Post by hamacorana on Jul 25, 2006 21:32:09 GMT -5
Basic Summary
Neopets is a community of game players of varying ages and backgrounds. You are here as a guest and you should act accordingly and respect the other guests you meet. Here are some basic rules to follow (and Lawyerbot has many more below in the so-called "Long Version"):
1. Neopets Is A Game, Not A Way To Make Money.
As a guest you do not own the accounts, activities, items, Neopoints, characters, locations, faeries, games and pets on the site; they are for you to play with while on the site. Except as permitted by the functionality of this site, you can't sell them (for money or Neopoints), give them to anyone, trade them for anything (including Neopoints), or pretend you made them. This means that you cannot try to make money off the Neopoints or virtual items in your account or even sell the time it took you to collect such items and Neopoints. If we find someone selling Neopoints or items, we will freeze every account controlled by that user and every account of the user who purchased such Neopoints or items.
2. Using Neopets Artwork Off The Site.
You can display our pictures on your own personal web pages for your personal noncommercial use ONLY as long as you write either "Copyright 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or "(c) 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" on EVERY page with our pictures and/or text and you link directly to us. By the way, this means that you can't sell ads, barter for stuff, offer your services, or otherwise earn money, Neopets' Items, or Neopoints either on web pages that contain our pictures and other Materials, or by using our pictures or other Materials, such as by offering to make Neopets banners or backgrounds for others. If there is anything you are unsure of about this, please contact us using this form and we will do our best to give you a quick answer.
3. Play Safely.
This site is visited by millions of people around the world every month. Neopets has implemented many safeguards to make this a safe site. However, it is important that you play safely by not giving anyone personally identifiable information such as your e-mail address, physical address, school name, last name, photographs of yourself, instant messenger username or telephone number. Also make sure that you follow you family's rules for playing on the Internet. If you think anything is suspicious, make sure to report it here.
4. Other Users Also Enjoy This Site.
Remember this is a community of players and all pet names, shop names, guilds, content on the message boards, NeoMail (except NeoMail from "The Neopets Team"), NeoMessages (except Warnings!), and "Write to Neopets" come straight from other Neopets' users, not from someone at Neopets.com. If you see anything mean or nasty on the site, or anyone sends you anything that makes you uncomfortable or asks for your password or personal information (such as your name, address or phone number), please let us know immediately by using this form so that we can handle it right away! However, reporting false abuse or inappropriate feedback will not be tolerated and will likely result in the account making a false report being frozen.
5. Respect The Community.
Remember, people who play on Neopets are of all ages and backgrounds. Therefore, all user content and communications on the Neopets site is filtered and monitored. So that everyone has a good time, you understand and agree that you will not post or send through the site any words, images or links containing or relating to:
profanity, obscenities ("swear words"), sexual content (express or implied, including inappropriate acts with or by your pets for "real" or in role play)
cybering
romance role playing
dating requests or offers for yourself, other people, or your Neopets
attacks, comments, or opinions about other people or things that slander, defame, threaten, insult or harass another person
gangs, gang-slang, or the promotion of gangs
chat rooms or links to sites with chat rooms
promotions offering prizes of any sort (including contests, raffles, lotteries, chain letters or any kind of giveaway)
materials created by someone else without their express written permission
information that might identify another user (including posting a link to your personal guest book)
material regarding political, social, or religious views or opinions
links to or advertisements for third party commercial Web sites
pet names, account usernames, store fronts, or any descriptions or names that would be considered inappropriate under our Terms and Conditions
"cheats" or "hacks", or information or links to sites claiming to have these
requests for user passwords (including offers for "Neositting")
requests for money by using your Neopets, Neopoints or any other Neopets property on third party sites or your personal websites (including Ebay)
scams of any kind (including requests to users to change their email address)
"spamming" (repeatedly posting the same message) or "party boards"
anything that suggests it's from a member of the Neopets staff
trying to test Neopets' message filters (or encouraging others to do so)
other information that Neopets deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate for this site
For more information regarding the Neoboard and Neomail rules, go here.
