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A Quest is a challenge to visit a collection of related places. We refer to those places as Quest Points. For example, one Quest is to visit all of England's
medieval cathedrals.
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You just have to visit - 'bag' - all of its Quest Points. The bigger Quests have intermediate rewards for bagging, say, half the Quest Points.
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When you complete a Quest you will receive a title and, sometimes, a certificate.
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The Quest Tracker app has a list of Quests, each with a list of Quest Points. To see the Quest Points for a particular Quest, tap the Quest on the Home screen, then
swipe left. Alternatively, a list of 20 nearby Quest Points from any Quest can be obtained by tapping the 'Nearby Quest Points' item on the Options menu. By default, these are the Quest Points nearest
your device. A list of nearby Quest Points near somewhere else can be obtained by setting a Temporary Origin on the Options menu.
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Quest Tracker has a description of where to go to bag each Quest Point. The Tracker (compass) screen must be open to bag a Quest Point. It has a display
showing the Quest Point's distance from the device. The Quest Point should be bagged automatically when it is within 20m of the Quest Point.
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The initial Quests are those that we have done through our blogs and hobbies. We are happy to consider any suggestion for new Quests or additional Quest Points.
We are especially keen to hear suggestions for new church Quests and new church Quest Points because we originally created Quest Tracker to encourage people to visit churches.
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Quest Tracker knows the GPS coordinates of every Quest Point and it uses GPS on your device to see if you are nearby. This means that a device
can only bag a Quest Point if it has fairly accurate GPS and that the app is enabled to use the device location.
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If your device shows the Quest Point being somewhere near where it is supposed to be and it is accessible, just go there to bag the Quest Point. It would be useful if
you dropped a pin at the real Quest Point, just in case we made a mistake when we added the Quest Point coordinates to our database. If your device shows the Quest Point being somewhere far away or
somewhere inaccessible, drop a pin at the real Quest Point and send the details to us. We can manually bag the Quest Point for you.
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Quest Tracker should work without a network, although maps, routes and geolocation will not. If you bag a Quest Point or drop a pin somewhere that does not have a
network connection, you should get a message saying that registration has been deferred. The details have been stored on your device. The bag or pin drop will be registered as soon as your device
re-establishes a network connection.
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You can use Quest Tracker on as many devices as you like. If one breaks, you can use another. When it first logs into our server, it will download your data
to your new device. If your old device had unregistered bags or unregistered pin drops, they will be lost.
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Quest Tracker keeps account credentials and other data in local storage. The only way to use a different account is to clear local storage and log in with
different credentials. While this is possible, it is not recommended, it is deliberately inconvenient, and we may prevent it in future.
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You can only bag a Quest Point when you have the Tracker screen in the foreground, which means that you must have a working phone. If your phone is not working when
you are at a Quest Point and someone else is with you, they can drop a pin at the Quest Point with your registered email address. If you contact us and explain the problem, we will sometimes
manually bag the Quest Point for you.
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Probably. We do not guarantee that Quest Tracker will work on all (or, indeed, any) mobile devices, but it works on all those that we know of. Your device
must fulfil our minimum specification of 1gb memory, and iOS 10+ or Android 5+. If your device does fulfil this minimum specification and Quest Tracker does not work, please contact us with
your device make, model and OS version. We will investigate, although it may take an indefinite time and we may decide not to do anything.
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Nothing, it is completely free.
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No. We provide this service for fun. We pay for it from our own private funds.
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Never, unless there is important information about our service.
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No. We only store the most basic of information needed for our service to work. We do not provide it to third parties and we do not analyse it ourselves.
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We provide this service for fun. We pay for it from our own private funds.
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- We only store the minimum information needed to make our service work: your username, a digest of your password, and basic details about the devices you use to access our service.
- We use cookies to smooth transitions from one page to the next but we do not use or analyse your usage.
- We do not provide any details about you, your devices or your usage to anyone else.
- We have no agents.
- We will not contact you unless we see a problem with our App or with your usage of our App.
- If you have an issue with this, do not use this App.