Terms of Use

Last updated: 4 September 2026 · Effective: 4 September 2026

By downloading or using Sprite Catch — the iPhone app, the Android app, or the web version at spritecatch.com — you agree to these terms. They are short on purpose. The parts that matter most are sections 4 to 6: there is zero tolerance for abusive content, nothing in this app may be bought or sold for real money, and I can remove an account and everything in it — collection included — without notice.

1. What Sprite Catch is

Sprite Catch is a free, unofficial, fan-made collection tracker for Fortnite "sprite" collectibles, made by Mateo Duran. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Epic Games, Inc. It is not a game, and it cannot grant, transfer or modify any in-game item. A future release will let you sign in with Epic to have your Fortnite name confirmed on your profile, which is optional and confirms only who you are — nothing Epic offers any app can read what you own, and this one never asks you for an Epic password. Trades are arranged between players inside Fortnite itself — the app only helps you find someone to trade with.

2. Who can use it

Anyone can use Sprite Catch's collection tracker. The social features — the public feed, trades, other collectors' profiles and direct messaging — are for users aged 13 and over. The app asks how old you are during setup and, from the version going out on 28 August 2026, offers ages from 13 upwards, with anyone younger offered Safe Mode instead: the collection, the scanner, Rewards and their own profile, with the community, direct messages and news switched off. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the app with the consent of a parent or guardian, who can also switch off any of those features, or switch Safe Mode off, behind a passcode in Settings.

The web version is the same service and the same rules, and one thing about it is worth stating here. It asks for no age of its own: an account signed in there keeps whatever age the app recorded, and every protection that lives on the server follows it. Safe Mode and the parental passcode do not — they are settings on the phone they were set on, and a browser is not that device. So a parent relying on them should read section 11 of the privacy policy, which says the same thing at greater length.

3. Your account

No account is required — the app works anonymously, and so does the collection tracker on the web version. If you sign in with Apple or with Google, you are responsible for keeping access to that account secure; if you sign in with an email address and a password, you are responsible for the password. The same account signs in on a phone and in a browser, and you are responsible for what is done with it in either. You may ask me to delete your account and all of its data at any time, from the app, from the web version's settings, or by asking (see Support).

Your collection is a record on my server of what you told the app you own. It is not property, it has no monetary value, it cannot be sold or transferred to anyone, and it gives you no rights over anything in Fortnite. Sprites themselves belong to Epic Games and exist only in the game.

4. User content and acceptable use

Sprite Catch lets you enter a display name, a Fortnite tag, a note on a trade listing, posts on the public feed, ratings and short reviews of collectors you have traded with, and direct messages and photos you send to other collectors. Anything you enter that another person can see or receive is "user content", and you are responsible for it.

Who owns what you post

Your user content stays yours. I do not claim ownership of a post, a photo, a message, a review or anything else you make. What I need is permission to run the app with it in there: by posting it you give me a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store it, copy it for backup, show it to the people you meant to see it, and — for anything you make public — show it on the public parts of the service, including your profile as a web page. That licence exists so the app can work, it earns me nothing, and it ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from copies kept for the windows the privacy policy describes: backups, and records of anything already reported or acted on.

Only post what is yours to post. By posting it you are telling me you have the right to — that you made it, or that you have permission from whoever did. Do not upload someone else's artwork, photo, video or music and pass it off as your own. If something posted here turns out not to belong to the person who posted it, section 9 is how it comes down.

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour. You may not post user content that is:

harassing, threatening, hateful, or that attacks a person or group;
sexual, sexually suggestive, or involving minors in any sexual context;
violent, graphic, or promoting self-harm;
illegal, or promoting illegal activity;
a scam, a phishing attempt, or an offer to buy or sell anything for real money or for anything of value — see section 5, which covers this in full;
spam, advertising, or an attempt to drive users to another service;
impersonating another person, or containing someone else's personal information;
an attempt to contact minors, or otherwise to exploit any user;
an attempt to get around a warning, a suspension or a ban — including making a new account for that purpose.

Do not put personal information — your real name, your address, your school, your phone number, an email address — in your display name, a trade note, a post or a message. Other users can see it.

Contacting support

Support messages — sent from inside the app or from the web version's settings, which reach the same place — go to me and to a small number of trusted volunteer moderators who help answer the queue, and nobody else — never other collectors. So the rules above about what other users can see do not apply there: say whatever you need to say, including quoting something abusive that was said to you. An appeal against a warning, a safety report and a reward claim come only to me, never to a moderator; the privacy policy explains where the rest is handled. What is not fine is using it to abuse whoever is reading, to spam, or to file the same complaint over and over: I can close a conversation, and repeated misuse can cost you the account like any other breach of these terms.

Ratings and reviews

After you and another collector both confirm a completed trade, either of you can rate the other from one to five stars and leave a short public review. Rate honestly, based on a trade that actually happened. Do not leave a rating or a scam mark to punish someone for refusing a trade, to settle an argument, or in coordination with other users to damage someone's reputation, and do not pressure anyone to change or remove a rating or a mark they left. You can take back a mark you left yourself, at any time, from the profile you left it on — that is there for a mark placed by mistake or settled afterwards, not for one traded away under pressure. Ratings and marks placed in bad faith are removed, and doing it repeatedly is grounds for losing your account.

