Legal
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the TerraMine mobile application ("the App") operated by TerraMine ("we," "our," or "us"). By downloading or using the App, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
You must be at least 13 years old to use TerraMine. By creating an account, you represent that you meet this age requirement. If you are between 13 and 17, you represent that a parent or guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf.
Certain features of the App, including the ability to upload check-in photos and view photo content submitted by other players, are restricted to users who are 18 years of age or older. Users between the ages of 13 and 17 are blocked from accessing these features. By using photo-enabled features, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to:
Users are permitted to hold up to two accounts at this time. However, using multiple accounts to exploit referral bonuses (see Section 18, Referral Program and Referral Abuse), circumvent gameplay restrictions, or gain any unfair advantage is strictly prohibited. Such abuse will result in the suspension or permanent termination of all associated accounts without notice.
Using multiple devices, browser sessions, or app installations to access the same account is permitted for your own personal convenience — for example, switching between a phone and a tablet. However, using multiple devices or sessions simultaneously, or in coordination, to bypass cooldowns, rate limits, daily caps, or any other pacing mechanic built into the App is considered abuse under Section 4 (Acceptable Use), regardless of whether only one account is involved, and may result in suspension or termination of your account.
This applies even if each individual action taken — including watching any required advertisement — otherwise complies with these Terms. The violation is completing more cooldown-gated actions in a given period than a single device or session would allow, not any one action on its own.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.
TerraMine uses a virtual currency called TerraBucks (TB). TerraBucks and all in-game items, including virtual properties (TerraAcres), resources, and game progress, are virtual goods with no real-world monetary value unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Important: Virtual currency and in-game items cannot be exchanged for real money, transferred between accounts, or redeemed outside the App. The only way any value leaves the App is a completed withdrawal of USD earnings through the App's official withdrawal feature, as described below. All virtual goods are licensed to you, not sold.
USD earnings have no cash value until withdrawn. The USD earnings balance shown in the App (including any "earnings," "USD balance," or similar figure) is an in-game measure of rewards that may become eligible for withdrawal. It is not money, a bank account, a deposit, wages, or a debt owed to you. It has no cash value, earns no interest, and cannot be sold, transferred, or pledged. USD earnings become an actual payment only when a withdrawal request is approved and paid to you through a supported payout method (such as PayPal or a gift card).
Until a withdrawal is paid, your USD earnings balance may be adjusted, corrected, reduced, or forfeited, including:
Withdrawals are subject to eligibility requirements, which may include account verification (such as a verified phone number), minimum and maximum amounts, monthly limits, waiting periods, review, and a country-based exchange fee (see terramine.app/exchange-rates.html). We may hold, delay, or deny a withdrawal request while we review your account for compliance with these Terms. Payments sent to a payout account or email address you provide are final once sent, and we are not responsible for payments sent to incorrect details you entered.
You agree not to:
Violations may result in immediate account suspension or termination without notice.
You may submit content through the App, including check-in messages and photos ("User Content"). By submitting User Content, you grant TerraMine a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display, and transmit that content as necessary to operate the App.
You represent that you own or have the right to submit any User Content you provide, and that it does not violate any third-party rights or applicable laws.
We reserve the right to remove any User Content at our discretion, without notice, including but not limited to content that:
Removal of a photo does not result in reversal of any TerraBucks or rewards already earned at the time of submission, except where the content violates these Terms through fraudulent or abusive behavior.
TerraMine requires access to your device's location to function. Location data is used solely to enable core gameplay features as described in our Privacy Policy. You may revoke location access at any time through your device settings, but doing so will prevent certain features of the App from working.
The App contains optional rewarded video advertisements. Watching ads is never required to play the game — ads are available only to earn bonus in-game rewards at your discretion. Ad content is provided by Google AdMob and is subject to Google's policies.
All content in the App, including but not limited to graphics, game mechanics, code, text, and the TerraMine name and logo, is the property of TerraMine and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works based on App content without our prior written permission.
THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
We make no guarantees regarding the availability, accuracy, or continuity of in-game earnings, virtual currency balances, or game progress. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the App at any time.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TERRAMINE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE APP, INCLUDING LOSS OF VIRTUAL CURRENCY, IN-GAME ITEMS, OR GAME PROGRESS.
Our total liability to you for any claim arising from your use of the App shall not exceed the amount you have paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, if any.
You may delete your account at any time from the Settings screen in the App. Upon deletion, your account data will be permanently removed from our systems within 30 days.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at our discretion if we believe you have violated these Terms, without liability to you.
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the App after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. We will make reasonable efforts to notify users of material changes via the App or email.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising from these Terms or your use of the App shall be resolved in the courts of Massachusetts.
To maintain the health of the TerraMine community, accounts that show no activity for an extended period are subject to the following enforcement timeline, based on the number of days since your last account-level activity:
Note: "Account activity" is defined as any login, check-in, property interaction, daily mine maintenance, game play, or any other in-game action that updates your account's last active timestamp. Simply having an account does not count as activity.
Account inactivity is tracked independently from property inactivity (see Section 15). An account may be considered active even if individual properties are inactive, and vice versa.
We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of impending suspension via the email address associated with your account. However, delivery of these notifications is not guaranteed, and it remains your responsibility to maintain activity.
We reserve the right to adjust these thresholds at any time. Material changes to this policy will be communicated in accordance with Section 12 of these Terms.
Each virtual property (TerraAcre) you own is tracked independently for activity. Property inactivity is measured from the date of last activity on that specific property, regardless of your overall account activity. You may have an active account while individual properties are considered inactive.
"Property activity" includes any of the following actions performed on or associated with a specific TerraAcre:
The following enforcement timeline applies to each property individually:
Important: Property forfeiture is permanent and irreversible. We strongly recommend setting reminders to maintain your properties regularly, especially if you own a large number of TerraAcres. No compensation will be provided for forfeited properties.
We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of impending earnings pauses and forfeiture via the email address associated with your account. However, delivery of these notifications is not guaranteed, and it remains your responsibility to monitor and maintain your properties.
We reserve the right to adjust these thresholds at any time. Material changes to this policy will be communicated in accordance with Section 12 of these Terms.
TerraMine is a location-based game that relies on accurate GPS and device location data to ensure fair gameplay. Manipulating, faking, or spoofing your device's location is strictly prohibited. This includes using legitimate device privacy features — such as "Approximate Location," reduced location accuracy, or similar settings — in a manner intended to circumvent the App's location-based proximity requirements, even though such features are not themselves spoofing tools. Emulators and virtual devices are prohibited outright: because they can be used to fake a device's location, running the App on any emulator, virtual device, or device farm is a violation of these Terms in itself, whether or not you actually alter your location, and we do not need to show that your location was falsified.
Prohibited actions include, but are not limited to:
Why this matters: Location spoofing allows players to claim properties, earn rewards, and check in to locations they have not physically visited. This undermines the integrity of the game for all players and violates the core premise of TerraMine.
We actively monitor for location anomalies, including impossible travel speeds, repeated check-ins from implausible distances, and patterns consistent with known spoofing tools. Detection of spoofing may result in:
We reserve the right to take action based on our reasonable belief that spoofing has occurred, without being required to disclose our detection methods. Appeals may be submitted to scott@terramine.app.
Check-in photos are a feature of TerraMine that allows players to share images when visiting properties. The following rules apply to all photo submissions:
Age Restriction: Photo upload and photo viewing features are available to users aged 18 and older only. Players between the ages of 13 and 17 are blocked from accessing these features.
Permitted Content: General photos, location images, and adult or suggestive content are permitted provided the content is legal, does not depict minors in any sexual or suggestive context, and does not violate any other provision of these Terms. By submitting adult content, you confirm that all individuals depicted are 18 years of age or older and have consented to being photographed and shared.
