Terms and Conditions                  

Introduction

Thank you for being a part of the Teamplay.Net community! We hope you enjoy the resources of our site, and we invite you to participate in making Teamplay.Net the place for team-based Internet gaming.

You should carefully read the following Terms and Conditions before using Teamplay.Net. When using the Teamplay.Net web site, you are legally obligated to follow these Terms and Conditions, none of which should be particularly unexpected. The following represents the sole agreement between you and TeamSphere Interactive Inc., which owns and operates Teamplay.Net. Your use of the Teamplay.Net web site indicates your awareness of and compliance with these Terms and Conditions.

Membership

Teamplay.Net holds no basic restrictions to membership. However, if you are under 18 years of age, you must have the permission of your parent or legal guardian, who, along with you, is required to have read and understood these Terms and Conditions.

Teamplay.Net reserves the right to terminate your membership and deny participation in any event affiliated with Teamplay.Net at any time, for any conduct we believe to be in violation of these Terms and Conditions, at the sole discretion of Teamplay.Net.

Site and Software Usage

The Teamplay.Net web site is for personal and non-commercial use only. Users may not redistribute, modify, re-use or re-post any part of the site, including but not limited to the text, images, html, design or information. While participating on the Teamplay.Net web site, you will be using and accessing proprietary software, both that created by Teamplay.Net and that created by third party institutions. You are bound by any and all Terms and Conditions that accompany any software. By using such third party software in order to participate in any event or game, in conjunction with or in any way related to Teamplay.Net, you agree that you own a license to such software, and you will not copy or modify such third party software unless your license expressly permits you to do so.

Warranty and Liability                  

Use of the Teamplay.Net web site is AT YOUR OWN RISK. TeamSphere Interactive Inc. and any other party that assisted in the creation, production, or delivery of the site are not liable for any damages you may suffer through your use of Teamplay.Net, including, but not limited to, injury to your person or damage to your equipment.

You acknowledge that the Teamplay.Net web site is provided to you 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON INFRINGEMENT. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF CONTENT APPEARING ON TEAMPLAY.NET AND YOUR USE THEREOF LIES WITH YOU. TEAMPLAY.NET SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY REASON BASED ON YOUR USE OF OR PARTICIPATION WITH TEAMPLAY.NET OR TEAMPLAY.NET SOFTWARE.

Site Content

Images used on our site are either our property or are being used with permission. You may not use or redistribute these images without our explicit permission. The same restrictions apply to trademarks, logos, or taglines.

We try to insure the accuracy of the information on the Teamplay.Net web site (news, scores, stats), but are not responsible for any mistakes, misprints, or omissions.

If you add content of any sort to the Teamplay.Net web site or affiliated sites and email address', you understand and agree that any and all material you upload to Teamplay.Net, including any personal handles or team names you create, will be in the public domain. This is to the effect that, neither you nor anyone else may own or claim to own or have exclusive rights, which includes the copyright or trademark rights to, any such material, and you understand and agree that Teamplay.Net may use such material for any purpose we deem appropriate, including re-publication and creation of derivative rights. You assume any and all risks regarding the determination of your right to use materials or whether materials are in the public domain.

Teamplay.Net does not assume any responsibility for the content of sites that the Teamplay.Net web site may link to, or which are mentioned in any Teamplay.Net message board, chat room, or mailing list. Teamplay.Net takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for the content of our message boards, chat rooms, or mailing lists, though we require that our members refrain from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, obscene, libelous or otherwise law-violating materials. We respect your privacy, but we have no choice but to cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court which might be concerned with the posting of such material.

As a member of Teamplay.Net, you agree that you will not upload to or relay through the Teamplay.Net web site, any unlawful, threatening, obscene, libelous, or otherwise law-violating materials. If Teamplay.Net receives a complaint or becomes aware of the existence of such use or material, it will take said material and improper use into consideration and may, on its sole discretion, remove any and all materials from the Teamplay.Net web site that we feel is inappropriate and may terminate your access to or membership with Teamplay.Net.

