DAILY YARD

Terms of Use and Sale

Last updated 10 September 2026

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The short version

1. Who we are, and what these Terms cover

Octant (the “app”, and together with our website the “Service”) is provided by Raylight Limited Liability Company, a limited liability company formed in California, United States (“Raylight”, “we”, “us”). Our address is 6296 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, United States, and our support address is support@raylight-voyagertracking.com.

These Terms are an agreement between you and Raylight. They apply to the app on iOS and Android and to the same games on our website. Apple and Google are not parties to them — see §20 and §21 for the store-specific provisions.

By installing or using the Service you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

Our Privacy Policy explains what little data the Service handles. It is part of these Terms.

2. Who can use the Service

The Service is for a general audience.

If you are under the age at which you can enter a contract where you live — 18 in most places — a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms on your behalf and must approve any purchase. Apple's Ask to Buy and Google's Family Link exist for exactly that; please use them.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (see the Privacy Policy). You may not use the Service if the law where you are prohibits it.

3. Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial entertainment, in line with these Terms and with the rules of the store you got it from (including any Family Sharing or multi-device rules that store allows). The app is licensed, not sold. Everything not expressly granted stays with Raylight.

You may not: copy, modify, distribute, sell or rent the app or any part of it; remove any notice in it; use it to build a competing product; or reverse-engineer it, except to the extent the law where you live expressly allows despite this clause.

4. What the Service is, and how it changes

Each day the app offers one board per puzzle — the same board for every player — generated on your device from the day number. The app reads the day number from your device's own clock when it starts, so a player in another time zone may see the new boards before you do, and if you leave the app open across midnight you may need to reopen it to get the new day.

Practice boards are unlimited, are randomly generated, and are never saved as a daily result.

The app plays entirely offline. It makes no network requests. One puzzle, Tell, is written but is not in the app, because it would need a server to rank your clue and we do not run one yet. If and when it ships we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy first, and say so in the app.

We may add, change, retire or replace puzzles, hints and other features at any time. We will try to give notice in the app of any change that materially reduces what you can do. If you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK and a change to something you paid for makes it materially worse for you, you may end this agreement and we will refund the unused part of that purchase, as the law requires.

5. Hints, Octant Plus, and other in-app items

Where this stands today. Octant has not yet been released on the App Store or Google Play, so nothing described in this section is on sale yet. It is written down now so the terms of sale are on the record before the first purchase rather than after it. The daily puzzles are free, and nothing in this section is ever required to play them.

5.1 The free daily hint

Every day the app gives you one free hint. It does not carry over; a new one arrives with the new boards. The app is fully playable without ever buying anything, with unlimited attempts at every daily board.

5.2 Hint packs

You can buy packs of hints — currently 5, 20 or 60 — through the App Store or Google Play. The price shown in the app is read from the store, in your own currency, and includes any tax the store applies. The store bills you; we never see your payment details. Hints are consumable: each one you use is gone.

5.3 Octant Plus

Octant Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription, currently US$3.99 per month or US$23.99 per year, that adds the archive of past days, extra themes and full statistics. Your store shows the price in your own currency, including any tax it applies.

Plus does not gate anything that is free today. Every day's boards, unlimited attempts at them, and unlimited practice boards (§4) are free for everyone, with or without a subscription.

It renews automatically at the end of each period, at the then-current price, and is charged to your Apple or Google account, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. You cancel it in your store account — App Store: Settings → your name → Subscriptions; Google Play: Play Store → your profile → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions — not by deleting the app, which does not cancel anything. We will tell you before any price change and you can cancel rather than accept it.

Plus never buys you a better result. It adds access, never advantage.

5.4 What an in-app item actually is

Hints, Octant Plus, and any themes, archive access or other items we offer, are a limited, revocable licence to use that feature inside the app while these Terms are in force. They are not money, property or a currency. They have no cash value. They cannot be transferred, gifted, sold, exchanged, or redeemed for money, and they cannot be used outside the app. Where a button says “get”, “buy” or “unlock”, what you are getting is this licence. (This is the notice required by California Business and Professions Code §17500.6.)

