From d9d40cd02c420aa453f6e93ab3a96f96a2462869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Caaaaarrrrlll
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:44:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Revise terms of service for the site
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src/templates/Legal.phtml | 37 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/templates/Legal.phtml b/src/templates/Legal.phtml
index fd689670..6acd08af 100644
--- a/src/templates/Legal.phtml
+++ b/src/templates/Legal.phtml
@@ -21,38 +21,37 @@ Battle.net™, Starcraft™, Warcraft™, and Diablo™ are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., in the U.S.
and/or other countries.
- By using this website, you understand and/or agree to the following:
-
- - BNETDocs is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment or its brands, and is not intended to compete with or undermine Blizzard or Battle.net™.
+ By using this website, you understand and agree to the following:
+
+ - This website ("BNETDocs", "the site") is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment (a.k.a. "Blizzard") or its brands, and is not intended to compete with or undermine Blizzard or Battle.net™.
- All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
- - The information provided at this website ("content") is collected knowledge from years of observations from multiple sources and may be inherently inaccurate or incomplete.
+ - The information available from this site, including comments, documents, news posts, packets, and server lists, are collected knowledge in some cases from years of observations from multiple sources and may be inherently inaccurate or incomplete. This site is not an authoritative source, however it is maintained by community members to the best of their ability.
- BNETDocs does not guarantee the safety or validity of its content.
- BNETDocs disowns any and all responsibility and liability of its users' actions, performances, wrongdoing, or other matter executed by its users, including but not limited to:
-
- - knowingly or unknowingly violating any of Blizzard's Terms of Services,
- - monetary gains from or losses to Blizzard's brands,
- - or monetary gains from or losses to BNETDocs' users' brands.
+
+ - knowingly or unknowingly violating any of Blizzard's Terms of Services or the Battle.net Terms of Service,
+ - monetary gains from or losses to Blizzard's brands, or monetary gains from or losses to BNETDocs' users' brands.
- - By registering an account at BNETDocs, the account is the sole relationship between BNETDocs and its user. No relationship exists outside of the account.
- - Account data stored with BNETDocs is privately secured and encrypted, hashed, or masked where possible.
- - Content made available to the general public via BNETDocs is owned by the general public and may be modified by registering an account with BNETDocs.
- - Accounts associated with content at BNETDocs are considered the author or owner of that content, with the knowledge that their content can be modified by other accounts.
- - Authors or owners of content do not have extra rights to that content.
- - Accounts may be disassociated from content in the event that an error in judgment or processing was found. In such an event, the content may be reassociated to the correct account.
+ - Users may be allowed to register accounts on BNETDocs. When a user registers an account, they must agree to our privacy notice. The account becomes the relationship between BNETDocs and its user. The user is expected to remain logged in to the account during subsequent visits. "Guest" or "Anonymous" users of the site are unable to perform certain actions, having an account may give certain privileges to perform certain actions. Any privileges may be added or removed at will without notice to the account.
- BNETDocs reserves the right to deny anyone an account for any reason, including but not limited to:
-
+
- if the user has shown attempts to harm or disrupt service,
- if the user already has an account,
- or if the identity of the user cannot be verified.
+ - Account data stored with BNETDocs is privately secured and encrypted, hashed, or masked where possible. For more info, review our privacy notice.
+ - The information ("content") made available from this site is considered owned by the general public and may be modified by registering an account with BNETDocs and receiving editor privileges.
+ - Accounts associated with content at BNETDocs are considered the author or owner of that content, with the knowledge that their content can be modified by other accounts.
+ - Authors or owners of content do not have extra rights to that content.
+ - Accounts may be disassociated from content in the event that an error in judgment or processing was found. In such an event, the content may be reassociated to the correct account.
- If an account is banned from BNETDocs or otherwise is removed, all content authored or owned by the account may become disassociated depending on severity and outcome of the actions taken.
- Accounts may be granted additional privileges to manage other accounts on behalf of BNETDocs. Any account with these kinds of privileges is and will be labelled staff accounts.
- Accounts do not have the authority to add, modify, or remove content until those privileges have been assigned by a staff account.
- Accounts with the privileges to add, modify, or remove content are and will be labelled editor accounts. Editor accounts, or just simply "editors", may be referred to as maintainers of BNETDocs.
- Staff accounts have the authority to act on behalf of BNETDocs and speak officially, including but not limited to:
-
+
- the ability to add, modify, or remove BNETDocs news posts,
- the ability to add, modify, or disable accounts,
- and the ability to add, modify, or remove all other content.
@@ -62,10 +61,10 @@ and/or other countries.
- BNETDocs news posts are considered press articles and all content used within a news post or otherwise news article is considered governed under the United States first amendment and fair use rights.
- A "Donation" as defined further in this document is a transaction of sending currency to BNETDocs.
- Donations to BNETDocs are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
- - Donation's purpose is to pay for hosting of this website and all associated costs, and to further the development of open-source software (OSS).
+ - Donation's purpose is to pay for hosting of this site and all associated costs, and to further the development of open-source software (OSS).
- Donations are not acceptable as payment for goods, products, or merchant items.
- - In absolutely no scenario will a donation be used to willfully violate Blizzard Entertainment's Terms of Service or Battle.net™'s Terms of Service.
- - All questions and concerns related to material on this website or other matter should be communicated to =filter_var($email_mailbox, FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS)?>
=filter_var($email_domain, FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS)?>, it will reach the appropriate person. Responses to this communication medium are not guaranteed due to the volume of emails that may be received.
+ - In absolutely no scenario will a donation be used to willfully violate Blizzard Entertainment's Terms of Service or the Battle.net™ Terms of Service.
+ - All questions and concerns related to material on this site or other matter should be communicated to =filter_var($email_mailbox, FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS)?>
=filter_var($email_domain, FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS)?>, it will reach the appropriate person. Responses via this communication method are not guaranteed.
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