§ 1 Scope

The following terms and conditions apply to the use of the forum on aiena.de (hereinafter referred to as the "Provider").

The use of the forum is only permitted if you, as a user, accept these terms of use.

Aiena e.V reserves the right to change the rules at any time. Any changes will be announced in the forum at least in advance.

§ 2 Registration, Conclusion of Contract, and Subject Matter

  1. The prerequisite for using the forum is registration via the corresponding online form. After registering via the online form in the forum, you will receive a confirmation email to verify your data, which you can confirm by clicking the link. The free forum usage contract comes into effect with the activation of your account by the provider (conclusion of the contract).
  2. The subject matter of the contract is the free use of the functions of the forum as an online communication platform. For this purpose, a "account" is provided to you as a user, with which you can post contributions and topics in the forum.
  3. There is generally no legal claim to activation or participation in the forum. The operator's unrestricted house rules apply.
  4. Your forum account may only be used by you. As the account holder, you are also responsible for protecting it from misuse. Your access data must therefore be protected from third-party access. The use of trademark-protected words and internet addresses as usernames (nicknames) or virtual companies in FTW-SIM is not permitted.
  5. The provider will strive to offer the service as uninterrupted as possible. Even with all due care, downtime cannot be excluded where the web servers are not accessible via the internet due to technical or other problems beyond the provider's control (faults of third parties, force majeure, attacks against the infrastructure by hackers, etc.). The user acknowledges that a 100% availability of the website is technically not achievable.
  6. The provider reserves the right to change and expand the content and structure of the platform as well as the associated user interfaces if this does not or only insignificantly affect the fulfillment of the purpose of the contract with the user. The provider will inform users accordingly about the changes.
  7. A peaceful and respectful interaction without offensive hostilities should be maintained among the users.
  8. Aiena e.V takes no responsibility for actions or comments made by users in the game or on other platforms. User content can be removed without prior notice or notification or the need to provide reasons if it is assumed to violate our rules.
  9. These rules cannot cover all possible cases. The support team can impose penalties in cases not covered by these rules.
  10. Members of the support team or community management will never ask for a password for an account.

§ 3 Duties as a Forum User

  1. As a user, you agree not to publish any contributions that violate these rules, public decency, or applicable German law. Specifically, you are prohibited from:
    • Publishing offensive or untrue content;
    • Sending spam to other users via the system;
    • Using legally protected content, particularly under copyright and trademark law, without authorization;
    • Engaging in anti-competitive actions;
    • Posting the same topic multiple times in the forum (prohibition of double postings);
    • Publishing third-party press articles in the forum without the author's consent;
    • Advertising in the forum without the provider's express written permission. This also applies to so-called stealth advertising such as linking to your own homepage with or without accompanying text in the signature or within posts. Homepage URLs and address or contact data may only be published in the user profile of the forum;
    • Resolving personal issues in a space visible to all users;
    • Posting content that shows nudity or similar content;
    • Posting political debates, discussions, or religion;
    • Publishing racist or sexist posts.
  2. As a user, you agree to check your contributions and topics before publishing them to see if they contain information that you do not want to make public. Your contributions and topics can be recorded by search engines and thus become globally accessible. There is no entitlement to deletion or correction of such search engine entries against the provider.
  3. In the event of a violation, particularly against the aforementioned rules in § 3 paragraphs 1 and 2, the provider may, independent of termination, impose the following sanctions on the user:
    • Deletion or modification of content that the user has posted,
    • Issuance of a warning or
    • Blocking access to the forum.
  4. Should third parties or other users make claims against the provider for possible legal violations that a) result from the contents posted by you as a user and/or b) arise from the use of the provider's services by you as a user, you, as the user, agree to indemnify the provider from any claims, including claims for damages, and to reimburse the provider for the costs incurred due to the possible legal violation. The provider is particularly indemnified from the costs of necessary legal defense. The provider is entitled to demand a reasonable advance payment from you as the user. As a user, you are obliged to support the provider in good faith with information and documents in the legal defense against third parties. All further rights and claims for damages by the provider remain unaffected. If you, as the user, are not responsible for the possible legal violation, the aforementioned obligations do not exist.

§ 4 Transfer of Usage Rights

  1. The copyright for your topics and contributions, insofar as they are copyrightable, remains with you as the user. However, by posting a topic or contribution, you grant the provider the right to permanently keep the topic or contribution on its websites. In addition, the provider has the right to delete, edit, move, or close your topics and contributions.
  2. The aforementioned usage rights remain in effect even in the event of termination of the forum account.

§ 5 Limitation of Liability

  1. The provider of the forum assumes no responsibility for the content posted in the forum, particularly not for its accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
  2. The provider is liable for intent and gross negligence as well as for the breach of a material contractual obligation. Material contractual obligations are those whose fulfillment enables the proper execution of the contract in the first place and on whose compliance the contractual partner can regularly rely. The provider is liable under the limitation to compensation for the foreseeable contract-typical damage at the time of conclusion of the contract for such damages caused by a slightly negligent breach of material contractual obligations by it or one of its legal representatives or vicarious agents. In the case of a slightly negligent breach of secondary obligations, which are not material contractual obligations, the provider is not liable. The liability for damages that fall within the scope of a guarantee or assurance given by the provider, as well as the liability for claims based on the Product Liability Act and damages resulting from injury to life, body, or health, remains unaffected.

§ 6 Duration/Termination of the Contract

  1. This agreement is concluded for an indefinite period.
  2. Both parties can terminate this agreement without notice.
  3. If the user deletes or has their account deleted (termination of the contract), their public statements, particularly contributions in the forum, remain visible to all readers, but the account is no longer accessible and is marked as "Guest" in the forum. All other data will be deleted. If the user wishes for their public contributions to be deleted as well, they should inform the provider when requesting the deletion.

§ 7 User Accounts

  1. Each natural person may only have one account per platform (forum, game server, FTW-SIM) at a time. This account may only be used by the account holder themselves, except for administrators.
  2. It is not allowed to gain unauthorized access to another game account or to attempt to do so.
  3. The sale and purchase of accounts or the offering/purchasing of IC goods for real money are prohibited.
  4. It is not allowed to use temporary/disposable email addresses ("trash mails") for the registration or use of an account in Die Stämme.

§ 8 Bots & Scripts

  1. Our services may only be used with the supported browsers via the official web browser or played. Any kind of action in the game and the forum may only be performed by hand or with a selection of possibly allowed scripts and tools.

Penalty for Violation: Permanent suspension of all involved accounts.

Abusing anything to achieve an unfair advantage results in the immediate termination of the account.