TERMS OF USAGE

Last Updated 18 Jan 2018

Safety and Abuse

Whilst we reserve the right to monitor and take action if any of our Sites are used inappropriately (including the posting of objectionable material on the chat facility or otherwise), we cannot promise that any our Sites won't contain such content or that we will remove / modify any particular content. Nor can we guarantee that users will comply with our terms and conditions or otherwise behave appropriately.

If you are the victim of offensive or inappropriate behaviour or receive any other unwanted communications, you should report all inappropriate behaviour to as well as seeking appropriate external help, for example from parents or law enforcement authorities. If you continue to suffer problems, or are not satisfied, then you must stop using our Websites. Should we evaluate that you are incapable of stopping using out website, your for own well-being, then we will take steps to enforce this.

You agree not to exploit or disrupt the game in any manner, and if discovered, you report any exploitation to a game administrator. Anyone caught cheating in any way will have their Reputation reduced accordingly and ammendments made to their account to the state prior to the cheating.

Users under 18

You must be 13 years or older to create and/or use an account at www.rarebreedgames.com, www.reptilebreedergame.com, www.dogbreedergame.com and www.guineapigdream.com. If you are under 18, you must have permission from your legal guardian or parents to create an account and use our sites in accordance with our Terms of Usage Agreement and Privacy Policy. We may cancel any account if we are not satisfied that such consent has been given.

Players shall use the service in compliance with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations from the jurisdiction where they are accessing our websites.

If we are told by your parent / guardian that you have lied about your age when registering on any of our websites, we will terminate the service provided to any or all your accounts registered on our websites, provided we have information which satisfies us that the reporting person is indeed the parent or guardian.

Game Accounts

The player agrees that he/she is solely responsible for all actions that occur under their account. During registration you are asked to select a password; you may not share that password with anybody or allow anybody to use your password to access any accounts on our websites. You are responsible for the confidentiality of your password and for any loss of access, digital goods, termination of accounts etc. resulting from sharing the password, or not ensuring its confidentiality. Attempting to obtain, or using the password of anyone else is not allowed and may lead to termination of both accounts.

A valid email address must be entered when creating a game account. Said email account must be owned by the respective game account holder. Should a game account be found with an invalid email address, or one that is not owned by the game account holder, then Rare Breed Games reserves the right to suspend, modify or delete that game account.

Account names, descriptions or images uploaded by players (i.e. game avatars) which contain offensive words or portrayals are liable to be removed (or changed at our discretion in the case of unacceptable usernames) at any time, we do not check every username, description or uploaded image that is created, however when they are reported to us we will deal with them accordingly. Please note that it is impossible for us to produce a complete list of inappropriate words, or names and each will be judged on a case-by-case basis and may be deemed inappropriate at our discretion. Private Messages may be reviewed by senior administration on accounts whose activities have been reported to violate the terms as set in this agreement, this extends to investigating any connections/links in an effort to prevent any future hacking/exploitation attempts. All Private Messages remain undisclosed beyond senior administration staff, however may be supplied to legal bodies/law enforcement agencies if required.

Asset Sales, Transfers and Real-Money Trading/Sales

You agree not to transfer ownership, exchange, purchase or sell accounts or digital goods from within Reptile Breeder Game to any other person, game, auction or other trade website both within and outwith ownership of Rare Breed Games for real-world money without explicit permission from Rare Breed Games senior administration.

Multiple Accounts

It is strictly forbidden for any player to create more than one account, this includes behavior between "friend" accounts which are found to be harvesting game money and/or tokens to your account, this extends to the blatant use of additional accounts for storage of digital goods from another game account. If any player is found using multiple accounts which are interacting in this way, all their accounts will be immediately terminated from our site. This policy covers new or temporary accounts created to contact the community while an account exists as suspended/terminated. All termination issues are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

"Family Member" Accounts

These are allowed (on a case-by-case basis) and only when pre-approved by staff and after both users are verified as separate individuals. If there's any suspicion that it is 1 person claiming to be 2 or more we reserve the right to place a permanent ban on any or all suspicious accounts. Activity between family accounts is very limited and strictly enforced.

Rare Breed Games reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify or discontinue the service or modify the terms and conditions of players' access to the service at any time.

You agree to indemnify Rare Breed Games against liability for any use of their account including (but not limited to) reasonable administrative and legal costs. You may terminate your account with us anytime via email (support@rarebreedgames.com).

Complaints

We at Rare Breed Games judge every support help ticket on a case-by-case basis, and just because another player has had a ticket dealt with in one way does not imply that you will be dealt with in exactly the same way. Additionally, in agreement with these terms, you may not publish private communications from any members of staff without express permission from game administration. Violation of this may result in the termination of your service across our websites.

Our Liability

Rare Breed Games makes no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted, secure or error free. This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

You agree that no information obtained from our websites, whether it is oral or written, will create any warranty. You agree not to exploit or disrupt the game in any manner, and if discovered, you report any exploitation to a game administrator. The player also agrees to indemnify Rare Breed Games administration and/or Rare Breed Games moderators of any actions performed by disqualified Rare Breed Games moderator which violates this agreement or any Moderator Terms of Usage agreement outlined within a specific Rare Breed Games game website.

Global Shoutbox and Chat Usage

You agree not to abuse the shoutbox in any way, this includes spamming, "trolling", cussing, or attempting to evade the censor system by typing different characters to replace those otherwise used in the cuss word, this extends into different languages and not just English. The censor system is in place to mask any abusive words from minors. Any disputes regarding in-game or out-of-game issues are to be taken to Private Message. The following HTML is permitted in the global shoutbox: bold tags, italic tags, a href tags. Any further HTML is not permitted. No further usages of programming code is permitted in the global shoutbox. Shoutbox bans will begin for a 24-hour period, depending on the severity of the violation. Severe violations or exploits will result in permanent Shoutbox bans.

Topics of Discussion

Certain topics of discussion are prohibited in the public and game chat channels, instead, those topics of discussion should be taken to Private Message. Prohibited topics include: Dog Fighting, Dog Attacks, Politics, Suicide, Sexual Content.

Donations

Rare Breed Games offers "Tokens", a virtual product which allows players to purchase in-game digital goods and other exclusive features. Tokens are awarded to players when they make a donation via paypal.com. Tokens are the property of Rare Breed Games. Players who make a donation to receive Tokens agree that they will not be refunded for any reason, including being banned from the site. You agree that any PayPal dispute or chargeback initiated against Rare Breed Games will result in the immediate and permanent banning of your account and IP address and any further accounts you create on our websites. In-game purchases paid for with Tokens or Rare Breed Game game currencies are non-refundable. "Freebies" attained via donating certain amounts can take up to 24 hours to be resolved and assigned to your game account.