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Tanktastic EULA (End-User License Agreement) - Official English Version.

 

In proprietary software, an End-User License Agreement (EULA) or Software License Agreement is the contract between the licensor and purchaser, establishing the purchaser's right to use the software.

 

The Tanktastic EULA is eletronically presented to you during the registration procedure. If you do not agree to this EULA, please do not attempt to install or use the game. In return for your acceptance of this EULA, we give you the personal right (known as a 'licence') during the time this EULA is in force between you and us to download, install and play the game.

 

This EULA governs our relationship with you. It does not create any rights for any other person, unless otherwise expressly stated in this EULA.

If any part of this EULA is held to be unenforceable, then it will not affect the enforceability of any other part of this EULA. Also, we and you agree to interpret the rest of this EULA in such a way as to reflect your and our intentions in this EULA as far as possible.

If you or we fail to exercise (or delay exercising) any right which you or we may have under this EULA, that failure or delay does not mean that we or you lose that right. If we or you only partially exercise a right or only exercise it once, that will not stop you or us from exercising it again in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

1. TERMINOLOGY:

Everything you need to know about the most common terms you will come across in the Tanktastic Community.

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1.1 "End-User License Agreement" ("EULA"):

An End-User License Agreement (EULA) or Software License Agreement is a standard form contact between licensor and purchaser, establishing purchaser's right to use the software.

 

1.2 "Project":

The term "project" includes anything strictly related to the software - "Tanktastic"; as such, it includes, but it's not limited to, websites, forums, and groups created on social networks. The Tanktastic Administrative Team is the owner of the "Tanktastic" project; its members being authorized to maintain the efficiency and provide technical support and security of said project by the use of any means deemed necessary.

 

1.3 "Moderator":

A moderator is a Community member chosen by the Tanktastic Administrative Team; they are representatives of the Tanktastic Staff, entrusted with maintaining order and enforcing the EULA.

 

1.4 "User":

The term "user" refers to a person, as well as to any accounts created by said person and any devices said person uses.

 

1.5 "Chat Rules":

Chat rules are registration requirements that are to be carefully read and accepted by any user before being allowed to play Tanktastic; this procedure is completed by signining the EULA. Users are obliged to follow these rules and are supposed to know them from the very beginning of their experience in the Tanktastic Community.

 

1.6 "In-app purchases":

In-app purchases are purchases made from within a mobile application;granting access to special in-app content or features. As far as Tanktastic is concerned, in-app purchases allow for a faster technical research and purchase of in-game units; in-app purchases don't grant any concrete advantage over other players, gameplay-wise.

 

1.7 "Premium Currency" / "Gold Credits":

Premium currency is an additional in-game currency: Holding a much higher value than standard silver credits', this additional currency may be normally acquired through:

• In-app purchases.
• By logging into the game five times in a row, as part of the daily bonuses.
• By ranking up.
• By getting gaming achievements.

 

1.8 "Account":

An account is a registry entry, created by a person, containing all said person's in-game information, such as in-game statistics and obtained achievements.

 

1.9 "Mute":

A mute is a restriction of user privileges; more precisely, a temporary suspension of the user privilege to communicate and send messages to other players.

Punishment's duration normally ranges between 1 and 65,000 minutes, depending upon severity of the violation.

 

1.10 "Ban":

A ban is a restriction of user privileges; more precisely, a temporary suspension of the user privilege to log into the game.

Punishment's duration ranges between 1 and 65,000 minutes, depending upon violation.

 

1.11 "Permanent Ban":

A permanent ban is a permanent suspendion of the user privilege to log into the game.

 

1.12 "Flooding":

Flooding is the act of sending numerous messages in a small time frame; whether accidentally or with malicious intent.

 

1.13 "Boosting":

Boosting is the act of speeding up the process of gaining credits and experience through unfair ways, i.e. by using methods that are not supported by the game developers and the Tanktastic Community. These methods include, but are not limited to, players teaming up, creating rooms and designating a certain player to be killed; thus gaining experience and credits at a much faster rate than normal.

 

1.14 "Caps Lock":

Caps Lock is the act of writing messages using only capital letters. 

 

 

 

 

 

2. GENERAL PROVISIONS:

The basic and most important informations for newcomers.

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2.1 Registration requirements:

Before being allowed to join the Tanktastic Community, all users are obliged to:

• 2.1.1 -Read and sign the current version of the Tanktastic EULA.
• 2.1.2 -Follow the in-game rules and, eventually, the rules of the Tanktastic Forums or any official Tanktastic-related groups on social networks.

 

2.2 -Registration:

• 2.2.1 -Tanktastic is a free-to-play app: joining the Tanktastic Community doesn't require any payment from users.
• 2.2.2 -It is only required from users to sign the current version of the EULA and register a game account complying with EULA's directives. All registered users have full access to the game's content, including in-app purchases as well as technical support from the Tanktastic Staff.

