Terms of use
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Thottbot Forever is a community database for World of Warcraft: Forever. These terms are what you agree to by using it, and by signing in. What the site keeps about you is on the privacy page.
Using the site
- Anyone may read the site, signed in or not. Signing in, with your Battle.net account, lets you comment, vote, report a comment, send screenshots, upload what you see in game and write to the administrators.
- Your account is yours alone. Do not use somebody else’s, and keep your API tokens to yourself: whoever holds one can upload and comment as you. Revoke one you no longer trust on your account page.
- Do not try to get around the site’s rate limits, get into what you are not allowed to see or do, or keep the site from working for others. A security problem you find is welcome: tell the administrators about it, and nobody else reads it.
The API
The API is free to use, for reads with no token at all, within its rate
limits, which the API page lists under Caching, limits and CORS and the X-RateLimit-* headers report on every answer that counts against them. A
program that is told to wait (a 429) waits for as long as Retry-After says.
A program that writes, uploading included, does it with a token of its own account and is held to
these terms like anyone else. What the API serves is what the pages show, and the sections below apply
to it as they do to them: the comments and screenshots in it belong to the people who posted them,
and the game’s content to Blizzard.
What comments and screenshots may not contain
Comments and screenshots are for helping other players: where something drops, how a quest goes, what a page has wrong. They may not contain:
- Spam, advertising or a scam link.
- Harassment, hate or abuse, aimed at anyone.
- Someone’s personal information: anything that says who somebody is or how to reach them outside the game, yours included. A screenshot shows everything in it, so crop out names and chat you would rather keep.
- Anything that is not yours to post, or that should not be here for a legal reason.
- Anything else that does not belong here, which a moderator may decide.
A comment that breaks these has a Report button under it, which goes to the moderators. An account, a screenshot or uploads that break them, and anything of yours posted here without your permission, go to the administrators: report abuse, or write about copyright or another legal matter.
Uploads
Upload only what the game showed you, as the addon recorded it. Do not make data up, edit what the addon saved or send somebody else’s file as your own. What your uploads record becomes part of the database, and stays in it if you close your account.
Who owns what you post
Your comments and screenshots stay yours. By posting one, you give Thottbot Forever a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to keep it, show it on the site, format it to fit the page, include it in the site’s API and feeds, and keep copies of it in the site’s caches and backups, for as long as it is on the site, including after you close your account. You can take a comment or a screenshot down yourself at any time while your account is open, and the site stops showing it. You are responsible for what you post, and confirm it is yours to post.
Moderation
- Moderators may hide, restore, edit or delete any comment, and approve, turn down or take down any screenshot. Every screenshot waits for a moderator before anybody else sees it. A comment several readers report can be hidden before a moderator has looked at it.
- Moderators decide whether a value uploads disagree with a page on goes onto it, and may take back an upload; an administrator may take back everything an uploader has sent.
- An administrator may suspend an account. A suspended account cannot sign in, and its sessions and API tokens stop working; what it wrote stays.
- Every decision a moderator or an administrator makes is recorded in the moderation log. If you think one was wrong, say so in a message about your account.
The data is given as is
Most of what is here was recorded by players as they played, and the rest was read from the game client’s own files. It may be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and a page can change as more players upload. The site, its API and its data are given as they are, with no promise that they are right, complete or always available, and the site may change, or stop, at any time.
Blizzard and the game
World of Warcraft, Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. The names, text, icons and maps of World of Warcraft: Forever are copyright Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., and are shown here as a reference for players. Thottbot Forever is a fan project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment. Signing in with Battle.net is also under Blizzard’s own terms.
Changes to these terms
These terms change with the site, and the date at the top says when they last did. Using the site after a change is agreeing to the terms as they then are.
Contact
To ask about these terms, write to the administrators on the site, which needs you signed in, or email contact@thottbot-forever.com, which does not. A copyright or takedown notice can go to either.