Terms of Service
About us at Dovedale Railway Wiki
These Terms of Service and Privacy Policy apply to our websites, and related online and offline offerings (collectively, the “Services”). The Services include our website at dovedale.wiki (thereafter referred to the ‘Dovedale Wiki’ or ‘The Dovedale Wiki’), and all our respective subdomains. Our services are operated by volunteer individuals located around the world. The following terms of services outline the rules of using our services.
While we are affiliated with the Dovedale Railway project, we do not represent the views of the game as a whole. Please note that this is also not an official wiki project by ROBLOX. Any complaints or feedback regarding services provided by them should be directed to the relevant official feedback channels.
This agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered into by and between you and The Dovedale Wiki regarding your use of the Dovedale Wiki website. By accessing our services, you are entering into this Agreement with the Dovedale Wiki and indicating that you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, please do not use our services.
To contact us, please email [email protected]. You may also reach out in our Discord Server's support section.
Description of Service
The Dovedale wiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia; that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge, a free service provided by our Dovedale Wiki that offers articles related to the game Dovedale Railway on Roblox.
General Disclaimers
You understand and agree that the Service is provided on an AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE basis. Dovedale Wiki disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information. That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information on our site - much of the time you will. However, we cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields. Note that most other encyclopedias and reference work also have disclaimers. The Dovedale Wiki also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you.
Lack of Peer Review
Our active community of editors and volunteer staff use website feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, we are not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them. None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators or anyone else connected with the Dovedale Wiki in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.
Proper Use
You agree that you will use the Service in compliance with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations. You shall not, shall not agree to, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (a) use the service to harass other users; (b) prevent others from using the Service; (c) use the Service for any fraudulent or inappropriate purpose. Any violation of the above may result in immediate termination of this Agreement, and may subject you to legal consequences. Dovedale Wiki reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to investigate your use of the Service in order to determine whether a violation of the Agreement has occurred or to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.
Copyright
By uploading content, you agree that you have permission to upload such all such content, and under the respective license you have selected - which by default is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Please note that all contributions except media content created by you to the Dovedale Wiki are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 4.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA) unless otherwise stated. This means that although you the editor are the holder of the copyright, you have given blanket and irrevocable permission to the world at large to reuse, remix, and transform your work as long as you are attributed as the author. Please note that images are not automatically released under the CC BY-SA license, unless created by you and uploaded to this site, where you should select the appropriate license prior to uploading
Note that all photos of original game assets, assets in public domain in game, or assets with prior permission are allowed to be used in this Wiki under terms set by Game Developers.
If you are a third party source, you may use content from this wiki, as is acceptable under the Creative Commons license. All third parties must provide proper attribution on every article and link back to the website. An example may be found on the Creative Commons website. Examples of third party sources include news sites, and YouTube websites.
You are generally not allowed to add copyrighted material with permission, even if it qualifies under 'fair use'. Please try to find other alternative images. We recommend using content that has a compatible license or is released to the public domain instead. Do not infringe on someone's copyright, as it is against our Terms of Service to submit that material.
When uploading a file, you should tag it with the appropriate copyright tag, in order to make its copyright status clear. Remember: all images uploaded should be used under fair use or be images that are freely available, with or without conditions or restrictions. You must adhere to any licensing requirements, such as attributing the author and source on the file description page. Any untagged file may be deleted at any time.
For policy and project pages, permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, we will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. We sincerely apologise if you believe that your copyrighted content is being used in a manner that you believe violates your rights. We would be happy to make amends as soon as we can; please contact us at the email stated above.
Damages
Under no circumstances will Dovedale Wiki be liable to you, or any related parties for any indirect, incidental or consequential, special or exemplary damages arising out of or in connection with the use of our services, whether or not you have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Under no circumstances shall the Dovedale Wiki be liable to you in any amount for services rendered pursuant to this agreement.
Third Party Software
Third-party software used on our site is subject to the respective third-party licensor’s or supplier’s terms of use and policies. Before accessing most embedded content, you will be asked if you would like to use and thus agree to their terms.
Data Charges
You are responsible for any mobile charges that you may incur for using our services. This includes data charges and charges for videos and loading media, which may incur a larger amount of data usage. If you are not sure what you may be charged, you should ask your mobile service provider before using our services.
Cookies
Please see our dedicated page on cookies at Project:Cookie_Statement.
Membership
In order to use certain portions of the Services (examples include editing or posting content), you will need to first register on our wiki site. You must not register for membership in a Service where you are prohibited by law. In addition, registration is only permitted by users who are: 16 or older (only applicable for residents of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and in the state of California in the United States of America), or 13 years old and older in the rest of the world. Any registration by anyone under those ages in the applicable jurisdictions is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of this Agreement. By registering for the Services, you represent and warrant that you meet the age requirement set forth above and that you agree to and will abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
You are prohibited from using any bots, scripts or non-human activity from using your main account. All bot activity should be done via Special:BotPasswords, and for non-malicious use only. You are strongly advised to contact staff members before carrying out such operation.
You are responsible for the security of your account. If you use a password, it must be strong and we (strongly) recommend that you use that password only for your wiki account and that you enable two-factor authentication. You agree not to license, sell, lend or transfer your account, username or other unique identifier associated with the website or wiki community without our prior written approval. We also reserve the right to delete, change or reclaim your username, URL or other identifier, with or without prior notice.