 

2.3 -In-app purchases:

• 2.3.1 -In-app purchases grant access to special in-game features, but no concrete advantage over other players, as far as gameplay is concerned.
• 2.3.2 -Access to additional in-game features is to be considered a service.
• 2.3.3 -Users agree to any services being provided from the date of payment and transferred to the in-game account they own.
• 2.3.4 -In-app purchases will not be reimbursed by the Tanktastic Administrative Team, including, but not limited to, those:

- Not used or only partially used;

- Not used due to a complete or temporary suspension of the user's participation to the game;

- Lost due to actions of third parties, including, but not limited to, fraud and theft;

- Lost due to breach of the EULA by the user.

 

2.4 -Administration:

• 2.4.1 -The Tanktastic Administrative Team has full right to change, add or delete any part of the Tanktastic EULA, at its sole discretion and without prior notice.
• 2.4.2 -The Tanktastic Administrative Team does not guarantee uninterrupted or bug-free gaming experience; as well as not guaranteeing that all in-game features will meet all the expectations and wishes of the user.
• 2.4.3 -The Tanktastic Administrative Team is not liable for any damage the user or, but not limited to, their device may suffer as a result of playing the game or being unable to do so; and whether their user's privileges have been suspended due to a breach of the EULA or not.
• 2.4.4 -The Tanktastic Administrative Team is not liable for the actions of any user; nor for the damage they may suffer as a result of:

- registration of in-game accounts using a non-existent email address;

- disclosure of their own personal data;

- transfer of in-game accounts to third parties;

- purchase/sale of in-game accounts.

• 2.4.5 -No claims or demands of reparation will be accepted by the Tanktastic Administrative Team. 

 

 

 

 

 

3. PROHIBITIONS & RESTRICTIONS:

Everything you must know about the prohibition and restrictions imposed by the EULA and the Tanktastic Administrative Team in order to maintain a clean and professional environment for all users to enjoy.

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3.1 -Game etiquette:

This category includes:

• 3.1.1 -Starting/Taking part to discussions on social, religious, political topics that create controversy.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,880 minutes (48h).

• 3.1.2 -Starting/Taking part to discussions having, in any way, racist or nationalistic implications that may create offense to a certain nation, ethnic, religious or racial group.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 5,760 minutes (96h).

• Be permanently banned, depending upon severity.

• 3.1.3 -Starting/Taking part to discussions having an association with sexuality; including, but not limited to, looking for a girlfriend/boyfriend, pedophilia, sexual abuse; or having an offensive connection to the human body or bodily functions.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 720 minutes (12h).

 

 

3.2 -Inappropriate language:

This category includes:

• 3.2.1 -Explicit cursing and profanities.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 1,440 minutes (24h).

• 3.2.2 -Veiled cursing and profanities, whether partly covered or just implied.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 1,440 minutes (24h).

• 3.2.3 -Creation of rooms with inappropriate names, including, but not limited to, profanities, offensive or provocative phrases/words, whether explicitly or partly covered/implied.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 1,440 minutes (24h); the room will also be forcefully shut down.

• 3.2.4 -Creation of accounts with inappropriate nicknames, including, but not limited to, profanities, offensive or provocative phrases/words which have, in any way, racist or nationalistic implications, whether explicitly or partly covered/implied.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be permanently banned.

 

 

3.3 -Threats and insults:

This category includes:

• 3.3.1 -Explicit death/real-life threats, or other threats, and insults.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,160 minutes (36h).

• 3.3.2 -Veiled or implied death/real-life threats, or other threats, and insults.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,160 minutes (36h).

 

 

3.4 -Flooding, spamming and trolling:

This category includes:

• 3.4.1 -Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberish.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 180 minutes (3h).

• 3.4.2 -Excessive clan advertising or excessively requesting to join a clan (more than a single advertisement/request every 5 minutes).

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 360 minutes (6h).

• 3.4.3 -Excessive capitalization (Caps Lock).

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 15 minutes.

• 3.4.4 -Excessively asking members of the Tanktastic Staff about upcoming patches' release dates.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,880 minutes (48h).

• 3.4.5 -Excessively long messages (more than 300 characters).

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be automatically muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 15 minutes.

• 3.4.6 -Purposeful provocation, either explicitly or implicitly, of other users and/or members of the Tanktastic Staff.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 15 minutes.

 

 

3.5 -Advertising: 

Users are not allowed to send messages that advertise or solicit, either explicitly or implicitly, any non-beneficial, non-Tanktastic-related businesses, organizations, or websites nor to provide direct links to said external resources.

 

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 720 minutes (12h).

 

 

3.6 -Accounts, gold/credits, begging:

This category includes:

• 3.6.1 -Trading in-game accounts.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be permanently banned.

• 3.6.2 -Disclosing personal data, regardless of the kind of relationship subsisting between the users involved.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 10,080 minutes (7d).

• Be permanently banned, depending upon severity.

• 3.6.3 -Begging in any form; begging includes, but is not limited to: asking for personal data, asking for real money, asking for additional gold/credits, requesting to transfer in-game: gold/credits.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 2160 minutes (36h).

 

 

3.7 -Boosting/Teaming/Logging:

This category includes:

• 3.7.1 -Begging/asking/co-operating with other players to take part to Boosting/Teaming.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,880 minutes (48h).

