Terms of Service

1. Provider, Scope and Conclusion of the Contract

1.1 These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern the use of the game MapRaiders in the browser at mapraiders.com/play/ and in the MapRaiders app (together the “Game”). The provider and your contracting party is SCAFA INVESTMENTS LLC, a limited liability company under the law of the State of Florida, 9830 Bahama Dr, Cutler Bay, FL 33189-1568, USA, email info@scafa-investments.com, phone +49 170 3220161 (“we”, “us”). Further details, including our representative in the European Union, are in the Imprint.

1.2 MapRaiders is a location-based online game with a trading card game. Players take land on a map of the real world by walking, running or cycling a loop with GPS. They collect cards from finds on the map and from the shop, build decks and play card duels against other players and against the computer, defend their land, build on it, complete quests and missions, fight world monsters, join clans, and can write to and talk with other players and rate the Game.

1.3 The Game is in an open beta and is free of charge. Features may change under Section 10.

1.4 The contract of use is concluded when you create an account and confirm that you meet the minimum age and accept these Terms. For anyone who plays as a guest without an account, Sections 3 to 8, 10, 11 and 16 apply accordingly. Players’ own terms do not apply.

1.5 You create an account in the Game with “Create account” or by signing in with Google or Apple. You can correct your entries in the form until you submit it. We do not store the contract text separately for you; the Terms in force are available at mapraiders.com/en-in/terms.html, where you can save and print them. The contract languages are the languages in which these Terms are offered. To play you need an internet connection and an up-to-date browser or the Android app, and for land with GPS a device with location services.

2. Account and Minimum Age

2.1 You create an account with an email address and password, with Google or with Apple. A new account receives a neutral player name, which you can change in the Game.

2.2 You must be at least 16 years old, in India at least 18 years. If you are not yet of full age, you may create an account only with the consent of your parents or other guardians; they can ask us to delete the account. If we learn that an account belongs to a younger person, we delete it.

2.3 Give true information when you register and keep your login details secret. If you notice that someone is misusing your account, please write to us at once. You are responsible for actions taken through your account to the extent you are at fault for them.

2.4 Each person may have only one account. Accounts are personal and may not be sold, rented or passed on.

3. Safety When Playing Outdoors

3.1 MapRaiders is played in the real world. Always pay attention to your surroundings first and to the screen second. You are responsible for your own conduct while playing; Section 11 remains unaffected.

3.2 Road traffic: Obey the traffic rules. Never operate the Game while you are driving or riding any vehicle, including a bicycle or an e-scooter; stop in a safe place to do so. When you cycle, the Game records your loop without you having to operate it: mount your phone in a holder and do not look at it while riding. The vehicle modes in the Game are meant only for passengers and for public transport. Do not keep your eyes on your phone when you cross a road on foot.

3.3 Private property and closed areas: Do not enter land, buildings or premises without permission, and do not enter closed or dangerous areas such as railway tracks, construction sites, industrial or military sites or nature reserves. Respect opening hours, house rules and other people’s peace. Game locations such as spawn points, quest stations, finds or world monsters are not an invitation to enter a place and say nothing about whether it is accessible or safe. The map data comes from OpenStreetMap and may be inaccurate or out of date.

3.4 Health and weather: Play only as far as your physical condition allows, and adapt to the weather, darkness and terrain. Take breaks and drink enough.

3.5 Other players: If you play with an account, then after “Start here” and while you walk by GPS, players within about 1.5 kilometres see your figure at your real location, with your player name and clan (details in the Privacy Policy). Meet other players only in public places, and do not follow anyone.

3.6 You are responsible under the statutory rules for your own conduct while playing, in particular for traffic offences, entering other people’s property without permission, and any damage you cause to yourself or others in doing so. Our liability under Section 11 remains unaffected.

4. Location and the Game World

4.1 The Game uses the location of your device only when you choose “Start here” or “Walk by GPS” and allow location access. You can also start at another place on the map and move your figure with the on-screen joystick; you can take land with a loop only with GPS. How we process location data is described in the Privacy Policy.

