Terms of Use

Draft for legal review. Version of 20 October 2026. Text in [square brackets] is a placeholder or a question for the lawyers. Not yet published.

These terms are an agreement between you and Citadel Technology South Limited, a company incorporated in Hong Kong (company no. 81230040), [registered address] (“we”, “us”), the company behind RunBattle. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data.

1. What RunBattle is

RunBattle is a free running tracker with a game on a shared city map. You record runs; a run that closes a loop captures the area inside as your zone. You can take over another player’s zone by running its outline faster than the owner’s time, with the in-app navigator guiding you. Mystery Boxes appear on the map, missions give coins, and coins buy visual items in the shop. You can add friends and message them.

We are still building RunBattle. Features may change, appear or go away, and the service may sometimes be unavailable.

2. Who can use it

• You must be at least 13. We count by birth year: you qualify from 1 January of the year you turn 13. If the birth year you enter is later than that, we don’t store it and your account is locked: no runs, friends or messages. You can still look at the map without an account, delete the account, or write to us if the year was a mistake.
• If you are under the age of digital consent in your country (14 in Spain, between 13 and 16 elsewhere in the EU), a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you. [Legal review: the consent flow is not built yet.]
• If you are under 18, please read these terms with a parent or guardian.
• Messages open in the calendar year you turn 14, from 1 January of that year. We use the birth year you enter; you must enter it truthfully. You can correct it once, but a correction that would open messages goes through us. The chat age is a setting and may change; see the Privacy Policy.

3. Your account

• Sign in with Apple, Google, Facebook, VK ID or a one-time e-mail code. One account per person.
• Pick a nickname that doesn’t pretend to be someone else, isn’t offensive and doesn’t contain contact details. We filter some words and may rename or reset a nickname that breaks these rules. You can change your nickname up to 3 times a day.
• Keep access to your sign-in account safe. You are responsible for what happens in your RunBattle account.
• You can delete your account at any time: Profile → Settings → Delete account.

4. Run safely

RunBattle is a game, but you run in real streets.

• Watch the road, follow traffic rules and look up from the screen. The navigator and voice prompts are a guide, not a reason to cross on a red light.
• Don’t enter private property, closed areas, rail tracks or other places where you shouldn’t be, even if a zone, a Mystery Box or a special place is there.
• Missions don’t reward speed. Daily missions handed out after 7 pm leave out the one that sends you onto streets you haven’t run before.
• Talk to a doctor before you start training if you have a health condition. RunBattle is not a medical device. Heart rate, calories and pace are estimates.
• You take part at your own risk, to the extent the law allows (see section 13).

5. Fair play

Zones, Mystery Boxes and coins only mean something if everyone plays fair. You must not:

• record runs on a bike, scooter, car or any other vehicle, or have someone else run for you;
• fake or alter your location (GPS spoofing), edit tracks, or upload runs you didn’t do;
• use bots, scripts or modified apps, or attack or overload our servers;
• create more than one account, or share or sell accounts;
• use bugs to gain coins, items or zones. If you find one, tell us.

Our anti-cheat checks every run. It rejects parts that are faster than a person can run and runs with suspicious gaps. If we find cheating, we may cancel runs, remove zones, take back coins and items, and suspend or close the account.

6. Zones and what others see

Your zones, your nickname and a trimmed replay of the run that captured a zone are visible to all players. That’s how the game works. Any player can take over your zone by the rules shown in the app, and you can take it back the same way. A zone nobody has run for a while may start to fade on the map. We may change the rules of capture and take-over to keep the game fair.

7. Mystery Boxes

• Mystery Boxes are free. They can’t be bought, and nothing in RunBattle increases your chances for money.
• You pick up a box by closing a loop around it. A box inside someone’s zone goes to the owner after 24 hours unless another player takes that zone over first.
• Each box has a rarity. The odds of each rarity and of each reward inside are shown in the app, before you open a box. They are the same for every player.
• Today, boxes contain only coins and cosmetic items. If you already own the item, you get its price in coins instead. Every box gives something.
• Boxes contain no real-money prizes. Promo codes and physical prizes from partners are switched off. If we ever add them, separate prize rules will say who can win, how, and where. Those rules will apply to minors only where the law allows it.

8. Coins and the shop

• You earn coins by running, capturing zones, missions and Mystery Boxes. Coins from runs have a daily limit.
• Coins have no real-world value. You can’t buy them, sell them, cash them out, transfer them to another player, or exchange them for anything outside RunBattle.
• The shop sells only visual items: map themes, zone styles, trails and runner markers. They change how things look and give no advantage in the game.
• We don’t sell anything for money in RunBattle today. If we add paid features later, they will be offered through the App Store under its terms, and we will update these terms first.
• We may change prices, items and how many coins activities give. If we close RunBattle, coins and items end with it; they can’t be refunded because nobody paid for them.

9. Friends and messages

You can message only friends who accepted your request, and only from age 14. When you message someone or share a zone card:

• be respectful. No harassment, threats, hate, sexual content, or content that targets someone’s age, body, origin, religion or sexuality;
• don’t share anyone’s personal details (address, phone, school, photos) without their permission;
• don’t ask younger players to meet you in person, to move to another app, or to send photos;
• no spam, scams, advertising or links to malware.

Use Report and Block wherever you see a name. A block removes the friendship and stops requests and messages between you. We review reports by hand and may remove content, limit features, or suspend or close accounts. If someone is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number first.

10. Your content

Your nickname, profile photo, messages and runs stay yours. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, free licence to store, copy and show them as needed to run RunBattle: for example, to show your zones on the map and deliver your messages. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies other players already received in chats with you before deletion, reports kept for safety, and backups for the short time they last.

Don’t upload content you don’t have the right to share.

11. Other services

RunBattle works with other services, and their own terms apply to them:

• Apple Health, Sign in with Apple, and the App Store (Apple);
• Google, Facebook (Meta) and VK ID sign-in;
• maps by Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap contributors;
• place data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation;
• weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

We are not responsible for how those services work.

12. Our rights

The app, its design, the RunBattle name and logo, and the in-game items belong to us or our licensors. You may use the app for your personal, non-commercial use. Don’t copy, resell, reverse-engineer or build a competing service from RunBattle, except where the law allows it.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts other people at risk. Where it’s reasonable, we will tell you why. You can stop using RunBattle at any time.

13. No guarantees and limits of liability

We provide RunBattle “as is”. GPS is not always accurate, zones may be miscounted, and the service may go down. To the extent the law allows, we give no guarantee that RunBattle will be error-free or always available.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for injury or damage that comes from running, from where you choose to run, or from other players’ behaviour. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn’t allow us to limit, such as for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, your mandatory rights under your country’s law still apply.

14. Apple App Store

If you got RunBattle from the App Store:

• these terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple isn’t responsible for RunBattle or its content;
• Apple has no duty to provide maintenance or support for RunBattle;
• if the app fails to meet a warranty that applies, you can tell Apple; to the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation;
• Apple isn’t responsible for claims about RunBattle, including product liability, legal or regulatory claims, or intellectual property claims;
• you confirm that you are not in a country under a US embargo and not on a US list of prohibited parties;
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

15. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of [Hong Kong]. [Legal review: if you live in the EU or UK, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country and may bring a claim in your local courts.] Before going to court, please write to us; most problems can be solved by e-mail.

16. Changes

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. If you keep using RunBattle after that, the new terms apply. If you don’t agree, you can delete your account.

17. Contact

Citadel Technology South Limited, Hong Kong, [registered address] Support: support@runbattle.io · Privacy: privacy@runbattle.io