Terms of Service
Article 1 【Purpose and Definition】
Carrieverse(the “Game”) is a game developed by Mantisco, Co., Ltd. (the “Developer”) and serviced by Carrieverse, Co., Ltd. (the “Publisher”). The Company provides this website (http://carrieverse.io) and the services related to the Game (collectively, the “Services”). The User is a person who agrees to the Terms of Service and uses the Services. By agreeing to the Terms of Service, the User indicates that he or she is thirteen (18) years old or older. If the User is between the ages of 13 and 18 or otherwise do not have the authority to enter into agreements such as these TOS, the User represents that their legal guardian, or a holder of parental responsibility, has reviewed and agreed to these TOS. If the User accesses the Service from a Social Networking Service (“SNS”), such as Facebook or Google+, the User shall comply with its terms of service/use as well as these Terms of Service. By using or otherwise accessing the Services, the User agrees to these TOS. If the User does not agree to these TOS, the User may not use or otherwise access the Services.
Article 2 【Specification and Amendment of the Terms of Service】
1. The Terms of Service can be accessed on the in-game or connected screens and official community at any time.
2. The Company may change the Terms of Service to the extent necessary unless it violates applicable laws and regulations. In the event that the Company changes the Terms of Service, the changes shall be posted, along with the effective date and the details of the amendment, on the Company’s website at least seven (7) days prior to the effective date. Any changes that may be material or disadvantageous to the User shall be posted at least thirty (30) days prior to the effective date.
3. Any User that does not express his or her rejection of the amended Terms of Services after the effective date hereof shall constitute the User’s agreement to the amended Terms of Service. The User is responsible for checking the Company’s website regularly to make note of any changes.
Article 3 【Rules Other Than the Terms of Service】
1. The Company may delegate specific matters that are not covered by the Terms of Service to the Operation Policy for purposes of protecting the rights and interests of the Users and maintaining order in the Game.
2. The Operation Policy constitutes a part of the Terms of Service, and the User is deemed to have agreed to the Operation Policy by agreeing to the Terms of Service.
3. The Operation Policy may be found on the Company’s website at any time.
4. Any change to the Terms of Service that causes material change in the User’s rights or obligations or any amendment to the Operation Policy that has the same effect as the change to the Terms of Service shall be made pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 2.
Article 4 【Prohibited Acts】
The Company provides the Services to the Users only for personal, non-commercial, and entertainment purposes. The User agrees that he or she will not commit the following acts. Committing any of the following acts may lead to temporary or permanent suspension of the Services depending on the severity of the act in accordance with the Terms of Service and the Code of Conduct.
1. Selling, renting, leasing or transferring, establishing security rights upon, making copies of the Game or any account related thereto, and transferring any portion thereof to any third party;
2. Making copies of the Game or any part thereof, reproducing, translating, reverse-engineering, decompiling or deriving source code, disassembling, or creating derivative works based on the Game;
3. Modifying or committing an act that leads to modifying any files included in the Game;
4. Using or enabling any third party to use the Game or any of its parts commercially, including but not limited to selling the in-game items outside of the Game, unless otherwise approved by the Company and Developer or made through the Services provided by the Company;
5. Producing, distributing, using, or advertising any programs that intercept communication between the Game and the game server and any unauthorized third party programs or hardware devices that may affect the Game or normal game play, including but not limited to, programs, hacks, cheats, bots, scripts, trainers, automatic programs, automatic mouse, mouse with macro functions that collect or modify game data by reading the game memory;
6. Stealing information from others (including but not limited to personal, non-personal, and payment information);
7. Impersonating any officers or employees, operators, or any other interested parties of the Company and the Developer;
8. Harming the reputation or obstructing businesses of the Company and the Developer or any third party;
9. Posting or making public on the Company’s website any sexually explicit or violent statement, video, sound or information that is against the public order and good morals;
10. Making undue profit by exploiting other Users in any way;
11. Using the Services in a manner related to gambling or that is unwholesome;
12. Exploiting the bugs in the program; or
13. Committing any act that violates any other applicable laws or is against public morals or social norms
Article 5 【Accessing and Restricting Access to the Game】
1. Unless otherwise indicated or notified, the Game will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
2. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph 1, the Company may restrict or suspend access to all or a part of the Services without prior notice for a certain period of time under any of the following circumstances. However, if the Services are to be ceased in accordance with foreseeable technical or operational needs, the Company may cease the Services after posting a 30 days’ prior notice on its website. Provided, however; under unavoidable circumstances, the Company may cease the Services without prior notice.
