Terms of Service
The short version. Be 13 or older. Keep your account yours. Only upload video you have the right to. Follow the Community Guidelines. Treat what the assistant tells you as labelled information, not a promise. We can remove content and suspend accounts that break these rules; you can delete your account whenever you like.
1. Agreement
These Terms are an agreement between you and the developer of The Lab, Rafael Johnsen ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the app, you accept them, together with the Community Guidelines and the Privacy Policy, which are part of these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use The Lab.
The Lab is an unofficial fan companion. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.
2. Who can use it
You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to enter into this agreement where you live. The app is rated in the App Store for the audience of the game it accompanies. If you are using it on behalf of someone else, you confirm you are allowed to.
3. Your account
- Give accurate information and keep it up to date.
- Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account; tell us straight away if you think it has been compromised.
- One account per person. Do not create accounts to get around a suspension or ban.
- You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Danger zone. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to your data when you do.
4. Your content
"Your content" means anything you post, upload or send through The Lab: posts, comments, profile details, gameplay video, clips, and messages to the assistant.
- You own it. Posting it does not transfer ownership to us.
- You give us permission to host it. So that the app can work, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, process, display and distribute your content within The Lab, and to produce the things you ask the app to produce from it (such as transcripts and clips). This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies we must keep for a short period in backups or to enforce these Terms.
- You must have the rights. When you upload video you confirm you own it, hold a licence for it, have the creator's authorisation, or are submitting it with permission — and you record which of these applies at upload time. Do not upload other people's gameplay, streams or videos without their permission. Publishing anything to a connected platform (such as YouTube or TikTok) is your choice and your responsibility.
- We can remove it. We may remove or hide content that breaks these Terms or the Guidelines, that we receive a valid takedown notice for, or that we are required to remove by law. Where practical we will tell you why.
5. What you may not do
- Break the Community Guidelines.
- Harass, threaten or impersonate anyone, or post someone else's personal information.
- Upload content you do not have the right to, or that is unlawful.
- Sell, advertise or distribute modded currency, cheats, account services or anything that breaches the game's own terms.
- Scrape, crawl, or access the service by any means other than the app; interfere with it, probe its security, or attempt to get around rate limits, moderation or access controls.
- Reverse engineer the app or the service except where the law allows it.
6. The assistant and the numbers
The Lab shows figures about a game that, at the time of writing, has not been released. Every figure carries a label — Verified, Community reported, Estimated, AI projection or Unverified — and the label is part of the information. Only figures labelled Verified come from an official Rockstar source. Everything else is reported, calculated, or predicted, and may turn out to be wrong.
The AI assistant is a tool for exploring that information. Its answers are generated by a language model, can be mistaken, and are provided for your information only. Nothing in the app is a promise about how the game, its economy, or your content will perform. "Potential" ratings on clips are predictions, never guarantees.
7. Lab Credits and subscriptions
The app may offer a subscription tier and Lab Credits. Lab Credits are a usage allowance inside The Lab: they have no cash value, cannot be transferred, redeemed or exchanged, are not an investment of any kind, and expire with your account. Purchases are made through Apple's App Store under Apple's terms; billing, renewal, cancellation and refunds are handled by Apple through your App Store account. Where a feature requires a subscription or credits, the app says so before you use it.
8. Third-party content and services
The app shows videos from YouTube through YouTube's own player, links to Rockstar's announcements, and can publish to platforms you connect. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies, which apply when you use them. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or availability.
9. Intellectual property
The Lab's own software, design, text and data compilations belong to us or our licensors. Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar Games and related names, logos, artwork and trailer footage belong to Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive and are referred to for identification and commentary as a fan work. If you believe content in The Lab infringes your rights, email rafaeljohnsenwettner@gmail.com with the content's location, your rights in it, and your contact details, and we will act on valid notices promptly.
10. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate your account if you break these Terms or the Guidelines, if required by law, or if we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect other users or the service. Where practical we will tell you the reason. You can ask us to review a decision by emailing support. You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account.
11. Availability and changes
The Lab is provided as a pre-release fan project that will change, especially around the game's launch. We may add, change or remove features, and may need to take the service down for maintenance or because something outside our control has failed. We do not promise it will always be available or error-free.
12. Disclaimers and liability
The Lab is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy of information, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or for any loss arising from reliance on figures or assistant output in the app. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing affects your statutory consumer rights where you live.
13. Changes to these Terms
If we change these Terms in a way that matters, we will update the version and effective date above and ask you to accept the new version in the app before you continue to post. Continuing to use the app after that is acceptance of the new Terms.
14. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the country in which the developer is established, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection rules in the country where you live. Disputes should first be raised with us by email so we can try to resolve them.