Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. Here are a few fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Under Clouds collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Under Clouds’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Under Clouds’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Under Clouds may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Under Clouds also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Under Clouds does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Under Clouds’ websites choose to interact with Under Clouds in ways that require Under Clouds to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Under Clouds gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at UnderClouds.com to provide a username and email address. In each case, Under Clouds collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Under Clouds. Under Clouds does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Under Clouds may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Under Clouds may monitor the usage or results of games on the UnderClouds.com site. Under Clouds may display this information publicly on the UnderClouds.com site, including your forum or character name, game awards, game scores and related information. However, Under Clouds does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Third Party Advertising

Some portions of UnderClouds.com are supported by the means of advertisement. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Under Clouds discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Under Clouds’ behalf or to provide services available at Under Clouds’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Under Clouds’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Under Clouds will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Under Clouds discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Under Clouds believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Under Clouds, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Under Clouds website and have supplied your email address, Under Clouds may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Under Clouds and our products. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Under Clouds takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Under Clouds uses cookies to help Under Clouds identify and track visitors, their usage of Under Clouds website, and their website access preferences. Under Clouds visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Under Clouds’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Under Clouds’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Under Clouds may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Under Clouds’ sole discretion. Under Clouds encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Terms of Use

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the UnderClouds.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, UnderClouds.com Forum ("Forum"), interactive computer games ("Games"), (taken together, the "Website"). The Website is owned and operated by Under Clouds Games ("Under Clouds"). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Under Clouds (collectively, the "Agreement").

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Under Clouds, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

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    Your UnderClouds.com Account. If you create a forum or game account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the account. You must not describe, assign keywords or post material to your account, Forum or Games in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Under Clouds may change or remove any description, keyword or message entry that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Under Clouds liability. You must immediately notify Under Clouds of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. Under Clouds will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

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    Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a game, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, "Content"), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

    • the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
    • if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
    • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
    • the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
    • the Content is not spam, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
    • the Content is not obscene, libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party; and
    • you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Under Clouds or otherwise.

    By submitting Content to Under Clouds for inclusion on your Website, you grant Under Clouds a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying and distributing materials on the Website. If you delete Content, Under Clouds will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

    Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Under Clouds has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Under Clouds' sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Under Clouds's reasonable opinion, violates any Under Clouds policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Under Clouds's sole discretion. Under Clouds will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

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    Responsibility of Website Visitors. Under Clouds has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material's content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Under Clouds does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Under Clouds disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

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    Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which UnderClouds.com links, and that link to UnderClouds.com ("external websites and webpages"). Under Clouds does not have any control over those external websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to an external website or webpage, Under Clouds does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Under Clouds disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of external websites and webpages.

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    Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Under Clouds asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by UnderClouds.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Under Clouds by means of an emailed notice ("Infringement Notice") providing the information below to the email address listed below. Please be advised that you may be held liable for damages based on certain material misrepresentations contained in an Infringement Notice. Thus, if you are not sure content located on or linked-to by the Website infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney. All Infringement Notices should include the following: an electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf; an identification of the copyright claimed to have been infringed; a description of the nature and location of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit Under Clouds to find and positively identify that content; your name, address, telephone number and email address; a statement by you: (a) that you believe in good faith that the use of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, or by the copyright owner or such owner's agent; and (b) under penalty of perjury, that all of the information contained in your Infringement Notice is accurate, and that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf. Infringement Notices should be sent to [email protected]. Under Clouds will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Under Clouds or others, Under Clouds may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, Under Clouds will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Under Clouds.

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    Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Under Clouds to you any Under Clouds or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Under Clouds. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Under Clouds or third-party trademarks.

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    Changes. Under Clouds reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Under Clouds may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

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    Termination. Under Clouds may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your UnderClouds.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

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    Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided "as is". Under Clouds and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Under Clouds nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

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    Limitation of Liability. In no event will Under Clouds, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Under Clouds under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Under Clouds shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

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    General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Under Clouds Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

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    Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Under Clouds, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to out of your violation this Agreement.

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    Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Under Clouds and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Under Clouds, or by the posting by Under Clouds of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of Michigan, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Kent County, Michigan. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. ("JAMS") by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys' fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties' original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Under Clouds may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.