Terms of Service

The following contains the terms of use for the Crederia website (crederia.com). By signing up to the site and participating in its events or by joining its discord you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to the terms listed below.

This terms of service ("Terms") describes what cookies are and how and they're being used by the Crederia.com website ("Website" or "Service") and any of its related products and services (collectively, "Services"). This Policy is a legally binding agreement between you ("User", "you" or "your") and this Website operator ("Operator", "we", "us" or "our").

By accessing the site or Discord, viewing any content, or using any services available on the site, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms. Failure to abide by these terms may result in a warning, a ban from the Crederia group, and/or termination of the account on the Crederia website, depending on the severity of the situation. If you do not agree to the terms listed below please do not use our site or services.

The base framework of the Crederia website is based on the Open Source ARPG framework  Lorekeeper ARPG Masterlist. We do not claim ownership of this framework, nor claim creatorship. All other content found on this website, including artwork, writing, etc. belongs to the Crederia group, unless stated otherwise. Credits for any extensions and Artwork can be found on the Credits page. 

While these Rules extend out of our official Site to anyone interacting with the Crederia species, we can’t fully regulate what happens on third-party sites or servers. We advise to not join any unofficial groups, as those are not moderated nor observed by us. However if you find any suspicious activity outside of our server or site, you may contact us and we’ll try our best to resolve these issues but can’t guarantee to be able to execute proper action.

CONTENT DISPLAYED ON THIS SITE MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

•  Fantasy violence
•  Mild blood
•  Mild suggestive themes
•  Simulated gambling with virtual currency (cannot be purchased for real money)
•  Infrequent use of strong language

By creating an account or accessing the services provided by this website, you agree that you are of the legal age in your local area to view the content listed. You may not make an account if you are under the age of 16.

MEMBERSHIP

User Behaviour

Users are expected to be kind and respectful to other members and staff regardless of the situation or circumstance.  Please avoid sensitive or upsetting topics when interacting in site spaces. 

Participation in our official Discord group is a privilege not a right. Discord participation is also not required in order to obtain or own any Crederian characters nor to enter most events.

Please make sure to read through the site Rules to familiarize yourself with the code of conduct expected for this site. 

• This website and its services may not be used for any unlawful purposes. The posting, sharing, distribution, or promotion of any illegal content is forbidden.
• Distributing, promoting, uploading, submitting, or posting any content that may be disruptive or cause harm to services is not permitted.
• Sensitive or private information regarding yourself or other individuals should not be posted.
• Harassment of other users is prohibited. Abusive, offensive, or threatening language towards individuals or groups, spamming, or directing others to do so is not permitted.
• Heavy gore, pornography, highly suggestive, fetish, and otherwise explicit ("NSFW") content at the disgression of staff is not prohibitted and submissions containing such content will be declined. This includes both written and visual works.
• All restrictions placed on characters, items, and currencies must be followed without exception. Not every character, item, and currency can be traded, sold, or exchanged freely.
• All transactions, trades, and transfers conducted between are done at the user's own risk. Staff is not obligated to reimburse or compensate you in the event that another user does not provide an agreed upon payment or exchange. Any transaction organized between users is the sole responsibility of the users
• Any form of "lending" or "co ownership" (allowing one or more users full, partial, or temporary access to something you own or have earned through this service) regarding characters, items, or currency is done at the user's own risk and is not a transaction supported by Crederia staff. Any cases where an in-game item, currency amount, or character design does not have ownership transferred back to you due to a fraudulent trade is not the responsibility of staff.
• All guidelines stated in the Species TOS must be followed in regards to the trade, use, transfer, and purchase of characters while using this service and otherwise.
• When conducting a sale of a character design for real life currency, that character must be eligible for sale and the sale price cannot exceed the currently listed sale price. These sales themself are not conducted on this service and are not available for, and should not be offered to any users under the age of 18.
• Crederia is not responsible for any user voluntarily providing their personal information to other users. We cannot control or accept responsibility for the way other users may use or manage that data. It is the user's responsibility to be mindful when making any personal information available to another user or to the public through the use of our services.

