Last revised: July 1st, 2013
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WELCOME TO UBISOFT SERVICES.
PLEASE READ THESE GENERAL TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY
1.1 These general terms of use (the “Terms”) govern your use of the online games and services, including the online functions of multimedia products, the websites, servers, software and the framework through which these items are provided (collectively the “Services”) currently provided or which will be provided by UBISOFT SAS (hereinafter collectively referred to as “UBISOFT” or “We”).
1.2 You should read these Terms carefully as they set out the basis on which we make the Services available. As a user (“User”), your use of any or all of the Services and Content (as defined in Article 1.3 below), indicate that you accept the Terms and/or other terms (including without limitation “game rules”) and that you agree to comply with them fully. If you do not agree to the Terms, please do not continue to use our Services.
1.3 Content includes all text, graphics, music or sounds, all messages or items of information, fictional characters, names, themes, objects, scenery, costumes, effects, dialogues, slogans, places, characters, diagrams, concepts, choreographies, videos, audio-visual effects, domain names and any other elements which are part of the Services, individually or in combination, together with all related Intellectual Property Rights in the above, (collectively, the “Content”).
For the avoidance of doubt, Content includes:
a) content created by other Users;
b) Additional Content; and
c) Test Contents (as defined in Article 12 below).
1.4 UBISOFT’s Privacy Policy can be found on the Service website and is an integral part of these Terms. Please read it carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
1.5 UBISOFT reserves the right to change, modify, add or delete Articles in these Terms at any time, in accordance with the procedures described below in Article 17.
a) Access to and use of certain additional functions and/or benefits of the Services are subject to the creation of an account with UBISOFT (an “Account”).
b) To create an Account, you must supply accurate complete and up-to-date information. You must be authorised to use the Services for which you register, and in particular meet the age criteria.
c) Certain Services may require the creation of a username or an avatar and they will be linked to your Account and publicly displayed. We therefore advise you not to include your surname in your username.
d) You may not:
(i) select or use a username or an avatar which is already used by someone else or associated with another Account; or
(ii) select or use a username or avatar which does not meet the requirements of these Terms, in particular the rules of conduct set out in Article 3.2 and the Content standards set out in Article 3.3.
(iii) create multiple accounts, except if this is specifically allowed with the Service by UBISOFT. In such case, you acknowledge that you will close your additional Account upon UBISOFT’s request.
UBISOFT advises you not to include your surname in your User name.
e) If you choose, or you are provided with, a username, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We will never ask you to reveal your password and will never initiate contact with you to ask you for the memory joggers associated with your password. Any use, in particular any purchase of Services, using your Account with your password will be deemed to be carried out by you. We have the right to disable any username or password if in our sole opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.
a) You agree to supply and keep the personal information relating to your Account accurate, complete and up-to-date (including in the event of a transfer of data from a pre-existing Account).
b) You shall not claim to be any other person or entity and shall not represent your identity or an affiliation with any other person or entity in an inaccurate way, including by using the username, password or any other information relating to someone else’s Account or the name, likeness, voice, image or photograph of another person or by providing false information concerning a parent or legal guardian when the registration process asks you to give this information.
c) We may take action to check the accuracy of the information you give, including by checking landline or mobile telephone numbers and/or e-mail address you have given for you or a parent or legal guardian when applicable. In order to protect minors, other Users and prevent risks of fraud, you agree to send the necessary authorisations and supporting documents to UBISOFT on request by e-mail, fax or post. The documents requested may include a copy of your national identity card or your passport.
d) You also agree to inform UBISOFT as quickly as possible at http://support.owlient.eu of any unauthorised use of your username, password or other information concerning your Account or of any other security violation concerning or involving the Services which comes to your attention.
a) You must be authorised to use the Services for which you register in accordance with these Terms or any other terms applicable to such a Service.
b) The Services are intended for personal use only and you must in no event use them in any way for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us and/or our licensors.
c) You shall not, directly or indirectly:
(i) sell, rent out or market the Content;
(ii) arrange, modify, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, translate, adapt, reproduce, distribute, disseminate, re-post or transfer any element of the Content;
(iii) automate or use on a large-volume the Content;
(iv) transfer any Content between any computers or mobile devices except as involved in ordinary use of the Services.
d) Where available as part of the Services, you are authorised by UBISOFT to download the Content in question to your computer(s) or mobile device(s) and to print the pages, when applicable, provided that you:
(i) keep intact all copyright and trademark indications and other authorship and origin information;
(ii) do not copy (except for copying involved in ordinary use of the Services; and the creation of a single copy for backup requirements) or distribute the Content, or copies or derivative documents based wholly or partially on the Content; and
(iii) do not use the Content in a manner which would suggest an association with one of UBISOFT’s products, services and/or brand names.
e) If you print, copy or download any part of our Services in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Services will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
f) You are solely responsible for any damage caused to UBISOFT, its partners, other Users of the games and Services or any other individual or legal entity as a result of use of all or part of the Services in violation of the law or of your obligations as set out in these Terms.
