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Binding Terms and Conditions

Usage and Agreement
Your use of this web site, its content, the software, game client software, and associated materials made available through this web site (collectively, the "Site") are conditional upon you accepting the following Terms and Conditions/Code of Conduct. Unless otherwise specified, your acceptance shall be indicated by your use of the website and/or War of Conquest client software. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions, you must not use the website and/or the War of Conquest client software.

Using this Site signifies your knowledge of and agreement to be bound by the Terms. We reserve the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time without notice. Any modifications posted on the Site will be effective immediately. You are responsible for reviewing the Terms periodically for any such modifications. Your continued use of the Site indicates your knowledge and acceptance of the Terms and any subsequent modifications thereto.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction
The Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Rhode Island, United States of America, without regards to its principles of conflicts of law. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of any State or Federal court located in the County of Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, and waive any jurisdictional, venue or inconvenient forum objections to such courts. Your use of the Site constitutes an agreement by you that any dispute that cannot be resolved between you and us shall be resolved without resort to any form of class action.

Entire Agreement
If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

User Accounts and Nations
As the holder of your account, you acknowledge and agree that you are the sole beneficiary of the account and are solely responsible for its proper use. Your account is not transferable to any other person. Accordingly, you may not allow any other person to access your account or access the Site, make any credits purchases, accept any winnings, or participate in the gameplay using your account information. By registering and/or participating in gameplay offered on the Site, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold us and our affiliates harmless from or for any claims, liability, damages, and/or costs (including attorney fees) arising from any such unauthorized use. Unless otherwise stated all nations, user accounts, player (personal) points, and game credits are and remain the property of War of Conquest. You may not sell, lend, borrow, or otherwise transfer any nation, user account, game credits, player points, or any other War of Conquest property without the express permission of War of Conquest for any goods, services, or other things of value, perceived or otherwise, including but not limited to any form of currency, your time spent in accumulating said user accounts, nations, player points, game credits or other War of Conquest property.

Gameplay Fraud
You may not (a) gain unauthorized access to the Site's systems or any account (other than your own), interfere with the communications, procedures or performance of the Site or deliberately damage or undermine the Site, (b) affect the outcome of or participate in any gameplay offered on the Site by means of or with the assistance of automatic, macro, bots, automated programs, screen analysis utilities, memory readers or similar methods or to otherwise commit fraud in relation to the Site, or (c) alter the human skill component of any game. Any attempt to do so will result in civil and/or criminal prosecution, termination of your user account and forfeiture of all winnings, bonuses and incentives to which you would otherwise be entitled.

Payment Fraud
Any failure by you to honor legitimate charges or requests for payment will result in immediate termination of your user account, forfeiture of any prizes to which you are otherwise entitled, and civil and/or criminal prosecution.

Poor Conduct
You may not engage in any harassment of other participants or our staff, post objectional material on the Site, provide us with misleading information, or breach of any of the Terms, including the Code of Conduct. Any attempt to do so will result in civil and/or criminal prosecution, termination of your user account and forfeiture of all winnings, bonuses and incentives to which you would otherwise be entitled.

Account Suspensions
We reserve the right to temporarily suspend your user account if we are investigating your activity in relation to the Site for possible multiple account use, gameplay fraud or poor conduct.

IF WE DETERMINE, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, THAT YOU HAVE ENGAGED IN GAMEPLAY FRAUD OR POOR CONDUCT, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO (A) FORFEIT ANY WINNINGS, GAME CREDITS, BONUSES AND/OR INCENTIVES CONTAINED IN YOUR USER ACCOUNT(S), AND/OR (B) TO TERMINATE YOUR USER ACCOUNT(S) ALTOGETHER IN WHICH CASE WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, BUT HAVE NO OBLIGATION, TO REFUND TO YOU ANY FUNDS AND/OR GAME CREDITS IN YOUR TERMINATED USER ACCOUNT(S) (LESS FORFEITED WINNINGS, FEES PAID, GAME CREDITS PURCHASED, AND BONUSES/INCENTIVES GRANTED). WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, BUT HAVE NO OBLIGATION, TO CONSOLIDATE THE FUNDS IN ANY MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS (LESS FORFEITED WINNINGS, FEES PAID, GAME CREDITS PURCHASED, AND ANY BONUSES/INCENTIVES GRANTED) TO YOUR FIRST ORIGINAL ACCOUNT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT AT ALL TIMES TO DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION WE DEEM NECESSARY TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAW, REGULATION, LEGAL PROCESS OF GOVERNMENT REQUEST.

