3. IN-GAME ASSETS AND IN-GAME CURRENCY3.1 The User is forbidden from performing or encouraging the following actions in the Game with any In-Game Asset and/or the In-Game Currency: selling, purchasing, or exchanging non-game valuables, including cash and other means of payment, items, services, and obligations. The User is forbidden from selling, purchasing, or exchanging the In-Games Assets and/or the In-Game Currency, as well as from distributing information regarding the intent to perform the above-mentioned actions by the User himself/herself or by any third party. Should it be provided by the functionality of other services of the COMPANY and/or its affiliates, the Users may be allowed to exchange the In-Game Assets with each other, inter alia, for In-Game currency, and/or exchange In-Game Currency for cash or other valuables.
4. PAYMENTS4.1 The User is forbidden from using the bonus, provided solely within the organiser’s terms, as well as credit forms of payment, without the timely compensation/refund of the credit part, and/or other activities with the intent to hide the fact of use or benefit without timely compensation/refund of performed payments, as well as any attempt to commit the indicated actions or use the In-Game Assets, or the In-Game Currency obtained by other Users as the result of violation of the Game Rules and the EULA. In the case of such violation, the COMPANY shall, at its own discretion, expropriate such In-Game Currency, In-Game Assets, and/or equivalent in In-Game Currency from the User’s Account, restricting features and access to the Account.
4.2 The User is forbidden from performing payments, both by means of having liquidity of temporary limitation, and by methods with no possible legal verification of transactions. Payments, of which the User cannot provide verification of the legal possession of payment funds and their security with actual funds, may constitute grounds for restricting features and access to the User’s Account.
5. CHEATING5.1 The User is forbidden from creating and/or using bots in the Game (third-party software that makes it possible to automatically control characters/the Game), from using other software, technical and/or other means, capable of altering the game process uncovered by the Game script, from simulating the actions of Users in the Game.
5.2 The User is forbidden from performing any actions that impede or prevent other Users from accessing the Game or the COMPANY from fulfilling his/her obligations. It is forbidden to create obstacles for other Users in the Game that are not covered by the game process and to perform any actions that interfere or disrupt the Game, servers, or networks connected to the Game, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to the Game.
5.3 The User is forbidden to directly or indirectly disable or otherwise impede the work of programs for detecting and preventing the use of software or hardware resources of third parties, giving the User an unintended advantage in the Game.
5.4 The User is forbidden from trying to benefit from intentional (or repeated) participating in the game process as a part of the Game group (team) with other Users who have violated clauses 5.1, 5.5 and/or 5.6 of Game Rules.
5.5 The User is forbidden from using and distributing information, calling for the use of, or publicly propagating any errors, both in-game and of any supporting software. In the event that the User detected such errors in the Game, he/she shall stop using the Game and report these errors to the COMPANY through legal@animelover.info from the moment such errors were detected, describing true to fact and in detail all circumstances of such detection and use. In the case any User’s doubts whether such functioning of any separate game process, the In-Game Assets, or the In-Game Currency at the moment is normal or has abnormalities, deviation, or errors, the User shall stop using such process, the In-Game Assets, or the In-Game Currency and ask the COMPANY through legal@animelover.info for clarification.
5.6 The User is forbidden to decompile, decode, and reverse engineer data, to bypass data security systems, to crack or attempt to crack the software components of the Game or its services, and/or to intercept the data going to or from the server. The following is forbidden: (inter alia) any modification, change, decompilation, decoding, sale, or distribution of modified materials of the Game as a whole or in parts (or the means and materials required for performing such actions), using programming errors, making changes in the program code, and obtaining unauthorized access to the server and database of the Game. In certain specific cases, the COMPANY has the right to immediately suspend the User’s access to the Game and to request appropriate authorities to prevent any breach of EULA and/or applicable law provisions.
6. UNACCEPTABLE CONTENT6.1 The COMPANY reserves the right to provide its own linguistic evaluation of the compliance of any phrases and words with these Game Rules. In the case of multiple meanings of exact phrases or words, and to avoid controversial situations, it is necessary to send a preliminary request to the COMPANY through legal@animelover.info to receive an official response as to the appropriateness of their use.
6.2 The User is forbidden from spreading rumours, slandering, or defamatory information regarding the COMPANY, other Users, the COMPANY’s affiliates, and the Game in general.
6.3 The User is forbidden from using any words and symbols that are profane, offensive, provoking, promotional, or not applicable to the Game in any form within the names or descriptions of characters, In-Game Assets, guilds, and any other communities and organisations of gamers.