You warrant that you shall comply with our rules of conduct set out in this Article 3.2.
a) You may only use the Services for lawful purposes and according to anticipated use of the Services.
b) You may not:
(i) use the Services in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
(ii) use any element of the Services or Content which would infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of others and/or of UBISOFT;
(iii) create, use, share and/or publish by any means (forum, public profile or other means) in relation to the Services any material (text, words, images, sounds, videos, etc.) which would breach of a duty of confidentiality, infringe an individual’s right to privacy or which would incite the committing of an unlawful act (in particular, piracy, cracking or circulation of counterfeit software);
(iv) access or aim to access parts of the Services whose use has not been authorised by UBISOFT;
(v) arrange, modify, translate, adapt, reproduce, index, copy and/or extract any information, software, product or other element or part of the Content by any means without UBISOFT’s express prior permission as set out in these Terms or otherwise;
(vi) modify, distort, block, abnormally burden, disrupt, slow down and/or hinder the normal functioning of all or part of the Services, or their accessibility to other Users, or the functioning of the partner networks of the Services, or attempt to do any of the above;
(vii) transmit or propagate any virus, trojan horse, worm, bomb, corrupted file and/or similar destructive device or corrupted data in relation to the Services, and/or organise, participate in or be involved in any way in an attack on UBISOFT’s servers and/or the Services and/or those of its service providers and partners;
(viii) create, use and/or circulate “auto” or “macro” computer programs, bots, robots or other cheat programs or software applications, and/or use the Services via a mirror site;
(ix) create, supply or use alternative methods of using the Services, for example server emulators;
(x) use incorrect information, use another User’s Account, assume another person’s identity or present false credentials in relation to any individual or legal entity in relation to the Services;
(xi) use any means not expressly permitted by UBISOFT to collect or intercept data exchanged by other Users within the framework of the Services, or the names/ usernames and/or passwords of any other User;
(xii) attempt to obtain a password, information concerning an Account or other information of a private nature from any other User of the Services, and/or sell, rent out, share, lend and/or in any other way transfer to any outside party your Account and/or the means of accessing it and/or in any other way allow any outside party to benefit from your Account;
(xiii) make inappropriate use of the help service or the claim buttons or send untruthful reports to members of UBISOFT’s personnel;
(xiv) access, use, download from the Services or otherwise reproduce or supply to anyone (free of charge or in return for payment) any directory of Users of the Services or any other information concerning Users or use of the Services;
(xv) refuse to obey the instructions of any UBISOFT representative, and/or falsely claim to be an employee or representative of UBISOFT or its partners and/or agents.
In relation to the Services, you may not:
a) create, use, share and/or publish by any means (forum, public profile or other means) any material (text, words, images, sounds, videos, etc.) or Content which, in UBISOFT’s sole opinion, is unlawful, aggressive, threatening, malicious, defamatory, untruthful, pornographic, paedophilic, obscene, vulgar, racist, xenophobic, liable to incite hatred, sexually explicit, insulting, violent, contrary to morality or in any other way unacceptable; or
b) harass other Users, send them unsolicited advertising, promotional items or messages for commercial purposes, use the Services for purposes of surveys, competitions, pyramid selling or similar operations, or for sending mass e-mails or spam.
We reserve the right to amend the rules of conduct and content standards set out in Articles 3.2 and 3.3 to place limits on the use of the Services. We may, for example, define:
a) a maximum number of days for which messages or any other downloaded Content will be stored as part of the Services;
b) a maximum number or volume of messages which can be sent or received by an Account opened on the Services;
c) a maximum memory capacity which will be allocated by our servers for your Account; and / or
d) a maximum number of times you may access the Services, together with a maximum duration for each access during a given period.
a) We are not responsible for and do not endorse the opinions, advice and/or recommendations displayed or sent by Users on the Services, including in public message forums. Such communications are the sole responsibility of the User in question.
b) Subject to the applicable legal requirements, we do not undertake to monitor the Content, messages and other information made available on the Services by its Users. We may, though are not required to, oversee, monitor or moderate our Services, particularly on website home pages and forums. Some further details of our monitoring of the Services in relation to Minors is set out in Articles 4 and 6.
c) We reserve the right, at its sole discretion, to refuse any username, screen name and/or password you have chosen.
4.1 If you are a minor, you should read these Terms with the help of your parents or guardians.
4.2 If you are a parent or guardian, UBISOFT recommends that you monitor your children’s online activities and check that your children never disclose their personal data without your prior consent.
4.3 We restrict access to certain Services on age grounds. We ask for a parent or guardian’s approval when a child under 12 years old (a “Minor”) wishes to use the Services. When a Minor registers, they must supply the e-mail address of a parent or legal guardian who we will contact to confirm, refuse or modify their child’s access to Services. UBISOFT reserves the right to limit the period during which a Minor may play pending confirmation and activation by their parent or guardian.
4.4 We reserve the right to ask for written proof of consent from a parent or guardian for any User or potential User of the Services we suspect is a Minor. Parental consent applies exclusively to the Service for which it has been granted.
4.5 Certain Services are specially designed for children and enable children to create their own free Account for which UBISOFT collects their username, password, date of birth (or age), country and parent or guardian’s e-mail address.
4.6 Such Services sometimes offer the possibility of paying for a subscription or certain game functions which enable children to participate in more activities on the Services. The subscription services may also allow parents or guardians to manage their children’s account and create their own new player Account.
