Pocket Wildlife — Terms of Use
These terms apply to the Pocket Wildlife phone apps, the web app and the website. By creating an account or using the community features you agree to them. How we handle your data is in the Privacy Policy.
Your account
You need an account only for backups, groups, the board, the community map and purchases; logging sightings works without one. Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what you post under your account. You can delete the account at any time from the Groups tab.
Community rules
Trail names, group names, group descriptions and reports are seen by other people. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Do not post or use:
- hateful, harassing, threatening, sexual or violent names or descriptions;
- names that impersonate another person, an organisation or the Pocket Wildlife team;
- spam, advertising, or personal information about anyone (addresses, phone numbers, real locations of people);
- anything that helps someone disturb, harm, collect or poach wildlife, including nest or den locations.
Report a group or a person from their page, and block anyone you do not want to see. Reports are read by the Pocket Wildlife team, usually within 24 hours. We can rename, hide or remove groups, remove or ban members, and suspend or permanently ban accounts from the community features, without notice when the case is clear. Every action is recorded. Appeals: dylan@pocketwildlife.com.
In the field
Keep your distance, stay on paths, follow local rules and never trespass. Do not chase, feed or bait animals for a sighting or a photo. Species identifications from the app are suggestions; check them before relying on them, and never use the app to decide whether an animal or a plant is safe to touch or eat.
Purchases
- Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription bought through Google Play or the App Store. It renews automatically until you cancel it in that store's subscription settings; cancelling keeps Premium until the paid period ends. Prices are shown in the app before you confirm.
- Store items (animated avatars, frames, profile backgrounds) are one-time purchases. They are cosmetic only: they never change points, ranks or anything else in the game. They belong to your account and come back with Restore purchases on a new phone.
- Free items from ads: watching the optional rewarded videos on the Store tab can unlock a free avatar or background, within the limits shown in the app.
- Refunds are handled by the store you paid: Google Play or Apple. A refunded item is taken off your account.
- Purchases made on iPhone are also covered by Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement.
The app itself
Pocket Wildlife is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and your backups safe, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of mistakes, and features may change. Species information comes from public sources (GBIF, Wikipedia and others) and may contain errors. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses from using the app. Nothing here limits rights you have under the consumer law where you live.
Changes and contact
If these terms change, the date at the top changes and the app points to the new version. Questions: dylan@pocketwildlife.com.