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Terms of Use and End User License Agreement

Effective Date: June 17, 2026
Last Updated: June 17, 2026

These Terms of Use and End User License Agreement (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of The Hunt mobile application, website, creator tools, location-based experiences, QR-code features, augmented-reality features, subscriptions, premium features, player packs, hunt-creation tools, user-generated content features, and related services (collectively, the “Services”).

The Services are operated by:

The Hunt LLC
2925 Oakland Drive, Suite 101
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008
Email: hq@jointhehunt.io
Website: www.jointhehunt.io

Throughout these Terms, “The Hunt,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to The Hunt LLC. “You” and “your” refer to any person who accesses or uses the Services, including players, creators, subscribers, team members, parents or guardians, and any person who submits, publishes, shares, or participates in a Hunt.

By downloading, accessing, creating an account, subscribing to, purchasing, creating, publishing, sharing, joining, or using any part of the Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Services.

1. Important Notice

The Hunt is a real-world, location-based entertainment platform. Using the Services may involve visiting physical locations, walking or traveling in public areas, entering third-party businesses, scanning QR codes, interacting with other users, and participating in creator-generated experiences.

You are responsible for your own safety, conduct, legal compliance, and judgment while using the Services.

The Hunt does not supervise your real-world activity, guarantee the safety or suitability of any location, guarantee that any business or venue will be open or available, or provide emergency, navigation, security, transportation, or law-enforcement services.

2. Eligibility

2.1 Minimum Age

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services. Users under 13 are not permitted to create an account, participate in Hunts, use creator tools, or otherwise access the Services.

2.2 Users Under 18

If you are at least 13 but under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Services only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. By allowing a minor to use the Services, the parent or guardian agrees to these Terms on the minor’s behalf and is responsible for the minor’s use of the Services.

2.3 Parent and Guardian Responsibility

Parents and guardians are responsible for:

Supervising minors’ use of the Services;
Determining whether a Hunt, route, location, venue, offer, theme, clue, puzzle, or activity is appropriate for the minor;
Ensuring the minor complies with these Terms and applicable law;
Preventing minors from entering age-restricted venues or participating in inappropriate activities;
Monitoring any paid purchases, subscriptions, or premium features used by the minor.

2.4 Age-Restricted Features and Locations

Some Hunts, offers, venues, or experiences may involve or route users near or into age-restricted establishments, including bars, breweries, wineries, distilleries, restaurants serving alcohol, 18+ or 21+ venues, or events that may not be appropriate for minors.

You are solely responsible for confirming that you are legally permitted to enter any location, consume any product, participate in any activity, or redeem any offer.

The Hunt does not control any third-party business’s age-verification, identification, admission, service, or alcohol policies.

3. Description of the Services

The Hunt provides real-world, location-based entertainment experiences, including official Hunts created or approved by The Hunt and user-created Hunts created through our creator tools.

The Services may include:

Story-driven Hunts;
Clues, riddles, puzzles, and challenges;
QR-code scanning;
Location verification;
Augmented-reality features;
Team play;
Scores, achievements, badges, and leaderboards;
Retailer, sponsor, or venue offers;
Creator tools that allow users to create, edit, invite others to, share, and submit Hunts;
Premium subscriptions or paid creator access;
Player packs or other one-time digital purchases;
AI-assisted content generation, editing, or narration features;
Website and account-management features.

The Services are offered for entertainment, community engagement, training, education, team-building, and similar lawful purposes. They are not emergency tools, navigation tools, safety-monitoring tools, transportation services, or professional advice services.

4. Account Registration and Security

4.1 Account Creation

You may be required to create an account to access certain features, including joining Hunts, saving progress, using creator tools, purchasing premium access, creating teams, or submitting content.

You agree that all information you provide is accurate, current, and complete. You must keep your account information up to date.

4.2 Account Credentials

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity under your account.

You must promptly notify us at hq@jointhehunt.io if you believe your account has been compromised or used without authorization.

4.3 No Account Sharing for Abuse

You may not sell, rent, lend, transfer, share, or provide access to your account in a manner that violates these Terms, bypasses payment requirements, evades enforcement action, enables cheating, infringes rights, or facilitates misuse of the Services.

5. Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information related to the Services, including account information, gameplay data, location information, creator content, purchase status, diagnostics, and support communications.

The Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the Privacy Policy.

6. Location Services and Geolocation

6.1 Location-Based Functionality

Certain features require access to your device’s location services, including GPS, Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, or other location technologies.

Location information may be used to:

Enable location-based gameplay;
Verify arrival at checkpoints;
Confirm QR-code scans;
Validate offer eligibility or redemption events;
Support fraud prevention;
Support aggregated reporting;
Improve the Services.

6.2 Active Use

The Hunt is designed to collect location information only when reasonably needed for active app functionality, including active Hunts, check-ins, QR-code scans, arrival verification, creator tools, directions, or similar features.

You may disable location permissions through your device settings. Some features may not work if location permissions are disabled.

6.3 Accuracy Limitations

Location data may be inaccurate, delayed, incomplete, unavailable, or affected by device settings, network conditions, indoor environments, physical obstructions, operating system behavior, third-party mapping services, or GPS limitations.

The Hunt is not responsible for inaccurate location information, failed check-ins, failed arrival verification, incorrect directions, inability to complete a Hunt, or any injury, loss, or damage resulting from reliance on location data.

6.4 No Safety Monitoring

The Hunt does not monitor your location for safety purposes, emergency response, rescue, supervision, or law-enforcement assistance. You are responsible for your own safety and for the safety of minors, guests, invitees, or team members participating with you.

7. Real-World Activity, Safety, and Assumption of Risk

7.1 Inherent Risks

Using the Services may involve walking, driving, biking, using public transportation, crossing streets, entering buildings, visiting unfamiliar areas, interacting with other people, participating with teams, using a mobile device in public, and engaging in physical activity.

These activities involve inherent risks, including:

Trips, slips, falls, and collisions;
Traffic or transportation accidents;
Weather-related risks;
Crime, harassment, or unsafe public conditions;
Food, drink, environmental, or allergy risks;
Lost, stolen, or damaged property;
Device damage;
Interactions with strangers;
Entry into areas that may be crowded, closed, unsafe, restricted, or unsuitable;
Errors or omissions in third-party maps, business hours, or location information.

7.2 Assumption of Risk

By using the Services, you voluntarily assume all risks associated with participating in Hunts, visiting locations, following clues, traveling to checkpoints, scanning QR codes, redeeming offers, interacting with other users, and engaging in any related real-world activity.

7.3 Safety Obligations

You agree that you will:

Obey all laws, traffic rules, posted signs, and venue rules;
Not use the app while driving or operating a vehicle;
Not trespass or enter restricted, private, dangerous, or closed areas;
Not run, rush, climb, jump, or behave recklessly to complete a Hunt;
Remain aware of your surroundings;
Respect public and private property;
Respect business employees, customers, residents, and members of the public;
Use common sense and independent judgment at all times;
Stop participating if conditions are unsafe or inappropriate.

7.4 No Duty to Inspect

The Hunt does not guarantee that any route, venue, sidewalk, road, business, park, campus, public space, or checkpoint has been inspected, approved, monitored, verified, or determined to be safe.

8. Release, Waiver, and Hold Harmless for Real-World Activity

8.1 Definition of The Hunt Parties

For purposes of this Section, “The Hunt Parties” means The Hunt LLC and its owners, members, managers, officers, directors, employees, contractors, representatives, affiliates, successors, assigns, service providers, sponsors, retailers, participating venues, territory managers, and partners.

8.2 Release and Waiver

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you, on behalf of yourself and your heirs, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors, and assigns, knowingly and voluntarily release, waive, discharge, and agree not to sue The Hunt Parties from and against any and all claims, demands, causes of action, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses arising out of or related to:

Your use of the Services;
Your participation in any Hunt;
Your travel to, from, at, near, or between any Hunt location;
Your presence at or near any Hunt location, checkpoint, venue, retailer, sponsor location, public area, or private property;
Your interaction with any business, venue, property owner, employee, user, team member, guest, invitee, or member of the public;
Your scanning of QR codes;
Your redemption or attempted redemption of offers;
Your use of location, map, direction, QR-code, AR, or gameplay features;
Your participation in any real-world activity connected to the Services.