4.7 Certain Services enable children to create personalised avatars which they can use across the Services, including mini-games and virtual worlds. Children may also use other functions of the Services such as “recommend to a friend” to invite a friend to find out about the Services. Invitation functions enable children to send their friends a single message inviting them to visit the related Service. We will collect the first name and e-mail address of your child (or, failing that, the e-mail address of the parent or guardian) and the e-mail address of their friend for the sole purpose of sending a single message. This information is neither stored nor used for any other purpose and we do not reveal your child’s e-mail address to the recipient.
4.8 Certain Services enable children to receive newsletters. Minors with access to a forum will be able to see other Users’ messages in the forum. On certain forums UBISOFT may operate a ‘safe chat’ system which either filters words and set phrases which we consider unacceptable for Minors, or limits submissions to a list of predefined phrases. This aims to reduce content of a hurtful or insulting nature. When a forum Service is available, “report abuse” links are provided.
4.9 Parents or guardians may de-activate their child’s account at any time by creating a parental account or by sending an e-mail to the administrator of the Privacy Policy, whose contact details are given in the Privacy Policy.
4.10 In all cases, all use of the Services by Minors is the responsibility of their parents or legal guardians whom we assume approve their use of the Services and agree to these Terms.
4.11 As far as is permitted by law, UBISOFT accepts no responsibility regarding any activities which may be conducted by minors without the permission of their parents or legal guardians. If you are a parent or legal guardian and you give your permission for your child to resister for one or other of the services, you thereby agree to the Terms relating to use of the Services by your child. Please consult our Privacy Policy available on this Service for further details.
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights are defined as “patents, rights to inventions, copyright and related rights, trademarks, trade names, domain names, rights in get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, unfair competition rights, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, topography rights, moral rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered, and including all applications for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights, and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world”.
5.2 The Services and Content are protected by national and international laws and treaties. Except as expressly set out in these Terms, we, and our licensees and licensors, reserve our respective Intellectual Property Rights in the Services and the Content. Any reproduction or representation of these elements in any way and for any reason is prohibited without our prior permission and, if applicable, our licensors’ and representatives’.
5.3 Save as expressly set out in these Terms, no Intellectual Property Rights of any kind are assigned or licensed to you.
5.4 The Services, Content, and all Intellectual Property Rights in them belong to UBISOFT or its licensors and representatives, with the exception of any content generated by the User (dealt with in Article 6 below).
6.1 UBISOFT offers you the possibility of creating, uploading, editing, modifying, adapting, publishing and/or submitting material or information to and/or through certain Services, or causing any of these actions to happen (any of which is “User Generated Content” or “UGC”). The conditions of this Article 6 apply to each part of any UGC as well as to its whole.
6.2 You warrant that UGC will comply with these Terms at all times during and after its creation. The Terms will continue to apply after any termination of your Account and/or termination or suspension of a Service.
a) UBISOFT will be the sole owner of all Intellectual Property Rights relating to Derived UGC, as and when it is produced.
b) You hereby irrevocably assign to UBISOFT absolutely with full title guarantee, free of charge, all Intellectual Property Rights and rights of use you may have over Derived UGC.
c) This transfer of rights in Derived UGC is granted on a worldwide basis and for the period of protection of each right by the applicable legislation.
d) UBISOFT, or any third party to whom the rights relating to Derived UGC have been assigned in accordance with this Article, may file or register any application for Intellectual Property Rights relating to Derived UGC in its own name, for all countries in the world. In this respect, you must:
(i) sign and supply any necessary document requested by UBISOFT, or by the third party to whom the rights have been assigned, for all registration purposes, and in particular to sign any request, deed of transfer or other document which might be necessary to perfect such assignment or to allow UBISOFT or the third party to whom the rights have been assigned to register and obtain Intellectual Property Rights relating to the Derived UGC; and
(ii) provide all necessary assistance to UBISOFT or to the third party to whom the rights have been assigned, at the expense of UBISOFT or the third party concerned, in any action, procedure or step required to effect this sub-Article 6.3.
6.4 In the event of a competent court ruling that some or all of the rights concerning Derived UGC cannot be validly transferred to UBISOFT as set out in sub-Article 6.3, you hereby grant:
a) UBISOFT a perpetual, royalty-free, exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, world-wide licence to use, copy, represent, modify, display, distribute and, in general, exploit Derived UGC for any purpose, without you necessarily being mentioned as the source of this Derived UGC; and
b) other Users of the Services a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, world-wide licence to access, display, copy, adapt and modify Derived UGC and create derivative works within the framework of the Services. This licence is only for the purposes of the Services and is subject to these Terms.
a) You may not use the Derived UGC other than under the conditions set out below.
b) Under the rights assigned in sub-Article 6.3 or licensed in sub-Article 6.4, UBISOFT hereby grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable personal licence, revocable at all times, to use Derived UGC you have produced throughout the world and for the duration of your use of the Services, solely in order to:
(i) record it on your console, your computer, your mobile phone or any other medium you use to access the Services,
(ii) share it with other Users, and
(iii) load it on the Services and/or on any other UBISOFT service or partner network, as allowed by UBISOFT.
a) If UGC that you create and publish reproduces your image, you acknowledge that UBISOFT has a right to use your image as part of the Services throughout the world and for the whole duration of the Services concerned. You agree to UGC reproducing your image being used by UBISOFT as set out in Articles 6.3 and 6.4. If the UGC you publish on the Services features the image of any person other than yourself, you warrant that you have received the permission of the relevant person for the use of his/her image by UBISOFT in accordance with the terms of this Article 6, and you indemnify UBISOFT for any losses which UBISOFT may incur in the event of a well-founded complaint, action or claim by any third party concerning the use by UBISOFT of a third party’s image, derived from UGC that you create and/or publish.