User Conduct
You agree to follow all user conduct rules outlined in the rules page. Dovedale Wiki reserves the full right to enforce these rules, and any other serious activity that may be considered malicious, but not explicitly stated. We will notify you if any rules change, however are required will need to follow the most recent version of rules. Breaking the rules may result in your removal from the server.
Termination
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Dovedale Wiki reserves the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to terminate your license to use our site and services, and to block or prevent your future access to and use of the Services, including where we reasonably consider that: (a) your use of the Services violates these Terms of Use or applicable law; (b) you fraudulently use or misuse the Services; or (c) we are unable to continue providing the Services to you due to technical or legitimate business reasons. This includes the ability to terminate or to suspend your access to any purchased products or services, including any subscriptions. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, your only remedy with respect to any dissatisfaction with (i) the Services, (ii) any term of these Terms of Use, (iii) any policy or practice of Fandom in operating the Services, or (iv) any content or information transmitted through the Services, is to terminate your account and to discontinue use of any and all parts of the Services.
Privacy
As a condition to using the Service, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy as stated in the next section, as it may be updated from time to time. We understand that privacy is important to you. You do, however, agree that we may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information, including the content of your emails, if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold Dovedale Wiki, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, partners, and employees, harmless from all claims, demands, actions, proceedings, liabilities (including statutory liability and liability to third parties), penalties, and costs (including without limitation, legal costs on a full indemnity basis), awards, losses and/or expenses, due to or arising out of any use of the Site or any Service, your connection to the Site, your breach of any terms and conditions of this Agreement, your violation of any rights of another person or entity, your breach of any statutory requirement, duty or law.
Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we hereby disclaim any and all warranties, representations or statements made or given by employees, staff, agents, contractors and/or service providers of Dovedale Wiki. The reader shall waive all claims against Dovedale Wiki arising from such disputes. Notwithstanding any other conditions stated on our pages, Dovedale Wiki shall not be liable for any loss, damage, embarrassment, inconvenience, cost or expense of any nature (including without limitation for any act, omission, neglect or breach on the part of their agents, contractors, employees and staff) arising out of or in connection with the usage of our wiki service in any way that may be suffered or incurred by the reader or any other person.
Modifications to the Agreement
Dovedale Wiki shall have the right to modify the terms of this Agreement at any time. The new agreement shall be effective immediately. It is your responsibility to stay updated with the terms and conditions and privacy policies of our site.
Exercise
The failure of the Dovedale Wiki to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
Jurisdiction
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the laws of United Kingdom (where this website is hosted from), without regard to principles of conflict of laws, govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Dovedale Wiki or any of our affiliates.
Language
To the extent that a translation of these Terms of Use differs from the English language version, the English language version takes precedence.
Entire Agreement
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Dovedale Wiki and its respective properties and you with respect to the subject matter hereof.
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how we collect, protect and use the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you ("User", "you" or "your") provided on any of our products and or services . It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage.
Collection of identifiable Information
We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us when you create an account, publish content, fill any online forms on the Website. When required this information may include your email address, name or other Personal Information. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of the Website's features.
Collection of non-identifiable Information
When you visit the Website our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data may include information such as your computer's IP address, browser type and version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Website, pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for on our Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.
For statistics, website usage, advertising and social media plugins functionality, we use some third party software like Simple Analytics. You can read how they manage your data on their website.
Management of Personal Information
You are able to access, add to, update and delete certain Personal Information about you. The information you can view, update, and delete may change as the Website or Services change. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you Services. Some information may remain in our private records after your deletion of such information from your account. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally.
Use of collected information
Any of the information we collect from you may be used to personalize your experience; improve user service and respond to queries and emails of our users; run and operate our Website and Services. Non-personal information collected is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding Website traffic and usage. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.
Third Party Links, Websites and Services
The Websites contain links to websites and content operated by third parties. Such links do not mean or imply that Dovedale Wiki endorses, recommends, sponsors, or otherwise has any affiliation or relationship with any third party, and no affiliation or relationship should be presumed. Dovedale Wiki does not control and is not responsible for any aspect of such websites and content.
Business Transitions
In the event Dovedale Wiki goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will be part of the assets transferred for your ease of access unless stated otherwise.
Security of Information
We secure information you provide on computer servers and services in a secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure to the best of our knowledge. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of personal information in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and our Website cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party, despite best efforts.
Notification of Changes
Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Data breach
In the event we become aware that the security of the Website has been compromised or users Personal Information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including, but not limited to, security attacks or fraud, we reserve the right to take reasonably appropriate measures, including, but not limited to, investigation and reporting, as well as notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities. In the event of a data breach, we will make reasonable efforts to notify affected individuals if we believe that there is a reasonable risk of harm to the user as a result of the breach or if notice is otherwise required by law. There may be a post on related Discord Servers, our website or an email sent out to users.
Legal disclosure
We will disclose any information we collect, use or receive if required or permitted by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
Amendments
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy relating to the Website or Services at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this privacy policy on the Website. When we do we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. Continued use of the Website after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.
Acceptance
You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By using the Website or its Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to use or access the Website and its Services.