Digital Entertainment - Online User Agreement (Last Updated: Sep. 18th, 2007) |
Us.99.com is an online game portal providing comprehensive online game information and services for gamers. Before you jump into the content, commerce, and community opportunities available on our sites, please take a moment to review this User Agreement (the "Agreement"). This Agreement is an agreement between you (referred to hereinafter as "You", "Your," "Member," or "User") and NETDRAGON WEBSOFT INC. It is important that you understand both the benefits we provide, as well as our limitations.
This Agreement applies to the web sites owned by us.99.com and its affiliates (referred to hereinafter as either "US91" or" sites"). This agreement also applies to the various services offered by US91 (collectively, the "Services"). While the Sites each offer a different combination of services and tools from one site to another, this agreement reflects our approach to memberships across our Sites and Services.
Us.99.com(a Web site operated wholly by NETDRAGON WEBSOFT INC.) provides this site as a resource for US99.community. Forum posts can be deleted and users may be banned from this site, without prior warning or explanation, at the sole discretion of NETDRAGON WEBSOFT INC.
1. Acceptance of Agreement
When you log in us.99.com or complete the member registration process, you agree to this Agreement. This Agreement may be updated from time to time. Your continued use of our services signifies your binding acceptance of the changes. This Agreement will always be available on this page for you to read. If any part of the Agreement or any future changes to the Agreement are not acceptable to you, you may cancel your Service. Your continued use of that service means that you accept the Agreement.
You must be at least 13 years of age to use this Web site. Persons under the age of 13 MUST obtain a parent's or guardian's permission prior to using this Web site.
2. Service Terms
A. US91 information. As a commitment to our users, we currently provide you with access to a rich collection of online resources. Containing at least 8 major sections including Games, News, Photos, Blogs, Download, Service, Sales, and Forum, US91 serves as a platform for users to communicate and exchange ideas with one another. Some Services offered on US91 are presently provided free of charge. However, please be advised that some, but not all, areas of the Site contain fee-based services.
B. Service Limitations. We will do our best to make your experience with US91 and Services a pleasurable one. However, we cannot always foresee or anticipate technical or other difficulties. These difficulties may result in loss of data, personalization settings or other service interruptions. For this reason, you agree that US91 and Services, including the services of our third-party service providers, are provided "AS IS". US91 and Services and our third-party service providers cannot assume responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, miss-delivery or failure to store any user data, communications or personalization settings.
C. Service Changes and Discontinuation. Us.99.com reserves the right to change or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Sites and Services at any time without notice. You agree that US91 will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification or discontinuance of these Sites and Services.
D. Privacy Policy. We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. We gather personal information from all registering members. We also store your personal preferences related to this Web site in your account data. We also collect data relating to all network connections, primarily your IP address. We may contract with various third parties who cooperate with us to provide and maintain the Web Site or the Services. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent such third parties from disclosing your Personal Information, except for the purpose of providing the services in question. We cannot guarantee that such third parties will not disclose your Personal Information. Please note that US91 contains links to other sites. Web sites that are linked to US91 may have privacy policies that differ from that of US91.
3. Content On Our Sites
Our sites include a combination of content that we create, that our partners create, and that our users create. Some materials published on our sites, including, but not limited to, written content, photographs, graphics, images, illustrations, marks, logos, sound or video clips, and Flash animation, are protected by our copyrights or trademarks or those of our partners. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or in any way exploit any of those materials or contents in whole or in part.
Us.99.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to us.99.com. After posting your Content to Us.99.com, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose.
Our site contains content that we create as well as content provided by third parties. This content includes, among other things, images, previews, reviews and interviews. It also includes information about games and services offered by parties other than Us.99.com, such as games descriptions, specifications, availability, and performance. We do not guarantee the accuracy, the integrity, or the quality of the content on our sites, and you may not rely on any of this content. Without limitation, we are not responsible for postings by users in the user opinion, forums, message board, or feedback sections of our sites.
