CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

(Revised 26th Sep 2011)



CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM is a multiplayer online role-playing videogame or "MMORPG" (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) that NGD STUDIOS S.A. and NGD STUDIOS AB (hereinafter NGD STUDIOS) offers to the Internet users, together with other related services available in the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website (www.championsofregnum.com).



The CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM game platform constitutes a virtual net of "client-server" architecture through the Internet, between the personal computer of each one of the users and the NGD STUDIOS servers. In this manner it offers the virtual environment required in order that multiple users share the same game simultaneously. To participate in the game the users must: (a) register and open a user account in the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website (b) download the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM application from the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website, (c) Install the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM client in the personal computer from which they desire to have access to the game, (d) connect using the client and through the Internet with the NGD STUDIOS servers.



However, it is necessary that, with anticipation to the participation in the game or the access to any service or contents of the website, the users read attentively and accept all the dispositions included in these Terms and Conditions.



1.- Acceptance by the users



These Terms and Conditions constitute a License Agreement of Use of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website, and as such constitute a legally binding instrument between the user and NGD STUDIOS. The same covers: (a) the downloading, installation and use of the software application or CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM CLIENT, (b) the connection, access and the use of the multiplayer CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM platform, (c) the access and use of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website, and all the services and contents, present or future, included therein.



WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD AND/OR INSTALL AND/OR USE THE CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM SOFTWARE CLIENT, AS WELL AS WHEN YOU ACCESS, STAY AND USE THE SERVICES AND CONTENTS OFFERED IN THE CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS INCLUDED HEREIN. THE USER THAT DOES NOT ACCEPT, DISAGREES OR DOES NOT FULFILL THE DISPOSITIONS IN THE PRESENT DOCUMENT WILL NOT HAVE THE AUTHORIZATION TO USE CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, NOR TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE SERVICES AND CONTENTS THAT EXIST OR THAT MAY EXIST IN CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, AND MUST ABSTAIN FROM DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING OR USING CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM AND/OR ACCESS TO THE SITE.



In order to access to CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and to certain services and contents existing in the website, user information may be required. Prior to entering any type of information related to your person, you must have knowledge on the dispositions with reference to the treatment of personal data by NGD STUDIOS, included in the Privacy Policy.



NGD STUDIOS may, at any moment and without the need of prior notice, modify these General Terms and Conditions. Said modifications will be operative as from their publication in the platform, the site or any other means of communication of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM.



2.- Minimum required age. Legal capacity of the users.



CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM may only be used by the persons declaring that they are eighteen (18) years of age or older. Those who have not reached said age may only participate with the authorization and with the assistance of their parents, tutors or legal representatives, who will be considered responsible for all acts performed by the minors of which they are in charge.



When the law in force in the territory from which the user should have access determines full capacity at a different age, by general rule it is established that the persons that according to the legislation in force in the place of residence may validly declare their consent for the execution of contracts may use CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM.



3.- User registration



In order to access to CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and to use great part of the offered services and contents, the prior registration of the user is required. The object of said registration is to establish the identity and contact information of the user.



Each time information is required for the registration of a user, it must be reliable, and it will be considered as affidavit. When the supplied information does not comply with the real circumstances of the person that provides it, it will be considered that the user has breached these Terms and Conditions, being responsible for all damages that may derive therefrom for NGD STUDIOS or any third party as consequence of said lack of truth or correctness.



IN CASE THE USER SHOULD STATE A DIFFERENT AGE THAT HIS REAL AGE, AND/OR GIVES FALSE DECLARATION THAT HE/SHE HAS THE REQUIRED PARENTAL AUTHORIZATION FOR THE PARTICIPATION IN CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, IT WILL BE CONSIDERED SERIOUS MISCONDUCT.



Once registered, the user will have a username and access password that will authorize the access to his user account. The participation in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and/or the Site is exclusively personal for each user, therefore said person may only use his/hers username and password, and no other person may use it. The registered user will assume the obligations to keep and custody his/her username and password, and must immediately inform NGD STUDIOS should the same have lost their confidentiality condition, and/or in case it was used by a third party. In case the password should be forgotten or lost, NGD STUDIOS will reserve the right to request real identity verification of the requesting user, as requirement for the generation of a new password.



