Terms of Service

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13.

If you are between 13 and 17 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is older), you may use the Service only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms on your behalf. By using the Service, you confirm that you meet these eligibility requirements and, if you are a minor, that your parent or guardian has reviewed and accepted these Terms.

If we learn that an account belongs to a user under 13, or to a minor without verifiable parental consent, we will suspend or delete that account.

2. Accounts

Some features of the Service require an account. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly at support@sfetheria.com if you suspect unauthorized access.

Each account is for a single person. You may not share, lend, rent, sell, or transfer your account or its credentials, and you may not let anyone else use your access to bypass freemium quotas or tier gates.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, for any reason — including violation of these Terms, abusive behavior, attempts to bypass freemium quotas or tier gates, or activity that we believe risks harm to the Service or other users.

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to do any of the following, or to assist or permit any third party to do so:

• Use the Service for any illegal purpose, or in violation of any applicable law or regulation.
• Harass, threaten, bully, stalk, dox, impersonate, or otherwise harm any person.
• Submit, post, or transmit content that is unlawful, defamatory, libelous, fraudulent, infringing, obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable.
• Use bots, scripts, automation, or any other means to bypass freemium quotas, tier gates, rate limits, or any other access control.
• Scrape, crawl, mirror, frame, or otherwise systematically copy any part of the Service, except as expressly permitted by us in writing or by our robots.txt.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of any part of the Service, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
• Forge Patreon credentials, claim a Patreon tier that does not belong to you, or otherwise misrepresent your subscription status.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account, data, computer system, or network connected to the Service, including via credential stuffing, brute force, exploitation of vulnerabilities, or social engineering of other users.
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service, including by introducing malware, sending excessive traffic, or overloading our infrastructure.

4. User-generated content

The Service lets you submit content — for example, articles, guides, Q&A answers, pre-builds, comments, field notes you choose to share with others, union leadership claims, and similar contributions (“User Content”).

You retain ownership of your User Content. By submitting it, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, display, perform, modify (for formatting, moderation, translation, or technical adaptation), create derivative works of for those limited purposes, and distribute your User Content as part of operating, promoting, and improving the Service. This license lasts as long as we continue to use that User Content as part of the Service.

You represent and warrant that (a) you own or have all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to submit your User Content and to grant the license above, and (b) your User Content does not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights, and does not violate any law or these Terms.

We do not pre-screen User Content and we are not responsible for it. We may — but are not obligated to — review, moderate, edit, refuse to publish, hide, demote, or remove any User Content at any time, in our sole discretion, for any reason.

5. Subscriptions and Patreon

Premium tiers on the Service (currently Supporter, Pro, and Pro Master) are billed through Patreon. All payment, subscription, renewal, cancellation, and refund matters for those tiers are governed by your agreement with Patreon and by Patreon’s own policies — not by us. See patreon.com/policy for Patreon’s current terms.

We sync your subscription tier from Patreon to your EtheriaApp account. Sync is not instantaneous; new pledges, tier upgrades, and tier downgrades may take a few hours to take effect. If your Patreon pledge lapses, is paused, fails to charge, or is cancelled, your tier will automatically downgrade and tier-gated features will become unavailable.

We may add, remove, change, re-price, or re-gate features between tiers, and we may introduce new tiers or retire existing ones. Where the change is material, we will give reasonable advance notice through the Service or to your registered email.

6. Etheria: Restart and third-party intellectual property

EtheriaApp is a fan-made companion app. “Etheria: Restart” and all related game assets, characters, character names, storylines, artwork, music, logos, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

EtheriaApp is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially connected to the publisher, developer, or any official rights-holder of Etheria: Restart. All references to the game, its characters, and its assets on the Service are made by independent fans for the purposes of commentary, analysis, criticism, news reporting, and reference under principles of fair use.

If you are a rights-holder and believe content on the Service should be modified or removed, please contact us at dmca@sfetheria.com (see section 8 below).

7. Our intellectual property

Except for third-party game assets covered by section 6 and for User Content covered by section 4, all material on the Service — including our source code, page layouts, written analysis, curated databases, derived metrics, tier-list methodology, visual design, and original artwork — is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial use, subject to these Terms. You may not copy, redistribute, republish, sell, syndicate, scrape into another product, or build derivative services from the Service without our prior written permission.

8. DMCA and copyright complaints

We respect intellectual property rights and respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”).

To submit a DMCA notice, email dmca@sfetheria.com with a written communication that includes substantially all of the following:

1. Your full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
2. A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
3. A description of where the allegedly infringing material is located on the Service, with enough detail (for example, a direct URL) for us to locate it.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

When we receive a complete notice, we will remove or disable access to material we believe in good faith to be infringing, and we will take reasonable steps to notify the user who posted that material. If you are that user, you may submit a counter-notice in accordance with the DMCA; we will pass valid counter-notices to the complaining party and may restore the material as permitted by law. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITH ALL FAULTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE AND OUR AFFILIATES, CONTRIBUTORS, AGENTS, AND LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, timely, error-free, accurate, complete, or current; that defects will be corrected; that any tier-list, meta analysis, draft recommendation, damage calculation, counter suggestion, or other algorithmic output is correct, optimal, or suitable for any purpose; or that any content on the Service is reliable. You use the Service, and rely on any output it produces, at your own risk.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR AFFILIATES, CONTRIBUTORS, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE) THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD $25.00.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or damages. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limitations in sections 9 and 10 apply to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude or limit any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

11. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless EtheriaApp and its operators, affiliates, contributors, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs) arising out of or relating to:

• your access to or use of the Service;
• your violation of these Terms;
• your violation of any applicable law or regulation, or any third-party right (including any intellectual property, privacy, or publicity right); or
• any User Content you submit, post, or transmit.

We reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense of that matter.

12. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. To request deletion of your account, email privacy@sfetheria.com from the email address associated with the account. (At this time, email is the only way to request account deletion; an in-app self-serve flow is planned but not yet shipped.)

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the Service at any time, with or without notice and with or without cause, including for any violation of these Terms.

The provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including without limitation section 4 (User-generated content — the license you granted, to the extent any User Content remains in use as part of the Service), section 7 (Our intellectual property), section 8 (DMCA), section 9 (Disclaimer of warranties), section 10 (Limitation of liability), section 11 (Indemnification), section 13 (Governing law and disputes), and section 15 (Miscellaneous).

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

You agree that any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Wyoming, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts. We do not disclose the operator's home address or city of residence; if you need a physical mailing address for legal process, email privacy@sfetheria.com and we will respond with the appropriate address.

Note: these Terms do not currently include a binding arbitration clause or a class-action waiver. We may add one in a future version of these Terms; if we do, we will give advance notice as described in section 14 and you will have an opportunity to review the change before it takes effect.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page reflects the current version. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice through the Service — for example, an on-site banner or notification — and, where we have your email address and the change warrants it, by email.

Your continued use of the Service after a revised version of these Terms takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

15. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other agreements expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings on that subject.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision, and any waiver must be in writing to be effective.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms at any time without notice in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and have no legal effect.