TERMS OF SERVICE

Please carefully read and understand the following agreement:

Space: Glory Through Conquest, Space: GTC, Space, are the copyrighted work of Zero Sum Games, LLC. and ColdFire Studios LLC. Use of Space: Glory Through Conquest is governed by the terms of use provided below ("Space: Glory Through Conquest Terms of Use"). Space: Glory Through Conquest is provided "as is" according to the terms of conditions contained herein. Any use of Space: Glory Through Conquest not in accordance with the terms of the Space: Glory Through Conquest Terms of Use is expressly prohibited.

1. Grant of License. Zero Sum Games, LLC. hereby grants, and by using Space: Glory Through Conquest you thereby accept, a limited, personal, non-exclusive license and right to use Space: Glory Through Conquest using either a home, work, portable computer, or internet-capable phone. Subject to the foregoing Grant of License, you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on Space: Glory Through Conquest without the prior consent, in writing, of Zero Sum Games, LLC. Zero Sum Games, LLC. reserves the right for any reason to remove, without notice, any content of Space: Glory Through Conquest received from users, including without limitation, bulletin board postings. Zero Sum Games, LLC. reserves the right to deny, at its sole discretion, any user access to Space: Glory Through Conquest or any portion thereof without notice. Without limiting the foregoing, Zero Sum Games, LLC. retains the right to decline service to any user who violates the Space: Glory Through Conquest Terms of Use.

2. Registration Information. To register your account on Space: Glory Through Conquest, you will be required to provide your username, password, and a valid email address. This information is used to identify you as a "unique user" of Space: Glory Through Conquest. In the event that Zero Sum Games, LLC. learns that you have provided Zero Sum Games, LLC. with false or misleading registration information, Zero Sum Games, LLC. reserves the right to terminate your Space: Glory Through Conquest account.

3. Ownership. All title, ownership, and intellectual property rights in and to Space: Glory Through Conquest (including, but not limited to, any titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialog, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, animation, sounds, musical compositions, audiovisual effects, methods of operation, moral rights, any related documentation, "applets" incorporated into Space: Glory Through Conquest, transcripts of the chat rooms, member profile information, recordings of games played on Space: Glory Through Conquest, and software) are owned by Zero Sum Games, LLC or ColdFire Studios LLC. All rights are reserved. Space: Glory Through Conquest is protected by the copyright laws of United States, Canada, and the European Union.

4. Your Use of Space: Glory Through Conquest.

A. You are entitled to use Space: Glory Through Conquest for your own personal use, but you shall not be entitled to (i) sell or grant a security interest in or transfer reproductions of Space: Glory Through Conquest to other parties in any way, nor to rent, lease, or license Space: Glory Through Conquest to others without the prior written consent of Zero Sum Games, LLC.; (ii) copy, photocopy, reproduce, translate, reverse engineer, modify, disassemble, or de-compile in whole or in part any Space: Glory Through Conquest software; (iii) create derivative works based on Space: Glory Through Conquest; (iv) host or provide matchmaking services for any Zero Sum Games, LLC. software programs or emulate or redirect the communication protocols used by Zero Sum Games, LLC. as part of Space: Glory Through Conquest, through protocol emulation, tunneling, modifying or adding components to the Program, use of a utility program, or any other technique now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose, including, but not limited to, network play over the Internet, network play utilizing commercial or noncommercial gaming networks, or as part of content aggregation networks without the prior written consent of Zero Sum Games, LLC. or exploit Space: Glory Through Conquest or any of its parts for any commercial purpose, including, but not limited to, use at a location such as a cyber cafe, arcade, or other location where users are charged a fee, whether hourly or otherwise, to use Space: Glory Through Conquest; (v) use any third-party software to modify Space: Glory Through Conquest to change game play, including, but not limited to cheats and/or hacks; (vi) institute attacks upon a Space: Glory Through Conquest server or otherwise disrupt Space: Glory Through Conquest; (vii) harass, threaten, stalk, embarrass, or cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort upon another user of Space: Glory Through Conquest or other person or entity; cheat during gameplay, including but not limited to modification of the game program files, or exploit code bugs as described by the administration; (viii) transmit or post sexually explicit images or other content which in the sole discretion of Zero Sum Games, LLC. is deemed to be offensive; nor shall you transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable content; (ix) carry out any action with a disruptive effect; (x) impersonate a Zero Sum Games, LLC. official or employee or any other person; (xi) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in a chat room or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users, individuals, or entities, including, but not limited to, posting "Spam" messages on Space: Glory Through Conquest. "Spam" messages as used herein include, but are not limited to any effort to use a computer or other electronic device to post an unauthorized and/or unsolicited advertisement to Space: Glory Through Conquest; (xii) post or transmit chain letters, "cashbots," or pyramid schemes; post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other forms of solicitation to other users, individuals, or entities on Space: Glory Through Conquest; (xiii) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law or regulation; (xiv) modify any file that Zero Sum Games, LLC. does not specifically authorize you to modify; (xv) "spam" by posting or sending more than one unsolicited message or piece of mail to a single address or in a chat area; (xvi) create or maintain, under any circumstance, more than one simultaneous connection to Space: Glory Through Conquest in a single galaxy. All such connections to Space: Glory Through Conquest, whether created by Zero Sum Games, LLC. software products or by other tools and utilities, may only be made through methods and means expressly approved by Zero Sum Games, LLC. Under no circumstances may you connect or create tools that allow you to connect to Space: Glory Through Conquest's private binary interfaces or interfaces other than those explicitly provided by Zero Sum Games, LLC. for public use; (xvii) Communicate or post any user's personal information in or on the Space: Glory Through Conquest game network, web site, or forums.