Hints are not an in-game currency: a hint is the thing itself, used directly. We will not introduce an intermediate coin or gem that you buy and then spend on other items.

5.5 Purchased hints never expire, and they live on your device

For as long as the app exists and your wallet exists, purchased hints stay until you use them. Only the free daily hint resets.

Your hint balance lives in the app's storage on the device you bought the hints on. We do not hold a copy. Deleting the app, clearing its data, or moving to a new device without restoring a backup deletes the balance, and the stores cannot restore consumable purchases. Hints bought in the app and hints bought on the website are separate and do not move between them.

If you lose a balance, write to support@raylight-voyagertracking.com with your store receipt or order ID. Where we can confirm the purchase, we will re-credit unused hints as a goodwill gesture.

5.6 Restoring a subscription

Octant Plus is tied to the store account you bought it with. Signing in to that account on a new device restores it. The stores do not support restoring consumable purchases such as hint packs — see 5.5.

5.7 Nothing random is for sale

We do not sell loot boxes, mystery packs, random rewards, paid rerolls or paid rank. We do not sell streak repairs, energy or timers, and we will never prompt you to buy something in order to keep a streak. Every purchase is a fixed, described item at a stated price.

5.8 Prices and pack sizes

We may change prices and pack sizes for future purchases. A change never takes away hints you already have.

5.9 No redeem codes

We do not offer redeem codes or licence keys as a way to unlock in-app content. Any message offering you one is not from us.

6. Refunds and cancellations

6.1 Store purchases

Purchases made through the App Store are refunded by Apple, and purchases made through Google Play by Google, under that store's own refund rules — Apple through reportaproblem.apple.com, Google through Google Play's refund process. We cannot issue refunds for store purchases ourselves.

Because hints are delivered and used immediately, hints you have already used are not refundable, except where the law where you live requires otherwise. If something you paid for was not delivered, contact support@raylight-voyagertracking.com: we will deliver it or help you get a refund.

Nothing in this section limits your statutory rights, including the right of consumers in the EEA and the UK to remedies where digital content does not conform to the contract.

6.2 Website purchases

If you buy on our website, you are buying from Raylight directly — Raylight is the seller, and payment is processed by Stripe. Prices shown on the website include any tax we are required to charge.

Consumers in the EEA and the UK have a 14-day right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content. Because hints are delivered to your browser the moment payment succeeds, at checkout we ask you to confirm:

“I ask Raylight to deliver my hints immediately and acknowledge that I lose my 14-day right of withdrawal once they are delivered. I agree to the Terms.”

We repeat that confirmation in your receipt email. If you do not give it, we will not deliver until the 14 days have passed. To exercise a withdrawal right where it still applies, email support@raylight-voyagertracking.com within 14 days of purchase. You do not have to use any particular form of words, but this is the model wording, with the four details you fill in named in italics:

“I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract for the purchase of the following digital content: what you bought, ordered on the order date. My name and address: your name and address. Date: today's date.”

Outside the EEA and the UK, website purchases are final once delivered, unless the law where you live says otherwise. If delivery fails we will re-deliver or refund. We keep website purchase records for seven years, as tax rules require.

We cannot sell to people in countries subject to comprehensive US sanctions, and we may decline or reverse an order for that reason.

6.3 Chargebacks and refunded purchases

If a purchase is refunded or charged back after the hints were credited, we may remove the unused hints from that purchase. We will never lock you out of the free game because of a payment dispute.

7. Honest hints: the 💡 mark

Any daily result that used one or more hints is marked 💡 followed by the number of hints, both in the app and in the share text the app generates. That is the whole social contract of this app: a score you post is either unassisted or it says so.

You agree not to alter the share text to remove or reduce the 💡 mark before posting it.

Practice boards are never saved as a daily result. But note that hints come from one wallet shared by every puzzle and by practice boards: in some puzzles a hint you spend while practising still counts towards that day's 💡 mark. If you want an unmarked result for the day, do not spend a hint that day.

