Terms of Service

You must be at least 13 years old (16 in the EEA/UK) to use the Service and old enough to form a binding contract under the law of your jurisdiction. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind that organisation.

You are responsible for all activity on your account. Keep your password confidential, use strong and unique credentials, and notify us immediately at gamemaster@evolve-rpg.com if you believe your account has been compromised. We may suspend or close accounts that show signs of abuse or unauthorised access.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial entertainment and (where applicable) educational purposes. You may not reverse engineer, scrape at scale, resell, sublicense or commercially exploit the Service except as expressly permitted in writing.

You retain ownership of the original content you create on Evolve — your campaign notes, character names, custom prompts, and any in-character chat you author (“Your Content”).

You grant Evolve a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt, transmit and display Your Content solely to operate, improve and secure the Service for you and the other players in your party. This includes sending Your Content to our AI sub-processors for inference, sharing it with other party members in your session, generating recap summaries and scene images derived from it, and including stripped, de-identified references to world events in other campaigns’ “world pulse” feeds.

If you choose to publish a character build to the community gallery or a session recap to the community stories gallery, you additionally grant Evolve and other users a worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, share, comment on and copy that published content within the Service. You can unpublish at any time, but copies another user has cloned remain with that user.

This licence ends when you delete the relevant content from the Service, subject to reasonable propagation time across backups and caches.

Evolve RPG uses large language models, text-to-speech, and generative image models to produce narration, NPC dialogue, recaps and scene images. AI output may be inaccurate, offensive, biased, derivative or simply wrong. We do not warrant the accuracy or suitability of any AI output, and you should not rely on it as professional advice (medical, legal, financial or otherwise).

To the extent we hold any ownership in AI output generated for your session, we assign that ownership to you for the original, non-derivative portions of that output, subject to:

• the rights of the underlying model providers (Microsoft, OpenAI, etc.) under their own terms;
• the open-licence terms of any tabletop SRD content the Director draws on (see Tabletop rule references and the Attribution & Licensing page); and
• the rights of other party members whose contributions shaped the output.

You acknowledge that generative AI is non-deterministic and that similar prompts may produce similar outputs for different users. We make no guarantee of uniqueness.

You agree not to use the Service to:

• break the law, infringe anyone’s rights, or harass, threaten or defame other users;
• generate or share child sexual abuse material, non-consensual sexual content of real people, or content promoting violence against protected groups;
• attempt to extract personal information about other players or to identify the underlying model weights;
• circumvent rate limits, coin balances, or any technical access controls;
• use the Service to build a competing AI model, dataset or game-master product;
• upload malicious code, scrape the Service, or interfere with its operation;
• impersonate Evolve staff or another user, or misrepresent your affiliation.

We may remove content, suspend accounts, or terminate access at our reasonable discretion if you violate these rules. Serious or repeated violations can lead to permanent termination without refund.

Some features of the Service require “coins”, a virtual in-app currency. Coins are sold in fixed-price packs via Stripe. Prices are shown at checkout, inclusive of applicable taxes where required. Once granted, coins are consumed when you take turns, generate images, or use other paid features.

Coins are a limited, revocable licence to access metered features of the Service. They are not money, not legal tender, not a stored-value or payment instrument, and not property. Coins have no cash value, do not earn interest, and cannot be redeemed for money, exchanged, or transferred to another account or person.

Digital delivery and your EU/UK withdrawal right. Coins and any digital content you buy are delivered immediately. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, by completing your purchase you expressly request that we begin performance immediately and you acknowledge that you thereby lose your 14-day right to cancel for change of mind once delivery has begun (Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU Art 16(m); UK Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, reg 37). We confirm this on a durable medium in your emailed receipt. This does not affect your statutory remedies if a purchase is faulty or not as described (see section 8 and section 14).

Expiry and account closure. Coins do not expire while your account is active. If your account is closed by you, or by us for cause, any unused coin balance is forfeited and is not refundable, except to the extent a refund is required by your non-excludable statutory rights (see section 8). If we close your account for a reason that is not your fault (for example we discontinue the Service), we will refund the fair value of your unused, unexpired coins to your original payment method where required by law or otherwise on a reasonable basis.

Change of mind. Because coins and digital content are delivered immediately, we are not generally obliged to give a change-of-mind refund once delivery has begun. As a goodwill matter, we may refund an unused coin pack at our discretion within 14 days of purchase if no coins from that pack have been spent. To request one, email gamemaster@evolve-rpg.com with your account email and the Stripe receipt number.

Your statutory rights are not affected. Nothing in these Terms says or implies that “all sales are final”, “no refunds” apply, or that goods or content are “sold as is” in a way that removes your legal rights. Nothing here excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded, including under the Australian Consumer Law (ss 54, 55, 60, 64; and note s 29(1)(m) and s 23), the EU Digital Content Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/770), and the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 (ss 34–37 for digital content). Where a purchase is faulty, not as described, or not of acceptable/satisfactory quality, you are entitled to a remedy (which may include a repair, replacement, price reduction or refund) regardless of the change-of-mind rule above.

The marketplace lets independent creators offer adventure packages and related content (“Creator Content”). Creator Content is created by third-party creators, not by Evolve. We do not author it and do not warrant its quality, accuracy or fitness beyond the consumer guarantees that apply to us by law.

Evolve is the seller and merchant of record for every marketplace purchase. Payment is collected by Evolve through Stripe, and we remit the creator’s share to them afterwards. This means Evolve — not the creator — is your counterparty for the sale, and Evolve handles all refunds, chargebacks and disputes under section 8 and applicable consumer law. Your statutory consumer guarantees for a marketplace purchase apply against Evolve.

