Roku Mobile App Terms of Use

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Apps may be installed and used only on a compatible device for personal non-commercial purposes

You may install and use the Roku Apps on a compatible mobile device, but only for personal, non-commercial purposes. Ensuring system compatibility between your device and the apps is your responsibility rather than something the document assigns to Roku. What makes a device “compatible” is not defined here.

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You may install and use Roku Apps on a compatible mobile device, only for personal, non-commercial purposes.

You are responsible for ensuring system compatibility between your device and the Roku App(s).

Qualifications & exceptions

• Use is limited to “personal, non-commercial purposes”.
• Installation and use are permitted only “on a compatible mobile device”, and the user bears responsibility for system compatibility.

Not stated here

• The document does not define which mobile devices count as compatible.

Cross-references

• narrowed by (model-proposed): The apps belong to Roku or its licensors and ungranted rights are reserved — Only rights expressly granted pass to the user; everything else stays with Roku or its licensors, so the install-and-use permission is the whole of what is given.
• narrowed by (model-proposed): Your rights under these terms cannot be transferred — The permission to install and use the apps is personal beyond its non-commercial limit: the rights those terms give cannot be handed to anyone else.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You may not copy, modify, distribute or create derivative works of the apps

Copying, modifying, adapting, distributing, translating, or creating derivative works of the Roku Apps is prohibited. This item states no permission, purpose limit or exception of its own.

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copy, modify, adapt, distribute, translate, or create derivative works of the Roku Apps;

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Reverse engineering is barred except for interoperability the law cannot prohibit

Decompiling, disassembling, reverse engineering or otherwise trying to derive the source code of the Roku Apps is prohibited. That prohibition carries its own narrowing exception: it does not reach actions to the extent they cannot be prohibited under applicable law, and even then three conditions must hold together — the action must be essential to achieve inter-operability with other software, must be done only to achieve such inter-operability, and must not be disclosed or used to create any similar software. The exception is therefore conditional, not a general licence to inspect the code.

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decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise try to derive the source code of the Roku Apps (except to the extent such actions cannot be prohibited under applicable law and then, only if it is essential to achieve inter-operability with other software, is done only to achieve such inter-operability, and is not disclosed or used to create any similar software);

Qualifications & exceptions

• Exception applies only “to the extent such actions cannot be prohibited under applicable law”.
• Even then it must be essential to achieve inter-operability with other software and done only to achieve such inter-operability.
• Even then the result must not be disclosed or used to create any similar software.

Not stated here

• Which jurisdictions' laws would permit such actions: the document refers only to “applicable law” without naming it.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You may not sell or transfer the apps

Selling or transferring the Roku Apps is prohibited. The item ends with “or”, reading as one entry in the same list of prohibitions that continues with the security-mechanism item. Nothing in the document permits transferring an app, even to someone who acquires your device.

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sell or transfer the Roku Apps or

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Copying or redistributing third-party content is prohibited and may be DRM-enforced

Copying or redistribution of third-party content is strictly prohibited, and digital rights management or other technologies may be used to prevent or restrict copying or re-distributing content; you agree not to try to circumvent or avoid those technologies. The undertaking against circumvention binds the user personally and is separate from the prohibition on interfering with security mechanisms.

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Copying or redistribution of third-party content is strictly prohibited, and digital rights management or other technologies may be used to prevent or restrict any copying or re-distributing of any content, which you agree not to try to circumvent or avoid.

Qualifications & exceptions

• DRM or other technologies “may” be used — their presence is permitted, not promised.
• The user's undertaking is not to “try to circumvent or avoid” those technologies.

Not stated here

• Which content carries digital rights management: no specific services or titles are named.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

Roku, its partners and content providers may display ads through the apps

Roku and/or its partners and content providers may display advertising and promotional messages through the Roku Apps and other content services. Roku states it makes or implies no endorsement or recommendation of the advertisers' products or services. The display is permissive, and advertising may originate from partners or content providers rather than from Roku itself.

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may display advertising and promotional messages through the Roku Apps and other content services. We do not make (or imply) any endorsement or recommendation about the advertisers’ products or services.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Advertising may come from Roku “and/or its partners and content providers”.
• No endorsement or recommendation of advertisers' products or services is made or implied.

Not stated here

• What data, if any, advertising delivery uses is not described here; the document points to its Privacy Policy for information practices.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

Required app updates can add, change or remove features

From time to time the Roku Apps may require an update. Updates are described as including bug fixes, improvements to the user interface or how you access content, security purposes, and other changes that may add, change or remove certain features and functionality. The document presents updates as necessary to maintain the apps' operation and functionality and/or compatibility with other content or services. No notice period, opt-out or rollback is described, and which particular features a given update will change is not stated.

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From time to time, the Roku Apps may require an update.

Updates are necessary to maintain the operation and functionality of the Roku Apps and/or compatibility with other content or services.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Updates “may require” and are described as occasional (“[f]rom time to time”).
• Stated purposes include bug fixes, interface or content-access improvements, security purposes, and other changes.
• Such changes “may add, change, or remove certain features and functionality”.

Not stated here

• No notice period, opt-out or downgrade path for updates is described.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

The apps belong to Roku or its licensors and ungranted rights are reserved

The Roku Apps are proprietary to Roku and/or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws of the United States and other countries. Any rights not expressly granted to you in these terms are reserved by Roku or its applicable licensors, so the permissions earlier in the document are the measure of what you receive.

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The Roku Apps are proprietary to Roku (and/or its licensors) and protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and other countries. Any rights not expressly granted to you in these terms are reserved by Roku (or its applicable licensors).

Qualifications & exceptions

• Ownership is stated for Roku “(and/or its licensors)”, and reservation for “Roku (or its applicable licensors)”.
• Protection is claimed under copyright, trademark and other laws of the United States and other countries.

Cross-references

• narrows (model-proposed): Apps may be installed and used only on a compatible device for personal non-commercial purposes — Only rights expressly granted pass to the user; everything else stays with Roku or its licensors, so the install-and-use permission is the whole of what is given.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Proprietary notices in the apps or their content may not be removed

You may not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Roku app, or in any content provided through the Roku Apps. The prohibition covers notices in the app itself and notices accompanying content delivered through it.

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You may not remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Roku app or from any content provided via the Roku Apps.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The prohibition covers removing, altering or obscuring notices.
• It reaches notices in or accompanying the app and in content provided via the apps.