Vouched Terms of Use
1. Acceptance of Terms
VCH ("VCH" or "We" or "www.vouched.gg" or "Vouched.gg"), as referred to herein, shall include its owner(s), officers, employees, principals, agents, licensors, licensees, assigns, and successors. VCH provides a collection of online resources, including forums, web pages, and paid areas at www.vouched.gg (referred to hereafter as the "Site") to third parties ("You" or "you"). By using the Site, you agree to the following terms and conditions, and any policies, guidelines, or amendments thereto that may be presented to you from time to time, or incorporated by reference herein, including but not limited to the Privacy Policy, Program Policies, and Legal Notices (collectively, the "Terms"). If you do not agree to the Terms, please discontinue use of the Site immediately. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, or otherwise alter the Terms at any time. Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You will not be notified of any such modifications.
By agreeing to the Terms, you hereby acknowledge, that "You", on behalf of yourself and any partners, members, operators, managers, affiliates, subsidiaries, predecessors, successors, assigns, admins, officers, and the partners and affiliates of its partners, members, operators, and managers (collectively, the "Releasors"), hereby irrevocably and unconditionally release and forever discharge vouched.gg, its affiliates, and its owner, and each of their beneficiaries, trustees, owners, predecessors, successors, assigns, admins, agents, officers, directors, shareholders, employees, site administrators, site staff, site moderators, servicers, representatives, attorneys, and affiliates, and all persons acting by, through, under, or in concert with any of the aforesaid persons, or entities or persons (collectively, "Releasees"), from and against any and all liability, and from and against any and all causes of action, including any and all suits, covenants, contracts, agreements, debts, liens, obligations, liabilities, claims, demands, damages, judgments, executions, losses, orders, penalties, costs, and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, of any kind or nature whatsoever, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, fixed or contingent, liquidated or illiquidated, which any of the Releasors ever had or now have or hereafter may have, whether in law or in equity, based upon, or related to, whether directly or indirectly, to the Site or use thereof. Releasors further agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Releasees harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities, and settlements, including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, Releasors' violation of these Terms.
2. Content
You understand that all information, data, text, software, tools, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or other materials (collectively, "Content") posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Site are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. VCH reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to pre-screen, flag, filter, refuse, modify, or remove any content available via the Site for violating the Terms or on the grounds that such content is objectionable. Notwithstanding, VCH is not an information content provider as that term is defined in the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. §230) ("Act"), and VCH is immune from any liability for Content on the Site pursuant to the Act. You understand that VCH does not control, does not take part in creating or generating, and is not responsible for development of Content made available through the Site, and that by using the Site you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and that you are using VCH at your own risk.
Furthermore, the VCH site and Content available through the Site may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of VCH. VCH makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, completeness, or authenticity of the information contained in any such site. You are linking to any other websites is at your own risk. The terms of linking to third-party material are more fully set forth in Section 16.
You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will VCH be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, or otherwise made available via the Site.
You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and any content that you create, transmit, or display while using the Site and for any consequences thereof. You agree to use the Site only for purposes that are legal, proper, and in accordance with the Terms and any applicable policies or guidelines. To report any activity or content that may violate the Terms, please contact us so that VCH may take reasonable action to remove such content. VCH will make a commercially reasonable effort to respond, but does not guarantee that it will respond to or will take action in response to all such notifications, and therefore cannot be responsible for a failure to respond.
Users outside of the United States agree to comply with applicable laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
You agree to follow specific forum rules as detailed in thread announcements, deviations may result in a ban.
3. Prohibited Content and Activities
VCH sets guidelines for what may appear on the Site, but exercises no control over the Content of the Site and is unable to police all such Content, and makes no representations about its ability to enforce such guidelines.
As part of VCH's guidelines, please be advised that VCH does not encourage or promote any posts or discussions concerning unlawful activities, fraud, or deception, including posts or discussions relating to fraudulent activities such as "Stolen Accounts", "Cookie Stuffing," "Hacking", "PVA", "Fraud" activities, or using classified ads in a deceptive manner.
In the overwhelming majority of instances, however, VCH has no control whatsoever over the Content, due to the volume of the Content and because the Content is posted from people over whom VCH exercises no control. As such, VCH cannot and does not screen each post before such posts appear on the Site, and VCH makes no guarantees, representations, or warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, about the Content provided on the Site. VCH assumes no responsibility for the Content of the Site, including the content of any posts included in the forums or otherwise linked to the VCH site or in any web page linked to a third party within the VCH site.
If you have reason to believe that any Content pertains to discussion of unlawful activities, please inform VCH team members so that VCH may take reasonable action to remove such content. VCH will make a commercially reasonable effort to respond, but does not guarantee that it will respond to or will take action in response to all such notifications, and therefore cannot be responsible for a failure to respond.
4. Third Party Content, Sites, and Services
VCH is supported in part by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions on the service. The manner, mode, and extent of advertising by VCH on its services are subject to change. As consideration for your use of the Site, in addition to any other fees that you have agreed to, you agree that VCH may place such advertising on the Site and that VCH shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred by you as a result of the presence of such advertisers on the Site or any subsequent dealings with such advertisers.