It will also be the responsibility of each user to keep the personal information stated in the registration updated as may be necessary, and must communicate each time changes in the relation thereto may take place.



NGD STUDIOS may reject any registration request, or cancel a previously accepted registration, without having to justify said decision, and this will not generate any right whatsoever for the user.



In all cases, and in agreement with the Privacy Policy maintained by CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, the personal information supplied by the users will be treated and preserved adequately, protecting the privacy of the users.



Considering that CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM uses technological systems that under certain conditions may be fallible, the users must know that NGD STUDIOS does not guarantee absolute inviolability of its systems, therefore the users must take this circumstance into consideration at the moment of choosing to register.



4.- Notices and communications



To contact NGD STUDIOS, the users may send their communications to: community@ngdstudios.com



Notices and communications from NGD STUDIOS to the e-mail address declared by the user upon registration or the address that may arise from the sender will be considered effective and fully valid. The communications that may consist in notices and messages inserted in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, or which may be forwarded during an offered service with the objective to inform the users or visitors on a determined circumstance, will also be considered effective.



Additionally, NGD STUDIOS offers the users a support system through which they may send claims in the form of "tickets", entering in www.championsofregnum.com/support. NGD Studios will revise each case and try to find a solution to the claim as soon as possible and in the best way, without any fixed compromise with respect to time frames or guarantees of a solution to the claim that has been forwarded. The user will be responsible for the correct upload of his ticket in agreement with the instructions in force in the support system.



5.- Access to the online game platform



5.1. CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM game platform



The users that wish to participate in the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM game must register and open a user account in the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website. Once the conformity of NGD STUDIOS has been obtained, by means of a confirmation e-mail sent to the mail address indicated in the registration, the user might enter CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and open a user session.



The CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software server is executed in one or more remote computers property of and operated by NGD STUDIOS. The user will have no access to CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM except through the client to be downloaded by the user. The client will be available under the terms specified in this agreement.



5.2 CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software client



Once the user has started a session by means of his/her identification with the user name and a password, he/she will have the possibility to download the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software client required in order to participate in the game. The download and use of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM client will be subject to the following guidelines:



a) CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM CLIENT user license.

NGD STUDIOS awards the user a temporary, limited, non transferrable and non exclusive license, which authorizes him/her to download, install and execute the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software client application in any computer for which it has been designed. The user can receive automatic updates from NGD STUDIOS. The updates are also protected by this agreement.



b) Rights and limitations

The user may not modify, decompile or manipulate the software, the communication protocols or the generated and transmitted information in any way whatsoever.



c) Warranty exclusion

NGD STUDIOS expressly waives the offer of any warranty for the software of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM server or the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software client. The software is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, not expressly stated or implicit, without any limitation.

NGD STUDIOS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF EARNINGS, USE OF INFORMATION, REPOSITION COSTS OF GOODS OR EQUIPMENT, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT, FORTUITOUS, MATERIAL OR EMERGING DAMAGES THAT MAY DERIVE FROM THE USE OR INCAPACITY OF USE OF THE CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM SOFTWARE.

The servers and equipment owned by NGD STUDIOS are adequate for the downloading of software and the maintenance of the multiplayer game sessions through the Internet. However, there exist other elements in the net belonging to electronic communications operators that are beyond the control of NGD STUDIOS, that influence on the provided service and, in particular, may have incidence on the possibility to establish a connection between the user and the NGD STUDIOS servers. In this sense, the user assumes and accepts that NGD STUDIOS will have no responsibility whatsoever when the connection may not be established due to causes that may be attributed to the net or to third party elements.



d) Personal use

The commercial use of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software is prohibited. The user may only use the software for his/her own entertainment. The user agrees that he/she is the only responsible for the use of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software through his user name and password.



e) Term and Termination

All licenses determined herein in relationship to the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software client will be in force as from the moment the user has accepted the present Terms and Conditions, and will remain in force until its termination. The user may terminate the awarded licenses in any moment, uninstalling and destroying all client copies of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software. In the supposed case of non compliance with the dispositions determined herein, NGD STUDIOS may revoke all awarded licenses immediately and without any prior notice.



f) Minimum requirements

For the adequate functioning the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software client it is required that the users have equipment with certain software and hardware characteristics:



Windows XP Operating System Service Pack 2 or superior

1 GB of available RAM memory

Athlon X2 Processor or superior (AMD) or Intel Core 2 Duo or superior (Intel)

Internet connection of 256 Kpbs or superior

2GB free space on the hard disk

Video card GeForce3 or superior (Nvidia)/Radeon 9800 or superior (AMD).