BEWARE: If you do any of the above we may suspend you from using your account for up to 72 hours or freeze your account permanently. Please note that depending on your account history and the type of infraction, you may be frozen or suspended for breaking the rules and that you WILL be frozen for multiple infractions. Also, you will not necessarily be warned prior to being frozen. This is your warning.
6. You May Only Have Five Accounts Because Your Pets Need Your Attention. It is important that Neopets users are responsible for their pets and play the game in a fair manner. Therefore, do not create more accounts or Neopets than you can maintain. You are allowed a maximum of five (5) accounts. One of these accounts, your main account, can do everything on Neopets. The other four accounts (except if one is a guild account as explained below) can adopt Neopets and maintain a gallery but cannot have a store, play games or any other activity that earns Neopoints or participate in any voting activities. You may freely transfer items among your accounts but they should be on the same e-mail address as your main account. If you are the head of a guild, you may use one of your five accounts as a guild account and it should be named as such (for example, Abandoned Computer Chips Orphanage guild account). In addition to your main account, a guild account can have a store but cannot earn Neopoints in any manner other than through the store, auctions and trades (and anything that happens on that account could impact your other accounts). If you maintain a guild account, you will be held responsible for that account. You are permitted only one guild account per guild.
7. Cheating Is Bad.
If you use cheat programs on any Neopets games, including non-Neopets software or programs, we will freeze all of your accounts.
8. Your Creative Stuff.
If you write something that catches our eye on a message board, in an email or Neomail, we might want to use it on the site or elsewhere when talking about the site. If you're under age 18, remember to ALWAYS check with your parents before you send anything to us or post anything on the site! By sending in your content and comments, you (and your parents) are agreeing that it's okay to repeat on the site and elsewhere what you say, and it's even all right for us to use it in an ad. So, this means we can use it in any way we want, anywhere, until the end of time.
9. Communications From Neopets.
You understand that, as part of playing on the Neopets.com site, you may receive e-mail from Neopets.com that lets you know when certain events happen with your pets, etc. You also agree that occasionally Neopets.com can send you special offers that you are under no obligation to accept. You understand that you can opt-out of receiving such e-mail through the "My Preferences" page, or send us a message to delete your "snail mail" address at any time, but doing so may detract from your enjoyment of the site, as you will no longer receive e-mails (or "snail mails") from your pets or the Neopets.com newsletters and announcements.
10. Scamming Is Very Bad.
Attempting to gain access to someone else's account and/or account information, or trying to get other people's passwords is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Your account (pets, shops, etc.) will be deleted and you will be permanently banned from the site.
11. You Are A Guest.
Remember, this is a free website and we reserve the right to prohibit the use of the site to any user at any time. Be a good guest.
For more general information, please visit the T&C FAQ Page, where we answer some of the frequently asked questions.
Remember - No member of Neopets staff will EVER ask you for your password! Please contact us using this form if anyone asks you for your password.
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Long Version
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE (the "Site").
This site is fully controlled and operated by Neopets, Inc. (referred to below as "Neopets" "we," "us," and "our"). By accessing and using this Site, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add to, or otherwise alter these Terms and Conditions at any time. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon their posting, so please review the Terms and Conditions posted at this link periodically. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes and/or modifications will constitute your acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions (including the Neopets.com Privacy Policy).
OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; RESTRICTIONS ON USE
All site software, designs, text, images, photographs, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, artwork, graphic material, or other copyrightable elements, and the selection and arrangements thereof, and trademarks, service marks and trade names (the "Materials") are the property of Neopets, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, assigns, licensors or other respective owners, and are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright and trademark laws.
