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Terms of Service
FIAA Interactive, Inc. ("FIAA") would like to thank you for visiting our
website. This document contains the terms of use for your visit and
stay at www.fiaagames.com (or any subsequent URL which may replace it)
and all officially associated websites and micro-sites operated by FIAA
(collectively, the "Website").
1. Legal Agreement
By using this Website or accessing any of our games, you agree to accept
and be bound by the terms and conditions appearing in this document,
and agree to comply with any Rules of Conduct, the Privacy Policy and
any end-user license agreement applicable to our games, as they may be
amended from time to time. In this Agreement, the terms "We/us/our" mean
FIAA Interactive, Inc. "You/your" means you as a user of the Website or
any of our games.
You hereby represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into this
Agreement and you are not barred from receiving services offered by the
Website under the laws of the United States or other applicable
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certain communications from FIAA, such as service announcement,
administrative messages or other information, and that these
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FIAA may amend this Agreement, any Rules of Conduct, the Privacy Policy
and any end-user license agreement at any time in its sole discretion.
Amendments and modifications will be effective immediately after
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checking this Agreement, the Rules of Conduct, the Privacy Policy, and
any end-user license agreement periodically so you will be familiar with
their contents as they may be amended or modified from time to time. By
continuing to use the Website and its services, you are signifying your
acceptance of any revised or updated terms.
FIAA is the owner of the Website. Your use of the Website is subject at
all times to this Agreement, any Rules of Conduct, the Privacy Policy
and any end-user license agreement applicable to our games. All user
identities created on the Website are governed by these terms. This
includes, but is not limited to, proper in-game and out-of-game conduct.
This Agreement is in addition to, and does not in any way replace or
supplant, any end-user license agreement that may accompanied the FIAA
software (the "EULA") and to which the FIAA software is subject. You
also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply
when you use or purchase certain other FIAA services, affiliate
services, third-party content or third-party software.
All rights and titles in and to the Website and in any of our published
games (including without limitation any user accounts, titles, computer
code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialogue,
catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, animation, sounds, musical,
compositions, audio-visual effects, methods of operation, moral rights,
any related documentation, "applets" incorporated into the game(s),
transcripts of the chat rooms, character profile information, recordings
of game play, and the game(s) client and server software) are owned by
FIAA or have been licensed to FIAA.
2. Description of Service
FIAA Interactive, Inc. provides free-to-play, high quality games to our
members. Additional contents are also available on our Website. To
access our games, you may be required to download and install certain
client software. This entails the use of hardware, software and Internet
access. By using the Website, you acknowledge that hardware, software
and Internet access play a crucial role in your user experience. You
agree that FIAA is not responsible for any hardware, software or
Internet access or unavailability issues and you agree to hold us
harmless for any such issues. FIAA does not provide Internet access, and
you are responsible for all fees relating to telephone and Internet
access charges along with all necessary equipment, servicing, repair or
correction incurred in maintaining connectivity to the servers.
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You may be required to create an account (an "Account") to access our
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years of age or older. If you are over 13 years of age but are still
considered a minor, we ask that you review these terms with your parents
or guardian to ensure they understand them and agree to them. By
accepting the terms of use in the Agreement, you represent that you are
13 years of age or older. Only one person may use an Account. You are
liable for all activities conducted through your Account.
Notwithstanding the above, certain portions of our Website and some of
our games may contain mature contents not suitable for anyone younger
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applicable age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside and
have the legal right to access such content. We shall not be responsible
in any way for your failure to accurately confirm your age per the
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the required fields and (ii) promptly maintain and update such User ID
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You, as creator of your User ID, are completely responsible for your
identity. FIAA will not tolerate offensive or obscene user identities.
If a User ID violates any part of these terms, we may immediately,
temporarily, or permanently ban such a User ID.
FIAA is not responsible for any misuse of your User ID, you agree to
hold FIAA and its affiliates harmless for any improper use of such
identity including, but not limited to, improper use by someone to whom
you revealed your password.
Your User ID may be deactivated if you do not use it within six months
after the date that it was created or for any continuous period of six
months after creation. If you do not use your User ID for six or more
months, it may be removed and deleted by the Website administrator at
their sole discretion. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you by
e-mail before we delete your User ID. If you advise us within five days
of the notice that you want to keep your User ID active, we will not
delete it. If you do not so notify us, your User ID will be permanently
deleted, along with your User ID records, ranks and service information.
4. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy, which covers the usage and protection of your personal information, is published on the Website.
5. License to Use
Subject to the terms of this Agreement and any applicable EULA, FIAA
grants to you, for your personal use only, a non-exclusive, revocable,
nontransferable license to use the services offered by our Website,
including access to our games (the "Services"), and a non-exclusive,
revocable, nontransferable license to use any client software (the
"Software") in connection with the Services, without charge.