8. Fair play

There are no leaderboards, no accounts, no ranking against other players and no prizes. Nothing you do on your own device affects anyone else, so play however you like: reset, retry, take all day, work it out on paper.

The two things we do ask are in §7 — do not doctor the 💡 mark out of a result before you post it — and in §11 — do not edit the app's stored data to give yourself hints you did not pay for, or move your device's clock to reach a board that is not today's.

If we ever add leaderboards or any other comparison between players, we will publish rules for them and update these Terms before they go live. Any such rules would say how a result is verified, would keep hints recorded against the result, and would award no prize.

9. Your content

9.1 Tell clues

Tell is not in the app today (§4). This paragraph sets out the terms that would apply to it, so they are on the record before it ships rather than after.

The clues you type in Tell are yours. You would grant Raylight a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to receive, process and analyse them in order to run the game and compute your result — and nothing more: clues are not stored, and we would not attach your name to a clue, and never use clues for advertising.

Keep clues to ordinary words. Do not type personal information about yourself or anyone else into a clue.

9.2 Nothing you write is shown to anyone else

There is no display name, no profile, no chat and no gallery. Nothing you type in the app is visible to another player. If that ever changes, you would have to accept updated Terms before posting anything visible, and we would publish moderation and reporting rules at the same time.

9.3 Share text

The result text the app generates is yours to post wherever you like, subject to §7.

10. Our content, trademarks and third-party notices

The app, the puzzles, their names (Octant, Meander, Crease, Basin, Jam, Scree, Wedge, Overprint, Tell, and future puzzles), the wordmark, the board designs, the code and the writing are owned by Raylight or its licensors and protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. © 2026 Raylight Limited Liability Company. All rights reserved.

You may not use our names or marks without written permission, except to describe the app truthfully.

If you send us ideas or feedback, you give us permission to use them without payment or credit.

The app bundles the typefaces Syne and IBM Plex under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and open-source components under their own licences. The full licence texts ship with the app's source and are available from us on request.

11. Acceptable use

Do not:

12. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes what the Service does with data. In short: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking; results and hints stay on your device; the app makes no network requests at all; Apple and Google — and, for website purchases, Stripe — handle payments, and RevenueCat checks them for us under an anonymous ID.

13. Availability

We aim to keep the Service running, but we do not promise that it will always be available or error-free. Because the app plays offline, most of it keeps working whatever happens to us — but a store, a device update or a bug can still get in the way.

We may suspend or discontinue the Service or any part of it. If we discontinue the app entirely, we will give notice where we reasonably can, and consumers in the EEA and the UK keep the rights the law gives them.

14. Suspension and ending this agreement

You can stop at any time by deleting the app. That ends your licence and, because the app keeps everything on your device, deletes your results and your hints. If you have a Octant Plus subscription, cancel it in your store account as well — §5.3 — because deleting the app does not cancel it.

We may suspend or end your licence, immediately and without notice, if you materially breach these Terms (for example §7, §9 or §11), or if the law requires it. Where the breach is minor and can be fixed, we will normally warn you first.

If we end your licence for breach, the licences to your in-app items end too and nothing is refunded, except where the law requires otherwise. If we end the Service or your licence for any reason other than your breach, we will refund or, where possible, restore any purchased items you have not used.

Sections that by their nature should survive — including §5.4, §9.1, §10, §15 to §19 and §24 — survive the end of this agreement.

15. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

In particular: the “proven” ceilings and pars are computed by software and may contain errors; a day's board may occasionally be flawed; and the Service depends on your device and on the app stores.

Some places do not allow some of these disclaimers, so some may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits the rights you have as a consumer under the law of the place where you live. For consumers in the EEA and the UK, digital content we supply must conform to the contract as the law requires, and our statutory obligations to supply it and to remedy non-conformity are unaffected.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

(a) Raylight is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill or enjoyment, arising out of or relating to the Service, even if we were told they were possible; and

(b) our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or US$50.