Users are not permitted or authorized to copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute Materials (or any portion thereof) in any way or by any means, except that you may download one copy of appropriately limited portions of the Materials on any single computer for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided you include "Copyright 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or "(c) 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" on every page containing copyrightable elements and you keep intact other proprietary notices. Modification of Materials or use of Materials for any other purpose is a violation of Neopets' copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of these Terms and Conditions, use of any Materials in any unauthorized manner (including, without limitation, on web pages or sites that contain paid or free advertisements, third-party endorsements of any kind or nature (including without limitation, endorsements of a religious, political, or social orientation nature), promotions, products, games, services, or other inappropriate content) is strictly prohibited. Neopets hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable, revocable, non-transferable license to use and display, for noncommercial and personal use only, one copy of appropriately limited portions of the Materials and/or software that are downloadable from this Site, including, without limitation, any files, codes, audio, or images incorporated in or generated by or in conjunction with the Site and/or Neopets, provided that that "Copyright 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or "(c) 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" accompanies all copyrightable Materials and other notices are properly maintained. You agree not to reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, display, perform, publish, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or circulate any Materials to any third party (including, without limitation, display and distribute the Materials via a third party website) without Neopets' express prior written consent. Unauthorized or prohibited exploitation of Materials will result in deletion of the offender's account from the Site, and may subject the offender to civil liability and criminal prosecution under applicable federal and state laws.
Neopets respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Neopets may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, terminate the accounts of users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Neopets's Copyright Agent with the following information:
an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
your address, telephone number, and email address;
a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Neopets.com's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:
Stephanie Yost Cameron, Esq.
Legal Department
Neopets, Inc.
P.O. Box 10263
Glendale, CA 91209
Telephone: (+ international dialing code) 818-551-7580
Fax: (+ international dialing code) 818-551-7565
E-mail: LegalDepartment@Neopets.com
NEOPETS' USE OF USER SUBMITTED MATERIALS
By uploading or otherwise submitting any materials to us and/or the Site, you (and your parents, if you're under age 18) automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) to Neopets a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) throughout the universe. In addition, you warrant that all so-called "moral rights" and other rights recognized throughout the world (including without limitation, the European Economic Community) in those materials have been waived.
Neopets is a community of game players of varying ages and backgrounds. You are here as a guest and you should act accordingly and respect the other guests you meet. Here are some basic rules to follow (and Lawyerbot has many more below in the so-called "Long Version"):
1. Neopets Is A Game, Not A Way To Make Money.
As a guest you do not own the accounts, activities, items, Neopoints, characters, locations, faeries, games and pets on the site; they are for you to play with while on the site. Except as permitted by the functionality of this site, you can't sell them (for money or Neopoints), give them to anyone, trade them for anything (including Neopoints), or pretend you made them. This means that you cannot try to make money off the Neopoints or virtual items in your account or even sell the time it took you to collect such items and Neopoints. If we find someone selling Neopoints or items, we will freeze every account controlled by that user and every account of the user who purchased such Neopoints or items.
2. Using Neopets Artwork Off The Site.
You can display our pictures on your own personal web pages for your personal noncommercial use ONLY as long as you write either "Copyright 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or "(c) 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" on EVERY page with our pictures and/or text and you link directly to us. By the way, this means that you can't sell ads, barter for stuff, offer your services, or otherwise earn money, Neopets' Items, or Neopoints either on web pages that contain our pictures and other Materials, or by using our pictures or other Materials, such as by offering to make Neopets banners or backgrounds for others. If there is anything you are unsure of about this, please contact us using this form and we will do our best to give you a quick answer.
3. Play Safely.
This site is visited by millions of people around the world every month. Neopets has implemented many safeguards to make this a safe site. However, it is important that you play safely by not giving anyone personally identifiable information such as your e-mail address, physical address, school name, last name, photographs of yourself, instant messenger username or telephone number. Also make sure that you follow you family's rules for playing on the Internet. If you think anything is suspicious, make sure to report it here.