You may not (a) sublicense, rent, lease, loan, sell or otherwise
transfer the Software or the Services (or any part thereof) (b) modify,
adapt, reverse engineer or decompile the Software, or otherwise attempt
to derive source code from the Software; (c) create any derivative works
in respect of the Software or the Service; or (d) otherwise use the
Software or the Service except as expressly provided in this Agreement.
Title to the Software, and all rights with respect to the Software and
Service not specifically granted under this Agreement, including without
limitation all rights of reproduction, modification, distribution,
display, disassembly and de-compilation and all copyright, patent,
trademark, trade secret and other proprietary rights and interests are
reserved to FIAA or its licensor(s).
NEITHER FIAA NOR ITS LICENSORS HAVE ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND OR NATURE
IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE (INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR ANY
CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMFIAAS OR DAMFIAA TO YOUR COMPUTER
HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE), AND THE ENTIRE RISK OF USE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, ANY DAMFIAA TO YOUR COMPUTER HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE) RESIDES
WITH YOU.
As more particularly described in each applicable EULA, FIAA and/or its
licensors retain exclusive right, title and interest (including all
intellectual property rights) in and to the Software, copies thereof,
and all error corrections, bug-fixes, patches, updates, derivative
works, improvements, modifications thereto (whether made by FIAA, its
licensors, you, or otherwise), including, but not limited to, any
titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names,
stories, dialog, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, character
inventories, structural or landscape designs, animations, sounds,
musical compositions, audio-visual effects, storylines, character
likenesses, methods of operation, moral rights, any related
documentation, and "applets" incorporated into the Software. The rights
described in the foregoing sentence are the copyrighted work of FIAA
and/or its licensors and are protected by the copyright laws of the
United States, Korea, Japan, international copyright treaties and
conventions, and/or other applicable laws. All rights are reserved. The
Software may contain certain licensed materials, and the licensors of
those materials may enforce their rights in the event of any violation
of the EULA.
6. User Submissions
"Submissions" means all data, text, music, sound, photographs, comments,
feedback, suggestions, postings at forums, chat rooms and similar
venues on the Website, e-mails and similar information or materials that
you submit to FIAA regarding the games and services of FIAA or the use
or play of those games and services. User IDs and Submissions are not
confidential and will become the property of FIAA upon submission. You
agree to assign and grant to FIAA an irrevocable, transferable,
royalty-free, and perpetual right and license to all worldwide,
transferable license and the right to quote, re-post, use, reproduce,
modify, distribute, transmit, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and
publicly display the User IDs and Submissions in any form, anywhere,
with or without attribution to your User ID, and without notice or
compensation to you.
You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the Submissions that
you provide and for managing your User ID. You, and not FIAA, have full
responsibility for your Submissions and User ID, including their
legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. You
understand that by using the Website you may be exposed to Submissions
that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. FIAA shall not be liable
in any way for any Submission, including, but not limited to, any errors
or omissions in any Submission, or any loss or damage of any kind
incurred as a result of the use of any Submission posted, e-mailed,
transmitted or otherwise made available via the Website.
All materials published in forums, chat rooms and similar venues on the
Website are considered public. Therefore, FIAA strongly recommends that
you not publish any personal information about yourself or others on or
through the Website. As a matter of policy, FIAA does not pre-screen or
monitor any Submissions. However, FIAA reserves the right to screen,
refuse or move any Submission that is available via the Website. FIAA
has the right in its discretion to remove any Submission deemed
objectionable or violates the terms hereof.
Except as expressly stated and agreed upon in advance by FIAA, no
confidential relationship will be established in the event any user of
this Website should make any oral, written or electronic communication
to FIAA (such as feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas,
etc.). If any FIAA Website requires or requests that such information be
provided, and that such information contains personal identifying
information (e.g., name, address, phone number), FIAA shall obtain, use
and maintain it in a manner consistent with its Privacy Policy.
Otherwise, such communication and any information submitted therewith
will be considered non-confidential, and FIAA will be free to reproduce,
publish or otherwise use such information for any purposes including,
without limitation, the research, development, use or sale of games or
services incorporating such information. You are fully responsible for
the content of your communications, including its truthfulness and
accuracy and its non-infringement of any other person's proprietary or
privacy rights.
7. User Conduct
You must observe these terms, all applicable laws and also basic rules
of etiquette and common courtesy when using the Website. Any conduct
that violates the law in an offline, real world community is also a
violation of these terms. FIAA will not tolerate any illegal or
offensive conduct.