The user acknowledges and accepts that the online games and the necessary system specifications for the use of this type of games may evolve in the course of time. In consequence, NGD reserves the right to modify and/or increase the necessary system specifications to play CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM in any moment without prior notice.



The user will be the only responsible for the configuration of the technical requirements that may be needed for the use of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM in his/her personal computer as well as the maintenance thereof.



6. CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM access to the services and contents of the site



6.1 The CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website



The CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website is an Internet site constituted by multiple services, contents and communication resources between users, such as:



Information and news: NGD STUDIOS offers the Internet users different reports and news related to CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM. This news may be generated by NGD STUDIOS, or may correspond to sources outside NGD STUDIOS.



Discussion forums: within the Site the users may have access and participate in forums on different subjects. The users that place a post in any existing forum in the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website must comply with the regulations corresponding to the forums.



Blog: NGD STUDIOS publishes a blog with information and news related to CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM available to the users.



Gallery: the Site has an image and video gallery accessible to the users.



The services and contents offered by NGD STUDIOS are subject to modification, suppression and/or replacement in any moment by NGD STUDIOS. In consequence, the number, type, quality, access conditions and use of the services and/or contents that are offered may vary in the course of time, without requiring any notice whatsoever to the users.



7. Availability of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM game platform and website.



NGD STUDIOS will not be responsible for the damages caused to the user, for the delays, errors or deficiencies in data transmission or during downloading, for the non availability of the platform, as well as faults or interruptions that may be produced in the communication or the alteration, destruction or losses of data the user might experience.



NGD STUDIOS declares that the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM game platform and the website have the required technology for the access and/ or use of the services incorporated therein. However, NGD STUDIOS does not guarantee the user the continuous and permanent access thereto as NGD STUDIOS may interrupt the access to the game and website to modify or technically improve them and/or due to any other circumstance. In consequence, it will not be responsible towards the user for the damage that may be caused as consequence of said interruption or the realization of modifications or technical improvements. In this sense, the acceptance of the present Terms and Conditions by the user implies the acceptance of the non permanent availability of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM game and/or CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website.



8. Free Services and Premium Services



CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM has a great number of contents and services. Many of them are freely accessible to the users; the free accessibility implies that these contents and services are free of charge, and are not subject to the payment of any fee or retribution.



The services and contents of free access coexist with other services and contents of reserved use and access for a certain category of users called "Premium". The users that belong to the "Premium" category have purchased credits in virtual currency called "Ximerin" by means of the procedure described as follows.



8.1 Premium Services Regulations



a) NGD STUDIOS offers determined services or features available on CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and its use is subject to the prior payment of determined charges, ("Premium Services"). These Premium Services may consist, at the discretion of NGD STUDIOS of features for the development of the game in benefit of the user and in determined improvements or updates of the characters with reference to their capacities and/ or equipment, including, but this list is in no way limitative, experience bonuses, health potions, mana potions, repair tools, war shields, armor colorings, hairdos, hair coloring, teletransportation points, and extra characters.



b) The Premium Services offered by NGD STUDIOS may be used or purchased by means of an exchange for credits. The credits within CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM receive the name of XIMERIN, and constitute the Premium currency unit of the game.



c) Each Premium Service has a determined value fixed in XIMERIN. The users may purchase XIMERIN by means of different forms of payment in force made available by NGD STUDIOS listed as follows:



i. PayPal

ii. SMS Messages



Any means of payment incorporated by NGD Studios in the future will be ruled by these regulations. However, these regulations may be modified without prior notice if the specifications of new means of payment should require it or if changes should arise in the present means of payment.



The credit of XIMERIN will be effective once the transaction has been approved by the payment platform used by the User, and said circumstance has been communicated to NGD STUDIOS.