You hereby grant UBISOFT, and its licensees, distributors, agents, representatives a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable (in whole or in part) world-wide licence to use Independent UGC (including all Intellectual Property Rights therein) in whole or in part, for any purpose.
a) We do not grant you a licence to use UGC for commercial purposes;
b) the ability to create UGC is part of the Service we offer and does not entitle you to any payment, including when the UGC is made available to other Users of the Services; However, UBISOFT may decide, at its sole discretion, to award You some consideration for the use of the UGC, as described in the Service;
c) you warrant to UBISOFT that all Content (whether UGC or otherwise) that you create and/or publish while using the Services does not infringe the rights of any third party and in particular does not constitute an infringement of Intellectual Property Rights or an act of unfair competition, including when the Content is used by UBISOFT in the course of supplying the Services;
d) you warrant that you are personally responsible for all Content that you create, use and/or publish while using the Services and you agree to defend, indemnify and keep indemnified UBISOFT, its including its licensors, licensees, sub-licensees, assignees and successors in title and their respective employees, managers or directors (collectively referred to as the “Affiliates”) in title from and against any claim or alleged claim, suit or proceeding brought against UBISOFT and/or its Affiliates, relating to the use or publication of content that you create, use and/or publish while using the Services. In such instances, UBISOFT reserves the right to conduct its own defense at its own expense and retain exclusive control over any action which might give rise to compensation on your part. You agree, in such cases, to collaborate fully with UBISOFT on request in defense of its interests;
e) For the avoidance of doubt, unless and until such Content is removed by UBISOFT, UGC which you have published in relation to the Services will be associated with your username and will be made available to Users of the Service; and
f) you waive absolutely your moral rights in all Content (whether UGC or otherwise) you create or publish arising under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and, so far as is legally possible, any broadly equivalent rights you may have in any territory of the world, and
g) you vouch for the obtaining of the same agreement from any other person who might invoke moral rights over the UGC.
7.1 If you consider that any Content made available on the Services does not comply with these Terms (including the rules of conduct or conduct standards set out in Articles 3.2 and 3.3), you may report this to UBISOFT by using the “Report” option available in each Service or by posting a ticked message indicating the information listed below.
7.2 To assist us in quickly responding to your report, it helps us to include as much as possible of the following:
a) the date of your report;
b) your surname, first name, date and place of birth, address, and a way of contacting you such as a telephone number or e-mail address;
c) identification and description of the Content which is, in your opinion, contrary to these Terms, indicating its precise location;
d) an indication of the reasons why you believe that this Content does not comply with these Terms and should be removed from the Services, citing the Article of these Terms or the legal provision along with proof where possible;
e) when reporting a copyright infringement, identify the work protected by the copyright of which you wish to report the infringement and provide all necessary information showing the existence of this copyright and demonstrating that you are authorised to intervene on behalf of the copyright holder; and
f) a declaration specifying that you believe that all the information in the report is correct.
7.3 After receipt of a report, UBISOFT reserves the right to act as it deems appropriate, at its sole discretion.
7.4 UBISOFT reserves the right to ask you to cease to use any Content which it believes to be contrary to the provisions of the Terms and/or delete or deactivate the Content in question.
If UBISOFT deletes or deactivates any Content that you have published which is considered to be contrary to these Terms, UBISOFT reserves the right to terminate these Terms and/or to suspend or delete your Account, in accordance with Article 14 below.
8.1 Certain Services may be protected by technical protection measures and digital rights management, in particular, and without limitation, physical protection, tattooing (watermarking), digital keys and online activation.
8.2 A high speed internet connection and the creation of an Account are necessary to access online functions and to play on-line, and to access some Content including exclusive Content which may be unlocked once only with a unique key.
8.3 For all games and/or Services incorporating Orbit Digital Rights Management technology, a permanent high speed internet connection and the creation of an Account are necessary to play such game(s) or access such Service(s) at any time.
UBISOFT may offer certain Services in return for payment (“Enhanced Services”). These Enhanced Services include services for downloading Content, icons and mobile phone ringtones, participation in certain games and activities, personalisation of certain elements of the Services, subscription to newsletters and adoption of “virtual animals”. UBISOFT may, at its sole discretion, cease to offer certain Enhanced Services and propose new Enhanced Services.
You must have an Account to be able to purchase and use Enhanced Services.
We may offer a system enabling you to obtain points if you use Services, if you download Additional Content (as defined below) or if you participate in certain games and activities proposed by the Services (the “Points System”). You may exchange these points for Additional Content which we offer under the Points System.
We reserve the right to modify the Terms or eliminate any or all of the Points Systems at any time entirely at its own discretion, under the terms specified in Article 17 below.