You agree not to take any of the following actions:
(a) Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any
Submission (as defined below) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening,
abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous,
invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or
otherwise objectionable;
(b) Harm minors in any way;
(c) Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an
FIAA official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or
otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
(d) Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to
disguise the origin of any Submission transmitted through the Website;
(e) Upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any
Submission that you do not have a right to make available under any law
or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
(f) Upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any
Submission that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright
or other proprietary rights of any party;
(g) Upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any
unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk
mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", or any other form of
solicitation;
(h) Upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any
material that contains software viruses or any other computer code,
files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the
functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications
equipment;
(i) Interfere with or disrupt the Website or servers or networks
connected to the Website, or disobey any requirements, procedures,
policies or regulations of networks connected to the Website;
(j) "Stalk" or otherwise harass another;
(k) Collect or store personal data about other users in connection with
the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in the paragraphs above;
(l) Impede the flow of chat in game, in forums, or in chat rooms with
vulgar language, abusiveness, use of excessive shouting (ALL CAPS)
"spamming" or any other disruptive or detrimental methods in an attempt
to disturb other users or FIAA employees;
(m) Engage in, encourage, or promote any illegal activity, or any
activity that violates the Terms of Service, the Rules of Conduct, or
the Privacy Policy; and/or
(n) Take any action that may prohibit other users from enjoying the services of the Website or games.
FIAA may take any actions and impose any penalties we deem necessary to
discourage and punish any violation of these terms or any other illegal
or inappropriate conduct, all without prior notice or warning. The
determination as to whether a violation has occurred and who is
responsible for such act is solely within FIAA's discretion, and is
based on what we deem best for the community and the Website. By using
the Website, you agree you will be bound by FIAA's determination as to
whether a violation has occurred and any penalty we choose to implement.
8. Third Party Sites
Clicking a hyperlink may direct you away from the Website. FIAA does not
endorse or control any third-party linked sites, is not responsible for
their content and has no association with the owners or operators of
such sites. Also, other sites may have different terms of service and
different privacy policies. FIAA therefore strongly recommends that you
inform yourself regarding the practices of third party websites.
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in
promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Website, including
payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms,
conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings,
are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that FIAA shall
not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred
as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of
such advertisers on the Website.
9. Official Service and Beta Testing
The games are designed for play only as offered through our Services at
the Website. You agree not to access, create or provide any other means
through which the game may be played by others, such as through server
emulators. You agree not to use any hardware or software, including but
not limited to third party tools, or any other method of support which
may in any way influence or give you an advantage in the use of the
Services which is not authorized by FIAA, including but not limited to
the use of ‘bots’ and/or any other method by which the Service may be
played automatically without human input. You acknowledge that you do
not have the right to create, publish, distribute, create derivative
works from or use any software programs, utilities, applications,
emulators or tools derived from or created for the games, except that
you may use the Software to the extent expressly permitted by this
Agreement and the applicable EULA. You may not take any action which
imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our
infrastructure. You may not sell or auction any game accounts,
characters, items, coin or copyrighted material, nor may you assist
others in doing so.
You may be given the opportunity to Beta test new games and Website
features. Your participation as a Beta tester is subject to the terms
and conditions below.
Closed Beta tests are confidential. The Beta games, including
information about features and functionality to be offered as part of
the games, are confidential. If you participate in a closed Beta test,
you must safeguard and prevent unauthorized access to, copying,
disclosure, and unauthorized use of the Beta games. You will carry out
the testing personally and not provide access to Beta games to any other
person. You agree that breach of the above confidentiality obligations
will cause irreparable harm to FIAA, and FIAA is entitled to (in
addition to any other remedies available to it) ex parte injunctive
relief without bond to prevent the breach or threatened breach of your
obligations. Your obligation to keep the Beta games confidential will
continue until FIAA publicly distributes, or has otherwise disclosed to
the public through no fault of yours, each of the games and the content
that you are testing.
As a Beta tester, you are invited to play Beta games for the sole
purpose of evaluating the games and identifying errors. Nothing in this
Agreement, or on this Website, shall be construed as granting you any
rights or privileges of any kind with respect to the Beta games or
content that you find here. The Beta games are provided for testing on
an "as is", "as available" basis and we make no warranty to you of any
kind, express or implied.
When playing some Beta games, you may accumulate treasure, experience
points, equipment, or other value or status indicators within the Beta
test. This data may be reset at any time during the testing process, and
it may be reset when the particular game completes this testing phase.
In this case, all player history and data will be erased and each player
will return to novice status.
By playing a Beta game, you agree that: (i) playing Beta games is at
your own risk and that you know that the games may include known or
unknown bugs, (i) any value or status indicators that you achieve
through game play may be erased at any time, (iii) FIAA has no
obligation to make these games available for play without charge for any
period of time, nor to make them available at all, (iv) these games may
be available only by subscription once the testing process is complete
or at any time in the future; (v) these terms apply to your use of the
games during the testing phase, and (vi) if it is a closed Beta test,
you will keep all information (including but not limited to functions,
features, graphics, and screenshots) about the Beta games confidential
as stated above and not disclose such information to any other person.
Beta test accounts are non-transferable under any circumstances.