B. In the event that you violate any of the foregoing provisions, Zero Sum Games, LLC. may at its option and without notice to you, reserve the right to: (i) temporarily suspend your access to Space: Glory Through Conquest; or (ii) immediately terminate your access to Space: Glory Through Conquest; and

C. In the event that Zero Sum Games, LLC. is contacted by governmental authorities and/or parties seeking legal redress against you for a violation committed by you or alleged to have been committed by you involving your use of Space: Glory Through Conquest, Zero Sum Games, LLC. will cooperate fully with and all governmental authorities and any lawful orders of the court with regards to the release of information that relates to you and your use of Space: Glory Through Conquest, including, but not limited to, user Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, associated personal information, and all other user information on file.

5. Content Uploads to Space: Glory Through Conquest. You may upload content to Space: Glory Through Conquest in various forms, including, but not limited to, the selections you make for the Program, in the forum, and similar user-to-user areas (collectively, your "Content"). Your Content shall not: (a) infringe any third party intellectual property, other proprietary or publicity/privacy rights; (b) violate any law or regulation; (c) be defamatory, obscene, or pornographic; or (d) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, cancelbots, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or personal information. Zero Sum Games, LLC. reserves the right to any legal remedies available to Zero Sum Games, LLC. with respect to your Content, including, but not limited to, termination of your use of Space: Glory Through Conquest if we believe your Content may create liability for Zero Sum Games, LLC. or may cause Zero Sum Games, LLC. to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers. You hereby grant to Zero Sum Games, LLC. a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all intellectual property rights, in any media now known or not currently known, associated with your Content.

6. Use of Your Content. Zero Sum Games, LLC. and/or its parent, subsidiaries or affiliates may gather, process, and use (and allow others to use) any and all information which you provide directly to Zero Sum Games, LLC. ("Content"), as well as information regarding the manner in which you use Space: Glory Through Conquest. You hereby grant to Zero Sum Games, LLC. a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all intellectual property rights, in any media now known or not currently known, associated with your Content.

7. Information found on Space: Glory Through Conquest. Zero Sum Games, LLC. does not endorse or stand behind the accuracy, truthfulness or reliability of any information (including statements of opinion or advice) provided on or by means of Space: Glory Through Conquest. Any and all statements made in forums, conferences, or chats or during game play reflect only the views of their authors.

8. Termination. This agreement is effective until termination by either party. You may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from this Site and/or Service and all related documentation thereof. Zero Sum Games, LLC. reserves the right to terminate this agreement without notice at Zero Sum Games, LLC.'s sole discretion if you fail to comply with any term of this agreement, including, but not limited to, disruptive behavior, cheating, instituting attacks upon a Space: Glory Through Conquest server, and any unlawful activity. It is the policy of Zero Sum Games, LLC. to cooperate fully in criminal investigations, including, but not limited to, and if permitted by local laws, tracing user Internet Protocol IP addresses and associated personal information, as well as sharing all other user information on file with the proper authorities upon request.