Teamplay.Net does not guarantee that it will monitor the provided chat areas or message boards. As such, Teamplay.Net, is not responsible for any of the content posted to chat areas or discussion forums. Teamplay.Net reserves the right to discontinue any member's access to any chat area or discussion forum at any time for any reason. Teamplay.Net reserves the right to investigate any complaints made, regarding the posting of any material that Teamplay.Net deems inappropriate and may, at its sole discretion, take any action as described under the heading, "Violations of Terms and Conditions."

Teamplay.Net has the right to remove any postings or to require that any posting be moved to a different forum or different area of the web site.

You may not attempt to disrupt the usage of any of the public communication areas on the Teamplay.Net web site. Disruption is defined as any activity or posting that hinders normal usage of that feature.

You may not post advertisements of any kind on the Teamplay.Net web site, except where and if expressly permitted by an authorized representative of Teamplay.Net. Also, you may not post such materials as chain letters, pyramid schemes, encoded binary files, job offers or listings, and personal ads without the express, written permission of an authorized Teamplay.Net representative.

Contests and Events

All Teamplay.Net hosted or sponsored events and contests will be bound by original contest rules, which will be posted within the Teamplay.Net site. All participants of any Teamplay.Net affiliated event or contest are bound, not only by original contest rules, but by these Terms and Conditions as well.

Violations of Game Play

Cheating, or violating accepted rules of game play in any form, as defined by Teamplay.Net, is strictly prohibited. If Teamplay.Net suspects or determines that you have cheated, Teamplay.Net may take any or all the actions described in the section entitled "Violations of Terms and Conditions."

Teamplay.Net reserves the right to observe all online games that take place in any context that is affiliated with Teamplay.Net. Any dispute between Teamplay.Net members regarding any aspect of participation with Temaplay.Net or any Teamplay.Net event, will be resolved by Teamplay.Net, and its decision will be final and binding.

Violations of Terms and Conditions

Teamplay.Net reserves the right to investigate any suspected violations of these Terms and Conditions, which may include gathering information from any Teamplay.Net member or members involved, and the complaining party, if any. Teamplay.Net may also, at any time, examine any Teamplay.Net affiliated server, either owned by Teamplay.Net or independently owned, for the purposes of gathering information about a suspected violation, the prevention of such possible violation, or routine inspection for the purpose of detecting any such violation.

Teamplay.Net may suspend the membership of any members involved in any suspected violation. We reserve the right to remove any material involved in such a violation, such as software or game play statistics, from the servers. If, at any time, Teamplay.Net believes, at its sole discretion, that a violation of any of these Terms and Conditions has occurred, it may take responsive action, which may include, but not be limited to, the removal of material from the servers, forfeiture of any prizes or awards, warnings and suspension or termination of Teamplay.Net memberships, permanent banning from any future membership, and appropriate legal action. Teamplay.Net, at its sole discretion, will determine what action is appropriate to take in order to respond to any violation on a case-by-case basis.

Site Changes

Teamplay.Net reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions, and any rules for Teamplay.Net contests, tournaments, ladder ranking systems and the like, at any time, at our sole discretion. Notice of changes to any aspect of these Terms and Conditions or rules related to any aspect of the Teamplay.Net web site, will be published on-line at a designated place on the Teamplay.Net web site.

Privacy Policy                  

Teamplay.Net promises not to distribute your name, e-mail address or other personal information to mailing lists, advertisers, or spammers. We use the information that you provide to help make our site more fun and better tailored to you. That said, if you don't want the world to know something, don't list it as part of your member information or post it on the site in any message board, mailing list, or on IRC. Teamplay.Net reserves the right to reproduce, disclose, transmit, or publish any information posted to our site.

Teamplay.Net may provide aggregate statistics about our members, sales, usage patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.

Teamplay.Net uses cookies to "recognize" members. "Cookies" are small pieces of information about you that are stored by your web browser on your computer's hard drive. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, but they do enable us to provide more comprehensive and personalized access to our site.

Teamplay.Net works with a third party that serves ads to this site. To find out more about how Engage Media manages the privacy of information in conjunction with serving ads on this site, please go to http://www.flycast.com/about_us/about-privacy.html.