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The '''Terms of Service''' of Legacy are the basic rules. Abide by them, and players should have no trouble. If any of these are broken, players may find themselves banned or disfavored. The actual ingame Terms of Service can be found in the [[Police Station]]. Take the time to skim through it briefly, or you may suddenly find yourself suffering under the consequences.
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The '''Terms of Service''' of Legacy are the basic rules. Abide by them, and players should have no trouble. If any of these are broken, players may find themselves banned or disfavored. The actual in game Terms of Service can be found at the ([https://www.huntedcow.com/home/terms Terms and Conditions]) tab on the Portal page. The Games Rules can be found at the ([http://portal.legacy-game.net/tos.php Game Rules]) tab on the Portal Page. Take the time to skim through them briefly, or you may suddenly find yourself suffering under the consequences.
Players who break the TOS can be found under the "Banned Players" link located in the [[Police Station]].
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Players who break the TOS or Game Rules can be found under the "Banned Players" link located in the [[Police Station]].
  
 
'''Terms of service are as follows:'''
 
'''Terms of service are as follows:'''
  
 
=== Introduction ===
 
=== Introduction ===
Everyone who creates an account on Legacy agrees to these terms of service, we reserve the right to change them at any time without notice. Any changes to this document will be posted in game login news. Any violation of these terms may result in deletion or suspension of your account.  
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Everyone who creates an account on Legacy agrees to these terms of service, we reserve the right to change them at any time without notice. Any changes to this document will be posted in game login news. Any violation of these terms may result in deletion or suspension of your account.
  
=== Section 1 ===
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1.0 '''Flame Forum'''<br >
'''1.0 Communications'''
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This forum is for adults only and has a few exceptions to Hunted Cow Terms of Use.
A large part of online gaming is about communication, whether through messages, forums or online chat. Even the information you leave in your profile is a method of communication with others. All must be pleasant, we do not allow any illegal communications including (but not limited to) material, which may be deemed to be offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene, menacing, or in breach of copyright or contract, privacy, or other rights which may or may not be listed above.  
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We run a special forum called the 'Flame Forum', this is for adults only. Some of the posts in this forum may be
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deemed offensive and the language used may be of a more mature nature. However, we still will not tolerate
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illegal content, spamming or posting of pornographic content. Nor will we tolerate abuse of other players, clans
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or voluntary staff members. Taking part in this  forum is optional.  
  
'''1.1 Hive Forum and Chat'''
 
When using forums (including private clan forums) you must abide by all communication rules, as well as not spamming in forums outside spam and clan forums. Spamming is posting useless posts to increase your post count, any post that in a moderators opinion did not need to be posted will be called spam. This also applies for flooding in chat, we log the whole chat 24 hours a day so do not flood even if you are the only person in chat.
 
  
=== Section 2 ===
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1.1 '''Forum Signature'''<br >
'''2.0 Hacking/Cheating'''
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Forum signatures must be a maximum of 400 x 300 pixels in size.
Almost all of our game is server-side; this makes things like trainers obsolete. However, it is still possible to cheat by use of macros and other programs that play the game for you - We have ways of detecting these sort of things, using macros or program to play the game for you is not allowed.  
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Forum signatures should not exceed 400 pixels in width or 300 pixels in height, this will be judged on the signature
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as a whole if it contains a combination of images. Not on a per image basis.  
  
'''2.1 Bug Abuse'''
 
The game is in a state of constant development; every new system added will be tested to the best of our ability. However, it is a fact of life that we will miss things and bugs will get through. Any bugs you find must be reported to a member of staff and then left alone. If a bug is found and reported, you may also gain favor from the staff.
 
  
'''2.2 Scamming'''
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2.0 '''Farming/Funding Accounts'''<br >
Scams are not allowed in Legacy, this includes saying you will send players items or credits in a trade and failing to do so, fake competitions or any method of getting credits or items using lies. However, we reserve the right to not act on scams if the person being scammed has had it happen to them more than once, take your own precautions and use the market for trades.  
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Accounts may not exist to fund others and groups may not work together to cheat the system.
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Accounts may not exist solely to fund another with any form of in-game currencies. You may not use your account
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to give experience to another by removing items, reviving at request or leaving gangs then rejoining. You also are
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not allowed to help enemy gangs gain warfare points or territory in the wasteland. All participants in such activity will be punished.  
  
