Misticpets.com - Virtual Pets

Terms and Conditions of Service (Including a Privacy Policy)

I. Introduction

Welcome to Misticpets. We here at Misticpets strive to maintain a safe, free and entertaining site for our users. You are a guest in our Misticpet community and we ask that you treat our other guests and staff with courtesy and respect. Before creating an account and using Misticpets, you must fully accept all of our rules, terms and conditions. This agreement may be altered from time to time as seen fit by Misticpets and any such changes, alterations and edits shall be binding retroactively. No matter when and how the agreement is altered it is still to be followed by you under every condition. Terms and Conditions may be altered, changed or edited at anytime without warning. It is your responsibility to keep track of any changes whether we give any notice or not.

Misticpets includes any web site we maintain related to Misticpets, including but not limited to:

Misticpets.com
Misticpets.net
Misticpets.org
Misticpets.info
Misticpets.biz
Misticpetshelp.com

II. Requirements to use Misticpets

When signing up to Misticpets you are given the option to accept the terms and conditions. You may not sign up or use any aspect of the site, Misticpets, unless you fully agree to these terms and conditions. This means that if you are under the age of 18, then your parents and/or guardians also need to have read and agreed to your accepting these terms and conditions. By using this site, you and your parents and/or guardians are deemed to have accepted same.

As an additional protection, if you are under the age of 13, when you are allowed to sign up, you will be restricted to all user input areas until you parents/guardians have sent in a written parental permission form stating you have there permission to access Misticpets. During the registration process there is a check box to determine if you are under or over 13. If you falsely answer this question, then you and your parents are deemed to hold Misticpets at no fault or liability for your use of the site and any information given out.

Permission forms may be accessed on the Impulse Communications Inc. website.

The address to send all permission forms is:

Impulse Communications, Inc.
14525 SW Millikan #56742
Beaverton, OREGON 97005-2343

III. Number of Accounts

Each user on Misticpets is allowed ONE and only ONE account. You may not share your account with anyone else. You may not allow anyone else to use your account for any reason. You are also not allowed to ever transfer your account to someone else. If you have more than one account, then some or all of them may be deleted by staff. The only time someone else might be allowed on an account, even among family members, would be the situation where a young child needs help to play the site.

IV. Basic Rules to use Misticpets
Misticpets welcomes users of all ages and from all over the world. Because of this, we expect all our users in the Misticpets community to treat each other with courtesy and respect and to always keep in mind that young children use the site. This includes, but is not limited to, all user content, user names, words, pet names, shop names, forums, mistic mail, images, links and artwork. Please let a moderator know if you ever see something mean or nasty on the site. Also, let them know if anyone asks you for personal information about yourself such as your real name and address. Cheating is not allowed. Remember; keep your password to yourself. Misticpets staff will NEVER ask you for your password. The following rules apply to every page of Misticpets and Misticpetshelp. If you violate any of the following rules, Misticpets may suspend you, ban you or permanently freeze your account.

DO NOT give your PASSWORD out to anyone, Misticpets staff will NEVER ask for it!
No profanity, swearing, flaming, insulting users or obscene gestures.
No sexual content, sexual images, sexual gestures.
No attacks on or harassment of staff, users, affiliates or associates.
No slanderous, pornographic, threatening or harassing suggestions, comments and/or images.
No pet names or user names that could be considered inappropriate .
No Cheat programs, auto-buying programs, attempts to scam a user in any fashion are allowed.
No flirting, romance or dating for yourself, your pets or your role-playing and/or writing.
DO NOT post any personal information that could be used to identify you or find out other personal identity information.
DO NOT post links to commercial sites or any competing sites. Fan sites of Misticpets are fine.
DO NOT post materials created by another person without their permission.
Pets cannot be sold or traded for items, real cash or Mistic Cash.. Also, items and mistic cash cannot be sold for real cash. No ads for selling any property of Misticpets, including currency, items, pets or images.
Contests that require someone to buy something or pay something to register are not allowed.
No SPAMMING anywhere. SPAM is a useless post, posts consisting of two or less words, posts that include chatspeak, posts that are totally off topic or include excessive smilies, chain letters, etc.
Only ONE account is allowed per user and per email address.
DO NOT attempt to bypass suspension/banning in any way. You will forfeit your right to play Misticpets.
DO NOT cheat. This includes use of cheat or third-party programs or codes in order to win at, or gain points or some advantage from, any Misticpets game or activity. (This includes the browser auto-refresher) You cannot hold us responsible for site down time, site hacking, or damages to your account and anything contained therein. You cannot hold us responsible for damage to your computer or charges resulting from your accessing the site.
DO NOT purchase an item from a shop by any means other than clicking and buying. Entering the ID into the URL or refreshing a page with the item ID in the URL is prohibited and will result in your account being banned. Misticpets reserves the right to deem anything, in its sole discretion, as inappropriate for the site.

V. Staff

Staff for Misticpets consists of independent contractors, who receive monetary compensation based on invoices for work performed, and volunteers, who do not receive monetary compensation. Neither group is considered employees of Misticpets.

VI. Copyright and Trademarks

All content, images, graphics, scripts, writings and conceptual ideas are all fully copyrighted to Impulse Communications Inc. The copying, alteration, re-use and re-distribution of any such matter is strictly prohibited and will be enforced by the fullest extent of the law.

VII. Limited Privilege to User Use

We here at Misticpets allow access to Misticpets on an "AS IS" basis and provide it at a FREE service to users.

We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny use of our website and all of it's content to anyone at anytime for any reason. It is a privilege to use and/or otherwise view this site and its contents and as such, these temporary rights may be suspended or revoked either for a period of time or forever as we see fit.

VIII. Modification of Misticpets.

We hold the right to modify update and edit Misticpets in any way we wish. We reserve the right to alter any content whether it is Misticpets added content or User added content. Any and all images, writings, art, or ideas you submit to Misticpets becomes the property of Misticpets to use as Misticpets wishes and you forfeit all rights to it. If you are under age 18, please remember to check with your parents before sending or posting anything. By sending it you have agreed to the above paragraph.

IX.. Illegal Acts

If it's illegal in the REAL world then it's illegal on Misticpets and Misticpets will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest on investigations and help with broken laws.

X. Users linking to other sites

No linking to commercial sites or competitive sites are allowed. Fan sites and non-commercial sites are allowed unless they hold the purpose to steal information from users or hack accounts. Then they are strictly prohibited.

XI. Privacy Policy

We here at Misticpets strive to provide a safe and clean entertainment source for users to enjoy. This is one reason we will never disclose your registration information with anyone. Cookies are used to collect this information. We only collect the necessary information in order for you to have an account, such as :

- Username: used to access Misticpets.
- Password: used to access Misticpets (This is encrypted so even Misticpets staff don't know it)
- Email Address: Used for password retrieval and important user based emails.
- Date of Birth: Used to help determine age of being under or over the age of 13.

Misticpets attempts to keep their security up-to-date and to keep all your information very secure. Information will only be disclosed by Misticpets if required to by law.

XII. Contact Us

If at anytime you don't understand something, have a question or need help with anything please use the provided Contact Us link on the footer

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