tERMS OF sERVICE
Terms of service and use regarding Ulivari and other associated content. Violating these terms will incur warnings and may even result in blacklisting and banning depending on the severity or repeated offenses. The rules are generally pretty forgiving, though, so hopefully this won't become an issue.
The group reserves the right to alter terms of service as needed.
Covers MYO/Premade Design Terms, Default Purchasing Terms, Guest Artist Terms, Participant Agreement, and Warning/Banning/Blacklisting
The group reserves the right to alter terms of service as needed.
Covers MYO/Premade Design Terms, Default Purchasing Terms, Guest Artist Terms, Participant Agreement, and Warning/Banning/Blacklisting
Myo and Premade Design Terms
- You are free to make changes to any Ulivari design you own, so long as you remain within the species/trait guidelines; be sure to message the group or a mod with your updated design file so the masterlist art is up to date!
- When sending in your MYO design, please send a full sized image for our record-keeping; the masterlist post will ALWAYS be watermarked and displayed at a small size to protect your art and character.
- You may design your MYO within the species and trait guidelines however you please, but we ask that you not copy outside sources/designs or characters that you do not own. Drawing inspiration from something is okay, but out of respect for others and their designs, as well as legal reasons when it comes to copyrighted characters, please refrain from copying source material in the creation of a MYO. Fan OCs are a difficult subject to tackle, so I ask that if you wish to create one within this species, PLEASE provide an image of the referenced character so we can determine whether it's too similar. If you fail to do this, and we discover this and determine your design to be too similar to the source material, AND you refuse to edit the design to divorce it from the source material, we will permanently bind the character to you (making them unsellable/untradeable/ungiftable, unable to be transferred for any reason at all) regardless of the means by which the design/slot used was acquired. If a permanently bound character has a resale value, that value will be set to ZERO regardless of its prior amount. If you were NOT the original designer and cannot get the character changed, we can instead give you a MYO of equivalent trait/type value in exchange for said character so we can void or edit them personally!
- If your design is by Saivalkae, you have permission to edit the original art as desired (provided you follow the rules)! Other artists may not be comfortable with you editing their work, though, so be sure to check with them first.
- You are free to create alternate versions of Ulivari characters you own, or port your existing characters into Ulivari form (so long as you have a MYO slot and actually own the character). These alternate forms are permanently bound to the original design and cannot be sold/traded/gifted separately from the original unless their designs are significantly different from the Ulivari version.
- You should not repost reference artwork that isn't yours on a media sharing site like Deviantart, Twitter, etc. If you upload the art to a character site like toyhouse, always properly credit the artist as the designer/artist!
- Characters made via Paid MYO slots can be resold, traded, or gifted. Characters made via Free MYO slots can only be traded or gifted, never resold. Unused Paid MYO slots can be traded or resold at the same dollar amount for which they were purchased. Unused Free MYO slots CANNOT be transferred for any reason.
- Purchased adopts can be resold or traded for the value they were purchased at + the price of commissioned or self-made art. Gift art CANNOT be added to the value -- you should not benefit financially from the free work of others.
- Free, raffled adopts CANNOT be resold or traded. They may only be gifted to others, or returned to the group to be raffled off again. This includes any draw-to-adopt raffle characters, or characters otherwise won in some kind of game-like format.
- Please be certain that you are not selling/trading/gifting an Ulivari to a blacklisted user! (Currently there are none, and I'd like to keep it that way, but if that ever becomes an issue they will be listed at the bottom of this page)
- Co-ownership of characters will never be officially recognized by the group. While you are allowed to do so, only a single owner will be listed on the masterlist, and this person will be considered the owner, capable of transferring the character as they please (abiding by the TOS and sale/trade/gift status of the design in question). Please take care when deciding to co-own a design, and keep this in mind. The group is not and will not be responsible for what happens in this regard.
Default Purchasing Terms
- Acquiring a design by Saivalkae means you agree to follow his terms of service as described here on his personal website, as well as the Ulivari Citadel TOS. Acquiring a design by a guest artist or MYO designer within the Ulivari Citadel group means you agree to follow the Ulivari Citadel TOS as well as all terms of service set by said artist that are not overruled by certain group terms, (e.g., per UC TOS, being able to add the cost of commissions purchased for a character to the resale value of said character).
- Payment should always be completed within 24 hours of receiving the invoice! Otherwise, the design will go back up for sale unless a payment plan is agreed upon -- for Saivalkae's personal TOS, payment plans are automatically acceptable for any purchase over $100, but other artists may feel differently. Ask first!
- Design claim or auction bid comments should not be edited, hidden, or deleted unless otherwise discussed with Saivalkae or the seller/designer in case of emergencies; if you accidentally bid on the wrong design in a batch or made a number mistake, please make a NEW comment under the bid you were responding to noting that you made a mistake, and do not edit/delete your comment.
- Please only claim/bid what you can commit to paying for.
- Payment plans must be agreed upon by both buyer and seller.
- Refunds must be agreed upon by both buyer and seller, and the group should be informed of the cancelled ownership.
- Chargebacks on sold designs will result in an instant blacklisting and ban on all platforms, and your ownership will be revoked.
- Designers retain the right to set their own terms of service (which design-owners will be expected to follow), but must also abide by group terms of service and the guest artist terms as described on the group's TOS page.
Guest Artist Terms
- Guest artists keep all profit they make off of Ulivari guest designs, and may go about their sale as they see fit (flat sale, auction, raffle, flat-raffle, etc.), so long as they do it fairly and within the rules.
- Guest artists are not allowed to sell (as flat sale, auction, raffle, etc.) slotless custom Ulivari (meaning customs created without an existing MYO slot), but any artist may be commissioned to fill an existing MYO slot. If you would like to offer design commissions, please clarify that anyone interested must own a slot or purchase one through in-game currency or USD from Saivalkae.
