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This is the agreement about using the ROK! app itself. The terms cover walking a hunt and the privacy policy covers what is stored; this one covers the licence to the software, what may be put on a hunt’s wall, and what happens to something that should not be there.
This document is available in English only. The English text is the one that governs. If it is ever translated, the translation is offered as a convenience and the English still governs.
Last updated 30 August 2026
You are given permission to use ROK! on devices you own or control, for your own use. That permission is personal: it is not yours to transfer, sell or lend to anybody else, and it can be withdrawn.
It is a licence and not a sale. Nothing here hands over the app, its code, its artwork or its name, and installing it buys none of those.
Everything in the terms applies as well. This document does not replace them and does not soften them.
Do not sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app, and do not charge anybody for access to it.
Do not decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer it, except to the extent the law where you are says you may do so anyway.
Do not harvest station locations out of it. The coordinates of a station you have not found never leave the server, so the only way to assemble a map of a hunt is to walk it and record what you were shown — and doing that in order to build a dataset, publish one, or run anything off one is not allowed. It is the same harm as photographing a hiding place, committed at scale.
Do not automate requests against the API, guess at codes, or work around the rate limits. Codes are random and opaque precisely so that guessing does not work, and treating that as a puzzle is a good way to lose an account.
There is no tolerance at all for objectionable content or for abusive behaviour. It applies to everything a person can write here: a photograph on a hunt’s wall, the caption under it, and the one post that belongs to a token somebody kept.
That means none of the following, ever. Anything pornographic or sexual. Anything that harasses, threatens, bullies or humiliates a person. Anything hateful about who somebody is. Anything violent or gory. Anything encouraging somebody to harm themselves or anybody else. Anything illegal, or that helps somebody do something illegal. Anything pretending to be a person you are not. Anything you took from somebody else and passed off as your own.
Abusive behaviour means the same rule pointed at people rather than at content: following somebody between hunts, using a wall to get at a particular person, or using an account to do either.
What follows is not graduated. Content that breaks this comes down, and an account being used to post it can be closed. Closing an account severs the way in and empties the person out of it — the privacy policy sets out exactly what that removes and what it keeps.
A wall is for the afternoon you walked. Post photographs you took yourself, of things you were standing in front of.
Other people end up in photographs. Ask them first, and do not post a picture of somebody who would rather you did not. Children are not an exception to be judged case by case: not without the agreement of whoever is responsible for them.
Do not post a photograph that gives away a hiding place. On a hunt where the objects are hidden, that is the whole game, and one picture of a shelf behind a counter ruins it for everybody who comes afterwards. Nothing on our side can catch this: the GPS tag is removed from every upload before it is stored, and a café’s back room in the corner of a frame is not something software can notice. This one rests entirely on the person taking the photograph.
On a hunt where the stations are plaques rather than hidden objects, the thing that can be spoiled is the answer. Do not post a photograph a puzzle’s answer can be read off, and do not publish the answers.
You keep everything you post. Nothing here transfers ownership, and there is no clause letting a picture of yours be sold, licensed on, used in advertising, or handed to anybody else.
What you give is only what showing it requires: permission to store the picture, to resize and re-encode it, and to display it on the wall of the hunt you put it on, to whoever can read that hunt’s page. That permission lasts while the picture is up.
Two things are worth knowing before you post rather than after. Taking a picture down removes it from the wall for everybody, but the image file stays where it was served from — anybody already holding the direct address of it keeps that. And a claimed token’s post is permanent as far as you are concerned: one token, one post, editable for fifteen minutes after publishing and fixed after that. It is a rule about the object rather than about you, and there is no control anywhere that lets you delete or replace it. We can take one down where it breaks the rules below, and that is the only way one ever comes off.
Every picture on a hunt’s wall has a menu on it, and two of the things in that menu are for a reader who did not post it. Neither of them needs anybody’s permission to use.
