdrawal

Everything you buy on Felyra is digital content, delivered immediately: the moment your payment completes, the character is reserved in your name, your Gallery frame is locked to you, your donation is booked to the project and your name enters the credits. There is nothing to return.

Waiver of the 14-day withdrawal right. Under EU consumer law (Directive 2011/83/EU, art. 16(m), implemented in Romania by OUG 34/2014), the 14-day right of withdrawal does not apply to digital content that is supplied immediately with your prior express consent. By completing a payment on Felyra you expressly request and consent to immediate delivery of the digital content, and you acknowledge that you thereby lose your 14-day right of withdrawal. For this reason, contributions are non-refundable.

Donations are voluntary gifts in support of development, made without any product or service in return, and are likewise non-refundable once made.

Good-faith exceptions. If a payment was made in error, was duplicated, was unauthorised, or you were charged but did not receive what you paid for, contact me at team@felyra.studio within 14 days and I will review it in good faith — genuine mistakes get fixed. Please contact me before opening a dispute with your bank or card issuer; almost every problem is quicker to solve directly.

Chargebacks. Because everything is delivered instantly, opening a chargeback or bank dispute instead of contacting me — especially for content you already received — is treated as a breach of these terms. In that case I may suspend the account, remove access to benefits, and revoke any game key or rewards linked to the disputed payment, and I'll provide my records to the payment provider. Genuine problems are always faster to fix by emailing me first.

Nothing in this section limits any statutory rights you have under Romanian or EU law that cannot be waived, including your legal remedies if digital content is defective or not as described.

8. Intellectual property

Let It Lie, the Felyra name, logo, site design and game content are owned by Felyra. Buying a character naming or claiming a Gallery frame does not transfer ownership of the game or platform to you.

You keep ownership of original content you create — paintings in the Gallery, pages in a community Library book, and anything you submit to a community open call (art, writing, audio, 3D models or other files). By placing or submitting it, you grant Felyra a worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, reproduce and incorporate it into Let It Lie, its credits, and promotional material.

The right to adapt it to the game. Let It Lie is a horror game, and everything that goes into it has to fit that world. The licence above therefore includes the right to edit, crop, resize, recolour, desaturate, age, distress, add grain, scratches, lighting and other post-processing effects, and to otherwise adapt or treat your content — images, text, audio and any other file — so it matches the tone and atmosphere of the game and the scene it appears in. This means what appears in the game may look or sound different from what you submitted. To the extent permitted by law, you waive any so-called “moral rights” to object to such reasonable changes. This does not change who owns the work, and it does not lessen your responsibilities in section 8a below. Nothing here obliges Felyra to use your content, unaltered or at all.

8a. Your responsibility for what you upload

You are 100% responsible for everything you upload or place. Whenever you place submit a name, upload a painting, add a Library page, or add any image, text or name, you represent and warrant that:

• it is your own original work, or you hold all rights, licences and permissions necessary to submit it and to grant the licence above; and
• it does not infringe any copyright, trademark, image, privacy, publicity or other right of any other person, and is not illegal.

If anyone claims that content you submitted is theirs, infringes their rights, or is otherwise unlawful, you — and not Felyra — are solely responsible. You bear full legal responsibility for that content and for any consequences under applicable law, which may include civil liability and, where the law so provides, criminal liability. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless FELYRA STUDIO S.R.L. and to reimburse it for any claim, demand, loss, damage, fine, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content or from your breach of this section. This responsibility survives the deletion of your account.

Put plainly: if you upload art that isn't yours and the real owner comes forward, the legal responsibility is entirely yours — it does not fall on Felyra or on me.

Photographs of people. Some things you can buy — a missing poster in Paper & Stone — carry a photograph you upload. A photograph of an identifiable person is personal data about that person, so on top of everything above you confirm, each time you upload one, that it is yours to use and that any person shown in it has agreed to appear in Let It Lie. Do not upload a photograph of a child, of someone who has not agreed, or of a public figure you do not have permission to use. You are responsible for that permission and for any claim arising from it.

I review every photograph before it goes anywhere near the game, and I may refuse one without giving a reason beyond a plain explanation. If you or someone in a photograph wants it taken down, email team@felyra.studio and I will remove it from the site and from anything not yet released. Once a build has shipped it cannot be recalled, which is exactly why the permission has to be real before you upload.

On a credible complaint, I may immediately remove or hide the content, suspend the account that submitted it, and cooperate with the affected rights-holder and with the authorities — including disclosing the information that identifies who uploaded the content — to the extent required or permitted by law. Removing content does not, by itself, settle any liability you may owe to a third party.

