January 5, 2009, 7:09 pm EST
IMPORTANT: YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE USING THE ONLINE GAMING LEAGUE
(OGL) SITE. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS REPRESENT THE COMPLETE AGREEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN YOU AND
ONLINE GAMING LEAGUE, WHICH OWNS AND OPERATES THE OGL. YOUR USE OF THE OGL INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE
OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND THE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS, YOU SHOULD PROMPTLY EXIT THE OGL.
Who may become an OGL Member
Anyone may become an OGL member. However, if you are under 18 years old, you must have the permission of
your parent or legal guardian, and you and your parent or legal guardian must have read and agreed to follow
these terms and conditions. YOUR PRESENCE ON OGL SIGNIFIES THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE OR YOU HAVE
THE PERMISSION OF YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN TO BE ON OGL. ONLY ONE ACCOUNT IS PERMITTED PER PERSON.
The Online Gaming League reserves the right to terminate your membership or to discontinue your
participation in OGL at any time, for any conduct that Online Gaming League, in its sole discretion,
believes violates these Terms and Conditions or that is otherwise harmful to other OGL participants.
OGL reserves the right to reject and/or change any username at its sole discretion at any time and for
any reason whatsoever.
Software
You will be in continual use of Online Gaming League software on this website. You will be bound by
all of the terms and conditions that accompanies such software. If you use third party software to
participate in the games on the OGL, you agree that you will own a license to such software, and you will
not copy or modify such third party software unless your license to the software expressly permits you to
do so.
Match Broadcasts
Membership in the OGL or participation in any OGL competition constitutes an individual's express
permission, individually and collectively with any teammates, for OGL-sanctioned broadcasters to view,
connect to, and broadcast any official OGL match, without exception. An individual or team's continued
membership in OGL and/or participation in OGL leagues and ladders constitutes their agreement to all such
terms, conditions, and notices.
OGL Contests
From time to time, OGL may sponsor or sanction special contests where prizes or other consideration are awarded.
The OGL Contest Rules, posted within the OGL site establish
the rules for all OGL contests. Please note, however, that when you participate in a contest, you also will
continue to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. The following special conditions also apply
to any OGL sanctioned or sponsored event where prizes are offered:
- Members providing incorrect, false, misleading, or missing information in their user profile, and information provided
at signup, will forfeit their right to collect any prizes won without recourse.
- By participating in the special event, each participant grants to the Online Gaming League, together with
any sponsors of the event, the right to use the player's name, image and/or the
likeness including (but not limited to) photographs, video recordings, audio recordings for the purpose
of advertising or promotional purposes, without further consent or consideration to the player.
- Players are solely responsible for the payment of any taxes required by any government entity on
any monies won by virtue of participation in the tournament. The OGL assumes no responsibility any tax liability
or any money or prizes which may be awarded as a result of participation in the event.
Cancellation of Membership
To cancel your OGL Membership you must contact the OGL Customer Service Department via email at
support@ogl.org. Cancellation requests must include the account's user name and password.
Phone Charges
You are responsible for all phone charges that you incur while accessing the OGL website, including but
not limited to, long distance charges, equipment and line cost, and any disputes about such charges or
phone service are strictly between you and your telephone carrier.
Content Creation and Use of Materials
If you add content or invent characters, you represent that all material you upload to the OGL, when and
if such uploads are enabled, including any characters you create, will be in the public domain. In other
words, neither you nor anyone else may own or claim to own or have exclusive rights, including the copyright
or trademark rights to, such material, and you agree that the OGL may use such material for any purpose,
including re-publication and creation of derivative rights. You assume all risks regarding the determination
of your right to use materials or whether materials are in the public domain.
You may not store, distribute or transmit any unlawful material through or by use of the OGL website.
Examples of unlawful material include but are not limited to direct threats of physical harm, child
pornography, and copyrighted, trademarked and other proprietary material used without proper authorization.
The storage, distribution, or transmission of unlawful materials could subject you to criminal as well as
civil liability, in addition to the actions outlined under the section "Violations" below.
