ACCEPTANCE:
Please read these terms and conditions of use carefully before playing Horse Isle. By checking the box 'I ACCEPT' while creating an account, you signify your agreement to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, Do Not check the box and Do Not set up an account to play Horse Isle. These terms and conditions also apply to an account that has already been setup. Please read them carefully. By playing Horse Isle, you signify your agreement to these terms of use, which constitutes a binding legal agreement. If you do not agree to these terms of use, close your Horse Isle account immediately.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms on the Horse Isle website periodically for changes. Your continued use of Horse Isle following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
RULE FOLLOWING:
The Horse Isle game is a Web Browser Based Flash Game where players may play with virtual horses and interact with real players in a virtual world. To make it enjoyable for all, we do not allow players to harass others, use rude, obscene or obnoxious language, or in any way degrade the enjoyment of the game for others. All of the posted Horse Isle Rules must be followed. Players that do not follow these rules may be permanently terminated from the game without refund.
If you are under 18 years old, you should have parental permission to play. If you are under 13 you MUST have parental permission to play. By playing Horse Isle, you represent that you have permission from your parents or legal guardian to use our website and games. We reserve the right to terminate any account if we are not satisfied that such permission has been given.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users. Horse Isle reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
You must not choose a username that is in any way inappropriate. We reserve the right to make such assessment in our sole discretion and terminate the account or take such other action as we believe appropriate. You agree to keep your password safe at all times and not to disclose it to any other person. You are responsible for the activities of all persons who use your password to gain access to your account.
If we ever discover any sign of predator behavior we will pass it along to the proper authorities with as much identifiable information that we may have. Including player's username, password, email, IP address, chat logs, payment information, etc. We put online safety above the privacy of an individual. NEVER make any attempt to find out where another player lives or any personally identifiable information.
All chats, including private chats, messages and descriptions (player, horse or ranch) may be monitored by Horse Isle staff and moderators. Please see our privacy statement. Any areas of Horse Isle that have any user created content (chats, descriptions, etc) do not reflect the views of Horse Isle or its staff.
GAMEPLAY:
We may change the Gameplay at any time, including, but not limited to the amount of game money, or items, a player receives from mini-games or quests and the number of horses a player may have. In addition we may even have to reset everyones items/stats/horses sometime. If a server becomes too busy we may add more servers, these will be separate virtual 'worlds'. At our discretion we may have to move players to a different server. If players do not agree with these terms of service they should stop playing the game and using the website.
Horse Isle Staff and Moderators reserve the right to modify a player's Gameplay if the player has violated Game rules at our discretion. This includes, temporarily kicking a player off of a server, temporarily blocking a player's ability to chat, removing a player's items/objects/horses/money, or permanently blocking a player from future access to the game.
Horse Isle servers may also limit the total average time allowed online as a precaution against extreme overusage and the detrimental health and general effects this can have.
COPYRIGHTS:
Materials (including without limit all information, software, data, text, photographs, graphics, sound and video) placed on this website and in game by us or on our behalf are protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights of Durbin Development Inc./Horse Isle. You may not use these materials or this website except to play Horse Isle in accordance with these terms and conditions.
You agree that your Horse Isle character, account, items and horses are and will remain our property, and may be changed, modified, deleted at our discretion. By posting chat or other materials on this website, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty free worldwide license to use and/or modify such materials on this website as we see fit.
It is the player's responsibility to make sure they have the right to use any referenced or uploaded information. You agree that by submitting any material of any kind to us for any purpose connected with Horse Isle (non-exhaustive examples are suggestions and ideas for Horse Isle), you are giving us a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and/or modify the submitted materials as we see fit. You agree that you will not withdraw the submission or attempt to make a charge for its use. Furthermore you guarantee that you are the exclusive copyright holder in relation to the submission and that the submission in no way breaches the rights of any other person or entity.
You must not reverse-engineer, decompile or modify the Horse Isle client software in any way. You must not use a modified/customised version of the client software. You must not create or provide any other means by which Horse Isle may be played by others (including, without limitation, replacement or modified client/server software, server emulators).
AVAILABILITY:
Access to servers may also be limited if they are overloaded. At our discretion we disallow access when the servers are 'full'. Priority access will be provided to subscribed members over those with free accounts when the servers are nearing capacity. Access to the site and game may be limited for technical reasons scheduled or unscheduled. While we will do our best to provide access to your accounts, this is not guaranteed, and we will not be responsible for any loss of paid membership time etc. At our discretion we may extend player's subscription time equivalent to that of the service outage if it was within our control.
MEMBERSHIPS/ACCOUNTS:
Unsubscribed players may have their access limited to the site and some game features. Fees and privileges may be changed at any time without notice. There are no refunds for ANY Horse Isle membership fees. There are no 'holds' offered for membership terms.
We will remove old accounts from our system as we see fit. Unsubscribed members that have not accessed their accounts within 60 days may have their account deleted. You can delete your account at any time(by providing ample proof of ownership), however there are no refunds for payments already made (wholly or partly) and you will lose the remaining subscription time. Instead you may use up any time left on the account that is paid and just not pay to renew services. Horse Isle does not ever bill for services, all payments are prepaid, initiated by account holder. All payments must be from your own funds with parental consent.
If, acting reasonably, we consider that our terms and conditions have or may have been breached, or that it is necessary in order to prevent or stop any harm or damage to us, Horse Isle, other players or the general public or to minimize our liability to others, we reserve the right with or without prior notice to (amongst other things): to Terminate the account or modify any or all accounts of Horse Isle which we think are connected with you and/or otherwise block your access to our websites and services and take such other steps as we consider reasonable. Such actions may result in loss of membership credit without refund.
DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE MATERIALS IN HORSE ISLE ARE PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS ON ANY HORSE ISLE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY HORSE ISLE SITE OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE SUCH MATERIALS AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS ON ANY HORSE ISLE SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES THAT THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT YOUR OR ANY OTHER PERSON'S USE OF THE COMPUTER(S) ON WHICH THE SOFTWARE IS ACCESSED FROM. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY HORSE ISLE STAFF OR REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO CERTAIN OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER LEGAL RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.
Horse Isle operates and controls the site from its offices in the United States of America. Horse Isle makes no representation that the site is appropriate or available in other locations. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. Software from this site is subject to United States export controls. Thus, no software from this site may be downloaded, exported or re-exported (a) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods; or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading any software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of, any such country or or on any such list.