• Price and fees. The price shown at checkout is the total amount charged. Tax treatment is described at checkout; where tax is not itemised separately, the displayed price is the total charged.
• Who to contact. For refunds, faults, or a dispute about Creator Content, contact us at gamemaster@evolve-rpg.com; we resolve it, then settle any adjustment with the creator.
• Data. Your purchase and any personal information are handled under our Privacy Policy. Payment data is processed by Stripe under Stripe’s own privacy policy.

A creator’s obligations to Evolve, including any indemnity a creator gives us, are agreements between Evolve and that creator (business to business). They do not reduce your rights as a consumer against Evolve.

The Service integrates with third-party services including Stripe (payments), Google (OAuth sign-in), Microsoft Azure (AI and speech), Supabase (data and realtime), Vercel (hosting), Resend (email) and Mascotbot (DM avatar rendering). Your use of those services is also governed by their respective terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

Evolve RPG references rules from several third-party tabletop game systems that are available under open licences. We do not redistribute the underlying source documents verbatim and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any tabletop publisher. Full attribution and licence details are on the Attribution & Licensing page. Trademarked product names belong to their respective owners.

Other than Your Content, open-licence SRD content credited on the Attribution page, and third-party content licensed to us, all software, designs, text, graphics, logos, the “Evolve RPG” name and look-and-feel are owned by Evolve or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership of those rights to you.

Evolve responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, and to other valid intellectual-property complaints. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent:

Designated Copyright Agent
[PLACEHOLDER — name / title of the agent registered with the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory]
Evolve Simulations Pty Ltd, [postal address to be confirmed]
Email: copyright@evolve-rpg.com

Your notice (a “Takedown Notice”) must include, per § 512(c)(3):

• identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed;
• identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it (for example URLs or listing IDs);
• your name, address, telephone number and email;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner of, or authorised to act for the owner of, the right allegedly infringed; and
• your physical or electronic signature.

On receipt of a valid Takedown Notice we will remove or disable access to the material expeditiously and take reasonable steps to notify the affected user. Notices that knowingly materially misrepresent that material is infringing may incur liability under § 512(f).

Counter-notice (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)). If your content was removed or disabled and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a written counter-notice to our designated agent at copyright@evolve-rpg.com including:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification;
• your name, address and telephone number; and
• a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the U.S., any district in which Evolve may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

On receipt of a valid counter-notice we will forward it to the original complainant. If the complainant does not notify us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we will restore the removed material in 10–14 business days after receiving your counter-notice.

Repeat-infringer policy (17 U.S.C. § 512(i)). We have adopted and will reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users — including creators — who are repeat infringers. We record valid infringement complaints against an account and may suspend or terminate an account that accrues repeated valid complaints or a serious single infringement, and may withhold or reverse affected marketplace payouts.

If you are in the European Union, you may notify us of content on the Service you consider illegal under EU or member-state law using the mechanism at gamemaster@evolve-rpg.com. To let us act under Article 16 of the Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065), please include: a sufficiently substantiated explanation of why the content is illegal; the exact electronic location (for example the URL or listing ID); your name and email (except for content involving certain offences against minors); and a statement of your good-faith belief that the information is accurate and complete.

We will handle notices in a timely, diligent, non-arbitrary and objective way. Where we remove, disable, demote or restrict content, or restrict or suspend an account, we will give the affected user a clear statement of reasons under Article 17 DSA — including the ground relied on, the facts and circumstances, whether automated means were used, and the available redress options (including internal complaint handling, out-of-court dispute settlement, and judicial remedy). Nothing in this section limits your rights under sections 12 and 12A.

You may close your account at any time from your profile page or by emailing us. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if continued provision becomes commercially or legally impractical, or with at least 30 days’ notice for any other reason. On termination, your right to use the Service ends and unused coin balances may be forfeited, subject to your statutory rights and our Refund policy.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all implied warranties including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Australian Consumer Law: Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For major failures with the service, you are entitled to cancel your service contract and obtain a refund, or to compensation for the reduced value of the service. You are also entitled to be compensated for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. If the failure does not amount to a major failure, you are entitled to have problems with the service rectified in a reasonable time and, if this is not done, to cancel your contract and obtain a refund for the unused portion. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the ACL that cannot be excluded, restricted or modified.

Rights we cannot exclude. Some exclusions and limitations do not apply to you as a consumer and are void to the extent they would. Nothing in these Terms operates to exclude or limit: (a) liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (b) liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) the statutory quality, description and fitness guarantees for goods, digital content and services; or (d) your access to statutory remedies. This reflects the consumer-protection rules that apply to us, including the Unfair Contract Terms regime and consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law (ss 23–24 and s 64), the EU Unfair Contract Terms Directive (93/13/EEC), and Part 2 of the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015. Where any term in these Terms is unfair or void against you as a consumer, it is severed and the rest of the Terms continue to apply.

Subject to section 14 (Rights we cannot exclude), and to the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service is limited to the greater of: (a) the total amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) AUD $100. We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages, loss of profits, loss of data, loss of goodwill, or service interruption, even if advised of the possibility.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Evolve and its officers, employees and agents from and against any third-party claim arising out of: (a) Your Content; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or third-party right; or (d) your misuse of the Service.

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top shows when. We will notify you of material changes via in-app notice or email before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales for any dispute. Before commencing court proceedings, please contact us at gamemaster@evolve-rpg.com and we will use reasonable efforts to resolve the dispute informally.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the Service and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder remains in force. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a sale of substantially all our assets or business.

Evolve Simulations Pty Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. gamemaster@evolve-rpg.com