The election of the means of payment is exclusive authority of the User. NGD STUDIOS has no control, knowledge, nor any other kind of interference on the manner in which the operators of the above mentioned means of payment may perform. The User acknowledges and accepts that the use of any of the above mentioned means of payment is by his/her exclusive account and risk, and in all cases must comply with the policies of use, regulations or agreements, under which the User may be committed in relation to the use of said means of payment. NGD STUDIOS will not be responsible for any circumstance related to the activities of the means of payment operators, among others and without constituting any limitation, payment rejections, account closures or limitations, error on the amount of debited charges, errors derived from failures of the systems of the operators, lack of credit of the balances in the account of NGD STUDIOS, etc. Likewise, the User acknowledges that his/ her obligation to pay for the purchased XIMERIN, will not be extinguished until the corresponding funds are positively credited in the NGD STUDIOS account. NGD STUDIOS reserves the right to indicate determined purchase conditions depending on the means of payment used by the User.



d) When the used means of payment offers the possibility to perform the cancellation of a transaction after it has been performed, the User must know that it will be considered abusive and that the cancellation that may take place may constitute crime when the User:



i. Should willfully disregard having requested and purchased the Premium Services, and/or

ii. May have knowingly used the Premium service or functionality in whole or in part, and/ or

iii. Should falsely claim error or confusion, and/or

iv. Should claim the impossibility of use of the service due to circumstances beyond NGD STUDIOS, or of derivations of a fortuitous case or force majeure.



In the above mentioned suppositions NGD STUDIOS reserves the right to file the corresponding legal actions.



e) The prices to be applied to XIMERIN are published in the site www.championsofregnum.com, depending on the selected means of payment, and include the VAT and any other applicable taxes. NGD STUDIOS may modify or eliminate Premium Services or add new Premium Services. The XIMERIN prices as well as the number of XIMERIN necessary to purchase the Premium Services available in the game will be in force as long as they are published in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM. NGD STUDIOS may modify any information related to the Premium Services, including the information related to their own services, prices, inventories and conditions, in any moment and without prior notice, until the moment of receiving a purchase confirmation that will bind NGD STUDIOS, subject to the transaction approval conditions.



f) After the acquisition of XIMERIN the purchased amount will be credited in the account of the User, and he/she will be able to access and purchase different PREMIUM SERVICES by means of the exchange of his/her XIMERIN. Each time a Premium Service is purchased, the corresponding XIMERIN will be deducted from the account of the User, in agreement with the quantity of XIMERIN required for each Premium Service in particular. Once the User that may pretend access to some other Premium Service runs out of XIMERIN he/she must make a new XIMERIN purchase.



g) The CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM XIMERIN may not be reimbursed or exchanged for legal tender money. NGD STUDIOS simply offers XIMERIN as credits that may only be used within CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM in order to access to determined services. The accumulated XIMERIN have no monetary value whatsoever and will be valid as long as the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM account of the User is active. Once a User account is closed for any reason, including the decision by CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, the XIMERIN accumulated therein will expire.



h) The Premium Services form inseparable part of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and their only possible object is the use within the game. For their own nature the Premium Services expire with their use, implying that they cannot be returned.



i) Purchase of XIMERIN by means of Paypal.



The Users that have a PayPal account that allows them to make purchases using the payment services they offer can pay the amount for the number of XIMERIN they wish to purchase by means of this payment system. In that case all incidences related to the use of the services provided by PayPal, such as the processing of payments; the forwarding of payments; commissions; limitations; and conditions of use of the system, will be ruled according to the agreement between the User and Paypal.



j) Purchase of XIMERIN by means of SMS The payment system by means of SMS implemented in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM is offered through the ATLAS Interactive Deutschland GmbH platform, an independent company from NGD STUDIOS.



i. NGD STUDIOS is not responsible for any XIMERIN purchase requested by text messages (SMS) that do not contain the requested data or that contain erroneous data nor for the text messages that do not include the key words determined for the purchase of XIMERIN. Not responsible either for the applications or messages not accepted by the technological platform of the mobile telephone operator, nor for delays of text messages that have been sent, the transmission of the transaction to NGD STUDIOS, or any other sent message related to the purchase of XIMERIN, due to any cause not imputable to NGD STUDIOS, including, but without limitation to: rejection of the transactions, lack of reception of the text messages, delay in the operation or transmission, net connectivity failures, composition errors of the text messages, inadequate or fraudulent manipulation of the mobile phone terminals or telecommunication elements of the users, excess or saturation of traffic in the net, and/or any characteristic of the mobile phones that hinder the transmission of said messages or applications. And, NGD STUDIOS will not be responsible for the failures, delays and/or inconveniences that may be produced in relations to the transference of balances.