Purchase is not required to win prizes.
War of Conquest offers cash and other prizes to players at our own discretion. War of Conquest makes no claims as to the availability, amount, or form of prizes. The purchasing of game credits does not guarantee the availability or amount of cash or other prizes. War of Conquest is not gambling, nor a game of skill with cash prizes. Prizes are given as a means to show appreciation to our community. The purchase of game credits or other in-game services and/or features are not required in order to receive a prize. The odds of winning a prize are dependent upon a number of factors, including the number of players at any given time, and the players willingness to compete against other players to obtain the prizes.

Eligibility

United States of America
To participate in any gameplay held on the Site with entry fees and/or prizes, you must be:

a natural person of at least 18 years who is assigned the email address submitted on your account registration form;

be a U.S. citizen or resident alien with a U.S. address;

be physically located within the U.S.; and

be physically located in a U.S. state in which participation in the prize tournaments offered on the Site is unrestricted by law.

The rules governing sweepstakes, contests and tournaments with entry fees and/or prizes are established by individual states, not the federal government. If you reside in any of the following states, you cannot participate in fee-based tournaments with prizes: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Vermont or or any other jurisdiction in which participation in the games and tournaments offered on this Site is restricted by law. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.

Outside the United States of America
To participate in any tournament or contest held on the Site with entry fees and/or prizes from outside the United States of America, you must be:

a natural person of at least 18 years who is assigned the email address submitted on your account registration form;

be physically located in a jurisdiction in which participation in the prize tournaments offered on the Site is unrestricted by law.

WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE SITE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IS APPROPRIATE OR AVAILABLE FOR USE IN YOUR JURISDICTION. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT YOU ACCESS THIS SITE AT YOUR OWN INITIATIVE AND RISK AND ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS, IF AND TO THE EXTENT LOCAL LAWS ARE APPLICABLE. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MONITOR THE LOCATION FROM WHICH YOU ACCESS THE SITE AND LIMIT THE AVAILABILITY OF THE SITE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO ANY PERSON OR ANY JURISDICTION AT ANY TIME AND IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION. IN ANY EVENT, YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SUBMITTING ACCURATE REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND MAINTAINING THE ACCURACY OF THIS INFORMATION ON AN ONGOIG BASIS. DELIBERATELY SUBMITTING MISLEADING, INCOMPLETE AND/OR INACCURATE INFORMATION WILL RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF YOUR USER ACCOUNT AND FORFEITURE OF ANY PRIZES YOU MAY HAVE WON ON THE SITE. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE OR ANY PORTION THEREOF AT ANY TIME AND FOR ANY REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE.

Taxes
You are solely responsible for paying all federal and other taxes in accordance with the laws that apply in your state, province and/or country of residence and complying with any withholding tax obligations imposed by applicable law in connection with your activity on the Site.

Prize Limits
Users are limited to $600.00 USD per calendar year in prizes. A calendar year shall be determined to be the period of time beginning January 1 at 12:00 AM EST, and ending December 31 at 11:59 PM EST. Once a user has reached the cash prize limit of $600, no further cash prize requests will be redeemed. All cash prizes gained in the calendar year and unredeemed on January 1 of each year shall be forfeit and returned to War of Conquest.

Inactive Accounts
All nations and user accounts within War of Conquest are subject to deletion after a certain period of inactivity. User accounts, not currently a member of any nation are deleted 45 days from the last logged activity. User accounts which are currently held in a nation will be deleted on the same schedule as the nation they are a member of. Nations which have made a purchase of credits or have winnings history in the amount of $1.00 USD or greater will be deleted 1 year from the date of last activity, provided the nation has been flagged as a suspended nation thru normal gameplay. Nations currently flagged as active, meaning not in a state of being suspended, will be deleted 14 days from the last logged activity or at the point in time following 14 days, when their last land area is attacked by another nation. Any unredeemed prizes in any nation that is deleted due to inactivity are forfeit and returned to gameplay.

Promotions and Privacy
By establishing a user account with the Site or participating in gameplay on the Site, you agree that (a) we may display on the Site your username, public nickname, and gameplay scores and records. By accepting any winnings/prize in connection with the Site, you further agree and authorize us to publish and otherwise use for promotional purposes your username, public nickname, gameplay records and likeness in any form of media (newsletters, broadcasts, emails, etc.) without any further compensation to you.

User Material
Except as otherwise provided, any communication or material you or any other end user posts or transmits to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like, is and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary ("User Material"). User Material may be used for any purpose by us or our affiliates, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any User Material you provide will become our sole property and, accordingly, may be used by us or our affiliates for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and/or services, without any additional compensation to you. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR USER MATERIAL. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REMOVE ANY USER MATERIAL POSTED ON OR TRANSMITTED TO THIS SITE THAT WE DETERMINE, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, VIOLATES ANY LAW OR RIGHT OF ANY PERSON, INFRINGES THE RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON, OR IS OTHERWISE INAPPROPRIATE. IF YOU ARE AWARE OF ANY MATERIAL ON THIS WEB SITE WHICH INFRINGES THE COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK, PATENT, OR ANY OTHER RIGHT OF ANY PERSON, PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY.

