Legal notices

Legal notices

Cats & Foxes S.A.S
Hosted at Inria Centre at Université de Lorraine
615 Avenue du Jardin botanique
54600 Villers-lès-Nancy, France

RCS number: Nancy B 937 981 389
Contact: contact@catsandfoxes.com
Publication manager: Nicolas Gauville, contact@catsandfoxes.com
VAT number: FR78937981389

Hosting

VirtualSociety is hosted by Hostinger International Ltd, whose registered office is located at:
61 Lordou Vironos Street, 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus

Privacy and cookies

Personal data protection

Cats & Foxes is committed to protecting personal data. Cats & Foxes undertakes to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 ("GDPR") and the amended French Data Protection Act.

Cats & Foxes uses this site to present VirtualSociety and provide access to VirtualSociety Online on the legal basis of consent. This data is kept until account deletion or user request, and is not transferred outside the European Union. Data collection is voluntary and does not involve automated decision-making. You may access your data, request its deletion, object to processing, request correction, and request restriction of processing. To exercise these rights or ask any question about data processing, you can contact the DPO at contact@catsandfoxes.com. If you believe your rights are not respected or that processing is not compliant, you may submit a complaint to the CNIL.

When an account is created, we retain the username and email address provided. To request access, correction or deletion, email contact@catsandfoxes.com from the address linked to the account.

Cookies

When browsing VirtualSociety, cookies may be used to operate accounts, the platform and your preferences.

The site may remember your space choice, game or health, to avoid asking for this preference on every visit. This preference contains no personal data and is not used for advertising purposes.

VirtualSociety also uses Matomo, hosted by Cats & Foxes, to measure site traffic and improve its content. This data is not used for advertising.

Terms of use

I. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF SERVICE

Please note that the acceptance and application of the TOS is mandatory to use VirtualSociety. By accepting the TOS, you acknowledge that you are at least 13 years old and that you agree to abide by the rules indicated during the game. In case you do not agree with the rules, stop using the application.

II. ACCESS TO VIRTUALSOCIETY AND VIRTUALSOCIETY ONLINE

VirtualSociety Online is available on the internet via the website virtualsociety.co. No other address or site allows access to the game. In order to play VirtualSociety Online, you must also have an account on our site. The creation of an account is free of charge, but requires the acceptance of these T&Cs. You are responsible for the costs of the internet connection to access the game.

VirtualSociety will be available on several stores depending on the platform.

III. REGISTRATION

Registration is required to play VirtualSociety. To create an account, you must be a natural person at least thirteen years old. Any account created remains the property of VirtualSociety. You are the holder of the account, which allows you to authenticate and access the game. The information provided when creating your account must be accurate.

Your username and password allow you to access your account, keep your password secret and change it if a third party has come to know it.

Profile information must be accurate. For some of them, it is not obligatory to indicate the requested information; in this case, you are required to fill in the correct information or to leave the field empty, but in no case use a false information.

The choice of a nickname is subject to certain conditions: it must not refer to a political orientation, a community, or a religion, be vulgar or insulting, have a pornographic or sexual connotation, resemble, correspond or imitate the name of a registered trademark, refer to a product prohibited by law, resemble, correspond or imitate the name of an administrator or member of the VirtualSociety team. Your nickname must also be pronounceable.

IV. ACCOUNTS

VirtualSociety prohibits trading, sharing, selling or giving away user accounts, under penalty of deletion of the account(s) in question. You are obliged to keep your password confidential, and to change it if a third person has come to know it.

The email address you provide must belong to you. It is thus forbidden to use the email address of a third person or to resort to the use of disposable emails. Any account created with a disposable email address can be deleted from the network without notice.

VirtualSociety is not responsible for your account and the information contained in it. In case of alteration, deletion, theft, or other damage to your account, VirtualSociety cannot be held responsible.
You acknowledge that you are responsible for all actions taken from your account.

V. PRIVACY POLICY

For every registration on VirtualSociety, we collect the following data:

• Username
• Email address

We do not make any commercial use of your data. To exercise your rights, see the Privacy and cookies section.

VI. RULES OF CONDUCT

We rely on your common sense to understand that good user conduct is paramount in the game. Thus, you are asked to be polite, not to be abusive and not to denigrate other players.

If a player's behavior is deemed by one of the moderators to be in violation of the rules of conduct, or if it prevents other users from having a good experience in the game, the player causing the problem may be excluded from the game without notice.

In order to avoid any problems, players who have caused several problems may be banned temporarily (their character will be blocked in the prison zone for a while), or permanently.

In general, we can summarize the rules of conduct as follows:

• You must not make any abusive, racist, offensive, shocking, discriminatory or unlawful statements.
• You must not abuse the features to spam or harass one or more other players.

VII. USE OF VIRTUALSOCIETY

Your use of VirtualSociety is limited by the following set of rules:

• You must not use the service in a way that could be illegal.
• The use of third-party programs such as bots, or the modification of information received and sent by the game client, is strictly forbidden.

VIII. PRISON WARNINGS AND SANCTIONS

In the case of non-compliance with the rules of use or the rules of conduct, several sanctions may be applied:

• Warning: a user who has received a warning may continue to play, but the moderators will be informed and thus likely to be more severe in the event of a repeat offence.
• Jailing: A user who has been jailed may not use the game completely for a period of time determined by the moderator.
• Account deletion: In case of serious misconduct, a user's account can be deleted completely and permanently from the game. The player will be asked not to use VirtualSociety anymore.

IX. RESPECT OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The content of the game is the property of VirtualSociety. As a player, you have the possibility to access the content and to customize a part of it. However, you are not allowed to distribute it elsewhere or to modify it by other means than those offered by VirtualSociety.

X. USE OF INFORMATION

The information you provide in VirtualSociety can be reused for statistical purposes or for various verifications (in terms of security for instance). VirtualSociety also reserves the right to collect certain information while you play, including your IP address, game time and exchanges with other players via VirtualSociety.

XI. REVISION OF THE TOS

These terms of use may be changed at any time. In that event, a message will inform you when you first log in after the changes. Acceptance of the Terms of Use is mandatory. If you disagree with them, you must not use VirtualSociety.

XII. WARRANTY

Please note that none of the services offered by VirtualSociety are guaranteed in any way. VirtualSociety reserves the right to cut off the access to the services it offers or to a part of them without prior notice. This also includes all the paid features of the game: the fact of acquiring access to them does not offer you any guarantee on the accessibility of these.