You agree that Online Gaming League, may store, transfer, distribute and otherwise use any materials or
information which you upload or provide to Online Gaming League, or the OGL website. This specifically
includes the right to distribute your Competitive Profile to other OGL Members.
No Offensive Material
You agree that you will not upload to the OGL or disseminate via the OGL any obscene, false, defamatory
or hateful material. While the OGL does not actively screen the OGL for such material, if it receives a
complaint from another OGL participant or third party, or otherwise becomes aware of such material, it
will review the material and may, in its sole discretion, remove such materials from the OGL and may
terminate your access to or Membership in the OGL.
Cheating
Cheating in any form is prohibited. If the Online Gaming League, suspects or determines that you have
cheated, the OGL may take any or all the actions described in the section entitled "Violations" below. In
addition, you may forfeit and any prepaid Membership fees or prize awards.
Online Gaming League, reserves the right to audit all online games. Any dispute between Members
regarding any aspect of participation in the OGL will be resolved by Online Gaming League, and its
decision will be final and binding.
System Security
You may not use the OGL to compromise the security or tamper with system resources on computers at Online
Gaming League, or at any other site. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security
is prohibited. Examples of these tools include but are not limited to password guessing programs, cracking
tools or network probing tools. Online Gaming League, will fully cooperate with law enforcement
authorities in investigating suspected lawbreakers and may release your name and other Membership
information to the appropriate authorities for that purpose.
System Resources
The Online Gaming League, will allocate system resources to provide all Members with the best service
possible. As part of resource allocation, the Online Gaming League, may limit, restrict or prioritize
access to system resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space, session length, and number of sessions.
Additionally, the Online Gaming League, may institute services and fees for Members who access system
resources above and beyond acceptable usage.
The Online Gaming League, may log instances of abuse of system resources, including but not limited to
those outlined below, and take action as outlined in the section labeled "Violations" below.
System abuse means any use of the Online Gaming League resources which disrupts the normal use of the
OGL website for others. Examples of system abuse include, but are not limited to, attempting to disrupt
the sessions of other OGL Members, consuming excessive amounts of CPU time, network resources or disk space,
or otherwise unreasonably and adversely affecting the performance of OGL servers.
Chat Areas and Discussion Forums
The Online Gaming League does not guarantee monitoring the chat areas or forums. Accordingly, the Online
Gaming League is not responsible for the content of any posting made to chat areas or discussion
forums. The Online Gaming League reserves the right to discontinue access to any chat area or discussion
forum at any time for any reason.
The Online Gaming League will investigate complaints regarding posts of inappropriate material to the
OGL website by Members and may, in its sole discretion, take action as described in these terms and
conditions. The Online Gaming League may base its determination of whether a post is inappropriate on such
criteria as any posted description the chat area or discussion forum in question, the system resources
consumed by the posting, and applicable laws.
You may not post advertisements on the OGL website, except where and if permitted by the OGL. Also, you
may not post such materials as chain letters, pyramid schemes, encoded binary files, job offers or listings,
and personal ads without our written permission.
You may not alter the headers of posts to chat area or forums or to email messages to prevent Members from
responding to posts or to conceal their email addresses unless the software provides you proper permission
levels to do so, as directed by OGL management.
You may not remove postings which are made by other Members unless the software provides you proper
permission, as directed by OGL management. The Online Gaming League has the right to remove any postings
or to require that any posting be moved to a different forum or different area of the OGL website.
You may not attempt to "flood" or disrupt the public areas on the OGL website. Disruption is defined as
posting to a forum a large number of messages which contain no substantive content and where normal
discussion in the forum is significantly hindered. Examples of disruptive activities include, but are not
limited to, posting multiple messages with no text in the body, or posting many follow-ups to messages with
no new text.
Violations
The Online Gaming League reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms and
Conditions. When the Online Gaming League becomes aware of possible violations, the Online Gaming League may initiate an investigation which may include gathering information from the Member or Members
involved and/or the complaining party, if any, and examination of material on OGL’s servers.
