Effective September 18, 2026 · Version 2026-09-30.1
Tapping I Agree creates a binding agreement between you and GameTape. If you do not agree, do not use the app.
You must be 13 or older to hold an account. Children under 13 do not have accounts: a parent or guardian holds the account and adds them.
If you are 13 to 17, you may hold your own teen account, and you confirm that a parent or guardian knows you use GameTape. A teen account can post in its team's chat, where the coaches and parents on the team can see it. A coach or trainer may write to your teenager, and you are always copied on those messages — there is no private thread between an adult and a teenager on GameTape. A teenager with no parent contact on file receives no adult messages at all, and you can stop them at any time, without giving a reason, from your own account or from any copy we send you. A parent or guardian can link to a teen account at any time.
We may change these terms. If we change anything that matters, the app asks you again before you carry on — a yes to old wording is not a yes to new wording.
One account, one person. Keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think somebody else is in your account.
What happens under your account is treated as done by you. If you share your login with somebody, you are responsible for what they do.
Do not upload footage you did not film or do not have the right to share. Do not use GameTape to harass, threaten, or sexualise anyone, and never a child. Do not scrape the app, resell access to it, or try to reach another family's footage.
Do not use GameTape to make decisions it is not built for — it is a camera and a filing cabinet, not a scouting service, an evaluation, or a recruiting credential.
Content or conduct that sexualizes, exploits or endangers a child is prohibited without exception, as set out on the Child safety page at gametapeapp.com/child-safety. If we become aware of apparent child sexual abuse material, we remove it, close the accounts involved without notice, preserve it, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement, as federal law requires.
We respond to valid legal process as described on the Legal requests page at gametapeapp.com/legal-process. You agree that we may preserve and disclose information about your account when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or that it is necessary to prevent death or serious physical injury, to protect a child, or to protect the rights, property or safety of GameTape, our users or the public. We will tell you about a request for your information unless the law or a court order prohibits it, or telling you would put a child or anyone else at risk.
Your footage stays yours. You give us a limited permission to store it, process it, and show it to the people you send it to — and to nobody else. That permission exists only so the app can function, and it ends when you delete the footage.
We do not use your footage to advertise GameTape, we do not sell it, and we do not train anything on it, unless you separately and specifically say we can.
By adding a player and sending clips of them, you permit GameTape to store, display and process that player's image, voice and name inside the app, for the purpose of showing it to the people you have allowed to see it. Nothing more.
We do not use anyone's face, voice or name in advertising, in promotion of the app, or on any public page, and we do not sell it. If we ever wanted to, we would have to ask you first and you could say no without losing anything.
You can take this back. Removing a player, revoking a person's access, or deleting a clip withdraws that permission going forward. What has already been shared and downloaded by somebody else is outside our reach, and the app says so at the moment you share rather than afterwards.
We do not run face recognition to identify people, and we do not build a faceprint, voiceprint or any other biometric identifier. Scout finds moments in footage; it does not learn who anybody is.
Other people's children. A game has other families in it. You may film and keep your own footage, but sending a clip whose subject is somebody else's child — to a team, a group, or anyone outside your own circle — is a thing that family gets a say in. The app asks for that family's permission before a clip reaches a team, and any parent can ask us to remove a clip their child appears in, whoever filmed it, without having to explain themselves or prove they own anything.
Some events post rules about filming, and some claim rights over footage taken at them. Those are between you and the organiser: GameTape does not grant you permission to film anywhere, and you agree to follow whatever the venue and the event ask of you. If an organiser tells us footage of their event should not be here, we will pass that to whoever filmed it and work it out with both of you, rather than deleting a family's memories because a request arrived on headed paper, or ignoring an organiser whose rules a parent agreed to.
We can remove content or restrict an account when we believe it breaks these terms or puts somebody at risk — and we will say why, unless saying why would put a child in danger.
We are not obliged to monitor what people post, and choosing to remove one thing does not make us responsible for everything else. Where a takedown is disputed there is a real process, and it is described in the Circle of Trust Agreement.
If you believe something in GameTape copies your work, tell us in writing with enough detail to find it, why you own it, and how to reach you. We will look at it and take down what should come down.