6.4 The User is forbidden from using profane or offensive words within the game process, common channels, and services of communication, informing several Users simultaneously, forbidden from threatening violence or physical altercation, promoting drugs, pornographic materials, or third-party resources that contain such materials that are publicly available, and forbidden from spreading propaganda of racial, national, religious, cultural, ideological, gender, language, or political intolerance within all channels and types of messages, with no exceptions, as well as from encouraging such actions and expressions from other Users.
6.5 The User is forbidden from forming a part of, participating in, establishing, or otherwise supporting any community and organisations of gamers, whose ideology implies rejection of religious, national, or gender status (or has a similar ideology of such trends), or refers to a nationalist, racial, or misogynistic philosophy.
6.6 The User is forbidden from publishing information (links, tags, microblogs, descriptions of methods, etc.) or uploading files containing malware (viruses, Trojans, etc.), corrupted, or modified files or data, or other similar software causing damages to the Game, and from disrupting operation of other computers, and the means of communication or integrity of other Users’ Accounts.
6.7 The User is forbidden from sending spam (informational links and announcements not related to the game process), “floods” (multiple repeat, reproductions, copying, etc. of information) in any form of the Game’s informational services (chats, private messages, in-game letters, advertisement boards, etc.), as well as from using the Game and/or game services for the purposes of organising illegal or non-game activity.
6.8 The User is forbidden from performing any promotional announcements in any form, including reproduction of any links to Internet pages within the Game without the preliminary approval of the COMPANY.
6.9 The User is forbidden from using any informational services of the Game to distribute information regarding political parties, public and religious organisations and movements, as well as from regarding their promotions, actions, demonstrations, etc., and from calling for participation in them or bringing similar activities in either form into the Game that deliberately provoke disputes and conflicts between other Users.
6.10 The User is forbidden from acting within the Game communication methods (chat, mail, notifications) in a manner that may mislead other Users that the User, registered under such a name, is a representative of the COMPANY or otherwise has a direct or indirect relation to it, or has any rights of administration of the Game.
7. USER INTERACTIONS7.1 The User shall respect the rights of other Users to participate in the Game, and shall by no means create situations, in which other Users’ rights in the Game may be violated and/or restricted. The COMPANY reserves the right to provide its own legal evaluation of the actions and the compliance of the situation with this clause.
7.2 The User is solely responsible for his/her interactions with other Users of the Game. The COMPANY reserves the right, but has no obligation, to become involved in any way with these disputes. The User shall fully cooperate with the COMPANY to investigate any suspected unlawful, fraudulent, or improper activity, including, without limitation, granting the COMPANY access to any password-protected portions of his/her Account.
8. OTHER TERMS8.1 The User is forbidden from using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods.
8.2 The User is forbidden from offering arguments such as “in conformity with the role”/“role-play” in defence of illegal actions of any kind.
8.3 The User is forbidden from deliberately submitting false information in the case of contacting the COMPANY through legal@animelover.info and is also forbidden from falsifying data that they submit.
9. WARNING FOR THE USER9.1 The Game offers the Game Supplementary Functionality, which is provided to the User upon his/her request for a fee (in-app purchase). The User is not obliged to use the Game Supplementary Functionality; in this case no money will be debited to the User’s account.
9.2 Game Supplementary Functionality may be offered in the form of subscription and provided to the User upon his/her request for a fee (Subscription). The Subscription will be provided to a User for a stated period of time and will be automatically renewed until User or Licensor cancels the Subscription.
9.3 A Subscription fee will be charged to User’s chosen payment method in the App Store. The amount of Subscription fee may be changed by the Licensor at any time at his sole discretion.
9.4 To stop automatic renewal of the respective Subscription and automatic withdrawal of Subscription fees, User must cancel the Subscription not later than 24 hours before it renews for the length of the next Subscription period. The Subscription may be cancelled at any time by managing the subscription settings at App Store. Instructions for canceling a Subscription may be found here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039.
9.5 By downloading and using the Game the User confirms that he/she is eligible to use the Game, including the Game Supplementary Functionality, besides the User confirms that the Licensor may collect and use technical data and related information-including but not limited to technical information about your device, system and application software, and peripherals-that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support, and other services to the User (if any) related to the EULA. The Licensor may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify the User, to improve its products or to provide services or technologies to the User.
9.6 The Licensor shall not be liable for any actions of the User within the Game, including use of the Game Supplementary Functionality.
Appendix No. 2to KEYSTORM HOLDINGS LTD End User Licence Agreement for Games
FORUM RULES RECITALSThis document is an integral part of the EULA and regulates the conduct of Users in the Game forum (if it exists) and during the use of the supporting game services, restrictions of the Users’ actions on the Game forum, the User’s liability for noncompliance with such rules and restrictions, and the COMPANY’s rights to take actions established by the EULA against the User and terms thereof. The full acceptance of these Forum Rules and the assumption of their full compliance are mandatory conditions for the User’s use of the Game forum.