During an investigation the Online Gaming League may suspend the Membership of the Members involved
and/or remove the material involved from the OGL’s servers. If the Online Gaming League believes, in its
sole discretion, that a violation of these Terms and Conditions has occurred, it may take responsive action,
which may include removal of material from the OGL’s servers, warnings and suspension or termination of
Memberships, including permanent banning from any future OGL membership. The Online Gaming League, in its
sole discretion, will determine what action will be taken in response to a violation on a case-by-case basis.
Violations could also subject the Member to criminal or civil liability.
Your Indemnity Of the Online Gaming League
You agree to indemnify the Online Gaming League against any claims or damages arising out of your breach
of any of your warranties or obligations under this Agreement or your placement or transmission of any
materials or content onto the OGL network.
Term
This Agreement is effective until terminated. The Online Gaming League may terminate your license and the
OGL Membership at any time if you breach any of the terms of this Agreement, fail to make any payments when
due, or if any of the representations you make in this Agreement turn out to be false. Other than your right
to participate in the OGL and in Member activities, all rights and obligations of the parties will survive
termination of this Agreement.
Limited Warranty; Limitation Of Remedies
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE OGL IS A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING SERVICE AND THAT BUGS AND ERRORS WILL OCCUR FROM
TIME TO TIME, INCLUDING THOSE WHICH COULD "CRASH" YOUR COMPUTER, OR EVEN AFFECT YOUR DATA. ACCORDINGLY,
THE OGL SERVICE AND NETWORK ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF CONTENT APPEARING ON THE OGL NETWORK AND
YOUR USE OF THE NETWORK IS WITH YOU.
THE ONLINE GAMING LEAGUE SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY REASON BASED ON YOUR USE OF OR
PARTICIPATION IN THE OGL OR LICENSED SOFTWARE. In any case, the OGL’s entire liability under or arising
out of these Terms and Conditions or your use of or participation in the OGL network, shall be limited to
the greater of the amount that you paid in Membership Fees for the preceding month – i.e. NONE. Some
jurisdictions may not allow a limitation on liability for negligence that causes personal injury or death,
and the Online Gaming League limits its liability in such jurisdictions only to the degree allowed by the
applicable laws.
General
Changes to These Terms and Conditions: The Online Gaming League wants to make sure that the OGL is fun
and fair for all participants. We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions, and any rules for
OGL Contests, Tournaments, Ladders and the like, at any time, in our discretion. We will publish notice of
changes on-line at a designated place within the OGL Network. If you are an OGL Member we may also send
notice of changes to you via your e-mail account.
You may not assign your OGL Membership or your rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any attempt
to sublicense, assign or transfer any of the rights, duties or obligations under this Agreement is void.
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Florida, excluding its conflict of law rules.
You may obtain a copy of these Terms and Conditions through the World Wide Web at: http://www.ogl.org.
License
The Online Gaming League and its third party licensors (collectively, "Licensor") grants to you a
non-exclusive license to use the accompanying software product ("Software") and accompanying documentation
("Documentation") on the following terms:
You may:
use the Software only with the OGL Network.
You may not:
Permit other individuals to use the Software except under the terms listed above;
modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the
Software or Documentation (except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction);
copy the Software or Documentation (except for back-up purposes); rent, lease, transfer or otherwise
transfer rights to the Software or Documentation; or remove any proprietary notices or labels on the
Software or Documentation.
Title
Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in and to the Software and Documentation shall
remain in Licensor and/or its third party licensors. The Software is protected by the copyright laws of
the United States and international copyright treaties. Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property
rights in and to the content accessed through the Software is the property of the applicable content owner
and may be protected by applicable copyright or other law. This License gives you no rights to such content.
To the extent that the Software and Documentation is provided by license from one or more third party
licensors, such licensor is an intended third party beneficiary of this agreement and may directly enforce
the terms of the agreement related to its software and documentation.
Limited Warranty
Licensor does not warrant that your use of the Software will be uninterrupted or that the operation of
the Software will be error-free or secure and hereby disclaims any and all liability on account thereof.
Licensor warrants that the media containing the Software, if provided by Licensor, is free from defects in
material and workmanship and will so remain for ninety (90) days from the date you acquired the Software.
