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Terms of Service

Effective date: 8 October 2026  ·  Version 1.10

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Kai-zo-ro mobile application and the website at ascendquests.com (together, "Kai-zo-ro," "the app," "we," "us"). Please read them before you play.

1. Who we are

Kai-zo-ro is developed and operated by Ludvík Šajtar, an independent developer based in the Czech Republic. Kai-zo-ro is not a registered company and has no company number yet. For any question about these Terms, or as a single point of contact for users and authorities, email ascendhelps@gmail.com. You can write to us in English or Czech.

2. Acceptance

By using Kai-zo-ro you accept these Terms. If you create an account, doing so is your explicit acceptance of them. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.

3. Eligibility

You must be 16 years of age or older to use Kai-zo-ro. The app asks your age when you first open it; please answer truthfully. If we learn that someone under 16 is using Kai-zo-ro, we will delete their account and the data linked to it. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the app with the permission of a parent or guardian.

4. The service

Guest mode is local-only: your hero, quests and progress live on your device and no account is required. Creating an account is optional and adds sync, friends and leaderboards. Kai-zo-ro is in active development — features may be added, changed or removed as the app evolves.

5. Your account

If you create an account, keep your password safe and don't share it. Accounts are for one person each. You can delete your account at any time, in the app or at ascendquests.com/delete-account/.

6. Acceptable use and hero names

Play fair. You are responsible for the hero name you choose and for anything else you submit. Don't choose a hero name that is offensive, impersonates someone else, contains contact details, links or usernames for other apps, or is otherwise unlawful. Don't cheat or manipulate the leaderboard, and don't abuse the API. Our Community Guidelines set out these rules in detail and are part of these Terms. You can report a hero in the app, and anyone can report unlawful content by email. A hero name is hidden automatically if three different players report it as offensive or for threats or harassment, or if it contains a word on our list of blocked words, contact details or a link, and the app won't let you choose such a name. If your name is hidden, the app tells you why. If your XP goes up faster in one day than the game allows, you are hidden from the Global and Country leaderboards automatically; your friends still see you, the app tells you why, and if it was a mistake you can email us to have it checked and lifted. A person reviews reports, and we may reset a name (you can choose a new one after up to 30 days), hide a leaderboard entry, suspend an account for up to 90 days, or end it for serious or repeated breaches. While an account is suspended you can keep playing and your progress is saved, but other players don't see you on the leaderboards or in their friend lists, and you can't send or accept friend requests. If we take action against your account, we'll tell you the reason by email, the app shows a suspension or a name reset with its end date, and you can reply to contest it.

7. Honor system, health and safety

Quests are general suggestions for real-world habits and tasks. They are not medical, fitness, nutrition or mental-health advice, and they are not tailored to you: we don't know your health, your abilities or where you are. Kai-zo-ro can't see what you do — you confirm your own quests, on your honour.

Only do a quest if it is safe for you. Consider your own health limitations, any allergies and the conditions around you, such as the weather, traffic, the terrain, the place and the time of day. If you're not sure an activity is safe for you, don't do the quest. You can always skip a quest, and you are never required to complete one.

Food and drink. Before eating or drinking anything, check its ingredients and make sure it is safe for you — especially if you have an allergy or intolerance, a medical condition, take medication, or are pregnant.

Stop if something feels wrong. If you feel pain, dizziness, shortness of breath or otherwise unwell during a quest, stop. If you have a health condition, or are in doubt, ask a doctor or another qualified professional first.

Stay within the law and respect others. Never do a quest in a way that breaks the law, puts other people at risk, or takes you onto private property without permission.

Quests from other players. Some quests start as ideas from other players. We review every one and usually rewrite it in our own words before it's published, but nobody has tested it for you. The same rules apply: use your own judgement, and skip any quest that isn't safe for you.

Younger players. If you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian before doing a physical or outdoor quest, and don't go somewhere unfamiliar, or talk to people you don't know, without an adult you trust knowing about it.

If you're going through something hard. Kai-zo-ro is a game about habits, not therapy or a crisis service. If you or someone else is in danger, call 112. In the Czech Republic, children and students up to 26 can call Linka bezpečí on 116 111, free and day or night. Our Support page lists helplines in other countries.

Section 12 explains what we are and are not responsible for. Nothing in this section limits our liability where the law does not allow it.

8. Premium and purchases

No purchases are available today. Kai-zo-ro Premium is a waitlist only, and nothing is charged. When purchases launch, they'll be sold through the App Store or Google Play, and refunds will follow that store's own process. Deleting your Kai-zo-ro account does not cancel a store subscription — cancel it separately in your store account settings. These Terms will be updated before any sale begins.

In-game items have no money value. XP, levels, titles, streaks, badges, leaderboard places and other in-game items have no monetary value. They can't be sold, transferred or exchanged for money, and we may adjust them to fix errors or undo cheating.