Reporting content or a user

If you see user content or behaviour that breaks these rules, report it from inside the app or from the web version: a collector's profile, a post and a conversation each have a report action in the "…" menu, and you can block a collector so they can no longer reach you. You can also email report@spritecatch.com with the username or display name of the user and, if you can, a screenshot. Reports are reviewed and acted on within 24 hours.

5. No selling, buying or real-money trading between users

Sprite Catch is free to use, and it is not a marketplace. It exists so collectors can find each other and swap sprites in Fortnite, for other sprites — nothing else.

Nothing in this app is for sale for money, and nothing in it ever has been. Nothing carries a price in any currency a bank recognises, and nobody has ever bought anything here. The app was once built so that a decoration for your own profile could be sold through the App Store at a fixed one-off price. That was never switched on, and on 1 September 2026 it was removed — from the app and from the server — so there is no longer any mechanism by which anything here could be bought. Every decoration that had been given a money price was given a Gem price instead. If decorations are ever sold for money again, these terms will describe it before it happens.

Gems are not money and are not property. The app has an in-app currency called Gems. It is earned by using the app and cannot be bought: there is no top-up, no pack, no bundle and no subscription, and nothing anywhere converts money into Gems. Gems have no monetary value, are not a balance, a credit or a stored-value instrument, and cannot be sold, transferred, gifted, exchanged, withdrawn or converted into anything outside this app. They exist only as a number attached to one account, they buy only decorations for that same account, and spending them grants the same kind of licence described above — a permission to display a decoration on your profile in this app, and nothing more. How many you have is worked out from your activity, so it can change as that activity changes, and the amounts each thing is worth may be adjusted; anything you have already bought stays yours. Gems are forfeited if you delete your account or if your account is closed, and there is nothing to refund because nothing was paid.

Do not use Sprite Catch to sell or buy anything. You may not:

offer to sell, buy, rent, auction or "cross-trade" a sprite, an in-game item, an account or a Sprite Catch profile for money or for anything of value — cash, gift cards, V-Bucks, cryptocurrency, items from another game, a subscription, follows, or a favour;
advertise such an offer anywhere in the app: a post, a trade listing, a display name, a Fortnite tag, a review, a support message or a direct message;
send people elsewhere to do it — a Discord server, a marketplace, a social account, a payment handle or a payment link;
act as a middleman, an escrow or a "trusted seller" for a deal involving money;
buy, sell, share, rent or borrow an Epic account, or ask anyone for their Epic login.

This is not a technicality. Selling in-game items or accounts breaks Epic's own terms for those items, it is how nearly every scam in this hobby begins, and a large share of the people using this app are children — an offer of money is the most reliable warning sign that someone is about to be robbed or groomed. It is banned whether you are the buyer or the seller, whether the money changes hands here or somewhere else, and whether or not the deal goes through.

Offers like these are removed on sight, and the account making them can be removed permanently the first time it happens: there is no warning step for this one. If someone offers you money for a sprite, or offers to sell you one — do not do it, never share your Epic login with them, and report them.

6. Enforcement — what I can do about your account

I decide whether something breaks these terms, at my sole discretion. I do not have to warn you first, a single incident can be enough, and I do not have to wait for a report — I can act on anything I find.

If you break these terms, or if I reasonably believe you have, I may do any of the following, in any combination, at any time, with or without notice:

remove or edit any of your user content — a post, a trade listing, a rating or review, a direct message or a photo, your display name, your Fortnite tag or your avatar;
put a warning on your profile that other collectors can see;
hide your profile — take you out of Discover, out of trade matching, out of the owner lists, and off your public profile page;
reset your reputation, removing ratings, reviews and scam marks you left or received;
delete your collection, in whole or in part — the owned, mastered and needs-rebuy records on the server, and any progress or completion they represent;
withdraw your ability to file reports and scam marks, so that filings from your account no longer have any effect;
stop the app from working for you — suspend your access for a period, or block it permanently;
delete your account outright, and everything in it: collection, posts, trade listings, ratings, messages and photos;
refuse to serve you in future, including any new account, device or Apple ID you use to get around any of the above;
where illegal activity or a risk to a child is involved, report it to Epic Games, to Apple or to the authorities, and keep whatever I need in order to do so.

The app is free, so there is nothing to refund and nothing is owed to you for any of this. A deleted collection is gone — I am not obliged to keep a copy of it, to hand your data back before removing it, to give you notice, or to explain a decision in detail. Some enforcement is deliberately not announced: the reporting tools themselves get abused, and a step that told you exactly which one had been applied is a step you would simply work around.