To access certain Services, we may propose you a system enabling you to purchase virtual currency (virtual credits) and/or subscriptions with different periods. In such event, specific terms of sale for these virtual currency and/or subscriptions, accessible on the Service’s page, may apply and shall be integrated to these Terms.
UBISOFT may enable you to purchase certain UBISOFT products. Specific terms for the purchase may apply and may be found on the UBISOFT website.
a) The Services may contain forums, information groups or other types of online discussion areas (collectively known as “Forums”) which are not moderated or which are moderated after the event, with the result that your messages are not checked before being displayed on UBISOFT’s websites.
b) When you use these Services, you should be aware that your username and your messages will be public and viewable by any User who visits the Services. You send your messages at your own risk. You have sole responsibility for their submission, publication and dissemination.
c) You must comply with all the rules of conduct and Content standards set out in Article 3 of these Terms, and furthermore you undertake not to:
(i) restrict or prevent use of the Forum by any other User of the Services;
(ii) place on line or reveal via the Services any real personal information concerning a User;
(iii) place on line or reveal information which is not generally related to the designated topic or theme of the public Forum in question; or
(iv) place on line or reveal information which is inappropriate or disrespectful of the usual or targeted Users of the Forum.
d) UBISOFT reserves the right to contact you to obtain further information on the messages you have disseminated, in particular to check that you are entitled to disseminate them and/or that you are the owner of the elements (text, words, images, sounds, videos, etc.) which they contain.
e) In all cases, UBISOFT is not responsible for and does not endorse the opinions, advice and/or recommendations displayed or sent by Users on the Services, notably in any public Forum, and declines any responsibility in this regard.
Periodically, UBISOFT and/or its partners organise competitions, games, free prize draws and promotions on the Services in which You may be awarded some physical goods. These may be subject to particular terms which we shall communicate to you at the time of these promotions.
Entirely at its own discretion, and subject only to its editorial policy for each Service, UBISOFT may display certain third party products and/or services by inserting promotional links, advertising banners or any other advertising and promotional element, and may also carry out cross-marketing operations with any partner of its choice.
UBISOFT is not responsible for the third party products or services so displayed.
a) UBISOFT may, entirely at its own discretion, contact you to propose that you test, evaluate or comment on one or more games and Services, game elements and/or downloadable Content before they are marketed or launched, in order to identify bugs and errors in the programs and/or improve their functioning (“Beta Tests”).
b) As applicable, if you agree to test the games and Services, you must sign a confidentiality agreement for each Beta Test and return it to UBISOFT before you are accredited and the software is supplied to you or made accessible. Your participation in the Beta Test is subject to your signing of said confidentiality agreement and these Terms. The obligation of confidentiality remains in force until UBISOFT officially distributes the games, Services and/or Test Contents (as defined below) or discloses them in any other way to the public, without this being attributable to you.
c) Upon receipt of the signed confidentiality agreement, UBISOFT may then provide you with a beta version of a game or games, Content, Services and related documentation and/or any other information associated therewith, and, if applicable, authorisations to access UBISOFT’s websites (collectively known as the “Test Contents”) for the sole purpose of allowing you to test, evaluate and/or comment on the game(s).
d) You must perform the Beta Test personally and allow no one else to have access to the Test Contents. Beta test accounts may in no case be transferred. You will be asked to inform UBISOFT (and only UBISOFT) of your reactions and suggestions following your experience of the Test Contents in the Beta Test. All comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, criticisms and other data (collectively referred to as the “Comments”) passed on, disclosed or offered to UBISOFT in the course of the Beta Tests, or more generally in the course of use of the Services, will be the exclusive property of UBISOFT. You therefore undertake not to exploit or publish your Comments or make them accessible by any means or process to any outside party other than UBISOFT. You acknowledge that, unless prohibited from doing so under the applicable legislation, UBISOFT may use, sell, promote and exploit the Comments in any way, without restriction and without compensation to you.
e) You agree and accept that the Test Contents which are supplied to you are highly confidential and/or exclusive information belonging to UBISOFT. You acknowledge that the beta versions of games and all other Test Contents made available to you by UBISOFT for Beta Tests have not yet been officially rated and you must make sure that no Test Content can be made available to or accessed by minors.
f) You acknowledge that UBISOFT may protect certain Test Contents by incorporating technical protection measures in them to prevent any unlawful reproduction or modification of the Test Contents. In particular, each Test Content is addressed to you by name and UBISOFT may use digital tattooing (“watermarking”) processes to identify any violation of these provisions concerning Beta Tests.
g) Beta versions of games and more generally any Test Contents are supplied to you “as is” and “according to availability” without any explicit or implicit guarantee of any kind. You play on a beta version at your own risk. You accept that (i) the Test Contents may include known or unknown bugs and that (ii) the games and/or other Test Contents may be available only on subscription once the beta phase is completed or at any other time subsequently. You acknowledge that UBISOFT is not obliged to allow you to play free of charge for any period, nor even to authorise you to access these Test Contents. You also accept that all your data, particularly any bonuses, points, Credits, states of progress and statuses attained in the course of the game may be erased and/or reset at any time. In this case, your progress and your data will be erased and you will return to the initial status.
