1.ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF SERVICES1.1 Welcome to Ace Games (“we” “us” “our” or “Ace Games”).
1.2 Your use of any of Ace Games services, facebook applications, or
software (collectively, the “Ace Games Service”) is subject to these terms
of service (the “Terms of Service”) in effect at the time of your use. Ace
Games reserves the right to update and change these Terms of Service from time
to time without notice or acceptance by you, so please check this page
frequently for updates and changes. However, changes made to these Terms of
Service will not apply to you to the extent that (i) the changes concern
matters which are the subject of an actual dispute between you and Ace
Games as of the date the changes take effect and (ii) Ace Games has actual
notice of the dispute as of the date the changes take effect.
1.3 Your use of the Ace Games Service is also subject to the Ace Games
Privacy Policy in effect at the time of your use, which is incorporated herein
as though set forth in full. You can review the most current version of the Ace
Games Privacy Policy.
1.4 Your use of the Ace Games Service may also be subject to additional
terms, conditions, policies and/or agreements applicable to a specific Web
site, service, software, service level or version. In the event of any conflict
between these Terms of Service and such additional terms, conditions, policies
and/or agreements, the additional terms, conditions, policies and/or agreements
will control. For the avoidance of doubt, if there are terms and conditions in
these Terms of Service regarding subjects on which the additional terms,
conditions, policies and/or agreements are silent, such silence will not
constitute a conflict and the terms and conditions in these Terms of Service
will control.
1.5 By signifying your acceptance of these Terms of Service or making any use
of the Ace Games Service, you signify your irrevocable acceptance of these
Terms of Service in effect at the time of your use. If you are an individual
acting as a representative of a corporation or other legal entity which wishes
to use the Ace Games Service, then you represent and agree that you have
the authority to accept these Terms of Service on behalf of such corporation or
other legal entity and that all provisions of these Terms of Service will bind
that corporation or other legal entity as if it were named in these Terms of
Service in place of you.
2.YOUR ACCOUNT2.1 The Ace Games Service is not intended for users under
the age of three (3). By signifying your acceptance of these Terms of Service
or making any use of the Ace Games Service, you represent and warrant that
you are at least three (3) years of age.
2.2 Ace Games can refuse registration of, or cancel, any account in its
sole discretion, at any time.
2.3 Your account will be accessed through your facebook user ID. You are
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Credentials and you are
fully and solely responsible for all activities that occur under your
Credentials, whether authorized by you or not. It is your responsibility to
take adequate precautions with your Credentials and to immediately notify
facebook and Ace Games of any unauthorized use of your Credentials.
2.4 Using your facebook account, you may access and participate in the Ace
Games Service, including viewing, posting and responding to communications on
and through the Ace Games Service.
3.CONTECT & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY3.1 Your own text, images, audiovisual media and any other form
of intellectual property, including the data, ideas, inventions, designs,
patterns and processes in such material (collectively, “Content”) that you post
on or through the Ace Games Service belongs to you and you may use it in
any other way without restriction. But by using the Ace Games Service, you
are granting Ace Games and certain third parties permission to use your
Content as described in these Terms of Service.
3.2 By using the Ace Games Service, you are granting Ace Games a
nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use,
reproduce, create derivative works of distribute, publicly perform and publicly
display your Content on and through the Ace Games Service and on and
through services affiliated with Ace Games, regardless of the form of media
used or of whether such services now exist or are developed in the future. If
you post Content on or through the Ace Games Service, you represent and
warrant that you have the right to post that Content and to grant the above
rights to Ace Games.
3.3 Ace Games may preserve your Content and may also disclose such Content,
with or without notice to you, if required to do so by law or in the good faith
belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a)
comply with legal process; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to
claims that your Content violates the rights of any third party; or (d) protect
the rights, property, or personal safety of Ace Games, its users and the
public.
