Quarterhold Terms of Service

When you create an account, you'll see "By creating an account, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy." By creating an account or using Quarterhold, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. We record when you agreed and which versions you agreed to. If you don't agree, don't use Quarterhold.

• You must be at least 18 years old. When you sign up, we ask for your birth month and year, and we block anyone under 18.
• You must be able to form a binding contract where you live, and the law must not bar you from using Quarterhold.
• You need a valid email address. Anyone who meets these rules can play in the World. Campus play also requires a verified email address from a supported school.
• You can't use Quarterhold if we have suspended or closed your account, unless we tell you that you can.

• Give us accurate information, including your real birth month and year, and keep it up to date.
• One account per person. Don't create extra accounts, share an account, or buy, sell or transfer one.
• Keep your password safe. You're responsible for everything that happens under your account. If you think someone else is using it, email support@lvici.app right away.
• Other players can see your display name, for example when you call a rally, so choose one that follows section 5.3.

4.1 Plants and holds

You plant your banner's flag by being physically at a place, inside its radius, with a fresh and precise location. Later in the same visit, you can hold that flag once for more points. To verify plants and holds, we check your location, its accuracy and age, your phone's fake-location signal and how far you've traveled since your last plant. We can refuse or remove any plant that fails these checks or looks like cheating. If you have a War Horn, you can blow it at a place you're at, with the same checks: for a while, your banner's plants there score more, and the rival banners there get an alert naming your banner. The app shows the current rules, points and bonuses.

4.2 Territory

The banner with the most points at a place over the last 7 days holds it. On a tie, the banner that already holds the place keeps it.

4.3 Limits

To keep the game fair, we set limits, such as a wait before you can plant at the same place again, a daily plant limit and limits on how often the app can make requests.

4.4 Changes to the game

We may change the scoring, rules, limits and features at any time. We may also reset standings or points, for example to fix a bug or undo cheating.

4.5 Places

• Places on Quarterhold come from Foursquare and our own records. We don't visit or check them, and their information can be wrong or out of date.
• A place on the map is not an invitation to go there. It doesn't mean the place is open, public or safe, or that it welcomes players.
• Businesses on Quarterhold are not our partners. They don't sponsor, endorse or run the game.
• We try to leave out places that people didn't choose to be part of a game, such as homes, schools, places of worship and clinics.
• Bars and nightclubs can be played like any other local business, but Quarterhold is not about drinking. There are no drinking challenges, and no points or rewards for buying or drinking anything.
• Any business can ask us to remove or correct its place by emailing support@lvici.app.

5.1 Banners

• Your banner is your house. It stands for a group, such as a school, an alumni group, a Greek chapter, a club or team, a company, a city or a squad of friends. You can fly more than one banner and raise your own, up to the limits the app tells you.
• Your school banner comes from verifying an email address from a supported school. You can't lower it, and players can't raise school banners.
• Raising a banner doesn't give you any rights in its name. A banner, its flags and its points can stay on Quarterhold after you leave it or delete your account.

5.2 Squads and small banners

Squads and other small banners are invite-only: to join one, you need an invite from a member. Invite only people you know. When a member calls a rally, every member with alerts on gets an alert saying where to meet. The player who raised a banner can see who flies it and remove any member. A removed member simply stops flying the banner, and points already won stay with it.

5.3 Name rules

These rules apply to display names, banner names, short names and descriptions:

• No hate, harassment, sexual content, threats, doxxing (sharing someone's personal information), impersonation, spam or anything illegal.
• Don't claim to be official, verified, endorsed or authorized, and don't pose as Quarterhold staff.
• No links, email addresses or phone numbers.
• Don't use a name in a way that infringes someone's trademark or other rights, or that could confuse people about who is behind a banner.
• Our automatic checks are limited. Passing them doesn't mean a name is allowed, and it doesn't verify a group's identity or its right to a name.
• We can reject, change or remove any name, and we can give a banner's name to the organization that owns it.