10. Fees
Certain areas of the Website may charge fees to access and acquire
certain game items or participate in game activities on the Website. ANY
APPLICABLE FEES AND OTHER CHARGES ARE PAYABLE IN ADVANCE AND ARE NOT
REFUNDABLE IN WHOLE OR IN PART. FIAA may, from time to time, modify,
amend, or supplement its fee and billing methods, and post those changes
in this Agreement or elsewhere on the Website. Such modifications,
amendments or supplements shall be effective immediately upon posting on
the Website. If any change is unacceptable to you, you may cancel your
account at any time, but FIAA will not refund any fees that may have
accrued to your account before such cancellation, and we will not
pro-rate fees for any charges.
You may pay for any applicable fees and charges by major credit card, PayPal or other such methods authorized by FIAA.
11. Interruption of Service
(a) FIAA reserves the right to interrupt the Services from time to time
on a regularly scheduled basis or otherwise with or without prior notice
in order to perform maintenance. You agree that FIAA will not be liable
for any interruption of the Services, delay or failure to perform
resulting from any causes whatsoever.
(b) You acknowledge that the Services may be interrupted for reasons
beyond the control of FIAA, and FIAA cannot guarantee that you will be
able to access the Services or your Account whenever you may wish to do
so. FIAA shall not be liable for any interruption of the Services, delay
or failure to perform resulting from any causes whatsoever.
(c) FIAA has the right at any time with or without reason to change
and/or eliminate any aspect(s) of the Services as it sees fit in its
sole discretion.
(d) FIAA is not be obligated to refund all or any portion of any Account
fee (if any), by reason of any interruption of the Services by reason
of any of the circumstances described in paragraph (a), (b), or (c).
12. Disciplinary Action/Account Termination
FIAA MAY SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE ANY ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME WITH OR WITHOUT REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.
FIAA can and does issue warnings and temporary suspensions and permanent
terminations of user identities for user violations. We retain the sole
discretion as to when and how to impose warnings, penalties and/or
disciplinary actions. We consider the severity of the violation and the
number of infractions in making our determination; however, any
determination shall be under the absolute discretion of FIAA.
For the avoidance of doubt, you herby acknowledge that FIAA has sole
discretion with respect to penalties and disciplinary actions to
terminate your Account, even if there are credits remaining on your
Account. If you feel you or your User ID has been unfairly warned or
disciplined please contact us with a full detailed explanation. We will
reasonably consider your explanation.
You have the right to terminate or cancel your Account at any time by
delivering notice to FIAA. You understand and agree that the
cancellation of your User Id is your sole right and remedy with respect
to any dispute, including, but not limited to, any related to, or
arising out of: (i) any term of this Agreement or FIAA’s enforcement or
application of this Agreement; (ii) the Submissions; (iii) your ability
to access and/or use the Website; or (iv) the amount or type of fees,
surcharges, applicable taxes, billing methods, or any change to the
fees, applicable taxes, surcharges or billing methods.
You may cancel your User ID by delivering notice to FIAA. FIAA reserves
the right to collect accrued fees and charges and costs incurred by FIAA
before you cancellation. In addition, you are responsible for any fees,
charges and costs incurred to third-party vendors or content providers
before your cancellation. In the event your User ID is terminated or
canceled for any reason no refund will be granted, no online time or
other credits (e.g., points in an online game) will be credited to you
or converted to cash or other form of reimbursement, and you will have
no further access to your User ID. Any delinquent or unpaid accounts or
accounts with unresolved disputes must be settled before FIAA may allow
you to register again.
13. Indemnification
At FIAA’s request, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless (a)
FIAA, (b) its shareholders, partners, affiliates, directors, officers,
subsidiaries, employees, agents or suppliers, (c) its licensees,
distributors, content providers, and (d) other members of the Services,
from all damages, liabilities, claims and expenses, including without
limitation attorneys' fees and costs, arising from or related, directly
or indirectly, to any misuse of the Services or breach of this Agreement
by you.
14. Acknowledgements
You hereby acknowledge and agree that:
(a) WHEN USING THE SERVICES, THE SOFTWARE MAY MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER'S
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RAM) AND/OR CPU PROCESSES FOR UNAUTHORIZED THIRD
PARTY PROGRAMS RUNNING CONCURRENTLY WITH THE SOFTWARE. AN “UNAUTHORIZED
THIRD PARTY PROGRAM” AS USED HEREIN SHALL BE DEFINED AS ANY THIRD PARTY
SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY “ADD-ON” OR “MOD,” THAT IN
FIAA’S SOLE DETERMINATION: (i) ENABLES OR FACILITATES CHEATING OF ANY
TYPE; (ii) ALLOWS USERS TO MODIFY OR HACK THE SOFTWARE INTERFACE,
ENVIRONMENT, AND/OR EXPERIENCE IN ANY WAY NOT EXPRESSLY AUTHORIZED BY
FIAA; OR (iii) INTERCEPTS, “MINES,” OR OTHERWISE COLLECTS INFORMATION
FROM OR THROUGH THE SOFTWARE. IN THE EVENT THAT THE SOFTWARE DETECTS AN
UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM, IT MAY COMMUNICATE INFORMATION BACK TO
FIAA, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR ACCOUNT NAME, DETAILS ABOUT THE
UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM DETECTED, AND THE TIME AND DATE THE
UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM WAS DETECTED; AND/OR AND FIAA MAY
EXERCISE ANY OR ALL OF ITS RIGHTS UNDER THIS SECTION OF THE AGREEMENT,
WITH OR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE TO THE USER.
