Terms of Service

1The agreement

WoRTool is a free planning and community tool for the game War of Rights, operated by an individual (referred to here as "we", "us", and "our"). The service includes the wortool.com website, the WoRTool Discord bot, the WoRSketch battle planner, and any related pages or APIs we publish.

By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using the service, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

2Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to hold an account. If you are in the European Union, the European Economic Area, or the United Kingdom, you must be at least 16. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the service with the involvement of a parent or guardian who accepts these terms on your behalf.

You may not use the service if we have previously terminated your account, or if you are barred from doing so under applicable law.

3Your account

You can register with an email address and password, or sign in through Discord or Steam. Whichever route you take, the account is yours alone and you are responsible for what happens under it.

• Give an accurate email address and keep it current. It is how we verify the account, send password resets, and reach you about the service.
• Keep your password, passkeys, authenticator app, and recovery codes to yourself. Do not share the account or let anyone else sign in as you.
• One person, one account. Do not register accounts in bulk, by automated means, or to evade a suspension. Aliases of one mailbox, such as dots and plus labels on a Gmail address, are the same mailbox for this purpose, whether or not our sign-up form notices.
• Confirm a new account within 72 hours of creating it, either by following the link we email you or by connecting Discord or Steam. A new account that is never confirmed is deleted once that time is up, and until it is confirmed it cannot create communities, boards, posts, or comments. This applies only to confirming a new account: once an account is confirmed we do not delete it for going unused.
• Do not impersonate another person, another community, or a WoRTool administrator, and do not pick a username designed to create that impression.
• Tell us at legal@wortool.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

You can close your account at any time by writing to us. There is no button for it: a person carries it out, normally within a few days. Closing signs out every session and frees the Discord and Steam accounts that were linked to it. Say that you want the account erased rather than closed and we will remove the record itself. What survives either way, and why, is described in the Privacy Policy.

4Acceptable use

WoRTool exists so War of Rights communities can plan battles and run their units. Use it for that. Specifically, you agree not to:

• Post content that is unlawful, harassing, hateful, threatening, defamatory, sexually explicit, or that promotes violence against or degrades any person or group.
• Post another person's private information, including real names, addresses, workplaces, phone numbers, or IP addresses, without their clear permission.
• Upload malware, or content you do not have the rights to share.
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-download the site, or use automated tools against it, except through an interface we have published for that purpose.
• Probe, scan, or test the security of the service, circumvent rate limits or access controls, or attempt to reach data or accounts that are not yours.
• Interfere with the service or the infrastructure it runs on, including by flooding it with requests.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the service or the data in it without our written permission.
• Use the service to break any law, or to break the terms of Discord, Steam, or War of Rights itself.

Historical accuracy is the point of a Civil War game, and the catalog carries the names, flags, and unit designations of both sides of that conflict. That is context, not endorsement. Using the service to advocate for the ideology of the Confederacy, to celebrate slavery, or to promote any racist or extremist cause is a breach of these terms.

If you find a security vulnerability, report it to legal@wortool.com rather than exploiting it or disclosing it publicly. We will not pursue action against good-faith research that respects the privacy of other users and does not degrade the service.

5Your content

"Your content" means anything you put into the service: posts and comments, images and video you upload, community profiles and banners, event descriptions, rosters, WoRSketch boards and the drawings on them, catalog contributions, and what you type into the bot's commands and forms on Discord. The bot does not read ordinary conversation, and nothing you say in a channel becomes content here by being said near it.

You keep ownership of your content. We claim no ownership over it.

So that we can actually run the service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, resize, transcode, and display your content, and to distribute it to the people you have chosen to share it with. That license exists only to operate, maintain, back up, and improve the service, and it ends when you delete the content or close your account, except for copies already made in backups and for content others have legitimately reshared inside the service.

You confirm that you have the rights to everything you post, and that posting it does not breach anyone else's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.

Catalog contributions

When you submit a correction, resource, or image to the shared game catalog (maps, units, weapons) and we accept it, that contribution becomes part of a reference resource the whole community relies on. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable license to keep it in the catalog, edit it, and display it, with attribution to your account where the interface provides for it. This is limited to accepted catalog contributions; it does not apply to your posts, boards, or community content.

Feedback

If you send us ideas or suggestions about the service, we may use them freely and without obligation to you.

6Communities

A community on WoRTool is a player-run unit with its own profile, roster, ranks, schedule, and staff. Communities are run by their own members, not by us.

