PWO Rules & License
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Rules & License Agreement
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*Edit By Fenikkusu*
This Is Our License Agreement, Sent Out In ALL Versions Of The Game.
By playing PWO you will be accepting this license.
LICENSE AGREEMENT
1. Definitions.
a. "PWO" shall refer to the Pokemon World Online.
b. "Service" shall refer to Pokemon World Online's online services, including its public Web site and its public game servers.
c. "Account" shall refer to an account registered for the Service.
2. License.
a. Pokemon World Online grants you a limited, non-exclusive, terminable license to use Pokemon World Online by means of the Service, subject to all the terms of this license agreement.
3. Accounts.
a. You agree that you are at least eighteen years of age or have parental permission to register for and use the Service.
b. You must choose a unique name when registering your Account, and likewise when creating a character. Pokemon World Online reserves the right to terminate your Account and the right to bar you from the Service in the event that you utilize a name Pokemon World Online considers vulgar or offensive or a name that violates a trademark or copyright.
c. Upon registration to the Service, you will be asked to choose a password. You agree that you are responsible for the confidentiality of your password, and that you are responsible for any harm resulting from any disclosure of your password.
d. You agree that you are liable for any and all actions conducted by means of your Account.
e. You acknowledge that the Service's feature to retrieve lost passwords may also be used by third parties to access your Account name and password and agree that feature is provided at your own risk. Please do not use your Account name as your password.
f. You agree that you will not use your Account to give access to the Service to those barred from the Service.
4. Rights.
a. You agree to give Pokemon World Online a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license and right to use, reproduce, distribute, display, create derivative works from, adapt, and modify any content submitted to the Service in any form.
b. You acknowledge that all communications utilizing the Service may be monitored by Pokemon World Online. You hereby consent to such monitoring.
c. Pokemon World Online reserves the right to terminate your access privileges to the Service in the event of one or more of the following: cheating, hacking, cracking, abusing bugs, using 'macro' programs while away from keyboard, denial of service attacks, spamming, item duplication, harassment of other users, offensive speech, or advertising.
5. Termination. Your Account may be terminated by you or Pokemon World Online, for any reason, without further obligation from either party. Pokemon World Online reserves the right to terminate the Service at any time without further obligation. If the Service or your Account is terminated or cancelled at any time, for any reason, no refund of any sort will be granted to you. Upon termination of your Account or the Service, your access privileges to the Service will be terminated.
6. Liability. You expressly agree that Pokemon World Online and the Service will be provided on an "as is, as available" basis. Pokemon World Online and its affiliates assume no damage suffered by you, including but not limited to loss of items, characters, and accounts, system downtime, service interruptions caused by Pokemon World Online, coding "bugs", Internet latency, non-deliveries or loss of data.
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The following is a human-readable list of our rules, written by Kestheba and approved by JJ and Zammbi. They represent a basic list of rules to adhere to when using any media related to PWO. These rules can also be seen in-game by typing /rules. - JJ
1. Do not spam. That means sending gibberish or meaningless messages in the chat over and over again, or repeating the same phrase several times in a row with copy/paste. Excessive advertising is counted as spam.
2. Do not harass other players in IM. If a player asks you to stop IMing them, respect their privacy and leave them alone.
3. Do not intentionally make dishonest trades or exploit flaws in the game.
4. Do not swear. Do not avoid the auto-censor by misspelling swear words. Even if it is not covered by the auto-censor, if the word is a swear it is not permitted. If you are unsure, don't use it at all. Do not type asterisks or other symbols to make it look like you are swearing.
5. No flaming. This means calling names, or making mean/rude comments to another player. If you have an argument, take it out of the game. If you feel the player has wronged you, seek a GM. Belittling another player will never be tolerated.
6. If a player has already said no to a battle or trade request, do not send multiple requests. This counts as spam and harassment.
7. Do not type racial slurs, hate speech, or otherwise offensive messages. Do not make hate messages towards any religion, race, belief, lifestyle, etc.
8. No adult discussions or sexual innuendo.
9. Do not make multiple accounts with the intention of creating new starter pokemon.
10. Do not give out your password or ask others for their password.
11. Do not purposely give out information you know to be false. You are free to hide your trainer card, but you may not lie about your pokemon(s)' levels in order to take advantage of other players.
12. You must be at least 18 years old or have your parent's permission to play.
13. You may have more than one account, but you may not play two accounts at the same time.
14. If you find a bug or glitch in the game, please report it immediately, regardless of how serious it is. DO NOT abuse glitches to give yourself an advantage in the game or disadvantage other players.
14. Do not sell, buy, or give free reputation points. This means don't let new players beat you on purpose in order to boost their rep points.
16. Any use of Macros are strictly prohibited. Violation Is Subject To Banning. A macro is defined as any third party source used to control the game while the user isn't active. This includes, but is not limited to, auto clickers, key pressers, etc.
17. There is no official language in PWO. Users may speak whatever language they want. However, the primary language spoken by GMs and Admins is English, so they cannot be expected to offer support for people speaking languages they don't know.