Terms and conditions of use

By accessing and using leagueofcomicgeeks.com, the League of Comic Geeks (or simply "Comic Geeks") mobile app, or and any other site, application, API or embedded content owned or operated by 13 Bytes Inc. (the “Service”), you accept and agree to be bound by the privacy policy and the following terms and conditions ("Terms"):

Use: You may only use the Service in accordance with these Terms. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved by us.

Responsibility: You will be responsible for all activity that occurs as a result of your use of the Service. We disclaim any and all liability (including for negligence) for the content, opinions, statements or other information posted to, or use of, the Service by its users.

Provision of information: In order to use the Service, you must be at least 16 years of age. When you register to use the Service, you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service (“Registration Information”), and to maintain and promptly update your Registration Information in order to ensure that it remains true, accurate, current and complete.

Security and passwords: You acknowledge that we shall not be responsible for loss or distortion of information provided through the Service. You agree to use the Service in a secure manner, maintaining a secure password and keeping it confidential. We will not be liable for any unauthorized use of the Service impacting your account.

Conduct and content: As part of the service - reviews, comments, community posts, and any other methods of voicing your thoughts are subject to these additional terms and as such we reserve the right to remove community content (and/or terminate users) not following these terms:

1. You must be courteous and respectful of others' opinions.
2. You must not post unwelcome, hateful, aggressive, suggestive or otherwise inappropriate remarks.
3. You must not intimidate, threaten, harass or impersonate another user.
4. You must not attack or post unwelcome content towards a creator personally.
5. You must not request or attempt to solicit personal or identifying information from another user.
6. You must not promote other websites or services with intent to drive users away from the Service.
7. You must not promote piracy or other illegal means for reading, buying, or obtaining comics.
8. You must not post spoilers without the spoiler tag, a spoiler tag will be assigned by an admin if identified.
9. You must not plagiarize anyone else's writing. Write your own reviews; name, quote and link (where available) your sources.
10. You must not publish or post any offensive, objectionable, unlawful, explicit, or graphic content in any form.
11. You must not publish content that disseminates misinformation, disinformation or related manipulations, including viral sloganeering.

League of Comic Geeks is intended to be a welcoming and positive community for comic fans of every demographic. As such, representation is critical and deliberate attempts to chastise comic publishers or creators for improving diversity may result in account suspension. Beyond that, we reserve the right to remove content that is low effort, incendiary, or spam that we deem is not a good representation of our community. Intent to use this service to troll, spam, or create drama will be dealt with little tolerance.

No illegal use: You must not use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or post any information that is in breach of any confidentiality obligation, copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of any person.

Fees: We may charge subscription fees for the use of certain services offered on the Service ("Fees"). We may change the amount of Fees payable from time to time. We will communicate any changes in Fees, and any changes will only take effect at the end of your current subscription period.

Intellectual property: You agree that we own all of the intellectual property rights in the Service. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, distribute and display (including for commercial purposes) on the Service and in other media any content or material that you post on the Service, and any name(s) and/or avatar under which you post such content. Other than this right, we claim no intellectual property rights in relation to the information or content that you upload onto the Service. Any content you post to the Service should be original (not plagiarized from another person’s writing) and must not infringe anyone else’s intellectual property rights. Where you are referencing someone else’s intellectual property, you must make this clear by naming the quoted material’s author and through the use of identifiers such as quotation marks, links to source material, or other means.

Indemnity: You indemnify, and will keep indemnified, us against all forms of liability, actions, proceedings, demands, costs, charges and expenses which we may howsoever incur or be subject to or suffer as a result of the use by you of the Service.

Amendments: We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any time, including by changing the amount of any Fees payable for any of our services, and may also add new features that will be subject to these Terms. If these changes are material we will communicate the changes to users, and by continuing to use the Service, you will be taken to have agreed to the changes.

Third-party applications: We may provide a platform for third parties' applications, websites and services to make products and services available to you ("Third Party Applications") and your use of any Third Party Applications will be subject to their terms of use. You agree that we will not be liable for the behavior, features or content of any Third Party Applications.

Termination or suspension of accounts: If you do not abide by these Terms, we may suspend or terminate your account.

Warranty: We will try to promptly address (during normal business hours) all technical issues that arise on the Service. However, the Service is being delivered "as-is" and we make no warranty as to its use or performance. You assume all responsibility for the selection of the Service as appropriate to achieve the results you intend and for the installation of, use of, and results obtain from the Service. We do not and cannot warrant the performance or results you may obtain using the Service. We make no warranty that the Service will be error-free, virus-free, or free from interruptions or other failures or that the Service will meet your requirements. We will not be liable for any loss suffered as a result of any partial or total breakdown of the Service or any technical malfunctions.

Reverse engineering: You may not rename files of, modify, translate, localize, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, reverse engineer, scrape, or attempt to derive source code or content from, remove any proprietary notices from, or create derivative works based upon the Service in whole or in part. You may not duplicate or copy any portion of the Service, unless otherwise set forth herein. All rights not expressly set forth hereunder are reserved by League of Comic Geeks.

Force majeure: These terms shall not terminate and we shall not be liable for any disruption or failure to provide the services, software, or other items herein contemplated if caused by a force majeure event, act of God, war, declaration of government, cyber and/or hostile network attacks, or other natural event beyond our control.

This policy was last updated August 20, 2022 and is effective immediately.