We are Paezo and we make video games. In order to use our games and services, we have some rules about what you can and can't do. This User Agreement explains your rights and obligations as a user of the Paezo services.
1 ABOUT THIS AGREEMENT
1.1 This Agreement is a legally binding contract between you and Paezo a game development studio based in Athens, Greece. You may contact us via email at webinquiry@paezo.gr. This Agreement applies to any Paezo websites, games, forums, wikis, blogs, social media accounts, customer and technical support and any other services we provide to you (which we'll call the "Paezo services"). It is binding on you and us once you use any Paezo services.
Important: please also make sure you read our game/service specific rules (which explain in more detail the legal rules for specific games or services) and our privacy policy, which form part of this Agreement.
2 USING PEZO SERVICES
2.1 We give you the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to download, install, play and use the Paezo services. This license is for your personal use only (so you can't give a sublicense to someone else) and doesn't give you ownership rights.
3 PAEZO BETA ACCESS
3.1 We may release 'beta' versions of Paezo services before their full commercial release. If so:
your access to the beta will usually be time-limited and there may be some additional contract terms;
you will probably be asked to participate in a feedback process in which you can offer information about how the beta works;
the beta software will be provided 'as is' without any additional promises from us or any liability on us if the software isn't complete or doesn't work fully or causes issues; and
the game or service may have specific legal rules of its own for its beta.
4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
4.1 Each Paezo service will explain any specific system requirements needed for you to use it. Please ensure your system meets these requirements. Online elements of the Paezo services may require Internet access. We do not include any DRM in our games, but some console/device manufacturers use security technology, which is outside of our control. If the game or service require Internet access please make sure that you have the means to do so.
5 PATCHES, UPDATES AND CHANGES
5.1 Occasionally we may need to patch or update the Paezo services (for example to add or remove features or to resolve software bugs). We need these rights in order to keep the Paezo services running efficiently.
6 OWNERSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
6.1 The Paezo services, including (but not limited to) their graphics, computer code, user interface, look and feel, audio, video, text, layout, databases, data and all other content and all legal and exploitation rights regarding them, are either owned by us or we license them from third parties. All rights are reserved except as we have explained in this Agreement. You may not use or exploit any part of the Paezo services except as explained in this Agreement.
7 WHAT YOU CAN'T DO WITH PAEZO SERVICES
7.1 Your use of the Paezo services is subject to the following rules:
Only use the Paezo services for your personal enjoyment (for example, don't use them to make money – with an exception for monetizing fan work on video-sharing websites – more about this exception in Section 10 of this Agreement).
Unless you have prior Paezo’s prior written consent, you may not modify, merge, distribute, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble the Paezo services unless you’re allowed to under this Agreement, the applicable rules of the specific Paezo service or by the laws of your country.
Don't hack, harm, grief or misuse the Paezo services, as determined in Paezo’s sole discretion.
Don't interfere with any Paezo or third-party network software, including via tunnelling, code injection, modifying or changing the software, using any other similar software together with Paezo software, through protocol emulation, or through creation or use of private servers regarding the Paezo services.
Don't copy, rent, lend, lease, sublicense, distribute, publicly display any of the Paezo services.
Don't do or say anything that is or may be considered racist, xenophobic, sexist, defamatory or otherwise offensive or illegal. Be nice to each other, please!
Each of our games has its own legal rules which supplement this Agreement. Check them to find out more about what you may or may not do with a given Paezo service.
8 USER GENERATED CONTENT
8.1 This section is about the content (e.g. text, photos or links), which you make available either to us or to other Paezo users (for example through forum messages to other Paezo users) or any other content which you create using Paezo content. We'll call this "User Generated Content". Please remember that the Paezo services may have additional separate legal rules specifying your rights and obligations with respect to relevant User Generated Content.
8.2 As far as we are concerned, you own any User Generated Content you create, but you hereby agree to give us certain rights over it so that we can actually transmit it through the Paezo services. So, when you make your User Generated Content available through any Paezo service you give us a non-exclusive, irrevocable license to use, modify, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, communicate and publicly display and/or perform your User Generated Content in connection with the Paezo services.
8.3 It is your responsibility to make sure that you have all necessary legal rights before you use User Generated Content and for checking they are safe to use. We can't know that ourselves, and we can't check it for you, so we rely on you.