3.4 You understand that posting your Content on or through the Ace Games
Service is entirely voluntary and will expose your Content to public display in
a non-confidential manner. You understand that Ace Games and/or any past,
present or future client of Ace Games (each, a “Client”) may view your
Content and may develop or have developed Content which is identical or similar
to yours, may already know of such Content from other sources or may have taken
or will take some other action with respect to such Content. Therefore, you
represent and agree to all of the following and acknowledge that Ace Games
and its Clients are explicitly relying on such representations and agreement
with regard to your Content:
3.4.1 The Content represents your own original work and you have all necessary
rights to disclose the Content. In doing so, you are not violating the rights
of any third party and you know of no other individual or entity whose rights
will be infringed by the Content being viewed and used as described in these
Terms of Service.
3.4.2 Your disclosure of the Content does not violate a confidential
relationship with any third party, establish a confidential relationship with Ace
Games or any of its Clients or obligate Ace Games or any of its Clients to
treat your Content (or any related materials) as secret or confidential.
3.4.3 Ace Games and/or any of its Clients may give your Content such
consideration as is warranted by their respective judgments. Review of your
Content shall not be construed as any recognition of the novelty or originality
of the Content. Neither Ace Games nor any of its Clients is obligated to
give reasons for making use of or rejecting your Content or to reveal its
activities that are related to your Content.
3.4.4 Neither Ace Games nor any of its Clients has any obligation, either
express or implied, to make any use of your Content. However, if Ace Games
and/or any of its Clients do make use of your Content, whether such use is
intentional or inadvertent, no compensation will be due to you or anyone else
for the use of your Content or the use of any data, ideas, inventions, designs,
patterns and/or processes similar to, related to or derived from your Content.
3.4.5 Neither Ace Games nor any of its Clients assumes any obligation with
respect to any of your Content except as set forth in these Terms of Service,
unless and until it enters into a separate written contract with you, and then
only as expressed in that separate written contract. In the absence of a
separate written contract, your rights with regard to Ace Games or any of
its Clients’ users of your Content shall be as described in these Terms of
Service and as existing under the patent laws of China.
3.4.6 If your Content is the subject of a pending or issued patent, you have
disclosed or will disclose that fact in connection with posting your Content on
or through the Ace Games Service. To the extent you hold a patent in the
Content, no license under any patent is herein granted. Any license to use
patented Content shall be in the form of a separate written contract, in which
event your, Ace Games’s and/or any of its Clients’ respective obligations
shall be only those expressed in such separate written contract.
3.4.7 Neither the discussion or negotiations between you, on the one hand, and Ace
Games and/or any of its Clients, on the other hand, relating to the possible
purchase or license of your Content, nor the making of any offer for the
purchase or license of your Content, shall prejudice Ace Games and/or any
of its Clients in any way, or be construed as recognition of the novelty,
originality, priority, other rights or value of your Content. Further, Ace
Games’s and/or any of its Clients’ consideration, discussions or negotiations
with you will not in any way impair Ace Games’s and/or any of its Clients’
right to contest the validity or infringement of your rights in and to the
Content. 3.4.8 You hereby irrevocably release and forever discharge Ace
Games and its Clients and their affiliates and subsidiaries (together, the
“Released Parties”) from any and all actions, causes of actions, claims,
damages, liabilities and demands, whether absolute or contingent and of any
nature whatsoever, which you now have or hereafter can, shall or may have
against the Released Parties or their respecting successors and assigns with
respect to the Content, including without limitation in respect of how the
Released Parties, directly or indirectly, use the Content, with the sole
exception that the foregoing release and discharge does not apply to your right
to bring a claim of patent infringement arising from use of your Content.
3.5 Content posted by another person or company on or through the Ace Games
Service belongs to the poster. Except as expressly permitted in these Terms of
Service, you do not have the right to use, reproduce, create derivative works
of, distribute, publicly perform or publicly display any Content that does not
belong to you, other than viewing of the Content on or through the Ace
Games Service as Ace Games may make available.
3.6 Ace Games owns the Ace Games Service as a whole, including all
computer code, graphics, user interfaces and audiovisual content used to
provide the Ace Games Service, and the combination of all the elements on
the Ace Games Service. The Ace Games Service as a whole, the computer
code of the Ace Games Service, the user interface and graphic elements are
all copyrighted works of Ace Games. Various other aspects of the Ace
Games Service may be protected by intellectual property laws including laws of
copyright, trademark, service mark, patent and trade secret.