4.2 Land, buildings, spawn points and all other game content on the map exist only in the Game. They give no rights to the real places. Land can be lost to other players in the Game.

4.3 How accurately your location is detected depends on your device, the surroundings and the signal. The Game automatically checks whether loops, runs and scores are plausible and rejects a loop or score that fails the check. If you think a rejection is wrong, a human reviews it when you write to us.

5. Rules of Conduct

When playing, and in any content you post, the following is prohibited:

• Faking your location: GPS spoofing, mock location apps, emulators, modified clients or any other means that report a false device location to the Game. The Game’s joystick is allowed.
• Cheating: bots, scripts, automated play, exploits and deliberately abusing bugs. Please report bugs to us.
• Trading for money: buying, selling or offering accounts, coins, cards or other game content for real money or goods.
• Illegal content: content that breaks the law, such as incitement to hatred, depictions of violence, depictions of sexual abuse, threats or calls to commit crimes.
• Hate and harassment: insults, hate speech, discrimination, threats, sexual harassment, and stalking or intimidating other players in the Game or in the real world.
• Other people’s data: publishing other people’s personal data, in particular their home address or whereabouts, and recording voice chat or calls without the consent of everyone taking part.
• Deception and spam: pretending to be another person, another player or us, advertising, spam and chain messages.
• Third-party rights: content that infringes other people’s copyright, trademark or personality rights.
• Attacks on the Game: attacking, overloading or spying on the Game, its servers or other players by technical means.

Player names, clan names and the names of land and spawn points must also not be offensive or misleading and must not contain other people’s data. What we do in case of violations is set out in Section 7.

6. Player Content

6.1 In the Game you can post your own content: your player name, messages to other players and in your clan, clan names and clan pictures, names of land and spawn points, your own building plans, ratings of the Game and nicknames on the leaderboard. Voice chat and calls are live; we do not record them.

6.2 You keep your rights to your content. You grant us the simple, worldwide, royalty-free right to store the content, display it in the Game to the players it is meant for and, where the feature provides for it (clan picture, ratings, leaderboard), show it publicly on mapraiders.com. This right ends when you delete the content or your account; backup copies are overwritten after 60 days at the latest.

6.3 You are responsible for your content. You may only post content for which you hold the necessary rights and which complies with Section 5.

6.4 We do not generally monitor content. How we handle reports and violations is set out in Section 7.

7. Reports, Moderation and Complaints

7.1 Point of contact: Our single point of contact for players and authorities under Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 on digital services (Digital Services Act, DSA) is info@scafa-investments.com. You can reach us there in German and English; the reply is written by a human. Our legal representative in the European Union under Article 13 DSA is named in the Imprint. For users in India, the address above is also the grievance contact under Rule 3(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021; we acknowledge a grievance within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days.

7.2 How we moderate: Clan names and rating texts are checked on saving by an automatic word filter that rejects insults and spam. Clan pictures appear only once we have approved them. The Game automatically checks loops and scores for plausibility (Section 4.3). Reports are reviewed by a human; nothing happens to an account automatically because of a report alone, and accounts are never suspended or restricted automatically.

7.3 Reporting: You report a player in the Game in the chat or on their player card. Anyone, including people without an account, can also report illegal content to us by email to info@scafa-investments.com. Please state: why the content is illegal; exactly where it is (player name, clan, name of the land or spawn point, time, a screenshot if possible); your name and email address, except for reports of offences under Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU (sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children); and your statement that the information is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge. We confirm receipt of a report, for reports in the Game to the email address of your account, review it promptly, diligently and objectively, and tell you our decision and how you can challenge it.

7.4 Measures: If the law or these Terms are breached, we may remove or hide the content, reset a name, block individual features such as chat or voice chat, take back advantages gained by cheating, suspend an account temporarily or terminate the contract under Section 12.4. We choose the measure according to the severity, consequences and repetition of the violation and the degree of fault, taking the interests of everyone involved into account. As a rule we warn first. Before suspending or terminating an account we tell you the reason and give you the opportunity to respond, except where others are at risk or in case of serious violations of the law, such as illegal content, threats or faking a location; then we may act at once and hear you afterwards.