8.4 If you create your User Generated Content using any graphics, audio, video, text, gameplay, features, characters, settings or any other content from the Paezo services, you may use and share it for personal enjoyment, but you may not: (i) use or distribute it for money or any commercial purpose; or (ii) place it in third-party games or services or standalone products of any kind without our prior written consent (which you can request at Website Inquiry Team). Please note we reserve the right to review each request and accept or reject it in our sole discretion.
9 FEEDBACK OR SUGGESTIONS
9.1 You are welcome to give us feedback to improve the Paezo services. In such case contact us atwebinquiry@paezo.gr
9.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing, Paezo and its affiliates have the policy not to accept, from third parties, any proposal and/or offer for products and/or services, including, without limitation, ideas for new or improved products, technologies, designs, processes, software, promotions, advertisements and marketing plans, in order to avoid any possible future confusion between such proposal and/or offer from the third parties and the Paezo services. Therefore, you are requested not to send any information which may contain your ideas, artwork, inventions, developments, suggestions or other works (collectively, “Ideas”). Despite the foregoing request, if you send your Ideas to our attention, then such Ideas will be treated upon the understanding that you agreed to the following terms:
Paezo has no obligation to treat the Ideas as confidential information.
Paezo has no obligation to study, evaluate or adopt the Ideas.
Even if Paezo happens to adopt any idea identical or similar in whole or in part to the Ideas, Paezo and its affiliates shall have no responsibility and shall not be liable for any compensation therefor.
10 USING PAEZO SERVICES IN FAN WORK
10.1 We give you permission to create fan work regarding the Paezo services, unless our legal rules for a game in question say differently. You do not need our permission to monetize use of such fan work on video-sharing websites. Please remember that you are responsible for your fan works (especially any content which you make or which involves third parties). Please also remember our rules regarding User Generated Content above.
11 THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND EXTERNAL SERVICES
11.1 You might get links from us to third party websites or content through the Paezo services. Using them is up to you. We cannot promise they will work, what they will be like, or if they are free.
12 WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY REGARDING THE VG SERVICES
12.1 We work hard to try to make the Paezo services work on your systems but we only have limited time to carry out tests and we don't always get everything right. Therefore, you agree that we do not and will not have any liability or responsibility if the Paezo services do not work fully or completely. Also, you agree that we are not responsible or liable for anything that happens to the Paezo services, which is outside of our reasonable control.
13 TERMINATION
13.1 We may cancel or suspend your access to the Paezo services if you ‘materially breach’ this Agreement. We'll try reasonably to contact you to explain why we have done this and what (if anything) you can do as a result. It seems very unlikely, but if we have to stop providing access to any Paezo services permanently (not because of any breach by you), we will try to give you at least sixty (60) days advance notice by sending a note from webinquiry@paezo.gr Attention: Website Inquiry Team
13.2 If we cease providing any Paezo services, or if your use of them is cancelled or suspended (either because of us or you), we will not have any future liability or obligations or to you.
14 FORCE MAJEURE
14.1 We will not be liable for any failure to perform any obligation under this Agreement or to provide access to the Paezo services if that failure is caused by the happening of any unforeseen event beyond our reasonable control including without limitation, Internet outages, communications outages, fire, flood, war or act of God.
15 GOVERNING LAW
15.1 You and we agree that your use of the Paezo services, and this Agreement, will be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of Greece and the courts of Athens shall have exclusive jurisdiction as the court of first instance with respect to any dispute that arises between you and us in relation to this Agreement or the Paezo services.
16 OTHER LEGAL STUFF
16.1 If any part of this Agreement is found not to be legally enforceable, this will not affect any other part of it.
16.2 This Agreement, the Paezo Privacy Policy and the rules for the specific Paezo service constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding this Agreement and such Paezo service and supersede any earlier oral or written agreements.
16.3 This Agreement governs our relationship with you (and vice versa). It does not create any rights for anyone else.
16.4 Please remember that we are subject to various laws and we may be required to comply with law enforcement or other legal requirements.
17 CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT
17.1 We may change this Agreement as we deem necessary. If so, we will make the changed Agreement available online and make reasonable efforts to tell you about it.
17.2 Once we change the Agreement, it will become legally binding on you 30 days after we post it online. During that period, you're welcome to contact us at webinquiry@paezo.gr if you have specific questions about the changes.
17.3 If you don't agree to those changes (regardless of whether you email us), then unfortunately you must cease using the Paezo services. We're sorry we have to say that, but we hope you'll appreciate that for the Paezo services to work properly, we need to have everyone using them under the same rules instead of different people having different rules. That's why we encourage you to get in contact if you have questions or concerns.