ii. The responsibility and obligation of payment for the sending of text messages related to the purchase of XIMERIN will be responsibility of the titular of the mobile number used for that end, who cannot oppose the loss, theft, robbery, if said mobile device should be lost or damaged, except in case of complaint prior to sending or receiving these messages, filed to the mobile phone operator through the customer service centers they may have.

iii. The purchase possibility of XIMERIN in the prepaid mobile phone plans will be conditioned to the existing balance or credit in the line number of the User.

iv. The User acknowledges and accepts that the technical, commercial or economic modifications or variations communicated by the different mobile phone operators, as well as the modification of the regulations that may affect the payment services through SMS, will have immediate application and will not imply any responsibility for NGD STUDIOS.



k) Any fraudulent action related to the accumulation of XIMERIN or their exchange, will result in the loss of the accumulated XIMERIN, as well as the cancellation of the Account of the User at CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM.



l) The purchase of XIMERIN implies the knowledge and acceptance by the Users of all the terms determined in this Regulation and the Terms and Conditions of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM.



9. Responsibilities, rights of management and control over the services and contents.



9.1 Reserved rights



NGD STUDIOS reserves all rights of control and management of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, in particular of the services, contents and communications within. In consequence, it may introduce the changes and modifications it may deem convenient at its sole discretion, it may add, alter, substitute or cancel any one of the services or contents at any moment.



Each user, or depending on the case, the parent or tutor, will be exclusively responsible for the manifestations or actions performed within the frame of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM. However, when NGD STUDIOS receives a complaint that may indicate that a user may have any unjustified limitation of his/ her rights, it will take the required measure to avoid the continuation of said damaging situation immediately after the confirmation of the complaint.



9.2 Exclusion of guarantees and responsibility for the services and contents



The CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM services are offered only as entertainment. NGD STUDIOS does not assume responsibility for any consequence that may result directly or indirectly from any action or lack of action the User may undertake on the basis of the information, the services or other elements that appear in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM. NGD STUDIOS EXCLUDES, WITH THE COMPLETE EXTENSION DETERMINED BY THE JUDICIAL APPLICABLE REGULATIONS, ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DAMAGES OF ANY NATURE THAT MAY BE DUE TO THE TRANSMISSION, DISCLOSURE, STORAGE, AVAILABILITY, RECEPTION, OBTENTION OR ACCESS TO THE SERVICES AND CONTENTS EXISTING IN CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM.



9.3 Responsibilities related to the download of software client:



NGD STUDIOS does not give any guarantee on the software client downloaded from the website. NGD STUDIOS does not guarantee that the files downloaded from the site are free of errors, defects, and/or that the system executes efficiently in combinations of hardware, operative system and software different from the ones pointed out or which the user may select to use; and/or that they are fully functional, and/or that the files do not alter the system.



NGD STUDIOS is not responsible for the losses or damages suffered by the user that may be or are the result of the installation of the files downloaded from the site by the user including the loss or alteration of data.



The User accepts that he/she is the only responsible for: a) the configuration and requirements of the destination systems; b) the selection of the system, the software and hardware; c) the use of the system; d) the damage the use of the files downloaded from NGD STUDIOS may cause to the user or third parties; e) the indemnity of the information systems of the user that may have installed such files.



10. Use of the services and contents offered by CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM



The users must use the services existing in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM in agreement with the dispositions determined in these General Terms and Conditions; with the ones that may arise from the regulations of each service in case it should exist; with the judicial regulations that rule CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and to which they are submitted according to the place, the persons, or the corresponding matter, as a whole; and according to the conduct guidelines imposed by morals and good habits.



10.1 FORBIDDEN USE of services or contents in general



Any use of the services with the object to: contravene the rules and operation mode determined by NGD STUDIOS; harm the rights of third parties; contravene the judicial order and constitute an offensive practice; will be considered as FORBIDEN USE of the services or contents, if there is transgression of the final objective for which they are placed at the disposal of the users.