5.4 Invite links

You get your own invite link, with its own code, for each banner you fly. It shows your display name to the people who open it. A friend who signs up or joins with it is recorded as invited by you, and only the first friend's link a player uses counts. Your link stops working if you stop flying the banner, and the player who raised a banner can reset its invite link, which also retires every member's own link for it.

You agree not to:

• fake your location, including with GPS spoofing, mock-location apps, emulators or modified apps;
• use bots, scripts or other automated ways to play or to access Quarterhold;
• create fake plants, or manipulate territory or points, alone or with others;
• create extra or fake accounts, including to earn recruits, ranks or War Horns;
• use Quarterhold to find, follow, track or watch another person;
• harass, threaten, bully or abuse anyone, in the app or in person;
• post hate, sexual content, threats, doxxing, impersonation, spam or anything illegal;
• disrupt a business, its staff or its customers;
• use rallies or War Horns to send people somewhere unsafe, closed or private, or to spam alerts;
• try to get into our systems or other players' accounts, collect data from Quarterhold in bulk, or interfere with the Service; or
• break any law while using Quarterhold.

• "Your content" means what you create on Quarterhold: your display name and the names, short names, descriptions and colors of banners you raise.
• You keep ownership of your content. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, store, copy, display, format and distribute it in connection with the Service. The license lasts while your content is on Quarterhold. For a banner you raised, it continues for as long as the banner stays up, including after you leave the banner or delete your account.
• You promise that you have the right to use your content and that it follows these Terms.
• We don't review content before it appears, and we aren't responsible for what players create. We can remove, hide or change any content at any time, for example if it breaks these Terms, if someone reports it, or if the owner of a name asks us to.

• Report. You can report a banner or a player with the Report button in the app, or by emailing support@lvici.app. That address takes all abuse reports.
• Block. You can block another player. When you block a player, you stop getting their rally alerts and they stop getting yours, their name shows to you as "A player", and they can't join banners you founded. You can unblock them anytime in House > Blocked players.
• Review. We review reports within 24 hours.
• What's not allowed. Objectionable content includes hate, harassment, sexual content, threats, doxxing, impersonation, spam and illegal activity.
• What we can do. When something breaks these Terms, we can remove or hide content, hide or suspend a banner, give a banner's name to its owner, and suspend or close accounts. We can act without warning, and the decision is ours.
• Asking us to look again. If you think we got something wrong, email support@lvici.app and we'll take another look.
• Emergencies. If someone is in danger, call 911 first. Quarterhold can't send help.

Banners on Quarterhold, including school banners, featured alumni groups and banners that players raise, don't mean that any school, athletic conference, Greek organization, team, company or other organization is involved with Quarterhold or endorses it or the banner. Quarterhold is independent of the schools and organizations named. Names and trademarks belong to their owners.

If you own or represent an organization whose name a banner uses, you can ask to claim the banner or have it removed. Email support@lvici.app.

Quarterhold is played in the real world, which has real risks. You're responsible for your own safety and for how you act.

• Obey the law, including traffic laws.
• Never play while driving.
• Never trespass, and never enter areas that are closed, private or off-limits. Respect each place's rules, hours and staff. If you're asked to leave, leave.
• Stay aware of your surroundings. Look up from your phone, especially near traffic.
• Go with friends at night.
• No rally, flag or point is worth rushing, speeding or taking a risk for.
• You never need to buy or drink anything to play. If you drink, don't drive.
• Be careful meeting people you know only from Quarterhold, and meet in public places.

We don't check places, routes or conditions, and we don't supervise players. A place on the map, a rally or an alert is never a promise that it's safe to go somewhere.

Assumption of risk. You understand that moving around in the real world involves risks, including traffic, weather, uneven ground, crime and the conduct of other people, and that these risks can lead to injury, illness, death, or loss of or damage to property. You choose to play and you voluntarily accept these risks. To the fullest extent the law allows, Quarterhold is not responsible for injury, loss or damage that happens while you play, travel to or from a place, or meet other players.