You may be exposed to content that you find offensive, indecent, or objectionable or that is inaccurate, and you bear all risks associated with using that content. We have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any content that may, in our sole discretion, violate these Terms or that is otherwise objectionable.
4. Your Conduct On Our Sites
If we request registration information from you, you will provide us with true, accurate, current, and complete information. You will promptly update your registration to keep it accurate, current, and complete. If we issue you a password, you may not reveal it to anyone else. You may not use anyone else's password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your accounts and passwords. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your passwords or accounts or any other breach of security. You also agree to exit from your accounts at the end of each session. We will not be responsible for any loss or damage that may result if you fail to comply with these requirements.
The technology and the software underlying our sites and the Services is the property of US91, our affiliates, and our partners. You agree not to modify the software underlying our sites in any manner or form or to use modified versions of such software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to our sites.
Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that you will not use our sites to take any of the following actions:
(1) Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal right of others;
(2) Publish, post, upload, e-mail, distribute, or disseminate (collectively, "Transmit") any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, or unlawful content;
(3) Transmit files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage or adversely affect the operation of another person's computer, our sites, any software or hardware, or telecommunications equipment;
(4) Advertise or offer to sell any goods or services for any commercial purpose unless you have our written consent to do so;
(5) Transmit surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, spam, unsolicited advertising or promotional materials, or chain letters;
(6) Download any file that you know or reasonably should know cannot be legally obtained in such manner;
(7) Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or the source of software or other material;
(8) Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying any public area within our sites;
(9) Collect or store personal information about other end users;
(10) Interfere with or disrupt our sites, servers, or networks;
(11) Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a US91 representative, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
(12) Forge headers or manipulate identifiers or other data in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through our sites or to manipulate your presence on our sites;
(13) Take any action that imposes an unreasonably or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
(14) Engage in any illegal activities.
5. Disclaimers
Some contents on our sites, including but not limited to, articles, videos, images, pictures have been collected from the Internet or have been sent to us by our users. We respect the intellectual property of authors and creators and every attempt has been made to make sure that they are free use or public domain. If you notice copyright violation on this web site, please contact the web manager and we will resolve the matter. Of course, it is not our intention to infringe your copyright. The accuracy, reliability, completeness, quality or timeliness of any information cannot be guaranteed and we are not responsible for any errors or omissions or for results obtained from the use or misuse of this information.
We disclaim any responsibility for the deletion, the failure to store, the misdelivery, or the untimely delivery of any information or material. We disclaim any responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading or accessing any information or material on the Internet using search results from our sites. We disclaim any responsibility for, and if you subscribe to one of our fee-based services you will not be entitled to a refund as a result of, any service outages that are caused by our maintenance on the servers or the technology that underlies our sites, failures of our service providers (including telecommunications, hosting, and power providers), computer viruses, natural disasters or other destruction or damage of our facilities, acts of nature, war, civil disturbance, or any other cause beyond our reasonable control.
We do not warrant that our sites will be uninterrupted or error free. In addition, we do not make any warranty as to the content on our sites. Our sites and their content are distributed on an "as is, as available" basis. Any material that you download or otherwise obtain through our sites is done at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any potential damages to your computer system or loss of data that results from your download of any such material. Neither we nor any of our partners makes any warranty that (i) our sites will meet your requirements, (ii) our sites will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free, (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of our sites will be accurate or reliable, (iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material that you purchase or obtain through our sites will meet your expectations, and (v) any errors will be corrected. Neither we nor any of our partners makes any warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to our sites, any content, or any of our services, tools, products, or properties. You expressly agree that you will assume the entire risk as to the quality and the performance of our sites and the accuracy or completeness of its content.