9. Your content and data

Our Privacy Policy governs how we handle your data — read it for the details. You keep ownership of anything you create, such as your hero name and avatar choices. We only need the limited licence to show your hero name and avatar to your friends and on leaderboards you've opted into, so those features can work.

Monthly leaderboards and quest proposals

Kai-zo-ro runs two monthly Global leaderboards, one for Free players and one for Premium players; a player who has Premium at any point in a month is ranked on the Premium leaderboard for that month. A month's score is the XP your hero earns that month, as your app reports it when it syncs, and each leaderboard starts again every calendar month (UTC). When a month ends, the top 25 players of the Free leaderboard and the top 50 of the Premium leaderboard may each propose one quest during the following month, as described in our Community Guidelines. There's no minimum score, so while a leaderboard is small, being on it may be enough to be in its top places. Equal scores are ranked by who reached the score first. We may correct scores that are wrong because of an error or cheating. The right is to propose: a proposal is reviewed by a person, who may rewrite it or turn it down, and it is not a right to be published.

A proposal is an idea. When we publish a proposal, we usually write the quest ourselves, in our own words, keeping its goal, and we set its difficulty and XP. The published quest is then our text, and we show your hero name on it as the player who proposed it. We don't have to publish any proposal. You receive no payment or in-game reward for a proposal; your hero name on the quest is the only credit, and it is removed if you delete your account.

If we use your own words. Sometimes a proposal is already well written and we keep some or all of your wording. For that case, you keep the rights you have in your text and give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to use, edit, translate and publish it in Kai-zo-ro and in material that presents Kai-zo-ro, for as long as the quest is published and afterwards without your name. You agree that we may shorten or change it for clarity, safety, length, category or translation. Please only send your own idea in your own words: don't copy text from a book, a website or another app.

10. Your licence to use the app

These Terms are also the end-user licence agreement for the Kai-zo-ro app. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to install and use Kai-zo-ro on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use.

You may not sell, rent, sub-license, redistribute or publish the app, and you may not use it to build a competing service. You may not remove or obscure any notices in it. You may not reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, except to the extent that the law gives you that right anyway — in the EU that includes the interoperability rights in the Software Directive, which these Terms do not take away.

The licence lasts as long as these Terms do, and ends if you delete the app or if your account ends under Section 14.

If you installed Kai-zo-ro from an app store, that store's own terms also apply to your download and to any purchase, and the store may apply its own standard end-user licence. Where that store licence and this section both apply to the same thing, the stricter of the two governs your licence to the software, and the store's terms govern the purchase itself.

11. Intellectual property

The Kai-zo-ro name and logo identify our app. Kai-zo-ro's code, quest texts and design are ours or used with permission. Photos, fonts, icons and software libraries belong to their owners and are used under their licences: they're listed at ascendquests.com/licenses/, and the photographers are credited in the app under Settings → Photo Credits. Some of our images, including the logo and the background images, were made with AI tools. These Terms don't give you any rights in any of this beyond using the app.

12. Service, disclaimers and liability

What we promise about the service. Kai-zo-ro is in active development. We do our best to keep it working, but we do not promise that it will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free, that quests will suit every person or situation, or that any particular feature will keep existing. We may change, pause or withdraw features as the app evolves.

What we are not responsible for. We are not responsible for what you decide to do in the real world — see Section 7 on the honour system, your health and your safety. We are not responsible for hero names or other content chosen by other players, beyond acting on reports as described in Section 6 and Section 13. In guest mode your hero lives only on your device and we hold no copy of it, so we cannot restore it if you clear the app's data, lose the device or uninstall the app — the app's Export Data feature exists so you can keep your own backup.

Limits on our liability. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profits or opportunities, or for the loss of progress, streaks, or a position on a leaderboard.

What is never limited. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury, or in any other case where the law does not allow it to be excluded. Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights as a consumer, including your rights if digital content we supply does not conform to what was agreed. Where any part of this section is not permitted by the law that applies to you, that part does not apply to you and the rest still does.

13. Reporting copyright and other IP problems

If you believe something in Kai-zo-ro infringes your copyright, trade mark or other intellectual-property right — most likely a hero name or a community quest — tell us and we will look at it. The process, and what to put in your report, is on our Copyright and IP complaints page. That page also explains how to challenge a removal we got wrong.

14. Termination

You can stop using Kai-zo-ro at any time, and delete your account as described in Section 5. We may suspend (for up to 90 days) or end an account that breaks Section 6.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the law of the Czech Republic. If you're a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live, and you can bring proceedings in your own home courts.

16. Changes

If we make a material change to these Terms, we'll announce it in the app, along with the new effective date and version shown at the top of this page.

17. If Kai-zo-ro is handed over

We may hand Kai-zo-ro over, and these Terms with it, to another person or to a company that will run it. We'll tell you at least 30 days before, in the app and, if you have an account, by email. The transfer won't reduce your rights under these Terms, and you can delete your account at any time.