3.7 Ace Games owns all right, title and interest in and to the Ace
Games Service. Ace Games reserves all rights to the Ace Games Service
that are not expressly granted herein. By way of example only, and not
limitation, you do not have the right to modify, adapt, translate, or reverse
engineer any portion of the Ace Games Service and you do not have the right
to index or aggregate any portion of the Ace Games Service (either by hand
or by means of a robot, spider, or other device). Nothing in this Agreement
will be construed as granting you any property rights in the Ace Games
Service or to any invention or any patent, copyright, trademark or other
intellectual property right that has been issued, or that may issue, based on
the Ace Games Service.
4.CODE OF CONDUCT4.1 Ace Games has the right, but not the obligation, to
remove or block Content from the Ace Games Service that it determines in
its sole discretion to be in violation of these Terms of Service, to be
unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise
objectionable, that violates any party’s intellectual property or that is
detrimental to the quality or intended spirit of the Ace Games Service. Ace
Games also has the right, but not the obligation, to limit or revoke the use
privileges of the account of anyone who posts such Content or engages in such
behavior.
4.2 Ace Games will use common sense and business sense regarding Content or
behavior allowed on or through the Ace Games Service. Examples of
unacceptable Content or behavior include:
4.2.1 Abuse, harassment, threats, flaming or intimidation of any person or
organization.
4.2.2 Engaging in or contributing to any illegal activity or activity that
violates others’ rights.
4.2.3 Use of derogatory, discriminatory or excessively graphic language.
4.2.4 Providing information that is false, misleading or inaccurate.
4.2.5 Hacking or modifying the Ace Games Service or another Web site to
falsely imply an association with Ace Games.
4.2.6 Implying or pretending to be affiliated with a company or organization
with which you are not affiliated, or misrepresenting the extent of your
affiliation or role with an affiliated company or organization.
4.2.7 Transmitting worms, viruses or harmful software.
4.2.8 Sending unwanted messages to other users (aka “spam”).
4.2.9 Disclosing personal or proprietary information of another person or
organization.
4.3 Ace Games cannot and need not control all Content posted by third
parties on or through the Ace Games Service, and does not guarantee the
accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using
the Ace Games Service you may be exposed to Content that you may find
offensive, indecent, incorrect or objectionable and you agree that under no
circumstances will Ace Games be liable in any way for any Content,
including any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any
kind incurred as a result of your use of any Content. You understand that you
must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any Content,
including any reliance on the content, integrity, and accuracy of such Content.
If you would like to report objectionable materials, you may use the flagging
feature by clicking the “Inappropriate” link attached to every topic post and
reply. Urgent issues can be reported to tid.feedback@om-games.com
5.INTERNATIONAL USE5.1 The Ace Games Service is hosted in China. If you use
the Ace Games Service from outside of China, you acknowledge that you are
voluntarily transferring information (potentially including
personally-identifiable information) and Content to China and agree that Ace
Games’s collection, use, storage and sharing of your information and Content is
exclusively subject to the laws of China, not of the jurisdiction in which you
are located.
5.2 You will
ply with all China laws, rules and regulations applicable to the export of products, services, software and technical data regardless of the jurisdiction in which you are located.
6.COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT6.1 Copyright Infringement Notices. If you believe that any
material available on or through the Ace Games Service violates your
copyright, you may send Ace Games a copyright infringement notice. Your
notice must be in writing and must include substantially all of the following:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of
the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Identification of
the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple
copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification,
a representative list of such works at that site. Identification of the
material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing
activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and
information reasonably sufficient to permit Ace Games to locate the
material. Ace Games requests that complete URLs for each instance of the
allegedly infringing material be provided. Information reasonably sufficient to
permit Ace Games to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and,
if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted. A
statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the
manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or
the law. A statement that the information in the copyright infringement notice
is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Your
written copyright infringement notice must be sent to Ace Games’s
designated copyright agent via mail or email. Please be aware that any person
who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing
may be subject to liability.