(b) WHEN THE SOFTWARE IS RUNNING, FIAA MAY OBTAIN CERTAIN IDENTIFICATION
INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER AND ITS OPERATING SYSTEM, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR HARD DRIVES, CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT, IP
ADDRESS(ES) AND OPERATING SYSTEM(S), FOR PURPOSES OF IMPROVING THE
PROGRAM AND/OR THE SERVICE, AND TO POLICE AND ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS AGREEMENT AND THE EULA.
(c) FIAA may, with or without notice to you, disclose your Internet
Protocol (IP) address(es), personal information, and information about
you and your activities in response to a written request by law
enforcement, a court order or other legal process. FIAA may use or
disclose your personal information if they believe that doing so may
protect your safety or the safety of others.
(d) FIAA MAY RECORD YOUR CHAT SESSIONS AND OTHER ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTED OR RECEIVED THROUGH THE GAME AND YOU CONSENT
TO SUCH MONITORING OR LOGGING.
(e) You may not hold FIAA responsible for any loss resulting from in-
game trading activitities. You may not hold FIAA responsible for any
information that is passed between players. FIAA does not guarantee the
safe keeping of information that is passed between players and will not
be held responsible for any resulting losses or consequences arising
from the improper use of said information. You may not hold FIAA
responsible for any in-game feature or item loss. FIAA does not
guarantee the availability of any in-game items, any Services or any
levels to players.
15. Disclaimer of Warranties
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
(a) YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE WEBSITE IS
PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE BASIS. FIAA AND ITS
SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, FIAANTS, PARTNERS AND
LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
(b) FIAA AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, FIAANTS,
PARTNERS AND LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE WEBSITE WILL MEET
YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (ii) THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY,
SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (iii) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES,
INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE
WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; AND (iv) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE
WILL BE CORRECTED.
(c) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE
WEBSITE IS ACCESSED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE
SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMFIAA TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF
DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
(d) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU
FROM FIAA OR THROUGH OR FROM THE WEBSITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT
EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS OF USE.
(e) A SMALL PERCENTFIAA OF USERS MAY EXPERIENCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES WHEN
EXPOSED TO CERTAIN LIGHT PATTERNS OR BACKGROUNDS ON A COMPUTER SCREEN OR
WHILE USING THE WEBSITE. CERTAIN CONDITIONS MAY INDUCE PREVIOUSLY
UNDETECTED EPILEPTIC SYMPTOMS EVEN IN USERS WHO HAVE NO HISTORY OF PRIOR
SEIZURES OR EPILEPSY. IF YOU, OR ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY, HAVE AN
EPILEPTIC CONDITION, CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN PRIOR TO USING THE SERVICE.
IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE SERVICE AND CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN IF
YOU EXPERIENCE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS WHILE USING THE SERVICE:
DIZZINESS, ALTERED VISION, EYE OR MUSCLE TWITCHES, LOSS OF AWARENESS,
DISORIENTATION, ANY INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT, OR CONVULSIONS.
16. Limitation of Liability
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT FIAA AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES,
AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, FIAANTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS SHALL
NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMFIAAS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
DAMFIAAS FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE
LOSSES (EVEN IF FIAA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMFIAAS), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE
WEBSITE; (ii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE WEBSITE;
OR (iii) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE WEBSITE. Some states do not
allow the foregoing limitations of liability, so they may not apply to
you and in such a case you agree that FIAA’s (or any such other released
parties) liability to you shall be limited to the maximum extent
permitted by law. You agree that FIAA cannot be held responsible or
liable for anything that occurs or results from accessing or subscribing
to the Services.
17. Dispute Resolution
If a dispute arises between you and FIAA, our goal is to provide you
with a neutral and cost-effective means of resolving the dispute
quickly. Accordingly, you and FIAA agree to resolve any claim or
controversy at law or in equity that arises from or relates to this
Agreement or our Service (a “Claim”) in accordance with one of the
subsections below.
(a) This Agreement and the relationship between you and FIAA shall be
governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California without
regard to conflict of law principles or the United Nations Convention on
the International Sale of Goods.
(b) You and FIAA agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue
of the courts located in Middlesex County, New Jersey, except as
provided in subsection 17(c) below regarding optional arbitration.
Notwithstanding this, you agree that FIAA shall still be allowed to
apply for injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent
jurisdiction.