7.5 Statement of reasons: If we restrict your content or your account, we tell you by email or in the Game at the latest when the measure takes effect, stating the type and duration of the measure, the facts it is based on, the rule or law breached, whether automated means were involved, and how you can challenge it (Article 17 DSA). This does not apply where an authority or the law forbids it.

7.6 Complaints: You can complain about our decision on content or on your account, including a decision to take no action on a report, within six months of being notified of the decision, by email to info@scafa-investments.com. A human reviews the complaint; if the decision was wrong, we reverse it. Your right to go to court remains unaffected.

7.7 If someone frequently submits manifestly unfounded reports or complaints, we may, after a prior warning, stop processing their reports for a reasonable time. If we have information giving rise to a suspicion of a criminal offence involving a threat to the life or safety of persons, we inform the law enforcement authorities of the state concerned without delay.

8. Virtual Items, Coins and the Shop

8.1 Coins (the game currency), cards, finds, decks, experience points, titles, skins, vehicles, companions, buildings, land and all other game content have no monetary value. You receive only the simple right to use them in the Game for the term of the contract; you do not acquire ownership of them. You can pass game content on only under 8.2.

8.2 You earn coins and other game content by playing, for example with new land, won duels and completed challenges, or receive them from us as a credit. You cannot buy them for real money, exchange them for real money or goods, or have them paid out. You pass coins and game content to other players only through the game features provided for this, for example as tribute to the clan treasury, as pay to your clan’s leader, as a fare or by handing a building over to your clan; in the Game you can also lose them through attacks, raids or the loss of land.

8.3 In the shop you receive finds with cards in exchange for coins. Before you buy, the shop shows the price in coins and how many and what kind of cards a find contains; which cards exactly it holds is decided by chance.

8.4 We may change values, prices in coins, card values, find chances and game rules if there is a valid reason, such as game balance, fixing errors, preventing abuse or legal requirements, and the change is reasonable for you. Anything you received only through an error or through a breach of Section 5 we may correct.

8.5 When the contract ends, the game content of the account lapses. As you paid no money for it, nothing is refunded.

9. Paid Content

9.1 We currently sell nothing for real money. The premium pass shown in the Game is not available; the app does not show it.

9.2 We offer paid content only under separate terms, which you expressly accept before your first purchase. Before every purchase we inform you of the price, the payment method, the main characteristics and your right of withdrawal. A purchase is concluded only when you expressly confirm it with a button that tells you that you are committing to pay. Your statutory rights remain unaffected.

10. Availability and Changes to the Game

10.1 We try to keep the Game available at all times but cannot promise this. Maintenance, updates and faults may interrupt the Game from time to time.

10.2 We may develop the Game further and change, add or remove features if there is a valid reason, such as new features, technical developments, security, game balance or legal requirements, the change is reasonable for you and it causes you no costs. We inform you clearly and comprehensibly about every change. If a change impairs your access or the usability more than only slightly, we inform you by email in good time beforehand of its characteristics, its timing and your right to end the contract free of charge within 30 days of receiving this information or, if the change is made later, of the change (Section 327r of the German Civil Code, BGB). This does not apply if you can continue to use the Game unchanged at no extra cost.

10.3 We may discontinue the Game as a whole with four weeks’ notice. We announce this by email and in the Game; until then you can download your data in your account.

10.4 Your statutory rights in case of defects in digital products (Sections 327 et seq. BGB) remain unaffected.

11. Liability

11.1 We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, for fraudulently concealed defects, under a guarantee we have given and under the German Product Liability Act.

11.2 In case of slight negligence we are liable only if we breach an essential contractual obligation, that is, an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. Liability is then limited to the damage that is typical for the contract and foreseeable.

