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 have no monetary value, no cash value, and cannot be redeemed for money or transferred to another account. They are a limited revocable licence to consume metered AI features within the Service. Coins do not earn interest, do not constitute property, and do not survive account termination by you or by us for cause.

Refunds for unused coin packs are available at our discretion within 14 days of purchase if no coins from the pack have been spent. Nothing in this section limits your statutory rights under the Australian Consumer Law or any other consumer protection law that applies to you.

To request a refund, email gamemaster@evolve-rpg.com with your account email and the Stripe receipt number.

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.

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right, email gamemaster@evolve-rpg.comwith the subject line “IP Notice” and include: (a) identification of the allegedly infringing material with URLs; (b) identification of the work claimed to be infringed; (c) your contact details; (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law; (e) a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and you are authorised to act on the rights holder’s behalf; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. We will respond promptly and may remove content pending investigation.

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.

To the maximum extent permitted by law and subject to the ACL carve-out above, 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