- Guests artists may set and expect others to abide by their own personal TOS, but must similarly abide by species TOS, and understand that in some minor instances group TOS will override their own.
- Guest artists are expected to state in their sales post whether or not they will accept payment plans for their Ulivari-related designs.
- Guest artists retain limited license over the Ulivari-related designs they have created. In such a case they agree not to sell (or otherwise transfer the files of a character) more than once (e.g., selling the design to one person and then, without the owner's knowledge, selling it again), or engage in other forms of poor conduct. They agree not to redistribute the design or its art in merchandise prints, as downloadable files given to anyone but the rightful design owner, as NFTS, through any current or future technology in relation to the blockchain, or in any other like processes. Similarly, they agree to the group's right to repost the design to the Deviantart masterlist account, website, and/or other associated platforms with proper design credit attribution and watermarking, for the sake of record-keeping. Guest artists retain the right to display the designs they have created in portfolios/examples (with watermarking to protect the rights of the design owners).
- Guest artists discovered to be creating merchandise (or similar things as described above) of designs they've made and sold to others will be blacklisted from the species. Notably, commissions and personal prints are not considered merchandise and are not subject to the above rule; resale of prints or similar physical objects ARE however considered to be such when not bundled in the transfer of the depicted design itself.
- Guest artists have a responsibility to the purchaser and the group to deliver designs that have been paid for, as well as inform the group of transfer of ownership for a previously unowned design.
- Guest artists may be limited on the type or number of particular traits they will be allowed to use when working on a guest design, and understand they may be asked to change aspects of their design to suit this limit.
- Guest artists do not have the right to void ownership of a design, except in cases of chargeback or scamming, discussion of which must be taken to Saivalkae personally.
Participants Agree...
- To follow all group rules, terms of service/use, and moderator decisions, as well as respecting and adhering to the decisions of the moderators. Any legitimate issues with moderation may be brought up to Saivalkae with evidence of said issue, but I will not tolerate pettiness, lying, or evading consequences.
- To be courteous to other users. You don't have to like everyone, obviously, but please don't be rude. No drama-baiting, hate-mongering, harassment, etc. Issues with other users should be handled PRIVATELY either between yourselves or by messaging a moderator or myself (Saivalkae) if it is appropriate to do so. Please know we will not handle personal drama, but will take actions against harrassment and bullying.
- To not plagiarize/steal content from the group, fellow users, or outside sources for usage in the group. Do not claim others' work as your own. Anatomical similarities to Ulivari will not necessarily be seen as an issue given how ubiquitous a lot of closed species anatomy is in general, but please do not create rip-off versions of existing Ulivari characters, the species lore and world, or any other associated species or designs, and in general do not pretend to be the creator of something you aren't.
- To not create, post, and/or use unofficial Ulivari Citadel designs, keeping in mind that there are a number of free ways to acquire MYO slots in the ARPG, and that EXTERNAL species can interact with the world of the Ulivari!
- To not use Ulivari-Citadel designs or derived work for commercial purposes. Doing commissions of Ulivari characters is perfectly fine, but please do not mass-produce or distribute anything that could be considered merchandise or derived works for the sake of any variety of profit in relation to Ulivari-Citadel, its designs, its artwork, its lore, or other associated subjects.
- To not take Ulivari outside of their context as part of an ARPG group -- while you are more than welcome to build any stories in any worlds you'd like to use them in, by having an Ulivari you agree not to use their likeness as characters in games, comics, novels, v-tuber avatars, and in any additional external contexts which could in some way be monetized OR encourage the use and creation of unofficial, like stories and disrupt the ARPG elements of the group. Human or DISTINCTLY non-Ulivari AU versions of your Ulivari character are perfectly acceptable to use in this manner, but when it comes to their Ulivari form, please refrain from doing so.
- To keep things PG-16 in general public spaces and in submissions to the Deviantart group. We have an age-restricted 18+ channel in the Discord, but will not be allowing NSFW group submissions OR event entries.
- To not buy or sell the virtual currency and items of the group for real life money.
- To not scam, defraud, or create damages to the group, its users, or external parties in relation to the group itself.
- That violating these terms will result in receiving warnings first, and blacklisting/banning in severe cases -- or in the event of numerous repeat offenses resulting from bad faith actions.
On Warnings, Blacklisting, and Bans...
- Warnings do not incur any kind of punishment (nor are they listed publicly), and do not have a maximum amount (ie; x number of warnings before ban), so it's up to my personal discretion whether the history of a particular user is really something ban-worthy. I would really, really prefer not to have to ban anybody, ever, so we will be as understanding as possible when it's reasonable to do so. However, I will not tolerate serious offenses or repeat offenders who refuse to listen to the requests of the group.
- Blacklisted users will be public, for everyone to see. Blacklisted users who have legitimately (through legitimate purchase, trade, or gift, and not via scam or other unjust means such as chargebacks, etc.) acquired an Ulivari in the past will of course be allowed to keep the ones they own, but are NEVER allowed to acquire more under any circumstances. Please try not to trade/resell Ulivari to blacklisted users, if there unfortunately ever are any!
- Blacklisted users forfeit all items, currency, and unpaid MYO slots they have. Paid (USD) MYO slots remain with them and they are permitted to create a MYO using that slot and its permanently attached traits, but they cannot acquire new slots or new traits/items to add on.
- While I would prefer not to have to ban or blacklist anyone, I retain the right to do so for any reason. I will do everything in my power to ensure all who interact with the group are treated fairly, and will personally review all instances of banning, but my word on these matters are final.