11.3 Otherwise our liability for slight negligence is excluded, including for damage from inaccurate location detection (Section 4.3) and for the loss of game progress, unless 11.1 or 11.2 applies.

11.4 These rules also apply to the personal liability of our employees, representatives and agents.

12. Term, Termination and Account Deletion

12.1 The contract of use runs for an indefinite period.

12.2 You can end it at any time without notice and without giving reasons by deleting your account in the Game under Menu, Account, Security with “Delete account”, or by writing to us at info@scafa-investments.com. What happens to your data is described on the Delete account page (in English) and in the Privacy Policy.

12.3 We may terminate the contract for an objective reason with four weeks’ notice by email and tell you the reason.

12.4 For good cause we may terminate the contract without notice and suspend the account, in particular in case of serious violations of Section 5 or violations repeated despite a warning, several accounts held by one person, or if you do not meet the minimum age. We hear you under Section 7.4, give you the reasons under Section 7.5, and you can complain under Section 7.6.

12.5 When the contract ends, including by our termination, or if we suspend your account permanently, we provide you on request, free of charge, with the content you provided in the Game in a common, machine-readable format.

13. Right of Withdrawal for Consumers

If you are a consumer, you have the following right of withdrawal. As the use is free of charge, a withdrawal costs you nothing.

Withdrawal notice. You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day the contract is concluded, that is, the day you create your account. To exercise the right of withdrawal, you must inform us (SCAFA INVESTMENTS LLC, 9830 Bahama Dr, Cutler Bay, FL 33189-1568, USA, phone +49 170 3220161, email info@scafa-investments.com) of your decision to withdraw from this contract by an unequivocal statement (e.g. a letter sent by post or an email). You may use the model withdrawal form below, but it is not obligatory. To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal. If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you without undue delay and in any event not later than fourteen days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract. As the use is free of charge, we receive no payments from you. The withdrawal ends the contract, and we delete your account as described in Section 12.2. On request we provide you, free of charge, with the content you provided in the Game in a common, machine-readable format.

Model withdrawal form. If you wish to withdraw from the contract, please complete and return this form: To SCAFA INVESTMENTS LLC, 9830 Bahama Dr, Cutler Bay, FL 33189-1568, USA, email info@scafa-investments.com, phone +49 170 3220161: I/We hereby give notice that I/we withdraw from my/our contract for the use of the game MapRaiders. Concluded on: ... Name: ... Player name and email address of the account: ... Address: ... Date: ... Signature (only if this form is notified on paper).

14. Changes to These Terms

14.1 We may change these Terms if there is a valid reason, such as changes in the law or case law, new features of the Game, technical changes or security.

14.2 We send you the new text, with the changes marked, by email to the address of your account at least six weeks before it is planned to take effect, and we ask for your express consent the next time you sign in to the Game.

14.3 Without your express consent the changes do not become part of the contract; there is no tacit consent, for example by continuing to play. Until you consent to the changed Terms, you cannot continue to use the Game. Your account remains in place. You can export your data and delete your account at any time, and you can terminate the contract at any time under Section 12.2; while you have not consented, you can do so by email to info@scafa-investments.com.

14.4 If you do not consent, we may terminate the contract under Section 12.3. Your right to delete your account at any time remains unaffected.

15. Data Protection and App Stores

15.1 How we process personal data is explained in the Privacy Policy.

15.2 You get the MapRaiders app from app stores such as Google Play. The store operator is not your contracting party for the Game and owes neither maintenance nor support for it; direct any claims concerning the Game to us. The store’s terms also apply to downloading the app.

16. Governing Law, Jurisdiction, Dispute Resolution and Final Provisions

16.1 The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence (Article 6(2) Rome I Regulation).

16.2 For consumers, the statutory places of jurisdiction apply; we do not agree a place of jurisdiction with consumers. Consumers in India keep their remedies under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

16.3 We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Section 36 of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act, VSBG).

16.4 If a provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the rest of the contract remains valid. The statutory provisions take the place of the invalid provision.