The Forum Rules are established to provide the most comfortable presence on the Game resources for each User. Noncompliance with the Forum Rules may lead to restriction of features or restriction of access to the User’s forum account for a long-term period without indemnification of the User’s costs (if any).
For violation of the Forum Rules, the COMPANY may apply sanctions to the User as set forth in the EULA. By posting messages on the forum, the User expresses his/her trust in the COMPANY to make any decision related to the interpretation of and compliance with the Forum Rules.
The COMPANY reserves the right to identify and locate all forum account of the User, determined by the hardware properties, IP or other information, obtained directly or indirectly by the COMPANY and its affiliates as well as to expand the sanctions applied to one forum account of the User to any or all of the forum accounts of this User.
1. GENERAL PROVISIONS1.1 These Forum Rules cover all sections of the Game forum as well as social groups, private messages, public messages, and signatures of the Users.
1.2 The forum is intended for comfortable communication of the registered Users. The forum may also have a relevant section open for guests (unregistered Users) to read. The forum is intended for discussion of the Game, hardware and software compatibility, computer settings, as well as for the exchange of other information connected to the Game.
1.3 Forum members shall be addressed by their forum or Game alias name (nickname) or by their name if such Users agree.
1.4 The Forum permits each User to register one forum account. Possible exceptions are stipulated in clause 3.1. The User’s login to the forum is permitted only via his/her forum account.
1.5 The lack of knowledge of the Forum Rules will not exempt the User from liability for violations committed.
2. FORUM MODERATION AND COMMUNICATION WITH THE COMPANY2.1 The COMPANY shall only provide technical feasibility to the Users to post and exchange messages.
2.2 The COMPANY and any persons authorised by the COMPANY can perform any actions related to moderation (delete, block, move, etc.). However, the COMPANY assumes no responsibility for the User Content uploaded, transferred, published, or otherwise distributed in the Game forum, but, when possible, shall stop all violations in accordance with these Forum Rules.
3. PROHIBITED FORUM BEHAVIOUR3.1 Registering more than one forum account by each User, even if such User wishes to continue posting messages after his/her main forum account was blocked for violation of the Forum Rules. Although, in exceptional cases, the User may create one additional forum account in order to contact the COMPANY via personal messages in the event of an emergency. Note: the forum is available as read-only for guests.
3.2 Entering the forum via another User’s login regardless of the means of obtaining this information. Forum Users shall not use other Users’ forum accounts as a way of contacting the COMPANY in the event of an emergency.
3.3 Using profane (including blurred, hidden with special symbols, for instance, @#$%), offensive, or threatening language, or words that discriminate in any way in his/her alias name (nickname), avatar, signature, status, topic headings, messages, or in private correspondence with other Users.
3.4 Indirectly or directly provoking other Users to trigger obscenities and/or arguments in forum threads, even if the User’s message, or parts of it out of context, are not deemed a violation of these forum Rules.
3.5 Posting of images, links to images, or links to Internet sources containing elements of pornography, violence, propaganda of terrorist, neo-Nazism, any form of discrimination, alcohol or drugs, or profane or offensive words.
3.6 Propaganda in any form that advocates for the consumption or distribution of drugs, alcohol, or psychotropic agents.
3.7 Posting of materials, or links to Internet sources with unlicensed content, violations of the Game Rules, “cracks”, “warez”, “no-CD” and others.
3.8 Posting or discussing materials of a promotional nature in any form on the forum, including links to websites, referral links, and spam. Openly advertising other games and companies (forbidden advertisements).
3.9 Trading (or trade discussions) of the Game’s characters, In-Game Assets, In-Game Currency, forum accounts, or character power levelling.
3.10 Discussing the Game’s vulnerabilities or defects, as well as any actions or discussions that violate the Game Rules in any way. Upon detecting vulnerabilities or defects, the User shall report them to the COMPANY through legal@animelover.info.
3.11 Publishing messages causing negative consequences to the game process; provoking Users to violate the Game Rules.
3.12 Creating topics with “SCREAMING” headings or headings that are partially typed in capitals (CAPS).
3.13 Creating topics with ambiguous headings (for instance, “Help”, “Attention!”, “Urgently”, “Check out” and others).
3.14 Creating topics in sub-forums that are not intended for the discussion of such topics (for instance, creating topics for discussing the completion of any task in the sub-forums about the Game’s technical issues).
