Rules and Terms Of Service

1. Joining Rules
   • You must be exactly 13 years of age or older to play WesternHorseGame.com. This is the law and all members under thirteen will have their accounts frozen until they are old enough to play.
   • Creating any account for the purpose of political or religious debate will result in the immediate banning of that member. This includes anti-horse-slaughter, although creating rescue stables is perfectly acceptable.
   • Please understand when joining that WesternHorseGame.com is a site that understands the place horse slaughter has in this world. While it is unpleasant it is a vital part of the equine world. WesternHorseGame.com does have a public auction yard with a killer buyer. If you are not mature enough to handle this please do not join our game.
   • By joining you signify the understanding that WesternHorseGame.com has the sole right to seize all shobucks, horses and/or accounts on the game for any reason.
   • All minors must ask parental permission before joining.

2. Site Content
   • No member name or horse name may make direct reference to any vulgar, profane or generally inappropriate content.
   • All images and text on a horses or members page must be 100% appropriate for people of all ages. No images representing or including sexual, violent or vulgar content may be displayed.
   • Because WesternHorseGame.com owns all horses and accounts on the game, members hold no copyright control over such names.
   • Images placed on WesternHorseGame.com are the full legal responsibility of the person whose account or horses page they fall on. WesternHorseGame.com may fine or freeze accounts violating any copyright laws.

3. Multiple Accounts: All the below rules apply to accounts owned by the same member.
   • There is no limit to the number of upgraded accounts you may own.
   • There is a limit of 1 free account per household.
   • All accounts owned by a single member must have the same email address.
   • Creating more then 1 free account even if some or most are deactivated is still a lockable office.
   • If it is found that accounts you own contain different email addresses all your accounts can be fined or frozen.
   • If more then one player accesses their account from the same home all accounts owned by both members are considered one member, i.e. you and your sister can not send gifts to each other or share a single upgraded account.
   • Members may own as many paid accounts on WesternHorseGame.com as they can reasonably manage, but no more then 1 free accounts.
   • Members may sell and breed horses between multiple accounts they own but no one account can benefit over a member’s other accounts.
   • Sales or breedings between accounts owned by the same member must be of fair market value and not benefit one stable over the other.
   • For no reason should a horse be transferred repeatedly between accounts owned by the same member.
   • For no reason should a horse in a basic account be sold to an upgraded account too add images or training to that horse.
   • Members who are transferring money between accounts will have all accounts fined or frozen.
   • For no reason should you ever use create accounts to create special colored horses and send them to you main account. All your special colored horses created in this manor will be immediately seized.

4. Member Interactions: All the below rules apply to interactions between accounts owned by different members.
   • All members are guests of WesternHorseGame.com. As such every member is expected to treat all other guests equally and fairly.
   • When you place a horse for public sale you place it for sale to every one. You may not reserve a sale for a certain person. If a person purchases your horse other then the person whom you intended too, you may not complain or harass the buyer for any reason.
   • When you place a horse for public breed you place it for stud/brood to every one. You may not reserve a breeding for a certain person. If a person breeds to your horse other then the person whom you intended too, you may not complain or harass the breeder for any reason.
   • No member on WesternHorseGame.com has any right to harass or any way pester another member of the game, on or off of the site. This includes telling a different member to change something bout their horses, or sending un wanted communications. Chain-mailers will be banned from the game

5. Account/Horse Management
   • Members also do not own any part of WesternHorseGame.com and as such they have no legal claim to any account or horse on the site.
   • Because members do not own anything on WesternHorseGame.com they may not give away, or sell any horse on the site for actual money.
   • Member accounts are a gift from WesternHorseGame.com to its members. They may not be sold for actual or for game money. They may not be given or gifted to any person, for any reason. You may not have another person log into your account for any reason.
   • For no reason should two members own a single account but members on different accounts may have partnerships and sister stables.
   • WesternHorseGame.com will not get involved in any dispute involving game partnerships.
   • WesternHorseGame.com reserves the sole right to sell horses, accounts and shobucks for actual money and no other person may do so.
   • Members found trying to sell horses, accounts or shobucks will have ALL of their accounts frozen immediately.
   • No site administrator or moderator will ever ask you for your password or email. We have no need too, so never give this information away.
   • A member must never use one account for the sole benefit or another account.
   • Members must not create accounts for the sole benefit or another account.
   • All accounts created or used to transfer money or horses to the benefit of a central account are considered illegal.
   • A member may be banned if WesternHorseGame.com feels that member is creating or using accounts to benefit a centralized account.
   • Members whose accounts are locked loose all rights to said accounts, horses, game cash, upgrades, barns or any other features of that accounts.
   • WesternHorseGame.com may decided that any conduct it dislikes is grounds for account locking.

6. Guarantees
   • WesternHorseGame.com makes no explicit or implicit guarantees.
   • WesternHorseGame.com does not guarantee its up time nor any other aspect of the game, nor do we make any guarantees about future content for upgraded members.
   • WesternHorseGame.com may choose to offer rebates or incentives due to down time, but does not guarantee any such practice.
   • WesternHorseGame.com does not owe any members any refunds for any reason other then a mistake made by WesternHorseGame.com's staff or ownership.
   • The only mistakes warranting refund are accidental deleting of a members account, horses, barns, cash, or upgrades, or improper insertion of a paid upgrade or add-on into the database.
   • WesternHorseGame.com will not give refunds for any items purchased via IV's, game cash, or other non real currency transaction.
   • WesternHorseGame.com will not give refunds if a member looses is account because or password sharing or negligence.
   • Members who are caught cheating and have accounts locked may pay to have the locked accounts transfered to a new stable but for no reason will WesternHorseGame.com provide a refund to any member who has an account locked because of cheating.
   • Cheating negates any claim the member had on their accounts, or any money, items, or time invested into that account.
   • Members agree not to hold WesternHorseGame.com liable for any money lost or spend while playing the game.
   • The member acknowledges that once money is paid to WesternHorseGame.com, WesternHorseGame.com reserve the right to not issue a refund for any reason.
   • Members who are rude, offensive, or threatening to WesternHorseGame.com negate any right to any refund.
   • WesternHorseGame.com reserves the right to shut down, remove, delete or modify any account or stable at any time for any reason, and does not have to give refunds in such cases.

Accepting these Rules of Conduction and Terms and Conditions.

• As stated on the log in box on WesternHorseGame.com members agree to these terms and conditions every time they log in.
• Any changes made to these rules apply to all members immediate without exception, or warning.
• WesternHorseGame.com does not have to warn it's members of rule breaking or misconduct before locking their accounts.
• WesternHorseGame.com members are held responsible for tracking the status of their accounts personally. WesternHorseGame.com does not have any obligation to contact or inform it's members in any way of account, game cash, game horse or other closures or seizures of the members items on WesternHorseGame.com.
• WesternHorseGame.com provides it's members with a service it owes nothing to it's members.