halbear.net

Terms And Conditions

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: Rights and Usage of Halbear.net Assets

1.0: Content displayed on Halbear.net platforms and services are the intellectual property of the legal entity Halbear Networking & Software Ltd or the Creator of the content and unless specified otherwise, the taking of(downloading), usage in a non-halbear.net context, or re-distribution of said assets is strictly forbidden, and in the event of unconsensual taking, usage of, or redistribution of assets will incur a fee of £5000 per asset collected and a royalty fee of £25 per instance of an asset used.
1.1: Content Scraper Bots, Crawler Bots/Crawling Engines and Large Language Models/AI are not permitted to scrape, download, or use any Asset displayed on Halbear.net platforms or services. In the event of an asset displayed on a halbear.net platform or service is taken/scraped/used by one of these bot types then it will incur a £5000 royalty charge, and if the asset is used in the training of a Large Language Model or similar Artifical Intelligence then there will be an additional £2500 "AI training" usage fee, and any instance of content(text content including code,3D models, Animations, Files, Images, Audio, or Video) generated using a Large Language Model that has been trained on a halbear.net asset will have a £25 royalty fee unless the Large Language Model provider/maintainer can prove that no aspect of a halbear.net asset was used in the generation of the AI 'content'.
1.2: In the event it is clear that our assets were used in AI training but the legal entity responsible for training the AI can not pinpoint the exact assets used and the data generated using the training data with our assets in it, will have a £200,000 one time multiple asset usage fee, this will repeat for every offense that can't be documented as we assume multiple assets are used for many pieces of data generated.