① In the event of repair and maintenance, inspection, replacement, periodic inspection of information and communications facilities, including but not limited to computers and server equipment, or for purposes of game operation;
② In responding to unforeseen instability of the Services due to hacking incidents, network failures, service equipment failures, or irregular uses of the Game by the User;
③ In the event where the access to the Game is restricted pursuant to applicable laws and regulations, policies of the government or the Company;
④ In the event where the access to the game is obstructed due to an event of force majeure, including but not limited to the acts of God, states of emergencies, power failures, etc.; or
⑤ Under material management needs of the Company, including but not limited to split-off, merger, transfer of business, termination of business, profit decrease of the Game, etc.
3. The Company shall not be liable for the damages that may arise as a result of restriction, discontinuance, or suspension of the Services in accordance with paragraph 2 hereof unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
Article 6 【Ownership】
1. All titles and authorities, rights, related trademarks, logos and domains, trade dresses, and contents related to the Game (including but not limited to computer codes, titles, characters, names of characters, locations, names of locations, stories, storylines, artwork, graphics, designs of structures or scenes, animations, sounds, music, audio-visual effects) shall be owned by the Developer. The Developer shall have the exclusive rights to create any derivative works of the Game. The User agrees that he or she will not create any derivative works based on the Game unless otherwise explicitly permitted by the Developer. Any further matters in relation to the contents produced based on the Game shall be covered by the User-Created Content Rules posted on the Company’s website.
2. The Developer shall not authorize any party to use any trademarks, logos, domains, trade dresses, or contents without its permission. Any violation thereof may result in severe civil or criminal penalties.
3. The Developer has ownership, licensing rights and all other rights to all contents related to the Game. The User has the right to use the virtual items, goods, currency, game money, or any similar contents that appear or are generated in the Game in accordance with the Terms of Service. However, the User shall not have ownership or own copyrights or any other rights thereto. Any transfer or sale, gift, or trade of the in-game virtual property outside of the Game shall not be acknowledged unless otherwise approved by the Developer in writing. Therefore, the User may not sell or trade the in-game items, goods, or currency in exchange for actual currency without the Developer’s approval, and any violations thereof may be subject to penalties in accordance with the Terms of Service and the Operation Policyt.
Article 7 【Refund Policy】
In general, all sales for all paid contents are final and refunds are not permitted except with respect to any statutory warranties that are mandatory by law or the third party platform’s refund policy. In case of termination due to the breach of these Terms of Service, the User shall not be entitled to any refunds.
Article 8 【Purchase and Usage of NFTs】
Users may purchase and utilize blockchain-based NFTs only if they are accessing the Game from jurisdictions that allow such activities. Users are solely responsible for complying with all the laws and regulations of their respective jurisdictions. The User may purchase NFTs from external sources and introduce them into the Game. However, the Game shall not offer the option to directly purchase NFTs in-game.
The Company may incorporate NFTs into the Game’s structure. Any NFT introduced into the Game by the User shall be owned by the User. The responsibility to manage such NFTs shall also be borne entirely by the User.
The User agrees to use introduce NFTs into the Game after confirming and understanding the risk that may occur when holding NFTs as follows. The Company shall not be liable to the User for any of the following.
1. No specific entity, including the Company, guarantees the value of NFTs, and the User bear all risks, including losses, that may arise from owning NFTs.
2. The transfer of NFTs are conducted on their respective blockchain, and may be adversely affected by interruptions in the network. The Company is not the operator of the NFT blockchains and is not responsible for any problems.
3. Due to the nature of NFTs, which are blockchain-based tokens assigned unique identification codes and metadata, the Company does not guarantee the security and integrity of NFTs introduced into the Game.
4. The User is responsible for checking and verifying network support, compatibility, when introducing NFTs into the Game. The Company does not guarantee that any particular NFT will be supported by the Game. The User bears all responsibility for checking the support before making any transfers.
Article 9 【Trading in-Game Items】
Users may exchange in-Game items for virtual assets only if they are accessing the Game from jurisdictions that allow such activities. Users are solely responsible for complying with all the laws and regulations of their respective jurisdictions.
The User agrees to exchange in-Game items for virtual assets after confirming and understanding the risk that may occur. The Company shall not be liable to the User for any of the following.
1. The Company does not guarantee the value of tokens and coins. Digital assets, and blockchain technology are relatively new and their regulation is not clearly defined. New regulations may adversely affect blockchain technology, which may negatively affect the value of such assets.
2. The Company shall not be responsible for any errors attributable to the User when executing the above-mentioned exchanges such as mistakenly entering wallet addresses or amount of tokens to be transferred.
Article 10 【Indemnifications】
The User agrees to defend, protect, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company from any claims, lawsuits, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees to the extent permitted by applicable laws) arising out of any misuse of the Services or violation of the Terms of Service by the User.
The Company may, at its reasonable discretion, reserve the right to exclusively defend and control over all matters subject to indemnification by the Users, in which case, the User shall cooperate with the Company’s effort to secure its defense.
