1. TM & COPYRIGHT © 1997 BY FURRYMUCK AND VARIOUS ARTISTS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. All material on this site, including, but not limited to images, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips (collectively the "Material") is protected by copyrights owned or controlled by FurryMUCK . UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, REPRODUCTION, REPUBLISHING, UPLOADING, DOWNLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING OR DUPLICATING OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL IS PROHIBITED UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

2. Your use of this site constitutes your agreement to abide by these Terms of Use. FurryMUCK, and its administrators/webmasters reserve the right, in its their discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these Terms of Use at any time and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations or updates. You agree to review these Terms of Use on a periodic basis.

3. FurryMUCK hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable license to use and display, for home, noncommercial and personal use only, one copy of any Material and/or software that you may download from this site, including, but not limited to, any files, codes, audio or images incorporated in or generated by the software (collectively the "Downloaded Material") provided, however, that you must maintain all copyright and other notices contained in such Downloaded Material. You acknowledge and agree that you may not sublicense, assign or otherwise transfer this license or the Downloaded Material and that no title to the Downloaded Material has been or will be transferred to you from FurryMUCK or anyone else. You also agree that you will not alter, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise modify the Downloaded Material.

   SUBMISSIONS POLICY

4. Although we appreciate your comments, FurryMUCK cannot make any guarantee that it will respond to your message. However, you are welcome to submit artwork to FurryMUCK with the possibility that it shall be included as inline art on this site. However, we are unable to offer compensation for artwork other than possible display on this site and full acknowlegment for your work.

   If you do send us a submission, as outlined above, whether requested or not (collectively the "Submissions"), such Submission shall immediately become FurryMUCK's property. FurryMUCK may use any such Submissions as it deems fit, but shall have no obligation to use any of them. You agree not to assert any proprietary right of any kind in the Submissions (including, but not limited to copyright or trademark) and you waive the right to receive any financial or other consideration in connection with such Submission including, but not limited to, credit. You agree that any Submissions may be used, edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by FurryMUCK without any notice to you. In addition, you agree to waive any and all moral rights in such Submissions.

   LINKED SITES

5. FurryMUCK is not necessarily affiliated with sites which may be linked to this site and is not responsible for their content ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk.

   DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY

6. FurryMUCK is not responsible or liable for any infections or contamination of your system or delays, inaccuracies, errors, or omissions arising out of your use of this site or with respect to the Material contained on this site. This site and all Materials contained on it are distributed and transmitted "as is" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality, accuracy, adequacy, completeness contained on it, correctness, validity and quality of any material rests with you. FurryMUCK is not responsible for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages that may result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials contained on this site whether the material is provided or otherwise supplied by FurryMUCK or anyone else. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall FurryMUCK's total liability to you for any and all claims, damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract or tort or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site, or $0 (whichever is less.)

   RULES FOR BULLETIN BOARDS AND OTHER FORUMS

   You agree to indemnify FurryMUCK for any and all claims, damages, losses, and causes of action arising out of your publication or transmittal of Non-Approved Material or your failure to comply with these Terms of Use. While FurryMUCK does not and cannot review every message posted by users in the Forums and is not responsible for the content of these messages, FurryMUCK reserves the right to delete, move, or edit messages that it, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable.

   The views and/or opinions expressed by the experts and/or any other third party or guest on this site are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of FurryMUCK.

   OTHER

7. This site is controlled and operated by FurryMUCK by volunteer Webmasters living throughout the world. FurryMUCK makes no representations that materials in this site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with any and all local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. No software from this site may be downloaded, exported or reexported into (or to a national or resident of) any countries that are subject to U.S. export restrictions.

8. If any provision of this agreement is void or unenforceable in whole or in part, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the matters contained herein and shall not be modified except in writing.

FurryMuck is provided as a place where users may gather for the pur- poses of Role Playing and exploring Virtual Reality. By using your character login, you agree to the following Acceptable Use Policy: Access to FurryMuck, and the computing resources required to operate FurryMuck, is granted on a revokable basis, and at no time is this access guaranteed.