Communities run themselves, within limits, and those limits are mine rather than theirs. Whoever starts a community can hand out the ability to run it, and whoever can run one can remove somebody from it. That power reaches exactly one thing — a person's place in that community and its rooms — and nothing else in Sprite Catch. It is not a warning on your account, it does not affect your posting, messaging, trading or reputation anywhere else, and it can never stop you reporting anybody, including whoever removed you. Anyone removed is told, and told which of a fixed list of reasons was given; nobody running a community can write free text onto somebody else's screen, act on an account I protect, or do any of the things listed above, which remain mine alone. Everything in this section still applies inside a community: if you use one to break these terms, or run one that does, I can act on your account whatever the community's own moderators think.

Moderation runs both ways. If a warning has been placed on your profile and you believe it is wrong, you can appeal from inside the app (menu → Support, category "Appeal"). I read the appeal against whatever the decision was based on, I reply either way, and if I got it wrong the warning comes off.

7. Trading between players

Trades happen in Fortnite, between you and another player, entirely at your own risk. I do not verify that anyone owns what they claim to own, I do not escrow anything, and I cannot recover an item you lost in a bad trade. Never pay real money for an in-game item (section 5), and never share your Epic account credentials with anyone — including with this app, which never asks for them. Signing in with Epic, where a future release offers it, happens on Epic's own website and shows you your Fortnite name, never your password.

8. Intellectual property

Fortnite, sprite names and sprite artwork are the property of Epic Games, Inc. and are used here as fan content under the Epic Games Fan Content Policy. I claim nothing over any of it, and nothing here is a claim on anything of Epic's.

Everything else in Sprite Catch is mine. That means the source code of the app, the website and the server; the name "Sprite Catch" and the ghost it is drawn with; the app icon and the ghost character in it, in every pose it appears in, including the sticker packs; the collector mascots and the parts they are built from; the profile decorations; the artwork, icons, layout and design of the app and of this site; and the writing throughout both. How the catalogue is organised, described and presented is mine as well, even though the sprites it describes are Epic's.

You are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app. You may not resell it, reverse-engineer it beyond what the law permits, or take the things listed above out of it — do not lift the ghost, the mascots, the decorations or the artwork into your own app, your own merchandise, or anything you sell. Screenshots are different: using one to talk about the app, in a video or a post or an article, is fine and always has been.

9. Copyright complaints

If you own the copyright in something a user has posted here — your artwork, your photo, your video, your music — tell me and I will take it down. You do not need a lawyer for this and there is no form to fill in.

Email copyright@spritecatch.com and include all six of these, which is what the law asks for:

your name, address, phone number and email address;
what the work is that you own;
where the copy is in Sprite Catch — the username or display name of the collector who posted it, and enough detail for me to find the exact post, photo or message;
a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by you, your agent or the law;
a statement, under penalty of perjury, that what is in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them;
your signature — typing your full name in the email counts.

Designated agent

Registered with the U.S. Copyright Office under registration number DMCA-1079567. These are the same details that office's public directory holds, repeated here because the law asks for both:

Mateo Khalil Duran Sanchez
Sprite Catch
Rodo 1770
Montevideo 11200
Uruguay
+598 91 491 900
copyright@spritecatch.com

Email is the fastest route and the one I actually watch. The postal address and telephone are published because § 512(c)(2) requires them, not because they are a good way to reach me.

A notice missing something is not thrown away: I will write back and ask for the rest. Content comes down whether or not the paperwork is perfect, because removing one post costs nobody anything.

Your notice is passed on. I remove or hide the content and tell the collector who posted it what went and why — which means they are sent your complaint, including your name and contact details, because someone accused of this is entitled to know who is accusing them. Do not put anything in a notice you are not willing for them to read.

If your content was taken down and you think that was wrong

Send a counter-notice to the same address. It needs your name, address and phone number; what was removed and where it was; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your signature; and your agreement that a court where you live — or, if you are outside the United States, any court where I can be found — can settle it, and that you will accept legal papers from the person who complained. A counter-notice is passed on to them in full, name and address included. That is how the process works, and there is no version of it where you stay anonymous. If they do not go to court within 10 to 14 business days, I can put your content back.

Repeat infringers

An account that keeps posting other people's work loses the account. Complaints are counted against an account, and one that repeatedly infringes is terminated — the same way section 6 works for everything else. A complaint you successfully counter is not counted against you.

Filing a false notice — claiming work that is not yours, or using this to get at somebody — can make you liable for damages, mine included. It is also the quickest way to lose your own account.

10. The app is provided as-is

Sprite Catch is a free hobby project. It is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. I do not promise the catalog is complete or accurate, that the service will be available, or that your data can never be lost. To the fullest extent the law allows, I am not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of the app, and my total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid for it — which is nothing.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or liabilities, so some of the above may not apply to you.

11. Changes and termination

I may change these terms; the date at the top will be updated, and continuing to use the app means you accept the change. I may also change, suspend or discontinue the app — for everyone, or for any one account — at any time, and I do not need a breach of these terms to do it. You may stop using the app at any time by deleting it, and you can ask me to delete your account whenever you want.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and without depriving you of any mandatory consumer protections you enjoy where you live.

13. Contact

Mateo Duran — contact@spritecatch.com