Terms of Use

Explorestraya — Melbourne

Last updated: 28 August 2026

Draft. These terms were written by the team, not by a lawyer. Have them

reviewed before launch. The clauses most worth a professional eye are the

photo licence (§5), the liability limits (§9), and whether the Australian

Consumer Law wording in §10 is right for your structure.

1. What this is

Explorestraya is a game about walking around Melbourne. You go to a place,

prove you are there, and earn points for it. That is the whole thing.

By using the app you agree to these terms. If you do not, please do not use it.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 13. If you are between 13 and 15, your account works

normally but you will not appear on leaderboards or other surfaces that show

you to strangers.

We ask for your birth year when you create an account. We use it only to apply

the rules in this section.

3. Your account

One account per person. Keep your password to yourself. Tell us if you think

someone else has got into your account.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Your account. We

give you 30 days to change your mind, then everything goes. See the Privacy

Policy for exactly what is deleted and what is not.

4. Walking safely — read this one

You are responsible for your own safety. The app shows you places; it does

not check whether it is safe to go to one right now.

• Watch the road, not the phone.
• Do not enter private property, closed sites, or anywhere fenced off.
• Do not go anywhere you would not go without the app.
• Coastal and bushland places change with weather and tide. Check conditions.
• Some places are unsafe at night, and some are unsafe alone. Use judgement.

No badge, streak or leaderboard position is worth getting hurt over. If a place

is dangerous, report it in the app and we will look at it.

5. Your photos

You keep ownership of every photo you take. Full stop.

To run the app we need permission to use them in specific ways. By uploading a

check-in photo you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence

to store it, process it, and show it:

• to you, in your own passport and history;
• to our moderators, to check it is a genuine photo of that place;
• in aggregate anti-cheat processing — we compute a perceptual fingerprint

so the same photo cannot be reused for two check-ins.

**We do not publish your photos to other users, and we do not use them in

advertising.** If that ever changes we will ask you first, per photo, and you

will be able to say no and keep using the app.

The licence ends when you delete the photo or your account, except for

fingerprints already computed — those are not images and cannot be turned back

into one.

Do not upload photos of other people without their agreement, photos you did

not take, or anything unlawful.

6. Points, badges and streaks

XP, badges, collections and streak counts have no monetary value. They

cannot be bought, sold, transferred or exchanged for anything.

We may adjust them when something has gone wrong — a bug, a rejected photo, or

cheating. Adjustments are made by adding a correcting entry, never by quietly

editing history, and you can see every entry in your data export.

7. Playing fairly

Do not fake your location, reuse photos, use software to automate check-ins, or

create accounts to farm referrals.

If we think you have, we may hold XP for review, remove it, or suspend the

account. You can appeal any decision about a photo from inside the app, and a

person will read it.

8. Things we get wrong

Place information comes from open government and council data, edited by hand.

It will sometimes be wrong: a café will have closed, a gate will be locked, a

pin will be a few metres out. Report it and we will fix it.

The app needs a network and GPS to work. Neither is ours, and neither is

reliable everywhere.

9. Our responsibility

We provide the app "as is". To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for

indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of it.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited —

including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.

10. Australian Consumer Law

Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the

Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies

those guarantees.

11. Changes

We may change these terms. If a change matters, we will tell you in the app

before it takes effect. Continuing to use the app after that means you accept

the new version.

12. Contact

support@explorestraya.com.au