Website & Species Content

Content may only be submitted to this site if you have ownership, or permission to upload it. Crederia does not lay claim to any user-submitted content and it remains property of its respectful owner.

• By submitting content to this website you agree to allow it to be displayed on the website in accordance to the service provided. 

Age

• Members must be at least 16 years to create an on-site account, and 16 years of age to join the species Discord server or to obtain a character of the group species through official sales and giveaways. Users under the age of 16 are asked not to interact with the species at all and will be banned if found to have created an on site account.

Account

• To create an account you must provide a unique username, email address, and link a valid Deviantart account. The chosen username for your account cannot be anything vulgar, offensive, hateful, obscene, defamatory, or unlawful at the discretion of the Crederia Staff. Usernames that contain such language may be modified or have the account associated with them banned.
• Upon registration, all information provided must be accurate and up to date and must be kept up to date in the event of a change in information.
• You may not impersonate or imply that you are another person or a staff member, accounts that are found to be doing so may be terminated.
• It is the user's responsibility to create a secure password and to keep it a secret from others.
• Users are not permitted to share accounts or make "joint" accounts with each other.
• A single member cannot create more than one account. In the event of a ban, the banned user cannot create or use another account.
• Your account and access to your account is non-transferrable and cannot be given away, traded to, or sold to another user or person for any reason.
• The sale or trade of in-game items for monetary currency, cryptocurrency, barter, or otherwise "real life" items or currency is prohibited. Crederia in-game items cannot be sold or traded for virtual currency, items, or characters from other websites or services. In-game items from Crederia can only be exchanged for other Crederia in game items, Crederia virtual currency, Crederia characters, or Crederia related artworks.
• Discussions of account termination, suspension, or ban are not permitted on the service. All inquiries regarding account status should be done through contact or via note through the Deviantart Group.
• You are the sole party liable for all activity conducted using your account.
• If you at any point suspect there has been a security breach you must contact staff.
• Crederia staff reserves the right to terminate, ban, or suspend any user, for any reason, without notice.
• All items, virtual currency, companions, and rewards are considered a limited license for you to use while your account is open.
• Due to the limitations of this license in the event that your account is terminated or banned the entire inventory and virtual currency bank associated with your account is considered forfeit and you are not liable to receive compensation for any losses.

Site Content

• Any content displayed on this website can be modified, edited, deleted, reclassified, or added to at any time by Crederia staff without notice. Content and services are provided "as is" and "when available" and our services are not guaranteed to be accessible to all users at all times.
• Crederia staff does not monitor the content displayed on or embedded in user profiles but all content displayed must follow this terms of service. Any content displayed or submitted that is found by staff to be offensive, harmful, abusive, defamatory, discriminatory, harassment, unlawful, or a breach of another's privacy may be removed or have the offending user's account terminated. Crederia is not liable for any user-submitted content that is unlawful.
• Crederia users retain ownership over content they submit unless otherwise stated by these terms.
• All content provided on this website or through this website's services belong to Crederia, including test, images, templates, videos, logos, and names unless otherwise stated.
• You must not distribute, copy, modify, exploit, use or make derivative works from any content displayed on or created for this website except as explicitly permitted by Crederia.
• All artwork displayed on this website by Crederia staff is displayed with permission. When submitting any "MYOs", companion designs, character designs, artwork, or writing created by you, you give your content that Crederia staff has the ability to display, crop, edit, resize, or link to the content you submit.
• When submitting content to this website, you warrant that you have permission to use that content and that the use or display of the content will not infringe on the rights of any individual or third party.
• Crederia staff has the ability to allow other user permissions to edit, display, crop, or resize any character design at any time for the purposes of display on this website.
• When a Crederia character design is transferred to another user, only ownership rights are transferred. When you submit a transfer you are consenting to ownership rights being transferred with the design.
• If you close your account or are banned from using our service, we may still display any "MYOs", companion designs, character designs , artwork, and text submitted by you during the time you were using this service.
• In the event that your content has been used, displayed, or plagiarized by a user without your permission please contact staff and we may be able to remove the offending content.