1. The Company shall be exempted from any and all liability for any suspension of the Service, the interruption of use, termination of contract due to the causes attributable to the User.
2. The Company shall be exempted from any and all liability incurred to the User due to discontinuance or failure of normal operation of telecommunication services by the telecommunications service providers unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
3. The Company shall be exempted from any and all liability incurred from discontinuance or failure of the Services due to unavoidable reasons such as maintenance, replacement, periodic inspection, construction, etc. of the service equipment as posted unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
4. The Company shall be exempted from any and all liability incurred from overall problems that arise due to the User’s computer or network environment unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
5. The Company shall be exempted from any and all liability for the contents, such as reliability and accuracy of the information, data, and/or facts posted or transmitted by the User or a third party on or from the Company’s website unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
6. The Company is not obliged to become involved or be liable in any way for the disputes that arise between the Users or between the User and a third party in relation to the Services.
7. The Company shall not be liable for any and all Services that have been provided free of charge unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
8. A portion of the Services may be provided by other service providers, and the Company shall be exempted from any and all liability for the damages caused by other service providers unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
9. The Company shall not be liable in any way for the User’s failure to receive expected results such as in-game characters or items, and the Company shall be exempted from any and all liability for the losses incurred due to selection of certain services unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
10. The Company shall be exempted from any and all liability for the losses of in-game cyber assets, items, game money of the User unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
11. The Company may limit the hours of use of the Services depending on the Users pursuant to relevant laws, government policies, etc. Unless there Is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company in applying such restrictions pursuant to relevant laws, the Company shall be exempted from any and all liability for overall matters related to such restrictions thereof.
Article 11 【Disclaimer of Warranties】
The Game is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis without any express or implied warranties or representations.
Unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company, the Company hereby disclaims all express and implied warranties of any kind that may apply to the Game, including but not limited to the implied warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability, fitness for particular purpose, the warranties that may arise during the course of transactions, implementation or use of transactions, the warranties for accuracy, reliability or quality of the contents and information included in the Game.
The Company does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the Game will be provided uninterrupted, error-free, virus-free, free from other harmful factors, or that defects will be corrected. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will make commercially reasonable efforts to resolve any issues related to the above. The User shall select the Game in order to obtain the intended result and be liable for all matters from installation, use and results thereof unless there is intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties; therefore, all or part of the disclaimers may not be applicable to the User.
Article 12 【Limitation of Liability】
In no event shall the Company be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages (including but not limited to the loss of business, loss of data, loss of goodwill, loss of profits) and damage (including but not limited to the interruption of work operation, hardware breakdown or malfunction, other commercial damage or loss) arising out of the User’s misuse unless there is intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company, and this is also true whether or not the Company already knew or had to know about the possibility of such damages.
The Company shall not be liable for any interruption of service, including but not limited to ISP failure, software or hardware failure, or any other circumstances that may result in data loss or interruption of Services unless there is any intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
Article 13 【Agreement Term and Termination】
The Terms of Service continue to be effective unless and until terminated. The User may terminate the Terms of Service at any time. The User may terminate the Terms of Service by discontinuing the use of the Game and shall stop using and delete the Game immediately after the termination of the Terms of Service. If the User terminates the Terms of Service, refund policies shall be determined statutory warranties that are mandatory by law or the third party platform’s refund policy.
The Company may terminate the Terms of Service and delete the User’s account with prior notification if the User violates their obligations under the Terms of Service. However, if the User has caused material damages to the Company due to intentional acts or gross negligence, the Company may terminate without prior notice.
Article 14 【Transfer of the Terms of Service】
The Company may transfer all or part of the Terms of Service to any third party at any time. The User shall not transfer the Terms of Service without the Company’s prior written consent, and any unauthorized transfer by the User shall be invalid.
Article 15 【Force Majeure】
The Company shall not be liable for any damages incurred from any and all delays or non-performances due to events beyond the reasonable control of the Company (including but not limited to acts of God, terrorism, riots, embargoes, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, floods, labor disputes, shortage of transportation facilities, fuel, energy, labor or materials).
Article 16 【Grievance Handling and Dispute Resolution】
1. The Company should inform on the Company’s website about the means of presenting the opinions or complaints of the Users, considering their convenience.
2. If a dispute arises between the Company and the User and a third party dispute resolution authority becomes involved, the Company shall faithfully demonstrate the measures taken on the User, including restrictions of use, and may comply with the resolution of the authority.
Article 17 【Governing Law】
These Terms of Service shall be interpreted and governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea.
All lawsuits related to the Terms of Service shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts pursuant to relevant laws such as the Code of Civil Procedure.
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These Terms of Service shall take effect as of May 18, 2023.