This release includes claims arising from ordinary negligence, premises conditions, traffic, walking, driving, biking, public transportation, weather, crowds, business operations, third-party conduct, inaccurate location information, unavailable locations, denied entry, food or beverage issues, allergic reactions, property damage, lost or stolen property, emotional distress, personal injury, illness, or death, except to the extent such claims cannot be released under applicable law.

8.3 Voluntary Participation

You acknowledge that Hunts may involve inherent and unforeseeable risks, including travel through public areas, entry into third-party locations, interaction with other people, reliance on mobile devices, changing real-world conditions, and conditions outside The Hunt’s control.

You voluntarily assume all such risks.

8.4 Hold Harmless

You agree to hold harmless The Hunt Parties from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses arising out of or related to your use of the Services, your participation in any Hunt, your conduct, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law, your User Content or Creator Hunt, your selection or use of any location, your placement or use of any QR code or physical material, your interaction with any third party, or any claim brought by another person arising from your acts, omissions, invitations, content, or participation.

8.5 Limits Required by Law

Nothing in these Terms is intended to release liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, intentional misconduct, or any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law.

9. Official Hunts, Creator Hunts, and Private Hunts

9.1 Official Hunts

Some Hunts may be created, sponsored, reviewed, approved, or published by The Hunt or its authorized partners. These may include official story Hunts, sponsored Hunts, retail Hunts, territory-manager-supported Hunts, training Hunts, or other approved experiences.

9.2 Creator Hunts

The Services may allow users to create, edit, customize, save, test, publish, share, or invite others to participate in Hunts (“Creator Hunts”). Creator Hunts may include user-generated text, clues, puzzles, answers, hints, images, audio, videos, locations, QR codes, checkpoint information, venue names, route information, themes, stories, team instructions, or other materials.

9.3 Private by Default

Creator Hunts are private by default unless otherwise stated in the Services. Private Creator Hunts are generally accessible only to users invited by the creator, users who receive an authorized link or QR code, or users otherwise granted access through the Services.

Private status does not mean that a Creator Hunt is exempt from these Terms. Private Creator Hunts must comply with all content, safety, intellectual-property, location, and conduct rules in these Terms.

9.4 Public Submission and Review

A Creator Hunt will not become publicly discoverable, publicly promoted, or treated as an official or public Hunt unless it is formally submitted for review and approved by The Hunt.

The Hunt has sole discretion to approve, reject, edit, request changes to, unpublish, remove, or decline to feature any Creator Hunt for any reason, including quality, safety, legal, brand, content, operational, intellectual-property, partner, age-rating, app-store, or business reasons.

Submission for review does not guarantee approval, publication, promotion, monetization, sponsorship, compensation, or continued availability.

9.5 No Endorsement of Creator Hunts

The Hunt does not endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for Creator Hunts merely because they are created, hosted, shared, or accessed through the Services. Creator Hunts are the responsibility of the creator unless expressly identified as an official Hunt approved by The Hunt.

10. Creator Responsibilities

If you create, edit, customize, submit, publish, share, or invite others to a Creator Hunt, you are responsible for the content, legality, safety, suitability, and permissions associated with that Creator Hunt.

You represent and warrant that:

You have all rights, licenses, permissions, consents, and authority needed to create, upload, share, publish, and authorize The Hunt to use the Creator Hunt and all related content;
Your Creator Hunt does not infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, privacy right, publicity right, moral right, contractual right, property right, or other right of any person or entity;
Your Creator Hunt does not contain unauthorized copyrighted characters, fictional worlds, branded assets, logos, celebrity likenesses, music, videos, images, artwork, sports team marks, school marks, corporate marks, product names, franchise references, or other protected material unless you have all required rights or written approval from The Hunt after submitting documentation;
Your Creator Hunt does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, approval, affiliation, partnership, or participation by any business, venue, school, property owner, municipality, organization, brand, celebrity, rights holder, or other third party unless you have proper authorization;
Every location, checkpoint, QR placement, route, and instruction in your Creator Hunt is lawful, safe, appropriate, and either publicly accessible or properly authorized;
Your Creator Hunt does not instruct users to trespass, enter restricted areas, interfere with business operations, disturb residents, disrupt schools, bstruct public spaces, violate venue rules, or engage in unsafe conduct;
You have obtained all required permissions before placing QR codes, signs, materials, or other items on property you do not own or control;
Your Creator Hunt is appropriate for its intended audience and any age rating, category, or description you assign to it;
You will promptly correct, remove, or disable any Creator Hunt or content that becomes inaccurate, unsafe, unauthorized, infringing, misleading, inappropriate, or unlawful.