h) You agree that violation of your obligations under this section would cause UBISOFT irreparable damage and that UBISOFT would be entitled to take any action to prevent any breach or risk of a breach of your obligations or to obtain compensation for the damage it has incurred, without prejudice to the right to terminate your Account in accordance with section 16 below
i) At the end of the Beta Test period, or at any time when UBISOFT asks you to do so, you undertake to return immediately all Test Contents received from UBISOFT.
j) Nothing in these Terms may be interpreted as giving you any right or privilege regarding the Test Contents. All of the Terms apply to the use you make of the games during the beta test phase.
a) You expressly acknowledge that use of the Services and games is at your own risk.
b) The Services are supplied “as is”, without any guarantees, conditions, warranties or other terms as to:
(i) their conformity, accuracy, currentness, completeness, reliability or security;
(ii) their suitability for a particular use;
(iii) their market value;
(iv) the absence of interruptions or errors, bugs, viruses or harmful elements, or that errors, bugs, viruses or harmful elements will be corrected; and/or
(v) your satisfaction.
c) In particular, UBISOFT does not exhaustively check Content, in particular UGC (as defined in Article 6), or the words that you or other users publish via the services, including without limitation on the Forums, or your actions within the framework of the Services.
d) We hereby expressly exclude:
(i) all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; and
(ii) any liability for loss or damage suffered in connection with the use of the Services or any related third party service. This includes:
(A) all losses of any kind, whether in tort (including for negligence or breach of statutory duty), contract, misrepresentation (whether innocent or negligent) or otherwise;
(B) direct loss;
(C) accidental loss,
(D) incidental loss;
(E) consequential loss; and
(F) indirect loss.
(iii) Nothing above prevents claims for damage to your tangible property.
e) Your sole remedy in the event of a dispute with UBISOFT or its licensors is to:
(i) cease to use the Services and terminate your Account; and
(ii) if applicable, seek damages for your losses.
f) UBISOFT’s liability is limited to the replacement of fee-based Content which are recognised by UBISOFT as being unusable following analysis of your claim, with equivalent Content chosen by UBISOFT.
g) In any event, the full liability of UBISOFT, including its Affiliates to you may not exceed the price you have paid for the Services during the twelve (12) months prior to the occurrence of the dispute.
h) Nothing above affects our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
a) You agree to defend, indemnify and keep indemnified UBISOFT and its Affiliates (as defined above), their subcontractors and Content suppliers against any claim or alleged claim, all liabilities and damages and all costs, including lawyers’ fees, following and/or resulting from a violation of these Terms for which you are responsible, or related to your behaviour on the Services.
b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree to defend, indemnify and keep indemnified UBISOFT and its Affiliates in the event of inappropriate or illegal use of your Account, including in the event of illegal or inappropriate use by someone you have authorised to use your Account. You agree to be held personally responsible for your use of the Services and for all your communications and activities on the Services
c) UBISOFT reserves the right to take sole conduct, at its own expense, of any claim which you have indemnified UBISOFT in relation to.
15.3 The provisions of this Article 13 remain valid and in force after termination of these Terms or of your Account.
16.1
We reserve the right to terminate all or part of the Services at any time, without prior notice.
a) We may suspend or close your Account and your ability to use one or more Services or part of the Services, at any time, automatically and at our sole discretion where:
(i) we have sent by e-mail or by post a formal request to provide us proof of your credentials or to cease an action, behaviour, or breach of these Terms;
(ii) it is confirmed or We have reasonable grounds for believing that:
· you do not comply with these Terms or any special condition relating to a particular Service or Services;
· you are in breach of your legal or contractual obligations;
· your Account has been inactive for more than six months and you do not have access to pay functions; or
· for any other reason in relation to your use or actions in relation to the Services.
b) If you have more than one Account, we reserve the right to suspend or close all the Accounts you have opened once one has been suspended or closed under this process.
c) In the event of a breach of your legal or contractual obligations, we reserve the right to take legal action on grounds of civil or criminal responsibility in order to stop the breach and obtain compensation for our losses. In particular, and without limitation, we reserve the right to prosecute any User who was deliberately damaged or attempted to damage the Services or disrupted the legitimate functioning of the Services or provided assistance for so doing.
a) You may terminate your Account to a particular Service or Services at any time by filling the form located at : http://support.owlient.eu.
b) If you do not accept these Terms, you may not use the Services and you must send UBISOFT a request to terminate your Account and/or the corresponding subscriptions.
c) Note that there will be no total or partial refund for sums already paid for the current subscription period if you decide to end your subscription.
d) UBISOFT reserves the right to recover the costs, supplements and charges incurred before the termination of your Account or of a subscription to a particular Service or Services. In addition, it is up to you to pay all sums owed to other sellers of suppliers of Contents before the termination of your Account. All arrears or unpaid costs and other unresolved problems with the Services must be settled before any opening of a new Account.
e) Subject to compliance with the termination procedure indicated above, the termination of your Account and/or your subscription will come into force within a reasonable period of time after receipt of your letter by UBISOFT’s customer service department.
a) In the event of termination or suspension of your Account, you will lose, and UBISOFT may delete, your profile and the related information you have passed on to UBISOFT, together with any Content (including without limitation UGC) you may have published, uploaded or made available on the Services, notably, without limitation, your username and avatar(s).
