Terms of Service

Agreement

Using the site means you accept these terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. You are free to stop at any time.

Who can use this

You need to be at least 13. If your country sets a higher minimum age for using an online service of this kind without a parent's consent, follow that instead. The site is available to anyone else who can reach it, but if you are accessing it from a place where wikis like this one are prohibited, that is on you.

Your account

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Use a real email address, pick a password that is not shared with another site, and tell us right away if you think someone else got in.

You can close your account at any time from settings. If we have to close it for rule-breaking, we'll try to tell you why.

Your content

You keep ownership of what you write and upload. By posting it here, you do two things:

1. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host it, display it, make copies for backups and caching, translate it, and show it inside product features (search results, previews, RSS, search-engine snippets, and so on). This is just what is needed to run the site.
2. You license it to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence. This is the same licence most community wikis use. Anyone can reuse your contributions, including commercially, as long as they credit you and share their version under the same licence. If you do not want that, do not post here.

Responsibility is on you: you promise that what you post is yours to post. If you paste someone else's article, someone else's screenshot they took, or private data about someone else, we may remove it and end your account.

We can also remove content that breaks the rules in the sections below. Wiki edits always keep a revision history, so removal usually means hiding a revision rather than wiping the article.

Our content and trademarks

The site's name, logo, design, and the code that runs the platform belong to us. You do not get a licence to those just by reading the site. If you want to use the logo in a project, ask.

Game names, art, and screenshots

Game titles, character names, official artwork, and screenshots belong to the companies that made them. We host them here under fair use for informational coverage. The Games Wiki is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any game publisher unless a page explicitly says so.

Rights holders with a takedown request should email us. We'll remove specific material that is infringing and respond to the email.

Acceptable use

When you contribute, please:

• Be accurate. If you are not sure, say so or leave it out.
• Be civil to other people, even when you disagree with their edits.
• Respect other people's copyrights and trademarks.
• Credit sources when you rely on them.
• Report things that look broken or abusive.

What you cannot do

The list of things that get content removed and accounts banned:

• Post anything illegal, or anything that promotes harm to people.
• Harass, threaten, or dox another user.
• Impersonate someone, including a developer, publisher, or member of our team.
• Post spam, affiliate link farms, SEO-stuffed content, or advertising.
• Scrape the site beyond what a reasonable reader would request. Automated clients must respect robots.txt and rate limits.
• Probe the site for vulnerabilities without telling us in advance. If you think you've found one, email us at the address below and we will thank you for it.
• Upload malware, obfuscated code, or things that try to break other users' sessions.
• Evade a ban with another account.

Ending the relationship

You can stop using the site and delete your account whenever you want.

We can suspend or close an account if it is breaking these terms, if keeping it open would put other users at risk, or if we are told to by a court. For serious cases we may do this without warning. For most cases we will try to explain first and give you a chance to fix the problem.

After an account ends, any public contributions may stay on the site (the wiki works because edits are preserved). Personal data tied to the account is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

No warranty

The site is provided as-is, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do our best to keep it up, accurate, and secure, but we cannot promise it. Wiki content is written by other users and can be wrong. Do not rely on anything here for anything important, and double-check the original source if the stakes matter.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, The Games Wiki and the people behind it are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of the site. This includes things like lost progress in a game because a guide was wrong, lost profits, or hurt feelings.

Some places do not allow these kinds of limits. Where the law says they do not apply to you, they do not.

Changes to these terms

We'll update this page when something changes. The date at the top reflects the last change. For material changes we'll also email registered users and post a notice on the site. If you keep using the site after a change, you accept the new version. If you do not, close your account.

Contact

Questions about these terms, takedown notices, or anything in between:

thegameswiki.com@gmail.com