Willow Grove's Basic Rules

The following is a short list of rules for Willow Members and Guests.

1. Willow Grove Is A Community, Not A Way To Make Money.
As a guest/member you do not own the accounts, activities, items, Gold or B.Gold, characters, locations, games and characters on the site; they are for you to play with while on the site. Except as permitted by the functionality of this site, you can't sell them (for Money, Gold or B.Gold), or pretend you made them. This means that you cannot try to make Money off the Gold or B.Gold or virtual items in your account or even sell the time it took you to collect such items and Gold or B.Gold. If we find someone selling Gold or B.Gold or items, we will freeze every account controlled by that user and every account of the user who purchased such Gold or B.Gold or items.

2. Play Safely.
This site is visited by many people around the world every month. Willow Grove has implemented many safeguards to make this a safe site. However, it is important that you play safely by not giving anyone personally identifiable information such as your e-mail address, physical address, school name, last name, photographs of yourself, instant messenger UserName or telephone number. Also make sure that you follow you family's rules for playing on the Internet.

3. Respect The Community.
Remember, people who play on Willow Grove are of all ages and backgrounds. Therefore, all user content and communications on the Willow Grove site are filtered and monitored. So that everyone has a good time, you understand and agree that you will not post or send through the site any words, images or links containing or relating to:
¤ profanity, obscenities ("swear words"), sexual content (express or implied, including inappropriate acts with or by your characterss for "real" or in role play)
¤ cybering
¤ romance role playing
¤ dating requests or offers for yourself, or other people on Willow Grove
¤ attacks, comments, or opinions about other people or things that slander, defame, threaten, insult or harass another person
¤ gangs, gang-slang, or the promotion of gangs
¤ chat rooms or links to sites with chat rooms
¤ promotions offering prizes of any sort (including chain letters or any kind of non site related giveaway)
¤ materials created by someone else without their express written permission
¤ information that might identify another user.
¤ material regarding political, social, or religious views or opinions.
¤ Character names, account UserNames, store fronts, or any descriptions or names that would be considered inappropriate under our Terms and Conditions
¤ "cheats" or "hacks", or information or links to sites claiming to have these
¤ requests for user passwords
¤ requests for Money by using your Willow Grove, Gold or B.Gold or any other Willow Grove property on third party sites or your personal websites (including Ebay)
¤ scams of any kind (including requests for users to change their email address)
¤ "spamming" (repeatedly posting the same message)
¤ anything that suggests it's from a member of the Willow Grove staff
¤ trying to test Willow Grove' message filters (or encouraging others to do so)
¤ other information that Willow Grove deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate for this site

BEWARE: If you do any of the above we may suspend you from using your account for up to 72 hours or freeze/ban your account permanently. Please note that depending on your account history and the type of infraction, you may be frozen or suspended for breaking the rules and that you WILL be frozen for multiple infractions. Also, you will not necessarily be warned prior to being frozen. This is your warning.

4. You MAY have TWO Accounts - But you may find you only need one (as each account has it's own, store, gallery, etc.).
It is important that Willow Grove users are responsible for their Characters and play fairly. Therefore, do not create multiple accounts on Willow Grove. You are allowed a maximum of TWO (2) accounts. One can be light, the other dark or neutral, if you wish.

5. Cheating Is Not Allowed.
If you use cheat programs or refreshers on any of the Willow Grove games, including non-Willow Grove software or programs, we will freeze/ban all of your accounts.

6. Willow Grove Use Of Member Submitted Materials
By uploading or otherwise submitting any materials to us, and/or the Site, you (and your parents, if you're under age 18) automatically grant (or agree that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) it becomes the property of  Willow Grove with exclusive use, to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and/or distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology. (In addition, you agree that all rights to those materials have been waived.)

7. Communications From Willow Grove.
You understand that, as part of playing on Willow Grove.com site, you may receive e-mail from Willow Grove.com that lets you know when certain events happen with your characters, etc. You also agree that occasionally Willow Grove.com can send you special offers that you are under no obligation to accept.

8. Scamming Is Not Tolerated.
Attempting to gain access to someone else's account and/or account information, or trying to get other people's passwords is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Your account (characters, shops, etc.) will be deleted and you will be permanently frozen/banned from the site.

9. You Are A Guest/Member.
Remember, this is a free website and we reserve the right to prohibit the use of the site to any user at any time. Be a good Guest/Member.

10. Non-Use
Willow Grove reserves the right to permanently terminate any account for non-use including accounts with Gold or B.Gold items or other items or privileges that may have been licensed through the payment of money to us or our licensing partners. Currently, our policy is to terminate any account that has not been active for 6 Months.

Revised - December 2008