11. Locations, Venues, Businesses, and Property Rights

11.1 Creator Use of Real-World Locations

Creators may choose to use real-world locations, including businesses, schools, parks, campuses, public areas, private venues, neighborhoods, or other places as checkpoints or references.

If you use a real-world location in a Creator Hunt, you are solely responsible for ensuring that the use is lawful, safe, appropriate, and authorized where authorization is required.

11.2 No Misleading Sponsorship

You may not state, imply, or suggest that a business, venue, brand, school, property owner, city, municipality, nonprofit, public agency, sports team, celebrity, or other third party sponsors, endorses, approves, participates in, or is affiliated with your Creator Hunt unless you have written authorization.

11.3 Private Property and QR Placement

You may not place QR codes, signs, stickers, markers, objects, flyers, or other materials on private property, inside a business, at a school, on a campus, in a venue, or on public property unless you have all required permissions.

You may not instruct users to scan codes, retrieve objects, enter areas, or interact with property in a way that violates property rights, venue rules, public rules, or applicable law.

11.4 Sensitive Locations

You may not create Hunts that target, exploit, interfere with, or inappropriately route users to or through sensitive locations, including:

Private residences without permission;
Schools, daycares, or child-focused locations without appropriate authorization;
Hospitals, clinics, counseling centers, or medical facilities without authorization;
Places of worship in a disrespectful or disruptive manner;
Courthouses, police stations, military facilities, government-restricted areas, or emergency-response facilities;
Cemeteries, memorials, or sites of tragedy in a disrespectful manner;
Dangerous construction sites, railways, highways, industrial sites, waterways, rooftops, abandoned buildings, or restricted areas.

11.5 Creator Responsibility for Location Claims

The Hunt is not responsible for verifying the safety, legality, authorization, accessibility, business hours, conditions, or suitability of locations selected by creators.

Creators are solely responsible for claims, complaints, demands, fines, losses, injuries, or disputes arising from locations, routes, venue references, QR placement, property use, or user activity associated with their Creator Hunts.

12. User Content and Creator Content

12.1 Definition

“User Content” means any content, information, material, data, text, image, audio, video, location, route, clue, puzzle, answer, hint, profile information, comment, message, QR-related content, Creator Hunt, review submission, report, feedback, or other material that you upload, create, submit, edit, publish, share, transmit, or make available through the Services.

“Creator Content” is User Content created or submitted through the creator tools or used in a Creator Hunt.

12.2 You Keep Ownership of Your Content

As between you and The Hunt, you retain ownership of User Content that you own. These Terms do not transfer ownership of your original User Content to The Hunt.

However, you grant The Hunt the rights described below so that we can operate, host, display, review, moderate, improve, promote, and provide the Services.

12.3 License to The Hunt

By creating, uploading, submitting, saving, editing, sharing, publishing, inviting users to, or otherwise making User Content available through the Services, you grant The Hunt a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, copy, process, analyze, scan, review, moderate, modify, adapt, format, translate, display, perform, distribute, transmit, publish, make available, remove, disable, and otherwise use your User Content as reasonably necessary or useful to:

Provide, operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Services;
Enable others to access and participate in Hunts you create or share;
Display your content to invited users, team members, reviewers, moderators, support personnel, and other intended audiences;
Review submitted Hunts for public approval;
Format ontent for different devices, screens, features, or accessibility requirements;
Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, safety issues, policy violations, infringement, or unlawful conduct;
Enforce these Terms;
Provide support;
Create aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified analytics;
Promote public or approved Hunts, if you submit the Hunt for public use or otherwise authorize promotion;
Comply with legal, regulatory, app-store, or operational obligations.

This license continues for as long as needed to provide the Services, maintain legal and business records, enforce these Terms, resolve disputes, preserve backups, and comply with applicable law.

12.4 Public or Approved Creator Hunts

If you submit a Creator Hunt for public review, publication, promotion, marketplace discovery, sponsorship, or official use, you grant The Hunt permission to review, edit, adapt, curate, approve, reject, promote, display, market, distribute, and feature that Creator Hunt in connection with the Services and The Hunt’s marketing, subject to any separate written agreement between you and The Hunt.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, approval or publication of a Creator Hunt does not entitle you to compensation, revenue share, ownership in The Hunt, sponsorship rights, or continued availability.