6.2 Copyright Abuse Policy. Ace Games will terminate, in appropriate
circumstances, account holders of Ace Games’s system or network who are repeat
copyright infringers.
6.3 Designated Copyright Agent. Copyright Agent Ace Games By email: tid.feedback@om-games.com
7.CANCELLATION AND TERMINATION7.1 Ace Games, in its sole discretion,
may terminate your account and remove and discard any Content within the Ace
Games Service for any reason, including and without limitation lack of use, or
if Ace Games believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with
the letter or spirit of these Terms of Service. In such event, any contracts,
verbal or written or assumed, in conjunction with your account and all its
parts, at Ace Games’s discretion, will be terminated as well.
7.2 Ace Games, in its sole discretion and at any time, may discontinue
providing the Ace Games Service, or any part thereof, with or without
notice. Any termination of your access to the Ace Games Service under any
provision of these Terms of Service may be effected without prior notice. Ace
Games may immediately deactivate or delete your account, as applicable, and all
related information and Content and bar any further access to such information,
Content or to the Ace Games Service. Ace Games will not be liable to
you or any third party for any termination of your access to the Ace Games
Service.
7.3 After cancellation or termination of your account for any reason, you will
no longer have access to your account and all information and Content in your
account or that you have stored on the Ace Games Service may be, but is not
required to be, deleted by Ace Games. Ace Games will have no liability
for information or Content that is deleted due to the cancellation or
termination of your account for any reason.
7.4 If you are a member of a private community, and that private community is
cancelled or terminated, Content posted to that private community will no
longer be available to you. Such Content may be, but is not required to be,
deleted by Ace Games. Ace Games will have no liability for information
or Content that is deleted due to the cancellation or termination of a private
community.
8.ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE ONLY TO CLIENTS8.1 If you are a Client of the Ace
Games Service, the following terms also apply to you.
8.2 Subscriptions to the Ace Games Service may be made available in free or
paid versions and/or in different service levels. Not all of the features and
functionality of the Ace Games Service may be available in each version or
service level. The features and functionality of each version or service level
may be changed from time to time at Ace Games’s discretion.
8.3 In order to subscribe to the Ace Games Service, you may be required to
provide Ace Games with billing and account information (“Billing
Information”) for a credit card, payment card or another payment system for
which you are authorized to approve charges (each, a “Payment Source”) to allow
Ace Games to collect payment from you for your use of the Ace Games
Service. You must provide Ace Games with true, accurate, current and
complete Billing Information and maintain and promptly update your Billing
Information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
8.4 Unless other payment arrangements have been made in advance and confirmed
by Ace Games, you authorize Ace Games to automatically and immediately
bill your Payment Source when charges for your use of the paid version of the Ace
Games Service are due, without any further action on your part or other prior
notice on the part of Ace Games. You assume full responsibility for such
charges, even if such charges are declined or not paid by your Payment Source.
8.5 If you register to use a paid version of the Ace Games Service on a
free-trial basis and you do not cancel the trial before the expiration of the
trial period, then, upon the expiration of the trial period, your account will
be automatically converted to a paid account and, unless other payment
arrangements have been made in advance and confirmed by Ace Games, your
Payment Source will be billed for that paid Ace Games Service.
8.6 If your Payment Source is invalid, if charges billed to your Payment Source
are declined or not paid or if you fail to pay charges for a paid version of
the Ace Games Service when due, your account may be downgraded, suspended
or cancelled, at Ace Games’s discretion. If your account is suspended, Ace
Games may, but is not obligated to, maintain your account and/or related
content and information, in order to allow you pay the past-due charges and
restore your account. If the charges are not paid, your account may be
cancelled.
8.7 Unless stated to the contrary, all charges for paid versions of the Ace
Games Service are non-refundable, even if your use of the paid version of the Ace
Games Service is cancelled before the end of your current billing period.
8.8 Unless stated to the contrary, all currency references in paid versions of
the Ace Games Service are in U.S. dollars.