“Report this picture” asks why — sexual content, harassment or hate, violence, something illegal, a picture that is not theirs, or a photograph that gives away a hiding place or an answer — and you can add a line of your own. It goes to the person who runs ROK!, who reads it. Something that plainly breaks the rule above comes down. A disagreement between two people about a photograph may not, because there is nobody here to arbitrate one. Reports are read by one person rather than a support desk, so allow a few days, and nothing is removed automatically in the meantime.
“Block this person” is the other one, and it is not a report: it accuses nobody, waits for nobody, and takes effect the moment you use it. You stop seeing that person’s pictures on every hunt, and they stop seeing yours. They are not told. It can be undone whenever you like, from “People you blocked” on your profile.
One report per person per picture is kept, so pressing it again changes nothing. Neither control is offered on your own picture: that one you can simply take down.
A claimed token’s post can be reported the same way, from the page that token’s code opens. It matters more there than on a wall: a picture can be taken down by whoever posted it, and a post cannot be taken down by anybody except us. There is no blocking on a post, because that page is one object’s permanent record rather than a feed, and it is read by people who have just scanned the thing in their hand.
The feedback form at rokadventure.com/help is still there, and it is the right place for anything the menu cannot describe — a hunt rather than a picture, somebody’s behaviour across several of them, or a question about a decision already made.
If something is urgent, dangerous or criminal, it is a matter for the police where you are and not for a feedback form.
Five things exist, and between them they are the whole of it.
The person who posted a picture can take it down themselves, from the menu on that picture, at any time — including after the hunt has closed.
The person whose hunt it is can take down any picture on that hunt’s wall, without asking. They are who a venue complains to, so they are who can act. They cannot rewrite anybody’s caption: moderation removes, and editing somebody’s sentence while their name stays under it would be the platform speaking as them.
Anybody reading a wall can block whoever posted a picture on it. That takes nothing off the wall for anybody else — it is one person deciding they are finished with another’s pictures, in both directions, and it is undone from the profile whenever they like.
We can take down a claimed token’s post, and we are the only ones who can — its author cannot, by design. That is the whole reason reporting one is worth doing.
An account can be closed — by whoever owns it, from the profile screen on either client, or by us where it is being used to publish something that should not be published. Closing an account takes that person’s wall pictures down with it.
What does not exist is a moderation queue, an automatic filter, or any check on a picture, a caption or a hunt before it appears. Nothing is reviewed in advance by anybody. That should shape what you post, and it is why the rule above is written as a rule rather than as a policy somebody enforces for you.
ROK! is one person’s project on one rented server, offered exactly as it is. There is no promise that it works, that it stays up, that a hunt you started can be finished, or that anything you post is kept.
Nobody is on call. There is no support desk, no maintenance window and no undertaking to fix anything within any particular time. The feedback form reaches a person, and that is the entirety of the support arrangement — for the app, and for anything about it.
The whole thing can stop. The terms say the same and this is not a gentler version of it.
This agreement is between you and whoever runs ROK!. It is not with Apple and not with Google. Neither of them wrote the app, neither inspects a hunt, and neither is answerable for what is in one.
If you installed from the App Store: Apple has no obligation whatsoever to provide any support for the app. If the app ever fails to work as an application from that store should, you may tell Apple, and Apple’s only obligation is to refund the purchase price of it — which, for a free download, is nothing. Everything else is ours to answer: any other claim about the app, any claim by somebody else that it infringes their rights, any question of product liability, and any requirement of consumer protection law.
Apple and its subsidiaries may rely on this agreement and enforce it against you, as a third-party beneficiary of it.
You may use the app only where you are allowed to. That means you are not in a country subject to an embargo that covers it, and you are not on a government list of parties forbidden from receiving software of this kind.
ROK! is made and run by Vandeth THO. It is one person’s project rather than a company’s, which is why this document says "one person" wherever it would otherwise say "we".
The way to reach that person about anything — a question, a problem with the app, a report about something on a hunt, or anything in this agreement — is the feedback form at rokadventure.com/help. It goes to one inbox and it is read. Allow a few days.
That is also the support arrangement in full, and the section above says so rather than implying more.