Terms of Service

Please read the Terms of Service carefully and make sure you accept all of them before you play. If you violate the Terms of Service in any way, you must be prepared to face the consequences. This might include being banned from the site immediately, and your account(s) being restricted, closed, or frozen. Any offenses are handled by the Moderators or the Administrator of this site, who will use their own judgement to deal with each case on an individual basis.

Administrative

• Pure Felinity ("purefelinity.com", "the game") is a virtual cat game owned privately by me (referred to as "I"). The cats, money and events in this game are only virtual (imaginary) and do not exist in the real world, only on this website.

• Everything you can do in the game is a privilege, not a right. I reserve the right to restrict or take away some or all of those privileges if I see the need to for any reason without any explanation. This includes, but is not limited to, action taken against a player who violates the Terms of Service.

• I reserve the right to shut down or limit access to the game for any length of time for any reason. I am not obligated to reimburse any players in any way, be it real or virtual money, or anything else. I also reserve the right to make changes to the site, the code, or the concept of the game at any time. This includes, but is not limited to, the point system, the amount of game money a player receives, and player privileges.

• I reserve the right to make changes to the Terms of Service at any time without any explanation. If you sign up for an account, you must agree to all of the Terms of Service. If you do not agree to the Terms of Service, you must stop using this site immediately. If you violate the Terms of Service in any way, you must be prepared to face the consequences. This might include being banned from the site immediately, and your account(s) being restricted, closed, or frozen.

• The images, text, and code of this site belong to Pure Felinity. You agree not to plagiarize, steal, or otherwise pilfer any of these materials without the sole permission of me, the owner.

• This website is moderated, and I request language and discussions be kept to a G rating and to a level of explicitness appropriate for a 13-year-old. However, I accept no responsibility for anything potentially harmful that may be posted to the public forums or sent via private messages. Inappropriate content and links are deleted, but could be seen before a Moderator has a chance to delete said content.

• Privacy policy: The Pure Felinity site collects your email address and IP address. The email address is used only to send password and account information and to communicate with a player if he or she uses the contact form. Your IP address is used to track users within the site. Both are visible to moderators and the administrator. Neither will be shared with any third parties (unless for some reason legal action needs to be taken, in which case I reserve the right to share them with the user's ISP or the authorities).




Restrictions

• You must be 13 years or older to create an account, in compliance with COPPA guidelines. Any player found to be under 13 years of age will be required to leave.

• You are not allowed to create, use, or have the ability to access more than two accounts (active or inactive) for any reason. This includes players who have old accounts on this site and cannot remember their login information upon returning. If for some reason you don't receive the reset password, please contact the Administrator.

• Sharing passwords or accounts, giving your account to someone else, or linking to another player's account is not allowed. It is your responsibility to keep your password safe and never share it with anyone. As such, anything done with your account is your responsibility. Claims of someone else hacking or sneaking into your account will not be believed.

• If you share a computer or internet connection, you are required to message a Moderator with first initials, account numbers, and ages of all people playing from your location. Failure to do so may result in accounts being frozen. The same applies if you use a public computer (school, library, etc.). This is only done so the Moderators are aware of the fact that more than two accounts might appear on your connection!

• No player may use another's account benefits. This includes generating cat images, holding cats for other players, use of tokens on others' cats, use of others' breeding slots, and all other account benefits. This does not include improving the health of shelter cats through the use of tokens. For more details and examples, please see the "sticky" posts in Help forum.

• The use of any scripts to play the game is strictly prohibited. A script is defined here as any program outside of the site and domain of purefelinity.com, written in any language, including, but not limited to, Javascript, CGI, PHP, PERL, or ASP, and accesses member areas of this site.

• Violation of copyright law is not permitted. Do not use or link to any content for which you do not own the copyright, unless you have and can provide upon request WRITTEN permission from the ORIGINAL CREATOR of the content.

• Racist, abusive, pornographic, obscene, or offensive material, or material that is illegal or infringes on any person's rights, may not be uploaded, linked, or referenced on this site.

• Cheating or scamming in any form is not permitted.




Rules

• Forums, currency trading, and other game privileges and features are reserved for active players. Active players must be engaged in breeding, showing, and/or caring for cats, and must have done so for a minimum of 14 consecutive days, or must have been members for less than 14 days.

• Any errors in the code ("bugs") must be reported immediately using the contact form. Exploitation or abuse of bugs is a violation of these Terms of Service.

• Report any player who scams, cheats, or otherwise breaks the rules via the contact form, including a detailed explanation.

• A user is not allowed to harass, threaten, spam, or insult other users in any way.

• Once you have sold a cat in the game, you have no say over what happens to it. You may have contracts or requirements for selling your cats, but you do not have the right to attempt to enforce said requirements.

• Trading game currency between virtual pet games is permitted only as long as the other game allows trading also. Trading for real life money or items that cost real life money on other games is not permitted. Exception: You may use Small Critters money OR Pure Felinity money to trade for real life money purchases from the Extras page of either game.

• Do not bump (post unnecessary information) to threads in the forum more than once per day.

• Do not spam other players. Spam includes unsolicited private messages, multiple forum threads or comments on the same topic, and irrelevant threads or comments posted to forums.

• It is strongly suggested that you read the Help and FAQ pages, as well as the guideline "sticky" posts in the forums, BEFORE seeking help from other players or the Moderators or Administrator.

• Obey directions from Moderators. If you feel the Moderator's behavior is inappropriate, do what you are told and then use the contact form to contact the administrator.

• Show entries cannot be restricted by anything other than title. Do not attempt to restrict shows in any other way.

• If a player's choice of gameplay does not violate the Terms of Service, you may not criticize them in any way. There are multiple possible goals on Pure Felinity, and multiple methods of obtaining goals. If you feel a player's choice of gameplay is a violation of the Terms, please contact a Moderator.

• Post in the correct forum. If you are unsure, please read forum descriptions or ask a Moderator.