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Welcome to our web site. This Internet website is
owned and operated by World Gaming Center and its affiliates (“WGC”).
Please read these Terms of Use and Service Agreement (“Agreement”)
carefully before using this website. By using this website, you signify your
consent to these terms in addition to any other law or regulation that applies
to the website, the Internet, and/or the World Wide Web.
We reserve the right,
at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at
any time. In addition, you are expected periodically to review this Agreement to
ascertain that you are doing your part in keeping WGC a safe and cohesive community.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF USE AND SERVICE AGREEMENT STATED HEREIN, PLEASE
DO NOT USE THE WGC WEBSITE. |
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WGC was designed to provide people with a
nurturing, and family-like environment. Children under the age of 13 are
strongly encouraged to have a parent join in on their explorations within our
website. |
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Special tournaments, support rooms, and chat rooms
may have additional requirements for use. You must consent to these
additional requirements and adhere to them in all areas of the WGC. |
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Users of our services take sole responsibility for
their actions. Hence, the WGC may not be held liable for any content or
activities ran or administered by the users, as it does not affiliate with it
directly. |
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WGC
construes any of the following in enumerated, insinuated, and abbreviated
forms as a violation of the terms and conditions of use:
- Profanity, any forms of player harassment including, but not limited to: racial,
sexual or gender slurs, belittling, taunting, etc.
- Continuous posting of any visible, non-visible, or repetitive text such as: flooding, scrolling, inciting, or
other disruptive behaviors.
- Harassment, threats, and defamation on
members, volunteers, or employees of the WGC.
- Exploiting the spirit of friendly play:
including cheating, hacking, or other destructive behavior.
- Stalling and stalking games/players and
disruptive playing habits (attacks or harassment in games, etc) are deemed as
violations of the terms and conditions of use.
- Repeated violators may lose
their chat privileges or access to the site for an unspecified amount of
time, at the discretion of the site management.
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- WGC
prohibits the use of this website for personal and commercial advertisements,
or posting of websites and URLs to other unauthorized web locations. Misuse
of WGCs software or use of unofficial or non-sanctioned software programs,
which could harm any users or their PC systems or servers, or obtain
unauthorized access to the site servers are also prohibited.
Any member who is in violation of these rules will
have his or her site access restricted for a period of time deemed
appropriate by the site management. WGC reserves the right to prosecute the
violators to the fullest extent of both United States and International
Laws. |
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Using WGC to advertise websites involving adult content, unauthorized
programs, or other communications that compromise the integrity of WGC or its
users will not be tolerated. Those who are found to be engaging in such
behavior or activities will be severely penalized by the administration
possibly reported to the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
(CCIPS) of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.
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Engaging in illegal activities in any area of WGC will result in the
termination of your WGC membership for an unspecified amount of time,
determined by the site management. Appropriate legal sanctions may also be
taken against the perpetrators. |
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Users at WGC have the right to personal privacy. We encourage our
users to treat each other with mutual respect, and not to engage in
activities that violate the spirit of that privacy. |
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Do
not use WGC communications tools or programs/systems to attack, harass,
stalk, bully, intimidate, belittle, or taunt others. Doing so will result in
immediate termination of your WGC membership. |
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WGC
grants users the right to have their own unique screen name, which is used to
identify each member. WGC reserves the right to remove any nickname at any
time, which it deems inappropriate. |
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Inappropriate
pseudonyms (nicknames) include, but are not limited to anything that:
(a) abbreviate, encourage, or insinuate profanity, racism,
anti-religious, prejudice, slander, or drug use,
(b) enumerate, imply, or
associate with sexual conduct, sexual innuendo, harassment, slurs, illegal
activities, notorious people, controversial religious or political figures,
or disparaging terms, and
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intentionally or frivolously incite,
torment, harass, or ridicule other members
of the WGC. Additionally, any aliases
created to advertise other nonprofit, for-profit, or government
organizations, gaming companies or websites, or promote either personal or
commercial goods or services will be deleted, and its proprietors may be
permanently banned from accessing this network.
Cloning (copying, in whole or in part) of another
members nickname, or designing a new alias, which is similar to an existing
alias, to create confusion or disruptions is not permitted. The decisions on
such matters are at the sole discretion of WGC Administration. |
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Unnecessary conversations that take up substantial
amount of chat space and do not directly relate to the appropriate game may be
moved to our designated chat areas or to another private location, at the
discretion of WGC staff members in charge. Continuous posting of visible or
non-visible text and readable or non-readable messages in game chat lobbies
connotes flooding.
Flooding any area of WGC is a violation of this Agreement.
