| Lord Download Terms of Use |
The Service, Web site, and the community tools featured herein are brought to you by Lord Download, a division
of Price Slapper Networks. ("PRICE SLAPPER"). In addition to the general Terms of Use applicable to your
use of any PRICE SLAPPER Networks site (the "PRICE SLAPPER Terms of Use"), the following additional Terms
of Use (the "Additional Terms of Use") will apply to your use of the Service. Your continued use of the
Service constitutes your binding acceptance of these Additional Terms of Use, the PRICE SLAPPER Terms of Use, PRICE
SLAPPER's Privacy Policy, and any modifications made thereto.
LORD DOWNLOAD ADDITIONAL TERMS OF USE
Some General Rules
We reserve the right to remove, at any time and without notice, any content from the Service
You must read and follow the stricked forum rules threads at the top of each forum in which you post.
Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate,
or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal
drugs/controlled substances or illegal activities.
You must be at least 13 years old to register for the Service. We do not knowingly collect any information from
any users under 13 years of age, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account
will immediately be terminated.
Cheating of any kind (including by exploiting any bug or error) is expressly prohibited, this includes exploiting
any deficiency in our code or design, or in the code or design of any third party product or service used in connection
with the Service, to gain an unfair advantage or to gain unearned or unauthorized privileges, access or abilities
not clearly intended by the product's design. Communicating information about such activities to others will also
be considered cheating.
We reserve the right to contact your ISP regarding any inappropriate activities by you on the Service.
Your subscription to the Service is intended for your individual and personal use only. You may not share, license,
sub-license, sub-lease, parse, pass-on or in any other way attempt to share, extend or monetize your access to
the Service.
We reserve the right to immediately terminate or suspend anyone who fails to abide by these Additional Terms of
Use. The decision to suspend or terminate accounts will be made at the sole discretion of the site administrators.
All account terminations (bannings) are final.
Subscription Terms of Service
If you have subscribed to a paid service, then by so subscribing you are entering into a legal and binding agreement
between yourself, as an end user (referred to herein as "you," "your," and/or "yourself")
and PRICE SLAPPER (also referred to herein as "our," "us," and "we"). If you do not
wish to be bound by these Additional Terms of Use or by the PRICE SLAPPER Terms of Use and/or the PRICE SLAPPER
Privacy Policy, then you must discontinue your use of the Service.
Payment Obligation and Credit Card Authorization
When subscribing to a paid service, you must use a major credit card in order to register for the Service. You
hereby authorize us to charge your credit card to pay for your initial Service subscription and for any automatic
renewals. Until you cancel your subscription, we will renew it automatically, and we will charge your credit card
each year or each month (depending on the subscription term that you selected when you registered) for the price
of a then-current annual or monthly subscription (depending on the subscription term that you selected when you
registered).
All sales are final. You may cancel the renewal of your subscription not less than ten
(10) days prior to its renewal date by using the cancellation Web page (https://secure.Lord Download.com/rps/manage/cancel.php).
Once subscription fees have been charged to your credit card, they are nonrefundable. Only in cases of demonstrated
fraud will subscription payments be refunded.
You agree to pay all fees and charges that you incur through your account, including, but not limited to, applicable
taxes. You will also be responsible for charges for any products or services that you purchase that are offered
for sale through the Service. In addition, you are also responsible for paying any amounts billed to your credit
card by someone who uses your card without your permission, even if your credit card company does not cover such
costs.
If we do not receive payment from your credit card issuer or its agent, you agree to pay all amounts due upon our
demand. Your credit card issuer agreement governs your use of your designated credit card in connection with the
Service, and you must refer to that agreement and not these Additional Terms of Use to determine your rights and
liabilities as a cardholder.
Promotional trial subscriptions when offerd
We may occasionally offer promotional trial subscriptions to the Service for free or at special discounted prices.
If you sign up for a trial subscription, your subscription will be either 1) automatically renewed at the normal
subscription rate in effect at the end of the trial period, unless you cancel before the end of the trial period;
or 2) terminated, unless you successfully sign up for a paid subscription, depending on the terms of your trial
subscription.
Protection of Your Password; Unauthorized Access
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You are strongly encouraged to
select a hard-to-guess password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners
or administrators of that site. Accessing or attempting to access any user account not belonging to you without
permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for a permanent ban of all
accounts from the site.
Registration Requirements
In order to post messages on our message boards (coming soon), view boards with level restrictions, and use other
advanced services, you must register using a valid e-mail address and follow all required registration confirmation
procedures. No posting privileges will be granted until the account is fully activated.
