The Cold Wars :: Terms Of Service

By registering with The Cold Wars: Legacy Server, you are agreeing to our complete Terms of Service. The entirety of The Cold Wars: Legacy Server's (TCW:LS) Terms of Service (TOS) is not contained or limited to the page you are now viewing but is also contained through teh form of any stated rules within the game itself. Any contradiction (whether perceived or actual) in rules should be reported to the Administrators. In such instances where a contradiction in rules exist, the Administration reserves the right to determine which set of rules to follow. The Administration reserves the right at any time to enforce rules not specifically stated in the Terms of Service or on the Website itself for any purpose with or without cause as deemed acceptable or appropriate by the discretion of the Administrator.

Disclaimer - Charity - Social Support - Statement of Faith - Political Allignment - P2P Transfers - Auction Market - Paypal Credits - Privacy Policy - Shared IP/PC Use - Behavior: (Profanity) (Advertising) (Spamming) (Cheating) (Usernames) (Respect Staff) (Reporting Staff) - Alliances - Multiple Accounts/Shared IP/PC - Account Deletion Policy - Top Donator Status - Forms of Suspension - Obvious Rules

The Cold Wars: Legacy Server (TCW:LS) offers absolutely no warranty and may not be held liable for any loss of data, disruption to service, malfunction of the game, or loss of interest on the player's part due to the actions of TCW:LS staff, its players, or events/incidents outside of the TCW:LS staff's control.

All TCW:LS Administrators reserve the right to suspend, edit, or delete any account at any time if it is in the best interest of the game, its members, or is deemed acceptable (with or without reason) by the discretion of the TCW:LS Administrators or the TCW:LS owner.

Any statements, opinions, or facts posted by the players of this game, visitors, Game Moderators, or Game Administrators through the Global Message Board, Private Messages, Alliance Message Boards, The Cold Wars Herald, or any other medium is the express opinion of their respective authors and not of the TCW:LS owner or site.

The Cold Wars: Legacy Server does give a minimum of 10% of its total income (before expenses) to charity. That is not 10% of profits, but rather 10% of the total income. That means if we make $100 this month, before we pay any expenses of any form, we first give 10% of this to Charitable causes. We do NOT claim any tax breaks of any form for these donations. In other words, we do not benefit in any way from giving to charity. The Cold Wars: Legacy Server currently is giving to the Grace Children's Orphanage in India which aids both orphans and widows. The Cold Wars: Legacy Server may at its discretion include or exclude additional charities without prior notice to the players of the game and without updating this thread unless such time exists in which The Cold Wars: Legacy Server is giving less than 10% of its income to charity or does not have at least one of the charities it is giving to listed or has Charities listed which it is no longer giving to.

The Cold Wars: Legacy Server's (TCW:LS) Owner has a deep appreciation for life and justice. For this reason, TCW:LS may be used extensively or periodically as a means to support important Organizations that the owner feels are doing good work for the world at large. One of these organizations is The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It is doing good work to locate missing children and rescue exploited children. For this reason, we have placed a banner for their organization on The Cold Wars: Legacy Server. We do not, however, give any of our profits to their organization or profit in any way from our affiliation with them. If you do recognize a child shown on their banner, you can call 1-800-THE-LOST. If you live outside the USA, you may click on the banner to visit their site.

The Cold Wars: Legacy Server is not a religiously neutral website. While we do not force religion on our members, our profits may at the discretion of the TCW:LS owner be donated to various religious organizations and causes to include the American Family Association, Bibles Unbound, and other similar organizations. TCW:LS is Christian-owned. However, not all of our staff are Christians. We have as part of our network staff Chrsitians, atheists, catholics, and non-religious individuals making our staff a religiously diverse group. Jason, owner of TCW:LS, was raised by Pentecostal parents and has attended Lutheran, Methodist, Protestant, Southern Baptist, and Baptist churches. Jason considers himself a pure-nondenominationalist Chrsitian who believes in strict adherence to God's Word.

The Cold Wars: Legacy Server is not a politically neutral website. While we do not force politics on our members our profits may at the discretion of the TCW:LS owner be donated to various political organizations and causes to include national, state, or city elections and The Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). TCW:LS is Conservative-owned. Jason, owner of TCW:LS, was raised by moderate-conservative parents. With an undying love for politics, through a study of history and current events as well as the results and consequences of passed laws and government control, Jason adopted a completely conservative set of beliefs.

