By accessing or using the website(s) and Software developed and/or maintained by Halbear Networking & Software Ltd and the usage of any assets owned by Halbear Networking & Software Ltd you are agreeing to the following: Section 0: Defining terminology in this agreement

0.0: When using the terms 'us', 'our', 'we' or speaking in first person in general, unless specified otherwise, is referring to the company 'Halbear Networking & Software Ltd', a Welsh(UK) company with the registered company number of '16930413'.
0.1: Referring to, or using the name 'halbear.net', unless specified otherwise, is referring to the company 'Halbear Networking & Software Ltd', a Welsh(UK) company with the registered company number of '16930413', for example "the website halbear.net is..." is talking about the website, "halbear.net is..." is talking about the company.
0.2: Referring to, or using the name 'iron horse', 'iron horse software' or 'iron horse games', unless specified otherwise, is referring to a division of the company 'Halbear Networking & Software Ltd' specializing in Video Games Development, 'iron horse' is not a separate legal entity to halbear.net and operates completely under halbear.net with all assets owned and controlled by halbear.net.
0.3: Referring to, or using the name 'whatever board', unless specified otherwise, is referring to a web application being developed and maintained by halbear.net.
0.4: Referring to the domains 'what.everboard.art' and 'whateverboard.art' are referring to the website of the whatever board web application being developed and maintained by halbear.net.
0.5: When referring to, or using the term "AI" it is referring to the specific category of Artificial Intelligence of 'Large Language Models' such as ChatGPT or Co-Pilot.
0.6: When referring to "our services" this includes the usage of the https://halbear.net website, the usage of the https://ironhorse.games website, the usage of the whatever board platform (what.everboard.art and the whatever board app), the usage of our games as per listed on the iron horse website, the usage of the desktop halbear.net launcher & software installer, the usage of any halbear.net software, and any paid commission work such as Asset Creation.
0.7: When referring to "Assets" or an "Asset" created or owned by halbear.net, this is referring to any content owned by halbear.net or hosted on servers owned by halbear.net, including Assets created by an individual working under or working for halbear.net, some examples of our definition of 'assets' include images, audio, video, literary content including software code and markup language (such as this website), 3D models, compiled applications, our software, footage containing our assets. These Assets include any original content submitted by users to our services as well as official halbear.net content.
0.8: When using the terms 'You', 'Your' and talking in 2nd person, unless specified otherwise, is referring to the individual that is using our services and any directly involved legal entities, such as, a company and the employee of the company that's using our services during work hours are both agreeing to this document, therefore holding the company behind the employee legally liable to any actions they perform while using this service as well, the largest legal entity involved will be financially and legally responsible, such as, a Child using our service under the guidance and monitoring of a guardian, the guardian is financially and legally responsible for the Childs actions, or a student using our services on a school network, the school is financially and legally responsible for the students actions, and in the event of a company employee using our services while actively at work for the company(on the clock, or during office hours for the employee), the company the employee works at is financially and legally responsible for their actions.
0.9: When using the term 'All Parties' or 'All Parties Involved' we are referencing any legal entity that may be involved with the use of our services, such as but not limited to, an employee of a company using our services during work hours, the company is directly referenced as well as the employee when referring to 'All Parties', or a student using our services while on the school network, the school is being directly referenced by 'all parties'.
0.10: When using the term 'mature content' or 'mature messages' it is referring to topics that are more 'adult' such as profanity, literary sexual references, violence, artistic or educational nudity(content of this genre will need manual approval), conversations regarding user ages, locations and personal information but do not mean graphic content such as pornography and gore, those two topics are strictly forbidden among user submitted content.
Section 1: General Use
1.0: All parties involved agree to use our services responsibly, abiding by the rules set by halbear.net and regulations by the government the user is located in.
1.1: You are of a legally responsible age(18 in the UK/EU) or there is a legally responsible Adult monitoring your usage of our services.
1.2: You are agreeing that Halbear.Net may collect technical data such as your IP Address, Computer Information(such as Operating System) and Software Information(such as browser used). for further information on data collection, see our data collection transparency page
1.3: You will not be taking any assets created, hosted or owned by Halbear Networking & Software Ltd to be used in any association with a Large Language Model, or Artifical Intelligence in general without permission; in the event of, consensual or not, Halbear Networking & Software Ltd assets being used in AI in any capacity, whether used as training data or otherwise, the royalties for these assets will be £5000 per asset used in training with an additional £25 per piece of data generated by the AI with the AI's training data that includes our assets.
1.4: You agree that any user submitted content you see is at your own discretion, halbear.net operates forms of content creation or social media, such as forums and image boards, while heavily moderated, the chances of seeing inappropriate or sensitive material is not zero and while we do our best to safeguard, there may be times when this type of content slips through the guards.
1.5: You agree that any user submitted content you download is your responsibility, while moderated and virus scans, the possibility a 3rd party download hosted on our servers may contain malicious code is not zero, therefore 3rd party downloads are at your, the users, discretion.
1.6: You agree to report any user submitted content you see that violates our guidelines
1.7: In the event a guardian is monitoring their child's usage of our services, the guardian agrees that they are responsible for the content their child sees, while safekeeping is an important aspect of creating a community, and something we plan around, it is not our responsibility to babysit a guardians child, the best way for the guardian manage this is to stop the child from visiting any pages containing user submitted content.
Section 2: Owning an Account with halbear.net

2.0: You agree that you or the Owner of the Account takes responsibility for the data they submit to halbear.net, such as, their email address or password. see more information regarding our data usage at the data collection transparency page
2.1: You agree that we may not store some of the data you give us, such as, your account password or personal information, we do not store your password directly but rather an obfuscated string that can't be un-obfuscated meaning we will never know your password.
2.2: You agree that in the event you forget your password we will not be able to give you it, you will need to reset it through email confirmations as halbear.net does not directly store your password.
2.3: You agree that by creating an account for one of our services, such as whatever board, you are creating an account for halbear.net.
2.4: You agree that any messages you send people through your halbear.net account, through forum rooms, or direct messaging, is not a private conversation between intended involved parties and is in-fact, moderated.
2.5: You agree that you are legally liable for any messages you send and content you publish, and in the event of a legal investigation by halbear.net's government(the UK) or any other permitted parties, all your messages and your contact information will be handed over to authorities.
2.6: You agree that any content you send or publish that contains mature content will be automatically put into a moderation list to be reviewed, with tiers to the severity, such as, profanity will add your content to the moderation list to be potentially reviewed by a moderator or auto-moderated by server side software but a potential safeguarding issue will alert an administrator.
2.7: You agree that deleting an account will only delete 'unnecessary' data from our servers, such as passwords, licenses, non-mature content posted, and personal details, and we will store your account information for an additional 2-3 years, this maintained information includes: your email address, any mature content consumed or posted, general post history, download history, a record of who you messaged, but not the messages themselves unless they contained a safeguarding alert and purchase history will be stored but hidden in the event your history on halbear.nets services needs to be investigated, this data can be manually removed at request after it is verified to not contain any issues by an employee.