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Smurfen.net Terms of Service

By using or accessing Smurfen.net in any way, including, but not limited to, viewing or browsing the site, adding your own content to the site, using our gameservers or VOIP-servers, you are agreeing to be bound by our Terms of Service and rules.

Use of the Site
The Smurfen.net website provides you with all kinds of information about the community as well as provides you with a public forum, which is equipped with posting and replying facilities. While we invite you to share your opinions and questions in this way, they must not be used to distribute spam messages, post commercial advertisements, or spread links to malicious or dangerous websites. We do retain the right to moderate any post or written content submitted to the Smurfen.net website and to remove any content we deem to have violated our policies and rules.

Financial costs
Smurfen.net offers all its services free of charge to everyone who have not been removed from our services before. The services are funded by voluntary dontations from our communitymembers. Everyone is welcomed to make a donation, in order to make it widely supported by the community and independent from single contributors. Donating to Smurfen.net does not grant you any extra rights or privileges, these are strictly given out for activity and good/helpful behaviour on our services and is decided on by the game-headadmin or the Community Management.

Website/Forum compatibility
The website and forum are designed, built and optimised for Mozilla Firefox 32 and Google Chrome 37 and a resolution of at least 1024x768. Making use of other browsers and smaller resolutions can possibly lead to a lesser use-experience. This does not mean that proper use-experience is guaranteed for the recommended specifications, though every effort will be made to make sure the website and forum are as compatible as possible.

Disclaimer
All of the content contained on Smurfen.net is edited, checked and verified for accuracy as much as it is possible to do so. However, we cannot guarantee either its accuracy or the safety of any external links it might contain. Smurfen.net, as well as its owners and contributing authors can therefore not be held responsible for any problems or damage that occurs as a result of making use of material contained on our site.

Copyright
Any and all websitecontent presented on Smurfen.net is, unless explicitly stated otherwise, subject to a copyright held by Smurfen.net. It is permissible to link to content from this site as long as the original source is clearly stated, but the wholesale reproduction or partial modification of content is not permitted. Exceptions can be granted only if you receive prior (electronically) written consent from Smurfen.net.

Forumcontent
Smurfen.net cannot be held accountable for the contents of any and all forumcontent and neither for any problems or damage that occurs as a result of making use of material in those posts.
The free speech of the writers of forumposts is limited by the general Smurfen.net rules and the specific forumrules. The Smurfen.net staff can moderate any content on the forum if it doesn't comply with the previously mentioned rules.
Smurfen.net is not obliged to remove forumcontent as long as it complies with the rules metioned above.

Changes to this Agreement
Smurfen.net reserves the right to modify these Terms of Service, the Forum Terms of Agreement and the Smurfen.net rules at any time. Your decision to continue to visit our site and make use of our services after such changes have been made constitutes your formal acceptance of the new Terms of Service, Forum Terms of Agreement and/or Smurfen.net rules.

(Registered) Trademarks
Smurfen.net and the Smurfen.net logo are trademarks of Smurfen.net. Both the logo and the name can be used in videos, pictures and other content as long as it relates to the services provided by Smurfen.net (site, forum, gameservers, VOIP-servers and events hosted on previously mentioned platforms). Usage of the fore mentioned logo and name in any other cases is not allowed, except when having received prior (electronically) written consent from Smurfen.net.

Smurfen.net services gameservers on TrackMania and ShootMania (both included in the ManiaPlanet platform). Ubisoft, Ubi.com, Nadeo, the Ubisoft logo and the Nadeo logo are registered trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. ManiaPlanet, TrackMania, ShootMania, the ManiaPlanet logo, the TrackMania 2: Canyon logo, the TrackMania 2: Valley logo and the ShootMania logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment.

Smurfen.net uses Discord for chat and VOIP services. Usage of it is bound to their own Terms of Service.