• A community's owners and staff are responsible for its content, its roster, and the conduct of its members within it.
• Joining a community makes your membership, rank, and activity in it visible to that community's staff and, depending on its settings, to other visitors.
• Community staff can remove members, edit the roster, and delete content posted in the community. If you leave or are removed, content you posted in that community may remain.
• A Discord server can be attached to a community by anyone who runs that server, meaning its owner or a member holding Administrator or Manage Server in it. We check that against Discord itself at the moment it is attached. We do not otherwise arbitrate who among a server's staff was entitled to do it. A server is attached to one community at a time.
• Attaching a server lets that community's staff see its channels, its roles, and its members through WoRTool. If a server was attached to a community you do not want it attached to, remove the bot from the server, and ask us or that community's owner to detach it.
• You can end up on a community's roster without a step on this site and without an account here. Holding a Discord role a community has mapped to one of its ranks places you on its roster at that rank; staff can import the holders of a role in one go; and answering a turnout call or being named in a muster records you as having served with that unit. A roster entry records your Discord id, display name, and avatar.
• A roster is public. The roster, the staff list, and turnout are part of a community's page, which anyone can read. Ask the community's staff to take you off it, or leave the Discord server, and if that gets you nowhere write to legal@wortool.com and we will remove the entry ourselves.
• A community may register its dedicated game server by giving us the FTP credentials its host issued. Only do that if you are entitled to: you are confirming you may connect to that server and let this community's staff change it through us. We store the password encrypted and use it only to carry out what staff ask for here. We are not responsible to you for what a community's own staff do to a server they have registered, nor for anything your hosting provider's terms say about sharing its credentials.
• We may remove a community, transfer its ownership, or reclaim an abandoned community name where its staff are unreachable or these terms are being breached.

Disputes between members of a community, or between communities, are for those communities to settle. We step in only where these terms are being breached.

7The Discord bot and linked accounts

You can link a Discord account or a Steam account to your WoRTool account, and a community can invite the WoRTool bot to its Discord server. Both are optional.

Inviting the bot means the person doing so has authority to act for that Discord server, and authorizes the bot to read the server's channels and roles and, where granted the permission, to assign roles and post messages on the community's behalf. Changes made through Discord and changes made on the website are two views of the same records, so an action taken in one place takes effect in the other.

Discord and Steam are separate services with their own terms and privacy policies. We do not control them, and their availability is not something we can promise. You can unlink either provider from your account settings, provided you keep a way to sign in.

8The game server editor

The server editor connects to a War of Rights dedicated server over the FTP login its host issued, and can read and overwrite files on it. Using it is a statement that you are entitled to administer that server. Pointing it at a host you do not run, or using a credential you were not given, is a breach of these terms and very likely of somebody else's too.

A community that registers a server is responsible for who can reach it and for the credential it stores. That is its owners and its moderators by virtue of the job, plus any rank granted the server management permission. We encrypt the credential and never show it back, but anyone who can use it can do everything the FTP login can do. Rotate it here when somebody leaves, the same as you would at the host.

We keep a copy of each configuration and admin list this tool overwrites so a bad edit can be undone, and we log who did what in the community's audit trail. Those copies are a convenience, not a backup: keep your own if the server matters to you.

The game host is a third party. We are not affiliated with gPortal, with any other host, or with the developers of War of Rights, and we cannot promise that a host will accept a connection, that a file will write, or that a server will start afterwards. What you publish to your server is your change to your server.

Connections are rate limited per account and per address, and we may suspend access to the editor, for an account or a community, where it is being used against hosts that are not theirs.

9Our content and the game catalog

The WoRTool name, design, layout, code, and original written material are ours or our licensors', and are protected by copyright. These terms give you permission to use the service, not to copy it.

Game data in the catalog, including map names, campaign structure, unit designations, weapon statistics, and in-game imagery, describes War of Rights and remains the property of Campfire Games. It is presented here for the community's reference under fair use, and we make no claim of ownership over it. If you are a rights holder and object to something we host, write to legal@wortool.com and we will remove it promptly. The procedure for a formal notice is set out under copyright complaints.

10Content from other services

Some of what you see here comes from somewhere else. We choose to show it, but we do not write it, review it in advance, or control what the provider serves next.

GIFs come from Giphy's public library. We request their widest public rating, which is the full range that library offers and does not include explicit material, but it does include content that is crude, violent, or otherwise unsuited to a younger audience. Nobody at WoRTool sees a GIF before it is posted. A GIF posted here is the responsibility of whoever posted it and is subject to the same acceptable use rules as anything else, so tell us about it the way you would tell us about any other post, through the contact form.