This is a puzzle app whose largest single purchase is a few dollars; the cap is set to be proportionate to that, not to shield us from anything serious. These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or, for consumers in the EEA and the UK, liability under mandatory consumer-protection law.

17. Your responsibility to us

If your breach of §9 or §11 leads to a claim against Raylight by someone else, you will reimburse our reasonable costs of dealing with that claim, to the extent the claim was caused by your breach.

18. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and, for the iOS app, subject to §20.

What this choice means, in one line: it decides whose law is used to read this agreement and, with §19, where a dispute is heard — and if you are a consumer, it does not take away the mandatory protections or the home-country courts that your own country's law gives you. That includes every country in the EEA, the UK, and many others.

19. Resolving disputes

Before anything else. If you have a problem, email support@raylight-voyagertracking.com. Most issues — a lost hint balance, a failed purchase, a wrong result — can be sorted out in a message or two. We each agree to try in good faith to resolve any dispute informally for 30 days before starting formal proceedings.

Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Riverside County, California, and you and Raylight consent to their jurisdiction — except that either party may bring an eligible claim in the small-claims court where they live, and consumers outside the United States may bring claims in the courts of the country where they live, as §18 says.

There is no arbitration clause and no class-action waiver in these Terms.

20. Terms that apply to the iOS app (required by Apple)

These paragraphs apply if you downloaded the app from Apple's App Store. They come from Apple's Minimum Terms of Developer's End-User License Agreement and prevail over anything inconsistent elsewhere in these Terms.

  1. Acknowledgement. These Terms are between you and Raylight only, not Apple. Raylight, not Apple, is solely responsible for the app and its content. To the extent these Terms give you less than Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement, Apple's terms prevail.
  2. Scope of licence. Your licence is a non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the app may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
  3. Maintenance and support. Raylight is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services for it.
  4. Warranty. Raylight is solely responsible for any product warranties, express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you (for a free app, that price is zero; refunds for in-app purchases are dealt with in §6). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are Raylight's sole responsibility.
  5. Product claims. Raylight, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the app or your possession or use of it, including (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation, including in connection with the app's use of the HealthKit or HomeKit frameworks (it uses neither).
  6. Intellectual property claims. If a third party claims that the app, or your possession and use of it, infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, Raylight, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
  7. Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
  8. Developer name and address. Raylight's name, address and contact details for complaints or claims about the app are in §1 and §25.
  9. Third-party terms. You must comply with any applicable third-party terms when using the app — for example, your wireless carrier's data terms.
  10. Third-party beneficiary. Apple, and Apple's subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms. On your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

21. Terms that apply to the Android app (Google Play)

  1. Google's Terms of Service and the Google Play Terms of Service govern your download of the app, and Google Play's refund policy applies to purchases made through it.
  2. Purchases of in-app items are made through Google Play's billing system. Google, not Raylight, takes the payment.
  3. Google is not a party to these Terms. Google is not responsible for the app, its content, its support, or any claim relating to it. Raylight is.

22. Export, sanctions and where the app is sold

You may not use or export the app in breach of U.S. export laws and regulations, or of the laws of the place where you are. See also §20(7).

The app is not offered in every country. We may add or remove countries from the stores' availability lists at any time.

23. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The current version, with its “last updated” date, is always on this site and is linked from the app.

If a change is material — for example a new type of purchase, leaderboards, accounts, Tell shipping, or a change to refunds or to dispute resolution — we will show a notice in the app before it takes effect and, where the law requires, notify the app stores so that any parental consent can be renewed.

Changes do not apply retroactively to disputes that arose before the change. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Service; continuing to use it after the effective date means you accept the new Terms. Earlier versions are available on request.

24. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Raylight about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. If we do not enforce a provision, we are not waiving it.

You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor to our business, and we will tell you if we do.

We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control.

These Terms are written in English. A translation is for convenience only, and the English version prevails where the law allows.

25. Contact

Raylight Limited Liability Company
6296 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, United States
support@raylight-voyagertracking.com

For accessibility problems, email the same address and tell us what did not work. We will fix what we can.