Prohibited Content: The following photo content is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate removal and potential account termination:
Photo Quality: Photos that are blank, black, blurry, or otherwise unintelligible — including those submitted solely to claim the check-in TB bonus without providing meaningful content — may be removed at our discretion. Submitting low-quality photos intentionally to farm rewards may be treated as a violation of Section 4 (Acceptable Use).
Storage Management: TerraMine will automatically delete check-in photos 90 days after they are uploaded. You may save a copy of any photo to your own device at any time before it is removed using the Save Image option within the App. TerraMine also reserves the right to remove a photo sooner than 90 days for operational or cost management purposes, and will prioritize removing low-quality, reported, or policy-violating content. Removal of a photo — whether through the standard 90-day process or earlier — does not affect your account standing or any rewards already earned.
Reporting: Players may report photos they believe violate these Terms. Reports are reviewed by TerraMine staff. Submitting false or bad-faith reports may result in action against the reporting account.
TerraMine's referral program rewards you for inviting real people who want to play the game. Referral rewards are intended to reflect genuine new players joining the community — not the number of accounts that can be created. You are welcome to share your referral code with friends, family, and followers, including on social media, as long as you describe TerraMine honestly and do not offer anything in exchange for signing up.
Daily referral limit: by default, each account can earn referral rewards for up to 5 referrals (5,000 TerraBucks) per day, resetting at midnight UTC. Referrals beyond the daily limit do not earn you a reward and are not carried over to later days, although the new player still receives their own signup bonus. We may raise or lower the limit for individual accounts at our discretion.
Referral abuse includes, but is not limited to:
Why this matters: Referral rewards and USD earnings are funded by real player activity. Fake and paid sign-ups take value away from every honest player and can put the rewards program itself at risk.
We review referral activity using signals such as email and sign-up patterns, device and network information, account activity after sign-up, and timing. We may act based on our reasonable belief that referral abuse has occurred, without being required to disclose our detection methods. If we determine that referral abuse has occurred, we may, at our discretion:
Players who signed up in good faith using a referral code, and who genuinely play the game, are not penalized for another player's abuse of the program.
We may change referral rewards, daily limits, or eligibility requirements, or pause or end the referral program, at any time. Appeals may be submitted to scott@terramine.app.
Pioneer Pass is an optional paid subscription that adds extra features to your TerraMine account, such as a larger check-in range, Pioneer Boosts, a free vanity referral code and the other perks described at terramine.app/pioneer-pass.html. You do not need Pioneer Pass to play TerraMine.
Billing and renewal: Pioneer Pass is offered monthly or yearly. The price and billing period are shown before you pay. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the price then in effect, until you cancel. If you subscribe on terramine.app, payment is processed by PayPal. If you subscribe in the iOS app, payment is processed by Apple through your Apple ID. Taxes may apply.
Cancelling: You can cancel at any time. Cancel with the service you subscribed through: your PayPal account (under Automatic payments) for subscriptions bought on our website, or your Apple ID subscription settings for subscriptions bought through Apple. Deleting the App or your TerraMine account does not cancel a subscription. Cancel before your next renewal date to avoid being charged for the next period. After you cancel, you will not be charged again and your Pioneer perks stay active until the end of the period you have already paid for.
No refunds: Pioneer Pass payments are non-refundable. We do not give refunds or credits for partial or unused billing periods, for cancelling in the middle of a period, or for not using the perks. Refund requests for subscriptions bought through Apple are handled by Apple under its own policies, and we cannot issue or decide them. This does not limit any refund rights you have under applicable law. If you were charged twice or in error, contact us and we will correct it.
What Pioneer Pass does and does not do: We may add, change, or remove perks over time, and we may change the price, with any price change applying from your next renewal. Pioneer Pass does not guarantee any earnings, rewards, or withdrawal eligibility, and it does not change the rules in Section 3, including when withdrawals are paused, limited, or changed. A Pioneer Pass belongs to one account and cannot be transferred.
Termination: If your account is suspended or terminated for violating these Terms (including Sections 4, 16, and 18), your Pioneer Pass ends and no refund is given for the remaining time.
If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us:
Email: scott@terramine.app
Website: terramine.app