1. Acceptance
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of DodoReaper, including the website, its sub-domains, the Discord bot, the HQ desktop app, the game-server plugins, and the API (the "Service"). By using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old, or older if your country requires it, to create an account. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf. You confirm that the information you provide is accurate.
3. Your account
- You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity on your account.
- Tell us immediately about any unauthorized use of your account.
- You may not create multiple accounts to manipulate votes, rankings, or rewards, or to evade moderation.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Post content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, or violent.
- Impersonate any person or entity, including DodoReaper or Studio Wildcard staff.
- Distribute malware, phishing links, cheats, exploits, or hacking tools.
- Manipulate votes, player counts, rankings, reviews, or rewards, including with bots or fake players.
- Scrape, reverse-engineer, or overload the Service or its API beyond published limits without written permission.
- Spam, post unsolicited advertising, or run unapproved bots.
- Upload or share content that infringes anyone's intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights.
5. Your content
You keep ownership of the content you submit. By submitting it, you grant DodoReaper a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt (for formatting and display), publish, and distribute that content in connection with operating and promoting the Service. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies kept in backups for a limited time, content others have shared or quoted, and content we must keep by law.
You are solely responsible for your content and confirm that you have the rights needed to submit it. We may, but are not obliged to, review, remove, or restrict content that violates these Terms or the law.
6. Server owners: listings, HQ, website hosting, and stores
DodoReaper HQ and website hosting may be offered as a preview or rolled out gradually. Their features, limits, and free allowances may change, and this section applies whenever you use them.
- Server owners are responsible for the accuracy of their listings and for the rules, conduct, and content of their servers. You may list only servers you own or are authorized to manage.
- Server stores are operated by the server owner, who is the seller of the items sold there. Payments are processed by the owner's payment provider (Stripe or Tip4Serv). DodoReaper provides the store tools only and is not a party to those sales; questions about delivery or refunds go to the server owner first. Server owners who sell are responsible for their own refund policy, for consumer-protection and tax obligations, and for delivering what they sell.
- Server owners who install DodoReaper plugins or the HQ app must have the right to do so on their servers and must tell their players, where the law requires it, that player data is shared with DodoReaper.
- DodoReaper HQ. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the HQ desktop app to manage servers you own or are authorized to manage. HQ connects your machine to the Service and carries out the actions you or your team trigger (such as starts, restarts, updates, wipes, RCON commands, and file changes). You are responsible for those actions, for the team members you invite and the roles you give them, for keeping your own backups, and for following the terms of your game publisher and host. HQ may update itself. You may not copy, resell, or reverse-engineer it except where the law allows.
- Website hosting. Hosted community websites run on a dodoreaper.com sub-domain. You are responsible for everything published on your website and in its store. We may reclaim a sub-domain that impersonates others, infringes rights, or stays unused, and we may suspend a website that breaks these Terms. Keep your own copies of your content.
7. Paid plans, free trial, and refunds
- Some features require a paid plan. Prices, billing periods, and what each plan includes are shown before you buy. Payments are processed by Stripe.
- Free trial. Your first paid subscription starts with a 14-day free trial. A payment card is required to start it, and nothing is charged during the trial. We email you at least 3 days before the trial ends. If you cancel before the trial ends, you pay nothing; otherwise the subscription starts automatically and you are charged the price shown at checkout. The free trial is available once per person and account; we may refuse or end trials obtained through multiple accounts or other abuse.
- Renewal and cancellation. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from the billing portal; access continues until the end of the period already paid.
- Refunds. After the free trial ends, payments for the current billing period are non-refundable and access continues until the end of that period, except where the law requires otherwise (including any statutory right of withdrawal in your country).
8. Points, badges, and rewards
The Service may award site points, XP, levels, badges, achievements, and similar rewards (together "Rewards") for activity such as daily quests, votes, and Community Q&A, and may let you spend points on cosmetic items on the site.
- Rewards have no cash or monetary value. They are not money, currency, or property, and you do not own them; they are a limited, revocable license to use a feature of the Service.
- Rewards cannot be redeemed, refunded, or exchanged for cash, goods, or services outside the Service, and may not be sold, bought, traded, or transferred between accounts.
- We may set limits on how many Rewards can be earned, and adjust, take back, or reset Rewards earned through mistakes, bugs, abuse, or a breach of these Terms, or tied to content that is deleted.
- We may change how Rewards are earned or spent, or end the program, at any time. Unused Rewards are lost when an account is closed, and no compensation is owed, except where the law requires otherwise.
9. Intellectual property
ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, including their names, trademarks, artwork, images, in-game assets, and other protected materials, are subject to the intellectual property rights of their respective owners and rights holders, including Studio Wildcard and other applicable rights holders. Other game names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Mod-related data, images, and assets may be subject to the intellectual property rights of Studio Wildcard, individual mod creators, or other rights holders. All third-party intellectual property rights remain with their respective owners. DodoReaper is an independent, fan-made platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Studio Wildcard, Wildcard Properties LLC, Snail Games USA, Inc., or their respective affiliates.
Wiki and mod data are extracted from game files using the ARK Data Extractor and cross-referenced with the ARK Wiki (ark.wiki.gg). Text reproduced from the ARK Wiki, such as patch notes, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and is attributed where it appears.
DodoReaper's original content, software, design, and materials are owned by DodoReaper and protected by law. You may not copy, modify, or redistribute them without our written permission, except as the law allows.
10. Copyright complaints
If you believe content on the Service infringes your rights, follow the process on our DMCA & copyright page. We may remove content and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
11. Third-party services and links
The Service links to and integrates with third-party services (for example Steam, CurseForge, Discord, game servers, and payment providers). We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, policies, or availability. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.
12. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate access to the Service, remove listings, or close accounts that violate these Terms, harm other users, or expose us to legal risk, with or without notice where the law allows. You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from Settings in your dashboard, or ask us to do it by opening a support ticket. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, and 15) will survive.
13. Disclaimers
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that game data, server listings, player counts, mod information, AI-assistant answers, or community content are accurate, complete, or up to date, or that the Service (including HQ and hosted websites) will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of data loss. See also our Disclaimer.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, DodoReaper and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or USD 50. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your statutory rights as a consumer.
15. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold DodoReaper and its operators harmless from claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your servers or stores, or your breach of these Terms or of anyone's rights.
16. Changes
We may update these Terms. We will change the "Last updated" date above and announce material changes on the site at least 14 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the updated Terms.
17. General
If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and DodoReaper about the Service.
18. Contact
Questions or concerns? Open a support ticket or visit the contact page.