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If you are accessing this site you are bound to comply with these Terms of Service. You are responsible for making sure you follow all of these conditions. In failing to do so, you risk ban or permanent banning of your IP from this site. You are responsible for following the local laws of your state. The purpose of these Terms is our responsibility to you, the user, to make you aware of the laws applicable to accessing this site. You are required to have read and understood these Terms, failure to comply with them will prohibit you from using or accessing Aywas.com. If you disagree or do not understand these terms, do not access the Aywas.com website. Aywas.com values your privacy. What information we collect during the registration process is used for maintaining the user’s account and for account safety. User Passwords are encrypted for the user’s safety. Aywas will not release any personal information except as required by the laws of the United States, or in the event that Aywas must defend itself against a user chargeback and present account information and GP purchase information to a credit card or PayPal representative. We collect the following information upon registration: user name, user password, valid e-mail address, IP address of registration, birthday, closest country, and gender. We do not collect information from children under 13; regardless, we do not allow the registration of children under 13 and they are not welcome on our site. All content in and of Aywas.com and related to Aywas pets, NPC’s, or concepts is solely the property of Aywas administration. This includes derivative artwork, written works, pet colorations, and suggestions and ideas made by and for Aywas.com. You may display your pets on your own personal websites so long as there is a clear ©Aywas listed on the image and a direct link to Aywas.com. As a user you or your legal guardians give Aywas the rights to use any written works, art, ideas and suggestions that you have submitted or uploaded to this site that are related to Aywas. This includes any materials, data or games you may submit. This is a non-verbal, non-reversible and exclusive right to use anything you have submitted related to Aywas in any way we see fit. We have a right to modify, republish, transmit, change, or edit any of your submissions to Aywas.com. Any and all information received becomes the automatic property of the administration at Aywas, including any art, written works, coding and other information related based on or related to Aywas. When you submit any information, written work, materials or any of the aforementioned things, you are acknowledging that you are the rightful owner of it and thereby take all responsibility for it. Each Aywas user is allowed one account. Users found creating multiple accounts must submit an explanation to Aywas administration, and it must be satisfactory according to the administration’s discretion. If the reason is not satisfactory, the user will be made to give up one of the accounts for banning. Non-compliance or creating other accounts after this first warning will result in permanent ban of the user’s IP address. Users who wish to trade or buy another’s account must either submit their old account for banning or have their old account sold within a two week time span. If an account is shared between two people, this is still considered to be one account. Be aware that in sharing a single account, the actions of both players are held equally responsible for all aspects involving said account. It does not matter if the other players sharing this account are aware of the rules being broken, the punishment will still apply to the dual account the same as a single player account, regardless of whether or not the other person knew the rules had been broken or not. No user under the age of 13 is permitted to access Aywas.com. Any user found to be under 13 will be banned until their 13th birthday. Users under the age of 18 must make their parental or guardian units aware of the Aywas.com Terms of Service and must obtain parental permission to access the site. Aywas.com is NOT a children’s site. While we allow younger users to play on the site, it is with the exception that they and their parents have read our Terms of Service and understand it. This site is geared towards a more mature audience, and it fosters mature, adult discussions as well as allowing creativity of character. Users under the age of 18 are to be aware that any content on the site labeled as [M] is not meant to be accessed by users under the age of 17. If a parent discovers their minor on Aywas.com and would like the child’s account disabled, the parent is welcome to submit a request to aywas.support@gmail.com and the request will be complied with. Due to allowing minors access to Aywas.com, any suspicion regarding a sexual predator is to be immediately reported to the administration. This includes any form of sexual harassment or innuendo directed towards a minor, or a user seeking to gain personal information about a minor, be it from that minor or through another user. Anyone under serious suspicion of being a sexual predator will have their IP permanently banned and a report made to their ISP. The following topics are considered to be mature: politics, religion, sex, sexual innuendo or jokes, artistic nudity, sexuality, self harm or other such behavior or thoughts and excessive swearing. These topics are to be marked with [M] so that any user under the age of 17 should know full well that they are meant for mature audiences, and