=== Section 3 ===
 
'''3.0 Multi-Accounts'''
 
Each person playing this game gets one account each. Anyone with more than one account will get all of his/her accounts deleted. This is one of our main concerns, and our admins will constantly be watching times of logins, IP Addresses, money transfers, etc. to try and catch people with more than one account.
 
  
'''3.1 Account Sharing'''
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3.0 '''Gang Leadership''' <br >
Legacy does not allow any form of account sharing, this means you cannot give your account and password to somebody while you are on holiday or so they can level you up while you are not online. Logging in to any account you did not create is forbidden.  
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When you are put in charge of a gang you must act in that gangs best interests.
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Those who participate in the leadership of our four gangs (everyone of rank 11 or higher) must always act in their gangs
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best interests. Any actions taken to sabotage the gang, kick members without reason or take over ruling councils for
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enemy gang motives will be dealt with by staff members.  
  
'''3.2 Account Stealing'''
 
Account security is your concern - our account database is secure. If someone gets your password, it is your fault. Any actions on your account (even if it is stolen) that violate these terms of service will suffer the same punishments. However, anyone caught stealing or attempting to steal accounts will be banned.
 
  
'''3.3 Account Money Transfer'''
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3.1 '''Espionage/Corruption''' <br >
Any accounts created for the sole purpose of funding a main account or clan are illegal, whether made by the same person or someone else. If you give excessive amounts of your money to a main account or clan you will be treated as a multi-account.  
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Some exceptions to the above rule are detailed below.
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Exceptions to the above rule are as follows. Having people in enemy gangs spy on them irrelevant of rank and plots
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to gain power in gangs for personal gain (not enemy gang motivated) will not be stopped by staff. However, both may
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be met with harsh response by gang leadership if discovered.
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=== Legal Terms ===
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The following are the legal terms covering the content of our website and services we provide. Any violation of these terms may result in legal action against you.
  
'''3.4 Exp-Farming'''
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'''Property Rights'''<br>
Group efforts to get experience are not permitted, this includes but is not limited to, having friends heal so you can defeat them for experience, or leaving clans so you can kill clan mates then returning. Both healer and attacker will be punished if this happens.  
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We are the owner or the licensee of all Intellectual Property Rights ("IPR's") on our Sites, and of the material published on it. All such rights are reserved.
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Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our sites must always be acknowledged.
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You must not use any part of the materials on our sites for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
  
'''3.5 Family Members'''
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'''Personal Safety''' <br>
We allow one account per person, however if you're in the same house or using the same internet connection/proxy server there is to be no interaction between the accounts in the way of credit or item transfer. This means do not trade with family members or people at your school/office.  
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Whilst we reserve the right to monitor and take action if any of our Sites are used inappropriately (including the posting of objectionable material on the chat facility or otherwise), we cannot promise that any our Sites won't contain such content or that we will remove / modify any particular content. Nor can we guarantee that users will comply with our terms and conditions or otherwise behave appropriately.
  