WGC reserves the right to remove any user, without notice, for an unspecified
amount of time, in cases of excessive all-caps messages, spamming, flooding,
or any other form of abuse or disruptive behavior in games, forums, lobbies,
or in any other area of WGC. |
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WGC has implemented Designated Chat Areas (DCA),
which can be, and are encouraged to be used for friendly conversations. The DCA
is the Moderated Rooms: These rooms are governed by this WGC Terms of Use and
Service. |
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This Agreement applies to these rooms at all times.
Topics about controversial religions, people, organizations, or sensitive
topics, including, but not limited to historical events, corrupt leaders, and
prejudice clans may be deemed inappropriate, if the room becomes disruptive.
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Service Representatives, Tournament and Event Hosts,
and Technical Support Specialists are volunteers who donate their time to
assist in the operation of WGC online gaming site.
They must be 18 years of
age or older. WGC Terms of Use and Service apply equally to all WGC members,
including but not limited to all service representatives, hosts, and
technical support specialists. |
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Misrepresentation or impersonation of WGC
employees, volunteers from the aforementioned categories, or special events
coordinators is prohibited. Doing so will result in an immediate termination
of your membership and possible restrictions from future use of our services.
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WGC offices and Administration Headquarters are
located in the United States. Hence, the primary language on
this site is English. If you choose to communicate in a language other than
English, please remember that this Agreement applies to your foreign
language. Any misinterpretations of the words in your foreign language may
result in a temporary suspension of your voice privileges. We will only
re-enable your voice privileges if we find that we have indeed misinterpreted
an innocent phrase for a possible obscenity. |
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WGC encourages its members to keep their personal
identification confidential at all times. Information such as credit card
numbers, passwords, telephone numbers, home or business addresses, real names
or social security numbers MUST NEVER be posted in WGC game lobbies, forums, chat
rooms, game rooms, or private messages, as it may be used for illegal or
harmful purposes. WGC will never publicly ask you for personal information in
a game area or forum. |
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Any information that you give in the aforementioned
areas is at your own discretion. WGC is not responsible for any private
information that is posted in those areas, nor can it be held liable if
someone uses any of the information posted for illegal purposes against you.
Please review our Privacy Statement here. |
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You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate
in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way
exploit this information, except that you may download one copy for your
personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you keep intact all
copyright and other proprietary notices.
Modification of the materials for
any purpose constitutes an infringement of WGC's copy and proprietary rights
and is therefore prohibited. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names
on this web site are proprietary to WGC. |
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You expressly agree that WGC does not make any
warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or content of any information
provided herein. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or
injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption,
deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus,
communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to,
alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous
behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action.
You specifically
acknowledge that WGC is not liable for the defamatory, offensive, or illegal
conduct of other users or third parties and that the risk of injury from the
foregoing rests entirely with the user. |
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In addition to the terms set forth above, neither
WGC, its affiliates, information providers, or content partners shall be
liable regardless of the cause or duration, for any errors, inaccuracies,
omissions, or other defects in, or unseemliness or unauthenticated of, the
information contained herein from any delay or interruption in the
transmission thereof to the user, or for any claims or losses arising there
from or occasioned thereby.
None of the foregoing parties shall be liable for
any third-party claims or losses of any nature, including, but not limited
to, lost profits, punitive or consequential damages. Neither WGC, its
affiliates, information providers, nor content providers warrant or guarantee
the timeliness, sequence, accuracy, or completeness of this information.
Additionally, there are no warranties as to the results obtained from the use
of the information. |
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This site is controlled and operated by WGC from
its offices within the State of California, United States of America.
This Agreement shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws
of the State of California applying to contracts fully executed and performed
within the State of California.
All parties submit to personal jurisdiction in
California and further agree that any dispute arising from or relating to this
Agreement including but not limited to the access or use of WGC site shall be
brought in a court within Los Angeles. No waiver by either party of
any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed a waiver of any preceding or
subsequent breach or default. |
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WGC makes no claims that the site is appropriate
for access or use outside the United States. Your access and/or use of WGC site
outside the U.S. is at your own risk, and you are responsible for
compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. |
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You agree to indemnify and hold harmless WGC and
all of their respective officers, directors, owners, agents, employees,
information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees (collectively,
"Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all liability and
costs including, without limitation, attorneys' fees and costs, incurred by
the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of (i) any
breach by you of this Agreement or the foregoing representations, warranties
and covenants or (ii) your use of WGC web site, including, without
limitation, all WGC features. |
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If any provision of this Agreement shall be held
invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such provision shall be
modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable,
and the validity and enforceability of all other provisions of the Agreement
shall not be affected thereby.
The section headings used herein are for
convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.
If any provision of these terms shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason
unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms
and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining
provisions.
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