those not interested in such topics can know not to view them. These discussions may not be explicit in any way. Sexual harassment or sexual behavior geared towards another player will result in immediate removal of the topic and a warning given to the person or persons involved. This also extends to private messages, and users should report such matters to the administration so that they may take immediate action. Permanent ban will result if this behavior continues. These discussions are meant to allow freedom of speech within limitations for our more mature users. They are to be read and participated in at the users own discretion. No user may post any material that is sexually explicit or that is illegal in any way on Aywas.com. This includes any and all areas of the site, such as forums, private messages, pet pages and user profiles. Any and all forms of pornography, be they written or visual, are strictly prohibited. This includes bestiality and any works that exhibit child sexuality or the sexual relationship of a child with an adult. Explicit swearing or vulgarity of any form will not be tolerated, as it is uncalled for in any given situation. The following topics are forbidden to be discussed on Aywas.com, be it via the forums, PM’s, or any other form of chat speak on the site: pedophilia, suicide, cult creation, or the killing of another person, be it another user or a person not associated with Aywas. The state of Illinois where the server is run from forbids the discussion of these topics, and as such, anyone found doing so will risk banning of either their account or IP from the site. While we as a site try to allow freedom of speech within limitations, we must abide by the server location’s state laws, and therefore request that any and all users do the same. Aywas.com is a private website. A user may be asked to leave for any reason, regardless of that user’s standing, behavior, or donation habits. All accounts, virtual items, virtual currency (Blue Paws, Gold Paws, Silver Paws), coding, virtual pets, images, and content are the property of Aywas administration, and may be seized without warning for any reason. All registration applications must be reviewed before gaining access to the Aywas site. This is not a public or open website, and it is within the rights of the Aywas administration to revoke privileges to any user to access this site for any reason, regardless of the user’s actions on the Aywas.com site. Aywas reserves the right to change the services provided by our site to any of our users at any time and for any reason. This includes changes to fees and charges for the services this site provides. We reserve the right to ban, permanently ban and IP ban users of this site, including user’s account and all involved with said account. We may change the hardware/software as well as terminate anything related to the site, or Aywas as a whole, as is the right of the administration. Aywas.com will continue to be a private site, not open to the public but continuing to use the application forms for invites and new members. Users who purchase “premium” for their accounts, including “Forever Premium” will not be granted any refund in the event of the site closing. Unless expressly allowed by Aywas administration, users may not sell any accounts, pets, items, currency or any other property of Aywas.com for real life money, included but not limited to United States Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euros, etc. Aywas administration allows users their to trade their Aywas pets, items and currency for any pets, items and currency on other sites, providing said site also allows reciprocal trading. Users may also trade Aywas pets, items or currency for real life items, such as books, games and movies, provided that the seller MUST provide a “USPS Tracking Number” to both buyer and staff to protect all parties involved in this transaction from scamming. Users may sell original artwork, graphics, coding, writing, etc. for real life currencies provided they do not contain any official Aywas artwork. Neither of these are allowed, and will result in permanent banning. This includes the making of multiple accounts, using auto-buyers, auto-refreshers, or any other suchlike programs to play Aywas. Any user who presents Aywas administration with concrete information regarding the use of programs by other user(s) and which leads the Aywas administration to take action against said users will be rewarded in the amount of 5 GP. Scamming is also not allowed, anyone who has been scammed is to report to Aywas administration so that we may take immediate action. All glitches or ‘bugs’ that allow a user to unlawfully gain BP, GP, Aywas and items must be reported directly to the administration through ‘Reports’ and not listed in the forums. Posting a glitch in the forums will result in temporary ban, the length of which will be determined by the gravity of the glitch. Posting a glitch or bug that does not allow unlawful gain is permitted, and should be posted in the ‘Bugs’ section of the forums. Any user found to be using a disproportionate amount of site resources compared to other active, online users may be banned by Aywas Administration. It may be a temporary or permanent ban according to how many times the user has caused the service to malfunction for other users. An example of abusing site resources is holding down the F5 button on games. Users found holding down the F5 button on games will be temporarily banned, or permanently banned if they have been found doing that prior and caused server stress with their actions. As a mature