Terms & Conditions

Introduction

• These terms of use govern your use of our game; by using our game, you accept these terms of use in full.
• If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our game.

Licence to use game

• Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the game and material on the game. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
• You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the game for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.
• You must not republish material from this game (including republication on a website);
• sell, rent or sub-license material from the game;
• show any material from the game in public;
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our game for a commercial purpose;
• redistribute material from this game, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution;
• You must abide by the Rules Of The Game & The Code Of Conduct (below), and you agree to accept and abide by official GM (Game Master) decisions regarding the status and contents of your game account.

Acceptable use

• You must not use our game in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the game or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the game; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
• You must not use our game to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
• You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our game without our express written consent.
• You must not use our game to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
• You must not use our game for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

Restricted access

• Access to certain areas of our game is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our game, or indeed our whole game, at our discretion.
• If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our game or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password is kept confidential.
• We may disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User generated content

• In these terms of use, "your user content" means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our game, for whatever purpose.
• You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
• Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
• You must not submit any user content to the game that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
• We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our game, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our game.
• Notwithstanding our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our game.

Limited warranties

• We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this game; nor do we commit to ensuring that the game remains available or that the material on the game is kept up-to-date.
• To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this game and the use of this game (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

Limitations and exclusions of liability

• Nothing in these terms of use will:limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
• limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
• exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
• The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in these terms of use:are subject to the preceding paragraph; and
• govern all liabilities arising under the terms of use or in relation to the subject matter of the terms of use, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.
• We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
• We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
• We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
• We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

Indemnity

• You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

Breaches of these terms of use

• Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the game, prohibiting you from accessing the game, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the game, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the game and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

• We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time.Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our game from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on our game.Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

• We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
• You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

Severability

• If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Exclusion of third party rights

• These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party.The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

Entire agreement

• These terms of use, together with our privacy policy, and the Rules Of The Gameconstitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our game, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this game.

Law and jurisdiction

• These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with Englishlaw, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Our details

• The full name of our company is Illyriad Games Limited.
• We are registered in England & Wales under registration number 6969057.

Code of Conduct
In order to create a positive and respectful environment for both the Illyriad players and staff, the following are strictly prohibited both in game (although there is some difference between AC or Private Chat and General Chat) and on the forums:

• Players who are under 13 years of age
• Obscene, racist, homophobic or sexist language and imagery
• Posts of a sexually explicit, inflammatory or violently threatening nature
• Abuse, harassment and name-calling
• Posts with the intent to provoke or disrupt other players aka "trolling"
• Profanity is forbidden in game and strongly discouraged on the forums
• Impersonating fellow players or Illyriad staff
• Discussions and debates of a real world religious or political nature
• Spamming, for example: repeating information or posts of a nonsensical nature
• Posting personal information such as address, phone number, real name or other identifying information
• Use of copyright-protected material without express consent of the owner
• Discussion of illegal activities
• Violation of local, state, national or international laws or regulations
• Posting of advertisements
• Discussion of interactions between players and staff (ie: no sharing of private information)

Do not break these, or any, official rules.

Private chat specific:
System / GM Silences and Private Chat

• Being silenced by the system or by a GM in Global Chat will also silence your Private Chat, and will make you unable to reply to or initiate Private Chat requests. You can still send and receive ingame messages and speak in Alliance Chat, as before.
• Private 1-to-1 channel, like Alliance Chat, is not profanity or spam checked for content; however it is does have spam throttle protection to prevent fast automated spamming (like global) and if you are trigger-happy in Private Chat then system will automatically silence you for an hour, as before. This silence will also apply to Global Chat.

Moderation of Private Chat

• Private chat is not monitored by the GM team.
• However... while your first point of call is to "Block in Chat", we will investigate petitions about serious breaches of the Terms and Conditions and Code of Conduct - and we will hand out lengthy silences and/or permabans for serious breaches if we receive a valid petition.

In Game Specific:

• Character, commander, army, alliance and city names must adhere to the Illyriad Code of Conduct and not be l33tspeak.
• All in game player content including player profile and alliance profile must adhere to the Illyriad Code of Conduct.
• Each person may have access to only 2 Illyriad accounts. Any account you log in to directly (not using the account sitting feature) counts against this.
• Sharing accounts and passwords is strictly forbidden.
• Serial creation and abandonment of secondary accounts in order to exploit the "buddy referral" prestige bonus is an exploit and bannable offense.
• Automated procedures or "bots" used to either capture data or perform actions in game are prohibited. More information regarding use of third party tools in Illyriad can be found on our forums.
• Prestige is non-refundable under any circumstances.
• Repeated or bothersome begging for resources or prestige in Global Chat is discouraged.
• Public posting of private messages between fellow players or players and Illyriad staff is prohibited. This includes discussions of warnings and suspensions of both game and forum accounts.