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Rules (Terms of Service in a nutshell)
Terms of Service Note: New additions colored in red. Furry Paws ("www.furry-paws.com", "FP", "site") is owned privately by me ("I"). FP is an online dog simulation comprised of fake kennels, fake dogs, fake shows, fake shops, and many more fake things, intended for use by those at least 13 years of age or older. Anyone who is under the age of 13 must first obtain the permission of a parent or guardian before signing up for or playing FP. I try to keep FP as clean as possible, but please note that there are certain areas of the site that are determined strictly by user ("member"), defined as someone who has signed up for an account on FP, input, hence, I cannot always control everything that goes on the site. Therefore, FP will not accept any responsibility for the distress that some of the aforementioned areas might hold. Each user is granted a certain set of privileges. Please note that they are only privileges, not rights, and can be taken away at any time for any reason without explanation being necessary. Privileges include, but are not limited to: logging on to your user account, interacting with other users through messages and message boards, owning virtual dogs, personalizing virtual kennel pages, personalizing owned virtual clinic/shop pages, personalizing virtual dog descriptions, posting on the message boards, and creating virtual shows. One or all of these privileges may be and will be taken away or restricted if a member does not strictly adhere to the Terms of Service. FP also reserves the right to take away any of the above privileges and restrict access to the site for any reason without any explanation. These rules apply to everyone, "basic" accounts and "elite" accounts alike. FP reserves the right to shut down at any time for any length of time or permanently without any warning or reason given. In other words, if I decide to close down FP, I can. If I decide to close FP for a while for the heck of it or for renovations, bug fixes, or anything else, I can. A user is responsible and accepts complete liability for any content he or she uploads onto Furry Paws and agrees that Furry Paws is not responsible for it. This includes, but is not limited to, pictures posted or linked to without the permission from holder of the copyright, and programming code that is copyrighted by another party. Moderators reserve the right to remove any posts, kennel pages, etc. with content that violate the Terms of Service and the right to warn and/or fine the offending player. If the player continues to violate the Terms of Service, they will be banned from the site. Shared accounts, accounts that are used by two users, are prohibited. But, since people do seem to like to do it, by logging in to an account that is used by two members you agree that FP forfeits all responsibility in consequences that may result because of untrustworthy partners. You will not own more than three user accounts, active or inactive, on FP. Ownership of an account is defined as, but not limited to, possessing the username and password of an account. Frozen and restricted accounts are still considered as one of the three accounts you are permitted. The use of any scripts outside of the www.furry-paws.com domain written any programming language on this site is strictly prohibited. This includes private chat boxes, music, glitter graphics and counters are not permitted on any page. Only HTML and CSS are permitted. You will not upload, or otherwise distribute onto the site any pornographic, racist, obscene, religiously offensive, abusive, or anything else that violates any law or infringes on any person's rights. Inappropriate topics may not be mentioned, alluded to or discussed in any public place on FP, including but not limited to the boards, chat, kennel pages, shop pages, clinic pages, etc. These include but are not limited to: puberty, sex, sexual innuendo, self-harm (including cutting, eating disorders and suicide), illegal substances, and alcohol or drug abuse. Public discussion of Politics or Religion is forbidden. This includes but is not limited to: elections, political debates and issues, religious texts and religious beliefs or lack thereof. You are allowed to discuss topics such as religion and politics in private messages as long as the content is kept G-rated and non-abusive. Self-affirming tags/statements on nicknames, kennel pages, shop pages, etc. are also acceptable as long as they do not directly insult a group of people. Cursing is not permitted. Cursing includes but is not limited to: all words blocked by the site's bad word filter, usage of symbols to represent curse words or to evade the bad word filter, and acronyms containing swear words. Topics with more than three censored words will be removed. Player harassment, including but not limited to making personal attacks on or about another player including their thoughts and opinions, intentionally antagonizing other players, publicly destroying the reputation of another player (including public black listing), name calling (including N00b and other offensive terms for newer players), making accusations of theft or scamming in public, and threatening behavior including fake acts of violence towards others is