A formal copyright complaint normally goes to a registered agent. Ours is not registered yet, so until it is, write to hello@gametapeapp.com and we will act on it there.
Most of GameTape is free and is meant to stay that way. Where something is paid, the price and what it includes are shown before you buy, and Apple takes the payment — we never see your card.
A subscription renews on its own until you cancel it, and you cancel it in your Apple account rather than here. Cancelling stops the next charge; it does not refund the period you are in. Refunds are handled by Apple under their policy.
If a price changes we will tell you before it applies to you, and you can cancel before it does.
If you stop paying. We don't promise to keep anything forever. When a paid plan ends (you cancel, or Apple tells us the subscription has ended), we'll tell you, and for 30 days you can download everything you stored with us, free. After that, stored games are frozen for up to three years. While they're frozen you can still get them back: free if you rejoin a monthly plan, or $49.99 for the first 100 GB and $25 for each 50 GB after that. Before the end of the third year we'll remind you and offer to pass your games to your Legacy Contact or to your player. At the end of the third year, anything still frozen is permanently deleted. Footage on your own phone or in your Photos is always yours; we never touch it.
Deep storage while you pay. Games you haven't opened in three months move to deep storage. Getting one back is free while you pay and takes about a day. Highlights and summaries are never moved.
If GameTape shuts down. We'll give you at least 90 days' notice so you can download what you want. After that, stored files are deleted.
We will never charge for the storage guard or for offline rescue. Those exist so that nobody loses a game, and putting a price on them would defeat the point of them.
We may add things, change things, and stop doing things. If we retire something you rely on we will tell you first and give you a way to get your footage out.
We never delete your footage to make that easier.
Your name, your mobile number and, where you gave one, your email; the names and birth years of the players you add; the teams you are on; and the taps, notes and messages you make in the app.
We do not ask you for your date of birth. When you sign up, your phone tells us only which age band you are in — under 13, 13 to 17, or adult — and nothing more. For a player you add, we hold a birth year and never a full date of birth, because the app only needs to know which side of 13 and 18 someone is on. Anything more would be holding part of somebody's identity for no reason.
Video stays on your phone unless you send it. Two things send it: a clip you send to someone, which is stored with us so they can watch it, and a game you send to the Vault. Nothing is uploaded unless you tap to send it; once you have, the upload may finish in the background so you can close the app. GameTape reads your camera roll only when you ask it to, so Scout can find the afternoons that look like a game and the days worth keeping as memories. It reads videos and photos, on your phone, only after you grant Photos access, and nothing is uploaded because of it. Screenshots, screen recordings and pictures saved from other apps are skipped. To show a town name instead of coordinates, your phone asks Apple's map service, the same way the Photos app does.
To run the app we use other companies: Apple for the App Store, payments and Sign in with Apple; Google for Sign in with Google; cloud providers to hold your account, the clips you send and what you put in the Vault; services that send your sign-in codes by text and email; and a crash-reporting service. The Privacy Policy lists each kind and what it receives. They handle your information only to do that job.
We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with anyone for advertising. Ever.
Your data is stored in the United States. If you use GameTape from elsewhere, that is where it goes.
A child under 13 never gets an account. What we hold about them, we hold because a parent or guardian gave us permission through the Circle of Trust Agreement.
As their guardian you can see everything we hold about your child, correct it, or tell us to delete it — and you can withdraw your permission at any time without giving a reason, by removing them in the app or writing to us. Withdrawing it means we stop holding their information, except footage of them that another family filmed, which you can ask us to take down.
If we ever find we are holding a child's information without a guardian's permission, we delete it.
You have the right to know what personal information we hold about you and where it came from, to get a copy of it, to correct it, and to have it deleted. Exercise any of them from your account, or by writing to us — and you do not need an account with us to ask about a child you are the guardian of.
We do not sell your personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. There is no ad network in this app and there never will be. Because we do not do it, there is nothing to opt out of.
We will not treat you differently for exercising any of these rights: no worse service, no different price, no missing features.
If we cannot verify who you are we may not be able to act on a request about somebody else's information, and we will tell you why rather than going quiet.
The app is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be available without interruption, that a recording will always succeed, or that a file will never be lost. Film anything you cannot bear to lose with something else as well.