(c) For any Claim, excluding Claims for injunctive or other equitable
relief, where the total amount of the award sought is less than ten
thousand U.S. Dollars ($10,000.00 USD), the party requesting relief may
elect to resolve the Claim in a cost-effective manner through binding
non-appearance-based arbitration. A party electing arbitration shall
initiate it through an established alternative dispute resolution
(“ADR”) provider mutually agreed upon by the parties. The ADR provider
and the parties must comply with the following rules: (a) the
arbitration shall be conducted, at the option of the party seeking
relief, by telephone, online, or based solely on written submissions;
(b) the arbitration shall not involve any personal appearance by the
parties or witnesses unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties;
and (c) any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be
entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(d) All Claims you bring against FIAA must be resolved in accordance
with this Dispute Resolution Section. All Claims filed or brought
contrary to this Dispute Resolution Section shall be considered
improperly filed. Should you file a Claim contrary to this Dispute
Resolution Section, FIAA may recover attorneys’ fees and costs up to one
thousand U.S. Dollars ($1,000.00 USD), provided that FIAA has notified
you in writing of the improperly filed Claim, and you have failed to
promptly withdraw the Claim.
18. General
You agree to comply fully with all relevant export laws and regulations
of the United States (“Export Laws”) to assure that neither the Software
nor the Services are exported, directly or indirectly, in violation of
Export Laws; or is intended to be used for any purposes prohibited by
the Export Laws. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or
others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or
similar breaches. Except as otherwise permitted herein, you may not
assign or transfer this Agreement or your rights hereunder, and any
attempt to the contrary is void. This Agreement sets forth the entire
understanding and agreement between us and you with respect to the
subject matter hereof. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement,
no default, delay or failure to perform on the part of FIAA shall be
considered a breach of this Agreement if such default, delay or failure
to perform is shown to be due to causes beyond the reasonable control of
FIAA.
If any provision of this Agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any
reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from
this Agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of
any remaining provisions. This Agreement is the complete and exclusive
statement of the agreement between you and FIAA Interactive concerning
the Service, and this Agreement supersedes any prior or contemporaneous
agreement, either oral or written, and any other communications with
regard thereto between you and FIAA; provided, however that this
Agreement is in addition to, and does not replace or supplant, the
applicable EULA. This Agreement may only be modified as set forth
herein. The section headings used herein are for reference only and
shall not be read to have any legal effect.
19. Closing
Thank you again for visiting our Website. We hope you enjoy your stay
and take full advantage of the online community we are developing.
Please remember that you are a guest at the Website and act with the
same courtesy and respect you expect from other guests. FIAA always
reserves the right to refuse or terminate service.
FIAA Interactive Inc, Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies
(collectively, hereafter, 'FIAA Interactive Inc', 'we', 'us', the
'companies') highly respect the privacy rights of our online properties’
visitors, users, and customers (collectively, hereafter, 'you'). Our
online properties include, but are not limited to, website (the 'site')
and all website related services and products that are, in part or as a
whole, owned and provided by us to you. The following privacy policy
informs you on how we engage in all activities correlated to, including
but not limited to, collecting, storing, handling, and using your
personally identifiable information you provide us and non-personally
identifiable information we collect. We take your privacy issues very
seriously; hence, we do not release any of your personally identifiable
information without your permission. Prior to using any of our online
properties, you must thoroughly read and fully comprehend our Online
Privacy Policy and signify your full agreement to the Online Privacy
Policy. Furthermore, your use of our online properties signify your full
comprehension and full agreement to the Terms of Use and any other FIAA
Interactive Inc’s rules, polices, notices, agreements and guideline.
We take minors’ online privacy issues very seriously. You are a minor if
you are under the age of eighteen (18) or under the legal age to form a
legally binding contract in your jurisdiction. If you are a minor, you
must have your parent/s and/or legal guardian/s to thoroughly review and
fully agree to our Online Privacy Policy and any other aforementioned
rules of FIAA Interactive Inc. The parent/s and/or legal guardian/s must
agree to take full responsibility of all actions and its consequences
within the legal boundaries of our online properties that creates
conflict/s of interests of FIAA Interactive Inc by the minor/s under
their custodianship/s. Such responsibilities mean, but are not limited
to, that you agree to indemnify us for any types of monetary and
non-monetary, tangible and intangible damage/s done by minor/s in your
custodianship in the form/s of monetary and non-monetary, tangible and
intangible compensations. We ask all parents and/or legal guardians of
every minor to take an active and serious role in all minors’ online
experiences at all times. If you are a parent or a legal guardian of any
minor(s), please inform and educate them not to disclose any personally
identifiable information such as, but not limited to, real name and any
types of contact information. To comply with a US federal law,
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (commonly referred as COPPA),
we do not knowingly collect, store, handle, and/or use personally
identifiable information from children. Children are defined herein as
minors under the age of thirteen (13). If we learn that we have
unknowingly and/or advertently gathered personally identifiable
information from any child, we will immediately terminate such
information and any account/s linked to such information from our
database and/or records and takes appropriate actions and attempt to
notify parent/s and/or legal guardian/s of such child. Please note that
FIAA Interactive Inc does not have absolute control over the actions
taken by you, which means that any types of personally identifiable
and/or other information disclosed, intentionally or unintentionally, by
you in the public domain and its consequences are solely your
responsibilities. We are responsible only for our actions and its
consequences, as far as this Online Privacy Policy is concerned. There
are two channels through which we collect information about you; one,
information you provide us, and two, information we collect through
technologies, methods, and/or services.