8.9 In addition to any other remedies available to Ace Games, you will pay
a late fee of one percent (1%) per month (or the maximum amount permitted by
applicable law, whichever is less) for any late payments hereunder.
8.10 You are solely responsible for any and all taxes, levies, charges and fees
incurred or that may be payable to any taxing authority in connection with the
transactions hereunder, other than any income tax incurred by Ace Games.
All fees stated for use of the Ace Games Service are net of any applicable
taxes.
8.11 Ace Games grants to you, commencing on the effective date of your
subscription to the Ace Games Service (the “Effective Date”) and continuing
thereafter for the term of your subscription (unless terminated earlier
pursuant to these Terms of Service), a non-exclusive, non-transferable (except
as permitted below), world-wide, limited license to make use of the
then-current versions of the Ace Games Service to which you have subscribed
for the purposes of creating, maintaining and administering an online community
(the “Client Community”). The Ace Games Service is licensed hereby, not
sold.
8.12 “Client Content” means any content owned, controlled or licensed by you.
You hereby grant to Ace Games a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide,
royalty-free, limited license to reproduce, create derivative works from,
distribute, perform, display and otherwise use the Client Content for the sole
purpose of providing the Client Community.
8.13 “User Content” means any content uploaded to the Client Community by any
user of the Client Community. To the extent of your rights in and to the User
Content, you hereby grant to Ace Games a non-exclusive, transferable,
worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to reproduce, create derivative
works from, distribute, perform, display, and otherwise use the User Content
(i) for the sole purpose of providing the Client Community, (ii) for use in and
through Ace Games’s APIs to the extent authorized by the user of the Client
Community who made the User Content available to Ace Games, (iii) for
syndicating the User Content to third parties to the extent authorized by the
user of the Client Community who made the User Content available to Ace
Games and (iv) to retain the User Content to the extent authorized by the user
of the Client Community who made the User Content available to Ace Games.
8.14 As between you and Ace Games, you are solely responsible for the acts
and omissions of the users of the Client Community and you are solely
responsible for managing the interaction of each user of the Client Community
with the Client Community, with other users of the Client Community and with
other third parties.
8.15 You will not store or transmit, nor allow any user of the Client Community
to store or transmit, any Client Content or User Content on or through the
Client Community that violates these Terms of Service, that violates any
acceptable use policy applicable to the Client Community or that is, is alleged
to be or, in Ace Games’s sole discretion, may be in violation of any law,
rule or regulation or of any third party’s rights, or otherwise exposes Ace
Games to any liability.
8.16 To comply with applicable laws and lawful governmental requests, to
protect Ace Games’s systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and
operation of Ace Games’s business and systems, Ace Games may access,
store and/or disclose any information stored or transmitted on or through the
Client Community which Ace Games considers necessary or appropriate,
including, without limitation, user information, IP address and traffic
information, usage history, Client Content and User Content. Ace Games also
reserves the right to report any activity that it suspects violates any law,
rule or regulation to appropriate law enforcement officials, regulators or
other appropriate third parties.
8.17 You may not assign your subscription to the Ace Games Service, and
such any assignment by you will be null and void; provided, however, that you
may assign your subscription to the Ace Games Service to its successor in
interest in connection with the sale of your business as a going concern or in
connection with the sale of all, or substantially all, of your assets.
Limitation of Liability.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL Ace Games OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ACCOUNT OF THAT USER’S USE OR MISUSE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICES OR Ace Games SITE ARISING FROM ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF. SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHETHER SUCH CLAIM IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, (EVEN IF Ace Games OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE SERVICES OR Ace Games SITE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES OR Ace Games SITE, OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SERVICES OR Ace Games SITE (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES). THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL FURTHER APPLY WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES OR Ace Games SITE OR ANY INFORMATION OR MERCHANDISE THAT APPEARS ON, OR IS LINKED OR RELATED IN ANY WAY TO Ace Games. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
General These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the China, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of the Terms of Service to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms of Service will continue in full force and effect. These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service). Any waiver of any provision of the Terms of Service will be effective only if in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Ace Games.
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