9. Acknowledgments. You hereby acknowledge that (i) You assume the cost of all telephone charges, necessary servicing, repair, or correction for connecting to Space: Glory Through Conquest; (ii) the materials in this site and/or service are provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of accuracy, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement; (iii) that as part of your registration process and in consideration for the privilege of accessing Space: Glory Through Conquest and if permitted by local laws Zero Sum Games, LLC. has the right to send your computer one or more "cookies" without any further notice to you (these cookies only retain your user preferences) and , Zero Sum Games, LLC. has the right to obtain certain identification information about your computer and its operating system, including the identification numbers of your hard drives, central processing unit, IP addresses, and operating systems for identification purposes; (iv) that, if permitted by local law, Zero Sum Games, LLC. has the right to obtain "non-personal" data from your Internet browsing software in order to make certain demographic assumptions regarding the users of Space: Glory Through Conquest without any further notice to you; (v) Zero Sum Games, LLC. does not warrant that Space: Glory Through Conquest will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site and/or service or the server are free of viruses or other harmful components; (vi) you may not be able to access Space: Glory Through Conquest whenever you want, and there may be extended periods of time where you cannot access Space: Glory Through Conquest; (vii) Zero Sum Games, LLC. shall not be held liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes outside the reasonable control of Zero Sum Games, LLC.; (viii) as certain games played on Space: Glory Through Conquest require electronic files, including, but not limited to, player characters, accounts, statistics, user profiles, and results ("Online Data"), be stored upon Space: Glory Through Conquest for Your use when utilizing Space: Glory Through Conquest to play these games online, You hereby agree and acknowledge that Zero Sum Games, LLC. shall not have any liability to You for the loss of Online Data for any reason whatsoever, including, but not limited to, server failure, telephonic interruptions of any kind, defects, viruses or other harmful components, and negligent acts of Zero Sum Games, LLC. and/or its affiliates; (ix) you may not operate multiple characters in a single galaxy on Space: Glory Through Conquest that were created by any manner. In the event that Zero Sum Games, LLC. discovers that you are operating multiple accounts in a single galaxy in Space: Glory Through Conquest, you hereby acknowledge that Zero Sum Games, LLC. may, at its sole discretion, delete, ip ban, or otherwise remove such accounts from the game; (x) Zero Sum Games, LLC. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or delete any information, including, but not limited to, player characters, accounts, statistics, user profiles, and any other information accumulated or uploaded on Space: Glory Through Conquest; (xi) Zero Sum Games, LLC. does not warrant Space: Glory Through Conquest or any of the games played over Space: Glory Through Conquest will be free of cheats, hacks, or programming errors that may affect the outcome of games, tournaments, Space: Glory Through Conquest's ladder ranking systems, or the general use of Space: Glory Through Conquest; and (xii) the terms of this Agreement shall extend to anyone that you allow to use your Space: Glory Through Conquest account, user name or player character(s) and that you are personally responsible and liable for the consequences that may result if any such person violates the terms of the Agreement, including, but not limited to, termination of your account and loss of your user names and characters.

10. Indemnification. Upon request of Zero Sum Games, LLC., you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Zero Sum Games, LLC., its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, licensees, and distributors from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees arising from breach of the Space: Glory Through Conquest Terms of Use by use of, or in connection with, the transmission by, or through your account of any content on Space: Glory Through Conquest. Zero Sum Games, LLC. reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you thereunder, and in such event, you shall have no further obligation to provide indemnification for such matter.

11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. SPACE: GLORY THROUGH CONQUEST IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. ZERO SUM GAMES, LLC. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE PROGRAM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. ZERO SUM GAMES, LLC. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. NEITHER ZERO SUM GAMES, LLC., OR ITS AFFILIATES SHALL BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM THE USE OF Space: GLORY THROUGH CONQUEST, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES.

13. Membership Terms of Service. Zero Sum Games, LLC. is only responsible in providing the following services that are detailed in the Basic Membership Account information page. This means that User statistics, User settings, Usernames & Passwords are not guaranteed to be protected. The staff at Space: Glory Through Conquest will do their best to preserve this data but due to the delicate nature of the server-side management, Zero Sum Games, LLC. will not be liable or responsible for any lost or corrupted user data. Zero Sum Games, LLC. is also not guaranteeing server uptime. The development team is constantly working hard to bring new and exciting features to the game but again, there is no guarantee that new features will be created and delivered periodically. All feature creation and delivery is subject to the discretion of Zero Sum Games, LLC. Membership accounts are nonrefundable once they are processed, users are solely responsible for submitting correct details and how to use the Paypal Merchant System. Zero Sum Games, LLC. is not responsible for educating members who are applying for Membership Accounts on how to use the Paypal Merchant System. If you choose to pay via check or money order, you as the user, are solely responsible for all postage costs as well as the costs of acquiring certified checks or money orders. Whats more, it is also at the discretion of the customer that they send these forms of payments since Zero Sum Games, LLC. and the Staff at Space: Glory Through Conquest will not be responsible for lost checks and money orders through the mail system. Space: Glory Through Conquest and Zero Sum Games, LLC. are trademarks or registered trademarks of Zero Sum Games, LLC or ColdFire Studios LLC. in United States, Canada and the European Union. All rights reserved.