Use of Services

• The exploitation or of any glitches, loopholes, or bugs is not permitted. If a glitch, loophole, or bug is discovered it should not be disclosed to other users and must be reported to staff. Abusing exploits to benefit the player(s) can result in an immediate and indefinite ban.
  The use of any scripts, bots, auto-refreshers, or third party software that is designed to, or used with, the intent to exploit the services or play the game for you is not permitted.
  The use of any third party software or services that generate excessive amounts of connections or have the possibility of damaging the site, damaging site stability, or preventing the use, function, or access of services is not permitted.
  Any account that is found to be submitting or linking to websites displaying or providing harmful or unlawful content will be terminated.
  You must not sell or lend the services or allow a third party to use or access this website or its services without the written consent of Crederia.

Discontinuing of Services

• We reserve the right to discontinue any services on this website or close the website at any time, for any reason, without prior notice. If services are discontinued or the website is closed down permanently or temporarily, you agree to not hold us responsible or liable for any losses or damages that result from the closure. In the event of website closure or removal, you are still bound by these terms.

Ownership

• Owning a Crederia character design requires you to read the Adoptable TOS
  
  
• Owning a Crederia character means that you hold partial rights to that specific character design. You do not hold ownership over the associated species and you do not hold full rights over the character design, even if you designed it.
• Partial rights to a character design means that you hold the ability to do the following:
  
  • Transfer the character to another user, as long as you are in line with the character's current transfer limitations.
  • Use the character on this website and for this website's services.
  • Make edits to the character design by creating new artwork of the design within the design editing guidelines. All edits must be approved by staff before they are considered official.
  • Give the character a name and backstory, as long as it is in line with the Terms of Service and character creation guidelines.
  • Display the original artwork and any artwork depicting the character on this website or in an offsite online gallery if credits to the artist(s) and designer(s) are included.
  • Create new artwork or writing for the character as long as it is in line with the terms of service.
  • Commission another artist to create artwork or writing for the character design.
  • Create "alternate" unofficial character designs based from the character design that are not related to Crederia or its species. (Alternate refers to "AU" or "alternate universe", meaning a different form of the character not supported by Crederia) All alternate designs are considered likenesses to the original and cannot be transferred separately.
    
    
• By owning a Crederia character you are agreeing that you will not do the following:
  
  • Attempt to sell a character design for real life currency to anyone under the age of 16
  • Attempt to sell or transfer a character design to multiple different users at one time.
  • Attempt to voucher (indirectly sell) a character design that you did not purchase yourself.
  • Trade or exchange a character to another user if it is not able to be traded.
  • Claiming any artwork or designs as your creation if they were not created by you, or otherwise miss-crediting a design or piece of artwork.
  • Create copies or reproductions of the design or its likeness to be transferred to other users.
  • Use the character design for commercial purposes.
  • Mass producing any type of merchandise depicting the character design, reproductions of the character design, or artwork of the character design.
  • Using a character design for commercial purposes that are not specifically allowed by this terms of service. If you are unsure if use of a character is considered commercial, please contact staff.
  • Use the character design in any way that could be harmful, offensive, obscene, defamatory, or unlawful.
• All allowed rights to a character design transfer with the character. Any individual trade, resale, or edit restrictions placed on a character by anyone other than staff are not officially supported or enforced by Crederia and do not have to be followed by the owner of that character.
• The original creator of any character design, artwork, or text has the right to display the content they have created depicting that character design, artwork, or text in their online gallery or portfolio even if they do not hold ownership over the character.
• A user cannot revoke or void any Crederia character designs they have created, submitted, or previously owned if that design has been transferred to another user. Transfers are done at your own risk, and transfer reversals are done at the discretion of staff and we are not required to transfer a character design to you in the event of a fraudulent trade or transaction.
• Voiding a character design that you currently own must be done with the explicit permission of the original creator of the design. Please contact staff to void a design. Staff is not required to honor any requests to void a character design.
  In the event of a chargeback on payment for a character design towards any member of staff, we reserve the right to revoke ownership of the character design and regain our original ownership.
• Failure to abide by ownership terms may have certain rights or all allowed rights to a character revoked from the current owner without prior notice. We will review these on a case-by-case basis.
  If a user is banned, they will still retain their ownership rights to any Crederia characters they currently own unless those rights have been revoked.