Seen your own work here without permission? If you believe content on Felyra or in Let It Lie infringes your rights, email team@felyra.studio with the details and proof of your rights, and I will review and act promptly.

Because community art is baked permanently into the game world, the licence above is perpetual and irrevocable for content that has already been incorporated into a released game or published materials, and it survives the deletion of your account — a shipped game cannot be un-shipped. Content not yet incorporated is simply removed if you delete your account.

8b. Review, moderation & reporting

Most things are checked before they go public. Gallery paintings and Library book pages are reviewed by me after you save them and before anyone else can see them — normally within 24 hours. Nothing you submit is public before that, because it is meant to be painted on together in real time, and it is moderated after the fact instead.

The community rules shown on the Library, Gallery and Cast pages (the “house rules”) form part of these Terms. Breaking them is a breach of this agreement.

Reviewing is not approving. A review is a short, practical check for obvious problems — it is not a verification that you own what you uploaded, and it is not an endorsement of it. Publishing something after review does not transfer responsibility for it from you to me, does not waive any right of mine, and does not affect section 8a in any way. I have no obligation to review everything, and I may publish, refuse, remove or re-review content at any time.

If I refuse or remove something, I'll tell you why in plain terms, on your page or by email, so you can correct it and submit again. Where a refusal is a mistake, tell me at team@felyra.studio and I'll look again.

Reporting content. Anyone — whether or not they have an account — can report content they believe is illegal or infringing by emailing team@felyra.studio. Please include a link or a description precise enough to find it, why you believe it is unlawful, and how to reach you. That address is also my point of contact for users and for authorities. I review reports promptly, act where a report is well-founded, and tell the reporter and the person who posted the content what I decided.

Names you buy: three attempts. When you pay to place a name — a character in The Cast, or a line, a headstone or a poster in Paper & Stone — the name is reviewed before it goes in. If I can't use it I'll tell you why and you can send another. After a third rejected name the item is closed and the payment is kept. This is shown next to the payment button before you pay, and it is there because each review is my time and the rules are simple: no real public figures, no trademarks, no impersonating anyone, nothing hateful. A free name is never closed this way — there is nothing to keep, so you can keep trying.

Sanctions. Depending on how serious and how repeated a breach is, I may remove or hide the content, return a claimed page or frame to the pool, withhold a reward, suspend or close the account, and — where someone keeps coming back to break the same rules or to evade a removal — block access from the IP addresses or networks being used. IP blocking is a last-resort security measure, kept only as long as it's needed for that purpose.

9. Disclaimers, liability & indemnity

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis while Let It Lie is in active development. I run Felyra on a best-effort basis and can't promise it will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free — it may go down for maintenance, updates, or reasons outside my control. I'm not responsible for content posted by other users, or for failures of the third-party services I rely on (such as Stripe, Google, or my hosting and email providers).

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Felyra is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost data, lost profits or lost opportunities.

Cap on liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, my total liability to you for anything connected with Felyra or these terms is limited to the amount you actually paid me in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim (or €50 if you paid nothing).

Force majeure. I'm not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond my reasonable control — including internet or hosting outages, power failures, cyber-attacks, strikes, natural disasters, war, or changes in law.

Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless FELYRA STUDIO S.R.L. from any claim, loss, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your misuse of the service, your breach of these terms, or content you submit (see also section 8a).

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or your mandatory rights as a consumer under Romanian or EU law.

10. The service can evolve

Felyra funds games in active development, so the platform evolves with them: I may add, change, pause or retire features (the Cast, the Gallery, the Library, polls, badges) as the project needs. What you have already received stays received — names placed, frames claimed and credits earned are not taken away by a feature change.

11. Termination

You can stop using Felyra and request account deletion at any time. I may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these terms or the law. Studio administrator accounts cannot be deleted, for operational reasons.

Deleting your account removes your personal data as described in the Privacy Policy. Contributions are not refunded on deletion, and community art already incorporated into the game remains in it (with your name removed from public displays on request), per section 8.

12. Governing law & changes

These terms are governed by the laws of Romania, and disputes fall under the jurisdiction of the competent courts of Cluj-Napoca, without affecting your mandatory consumer rights. I may update these terms as the project evolves; the “last updated” date above reflects the current version.

13. General

• Severability. If any part of these terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays fully in force.
• No waiver. If I don't enforce a term straight away, I haven't given it up — I can still enforce it later.
• Entire agreement. These terms, together with the Privacy and Cookie policies, are the whole agreement between us about Felyra, and replace any earlier understanding on the same subject.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your account or your rights under these terms. I may transfer or assign these terms to another entity — for example if the studio is restructured, sold or merged — without reducing your rights.