orientated site, Aywas.com does allow the use of swearing, so long as it is not explicitly done. Forum boards with swearing in them must be marked with [M] as a mature board, and the thread starter must allow the use of profanity on said board. Flaming, defined as insulting another member both directly to that member or indirectly to another member, through forums, PM’s, or the site’s messaging features, is not allowed under any circumstances. If a member is breaking this rule by goading you on, report to a moderator or administration. Remember to be respectful to all members. Debating is allowed so long as it is not taken out of hand—arguing and flaming are not. Do not post any short, useless posts on any of the money gaining forums; alternately do not copy and paste any material you have not written onto any money gaining forums. Spamming is allowed ONLY in the junk pile. In a forum with BP-gaining potential, this will usually be members trying to gain BP by posting useless and unnecessary things. Don’t do it. Also, do not spam a user’s profile or PM’s with chain mail or pyramid schemes. Users hereby acknowledge that Aywas has no control over which users gain access to Aywas.com. We have no responsibility to take any action regarding what materials you access, and what effects said materials may have on you. Nor do we hold responsibility for how you may interpret or use said materials, or what actions you take as a result of having been exposed to these materials. As we are primarily a more mature audience based site, Aywas may contain links to websites and threads on our forums that some users may find offensive or inappropriate, and Aywas does not endorse such links. In accessing Aywas.com, you are hereby releasing Aywas for all liability for your having acquired or not acquired materials through this site. You are agreeing to hold Aywas and its staff harmless from any claims, losses, damages, liabilities, including legal matters, fees, and situations arising out of your use or misuse of Aywas.com, violation of these Terms of Service, violation of the rights of any other user, or any breach made by you or another user on this site. Aywas reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify Aywas, and you agree to cooperate with Aywas’ defense of these claims. Users posting any form of content on Aywas.com accept responsibility for all liability for content they have posted. Aywas.com and the administration will not be held responsible for any copyright infringement; however, if users of Aywas.com are found infringing copyright, Aywas will comply with any request involving this. Requests by an original copyright holder can be sent to aywas.support@gmail.com with information regarding the violation. Users who steal art, writing, or otherwise claim the works of others as their own will be banned for a minimum of one month. Software piracy is also illegal, and you may not post any links to any pirated software nor discuss it. Discussing and sharing “warez” will result in permanent banning. Because the rep system awards BP and site reputation, any abuse of this system is not allowed. Do not +rep or –rep any posts that do not deserve it. +Rep posts that have the potential to benefit the community, not you. Do not share any personal information on the forums or any of the provided messaging systems. The administration at Aywas does not recommend the sharing of personal information with anyone you do not know in real life. Aywas is not responsible for the consequences of any user who wishes to share personal information despite this warning. Do not give any user personally identifiable information such as your physical address, picture, school name, last name, or telephone number. Providing your email or instant messenger is at your own discretion, though it is advised you do it only through PM. Do not pose as “administration”, “moderator” or “programmer”, or any other person in a position of power on the site unless you have been awarded that status. Aywas administration will never ask you for password or login information. Therefore, if you receive any messages requesting this kind of information, be sure to immediately report it to administration. Users found requesting the passwords and login information of others in an attempt to scam will be banned permanently from the site. Anyone who links to malicious virus’ or software will be immediately IP banned from Aywas.com, and a report will be sent to your current internet provider. By playing on this site, you agree that you cannot hold Aywas responsible for the liability of any legal issues. You may not attempt, threaten or try to sue Aywas or any of its staff regarding any matter or issue. We have done what we can to ensure a safe, player friendly site for our members; it is their responsibility to have read these Terms of Service and to comply with them. You are hereby agreeing not to hold Aywas or any of the staff involved responsible for any loss, claim, expense or legal matters including but not limited to theft of personal information, non-compliance of the Terms of Service resulting in consequences to yourself or those involved, loss of service to your user account, including but not limited to Cash Shop items, items, currencies and pets. The administration will post notices in the ‘news’ if any of these Terms of Service have changed. The user is responsible for checking the updated Terms of Service once notified of the need to do so. For any further questions not covered by the Terms of Service, or you are unsure about something contained in them, contact the Aywas administration. |
