End User Licence Agreement
Version 2026-10-15. In force from 15 October 2026.
This agreement is between you and Researchmatic Limited ("we", "us"), a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number 05121736), whose registered office is at 212 St. Margarets Road, Twickenham, TW1 1NP. We operate Earth Swarm and are the data controller for it. This agreement covers your use of the Earth Swarm app (the "App") and the parts of earthswarm.ai the App uses. Our privacy notice, at https://earthswarm.ai/privacy, explains what we collect and why, and forms part of this agreement.
1. Who this agreement is with
This agreement is between you and us. We are solely responsible for the App and its content.
2. Your licence
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App on devices you own or control. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, resell or redistribute the App, except where the law gives you a right to that cannot be excluded.
3. What Earth Swarm is
Earth Swarm is for recording wildlife: you photograph or film plants, animals and fungi, and confirmed records help map how nature is changing. Jobs, walks, bonuses, challenges, streaks and leaderboards are there to make that rewarding. We may add, change or withdraw features at any time.
4. Tokens
Tokens are in-app points. They have no cash value, cannot be bought, sold, transferred to another person outside the App or exchanged for money, and are not a currency or an investment. We may add, change or withdraw ways to earn or use tokens, including caps on how many can be earned in a day. We are working on ways to turn tokens into real rewards, such as discount vouchers; that is not a promise, and any such reward will have its own terms when it exists. Tokens may be removed if they were earned by breaking this agreement. Your tokens are deleted when you close your account, and cannot be restored.
Some jobs may pay money in future. If they do, payment will be under separate terms you will be asked to accept first, and paid through our payments provider.
5. Your finds
You keep ownership of the photos, clips and notes you submit ("your finds"). You give us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to store, check, use, adapt and publish your finds and the records made from them, and to share records with biodiversity databases and researchers, including under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence. Published records never show your name, and their positions are coarsened as our privacy notice describes. You confirm that your finds are your own work and that you have the right to give this licence.
Records of sensitive species are never published at full precision, and their photos are never published.
6. Staying safe and lawful
You are responsible for your own safety. Do not trespass, enter places that are closed or dangerous, or disturb wildlife; follow the Countryside Code and any local rules. Do not use the App while driving. Never photograph or film people on purpose: the App refuses photos with faces, but that does not make recording people acceptable. Do not submit anything unlawful, offensive or misleading, and do not try to cheat confirmations, rewards, streaks or leaderboards, for example by submitting photos you did not take or finds you did not make where you say.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules.
7. Sharing and invites
When you share a card, the words and picture are made by us from your confirmed records; you choose where to post them and whether to include the place. Invite codes are for inviting people you know. A referral reward is paid only for a new person's genuine first confirmed find, and we may limit or withhold referral rewards that look like abuse.
8. Support
We are responsible for maintaining and supporting the App. For help, write to support@earthswarm.ai.
9. Warranty and liability
The App is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we make no warranty that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that species identifications will be correct, and we are not liable for any loss that was not foreseeable or that arises from your use of the App in breach of this agreement.
Nothing in this agreement limits rights you have as a consumer under the law of England and Wales, or liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
10. Claims and intellectual property
We are responsible for dealing with any claim by you or anyone else relating to the App, including claims that it fails to meet a legal requirement or infringes someone else's intellectual property. Species reference photos and place data come from third parties under their own licences, which are credited in the App and on earthswarm.ai.
11. Legal compliance
You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a UK or US Government embargo, and that you are not listed on any UK or US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
12. Third-party terms
You must comply with the terms of any third-party service you use alongside the App, such as your mobile network or the apps you share to.
13. Contact
Researchmatic Limited, 212 St. Margarets Road, Twickenham, TW1 1NP. Questions, complaints or claims about the App: support@earthswarm.ai.
14. Changes, ending and law
We may change this agreement; if a change matters, we will tell you in the App and ask you to accept it before you carry on. You can stop using the App and close your account at any time from Profile. This agreement is governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts have jurisdiction, without taking away any right you have to bring a claim where you live.