b) UBISOFT reserves the right to store personal data relating to your profile for a reasonable period of time.
c) In the event of termination of your Account, you must immediately cease all use of the Services and destroy any related documentation on any medium.
d) In the event of termination of your Account, you will not be able to participate in the Services which require an Account again without UBISOFT’s express permission. To benefit from the Services again, contact http://support.owlient.eu.
e) In the event of termination of your Account or of a Service or Services associated with your Account, no credit (such as for unused Services or unused points or Credits) will be credited to you or converted into cash or any other form of reimbursement and you will no longer have access to your Account or to any right associated with your Account or the Service(s) in question (such as points, Credits, tokens or virtual objects).
a) We may revise these Terms at any time for security, legal, best practice or regulatory reasons.
b) We will not use this right to make substantial changes to the Terms to your detriment without giving you a chance to agree.
c) We will inform you of any revision of these Terms by posting, on the website of the relevant Service, a notification of the revision. Any revision will come into force five (5) days after the posting of the notification. If you do not agree to the changes made to these Terms, you may terminate your Account as set out in Article 14.
d) You are expected to check for revisions to the Terms regularly as they are binding on you. Any use of the Services subsequent to revised Terms coming into force implies acceptance of the revised Terms.
a) UBISOFT reserves the right to modify the prices of the Services indicated on the websites of the Services concerned. The new price applies only to orders placed after the new price has come into effect.
b) During your subscription, UBISOFT reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change the price of subscriptions to our Services. In this case, UBISOFT will indicate these modifications on the websites of the Services concerned before the change of price. The new price will come into effect only in relation to new subscription renewals, whether requested or tacit.
c) If you do not accept this price change, you may cancel your subscription or your Account in accordance with the procedure defined in Article 16 of the Terms. Note that this cancellation must be carried out before the renewal (whether requested or tacit) of your subscription. Renewal of your subscription implies acceptance of the modified price.
a) UBISOFT may modify the Content for any reason or without any specific reason, at any time, in particular for technical reasons such as updates, maintenance operations and/or resets to improve and/or optimize the Services.
b) Such modifications are liable to affect the Services and/or your acquired rights or result in setbacks in the game environment. The products updated or modified in accordance with this Article are subject to the limits of liability set out in Article 15 above.
During your subscription to certain Services, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to make supplementary Content available to all subscribers in the form of updates.
Such supplementary Content is distinct from extensions to Services which are distributed and/or sold separately from the original Service and purchase of the original Service gives no automatic entitlement to the extension.
We may collect and store data about you in relation to your activity on the Services, your connection information and/or your hardware. Certain data is recorded, archived, analysed and used to create user statistics.
Your privacy is very important to us and we will not reveal your personal data to third parties except when expressly authorised by you to do so or in special circumstances.
We may be under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation, or in order to identify, question or prosecute an individual in order to enforce or apply these Terms; or to protect our rights, property, or safety and those of other Users and third parties. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
UBISOFT reserves the right to collect, store and use anonymous data about you and other Users.
For further information concerning our use of personal data, please read our Privacy Policy carefully. Our Privacy Policy forms a part of these Terms and so may be revised as set out in Article 15. You may at any time consult our Privacy Policy this Service.
19.1 We advise you to take the following precautions in all cases when using the Services, and in particular video games.
You should:
a) avoid playing if you are tired and/or short of sleep;
b) make sure that you play in a well lit room and adjust the brightness of your screen;
c) when you play a video game requiring connection to a screen, play at a good distance from the screen and as far away as the connection lead allows; and
d) take breaks of ten (10) to fifteen (15) minutes every hour.
Some individuals are liable to have epileptic fits including, in certain cases, loss of consciousness, particularly when exposed to strong luminous stimulations (rapid succession of images or repetition of simple geometrical figures, flashes or exposures). Such individuals are exposed to risks of fits when they play certain video games containing such luminous stimulations and should consult their doctor before any use of the Services.
Parents and legal guardians must also pay particularly close attention to their children when they play video games. If you or your child present any of the following symptoms: dizziness, vision problems, contraction of the eyes or muscles, disorientation, involuntary movement or convulsions or momentary loss of consciousness, you or they must immediately stop playing and consult a doctor.
20.1 The Services are optimized for most recent Internet browsers. UBISOFT reserves the right to optimize any one of its Services for any other resolution and/or browser.
20.2 The Services may ask you or enable you to download software, updates, patches and/or other utilities and tools supplied by UBISOFT or its licensors (referred to as the « UBISOFT Software« ) onto your computer or any other medium authorised by UBISOFT. UBISOFT grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive license enabling you to use this UBISOFT Software solely for the purposes of use of the Services, throughout the world and for the legal period of protection of the UBISOFT Software under Intellectual Property Rights. UBISOFT may specify terms of use for this UBISOFT Software at the time at which it is made available to you.
20.3 Computer software and peripherals are not compatible with all computer platforms and media and the performances of the UBISOFT Software and the related Services may vary depending on your computer and other equipment.
20.4 UBISOFT may from time to time supply you with updates or modifications of the UBISOFT Software. Updates and modifications may be necessary in order to be able to continue to use the UBISOFT Software and the Services.