P2P Transfers are transfers performed in which one player transfers resources directly to another player. P2P Transfers can only be performed by players who have purchased P2P Credits (10 for $2.50) or have Lifetime P2P. Lifetime P2P was only sold during beta and does have some restrictions in comparison to normal P2P Transfers. P2P Transfers are intended for the purpose of giving other players resources (for assistance, aid, etcetera) and NOT as a method of performing trades. It is NOT, however, against the rules to use the P2P Transfer system for the purpose of performing trades. Be aware, however, that doing such is at your own risk. The Game Moderators, Game Administrators, and the owner of TCW:LS will not compensate for, act as a mediator in, or in any way, shape, or form become involved in any failed trades, cheated traders, or mistakes involved in such trades. The use of the Auction Market for the purpose of fixing such trades is against the rules if the establishment of such auction is deemed to be in violation of the posted rules involving their establishment. In other words, posting auctions with extreme starting bids for the purpose of ensuring that only a specific user will have reason to bid on it is against the rules (even if it is not your intention to post it in that manner but it is established in such a manner that it is reasonably perceived as such by a Game Moderator, Game Administrator, or the TCW:LS owner). It is important to note that abuse of teh Auction Market or P2P Transfer system is subject to a loss of P2P Credits and/or Lifetime P2P. Transferring resources to other players who play from, registered from, or have ever logged in from the same PC or IP as you is a violation of the ToS and may result in a loss of P2P Credits, Lifetime P2P, and/or a temporary suspension of your account or permanent suspension of your account. Any player falling below 100K Army size as a result of sending a P2P will have committed a TOS violation. Both the sender and reciever will be subject to possible and immediate permanent suspension.

The Auction Market is intended for public trades and as such is regulated by ALL players of the game. Any player in the game may report an auction they feel appears to have been created in such a way that the starting bid is extreme, to exploit any aspect of the game, or to ensure that a direct transfer to a specific player takes place. Such auctions reported by any players are listed in our Game Moderator's Panel and Game Administrator's Panel for review. Any Game Moderator or Game Administrator may at their discretion review such auctions to determine the legality of the reported auctions. Any Game Administrator or Game Moderator may delete a reported auction if it is in their discretion created as a violation of the Terms of Service. Only the TCW:LS Owner may over rule such decisions. All actions taken by Game Moderators and Game Administrators are logged to ensure that no Game Moderator may eliminate the auction of a rival anonymously. This helps to ensure that no Game Moderator can abuse their powers without being caught. The Auction Market does permit players to make bids with Paypal Credits (real money), therefore ensuring that players can make money by playing the game (and you don't have to spend money to make money). While the Auction Market is game controlled, the TCW:LS staff and Owner make no garauntee that auctions will not end without a bug or some issue. In the event that the TCW:LS Owner can find evidence that the bug occurred as reported, compensation will be returned. Bugs are rare, and in most of these cases there are no logs proving whether a user actually received the resources. Sometimes, bugs result in a rewarding of the resources but continue to show a "collect button" that does not give any more resources after the first collection. Such cases may result in the appearance that the individual has not collected their resources when they have. Due to this, in cases in which no records or proof can be found by the TCW:LS Owner using the Administrative Panel that resources were not collected, no compensation will be awarded.

Paypal Credits (otherwise called PPC) are the form of real cash currency in the game. The Administration does endeavor to locate any theft of such currency, and when suspicion of PPC theft exists...the transferring of ppc into real cash will be suspended until the thieves can be identified and the resulting actions of the theft can be undone. In such cases, individuals who have earned stolen PPC from the theives will lose the stolen PPC they possess (they will not however receive disciplinary action unless evidence can be found that they were aware of the stolen nature of the PPC or aware that a theft had occurred). The thieves will lose any and all PPC they still possess (including any PPC that was not illegally acquired), the thieves will be permanently suspended, and at the discretion of the TCW:LS Owner, legal charges may be brought out against such thieves. In the event of cheating, the TCW:LS Administration reserves the right to impose and automatically collect without permission from the cheater any PPC they may possess even if the cheating offense did not involve PPC. Temporary Suspension may be applied along with such fines at the discretion of the TCW:LS Administration. In the event of a Permanent Suspension for any reason, the user(s) being permanently Suspended will lose all their PPC and the site will take full control and ownership of such PPC. Accounts which have not been logged into for 30 days or more may receive Permanent Suspension for inactivity. In such cases, all PPC owned by Permanently Suspended inactive accounts will become the ownership of TCW:LS.