We are not responsible for what other people do with footage you chose to send them. Once you share a clip with someone, you are relying on that person.
To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything connected to GameTape is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred dollars if you have paid us nothing.
Some places do not allow a limit like that, and where the law says a limit cannot apply, it does not.
If something you do with GameTape causes a claim against us — footage you had no right to share, someone you gave access to who should not have had it, or a breach of these terms — you agree to cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, including legal fees.
This does not apply to anything we get wrong ourselves, and it does not apply where the law where you live does not allow it.
We will tell you promptly about any claim covered by this, let you take part in defending it, and we will not settle anything in your name without asking you.
You can delete your account at any time from Account in the app. Deleting it removes your account and everything we hold for you — the clips you sent, your Vault, your players and your records — except what belongs to another family, such as a child another guardian also looks after or footage somebody else filmed. Video on your own phone is yours and is not touched. It cannot be undone.
We can suspend an account that is being used to harm someone, and we will say why unless saying why would put a child at risk.
Please read this section. It explains how a disagreement between you and GameTape App LLC gets resolved, and it includes an agreement to use arbitration instead of court and a waiver of class actions. You can opt out of the arbitration part, and it says below how.
Talk to us first. Before starting anything formal, send us a written notice of the dispute at hello@gametapeapp.com, or by email to hello@gametapeapp.com. Say what the problem is and what you want done about it. If we have a dispute with you, we will send ours to the email on your account. Give us sixty days to sort it out. Most things end here, and those sixty days do not count against any deadline you have for bringing a claim.
Small claims stays open. Either of us can bring an individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitrating, for as long as it stays in that court and stays individual.
Arbitration. If we cannot resolve it, you and GameTape App LLC agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms, the app, or your use of it will be settled by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitrator decides the claim and the decision can be entered as a judgment. Arbitration is less formal than court: there is no judge and no jury, the exchange of evidence is limited, and there is very little review of the result.
Where it happens and who pays. Arbitration takes place in San Bernardino County, California, or by phone, by video, or on written submissions alone. If your claim is for ten thousand dollars or less, you choose which of those it is. For an individual consumer claim we pay the filing, administration and arbitrator fees, unless the arbitrator finds the claim was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose.
Individually, not as a class. You and GameTape App LLC each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not combine more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of class proceeding. If that is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim alone is separated out and goes to court, and the rest of this section still applies to everything else.
What this does not touch. Nothing here stops either of us asking a court for public injunctive relief, and that right cannot be signed away. Nothing here stops either of us going to court to protect intellectual property. And nothing in these terms limits your ability to report something to a regulator, a law-enforcement agency, or a child-protection authority, or to take part in an investigation.
Opting out of arbitration. You can say no to arbitration and keep everything else in these terms. Write to us within thirty days of first accepting them, at hello@gametapeapp.com or the email on the GameTape site, giving your name, the email on your account, and saying that you are opting out of arbitration. That is all it takes. It costs you nothing and we will not treat you differently for it. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts named next.
Which law applies, and where. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. For anything not going to arbitration, you and GameTape App LLC agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in San Bernardino County, California, and each of us consents to being sued there.
If you are outside the United States. Where the law where you live gives you rights that cannot be signed away, those rights still apply and nothing in this section takes them from you. That includes the mandatory consumer protections of the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. If the arbitration agreement above is not enforceable where you live, it does not apply to you, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live.
Time limit. Any claim under these terms has to be brought within one year of when it arose, unless the law where you live allows longer, in which case that longer period applies.
If part of this section fails. If any part of this section is held unenforceable, that part is severed and the rest still stands. The one exception: if the class-action waiver above is held unenforceable in its entirety, then this whole arbitration section falls away and disputes go to the courts named above.
We will contact you at the email on your account, so keep it current. Anything we send there counts as told.
To reach us, email hello@gametapeapp.com.
These terms, plus whichever role agreements apply to you, are the whole agreement between us. They replace anything said before.
If a court decides one part of this cannot stand, the rest still stands.
If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
You cannot transfer this agreement to somebody else. We can transfer it if GameTape is sold or merged, and we will tell you if that happens.
The parts about your footage being yours, about what we do not promise, about who pays if it goes wrong, and about disputes, all keep working after you stop using the app.