Your use of the MashON Comic Strip Creator provided by Cryptic Studios, Inc. (“Cryptic Studios”) and Planetwide Games, Inc. (“MashON”) constitutes your agreement to these usage guidelines (“Usage Guidelines”), which apply to all content created through use of the MashON Comic Strip Creator.

Limitation Of Liability
Please understand that: (a) members of the community contribute to the content of the submissions; (b) Cryptic Studios does not control the content that is published and is not responsible for such content; and (c) Cryptic Studios does not in any way guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, legality or completeness of any such content.

You expressly agree that you bear all risks associated with such content and that Cryptic Studios is not liable in any way for such content, for any errors or omissions, or for any losses or damages incurred as a result of accessing or using such content.

These Usage Guidelines are in addition to, and not en lieu of, the terms and conditions contained in the Cryptic Studios Community Policy, Cryptic Studios Terms of Service and the Cryptic Studios Privacy Policy. Cryptic Studios reserves the right to change or modify its policies at any time for any reason.

Reporting Violations
If you believe that someone has violated our Usage Guidelines or you have spotted content that may otherwise require attention, please use the “Flag” button found within the MashON Comic Strip Creator. Notification is voluntary and anonymous.

Report violations, do not quote them or further publicize them.

Enforcement
Any content that violates our Usage Guidelines will be removed within a reasonable period of time after Cryptic Studios becomes aware of it. Interpretation and enforcement of the Usage Guidelines is at the sole and exclusive discretion of Cryptic Studios.

If you violate these Usage Guidelines and/or show a disregard for them, Cryptic Studios and/or our community, your account may be suspended or terminated. Cryptic Studios may, but is not obligated to, edit or remove any content without notice or appeal. These Usage Guidelines are subject to change at any time without notice.

Guidelines
You agree to strictly adhere to the following guidelines (“Guidelines”) in connection with your use of the MashON Comic Strip Creator.

1. Advertisements are not allowed. Generally speaking, projects made specifically for the promotion of a website, product and/or service are considered advertising. Additionally, content that unnecessarily send people to a website with which you are in some way affiliated also may be considered advertisements. It does not matter if such website is a commercial website, personal website or non-profit website.

2. You are not allowed to post an affiliate URL that leads to you earning cash, banner impressions, credits, points and/or any other form of consideration. Such links are also not allowed in signatures and profiles, and may not be referred to in posts.

3. You are not allowed to post personal, real-life information such as home addresses, home phone numbers belonging to any person, including, without limitation, yourself.

4. You may not use vulgar, harmful, harassing, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, hateful, sexually explicit, racially/ethnically charged or otherwise objectionable language. Abbreviations, self censoring, and attempts to circumvent our censure software also violate these Guidelines. If your post contains a word that is censored by our software, you must remove that word or the post will be removed. If you feel that the software censor is acting in error, please contact us.

5. When mentioning, referring and/or linking to other websites, you must ensure that the content of the mention, reference and/or link is appropriate for our community and in line with these Guidelines. If you mention, refer to and/or post a link and such mention, reference and/or posting is automatically censored, it is considered to be inappropriate and you should remove it from your post immediately.

6. Content that discuss illegal activities, transactions, or websites such as warez, cracks, torrents, etc. will be removed. This includes the posting of information that you have obtained illegally and/or without authorization or permission.

7. Do not use trademarked and/or copyrighted materials (e.g., articles, videos, photos, audio, etc.) that you do not have permission to reproduce, distribute, display, perform, create derivative works of and/or otherwise use. Posting the entire article, even with the source, constitutes copyright infringement. This is not the place to illegally trade or distribute copyrighted (or those with questionable copyright status) video or audio clips.

8. Cryptic Studios and MashON have the final say on all aspects of the MashON Comic Strip Creator. If you have a problem, you may make a complaint to Cryptic Studios directly and not publicly on the website. Creating threads or posts that question or reference administrative decisions or potential administrative decisions, is not permitted. If you feel that we have made a mistake, please privately contact Cryptic Studios and we will review the situation.