The administration will perform frequent investigations of registered players to locate and remove cheaters from the game. These methods include IP reporting and comparison, e-mail comparisons, registration and login action logs, investigations of action logs (attacks, trades, transfers, raids, etcetera), and investigations of both received, sent, and saved messages. Deletion of messages does not prevent the administration from locating and reading your messages. By registering with this site, you are waiving any national, local, international, or internet laws or regulations which may or may not regulate access to your account, knowledge of account password, access to your messages, or investigation of your actions while on this site. The Cold Wars will never sell any of your information to any third party nor share any information found during investigations with non-staff members or with staff members not directly and officially involved in investigations or bannings. By registering an account with The Cold Wars, you are giving The Cold Wars Adminsitrators the right to access your account directly and read your messages if deemed necessary by the Administration. At no time will any moderator, cheat mod, or other non-administrator staff be given or permitted access to your account or your messages. Contents of messages found by administrators which are being used for the purpose of evidence concerning cheating can be and will be used and shared with other administrators and Cheat mods as part of our accountability program. Every administrator and cheat moderator is accountable to each other.

If multiple users are using the same IP OR the same PC as yourself, you are REQUIRED to submit a shared PC/IP report. All accounts on that PC or IP must submit the report, not just one of the users. Even if one of the accounts submits the report, all other accounts on that PC or IP could still be banned for failing to submit a report.

Since The Cold Wars: Legacy Server (TCW:LS) is a Conservative-Christian owned game, behavior within the game is mandated upon Conservative-Christian morals. As such, it is important that you read and understand the Terms of Service regarding such behavior within this family-friendly website. If you have any questions concerning any section of the Terms of Service, please message the ingame Administrator account, e-mail jason@thecoldwars.com, or private message Jason in the forum board for more information. You can also talk to the owner of this game directly by msn messenger via singell@hotmail.com.

PROFANITY of any form small or extreme is a violation of this site's Terms of Service. This includes words such "damn" which while to many may not seem to be extreme forms of profanity are still considered offensive to many Conservative Christians. This also includes acronyms which contain letters standing for illegal words such as LMAO in which the "A" stands for "ass" which while many individuals in the UK argue it is not offensive or considered swearing there, it is considered such to many Conservative Christians in the UK, Europe, Asia, and to many non-Christians in the United States and world-wide as well. Because we RARELY investigate Private Messages, any such violations via Private Message may often go unnoticed by the Administration. If you find any form of swearing or profanity offensive or any statement offensive at all, you must report it to the TCW:LS Administration via the report option in order for it to be reported. DO NOT DELETE THE MESSAGE!!! The TCW:LS Owner will manually delete the message after the message has been investigated. Deleting the message will make it impossible for the TCW:LS Staff to investigate your report. Falsely reporting messages purposely for the simple and pure purpose of harassing or overloading any TCW:LS Staff or to harass another player in the game is against our TOS and may result in a temporary or permanent suspension at the discretion of the TCW:LS Owner. Use of profanity in any medium (including Private Messages) is subject to a possible 1-Day Temporary Suspension per offense (if you swear three times in a message, that would be a 3-day Temporary Suspension for that message) plus a 4-day Temporary Suspension per EXTREME offense (such as profanity which involving a sexual nature) OR a permanent suspension at the discretion of the TCW:LS Staff investigating the issue and the TCW:LS Owner. Finally, any content which contains anything of a sexual nature, whether meant to be offensive or not, is a violation of this site's TOS, that includes images, text, url's, etcetera. A good rule of thumb for our site is this: If you, another adult, or a Conservative-Christian wouldn't want to their 10 year old to see it or read it due to its potential offensive nature...than it shouldn't be posted. This is the best way to ensure the child-friendly nature of our site.