• 3.7.2 Boosting. Allowing yourself or others to be repeatedly killed in order to rapidly gain in-game currency and experience.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,880 minutes (48h).

• Be deprived of a part of their in-game experience and/or in-game credits.

• 3.7.3 Teaming. Intentionally not participating in the fairness of open Deathmatch (All vs. All). This overrules clan affiliation or friendships with other players.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 1,440 minutes (24h).

• Be deprived of a part of their in-game experience and/or in-game credits

• 3.7.4 Logging. Leaving and re-joining a game room intentionally before death; depriving an opponent from in-game currency, experience and score. 

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 1,440 minutes (24h).

• Be deprived of a part of their in-game experience and/or in-game credits

 

 

3.8 -Language:

This category includes:

• 3.8.1 -Using any other language aside from English in the Lobby: the official language of the Lobby is English, users may use their native language in their own Local Chats, or, should their own Local Chat not being implemented yet, in the English Local Chat.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 180 minutes (3h).

• 3.8.2 -Transliteration and intentionally distorted or illiterate language.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted for a limited amount of time, starting from 15 minutes.

 

 

3.9 -Moderation:

This category includes:

• 3.9.1 -Discussing moderators' decisions and actions, discussing disciplinary actions taken against a user.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,880 minutes (48h).

• 3.9.2 -Impersonating the Tanktastic Staff or one or more of its members, regardless of the reason.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 10,080 minutes (7d).

• Be permanently banned, depending upon severity.

• 3.9.3 -Negatively portraiting the Tanktastic Staff.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,880 minutes (48h).

• 3.9.4 -Providing false informations/issuing false reports to members of the Tanktastic Staff

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be muted/banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 2,880 minutes (48h).

 

 

3.10 - Software Modification/Manipulation/Exploitation:

This category includes:

• 3.10.1 - Use of unauthorized third-party software or methods to modify or manipulate the game or its functionality, exploiting game vulnerabilities, gaining an unfair or prohibited advantage not provided by the game, or otherwise modification or manipulation leading to disruption of the game process and the normal functionality of the game. The latter case includes, but is not limited to, use of possible imperfections in the game and certain of its functions, leading to a disruption in the normal functionality of the game, giving unintended, unfair or non-supported advantages to the game/players, and/or causing considerable discomfort to other players in the game process.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 5 000 minutes.
• Be permanently banned, depending upon severity.

• 3.10.2 -Creation of rooms names using BB code, including, font styling.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 10,080 minutes (7d); the room will also be forcefully shut down.
• Be permanently banned, depending upon severity; the room will also be forcefully shut down.

• 3.10.3 - Creation of account nicknames using BB code, including, but not limited to, blank names, duplication of any other existing usernames, profanities, offensive or provocative phrases/words which have, in any way, racist or nationalistic implications, whether explicitly or partly covered/implied.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be permanently banned.

• 3.10.4 - Exploitation of public rooms by forcing default skill levels to increase or decrease.

If a user is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be banned for a limited amount of time, starting from 10,080 minutes (7d). The offending users will be forcibly removed and if necessary the room be forcefully shut down.
• Be permanently banned. The offending users will be forcibly removed and if necessary the room be forcefully shut down. 

 

 

 

 

 

4. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS:

Additional informations for newcomers. 

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4.1 -Moderator's rights:

This category includes:

• 4.1.1 -Moderator's right to examine in-game chats' content at their own discretion.
• 4.1.2 -Moderator's right to ultimately decide whether to apply punishments, as well as deciding their duration.
• 4.1.3 -Moderator's right to increase punishments' duration following repeated breaches of the rules by a given user.
• 4.1.4 -Moderator's right to ultimately decide whether to apply punishments to accounts used to bypass another punishment, as well as deciding their duration.
• 4.1.5 -Moderator's right to provide no explanation/information regarding their decisions and actions, to any user.

 

4.2 -User's rights:

This category includes:

• 4.2.1 -User's right to be part of the Tanktastic Community and chat with other fellow players with respect and courtesy, behaving themselves in a civilised manner.
• 4.2.2 -User's right to have private conversations with other fellow players and in their own Clan Chat.
• 4.2.3 -User's right to issue complaints regarding moderators' actions in accordance with the current established procedure, i.e. by providing full-size screenshots proving their inadequate and/or negligent behavior to a Senior Moderator or to a member of the Tanktastic Administrative Team.

 

4.3 -Additional provisions:

• 4.3.1 -Users' demands supported by votings, regarding any matter, won't be taken into account. However, users are welcome to provide suggestions and feedback and give constructive criticism.
• 4.3.2 -Requests to be granted the status of moderator will be rejected at once. Further demands may result in a punishment.
• 4.3.3 -Complaints regarding moderators as well as demands concerning their removal from the Tanktastic Staff will be ignored/rejected at once. Further demands may result in a punishment. Complaints/reports regarding moderators' actions and behaviour may be issued in accordance with the current established procedure.
• 4.3.4 -The Tanktastic Administrative Team reserves the right to update and modify these rules at its sole discretion and without prior notice.