Ars-Regendi - Political online game and economic simulation

GBT

1. Prestigiousness of our GBT The responsible person of Ars Regendi provides the gaming platform and the forum on basis of the following terms. Within the registration, the user accedes these terms by assigning the “I have read, understood and accepted the General Business Terms!” box and clicking “Register”. At all times the GBT are valid in their current version, which can be seen at this page. Each user is responsible for himself to be up to date with the newest GBT. After changing the GBT, the new changes will be accepted by remaining on this page. Alternatively you may apply for deleting your account on your personal start site.

2. General game settings
All names, organizations and institutions are fictitious. No political attitude or operations will be publicized and all decisions are made on dispassionate deliberations.

3. The duty of registration
To be within the ranking system and play one or more countries and be able to interact with our forum a registration is officially required. The registration is complimentary. Everyone who accepts the GBT and the privacy policy of Ars Regendi can register to the game. It is in the duty of our responsible persons to accept, decline, circumscribe or revoke registrations to Ars Regendi. To validate a registration, the user have to fill in a valid email address where he can be contacted any time. Each user is responsible for himself to keep the email address updated. Each person is allowed to have one registration at Ars Regendi, multiple registrations by one person is not allowed. Exceptions are only allowed if the responsible person is giving an explicit permission.

4. Premium user
For premium users it is allowed to manage two countries simultaneous, and gets access to the detailed state summary. Additionally, he is allowed to upload avatars and flags, to found alliances and has extended statistical functions. There are several ways to become a premium user. One way is to recruit friends to Ars Regendi, you can do this with special offered links and banners where your friends can register. After you recruited 5 friends you will get a 1 month premium user membership within one day. The way you advertise for new users is completely in your duty. The user which is recruiting and advertising for his premium membership is beholden to get the authorization from the acceptor (owner of the email address, -site, -chat or -forum). Any charges that may arise due to advertisement of a user, Ars Regendi will not adhere any of these charges. Another possibility to become a premium user is to pay for the premium membership. The charge and taxes for the upgrade to a premium membership can be seen at the “Upgrade” link. The responsible persons of “Ars Regendi” reserves the rights to ban or delete any account without any occasion, this is also valid if the user got a premium membership. If a premium user, who paid for the membership, is banned or deleted he got the right to get a refund for the paid and banned time, up from the month he got banned/deleted. In case this happens you have to send an email to malone @ ars-regendi.com including your Paypal-Account details, your money will return within the following 20 days.

5. VIP-User
As VIP-User it is possible to manage three countries simultaneous. VIP-Users have the same rights like Premium-Users and may additionally do prognoses. To become a VIP-User you either have to pay or do an exceeding work within the organization of Ars Regendi. The charge and taxes for the upgrade to a VIP-User membership can be seen at the “Upgrade” link. The responsible persons of “Ars Regendi” reserves the rights to ban or delete any account without any occasion, this is also valid if the user got a premium membership. If a premium user, who paid for the membership, is banned or deleted he got the right to get a refund for the paid and banned time, up from the month he got banned or deleted. In case this happens you have to send an email to malone @ ars-regendi.com including your Paypal-Account details, your money will return within the following 20 days.

6. Power of revocation
You can, without having to give any reason, withdraw from your contractual agreement within two weeks in written form, for example by letter or eMail. The time limit begins with the receipt of this instruction in written form, but not before the conclusion of the contract. The punctual dispatch of your revocation suffices for the ensuring of the time limit. The revocation has to be addressed to: malone@ars-regendi.com, or postal to Marc Böttenberg, Lanker Straße 36, D-40545 Düsseldorf. Consequences of revocation In case of an effective revocation, both sides have to return acheived services and recommit possible utilizations (for example interests). Duties of the rebate of payments have to be fulfilled in thirty days. The time limit begins for you with the dispatch of the declaration of withdrawal, for us with it's reception. Eminent advice In case of a service, the right of revocation ends before time if your contraction partner has begun with the execution of the service with your assertive acceptance before the end of the time limit or you have caused it by yourself.

7. Data protection
a) Your data will not be passed on to third persons.
b) Required for the registration is just a efficient email address. All other particulars are optional. Your password can't be seen by us.
c) It is neccessary, that you allow Cookies on your computer. You may delete them to any time.
d) You can delete even saved data by closing your account at Ars Regendi.
e) According to German law you can ask for a listing of your saved particulars.
f) There is no right to deletion of articles in the forums.
g) We are using Google Analytics for the anonymous analysis of data. For more information please take a look at the Google Terms of Services.

8. Safety
All users of ars-regendi.com know about the risk that decoded webconnections can be seen and manipulated by unauthorized 3rd persons. To avoid this we insist our users to choose a serious password. The user himself is in charge to take care about local security settings. ”Ars Regendi” will not be responsible if someone unauthorized is trying to gain access to the “Ars Regendi” account of one of our users, if this happens due to a problem in the browser settings and/or any defects in our users system.

9. Access to the website
The usage of Ars Regendi is at one’s own risk. The responsible persons insist that there is no guarantee that Ars Regendi will be available at anytime without any disconnection, safe and failure-free. It is barred to raise a claim against the responsible persons if there is any material or ideational damage through using or non-using the presented information respectively through the usage of incorrect or incomplete information, as soon as there is no criminal intent or carelessness on the part of the responsible person.

10. User generated posts and threads in the forum
Each post or thread in the forum represents the personal view of the editor. Each user have to carry responsibility for legality of created post or thread made within his account. Each user engages to obey the governing law within new created posts or threads. Particularly the user is beholden not to infringe a trademark or copyright, that applies to the avatar and nickname too. It is not allowed to post threads with illegal, calumniatory, abusive and inhuman content as well as posts contains content of Glorifying violence. In no case it is allowed to announce personal information of others regardless its truth. By transmitting the post to the forum, the user gives the irretrievable right to the persons in charge to publish his post or thread. It is precluded to claim for deleting or editing an published article. Within the registration the user entitle the persons in charge to edit, delete or relocate, any articles published by him, within their own discretion. This is also valid for annulling user edited posts. The operator is beholden to mark any articles edited by him. There is no right of appeal. All rights considering articles inside the forum remain to the composer. It is not allowed to publish articles outside the forum without the composers permission. The connection to the forum can be cut by Ars Regendi anytime without any allegation.

11. Severability clause
If a provision of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that shall not affect: 1.the validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other provision of this Agreement; or 2.the validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or any other provision of this Agreement.