SWEAR FILTER will replace any swear word with NO PROFANITY ALLOWED which is currently in our swear censor. Not all swear words are in our censor. If you do post a swear word which is not in our censor, this falls on you and not the site as it is your responsibility not to post any swear words. Even if your swear word is replaced with NO PROFANITY ALLOWED by our swear filter, you can STILL be disciplined for posting the swear word. The swear replacement does not give you the right to swear...it is simply a means of helping the administration by replacing swear words in a fashion that would be quicker than the Administrators ability to locate and remove them.

ADVERTISING of any form on this website without the expression permission of the TCW:LS Owner is a violation of the TCW:LS TOS. If you wish to advertise on TCW:LS, you must contact the owner at jason@thecoldwars.com. Violation of this rule may result in a PPC fine (most likely) or a permanent suspension or a combination of both. Only in rare circumstances with the TCW:LS Owner issue a warning.

SPAMMING of any form in any medium of this website is NOT allowed. Violation of this rule WILL result in a Permanent Suspension without warning.

CHEATING (as on most any other game site) is NOT allowed here. You may recieve a PPC fine, Temporary Suspension, or Permanent Suspension (most likely) for cheating. Cheating includes taking advantage of bugs in the game, exploiting the game, hacking the game, etcetera. If you suspect any non-TCW:LS Staff Member of cheating, you may report it via the Bug Tracker. If you suspect a TCW:LS Staff Member of cheating, you must report it by e-mail: jason@thecoldwars.com.

USERNAMES Appropriate usernames are required in our game. This does NOT mean that you must use a name which is associated with or fits the theme of the historical Cold Wars era or our game. It does, however, mean that your username must comply with ALL the TOS of TCW:LS. In other words, no profanity, sexuality, advertising, etcetera should be done via your username.

RESPECTING TCW:LS STAFF is mandatory. You may not flame, insult, harass, falsely accuse, publicly demean, spread lies about, post libel against, or in any way offend/attack any member of the TCW:LS Staff for any reason. All members of the TCW:LS Staff use two accounts. One which is unranked, does not play the game, and is only used for Game Moderating or Game Administrating. The other is their normal playing account. TCW:LS Staff are NOT permitted to link the identity of their playing account and Game Moderator account in anyway nor that of other TCW:LS Staff. If any player does determine the identity of a Game Moderator account, they are NOT permitted to share that identity with anyone. Violation of this rule WILL result in a Temporary or Permanent Suspension at the discretion of the TCW:LS Owner and with the inclusion of consideration from the recommendation of the offended or victimized TCW:LS Staff Member(s). This rule includes activity taking place both on and off the website.

REPORTING STAFF for rule violations is encouraged IF done in the CORRECT format. TCW:LS Staff members are held to a higher standard than any other player, and therefore MAY BE held to more extreme disciplinary action than normal players. When reporting a Staff Member for rule violations, there is only ONE way you can do this correctly. You must notify the TCW:LS Owner. Notifying anyone else or publicizing the knowledge through any medium (on or off our website) is a violation of this rule and may result in a Temporary or Permanent Suspension. You may notify the owner at jason@thecoldwars.com.

All alliances are subject to the Terms of Service. Alliances may be investigated from time to time to ensure that proper Behavior is being exhibited in the Alliance Message Boards. One of our many Game Administrators (not Game Moderators) will perform such tasks.

Alliance Leaders are responsible for the operation of their alliance. In the event that an Alliance is having extreme issues with rule violations and the Alliance Leader appears to be doing nothing to prevent it, the TCW:LS Game Administrators or Owners may remove that alliance leader and replace him/her. Such individuals will from then on no longer be permitted the option to become an Alliance Leader.

Multiple Accounts ARE NOT allowed in the Legacy Server. At oen time we did allow multiple accounts in Legacy. Such multiple accounts ARE ALLOWED to remain in operation if a shared IP/PC report was submitted before 6 September 2009. Multiple Accounts in the Legacy Server are not allowed to attack, raid, sabbotage, spy on, transfer resources to, or trade with one another. They are permitted to be officers/commanders of one another and to be in the same alliance (as long as the Alliance Treasury is not being abused). Multiple Accounts ARE only for active playing. Meaning that if you do not intend to or you are not display an active playing style with your multiple accounts, the inactive ones WILL be Permanently Suspended.