Any action listed herein will be considered FORBIDDEN USE:

• With the object to hamper the security or normal functioning of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM or any third party information systems. Either by means of the use of traps, automation software (bots), hacks, non-authorized mods or any other third party software destined to modify the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM experience, or the use of any possible code error (bugs), including, without limitation, those that contribute to the prosperity of the user in a manner not anticipated by NGD STUDIOS (exploits).

• Take advantage of errors in the code or system in general and/or the resistance to inform them with the object to attain benefit thereby.

• Exploit the software or any of its parts with commercial objectives, including, without limitation to (a) to obtain the Premium game currency (Ximerin), elements or resources for sale outside the game, or (b) the realization of services in the game, for example, power – leveling, in exchange for a payment outside the game.

• Tends to modify or make others modify the files that form part of the software of the client or the server in any manner not expressly authorized by NGD STUDIOS.

• Facilitate, create or maintain any non authorized connection to CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, including, without limitation (a) any connection to any server that emulates or intends to emulate CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM in a non authorized manner, and (b) any connection using programs or tools that are not expressly authorized by NGD Studios.

• Damages or contribute to the damage of any equipment used to lodge CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM (each one, a "server"), or affect the game experience of any other player.



10.2 CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM communication devices



The CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM communication devices (for example, message board, forums, in-game chat, community areas, clan pages) are services offered to the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM members. When using any of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM communication devices the user accepts that they will be linked to the NGD STUDIOS Privacy Policy, as well as to this agreement. The user understands that everything sent through the NGD STUDIOS communication devices and everything stated therein is under the exclusive responsibility of the persons that send the messages. This means that the user, and not NGD STUDIOS, is entirely responsible for all the information and material that he/she has transmitted. NGD STUDIOS does not control the contents of the messages sent by the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM communication devices and does not guarantee the exactness, integrity and quality of something therein. The user understands that, when using the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM communication devices he/she may be exposed to offensive, indecent or objectable contents. NGD STUDIOS will not be responsible under any circumstances for errors or omissions in the messages sent or for any loss or damages of any kind incurred as result of the use of any information contained in the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM communication devices.



Among others, the following will be considered as FORBIDDEN USE: the presentation, disclosure and reproduction of information, expressions, messages, links to web pages, that:

• Result offensive for the personal rights of individuals, with special reference to the right to honor, dignity, intimacy, not being object of discriminatory treatment, health, image and free expression of ideas; with absolute independence of the legal body where said rights acquire acknowledgement.

• Attempt against minority and childhood rights.

• Infringe intellectual property rights of third parties.

• Have inappropriate contents.

• Transmit the idea of representing any person or institution, including, without limitation, a member of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM team or administrator, guide or host or falsely declare or mislead his/her affiliation with a person or institution.

• Use a CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM communication device in a manner that negatively affects the availability of the resources for the users (for example, the excess of screams [the use of capital letters], flooding, continuous publication of repetitive text or excessively large embedded images;

• Introduce, instigate or promote criminal, illicit, dysfunctional or morally objectable actions, or constitute a violation of the intellectual property rights of third persons.

• Incorporate any form of advertising or commercial objective not allowed by NGD STUDIOS.

• With the object to collect information on third parties in order to send advertising or propaganda of any type or species, without being expressly requested.

• Promote activities or attitudes that are counterproductive for the objective of the game.



10.3 Control measures



Without prejudice of the legal actions filed by NGD STUDIOS or third parties, when the use of the services, performed by a user may be considered FORBIDDEN USE, NGD STUDIOS will take the measures it may consider convenient according to its exclusive criteria, including the suspension or prohibition of the access to the services or contents to those users included in the forbidden use thereof, and without requiring any prior communication whatsoever.



11. Dispositions on Intellectual Property



11.1 Ownership of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM material



As general rule the ownership of all the material existing in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and in the website corresponds to NGD STUDIOS. All titles, intellectual property rights in and for CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and the website and the contents they incorporate (including, without limitation, any title, computer code, themes, objects, characters, names, titles, trademarks, designations, stories, dialogues, phrases, places, concepts, artwork, inventories of the characters, structural or landscaping designs, animations, graphics, scenographies, sounds, musical compositions and audio recordings, visual effects, arguments, aspect of the characters, operation methods, the particular presentation form of these elements, and all related documentation) are property or license of NGD STUDIOS.



