Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the web site run by Ecotopians.com. If you are to begin using this web site, it is mandatory to read over the following Terms and Conditions. If you are not in agreement with all of these terms, you do not have the right use this site. These Terms and Conditions may be modified or amended at any time by Ecotopians.com without notifying the users of this web site. Therefore, it is strongly advised to review these Terms and Conditions frequently. By registering for an account, you are agreeing to the following Terms and Conditions and stating that you are 13 years of age or older and/or have permission from your parents or legal guardians to use this web site.

The main purpose of this web site is to provide users with a friendly, virtual environment where one can earn virtual currency (ecobucks) through the playing of games, the selling of virtual items, and more.

Ownership Policies

All site content, text, images, photographs, artwork, and the organization of these elements are the property of Ecotopians.com. Users are not in any way allowed to copy, sell, modify, redistribute, or republish these materials. If a user is found performing any of these actions or taking credit for any of these materials of this web site, the user's account will be permanently removed.

A user may, however, download or use content of this web site for personal, noncommercial use.

User Submitted Materials

By uploading or sharing any ideas or images to the web site, you (and you parents, if you are under the age of 16) are automatically giving Ecotopians.com a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) throughout the universe.

You grant Ecotopians.com all necessary rights, including a waiver of all privacy and moral rights, to use all comments, feedback, information, or materials, in whole or in part, or as a derivative work, without any duty by Ecotopians.com to anyone whatsoever.

One Account Per Person

Each person ('user') that uses this web site is entitled only one account. Even if that person does not activate his/her account, that person cannot create an additional one. If in the case a user gets his/her account suspended, that person cannot create another account.

The Web Site as a Community

This web site allows users to communicate with each other through "ecomail", user page commenting, and posting in the forums. All of these user-submitted opinions or posts do not in any way reflect the views of Ecotopians.com. Ecotopians.com is not responsible for any claims, damages, or losses that result from user-submitted posts. Therefore, users are fully responsible for anything they submit or post on this web site. However, all posts are moderated by Ecotopians.com so as to ensure that any posts failing to follow the rules below are removed as soon as possible. Ecotopians.com reserves the right to delete any posts that do not comply with the following rules:

= profanity, obscenities, or sexual content (express or implied)
= religious, political, or social commentary
= personal attacks on other people (individually or as a group)
= slanderous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, threatening and harassing suggestions, comments and/or images
= critter names or account usernames that would be considered inappropriate under our Terms and Conditions
= materials created by someone else without their express written permission to do so
= "cheat" or "hack" programs or information or links to sites claiming to have these solicitations of user passwords
= solicitation of user passwords
= private or personal information that might identify another user
= other inappropriate content

By posting on this web site you (and you parents, if you are under the age of 16) are automatically giving Ecotopians.com a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) throughout the universe.

Modifications of the Web Site

Ecotopians.com reserves the right to change, modify, or delete any content of this web site. This content could have been created by Ecotopians.com or generated by a user or users. Ecotopians.com also reserves the right to alter or delete any user accounts at any time without prior notice, especially if this user has not followed the Terms and Conditions of this web site.

Any files submitted to Ecotopians.com by means of e-mail, "ecomail", or ftp automatically become the property of Ecotopians.com. Any and all rights that you have to this submitted material immediately become forfeit.

Liability and Warranties

Use of this web site is entirely at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that the Ecotopians.com web site or its services will meet your requirements or will be without interruptions. You understand that user-submitted content on the site are submitted by people using this site and the web site holds no liability for these submissions. You understand that these submissions are not endorsed or supported by the web site in any way.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Ecotopians.com and its respective owners, employees, agents, attorneys and advertisers harmless from any liability, loss, claim or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, related to your use of the web site or violation of these Terms and Conditions.

User Responsiblities/Web Site Rules

You must understand and agree that you are fully responsible for anything you submit, post, or any other actions your perform on this web site. You must follow these rules below while using this web site:

= Do NOT use profane language in forums, commenting, or anywhere else on the web site
= Do NOT give out your password to any other user on the web site or ask any other user to give you his/her password (Ecotopians.com staff will never ask a user for his/her password. Do not give your password to anyone, even if that person is claiming to be a staff member.)
= Do NOT post or distribute illegal content. All "off-line" laws apply to this web site as well.
= Do NOT impersonate or portray someone other than youself (i.e. an Ecotopians.com staff member or celebrity).
= Do NOT spam the forums or someone's profile with chain letters or pointless text.
= Do NOT post or distibute armful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, or in a reasonable person's view, objectionable. Hate speech is not tolerated.
= Do NOT use this web site for advertisement of other websites or products.
= Do NOT submit inappropriate images or photographs to the Art Contest. = Do NOT sell any virtual items, critters, or accounts of this web site for any real or virtual form of currency or property.
= Do NOT abuse or take advantage of a glitch found on the web site. If any glitches are found, please inform the staff by reporting the glitch using this form.
= Do NOT participate in or encourage illegal activity (i.e. hacking, cracking, or distributing counterfeit software).
= Do NOT upload or submit content that you do not have full ownership of. You must have the authority/permission to freely distribute this content before submitting/uploading it to this web site.
= Do NOT harass another user in any way.

Failure to follow the above rules will result in suspension of your account.

Links to Third Party Web Sites

A link to an external web site may be found in different areas of the site, posted by users. Ecotopians.com does not monitor and check these web sites. Any content on these third party web sites is beyond the control of Ecotopians.com and in no way is Ecotopians.com responsible for any content on these external web sites. The presence of links to an external web site in no way means that Ecotopians.com supports the views or opinions of that web site. Third Party Hyperlinks are made possible on this web site solely for the convenience of the users.

Account Deletion or Suspension

Ecotopians.com, for any reason and at its sole discretion, may decide that any person shall be denied access to any part of the web site. The sending of an e-mail notice by Ecotopians.com to any e-mail address used by a person who is subject to the denial shall constitute complete and sufficient notice of the denial. By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you agree to cease and desist immediately from any attempt to access the site upon issuance of a denial. If you do not cease and desist, you hereby consent to an injunction to be entered against you by a court of competent jurisdiction, as provided herein, permanently enjoining you from attempting to access the web site.

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Last Update: April 19, 2009