If you have multiple individuals using the same Computer or IP Address to play the game, you follow under the same rules as Multiple Accounts. Such accounts are not allowed to attack, raid, sabbotage, spy on, transfer resources to, or trade with one another. They are permitted to be officers/commanders of one another and to be in the same alliance (as long as the Alliance Treasury is not being abused). Inactive Players are periodically Permanently Suspended.

We do not delete accounts in this game except under the most extreme situations a determined under the discretion of the Game Owner or an Administrator with such priviledges. Account Deletion Requests are not honored. Such requests will result in the permanent suspension of the account and most likely a renaming of the account. All information applied to the account such as e-mail addresses, passwords, usernames, ingame resources obtained, etcetera remain as ownership of the account and the account becomes the ownership of this game site. No personal or game related information about the account will be removed or changed except by the discretion of the Game Owner or an Administrator with such priviledges. Access to Permanently Suspended Accounts that have become so due to request of deletion/suspension or inactivity will not be honored nor will requests of password, e-mail, or username changes after the account has been permanently suspended except by the discretion of the Game Owner or Game Administrators. By having used this site, you agree that no obligation exists on the part of the site, its staff, or its owner to honor or consider such requests.

The scout feature is available for your entertainment. It contains some fun random facts, some silly comments, some extremely valuable rewards, and yes...the potential to lose some stuff as well. Many players report making more than they lose, few lose more than they make. The Scout Feature is completely random and also has one IMMENSE bonus to it. Every week, 10 Uranium is hidden within the Scout Feature. Once all ten Uranium is found, there will be no more Uranium in the Scout Feature. HOWEVER, any player can pay 1000 PPC to refresh the Scout Feature with 10 more Uranium. Also, for 500 PPC, you can steal uranium from any player you choose...however, there is no gaurantee that the player you pick will actually have uranium to steal!!! In the top menu, you will see two numbers under Scout. The first number is the amount of Scout Actions you have remaining (you can buy more in the boosters page). The second number is how many uranium is left in the Scout Feature to find. GOOD LUCK AND GOOD HUNTING!!!

The Cold Wars is operated through TCGN. Our network has expenses exceeding $200.00 per month. In order to keep TCGN in operation, we count on donations from players like you. The below players have graciously donated to TCGN to keep the game alive. 10% of the donations have been donated to the Grace Children's Orphanage. You can thank those that have donated to keep the game alive for you by clicking "THANK YOU" for the Donator you want to thank. When you do this, the donator will receive 5 Attack Turns and their Thanks Count will rise by 1. You will receive 5 Attack Turns for every donator you thank. The player who has the most THANK YOU's at the end of the month will receive [ TOP DONOR ] Status. TOP DONOR Status will provide that player with 5% Defensive Boost OR 1 Gift. To receive TOP DONOR Status, the player must have at least 60 THANKS YOU's and have the most Thank You's. The base with the second most Thank You's will receive whichever reward the base in first place did not choose. To be elligible as a second place winner, you must have at least 50 Thank You's.

Violating our Terms of Service may result in Suspension of your account. There are various forms of suspensions. Temporary Suspensions, Permanent Suspensions, and Bannings.

Temporary Suspension: Temporary Suspensions may occur for short periods of time (12 hours) or longer periods of time (7 days maximum). If a period exceeding 7 days is deemed necessary by the Administration, the Administration may opt to use another more severe form of suspension. Only in rare occassions will the offender be given the option of accepting a Temporary Suspension exceeding 7 days. Temporary Suspensions are not free Protection Periods. Your account will continue to operate as normal, however, you will not have access to it. After the Temporary Suspension period has ended, a message containing a new temporary password for your account will be messaged to you via the forum board. If you are temporarily suspended, it is suggested you contact Jason via the forum to inform him of your forumname and ingame base name. He will then inform the Administrators to ensure that your new temporary password is provided to you. During Temporary Suspensions, your account will accrue UU, money, etcetera as normal. You can be attacked, raided, sabbotaged, massed, nuked, etcetera as normal. If your account will be enjoying the benefits of protection throughout the entire or most of your Temporary Suspension Period, your temporary suspension will be increased by the Protection Time remaining on your account (to ensure that accounts Temporarily Suspended do not avoid the disciplinary action involved).

