User Agreement

[Astasoftlab]

2. Rights and obligations of the Parties

2.1. Rights of Moderators and Administration:
2.1.1. Moderators have the right to delete any information posted by Users in their discretion (acting on the basis of the present Rules).
2.1.2. Moderators have the right to apply the following penalties in case a User violates the present Rules:
2.1.2.1. Temporary blocking of User's access to the Forum:
- prohibition on posting messages;
- blocking an access to the Forum.
2.1.2.2 Full blocking of User's access to the Forum:
- permanent blocking of User's forum account;
- blocking access to the Forum by IP.
2.1.3. Measures enlisted in clause 2.1.1.1 of the Rules are applied by Moderators at their discretion (according to quantum of infringement of the Rules);
2.1.4. Measures enlisted in clause 2.1.1.1 of the Rules are applied by the decision of Super Moderator or Administration.
2.1.5. Moderators have a right to delete or move threads without prior notice to Users and without editing messages contained in these threads.
2.1.6. Head Moderators and Administration have the right to amend and change the present Rules without prior notice to Users.
2.1.7. Administration shall not be liable for temporary technical problems on the Forum, for temporary malfunctions and breaks in communications links, other similar malfunctions and glitches of the User's computer.
2.1.8. Administration has the right to request data for identification and in case User fails to provide it Administration has the right to block their accounts.

2.2. Administration obligations:
2.2.1. Administration is obliged to keep confidential User's data received upon registration on the Forum or upon request by Administration and not disclose it to a 3rd party unless otherwise;
2.2.2. Administration provides Users with opportunity to use the Forum 24 hours a day and without charge, except for the time of maintenance or other cases preventing access to the Forum and emerged through no fault of Administration.

2.3. User's rights:
2.3.1. User has the right to use the Forum only in personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with the present Rules.
2.3.2. User has the right to change their password. User is obliged to guarantee non-disclosure of their password and other confidential data on their own.

2.4. User's obligations to the extent of choosing ways of identification and rules of registration:
2.4.1. User is obliged to use only 1 account on the Forum;
2.4.2. User is prohibited to give either their forum or game account data to a 3rd party;
2.4.3. Upon registration User chooses a Nickname according to the following:
- Nicknames in the form of web addresses are prohibited;
- Nicknames containing trademarks not belonging to the User are prohibited;
- Using more than 3 special symbols and excessive use of capital letters is prohibited;
- Knowingly unreadable (combination of numbers, special symbols and letters) Nicknames are prohibited;
- Nicknames that may lead to the wrong identification of the User are prohibited;
- Nicknames that directly or indirectly violate other Rules (especially clauses 2.5.1., 2.5.5.) are prohibited.
2.4.4. User chooses Userbar or Avatar according to the following:
- images that depict a 3rd party or are the intellectual property of a 3rd party, or contain official branding rights to which belong to a 3rd party are prohibited;
- images that directly or indirectly violate other Rules (especially clauses 2.5.1., 2.5.5.) are prohibited;
- excessively animated images are prohibited.
2.4.5. For the creation of forum entries (account), the User must be at least 18 years old. If the user has not reached that age, as well as being under-age law for entering into the contract according to the legislation of his county of residence, it is presumed that the rules’ review rules have been carried out in the presence of a parent or legal guardian/caregiver. By creating his forum account the User agrees to provide true, accurate, current information. After creating an account the user is the only person who is responsible for it.

2.5. User's obligations to the extent of good conduct:
2.5.1. User is obliged to treat other Users, Moderators, Administration with respect and act according to the present Rules, namely:
- do not flame for any purpose;
- do not use phrases or pictures, links to any content if they can abase and hurt feelings and/or dignity of other Forum members;
- do not use obscene words in any way including graphic or covert ways;
- do not use threats of harm and physical violence;
- do not distribute materials that propagate or express non-admission or hatred of any religion, culture, race, nation, state, territory, language, politics, ideology or civic movements, including materials indicating discrimination;
- do not post obscene messages, including explicit and erotic materials, drug references (or information about drugs), scenes with excessive violence and things of this nature, suicide propaganda and means of committing it, including links to resources containing such information;
- do not distribute information aiming to propagate crimes and administrative violations, violence and cruelty;
- do not post information about selling/buying/trading of accounts;
- do not bring false charges to other Users as well as Moderators, Administration and their activity;
- do not try to impersonate Astasoftlab employees or volunteer personnel (including, but not limited to GMs, Moderators, and Support Volunteers) in order to mislead other users;
- do not distribute information about a 3rd party, any information about other Users, Moderators, Administration, including private correspondence, without their written consent;
- do not publish materials that are not officially published and has been obtained through the game client hacking or participate in such discussions;
- do not post links to resources containing malicious software;
- do not post links to resources containing false information (including fishing sites);
- do not distribute false information about Administration services, Administrators, Moderators, and their activities.
2.5.2. User should not post messages or threads that do not have any meaningful purpose, including:
- Necroposting;
- Flood;
- Overquoting;
- Thread bumping (except for sections where it is allowed);
- Spam;
- Cross-posting;
- Discussion of bans or showing correspondence with Administrator and/or the representatives of Administrator (Astasoftlab Staff);
- Offtopic.
2.5.3. When starting a thread User should:
- clearly indicate the subject of discussion, taking into account the section's theme;
- make sure there is no similar active thread on the Forum.
2.5.4. User should use the Forum only for discussing the given topic;
2.5.5. Users are prohibited to publish information (posts, topic names, Nicknames, Avatars, Userbars, signatures and profile information) that contains any of the following:
- buying/selling/trading (or discussions of it) on the Forum characters, items, services or accounts for real money. Advertising of any of the enlisted is also prohibited;
- advertising of any actions, organizations or sites not related to the Forum;
- links to resources containing programs of "warez" or "hacked" nature and/or information about them;
- any material directly or indirectly violating copyrights and/or any other rights of natural and legal persons;
- any advertising materials not related to the Forum or Astasoftlab service. Advertising of resources that have nothing in common with resources of the company is also prohibited. The only exception is linked to Users's personal pages;
- excessive use of codes (tags), colors, capital letters;
- discussing any vulnerabilities of Project's resources, game exploits and so on.
2.5.6. Users are prohibited to:
- forward messages from users with Read Only or Banned status;
- quote posts containing material that violates Rules;
- intentionally or accidentally impersonate other Users, Moderators, or Administration;
- insult in any way other Users, Moderators, Administration, right holders or any 3rd party;
- criticize actions of Project staff members, or actions of Moderators out of special section.

2.6. Questions, suggestions, complaints, and comments on the work of the project resources, staff and moderators should be addressed to:
- to solve problems related to gaming process of projects, Astasoft account access, please contact Support Service
- to solve problems related to the Forum and moderation (depending on the complexity of the problem) – a private message to Moderators;
- to solve problems related to outstanding issues with Moderator – e-mail Support Service  (the message should include your forum nickname or profile link, a detailed description of the issue reason, and time of the occurrence)
- specialized topics designed to discuss respective problems.