3.15 Creating messages or topics that are confusingly similar to and have minimal differences with the source messages or topics in any sub-forum, thread, or within comments to a public post in the User Content of the Game resources. The COMPANY reserves the right to provide a linguistic evaluation of the similarity of two topics or messages without describing its methods to the User. If the User made an error and created a topic in the wrong forum, the User shall under no circumstances make a copy of it in another forum. The User shall contact a forum moderator via the feedback page and explain the issue. The COMPANY may move topics to the relevant forum.
3.16 Artificial bumping (“up”, “upward”, etc.) of topics in the list; such action shall be considered to be a “flood”.
3.17 Publishing messages in old outdated topics, where the last comments are over a month old (necroposting). Messages or topics that are not interesting for the Users shall not be repeated or artificially bumped. As an exception, the User can update their own old topics in creative sections.
3.18 Posting messages that are not related to the indicated topic (off-topic).
3.19 Posting messages with no meaning (“flood”).
3.20 Posting “screaming” or “eye-catching” messages or signatures that contain an excessive number of capital letters (caps), messages or signatures that are abundant in formatting tags, have a colourful appearance, large fonts, or contain oversized or unreadable images. Any representative of the COMPANY can evaluate excessive formatting.
3.21 Using wide-scale graphic signatures. Furthermore, in signatures it is forbidden to simultaneously use several images, fonts that are larger than the forum’s normal font, add videos, as well as other materials that distract the User from reading the message. The size of images in the signature shall not exceed 430 x 90 pixels, unless otherwise additionally stated in the forum.
3.22 Posting two or more messages in a row in the same topic within less than 12 hours (double posting, multiple posting). The User use the “edit message” option to make additions to messages.
3.23 Excessive quoting (overquoting) is when the size of the quoted material exceeds 5-7 vertical lines. If discussion involves quoting from different sources of information other than the forum, a larger volume of quotation is allowed; it is still recommended to use links to materials, provided that such links do not contradict clause 3.7. Multiple quoting is allowed when blocks of “quotation – respond”, “quotation – respond”, and so on, follow each other.
3.24 Publishing other Users’ materials (photos, images, fan art, texts, etc.) without references to the initial source, and also if the author or “interested persons” are against publication on this forum. In this case, “interested persons” may be individuals who have any relation to the materials, for instance, if he/she is present in the photo. The COMPANY reserves the right to independently define who is considered to be an “interested person”.
3.25 Openly publishing the private information of Users that contains their correspondence with the COMPANY, if permission for such publication was not obtained.
3.26 Publicly discussing the COMPANY’s actions related to forum moderation. Should it become necessary to discuss the COMPANY’S actions related to moderation, the User shall address the COMPANY through a personal message to any representative of the forum administration.
3.27 Nonconstructive, baseless criticism of the Game, the COMPANY, and its partners, as well as of other Users.
3.28 Publishing unofficial materials and news; misinforming Users.
3.29 Openly publishing and discussing products that are in closed alpha and beta testing.
3.30 Disclosing confidential information obtained during testing of the COMPANY’s and its partners’ products, as well as during visits to closed sections of the forum. Posting information considered confidential on third party resources, as well as in forum sections not intended for such purposes, without the COMPANY’s approval.
3.31 Publishing materials that violate the EULA, the Game Rules, the Forum Rules, and/or applicable law.
3.32 Quoting materials that contain violations of the EULA, the Game Rules, the Forum Rules, and/or applicable law. Such quotations shall be considered a relevant violation.
4. RECOMMENDATIONS4.1 Prior to posting a question, the User is recommended to use the forum’s search option and try to find a solution using key words and thoroughly study existing materials – the User’s issue has most likely been previously discussed.
4.2 Prior to creating a new topic, the User is recommended to make sure that it is in compliance with the theme of that particular section of the forum.
4.3 Prior to creating a new topic, the User shall make sure that such a topic was not discussed recently and use the forum’s search option for such purposes.
4.4 The User is to be polite during discussions and remember that other Users may have their own opinions that differ from his/her point of view, but that does not provide grounds for “personal attacks”. The best way to avoid “rumbles” is to stay away from discussions.
4.5 If the User comes across a violation of the Forum Rules, he/she is recommended to address the issue to the COMPANY through a personal message to any representative of the forum administration and not post an open message about it. The User is permitted to address the User who violates the Forum Rules via private messages.
4.6 If the User wishes to thank his/her dialogue partners, he/she is recommended to do it in private. It is permitted to thank the dialogue partners in public; however, it shall only be a part of the User’s message.
4.7 When quoting messages, it is advisable to reduce their volume to the minimum necessary for understanding the gist of the message.
4.8 It is advisable to study the forum’s options, which may include a range of convenient tools.