Terms of service
In short. The game is free and you may play it if you are old enough. Play fair: no cheating, no harassing other players, no attacking the server. Admins can mute, kick or ban players who break these rules, and any player can report another player. The game is provided as it is, and may change, pause or end. What we do with your data is in the privacy policy.
Accepting these terms
By playing Muskets Game (the game, its website and its servers) you accept these terms and the privacy policy. If you do not accept them, please do not play. The game shows a notice with a link to both the first time you open it, and again whenever either of them changes.
Who may play
You must be at least 16 years old, or at least 13 where the law of your country lets you agree to an online service like this yourself (in the European Union that age is between 13 and 16, depending on the country). The game shows the violence of a battle, with blood and wounds, and is not made for children. If you are not yet an adult where you live, ask a parent or guardian before you play.
Your account
- You can play as a guest, with no sign-in, or sign in with Google to keep your results on every device. The guest account is tied to your browser: clearing its data loses it.
- You are responsible for what is done with your account. Do not share it, sell it or trade it.
- You can delete your account at any time (Esc → Account); the privacy policy says what that removes.
How to behave
The game is a shared battlefield. Do not:
- cheat: no cheat programs, modified clients, scripts or bots that play for you, no use of a bug or an exploit to gain an advantage, and no telling others how;
- harass: no insults aimed at a person, hate, threats, sexual content, or other abuse in your name, in the text chat or in the voice chat;
- pretend to be someone else, such as another player, an admin or the operator;
- grief: no deliberately killing, blocking or wasting your own side to spoil the match for them;
- attack the service: no flooding the server with connections or messages, no probing it for weaknesses, no trying to reach other people's accounts or data. If you find a security problem, please write to the address below instead;
- get round a ban: no new accounts or other addresses to come back after a ban.
Moderation
- The operator and the admins it appoints can mute a player in the text or voice chat, kick a player from a match, ban an account or an address from the game for an hour, for a day or for good, change a name that is not allowed, and take a cheater's results off the leaderboard or reset them.
- Any player can report another player (not a bot) from the Esc menu. A report holds the category, what the reporter wrote, and a snapshot of the match that helps the admin judge it, including the chat lines near the time. An admin reads it; we cannot promise how soon. The privacy policy says how long reports are kept. Reports made in bad faith can be punished like any other abuse.
- The game also acts by itself against some things: a player who is idle for a long time is removed from the match, and a name or a chat line that contains an offensive word can be refused or hidden.
- If you think a decision was wrong, write to the address below with your username and what happened. We will look at it again.
Chat and voice
Text and voice are passed on, as they are sent, to the players who can read or hear them, and are not recorded. What you say is your responsibility, and other players can mute you. The one exception is a report: it keeps the chat lines near the moment, as described in the privacy policy. Do not share personal information in chat or voice: other players can hear it.
The game and the service
- The game is free. It is provided as it is, without a promise that it will always be available, free of errors or suit your purpose. It may pause for an update (a match usually carries on through one), be down for maintenance, change at any time, or end.
- Matches, scores, statistics and the leaderboard are for fun. They can be reset when the game changes or after cheating, and nothing you earn in the game is property, has a cash value or can be sold.
- The server may limit how many players can join from one address and how often a connection can be tried, to keep it working for everyone.
What belongs to whom
The game, its code and its original art belong to the operator. The models, textures, sounds and libraries made by others are used under their own licences, listed in the game (Esc → Credits). You may play and talk about the game, and share what you record of it. You may not copy, sell or run your own copy of the game or its servers, or take its assets, except where the law or an asset's own licence lets you. Your username and what you write in chat are shown to the other players in the match; by playing you allow that.
No warranty, and limits on liability
As far as the law allows, the operator is not liable for loss that comes from playing or from not being able to play: a lost account, results, time or an interrupted match. This does not limit liability for death or personal injury, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not let a service limit, and it does not take away the rights the law of your country gives you as a consumer.
Ending
You can stop playing and delete your account at any time. The operator can end or limit your access, for good or for a time, if you break these terms or put the game or its players at risk. The sections on behaviour, moderation, what belongs to whom and liability stay in force after that.
Law
These terms are governed by the law of the country where the operator lives, without taking away the protection that the law of your own country gives you as a consumer. If a part of these terms turns out not to hold, the rest still does.
Changes
If these terms change in a way that matters to you, the date at the top changes and the game says so: the notice is shown to you again the next time you open it. Earlier versions are not kept online. If you keep playing after a change, you accept the new terms.
Contact
The operator of the game, reachable at 07alimert07@gmail.com. Write to that address with any question about these terms, a report about a security problem, or to ask for a decision to be looked at again.