LINKS

• Crederia staff has not reviewed all links present on the site and holds no responsibility for what content linked websites may contain. We do not endorse any content present on websites linked through our service and use of these links is done at the user's own risk.

PURCHASES AND SALES

• You agree that you are fully responsible and liable for any fees, damages, claims, and losses that result from making purchases from, or selling to, other users found through this website and our community. And you agree that you will not hold Crederia or its staff accountable for any fraudulent trades or sales, and that we are not required to aid you in your dispute.
• By making purchases of or the sales of character designs for real life currency, you agree that yourself and the party you are conducting purchases or sales with are both 16 years or older. Any individual under the age of 18 must provide proof of parental or guardian consent to use services such as PayPal.
• Crederia makes use of virtual currencies ("Coins", "Odd Tokens"). These currencies cannot be purchased or sold for real life currency. Crederia virtual currency is only for use on this website to purchase virtual Crederia items or to be exchanged to other users for Crederia items or Cridders. Coins may not be exchanged for artwork (commissions) at this time. Crederia virtual currency cannot be exchanged for any goods or services unrelated to the Crederia website.
• All transactions made with or to obtain virtual currency, items, or characters when going through our virtual shops are final and non-refundable. Staff is not required to reimburse or compensate you in the event of an incorrect or false purchase. Please contact staff if there are any issues with shops or purchases.

COPYRIGHT

• We hold copyright to all contents and elements of our website and services unless otherwise stated.
• We hold copyright over our species and when you create any content involving our species or IPs you are bound by our ownership terms. We do not claim copyright of user created content.
• By creating a Crederia character design you are giving us permission to display it on this website.
• By submitting content to this website you are giving us permission to display or provide public links to the content
• You have the ability to "void" (essentially request that we remove) any design you have created if you currently hold ownership over the design. We cannot void a design that you did not create and do not currently own.
• Crederia is not required to remove, rework, or void any content created by staff or former staff that was submitted to us with the intent of being used as part of the website or services.
• Crederia holds copyright of any of our images, templates, videos, text, logos, NPCs, and visual assets depicted in derivative works.
• Crederia and its staff are not required to display credit to a user for any user-submitted suggestions.

DISPUTES

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  You agree to indemnify, save, and hold harmless Crederia and its staff from any claims, losses, damages, liabilities, attorneys' fees and legal expenses, arising out of your use or misuse of Crederia, any content you post or submit, violation of these Terms, violation of the rights of another third party or entity, or any breach of the representations, warranties, and covenants made by you herein. Crederia reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify Crederia and you agree to cooperate with Crederia' defense of these claims.
  
  
• You acknowledge that Crederia has no control over, does not endorse, and has no duty to take any action regarding: which users gain access to Crederia or its services, what materials you access via Crederia, what effects such materials may have on you, how you interpret or use such materials, or what actions you take as a result of having been exposed to such materials. Crederia may contain links to websites containing content that some people may find inappropriate, harmful, or offensive. You release Crederia from all liability for you having acquired or accessed such materials through this website.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT BY APPLICABLE LAW:

•  Crederia and services provided through Crederia are provided “as-is'' and “as available” without warranties of any kind either implied or expressed. Crederia does not represent or warrant that all content or material on Crederia are complete, error-free, reliable, accurate, or current . You understand and agree that you obtain, view, access, or download any material or data through the use of Crederia at your own risk and that you will be solely responsible for any loss or damages that results from the download of such material or data. You assume the entire cost of any necessary servicing, repair, or correction.

Updates

• Crederia reserves the right to update these terms of service at any time. Updates to the terms of service may be noted in the news section of the site. By using our website or services you are agreeing to be bound by the current terms of service

Please see the top of this page for when this terms of service has last been edited.