'''3.6 Departure Gifts'''
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If you are the victim of offensive or inappropriate behaviour or receive any other unwanted communications, you should report all inappropriate behaviour to as well as seeking appropriate external help, for example from parents or law enforcement authorities. If you continue to suffer problems, or are not satisfied, then you must stop using our Websites.
If you are quitting the game, you may not transfer credits/items to old friends. Staff will request the return of any such transfers if this happens.  
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=== Section 4 ===
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'''Player Accounts'''<br>
'''4.0 Password Recovery'''
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Hunted Cow reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify or discontinue the service or modify the terms and conditions of players' access to the service, with reasonable notice to players. In such cases, we reserve the right to terminate your account or transfer it to another game on one of our Sites. If You have a subscription You will be eligible to receive a refund on a pro-rated basis. All the accounts created are the property of Hunted Cow Studios Ltd.
We offer a password reseting system through e-mail. However, if you dont enter a true email address, then this feature is not available to you. If your password gets changed, or you forget it, the account is lost forever, and staff will not honor requests to have the account deleted or password changed.  
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'''4.1 Account Deletion'''
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The player agrees to indemnify Hunted Cow Studios Ltd. against liability for any use of their account including (but not limited to) reasonable administrative and legal costs.
Except in a situation where extreme rules are broken, staff will not delete an account. If you want your account removed you must not login for a set period of time and it will be deleted for innactivity. We do not delete accounts on request.  
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You may terminate your account with us anytime by email. If you have a subscription you must email us and your account will be terminated at the end of the month that you have currently paid for.
  
=== Section 5 ===
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'''Material Uploads'''<br>
'''5.0 Anti-Legacy  Behavior'''
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Any material you upload to our sites will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our sites constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We reserve the right to ban/delete accounts of anyone found to be hosting, promoting anti-Legacy websites. By anti-Legacy we mean sites made to promote hacking, cheating or bug abuse on our game. This also includes knowing someone is breaking the terms of service, and not reporting it to staff. So if you know your friend abuses bugs to get money and dont report it, you will be treated exactly the same as them.  
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'''5.1 Staff Harassment'''
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=== Conclusion ===
The staff are there to help and answer questions, if you ask staff a question and get an answer you either ask a different question or leave them alone. They have to help the whole of Legacy and dont always have time to explain why they cant do things, or why they will not. If they say no they mean no, repeated questioning or annoying of staff is not allowed.  
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This is a free game, we pay money so you can play for free. Follow our rules and play in a sociable manner and you will have no problems. Those who set out to disrupt our game will be banned and removed without compromise.  
  
=== Section 6 ===
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The Terms and Conditions can be found here:
'''6.0 Forum Spamming'''
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We have had multiple complaints of spamming in newsgroups some of which completely unrelated to Legacy . Any account who goes out of the game and breaks forum or newsgroup rules on other websites to advertise Legacy will be punished.
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'''6.1 Forum Signatures'''
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https://www.huntedcow.com/home/terms
Your forum signature cannot contain any images bigger than 400 pixels width and 300 pixels height. Multiple images are allowed but it is up to forum moderators judgement as to what is considered too big.
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=== Section 7 ===
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7.0 '''Gang Leadership'''
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Those who participate in the leading of our four gangs (everyone of rank 11 or higher) must always act in their gangs best interests. Any actions taken to sabotage the gang, kick members without reason or take over ruling councils for enemy gang motives will be dealt with by staff members.
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7.1 '''Espionage/Corruption'''
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Exceptions to the above rule are as follows. Having people in enemy gangs spy on them irralevent of rank and plots to gain power in gangs for personal gain (not enemy gang motivated) will not be stopped by staff. However, both may be met with harsh response by gang leadership if discovered.
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7.2 '''Enemy Assistance'''
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The person or gang you are fighting cannot assist you in your efforts to gain points, experience, etc. This includes but is not limited to removal of items so you can be defeated, purposefully reviving so friends may defeat you and handing back and forth squares in warfare while asking others not to defend them. Attackers, defenders and gang councils may be subject to punishment for this.
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8.0 '''Finally'''
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We take all the measures within our power to protect information entered into our site, things such as emails will never be shared with anyone. However if our database security is compromised we can take no responsibility for information that is stolen.
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=== Conclusion ===
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This is a free game, we pay money so you can play for free. Follow our rules and play in a sociable manner and you will have no problems. Those who set out to disrupt our game will be banned and deleted without compromise.
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[[category: community]]
 
[[category: community]]

Latest revision as of 09:27, 1 November 2013

The Terms of Service of Legacy are the basic rules. Abide by them, and players should have no trouble. If any of these are broken, players may find themselves banned or disfavored. The actual in game Terms of Service can be found at the (Terms and Conditions) tab on the Portal page. The Games Rules can be found at the (Game Rules) tab on the Portal Page. Take the time to skim through them briefly, or you may suddenly find yourself suffering under the consequences. Players who break the TOS or Game Rules can be found under the "Banned Players" link located in the Police Station.