• Points, XP, flags, territory, titles, ranks, mentor marks, War Horns, standings and any other game rewards are part of the game. They have no cash value, they aren't your property, and they can't be sold, traded, transferred or exchanged for money or anything else.
• A player your invite link brings in counts as your recruit once they have confirmed their email and planted on two different days within 14 days of signing up, the first time from a different phone than yours. When many count at once, we hold them and check by hand. Recruits earn you ranks, which you keep, and War Horns, which expire. A War Horn is used up when you blow it, whether or not anyone plants while it sounds. When a recruit of yours brings in recruits of their own, you can earn mentor marks. The app shows the current rules, and they can have limits.
• We can change, reset or remove any points, ranks, War Horns or rewards at any time, and change or end these features, including to fix mistakes or undo cheating.
• Using fake accounts, sharing a phone between accounts, or inviting yourself or people who don't really play, to earn recruits, ranks or War Horns, is cheating.

• Quarterhold and everything in it, except your content, belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws.
• We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to use Quarterhold for personal, non-commercial play under these Terms.
• Other services. Quarterhold relies on outside services, such as maps from Apple (on iPhone) and Google (on Android) and place information from Foursquare. We aren't responsible for them. On Android, your use of Google Maps features is also subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service (https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps/) and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
• App stores. If you got Quarterhold from Apple's App Store or Google Play, their terms also apply. These Terms are between you and Quarterhold, not Apple or Google. Apple and Google aren't responsible for Quarterhold, its content, its support or any claims about it. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

13.1 By you

You can delete your account at any time in the app (House > Delete account) or on the web at /delete-account. Deletion is immediate. Our Privacy Policy explains what is removed and what stays. For example, points you already won stay with your banners.

13.2 By us

We can suspend or close your account, and hide or remove your banners and content, at any time, with or without cause, including if you break these Terms, if we need to protect players, businesses or Quarterhold, or if the law requires it. We may do this without notice. We may also change or stop the Service.

13.3 What continues

When your account ends, your license to use Quarterhold ends. Sections 7, 9, 10, 11 and 14 to 19 continue to apply.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

WE DON'T PROMISE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT LOCATIONS, MAPS, PLACES, SCORES OR ALERTS WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR ON TIME, OR THAT ANY PLACE IS SAFE, OPEN OR PUBLIC.

SOME PLACES DON'T ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, QUARTERHOLD WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM.

SOME PLACES DON'T ALLOW THESE LIMITS, SO THEY MAY NOT FULLY APPLY TO YOU. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT THE LAW DOESN'T ALLOW US TO LIMIT.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Quarterhold and its officers, directors, employees and agents from any claims, damages, losses or expenses arising out of your use of the Service, your content, your conduct while playing, or your violation of these Terms.

17.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict of law rules.

17.2 Arbitration

Any dispute arising out of these Terms will be resolved by binding arbitration in Miami-Dade County, Florida, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

17.3 Class action waiver

You agree to resolve disputes with us only on an individual basis, and you waive any right to take part in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration.

We may change these Terms. When we do, we'll post the new version with a new version number and date. If a change is material, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect, and we may ask you to accept the new version before you keep playing. For other changes, using Quarterhold after the change means you accept it.

• Entire agreement. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Quarterhold about the Service.
• Severability. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
• Waiver. If we don't enforce a part of these Terms, that doesn't mean we give up the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You can't transfer these Terms without our consent. We can transfer them.

• Email: support@lvici.app, for questions and reports of abuse.
• Legal notices: legal@lvici.app
• Mail: Imperium Consulting Solutions LLC, c/o Republic Registered Agent Services Inc., 8206 Louisiana Blvd NE, Ste A, Albuquerque, NM 87113