VCH is not responsible for and does not endorse or recommend the content of linked or unlinked third-party sites; third-party products, services, or offerings; sites framed within the VCH site; third-party sites provided as search results; or third-party advertisements, and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms of use and privacy policies for such sites, and you should review the terms of use and privacy policies of all sites that you link to from our Site. VCH does not endorse any product advertised on the VCH site.
VCH is not associated with or does not itself support or claim to be in partnership with any of the payment methods, services, or companies which may appear visible in the Online Payment method lists or advertisement details. Also, services provided by VCH are not authorized, approved, endorsed, or sponsored by any of the payment methods listed on the website or their respective trademark owners. VCH is not responsible for any user-generated content on its site including but not limited to messages, feedback, or advertisements and may remove said content without notice (unless such notice is required by applicable law) or liability at any time in its sole discretion.
5. Law Enforcement
VCH will respond to valid law enforcement agency information requests. VCH can provide the required information only to competent authorities after obtaining the legitimate official request. Competent authority is any person or organization that is legally delegated by the state, municipality, or similar authority to exercise or perform the powers, duties, and functions of filing requests for obtaining information or conducting investigations.
The request shall be made on a legal basis and sent according to the Terms of Use.
The request for information shall be made in English only and include a valid email address for us to deliver our response. A valid email is an official email of the competent authority, which is obviously associated with the competent authority in question.
VCH reserves the right to leave the request without action when it does not comply with the law.
VCH prefers to receive all types of inquiries via e-mail [email protected].
VCH uses its best efforts to collect and provide competent authorities with the information to its fullest and maximum possible extent, however, VCH takes no responsibility and gives no warranty, including implied, to the accuracy, adequacy, and completeness of the information provided in response to requests. Please be aware that any deficiencies in the information are possible and may be caused by whatever reasons including, but not limited to human agency, hardware and software imperfections and malfunctions.
The correspondence on the requests from competent authority is confidential and privileged and shall be used only for the purposes of the request.
VCH will make a commercially reasonable effort to respond, but does not guarantee that it will respond to or will take action in response to all such notifications, and therefore cannot be responsible for a failure to respond.
6. Escrow/Middleman
VCH will not be held responsible for any Escrow transactions of any type where an item or account sold or traded is recalled after the completion of the transaction. You acknowledge that VCH is not the owner of these items or accounts and only acts as a middleman. If an item or account is recalled by a previous owner or is hacked, you acknowledge that VCH is not responsible and will be unable to help recover the items or accounts.
Additional Terms
- You agree to our Privacy/Legal Policy.
- You agree to our Rules & Guidelines.
- You agree that you're at least 16 years old if you are a resident or citizen of the European Union. Non-EU residents agree that they are a minimum age of 13.
- You agree that if you are listing an account for sale that it is not stolen and/or hacked by any means.
- You agree that if you are selling an account or item that it is not stolen and/or hacked by any means.
- You agree that you will not use the Escrow to sell an account or item that is stolen and/or hacked by any means.
- You agree to use a pseudonym username that does not associate to your personal information. This includes, but is not limited to, association with social media accounts, websites you own or manage, ethnicity, location, school, workplace, email accounts, or your real name.
- You agree that your posts will not contain information which may expose personally identifying information.
- You agree that your profile signature, avatar, and other account editable data will not contain information that will identify you.
- You agree that all data you submit to our website will not identify you and that we are not obligated to remove it based on personal privacy.
- You agree that you will not post information which might identify another person. This includes but is not limited to emails, social media accounts, addresses, screenshots, or real names.
- You agree that all posts and content posted meet the standard for "important public interests" or "journalism" and as such will not be required to be altered or deleted.
- You agree that if you participate in using our website for deals, trades, sales, and other market activity that your personal information may be stored and even exposed for the purpose of preventing, investigating, detecting, and prosecution of legal responsibility and liability in both civil and criminal law.
- You agree that our storage method of your data is within reason. Personal data is retained for a period up to 7 years and is stored in a database format accessible directly only by the administrators.
- You consent that Staff group members may have access to the IP address of all posts, your registration IP, and your recently used IP.
- You consent that Admin group members may have access to any IP address you've used on the site, your email address, and can have read access to your private message folders.
- You agree that the exposure of your IP address to Staff and Admin group members is reasonable for site function.
- You consent that site backups may be kept for up to a 6 month period and done on a daily basis. The stored information is only for site backup and recovery purposes and the data is not sold or shared and is kept securely according to internet standards on cloud datacenters.
- You agree that your account may only be self-deleted if no posts are made.
- You agree that in the event of a server change the data we store may be securely moved to a new location.
- You agree that if you are not an EU citizen or resident that you do not fall under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law. Citizens and residents of the EU may be required to prove your citizenship or residency to provide you the legal protections and rights of that law.
- You agree that for our service to function correctly your IP address and browser information may be shared with our vendors such as Cloudflare.
- You agree that for our email service to function correctly your IP address and email information may be shared with our email vendor Elastic Email. We agree not to sell your email.
We are not interested to know who you are. You should not reveal your real identity to members. Your participation on our forum should be done from an anonymous and privacy perspective. This webpage informs all visitors of current policies and is kept current. Only those who consent and agree to site policies will be allowed site access.
IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR AGREE WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OR CONDITIONS, DO NOT USE THIS SITE. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF ITS PROVISIONS.
Updated: August 2024