Terms of service are as follows:

Introduction

Everyone who creates an account on Legacy agrees to these terms of service, we reserve the right to change them at any time without notice. Any changes to this document will be posted in game login news. Any violation of these terms may result in deletion or suspension of your account.

1.0 Flame Forum
This forum is for adults only and has a few exceptions to Hunted Cow Terms of Use.

We run a special forum called the 'Flame Forum', this is for adults only. Some of the posts in this forum may be 
deemed offensive and the language used may be of a more mature nature. However, we still will not tolerate
illegal content, spamming or posting of pornographic content. Nor will we tolerate abuse of other players, clans
or voluntary staff members. Taking part in this  forum is optional. 


1.1 Forum Signature
Forum signatures must be a maximum of 400 x 300 pixels in size.

Forum signatures should not exceed 400 pixels in width or 300 pixels in height, this will be judged on the signature
as a whole if it contains a combination of images. Not on a per image basis. 


2.0 Farming/Funding Accounts
Accounts may not exist to fund others and groups may not work together to cheat the system.

Accounts may not exist solely to fund another with any form of in-game currencies. You may not use your account
to give experience to another by removing items, reviving at request or leaving gangs then rejoining. You also are
not allowed to help enemy gangs gain warfare points or territory in the wasteland. All participants in such activity will be punished. 


3.0 Gang Leadership
When you are put in charge of a gang you must act in that gangs best interests.

Those who participate in the leadership of our four gangs (everyone of rank 11 or higher) must always act in their gangs
best interests. Any actions taken to sabotage the gang, kick members without reason or take over ruling councils for
enemy gang motives will be dealt with by staff members. 


3.1 Espionage/Corruption
Some exceptions to the above rule are detailed below.

Exceptions to the above rule are as follows. Having people in enemy gangs spy on them irrelevant of rank and plots 
to gain power in gangs for personal gain (not enemy gang motivated) will not be stopped by staff. However, both may
be met with harsh response by gang leadership if discovered. 

Legal Terms

The following are the legal terms covering the content of our website and services we provide. Any violation of these terms may result in legal action against you.

Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all Intellectual Property Rights ("IPR's") on our Sites, and of the material published on it. All such rights are reserved. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our sites must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our sites for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Personal Safety
Whilst we reserve the right to monitor and take action if any of our Sites are used inappropriately (including the posting of objectionable material on the chat facility or otherwise), we cannot promise that any our Sites won't contain such content or that we will remove / modify any particular content. Nor can we guarantee that users will comply with our terms and conditions or otherwise behave appropriately.

If you are the victim of offensive or inappropriate behaviour or receive any other unwanted communications, you should report all inappropriate behaviour to as well as seeking appropriate external help, for example from parents or law enforcement authorities. If you continue to suffer problems, or are not satisfied, then you must stop using our Websites.

Player Accounts
Hunted Cow reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify or discontinue the service or modify the terms and conditions of players' access to the service, with reasonable notice to players. In such cases, we reserve the right to terminate your account or transfer it to another game on one of our Sites. If You have a subscription You will be eligible to receive a refund on a pro-rated basis. All the accounts created are the property of Hunted Cow Studios Ltd.

The player agrees to indemnify Hunted Cow Studios Ltd. against liability for any use of their account including (but not limited to) reasonable administrative and legal costs. You may terminate your account with us anytime by email. If you have a subscription you must email us and your account will be terminated at the end of the month that you have currently paid for.

Material Uploads
Any material you upload to our sites will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our sites constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

Conclusion

This is a free game, we pay money so you can play for free. Follow our rules and play in a sociable manner and you will have no problems. Those who set out to disrupt our game will be banned and removed without compromise.

The Terms and Conditions can be found here:

https://www.huntedcow.com/home/terms