2. Information You Provide Us
Personally identifiable information we collect are provided by you. You
may only visit some parts of our online properties without providing
such information to us; however, in order for you to use certain
features of our online properties, such as playing our online game
properties and getting involved in community forums on our site, you are
required to provide us with certain personally identifiable
information. These include, but are not limited to, your actively used
email address, gender, phone number, home address, date of birth.
Furthermore, you are required to provide us or third party payment
service provider/s (e.g., PayPal or equivalent service provider/s)
additional information such as, but not limited to, credit card related
information, if you choose to purchase any types of services and/or
products we provide for fee/s. Please note, the permissions for the use
of certain features of our online properties that require you to provide
us personally identifiable information are granted to only those who
provide us honest, correct, and up-to-date information. Falsifying any
information is against our Online Privacy Policy. Such fraudulent act/s
done by you may result in legal actions against you if such legal
actions are deemed necessary.
3. Information We Collect Through Technologies, Methods, and/or Service
Through available and legal technologies, methods, and/or services, we
may collect and store information about your computer hardware/s,
software/s, system specification/s, Internet IP address/s, your online
activities (not limited to your use of our online properties) and
patterns of such activities, and more. The primary purpose of such
information collection is to ensure the quality of our online properties
to better serve our customers and improve the ways we do our
businesses. Better serving our customers and optimizing the ways we do
our businesses is the key for our success and viability. Therefore, your
use of certain features of our online properties requires you to
accept/allow, for example but not limited to, Cookies and/or Web
Beacons. You may choose not to accept/allow such information tracking
technologies, methods, and/or services performed by us, such as cookies
blocking through your web browser setting changes; however, this may
result in some features of our online properties not to function
properly. From time to time, we may change and/or test-out various
technologies, methods, and/or services that are available at our
discretion. For any questions about specifics, details, and up-to-date
information about types of technologies, methods, and/or services we use
at any given time, you may send us inquiry email at privacy@fiaa.eu.
The Use and Share of the Information We Gathered
In essence, all information we gather about you, whether personally
identifiable or not, are used to support your use of our online
properties and to fulfill our legitimate business objectives.
1. FIAA Interactive Inc’s Internal for Business Purposes
Business purposes are all activities performed by us to fulfill our
legitimate business objectives and/or to serve the needs of our
customers. Such activities by FIAA Interactive Inc may be in the forms
of, but not limited to, sending you business, administrative,
informative and/or reminder emails about some existing and/or new
features added to our online properties and/or about, in response to,
your request/s for certain information and/or service/s and/or your use
of paid and/or not-paid services and products we offer our customers. In
addition to the use of your information in the manners as described
above, we may use any combination of your personally identifiable
information and various other types of information we gather about you
and/or others through information collecting technologies, methods,
and/or services to optimize our business to better serve the needs of
our customers to serve our business objectives. For example, this may
include studying your web-browsing patterns and comparing that of others
we learned through information collecting technologies and third-party
services, then modifying and enhancing our online properties to better
suit the general web-browsing patterns of our customers.
2. Use and/or Share with Third Parties for Business Purposes
In connection with fee based services and/or products of our online
properties, we have set up business relationships with third parties. In
such relationships, we share, in part or as a whole, personal
information records of our customers with third parties in order to
successfully process the customer requested fee based services and/or
product/s. The use of such information we share with such third parties
are strictly to be used ONLY for the connection with the specific
services and/or products we cater to our customers; for example, such
shared information cannot be used by third parties for direct or
indirect advertisements and/or marketing campaigns carried out by such
parties. We do not grant them any permission of using your personal
information other than to be used in manners described in this Online
Privacy Policy. Therefore, if you reach to a reasonable conclusion that
they are misusing your personal information without your permission, and
in manners not allowed by our Online Privacy Policy, we ask you to
write us at privacy@fiaa.eu and contact appropriate personnel at their
company. Please note, for such third parties that we have business
relationships with, you may be required to accept their end user
agreement, privacy policy, and/or any other types of their rules and
policies. If you agree to aforementioned agreement/s, policy/s, and/or
any other types of rules of the third party/s, we will not be
responsible for the collecting, storing, handling, and/or using your
personal information you provide them and/or personal information they
gather through any types of information collecting technologies,
methods, and/or services they employ.