Community Rules
The following conduct is not allowed on our message boards, in instant messages, chat rooms, voice channels, user
profiles, private messages, feedback forms, reviews, or inside hosted game servers:
Offensive Material: Users may not transmit or encourage others to transmit material
or links to material considered patently offensive in nature. This includes, but is not limited to using vulgar,
profane, or sexually explicit language; using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability,
nationality, or gender as a means of insult; using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous
language; and posting, requesting, linking to, or otherwise sharing material considered pornographic, obscene,
graphic, or hate speech. Failing to abide by a warning that material or terms are offensive or prohibited is a
violation.
Some additional notes on the Offensive rule:
Using terms for homosexuality or mental or physical disability as a means of insult in any way towards anyone or
anything is considered offensive. This includes, but is not limited to, insinuating certain people (including video
game characters) are homosexual or disabled in an insulting way, calling things "gay" or "retarded"
as a synonym for "stupid", or using offensive slang terms. The use of any such derogatory language will
result in an automatic suspension.
Jokes or humor about rape or incest are generally considered patently offensive.
Vulgar language or substitutes for such: Our Service is programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar
under any context, and these words are not allowed to be used under any circumstances. Attempting to bypass the
censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other
method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these vulgar words is to completely obscure
it, making it impossible to determine what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited
from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the censor to post those words where they
are restricted is also disallowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word, the following are examples
of bypassing that are not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, Allowed: ****, , ****ed, ****ing, g'ed,
g-word. (Note: Neither -ed nor -ing are parts of the banned word "gris".) Taking advantage of any limits
in the Service's language filtering capabilities is not allowed. Any limits in such filters shall not be taken
as permission to bypass rules regarding vulgar language.
Some additional notes on the Vulgar Language/Censor Bypass rule:
Just because a word is blotted out does not mean it cannot be a violation. If a posting is self-censored but still
is in clear violation another rule (i.e. calling someone an obscured racial term, insulting a user with "****
you"), it is still a violation.
In certain cases, some legitimate, inoffensive words may be inadvertently flagged due to constraints of the censoring
system. In these cases, a user should still take steps to ensure that their message does not contain the disallowed
word, and report the inadvertent flagging to a moderator or administrator.
Cursing in foreign languages also falls under the vulgar language rule, and is not an acceptable substitute.
Posting in Languages Other Than English: Foreign languages are only appropriate on regional forums and unions that
cater to a location where the language is widely used. Any non-English content on the site that does not fall within
the exception will be removed. For example, Japanese language should not be used in any forums except on the GameFAQs
World: Japan forum and the Lord Download Japanese Union.
Flaming: Communications clearly insulting other users, individually or as a group,
directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: name-calling ("You're an idiot",
"You moron"); direct insults and orders ("Screw you", "Go kill yourself"); insinuations
("Are you stupid or something?"); or insults towards family ("Your mom&").
Trolling (Inciting flames): Messages intended solely to annoy and/or offend other
users by going against the clear nature of a board, topic or chat room are not allowed. This includes, but is not
limited to: provoking other users to respond with flames; provoking fans of a particular system or game, especially
on boards or topics dedicated to that system or game; making misleading topic titles; asking obviously useless
questions; posting false information as fact; and using another user's quote in your signature without permission.
Illegal activity: Communications that violate or incite others to violate the law
are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing: illegal copies of copyrighted software;
methods of circumventing copyright protection; methods of cheating in online games; illegal copies of copyrighted
music, movies, videos, or any other type of media; reprints of material from web sites or text sources; or any
sort of plagiarism.
Some additional notes on the Illegal Activity rule:
Game music, like most other music, is copyrighted. Distributing MP3s or other sound files from a game or any other
source without the consent of the copyright owner is illegal.
Exchanging files using torrent technology can be illegal. When you are discussing your use of the technology the
burden is on you to show that you are using it for a legal purpose by explicitly indicating the legal files that
you are uploading and/or downloading.
Discussion of mod chips, copying games, playing copied games, cracking games, No-CD patches, piracy releases, homebrew,
copyrighted ROMs, copyrighted ISOs, and basically anything related to game, movie, TV, or music piracy is not permitted.
Discussion of illegal drug use or abuse is not permitted.
Discussion of gambling is not permitted.
