Important: Trophle is an educational game. Its puzzles and source notes are not professional scientific, conservation, medical, environmental, legal, or safety advice.
1. Accepting these terms
By accessing or using Trophle, you agree to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. You must be at least 13 to create an account. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, use Trophle only with permission from a parent or legal guardian who accepts these terms on your behalf.
2. The Services
Trophle provides a daily ecology puzzle and supporting educational material. The native Android and iOS apps have no Trophle account and keep game progress in local app storage, subject to platform backup and device-transfer behavior. The separate website offers optional account features that may include archive samples, saved web progress, web streaks, and recognition of website archive access. Feature availability differs among the website, Android app, and iOS app and may change as the product develops.
3. Educational content and accuracy
We aim to ground puzzles in reliable sources, but ecology is complex and scientific understanding, classifications, population conditions, and source websites change. Puzzles necessarily simplify relationships and may contain errors or omit important context. Dates and locations associated with organisms or ecological events are illustrative or source-based and do not establish current local conditions.
Do not use Trophle to make decisions involving health, consumption or handling of organisms, species identification, wildlife contact, land management, legal compliance, or personal safety. Consult current primary sources and qualified professionals where a decision matters.
4. Accounts
The native Android and iOS apps do not offer a Trophle account. An account is optional on the website and may be required for web archive or web progress features. The website may use a passwordless email link for sign-in. You are responsible for providing an address you control, protecting access to that inbox and sign-in links, and notifying us of suspected unauthorized access.
You may request deletion of your website account as described in the Privacy Policy. Deleting it may permanently remove saved web archive plays, web streak information, and other website account records. It does not delete local native-app data, remove a platform backup, automatically create a refund, or erase records we must retain for legal or transaction purposes.
5. Archive access and purchases
Trophle may offer a limited number of archive samples at no charge and a one-time purchase for broader archive access. The price, platform, content, and access included will be shown before purchase. A purchase grants a personal, limited, non-transferable license to use the purchased feature on the platform identified at checkout; it does not transfer ownership of puzzles or software.
Website payments are processed by Stripe under the terms shown at checkout. Apple processes iOS purchases through the App Store, and Google processes Android purchases through Google Play. Qualifying native-app purchases may be restored through the mechanisms Trophle and the applicable platform provide. Refund requests are governed by the payment platform’s policies and applicable law.
Website, iOS, and Android archive access are separate. A purchase on one platform does not unlock either of the other platforms. Each platform displays its own price and purchase terms before payment. Prices may differ by platform, currency, tax, or region.
6. Acceptable use
You may not use the Services to break the law or facilitate harm; infringe another person’s rights; probe, disrupt, overload, scrape, bypass, or compromise the Services; gain unauthorized access to an account or paid feature; automate play or archive extraction except with our written permission; remove ownership notices; misrepresent Trophle content as professional advice; or reproduce, resell, publish, or commercially exploit puzzles or software without written permission.
7. Intellectual property
Trophle—including its software, branding, interfaces, puzzle text, original illustrations, arrangements, and design—is owned by Ecopoiesis or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. These terms do not transfer ownership. Facts, scientific concepts, and third-party source material remain subject to their applicable rights and licenses.
8. Sharing and external links
Trophle may let you share a spoiler-free result for personal, noncommercial use. You are responsible for the destination and any commentary you add. Source links and other external websites are provided for convenience and context. We do not control or endorse every statement, product, privacy practice, or later change on an external site.
9. Availability and changes
We do not guarantee that every puzzle, archive feature, account, purchase path, streak, or online service will always be available or error-free. We may correct puzzles, change features, update sources, suspend online functions for maintenance or security, or discontinue a Service. We will use reasonable efforts to avoid materially depriving purchasers of access without an appropriate remedy where required by law.
Local browser or device data can be lost through app removal, browser clearing, device failure, software changes, or other events. Website account storage is not a backup guarantee. Do not rely on a streak or play history as information you cannot afford to lose.
10. Third-party services
The Services rely on third parties that may include Apple, Google, Supabase, Stripe, Vercel, Plausible, and linked scientific publishers. Their services have separate terms and may change or become unavailable. We are not responsible for a third party’s independent services, content, or conduct except where applicable law provides otherwise.
11. Disclaimer of warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available.” Ecopoiesis disclaims implied warranties including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and non-infringement. These disclaimers do not limit consumer rights or warranties that cannot lawfully be excluded.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ecopoiesis and its members, personnel, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, access, profits, opportunities, or goodwill arising from the Services. Ecopoiesis’s aggregate liability for a claim relating to the Services will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid for Trophle during the 12 months before the claim or US $50. These limits do not apply where prohibited or to liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
13. Suspension and termination
You may stop using Trophle at any time. We may suspend or terminate access to an online or account feature if you materially violate these terms, misuse paid access, or if reasonably necessary to protect users, the Services, or others. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, disclaimers, and liability limits—will survive.
14. Native app licenses
The Trophle native apps are licensed, not sold. Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to the iOS app unless Ecopoiesis supplies a separate custom license through the App Store. Google Play’s applicable terms govern use of Google Play and purchases made through it. These Terms govern the Trophle service and supplement the applicable platform terms. If a conflict concerns a platform’s distribution or payment service, the applicable platform terms control to the extent required.
15. Changes, severability, and waiver
We may update these terms and will post the current version at this URL with its effective date. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be adjusted only as much as necessary and the remaining provisions will continue in effect. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
16. Contact
Ecopoiesis Consulting LLC
PO Box 117
Nottingham, NH 03290
info@ecopoiesisconsulting.com