Permanent Suspension: Permanent Suspensions are the result of extreme violations of the TOS which require a Temporary Suspension Period exceeding 7 days (in rare occassions, the offending user will be given the option of accepting a longer duration of Temporary Suspension instead of Permanent Suspension. Permanent Suspensions can not and will not be undone by the Administration. Permanent Suspensions can be discussed with Jason, however, revocation of such suspensions will ONLY occur if the violation resulting in it can be proven to have not occurrd. Complaints that the disciplinary action was too extreme will not be considered. Permanent Suspensions leave the account free and clear to gain money, uu, etcetera as normal and be attacked, raided, sabbotaged, etcetera as normal.

Banning: Bannings are the result of the most extreme TOS violations. This involves the offender being banned from the entire site. This is done through a variety of means. Discovery that the user has managed to return to the game will result in immediate permanent suspension of that user's account (with or without TOS violations performed) and without warning. Banned Accounts may operate like Permanently Suspended Account. However, if the violation in question may result in imbalance of the game, the account may become one which can not be attacked, raided, sabbotaged, earn uu's, money, etcetera.

Because wonders do give special powers, it is possible that what is not allowed by most players may be possible for some. Due to this fact, it is important that we maintain a sense of integrity without false accusation flying around. Do not call any player a cheater in public format inside or outside our game network. Do not imply that someone is cheating. If you wish that the Administrators be investigated, inform Jason. As the owner of the game, he takes any accusations against the Administration very seriously. Administrators don't get second chances...period. If you suspect a Game Moderator of cheating, report it to the Administrator account. If you suspect a non-staff member of cheating, report it via the Bug Tracker. Do not report possible cheating by any Administrator or Game Moderator via the Bug Tracker, report it to the proper individuals. Do not post in any alliance message board, the Legacy Herald, or any other public area or even in any private message that you suspect someone of cheating...do not even imply it. This can be grounds for temporary or permanent suspension with or without the possibility of creating a new account.

Often times, in the military rules are written down that sound absolutely ridiculous. One example of a stupid rule that should never have to be written down would be...don't stick your head in a campfire. It's stupid, but it has to be stated if people are doing it.... That's what this section is for. This is a list of OBVIOUS RULES that reallly don't have to be stated since they are common sense. However, since people have been dumb enough to do them in the past claiming that while they know it is cheating to do it, they shouldn't be punished because we didn't write it...we now are writing them. Understand, if you break an obvious rule that isn't in the TOS but is obvious that it is a rule you will still get banned for it. We might or might not add it to our list...but you will get banned regardless.

Illegal P2P Transfers are against the rules. This means that if you are sending resources to a player using any feature other than the P2P Transfer system, you are cheating.

Using the Raid feature to give units to someone is an illegal P2P Transfer since you are using the RAID feature and NOT the P2P Transfer feature to transfer the resources. This is also considered Feature abuse since you are using the RAID feature for an activity other than what it is intended for.

Using the attack feature to give game dollars to other users is an illegal P2P Transfer since you are using the ATTACK feature and NOT the P2P Transfer feature to transfer the resources. This is also considered feature abuse since you are using the ATTACK feature for an activity other than what it is intended for.

When you quit the game, you are required to inform the Administrators. If you do not plan to play your account seriously for a period of time because you will be busy or because of holidays or for any other reason you are required to inform the Administrators. YOu must also provide the date when you will begin playing seriously again. Extreme lengths of non-serious play are not permitted and will result in banning even if you do log in daily. Non-serious play means you are not logging into the game frequently, OR you are not attacking for long periods of time, OR you are not raiding/spying/sabbing for long periods of time, OR you are not performing your duties as a Game Moderator/Game Trainer/Alliance Leader, etcetera for long periods of time.

Giving away your account to other players is against the rules.

Giving away your account by giving a user your username and password is against the rules and is considered cheating.

Giving away your account by giving your resources in whole or part to one or more players to other players using the Auction Market/P2P Transfer/Attack/Raid/any other feature is against the rules.

Not keeping up with the Terms Of Service, not understanding them, no following them, etcetera is your fault and not the site's. Such can not be used as excuses to avoid punishment or banning. If there is any question or doubt concerning our TOS you must ask an Administrator.

Probably the dumbest rule we will ever have to post here. It is against the rules to purposely lie to another player claiming that something is not against the TOS when you know it is against the TOS. This simply causes other players who don't know better to get banned for breaking the rules because of you. And guess what, yes, it will get you banned too.