3. In Case of Promotions, Contests and/or Sweepstakes.
For any promotions, contests and/or sweepstakes which will be organized,
in-part or as a whole, by us and/or hosted on our site, there will be
such event relevant privacy policy in the official rules and/or
registration area. Such even relevant privacy policy will govern that
particular promotion, contest, and/or sweepstake only. Such event
relevant privacy policy may differ from this Online Privacy Policy, so
we advise you to read it thoroughly prior to accepting terms described
in such policy or policies. In most cases, promotions, contest and/or
sweepstakes require participants’ permissions for the collection and/or
the use of participants’ certain personally identifiable information by
event organizer/s; we advise you to make decision that is appropriate
for you.
4. Purchase, Sale, Liquidate and/or Merge of Businesses
We may purchase, sell, liquidate, and/or merge one or more businesses
from time to time within internal business units/parties and/or
to/with/from external third party/s. In such cases, transfer of our
collection of personal information may occur as a part of such business
transaction/s, unless the law prohibits us otherwise. If we sell or
liquidate our business/s and must transfer such personal information
collected by us to third party/s with different Privacy Policy from this
Online Privacy Policy, we will require the business/s purchaser/s to
treat such transferring information in the same manners as described in
this Online Privacy Policy.
5. Disclosure, Use, and/or Share of Your Information for Non-Business Purposes.
We will share, release, and/or disclose any portions and any types of
your personal information known to us with such parties entitled to such
information by the law (e.g., subpoena, court order). Furthermore in
situations where we reasonably believe distribution of any portions and
any types of your personal information with appropriate authorities will
protect the safety and/or security of you and/or your tangible and
intangible personal properties, we may choose to do so. We also reserve
our full rights to share, release and/or disclose any relevant portions
and types of personal information to appropriate authorities when we
reasonably reach a conclusion that such person/s has engaged or is
engaging in unlawful activities by the jurisdiction of such person/s’
residence/s and/or where we reside in, regardless of whether it was or
is an intentional or unintentional, voluntary or involuntary act of
violation/s and/or has posed or is posing any level of threat to the
integrity of FIAA Interactive Inc.
Our online properties may contain links to other websites and/or
services operated by third-parties. In some cases, these links may lead
you to web properties that may partially or wholly operated and/or owned
by us. In any cases, such linked web properties may have privacy policy
differs from this Online Privacy Policy. In any cases, it is your
responsibility to check the privacy policy of each web site you are
visiting and/or linked-to, prior to engaging in any kinds of activities
within such web properties.
Notice of Privacy Policy Amendment/s
We reserve our rights to amend any portion/s of this Online Privacy
Policy at any time for any reasons. When we amend any parts of this
Online Privacy Policy, we will notify you by sending an e-mail notice
and post such notice in, but not limited to, forums and/or any other,
what we view as, appropriate places within our online properties. When
such changes to our Online Privacy Policy are made, the new Online
Privacy Policy will be effective, beginning, on 31st days from the day
of any type/s of aforementioned and other types of notice we choose to
utilize. Please note, although we will try to send you email notice,
your email host company may view our mails as spam and/or junk emails;
therefore, our email may not reach you in time. We advise you to view
this Online Privacy Policy section at least once a month to be on the
safe and sure side. Also, as soon as any of the personal information you
provide us change, please update your profile with us, so that we can
continuously ensure and provide you with the most up-to-date services
and products available for our customers.
Change/s to Your Personal Information
You can access and make changes to any parts of the personal information
you provide us from ‘My Account’ section of our online properties.
Please note, to use some features of ‘My Account’ section, we ask you
questions about personal information that you initially provided us in
order to match your responses for identity verification. Please make a
note of information you provide us initially and each time you update
your profile, thereafter, for your record and keep it in the safe
place/s. We will not be giving out any parts of your personal
information in our database, even if it indeed is you to ensure the
security and safety of your information.
Your Online Privacy Rights
Please note, you have control over the personally identifiable
information you submit to us. At any time, for any reasons, you may
choose to terminate your account with us from ‘My Account’ section; in
which case, we will remove your personal information from our database.
1. Opting-Out
You can choose to opt-out from certain service and/or product features
we provide you in ‘My Account’ section of our website. For example, we
may send out marketing emails to our customers. If we do so, you will be
able to opt-out from such practice by declining to such services in ‘My
Account’ section on our website. When you opt-out from any types of
service and/or product features, you will not be receiving any features
in the similar nature, until you re-allow us to offer such features to
you.
2. Your Privacy Rights
Beginning on April 1, 2009, Germany Government permits customers of FIAA
Interactive Inc who are Europe residents to request certain information
regarding the companies’ disclosure of personal information to third
parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request,
please send us an email at privacy@fiaa.eu or write to us at:
FIAA Interactive Inc.- (attn.) Privacy Rights
Privacy Related Inquiries
You may contact us at email and mailing addresses provided below, if you
have any types of question/s, issue/s, and/or comments relating to our
Online Privacy Policy and/or your personal information.
FIAA Interactive Inc.- (attn.) Privacy Related Inquiry
5 Market Street, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA
info@fiaagames.com