20.5 Your web browser may be configured to prevent the display of pop-up windows. Certain Content is displayed in pop-up windows. To optimize use of the Service, make sure you deactivate any pop-up window blocking function.
20.6 The Terms of Use of the console manufacturers continue to apply in their entirety and govern your behavior when you access the Services via the console manufacturers services. In the event of a conflict between the terms of use of these console manufacturers and these Terms, the former terms of use take precedence. UBISOFT may not be held responsible for the console manufacturers services. UBISOFT is responsible only for supplying customer assistance and invoicing the services obtained via the Services.
The expression « Compatible Mobile Terminal » designates any portable device capable of connecting to the Internet to access the Services. The term Compatible Mobile Terminals covers in particular mobile phones, smartphones, digital music players, portable video game consoles, iPads, tablet computers, e-book readers and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
UBISOFT allows its Users to access certain Services via their Compatible Mobile Terminal (“Mobile Services”).
To access the Mobile Services from your Compatible Mobile Terminal you must (i) have a Compatible Mobile Terminal, (ii) have the permission of the person who pays the bill for said Compatible Mobile Terminal, (iii) be provided with Internet access via your Compatible Mobile Terminal by your mobile and/or fixed Internet service provider and (iv) be in compliance with the contractual obligations of your mobile and/or fixed Internet service contract. These electronic communication services may use, but are not limited to, “second”, “third” or “fourth generation” mobile phone networks, Wifi, WiMax, or satellite communications.
The use of a Compatible Mobile Terminal will lead in particular to connection costs. The connection costs may include, for example, the normal rates of your Internet service provider for use of WAP, data transfer or message services indicated in your mobile and/or fixed Internet service contract (included or not in the service package), or any other cost invoiced to the User by his Internet service provider in exchange for electronic communication services. You must contact your Internet service provider for all necessary information concerning the packages available and their prices.
if you are not the person who pays the bill for your Compatible Mobile Terminal, you must obtain the permission of the person who pays the bill before purchasing content on UBISOFT’s Mobile Services.
When the User connects to the Mobile Services, UBISOFT cannot guarantee User comfort equal to that experienced when connecting to the Services via a computer or game console, particularly as regards display quality, response time or access to certain functions such as listening to music or viewing videos. You acknowledge that the user comfort of the Mobile Services depends on the capacities of your Compatible Mobile Terminal and the capacities of the electronic communication network you use, and UBISOFT may in no case be held responsible for reduced user comfort on Mobile Services.
Downloading, installing and use of certain Mobile Services supplied via your Compatible Mobile Terminal may be prohibited or restricted by your Internet service provider, and it is possible that the Mobile Services will not all function with all network service providers or devices. You must contact your Internet service provider to find out whether the Mobile Services are available for your device and what restrictions, if any, may apply to the use of said Services for mobile devices.
Headings in these Terms are intended solely to facilitate reading and understanding and shall not affect the interpretation of these Terms.
If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these Terms (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision shall, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms shall not be affected.
If any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision of these Terms would be valid, enforceable and legal if some part of it were deleted, the provision shall apply with the minimum modification necessary to make it legal, valid and enforceable to reflect UBISOFT’s initial intentions.
No failure or delay by UBISOFT to exercise any right or remedy provided under these Terms or by law shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it preclude or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall preclude or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.
Waiver of a right or remedy may be considered to have taken place only after signing of a written statement to this effect by UBISOFT or by the User.
a) In entering into these Terms (including UBISOFT’s Privacy Policy available on this Service), neither party has relied upon and does not rely on any statement, representation (whether innocent or negligent), assurance or warranty (“Representation”) (whether in writing or not) of any person (whether party to this agreement or not) other than as expressly set out in these Terms.
b) Each party agrees that the only rights and remedies available to it arising out of or in connection with a Representation shall be for breach of contract.
c) These Terms (including UBISOFT’s Privacy Policy available on this Service) and all rules or instructions published on line concerning a game, an activity, a competition or lottery or a merchant service in particular contain the entire agreement between UBISOFT and you with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede and cancel any and all prior or contemporaneous oral or written understandings, negotiations and agreements.
d) You should add this page to your browser bookmarks and consult this site regularly to find out about any updates to the Terms.
e) Nothing in this Article shall limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
These Terms and your Account and any disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England. You irrevocably agree that the courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with the Terms or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).
UBISOFT shall have no liability under these Terms if it is prevented from, or delayed in, performing its obligations or from carrying on its business by acts, events, omissions or accidents beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes (whether involving the workforce of UBISOFT or any other party), failure of a utility service or transport or telecommunications network, act of God, war, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, accident, breakdown of plant or machinery, fire, flood, storm or default of suppliers or sub-contractors
These Terms can be accessed at any time in the Service.
For any question concerning these Terms, you may contact UBISOFT at the following address: http://support.owlient.eu
THESE TERMS ARE APPLICABLE ONLY TO THE EXTENT AUTHORISED BY LAW.
ANY USE OF THE SERVICES IMPLIES UNRESERVED APPROVAL OF THESE TERMS AND UBISOFT’S PRIVACY POLICY.