not permitted. Trolling, including but not limited to maliciously targeting another player and persistently messaging or posting numerous replies on the player's topic, making negative comments or accusations about other players, and creating or using spare accounts to break rules or continue to harass a player after being added to their block list is not allowed. Impersonating moderators, including but not limited to pretending to have been a mod in the past or present, whether copying an existing mod or doing it under your own name or threatening other players with fines/punishments. A player may politely ask players in chat to change their color, stop posting in all caps, or stop flooding when a moderator is not present. Excessive use of caps or bright/light colors on the boards and chat room is not permitted. Limited use of caps to bring attention to small details of posts is allowed. Entire posts, sentences or post titles in capital letters are not permitted. The definition of bright/light colors is subject to common sense so text is visible and easy to read for fellow players. Posting personal contact information such as full names, contact information, or specific location of anyone, even yourself, is not permitted. Posting links to outside websites or kennels is allowed as long as the website is kid-friendly, but starting a flame war for any outside website is considered trolling and is not permitted. English is the only language which may be used on FP's boards and chat. For any content posted in a language other than English an English translation must be provided in the same post/content area. Roleplaying is not permitted on the board or in chat. Roleplaying is permitted in private messages by mutual consent of both parties. Users with upgraded accounts are allowed to use images ("tags") in their nicknames and kennel names as long as they do not violate any part of the Terms of Service. Nickname tag sizes may not exceed 150 x 150 pixels. Kennel Tag sizes may not exceed 200 x 175 pixels. Advertising is not permitted in chat, in messages, or on any board not in the following list: Advertising Board, Dog Sales, Art Sales, Breedings Board, Canine Association (Casso) Board, and Other Games Board. The sale of Furry Paws cash (defined as the currency of Furry Paws), Furry Paw Points, items, dogs, or accounts for any form of "real life" currency, which includes but is not limited to USD, CD, etc., is strictly prohibited. You agree not to participate in the sale or purchase of such. Only FP currency and FP accounts are allowed to be traded/sold for other game currency and accounts (and only if the other game allows the same). Sales of pets or items from any game including FP are not allowed. Selling non-FP products is not permitted. These include but are not limited to gaming platforms, art programs, games and live animals. Buying, Selling and Trading FP accounts is permitted, however players are reminded that: the history of an account's rule-breaking is permanent, including if accounts are sold, traded or handed on; players are responsible for at no time owning more than 3 accounts, and ownership is defined as but not limited to access to the username and password via email or otherwise; players are responsible for making sure that the passwords and email address listed to an account is changed upon transfer. Art Theft including but not limited to selling, displaying, giving away or submitting to the Image Bank artwork which is not your own without the original artist's permission; using photographs which are subject to copyright; tracing and then claiming as your own artwork based on a copyrighted image used without permission is not allowed. Artwork you have made yourself depicting copyrighted characters may be sold for FP currency (FPD/FPP) only. The selling or trading of characters is permitted. However any artwork accompanying those characters is considered the property of the original artist and may not be sold or traded without their explicit permission. Hotlinking images, defined as linking directly to an image or file without permission, on topics, dog pages, kennels or any other FP page is prohibited as this consumes bandwidth on the host website. The images, text, and code of this site belong to FP. You agree not to plagiarize, steal, or otherwise pilfer any of these materials without the sole permission of me, the owner. If you find any bugs, defined as errors in the code of FP, you agree to notify me immediately by email (admin@furry-paws.com), describing the location of the bug and what you were doing at the time of it. Any user who abuses a bug will be punished, maybe even banned. You agree to allow FP to collect your IP address and time of login. You agree to allow FP to place cookies in your computer. Use of these things are purely to enhance a user's experience on the site. The above Terms of Service are subject to change at any time. Use of this site signifies that you have read, accept, and agree with the Terms of Service. Any violation of the Terms of Service will result in the punishment of user privileges, as defined above, and restriction to the site. If you do not agree to accept and adhere to the Terms of Service above, then cease use of this site IMMEDIATELY.
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