Export Restrictions
No software on the Site may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported (a) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using any software on the Site, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. You acknowledge that the software, and any accompanying documentation or technical information, is subject to applicable export control laws and regulations of the United States. You agree not to export or re-export the software, directly or indirectly, to any countries that are subject to United States export restrictions.

User Code of Conduct

Be community-minded.
Express yourself in ways that are constructive and will help to foster the growth of the community. Making comments in the chat channels and forums for the sole purpose of destroying community spirit will not be tolerated.

Personal verbal attacks are prohibited.
These are statements which are designed to personally berate, humiliate, or insult a fellow player on a level that has nothing to do with their gameplaying abilities. Text of this nature serves no purpose in building community spirit and will not be tolerated.

"Newbie" bashing will not be tolerated.
New players are encouraged to participate in the chat channels and forums. All players are expected to be polite and encouraged to be helpful and courteous in their responses.

Inappropriate discussions are prohibited.
Muting and banning from the chat channels and or forums may result from any of the following: discussions regarding pornography or inappropriately gruesome and/or hideous subjects; discriminatory remarks which are sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive; excessive obscene or vulgar language; the discussion of illegal activity; or providing links to sites that contain any of the aforementioned.

Inappropriate nation and/or player names are prohibited.
Muting and banning from the chat channels and or forums, and renaming of said accounts and/or nations may result if the name contains any of the following: words or phrases that are sexually explicit, obscene, discriminatory, racially or ethnically offensive.

Spamming and/or flooding are prohibited.
Spamming or flooding the chat. Spamming is where a player repeatedly enters the same text, or garbage text into the chat window, causing the screen to scroll or fill up with this text. Generally speaking, repeating the same text more than a 2-3 times in a short span of time will be considered spam.

Nations or groups that hate-monger will be suspended.
You may not organize nor be a member of any nation or other group within War of Conquest that is based on, or espouse, any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay, or other hate-mongering philosophies. Such nations and accounts may be suspended on a permanent basis with no regard for current winnings, monies spent or other losses that may be incurred by players participating in this activity.

Impersonating a War of Conquest representative, volunteer, or fellow player is prohibited.
Doing so may result in the permanent revocation of your chat privileges, temporary suspension or permanent banning of your account.

Distribution of copyrighted materials is prohibited.
You may not post or link to, nor arrange for the exchange or transfer of any pirated or illegal software, music, or other copyrighted materials.

Advertsing is prohibited.
You may not market, promote, advertise, or solicit within the War of Conquest chat channels or forums. This includes posting URLs to other gaming sites or their affiliate links.

Hacking of the server or fellow players' accounts and/or nations is prohibited.
You will not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running War of Conquest. Hacking into a fellow players nation is prohibited and may result in all of your accounts and nations being suspended permanently. Using another player's password to steal, sabotage, or in any way alter that player's account, nation, or any game related items wll be considered a form of hacking and will result in your accounts being banned from playing War of Conquest.

Account sharing is prohibited
Do not give out the password for your War of Conquest account to anyone for any reason. Doing so may result in damage or theft of the account and/or your nation by another player. Any problems that result from the use of your password by another player are your responsibility, and War of Conquest administrators are under no obligation to rectify such problems. In limited cases War of Conquest administrators may take steps to rectify such situations, however this will be considered an exception and not the rule, and will be performed only as time permits.

Client code is not open source.
You may not reduce the client software to human readable form, reverse engineer, de-compile, or disassemble the client software, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation. You may not remove any copyright, trademark, reservation of rights, or any other proprietary language displayed on, in, or with the client software.

Mutings, warnings and bans are not to be discussed.
These matters are considered private between War of Conquest representatives and the user. Questions or comments concerning moderation methods will be conveyed through private messages only, and only with the parties involved. Private communication between War of Conquest representatives (including volunteers) and the players is not to be made public in the chat channels, on our forums, or elsewhere.

Harassment of staff and volunteers prohibited.
The repeated and persistent badgering, annoying, and/or pestering of staff via any means whether telephone, email, chat channel, or forums, may be considered harassment, and will result in severe penalties, including possible lifetime game bans. Note that harassment is NOT the reasonable pursuit of technical support via the provided and customary channels such as email, helpdesk, and game chat or forums.

War of Conquest shall not be held responsible.
Any losses resulting from suspension of any account for any reason shall be the sole responsibility of the player. War of Conquest shall assume no liability, nor provide any refunds.