As information, it is to be known, that the intellectual property rights of NGD STUDIOS are internationally safeguarded under the protection of the Bern Convention; the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on author rights, and other coincidental dispositions; the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs); that as a compound ensure the international full force of the NGD STUDIOS rights.



11.2 License in favor of the users



The terms of the license with reference to the download, installation and use of the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM software client are specified in point 7.2 of this document. With respect to the contents and services included in the website, the users will have authorization to access and use of these elements, when the objectives of said use are those specifically foreseen in the site and in this document.



NGD STUDIOS reserves all rights on the mentioned material, does not assign or transfer in favor of the users any right on its own intellectual property or the intellectual property belonging to third parties. In consequence, the reproduction, exhibition, distribution and/or modification must be expressly authorized by NGD STUDIOS, which on the contrary, will be considered illegal activity in violation of the intellectual property rights of NGD STUDIOS.



11.3 Licensing of user rights in favor of NGD STUDIOS



The user awards NGD STUDIOS a non exclusive license on the contents, messages, or works he/she may incorporate to the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM website. The intellectual property ownership rights licensed by the user will comprise the use by NGD STUDIOS of the contents in any format or support and by any existing system, procedure or modality, known or not at this time, for the term the user continues being an active user of CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, including the following rights:



a) The disclosure and publication, understanding thereby the right to make the contents or work accessible or placed at disposal of the public for the first time.

b) The public communication, understanding thereby all act that in any support or format and by any system or procedure whatsoever allows that a plurality of persons may have access to the contents fixed on CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, demanding or not the payment of a price, or by means of any other free or conditional access system.

c) The secondary exploitations of any kind and the incorporation of the contents in the works, including those that have mainly advertising objectives.



12. Procedure in case of the realization of allegedly illegal activities



In case any User or the person that may have a legitimate interest should consider there exist facts or circumstances that reveal the illegal character of the use of any contents and/or the realization of any activity in the web pages included in or accessible through CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, and, in particular, of the violation of intellectual or industrial property rights (patents, industrial models and designs, trademarks and commercial names, etc.) or other rights, must send a notice to NGD STUDIOS with the following information:



a) Personal data: name, address, telephone number and e-mail address of the claimant;

b) Specification of the supposed illegal activity performed in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM and, in particular, in case of a supposed violation of the rights, precise and concrete indication of the protected contents as well as their localization;

c) Facts or circumstances that reveal the illegal character of said activity;

d) In the supposed violation of rights, the personal data of the owner of the supposedly infringed rights or of the person authorized to act in the name and on behalf thereof;

e) Express, clear declaration and under responsibility of the claimant that the forwarded information in the notice is exact and the illegal character of the use of the contents or the realization of the above described activities.



13. PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION



For the use of some of the Services, the Users must supply certain required personal data (hereinafter "Personal Data"). NGD STUDIOS will treat Personal Data by means of automatic methods, with the objectives as well as under the conditions defined in the Privacy Policy published by NGD STUDIOS. NGD STUDIOS has adopted the legally required personal data protection safety levels. However, the User must know that the safety measures in the Internet are in no case absolutely perfect.



14. Termination of the service



In principle, the CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM services have indefinite duration.



In any moment the User may cancel his/her registration in CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM, and eliminate his/her user account with all the data associated thereto. NGD STUDIOS will discard all data related to the User, will close his/her profile and eliminate all registration related thereto. However, as there is certain information or material that the User may have shared with other users, it is possible that some determined data and/or material and/or contents contributed by the User are maintained even when the User has cancelled his/her CHAMPIONS OF REGNUM account.



NGD STUDIOS may, however, at its sole discretion, temporarily suspend or definitely deactivate the account of a user, without any prior notice to him/her, and without need to invoke any cause, proceeding in said case to the elimination of all information related to the account.



15. Applicable legislation and jurisdiction



To all legal effects related to the services and contents offered or that may be offered in the site, the legislation in force in the Republic of Argentina will be applicable, and the ordinary justice with jurisdiction in the City of Buenos Aires will be competent.



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