Licensor's sole liability for any breach of this warranty shall be, in Licensor's sole discretion: (i) to
replace your defective media; or (ii) if the above remedy is impracticable, in Licensor's sole discretion,
to refund the license fee, if any, you paid for the Software. Repaired, corrected, or replaced Software and
Documentation shall be covered by this limited warranty for the period remaining under the warranty that
covered the original Software, or if longer, for thirty (30) days after the date of shipment to you of the
repaired or replaced Software. Only if you inform Licensor of your problem with the Software during the
applicable warranty period and provide evidence of the date you acquired the Software will Licensor be
obligated to honor this warranty. Licensor will use reasonable commercial efforts to repair, replace,
advise or refund pursuant to the foregoing warranty within 30 days of being so notified.
THIS IS A LIMITED WARRANTY AND IT IS THE ONLY WARRANTY OR CONDITION MADE BY LICENSOR. LICENSOR MAKES NO
OTHER EXPRESS WARRANTY AND ALL OTHER WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR
OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
ARE EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE BY LAW. NO DEALER, AGENT, OR EMPLOYEE OF LICENSOR
IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATIONS, EXTENSIONS OR ADDITIONS TO THIS WARRANTY. If the media is subjected
to accident, abuse, or improper use; or if you make any prohibited modifications to the Software during the
warranty period; or if you otherwise violate the terms of this agreement, then this warranty shall
immediately and automatically terminate. This warranty shall not apply if the Software is used on or in
conjunction with hardware or software other than the unmodified version of hardware and software with which
the Software was designed to be used as described in the Documentation.
THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER LEGAL RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO
STATE OR BY JURISDICTION.
Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL LICENSOR OR ITS
SUPPLIERS OR RESELLERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK
STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, OR FOR ANY
DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF LICENSOR'S LIST PRICE FOR A LICENSE TO THE SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF LICENSOR
SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY. This
limitation of liability shall not apply to liability for death or personal injury to the extent applicable
law prohibits such limitation. Furthermore, some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of
incidental or consequential damages, so this limitation and exclusion may not apply to you.
Termination
The license will terminate automatically if you fail to comply with the limitations described above,
unless you have remedied such failure within thirty (30) days of the date on which you failed to comply
with the limitations described above and notify Licensor accordingly. On termination, you must destroy all
copies of the Software and Documentation.
Export Controls
None of the Software or underlying information or technology may be downloaded or otherwise exported or
reexported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Yugoslavia, Iran,
Syria or any other country to which the U.S. or U.K. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S.
Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of
Denial Orders. By downloading or using the Software, you are agreeing to the foregoing and you are
representing and warranting that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident
of any such country or on any such list.
U.S. Government Restricted Rights
Use, duplication or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions set forth in subparagraphs
(a) through (d) of the Commercial Computer-Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52.227-19 when applicable, or
in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at
DFARS 252.227-7013, and in similar clauses in the NASA FAR Supplement. Contractor/manufacturer is Online
Gaming League, LLC, 102 E. New Haven Ave., Suite 154, Melbourne, FL 32901. If you are a unit or agency of
the Government or are acquiring the Software and Documentation for any such unit or agency, the following
apply:
(a) If the unit or agency is the Department of Defense ("DOD"), the Software and Documentation are
classified as "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation", respectively,
and, pursuant to DFAR Section 227.7202, the Government is acquiring the Software and Documentation in
accordance with the terms of this agreement.
(b) If the unit or agency is other than DOD, the Software and Documentation are classified as "commercial
computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation", respectively, and pursuant to FAR
Section 12.212, the Government is acquiring the Software and Documentation in accordance with the terms of
this agreement.
Miscellaneous
This agreement represents the complete agreement concerning this license between the parties and supersedes
all prior agreements and representations between them, with respect to the license of the Software and
Documentation. It may be amended only in writing. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be
unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable.
This agreement shall be governed by and construed under Texas law as such law applies to agreements
between Texas residents entered into and to be performed within Texas, except as governed by Federal
law. The application the United Nations Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is
expressly excluded.