Section 1.0: Warranty
V-Petsite.com offers it's service on an "as is" basis and by your use of V-Petsite.com you understand
and accept there may be errors or incomplete code. V-Petsite.com holds the right to remove or modify
any code either on V-Petsite.com itself or files relating to your game if we see it necessary. This
also includes any features you may have made, custom pages you created or modify it's texts in order
to comply with our Terms. V-Petsite.com holds the right to do the aforementioned without prior
warning or permission from the games author.
Section 1.1: Exploiting Errors
Exploiting any errors you may encounter for personal gain, misuse, reverse engineering or other exploitation
is strictly forbidden and will result in permanent blacklisting from the V-Petsite.com servers and other websites
owned by V-Petsite.com. If you have found an error in the code please take the time to report
the issue so it can be repaired.
Section 1.2: Intellectual Property Rights
V-Petsite.com is protected under Copyright Law for IP (Intellectual Property) and all unauthorized attempts to
access, modify, exploit or reverse engineer is a breach of our Intellectual Property rights. Redistribution of images, code, design
or names are strictly prohibited and will be dealt with via the appropriate legal action.
Section 1.3: Code of conduct
As a member of the V-Petsite Community you must read and accept the Code of Conduct in order to use
our service. As a member of our community it is your responsibility to use our service whilst abiding by the Code of Conduct.
The following list of actions is a breach of our Code of Conduct and is considered an act of aggression toward
another user or another users interests.
- Verbally abusing a member via PM (Personal Messages), Forums (Community Forums), Chatboard (Game chatboards) or Email.
- Racial abuse or aggression based on a users ethnicity and/or religious beliefs.
- Disrespect toward another user or the users work.
- Being blunt and hurtful towards a member or their work. Be constructive!
- Taking another users work whether imagery, code, writings or other work owned by the individual.
- Spamming a users personal message inbox.
- Attempting to gain access to another users V-Panel.
Section 1.4: Content
As a member, and the author of your game holds you responsible for the content used within your game.
V-Petsite.com is not held liable for the users actions or content used within a game and the responsibility
for the content falls to you. V-Petsite.com will work with 3rd parties to remove any infringing
content used by any individual author of any particular game created with the tools supplied via our
service but will not be held liable for any idiots actions. If you have an issue with infringement
please kindly contact us with information regarding the content and a link
to the game in question with any additional evidence of ownership to the work in question.
You are not allowed to directly make sales within your game whether a premium user or not. Attempting to
sell ad space, special pets or game currency is strictly forbidden. Such acts will result in blacklisting.
V-Petsite.com allows PayPal donate buttons as an acceptable method of earning a little revenue for your work
but you must make accessible the following disclaimer. "{SiteName} is not directly affiliated with V-Petsite.com
and V-Petsite.com is not liable for the donations made through clicking this Donate button. V-Petsite.com receives
no share of any donations."
Section 1.5: Locale
V-Petsite.com offers it's services to any English speaking individual to create a game in English.
In order to accurately moderate contents of any given game V-Petsite.com does not offer it's services
for any additional languages at this time.
Section 1.6: Use of the community
V-Petsite.com offers the use of it's community forums on the condition you take the time to check
your posts and avoid the use of slang. Slang is annoying! Please see Section 1.3
for more information on the Code of Conduct for members and community users.
Section: 1.7: Payments
V-Petsite.com uses PayPal to handle all Payment Processing in order to supply you with a secure payment gateway
in order to make payments to V-Petsite.com where necessary. OneBip.com is our Payment Gateway of choice to handle
payments via SMS (Short Message Service a.k.a Text Message) for users paying via mobile/cellular phone. V-Petsite.com
makes no refunds at this time. Being a paying individual or a premium member does not exclude you from our Terms
or Code of Conduct.
V-Petsite.com holds the right to stop it's service to any individual who breaches any rules or conduct aforementioned
without any prior warnings or notifications. V-Petsite.com holds the right to modify the aforementioned terms without
any notification and is the users responsibility to check the terms on a regular basis to make sure you comply.
Being a premium user does not exclude you from the terms and will be dealt with in the same manner as any other
user without refund. V-Petsite.com will work with 3rd parties to ensure users do not use images they do not own
but are not held liable. V-Petsite.com does not store any images on it's servers and will not be held liable
for any infringement of images being displayed on a game from another website, if you have an issue, we will
remove the "reference" link, but to ensure an image is not being infringed it is advised you contact the actual
image host (Usually Photobucket or Imageshack) and request they remove the image. We do not host the
images ourselves!
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