12.5 Feedback

If you provide suggestions, ideas, improvements, bug reports, feature requests, business concepts, hunt concepts, or other feedback, you grant The Hunt the right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. Feedback is not confidential unless we have entered into a separate written agreement signed by The Hunt.

13. The Hunt Intellectual Property

13.1 Ownership by The Hunt

The Services and all related intellectual property are owned by The Hunt or its licensors, including:

The Hunt name, logo, branding, slogans, trade dress, visual identity, and marketing materials;
The mobile app, website, source code, object code, software, interfaces, workflows, systems, databases, and platform architecture;
Official Hunt content, storylines, characters, puzzles, clues, hints, audio, images, graphics, animations, AR elements, videos, and related materials created by or for The Hunt;
Hunt emplates, formats, structures, design systems, progression systems, gameplay concepts, QR-code workflows, scoring systems, achievement systems, and creator-tool frameworks;
Documentation, training materials, dashboards, administrative tools, analytics, reports, and platform tools.

Except for the limited license expressly granted to you in these Terms, no rights are granted to you in The Hunt intellectual property.

13.2 Limited License to Use the Services

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, The Hunt grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to download, install, access, and use the Services for lawful personal, entertainment, educational, training, team-building, or authorized creator purposes.

This license does not permit you to copy, reverse engineer, sell, sublicense, commercially exploit, scrape, clone, reskin, or create competing products from the Services.

13.3 Restrictions

You may not:

Copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, lease, license, sublicense, or exploit the Services;
Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, or attempt to discover source code;
Use bots, scrapers, crawlers, automation, or data-mining tools without written permission;
Circumvent security, payment, access, moderation, or location-verification systems;
Remove proprietary notices;
Use The Hunt branding without permission;
Create a competing service using The Hunt’s content, design, platform structure, data, or proprietary materials;
Misrepresent your relationship with The Hunt;
Use The Hunt’s official content, characters, art, puzzles, clues, stories, or brand assets outside the Services without written permission.

14. Third-Party Intellectual Property and Rights of Publicity

14.1 No Unauthorized Third-Party Content

You may not upload, create, publish, submit, share, or include content that uses third-party intellectual property without authorization.

This includes unauthorized use of:

Copyrighted images, illustrations, photographs, videos, songs, lyrics, sound recordings, scripts, books, articles, games, puzzles, or artwork;
Fictional characters, superheroes, cartoons, mascots, movie characters, television characters, video-game characters, literary characters, or franchise worlds;
Brand names, logos, slogans, product packaging, trade dress, trademarks, service marks, or company names;
Sports team names, school mascots, league marks, event marks, or tournament marks;
Celebrity names, images, voices, likenesses, signatures, catchphrases, or impersonations;
AI-generated content that imitates, copies, or is confusingly similar to protected third-party content;
Content copied from the internet, social media, stock-image sites, other apps, or other sources without a valid license.

14.2 Required Rights

You may include third-party intellectual property only if you own it, have a valid license, have documented permission, or have received prior written approval from The Hunt after providing rights documentation that The Hunt deems sufficient.

The Hunt is not obligated to review or approve any third-party-rights documentation and may revoke approval if it determines that the use creates legal, app-store, brand, safety, business, or operational risk.

14.3 Brand and Enterprise Hunts

The Hunt may separately agree in writing to permit businesses, brands, schools, organizations, or other rights holders to create or sponsor Hunts using their own intellectual property.

Any such permission must be in a separate written agreement or written approval from The Hunt and does not apply to other users or unrelated content.

14.4 No Fair Use Determination by The Hunt

The Hunt does not provide legal advice and does not determine whether your use of third-party content qualifies as fair use, nominative use, parody, commentary, or another legal exception. You are responsible for obtaining legal advice and ensuring that your content is lawful.

15. Prohibited Content

You may not create, upload, submit, publish, share, invite users to, or otherwise make available any User Content or Creator Hunt that The Hunt determines, in its sole discretion, is prohibited.

Prohibited content includes content that falls into the categories below.

15.1 Illegal, Harmful, or Unsafe Content