FurryMuck services may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmis- sion or solicitation for reception of material which violates US Federal or Wisconsin State Law, any Policy of the site where the Muck operates, or state or local law of the area in which you reside is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, material that is threatening, legally obscene, libelous, or violates trade-secret, patent, or copyright protections.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless FurryMuck, its Administrators (aka. Wizards), the owners/operators of the computing resources, and all other parties connected with the administration of FurryMuck from all claims which are a result of your usage, without limitation. You agree that any traffic which originates from your character or connection is your legal responsibility.

Notwithstanding the above, you agree that should we be found liable in a court of law for any action or lack of action related to your use of FurryMuck our liability is limited to $0.00.

ECPA NOTICE: We reserve the right to monitor any and all communica- tions through or with FurryMuck computing facilities. You agree that FurryMuck facilities are NOT to be considered a secure communica- tions medium for the purposes of the ECPA, and that no expectation of privacy is afforded.

Access to FurryMuck may be denied for any reason deemed appropriate by the Administrators (aka. Wizards), including but not limited to: Using the system to transmit Real Life threats of harm to another player; Harassment of another player or character; attempting to crash or corrupt the database or computing resources of the Muck.

Violation of any of the terms and conditions of service may result in any or all of the following:

• Suspension of access to the Muck and its computing resources for a time to be determined by the administrators.
• Removal of your character and termination of access to the Muck and its computing resources without prior notice.
• Notification of your site and/or system administrators
• Notification of civil and/or law enforcement authorities.

The collective work which is FurryMuck (the database, muf and mpi programs, and any and all auxiliary files) is copyright by the FurryMuck Wizards, and as such my not be copied in whole or in part by anyone without the express written consent of the Wizards. The following conditions apply:

1. Individual characters (descriptions, associated text and work solely added by a player) belong to the individual player and maybe copyright by that player. FurryMuck does NOT claim copyright on individual character descriptions. It is understood however that in the act of a player uploading character descriptions to FurryMuck, FurryMuck will store, serve, and archive such descriptions of the character and its creations (rooms/belongings/programs) as required to facilitate the operation of the game.

2. Programming works (MUF/MPI programs, user provided extensions to the game) will be permitted to be uploaded and used on FurryMuck and the individual copyright will be retained by the author of such programs. It is understood however that FurryMuck will store, serve, and archive such programs as required to facilitate the operation of the game.

   PLEASE NOTE: While FurryMuck does not claim ownership or copyright of such uploaded programs, if you intend on making any of your works publicly accessible (by setting them Link-ok, or offering them for use) you grant FurryMuck and its Wizards the right to store and copy and make available such programs and works for the benefit of its players and operation of the game. Should you wish to remove any programs or works from FurryMuck or withdraw them from public access, you grant the Wizards a reasonable time to seek and provide replacement of your programs and works before their removal. Should the programs or works be removed without reasonable notice or time to provide replacements, the Wizards may provide archival copies of your programs or works for a reasonable length of time to facilitate the operation of the game.

3. Publicly accessible areas (areas that can be entered by any exit not locked against use by a character, or teleported into, or specifically set Link-ok or Abode) remain the property of the creator/author and as such are not claimed copyright by FurryMuck. It is understood however that such text/descriptions/programming of rooms and exits will be stored, served, and archived by FurryMuck for the benefit of its players and operation of the game. Should you seek to remove such a public use area from FurryMuck you grant the Wizards a reasonable time to seek and provide replacement of your area. Should the area be removed without reasonable notice or time to provide against use by a character, or teleported into, or specifically set Link-ok or Abode) remain the property of the creator/author and as such are not claimed copyright by FurryMuck. It is understood however that such text/descriptions/programming of rooms and exits will be stored, served, and archived by FurryMuck for the benefit of its players and operation of the game. Should you seek to remove such a public use area from FurryMuck you grant the Wizards a reasonable time to seek and provide replacement of your area. Should the area be removed without reasonable notice or time to provide replacement, the Wizards may provide archival copies of your area for a reasonable length of time to facilitate the operation of the game.

4. You may donate to the public use of FurryMuck any area/program/work you create and as such release your claim of copyright. Such areas/programs/works will then become the property of FurryMuck to be controlled by the Wizard core. Donations of such material must be clearly communicated to a wizard and arrangements will be made to transfer ownership.

5. The Server code itself (Fuzzball) is NOT copyright by FurryMuck, though may be copyright in whole or in part by others. See copyright notices included in the Fuzzball distribution.