Advertising: Messages that clearly advertise a service or product are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited
to: unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements; For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices;
"Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes; or any referrer-ID based sites (including
both games and free-item marketing sites). Users are allowed to include their web site address in a signature,
request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or provide, only once, an interesting or relevant
link to another site. If a user directly or indirectly profits from a site or link, it may not be posted on the
Service.
Off-topic postings: The main purpose of the message boards and chat rooms within the
Service is to provide discussion forums and opportunities for various video and computer games and their systems.
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all message boards and chat rooms not noted as purely social in
nature.
Disruptive Behavior: Behavior that disrupts the Service for other users, intentional
or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: messages or topic titles that force browsers to scroll
horizontally; large blank or content-free messages, including quoting another user without adding any additional
content and posts that consist only of one or more smiley faces; "rick rolls" (posting misleading or
disruptive links); "bumping" older topics (posting in them well after the last post); posting identical
or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" posts or topics; intentionally hard-to-read topic
titles or posts (i.e. ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation); posting hard-to-read or
nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics; posting large ASCII art (except in social topics specifically
calling for it); or post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post"). Shouting or otherwise creating
noise in an active voice channel is considered disruptive behavior.
Some additional notes on the Disruptive rule:
Extra-harsh penalties will be applied for posting any link that overtakes a person's browser or computer when clicked
on.
Plot Spoilers: Posting "spoilers" (critical plot details) about games, movies, time-delayed broadcast
events, or other media in the title of a topic or in a message without a clear notice is prohibited. To discuss
such information in a topic, users should leave the title of the topic as vague as possible, ensuring that no mention
of the actual spoiler itself is included, and include a warning (i.e. "SPOILER") in the topic title.
In a message post in a non-marked or otherwise unexpected topic, users should leave several blank lines in a post
after a warning before revealing any vital plot information.
Flooding, Invading, and Board Wars: Flooding a board or chat room with disruptive
topics or messages; invading another board (flooding a board as a group with topics or messages); instigating,
participating in, or retaliating in an invasion of a message board or any other online service; announcing or inciting
a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board. Posting a link to a third-party site
that allows modification (i.e. posting comments) in a situation where an invasion is even remotely implied (i.e.
"Look at this stupid blog") will be considered an invasion.
Impersonation: Impersonating other users by creating and/or using a user account with
a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another
member is strictly prohibited.
Harassment/Stalking/Privacy: Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the
intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the Service, with or without use of explicit
or implicit threats, is strictly prohibited. Posting contact or other private information of any person (Service
user or not) is also prohibited.
Multiple AccountsWhile it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts, we
can and do track all accounts used on the same computer(s) and consider them one account for the purpose of monitoring
violations of these Additional Terms of Use. If these Additional Terms of Use are violated severely enough to warrant
the termination of one account, all known accounts held by that user and/or all accounts using the same computer(s)
may also be banned at the administrators' discretion.
Violations and Penalties
Topics and messages that violate these Additional Terms of Use will be deleted from the boards and additional penalties
may be applied at our moderators' discretion. Re-posting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also
considered a violation.
Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our editors and designated
moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion
of our editors and our designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable"
content will be determined solely by our editors and moderators.
Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from
your IP address or your entire ISP. In such event, we also reserve the right to contact your ISP concerning your
activities.
Contacting You
We may contact you via e-mail or postal mail to provide you with information about the Service or your account
or to provide you with information about special offers available only to Service subscribers.
No Warranty; Limitation of Liability
The Service, any software we may provide for the purpose of interacting with the Service (the "Software")
and all related documentation are being provided to you "as is" and without warranty of any kind, either
express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose. We do not warrant that the functions contained in the Software or on Service will meet your requirements.
We do not warrant that the Service or the Software will be uninterrupted, error free or free of viruses or other
harmful components. We are not responsible for content posted by our users. No oral or written information or advice
given by us or any of our authorized representatives shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of
this warranty. The above exclusions will not apply in any jurisdiction that does not allow the exclusion of implied
warranties.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL LORD DOWNLOAD, PRICE
SLAPPER, ANY PARTNER OF PRICE SLAPPER THAT MAY BE INVOLVED IN THE DISTRIBUTION OR PROVISION OF THE SOFTWARE OR
THE SERVICE, OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, LICENSEES, SUBLICENSEE OR ASSIGNS
BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
SERVICE, THE SOFTWARE OR RELATED DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF SUCH PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THOSE
DAMAGES. THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS WILL NOT APPLY IN ANY JURISDICTION THAT DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES.
IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SOFTWARE. |
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