Neither we nor our partners shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use our sites, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
The site contains a comment system through which users may voice their opinions. All comments posted are the personal opinions of the commenter, not of US91. US91 will not be held responsible for any comments which are intended to damage a game, developer or publisher's image. These comments are freely expressed by the commenter and will not be deleted by US91 unless a comment contains a lot of vulgar language or sexual related references towards an artist. By commenting you agree to be solely responsible for the content of all information you contribute, link to, or otherwise upload to the site and release US91 from any liability related to your use of the site. You also grant to US91 a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable (including rights to sublicense) right to exercise all copyright, publicity, and moral rights with respect to any original content you provide.
6. Forum Terms & Rules
The forum is intended to provide a warm, friendly atmosphere for the community and create a fun and safe environment for users to play games. In order to maintain the order and a sense of community, violating any of these rules could mean the punishment or deletion of your account. Please carefully read these rules before posting.
(1) Be respectful of others at all times and keep polite. The purpose of the forum is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and service for users. Occasionally, there will be conflicts that arise when people voice opinions. Be courteous when disagreeing with others. Don't be sexual, vulgar, obscene, profane, defamatory, abusive, hateful, bigoted, or otherwise offensive to others.
(2) Off topic posts are prohibited outside of the Off-topic Chat forum. Any off topic posts will be moved, locked or simply be deleted, as well as responses to the off topic post. Please keep in mind when you are posting. Remember to post in the correct forum especially in GM Service Section. If you find a bug in game or site, please post in the board of bugs. If you have any problem in game or site, please visit FAQ board, otherwise post in GM service section.
(3) No double posting. Post your message once to the appropriate forum and nowhere else or it will be locked or deleted without warning. If you find something wrong in your post, please use the "modify" button.
(4) Do not spam. No advertising. You can't use our game forums to advertise non games or services. Also you are not allowed to post any postings for gold or equipment trade, Games gold farming either. Our moderators reserve the right to edit or delete any posts they consider to be 'spam'.
(5) Do not post any inappropriate materials,including but not limited to any content that contains sex, drugs, violence, gambling,discrimination, discussion of hacks, illegal trading.
(6) Keep your Personal Information. Participants shall not post messages containing personal information including but not limited to full name, home address, email address or telephone numbers in the public areas. We never ask users to provide information such as account password in any form and reason, and you are never allowed to ask someone for their account password either.
(7) Respect the moderators,they are your friends. Moderators are here to keep the forum a clean place for everyone. If you have any concerns or questions why threads/posts are deleted or edited, contact them and discuss nicely. Just remember, they are here to help. Disputes which cannot be resolved between users and moderators may be arbitrated by the forum administrators. To discuss problems or concerns, please send an email to: us91com@tqdigital.com
(8) Any users who have ever seen any post violating these rules, please click "report it" button to report it to us and Thanks for your help!
Thanks for making the forum a great place! Wish you have a good time in Community!
7. Additional Terms
If you have any questions about this Agreement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: us91com@tqdigital.com
If you believe that your rights have been violated
If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by us.99.com or by a third party who has included material on our sites, please provide the following information to us.99.com listed below:
(1) A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
(2) A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
(3) An address, a telephone number, and an e-mail address where us.99.com can contact you and, if different, an e-mail address where the alleged infringing party, if not us.99.com can contact you;
(4)A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright or other intellectual property rights owner, by its agent, or by law;
(5)A statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
(6)Your electronic or physical signature.
It is often difficult to determine if your intellectual property rights have been violated. We may request additional information before we remove any infringing material. We may provide the alleged infringing party with your e-mail address so that that person can respond to your allegations. If a dispute develops as to the correct owner of the rights in question, we reserve the right to remove your content along with that of the alleged infringer pending resolution of the matter.
If your materials have been removed based on the complaints of another party.
Us.99.com will provide you with notice if your materials are removed due to alleged infringement of a third party's intellectual property rights. We will also provide you with the e-mail address of the complaining party so that you may attempt to resolve the issue. We will restore your materials upon notification from the complaining party that the dispute has been resolved.
If you believe your copyright material is being used on this Web site without permission, please notify us.99.com at: us91com@tqdigital.com
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