YouTube videos posted as links are shown as a thumbnail and an embedded player. The video, its channel, and anything it links to belong to whoever uploaded it, and playing one means accepting YouTube's own terms.

In-game statistics shown on profiles and in the after action report are collected by kepi.live from the game servers it tracks, not by us. We pass on what they publish. They cover only servers kepi.live watches, so an absent or incomplete record is not a statement that somebody has not played, and we cannot correct a figure at source. A record can be unavailable at any time, and its presence here is not part of what your account entitles you to.

Removing any of these, or the feature that shows them, is covered by the section on changes to the service below.

11Reporting something

If something here is illegal, breaks these terms, or should not be on the site, tell us through the contact form. You do not need an account to use it, and it reaches the same place whether you are a member, somebody named in a post, or a stranger who came across the page.

Give us a link to what you are reporting, say what is wrong with it, and leave us a way to reply. If you are telling us something is unlawful rather than merely unpleasant, say which law and which country, because that is what decides whether we can act on it and how quickly.

We look at every report. Where we take something down or restrict an account we tell the person affected what we did and why, unless the law stops us, and they can ask us to look again. Where we decide to do nothing, we will tell you that as well rather than leave you waiting.

12Copyright complaints

If you own rights in something posted here and believe it was used without permission, send a notice to legal@wortool.com, which is the address for copyright notices under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Include all of the following, because a notice missing any of them is one we may not be able to act on:

• Your signature, physical or electronic.
• Identification of the work you say has been infringed.
• A link to the material you want removed, precise enough for us to find it.
• Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them.

On a complete notice we remove or disable access to the material and tell the person who posted it what was removed and why. If they believe it was a mistake or that the use was authorized, they may send us a counter notice with their own signature, contact details, identification of the material and where it was, a statement under penalty of perjury that they believe it was removed in error, and their consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for their district. We will pass a counter notice on to you, and unless you tell us within ten business days that you have gone to court, we may restore the material.

Knowingly misrepresenting that something infringes, or that it was removed in error, carries liability under that Act. We close the accounts of people who infringe repeatedly.

13Moderation, suspension, and termination

We may remove content, suspend an account, or close an account where we reasonably believe these terms have been breached, where the law requires it, or where doing so is necessary to protect the service or its users.

Where it is practical and lawful to do so, we will tell you why, and you can appeal by writing to legal@wortool.com. Serious cases, such as content that is illegal or that puts other users at risk, may be acted on immediately and without notice.

You may stop using the service at any time. Sections that by their nature should outlast the agreement, including your content license for accepted catalog contributions, the disclaimers, the limitation of liability, and the governing law clause, survive the closing of your account.

14Availability and changes to the service

WoRTool is provided free of charge and is developed actively. We may add, change, or remove features, and we may take the service offline for maintenance or for good. We do not promise any level of uptime, and we do not guarantee that data you store here will always be available or recoverable.

Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. Where we plan to discontinue the service entirely, we will give reasonable notice so that you can export what matters to you.

15Disclaimers

16Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or content, arising out of or connected with your use of the service, whether the claim is in contract, tort, or any other theory, and even if we have been advised that such damages are possible.

Our total liability to you for all claims relating to the service is limited to one hundred United States dollars (USD 100). The service is free, and that limit reflects it.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limits above apply only as far as the law allows, and nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

17Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, brought by a third party and arising out of your content, your use of the service, or your breach of these terms or of any law or third-party right. We will notify you of any such claim and will not settle it without your consent, which you will not unreasonably withhold.

18Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the service changes or as the law requires. When a change is material, we will give notice on the site, and by email where we hold a verified address for you, before it takes effect. The effective date at the top of this page always reflects the current version. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, close your account.

19Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the state in the United States where the operator resides, without regard to its conflict of law rules. This is one person rather than a company, so that address is not published here; we will name the state on request, and to any court or authority that needs it. Any dispute that cannot be settled between us will be brought in the state or federal courts for that place, and you and we each consent to their jurisdiction.

Nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, or of the right to bring a claim in your local courts where the law gives you that right.

Before starting formal proceedings, please write to legal@wortool.com. Most problems can be settled that way.

20General

• These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the service.
• If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is narrowed only as far as needed.
• Our not enforcing a provision on one occasion is not a waiver of it.
• You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours in connection with a transfer of the service, on notice to you.
• We are not liable for failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages at Discord, Steam, or our hosting or email providers.

21Contact

Questions about these terms, notices of infringement, and legal correspondence all go to legal@wortool.com.