4. Other Users Also Enjoy This Site.
Remember this is a community of players and all pet names, shop names, guilds, content on the message boards, NeoMail (except NeoMail from "The Neopets Team"), NeoMessages (except Warnings!), and "Write to Neopets" come straight from other Neopets' users, not from someone at Neopets.com. If you see anything mean or nasty on the site, or anyone sends you anything that makes you uncomfortable or asks for your password or personal information (such as your name, address or phone number), please let us know immediately by using this form so that we can handle it right away! However, reporting false abuse or inappropriate feedback will not be tolerated and will likely result in the account making a false report being frozen.
5. Respect The Community.
Remember, people who play on Neopets are of all ages and backgrounds. Therefore, all user content and communications on the Neopets site is filtered and monitored. So that everyone has a good time, you understand and agree that you will not post or send through the site any words, images or links containing or relating to:
profanity, obscenities ("swear words"), sexual content (express or implied, including inappropriate acts with or by your pets for "real" or in role play)
cybering
romance role playing
dating requests or offers for yourself, other people, or your Neopets
attacks, comments, or opinions about other people or things that slander, defame, threaten, insult or harass another person
gangs, gang-slang, or the promotion of gangs
chat rooms or links to sites with chat rooms
promotions offering prizes of any sort (including contests, raffles, lotteries, chain letters or any kind of giveaway)
materials created by someone else without their express written permission
information that might identify another user (including posting a link to your personal guest book)
material regarding political, social, or religious views or opinions
links to or advertisements for third party commercial Web sites
pet names, account usernames, store fronts, or any descriptions or names that would be considered inappropriate under our Terms and Conditions
"cheats" or "hacks", or information or links to sites claiming to have these
requests for user passwords (including offers for "Neositting")
requests for money by using your Neopets, Neopoints or any other Neopets property on third party sites or your personal websites (including Ebay)
scams of any kind (including requests to users to change their email address)
"spamming" (repeatedly posting the same message) or "party boards"
anything that suggests it's from a member of the Neopets staff
trying to test Neopets' message filters (or encouraging others to do so)
other information that Neopets deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate for this site
For more information regarding the Neoboard and Neomail rules, go here.
BEWARE: If you do any of the above we may suspend you from using your account for up to 72 hours or freeze your account permanently. Please note that depending on your account history and the type of infraction, you may be frozen or suspended for breaking the rules and that you WILL be frozen for multiple infractions. Also, you will not necessarily be warned prior to being frozen. This is your warning.
6. You May Only Have Five Accounts Because Your Pets Need Your Attention. It is important that Neopets users are responsible for their pets and play the game in a fair manner. Therefore, do not create more accounts or Neopets than you can maintain. You are allowed a maximum of five (5) accounts. One of these accounts, your main account, can do everything on Neopets. The other four accounts (except if one is a guild account as explained below) can adopt Neopets and maintain a gallery but cannot have a store, play games or any other activity that earns Neopoints or participate in any voting activities. You may freely transfer items among your accounts but they should be on the same e-mail address as your main account. If you are the head of a guild, you may use one of your five accounts as a guild account and it should be named as such (for example, Abandoned Computer Chips Orphanage guild account). In addition to your main account, a guild account can have a store but cannot earn Neopoints in any manner other than through the store, auctions and trades (and anything that happens on that account could impact your other accounts). If you maintain a guild account, you will be held responsible for that account. You are permitted only one guild account per guild.
7. Cheating Is Bad.
If you use cheat programs on any Neopets games, including non-Neopets software or programs, we will freeze all of your accounts.
8. Your Creative Stuff.
If you write something that catches our eye on a message board, in an email or Neomail, we might want to use it on the site or elsewhere when talking about the site. If you're under age 18, remember to ALWAYS check with your parents before you send anything to us or post anything on the site! By sending in your content and comments, you (and your parents) are agreeing that it's okay to repeat on the site and elsewhere what you say, and it's even all right for us to use it in an ad. So, this means we can use it in any way we want, anywhere, until the end of time.
9. Communications From Neopets.
You understand that, as part of playing on the Neopets.com site, you may receive e-mail from Neopets.com that lets you know when certain events happen with your pets, etc. You also agree that occasionally Neopets.com can send you special offers that you are under no obligation to accept. You understand that you can opt-out of receiving such e-mail through the "My Preferences" page, or send us a message to delete your "snail mail" address at any time, but doing so may detract from your enjoyment of the site, as you will no longer receive e-mails (or "snail mails") from your pets or the Neopets.com newsletters and announcements.
10. Scamming Is Very Bad.
Attempting to gain access to someone else's account and/or account information, or trying to get other people's passwords is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Your account (pets, shops, etc.) will be deleted and you will be permanently banned from the site.
11. You Are A Guest.
Remember, this is a free website and we reserve the right to prohibit the use of the site to any user at any time. Be a good guest.
For more general information, please visit the T&C FAQ Page, where we answer some of the frequently asked questions.
Remember - No member of Neopets staff will EVER ask you for your password! Please contact us using this form if anyone asks you for your password.
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Long Version
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE (the "Site").
This site is fully controlled and operated by Neopets, Inc. (referred to below as "Neopets" "we," "us," and "our"). By accessing and using this Site, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add to, or otherwise alter these Terms and Conditions at any time. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon their posting, so please review the Terms and Conditions posted at this link periodically. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes and/or modifications will constitute your acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions (including the Neopets.com Privacy Policy).
OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; RESTRICTIONS ON USE
All site software, designs, text, images, photographs, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, artwork, graphic material, or other copyrightable elements, and the selection and arrangements thereof, and trademarks, service marks and trade names (the "Materials") are the property of Neopets, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, assigns, licensors or other respective owners, and are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright and trademark laws.
Users are not permitted or authorized to copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute Materials (or any portion thereof) in any way or by any means, except that you may download one copy of appropriately limited portions of the Materials on any single computer for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided you include "Copyright 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or "(c) 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" on every page containing copyrightable elements and you keep intact other proprietary notices. Modification of Materials or use of Materials for any other purpose is a violation of Neopets' copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of these Terms and Conditions, use of any Materials in any unauthorized manner (including, without limitation, on web pages or sites that contain paid or free advertisements, third-party endorsements of any kind or nature (including without limitation, endorsements of a religious, political, or social orientation nature), promotions, products, games, services, or other inappropriate content) is strictly prohibited. Neopets hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable, revocable, non-transferable license to use and display, for noncommercial and personal use only, one copy of appropriately limited portions of the Materials and/or software that are downloadable from this Site, including, without limitation, any files, codes, audio, or images incorporated in or generated by or in conjunction with the Site and/or Neopets, provided that that "Copyright 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or "(c) 2000-2006 Neopets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" accompanies all copyrightable Materials and other notices are properly maintained. You agree not to reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, display, perform, publish, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or circulate any Materials to any third party (including, without limitation, display and distribute the Materials via a third party website) without Neopets' express prior written consent. Unauthorized or prohibited exploitation of Materials will result in deletion of the offender's account from the Site, and may subject the offender to civil liability and criminal prosecution under applicable federal and state laws.
Neopets respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Neopets may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, terminate the accounts of users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Neopets's Copyright Agent with the following information:
an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
your address, telephone number, and email address;
a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Neopets.com's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:
Stephanie Yost Cameron, Esq.
Legal Department
Neopets, Inc.
P.O. Box 10263
Glendale, CA 91209
Telephone: (+ international dialing code) 818-551-7580
Fax: (+ international dialing code) 818-551-7565
E-mail: LegalDepartment@Neopets.com
NEOPETS' USE OF USER SUBMITTED MATERIALS
By uploading or otherwise submitting any materials to us and/or the Site, you (and your parents, if you're under age 18) automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) to Neopets a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) throughout the universe. In addition, you warrant that all so-called "moral rights" and other rights recognized throughout the world (including without limitation, the European Economic Community) in those materials have been waived.