5. Content and Conduct
5.1 User Content Responsibility
You are solely responsible for all content you upload, distribute, or make available through our platform. This includes but is not limited to games, images, text, code, and any other materials.
5.2 Content Restrictions
You agree not to upload, distribute, or make available any content that:
- Infringes upon the intellectual property rights of others
- Contains copyrighted material without proper authorization
- Is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, or offensive
- Contains malware, viruses, or malicious code
- Violates any applicable laws or regulations
- Promotes illegal activities or substances
- Contains adult content accessible to minors
- Violates privacy rights of others
- Constitutes pornography, sexually explicit material, sexual content involving or depicting minors (including any form of CSAM, lolicon, shotacon, or similar), bestiality, or non-consensual sexual content
- Promotes, glorifies, or facilitates terrorism, violent extremism, human trafficking, self-harm, suicide, or organized criminal activity
- Contains hate speech, harassment, or discriminatory content targeting individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any protected characteristic
- Includes unauthorized cracks, keygens, pirated software, cheats distributed against a third party's terms, phishing pages, credential stealers, or any tool primarily intended to circumvent security or DRM
- Impersonates Game Launcher Cloud, its staff, other users, or any real person or entity, or misrepresents your affiliation with any person or entity
- Contains personally identifiable information of third parties without their explicit consent (doxxing)
5.3 Platform Disclaimer
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:
Game Launcher Cloud acts solely as a platform service provider. We do not review, approve, endorse, or guarantee the content uploaded by users. We are not responsible for any illegal, copyrighted, or inappropriate content uploaded by our users. Users uploading content assume full legal responsibility for their actions.
5.4 Content Removal
We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor, review, or remove content that violates these Terms. We may take action including account suspension or termination for violations.
5.5 Client Responsibility Disclaimer
IMPORTANT CLIENT RESPONSIBILITY NOTICE:
You are solely responsible for the actions, content, and conduct of your customers, end users, and any third parties who access your games or services through our platform. Game Launcher Cloud does not control or endorse your customers’ activities and will not be liable for any claims, disputes, damages, or legal actions arising from their behavior or content.
5.6 Community Content and Public Presets
Our platform allows you to publish launcher presets, templates, configurations, screenshots, descriptions, and related metadata ("Community Content") to a public community area where other users may view, search, download, fork, rate, and comment on them.
5.6.0 What a Preset Actually Contains
A "preset" published to the community consists of two distinct categories of material:
- Platform configuration values: choices, toggles, color values, layout selections, and other settings selected from options that Game Launcher Cloud itself offers within the launcher builder. These configuration values are not a creative work owned by you, are not protected as authorship, and may be freely re-used by anyone who copies the preset, with or without attribution.
- User-supplied media: images, screenshots, logos, backgrounds, icons, audio, fonts, and any other binary or textual asset that you uploaded into the preset. This is the only portion of the preset that may carry intellectual-property rights belonging to you or to a third party.
By publishing Community Content you acknowledge and agree that:
- Publishing is voluntary, public, and worldwide. Anything you mark as public may be accessed, indexed by search engines, cached, and redistributed by other users or third parties.
- You own all user-supplied media in the preset, or you have obtained all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to publish it AND to grant the downstream commercial license described in Section 5.6.1 (including for any embedded images, fonts, audio, trademarks, brand assets, model/property releases, or third-party assets). Publishing media you do not have full commercial rights to is a material breach of these Terms.
- Your Community Content complies with Section 5.2 (Content Restrictions) and all applicable laws in your jurisdiction and in the jurisdictions where it may be accessed.
- Public username, avatar, profile information, and aggregate statistics (downloads, ratings, comments) associated with your Community Content will be publicly visible.
- You are at least 18 years old and have full legal capacity to grant the licenses set out in Section 5.6.1.
- You will not upload third-party trademarks, brand assets, logos, product screenshots, or game artwork unless you are the rights holder or have an explicit written license to redistribute them on a royalty-free, sublicensable basis.
- You will not artificially inflate downloads, ratings, comments, or any other community metric, nor use bots, sockpuppet accounts, or paid manipulation services.
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ILLEGAL OR SEXUAL CONTENT:
Game Launcher Cloud has a strict zero-tolerance policy for any Community Content that constitutes pornography, sexually explicit material, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), content sexualizing minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, content promoting terrorism or violent extremism, or any other content that is illegal under applicable law.
Such content will be removed without notice, the responsible account will be permanently banned, and we will cooperate fully with law enforcement, including reporting CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and equivalent authorities. The user remains solely and personally liable for any civil and criminal consequences.
5.6.1 License Grant for Community Content
You retain ownership of any user-supplied media in your Community Content. By publishing Community Content to the public community area you grant the following licenses, which are intentionally broad because the entire purpose of publishing a preset is to let other users adopt and ship it inside their own (often commercial) launchers:
- To Game Launcher Cloud: a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, adapt (including for technical format conversion, thumbnail generation, indexing, and machine-learning-based moderation), publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, and make derivative works of the Community Content for the purposes of operating, promoting, and improving the Service and the community area.
- To every other user of the Service: a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, irrevocable license to copy, download, install, modify, adapt, combine with other content, and use the Community Content (including the user-supplied media contained in it) for any purpose, including commercial purposes, inside their own launchers and related materials, with or without attribution. Publishing a preset publicly is the express act by which you grant this commercial-use license; revoking it later is not possible with respect to copies that have already been downloaded or forked.
The license granted to other users does not authorize them to (i) re-upload the original preset and claim authorship, (ii) resell the original preset as a stand-alone product on this or any other platform, (iii) use the user-supplied media in a way that violates Section 5.2 (e.g. in hateful, defamatory, or sexual contexts), or (iv) use your username, avatar, or personal name to imply endorsement.
You may unpublish or delete your Community Content at any time. After deletion: (i) the licenses you granted to copies already downloaded or forked by other users remain in force; (ii) we may retain reasonable backup, log, and audit copies for a limited period for security, legal, and operational purposes; and (iii) we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remove the public listing and request de-indexing from third-party search engines where possible.
5.6.2 No Endorsement; No Pre-Screening
Community Content is created by users and does not represent the views or opinions of Game Launcher Cloud. We do not pre-screen, endorse, verify, or guarantee the accuracy, safety, legality, or quality of any Community Content. You access and use Community Content at your own risk.
5.6.3 Indemnification for Community Content
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Game Launcher Cloud, its operator, employees, contractors, and partners, AND any other user who downloaded or forked your Community Content in good-faith reliance on the license you granted in Section 5.6.1, from and against any claim, demand, loss, damage, fine, penalty, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to Community Content you submitted, published, or shared, including claims of intellectual property infringement, defamation, privacy violations, model/property release issues, or violation of any law or these Terms.
5.7 Reporting, Moderation, and Takedown
We provide reporting tools so users can flag Community Content that they believe violates these Terms or applicable law. We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice:
- Remove, disable, hide, demote, unlist, or restrict access to any Community Content
- Suspend, restrict, or permanently terminate accounts that publish prohibited content or repeatedly violate these Terms
- Preserve and disclose Community Content and account information to comply with legal obligations, respond to lawful requests by public authorities, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Game Launcher Cloud, our users, or the public
- Use automated systems (including hash matching and machine learning classifiers) and human review to detect and act on prohibited content
To report Community Content, use the in-product report button or contact us at [email protected]. For copyright complaints, please follow our DMCA process. Reports of CSAM or imminent threats to life will be prioritized and forwarded to the appropriate authorities.
We have no obligation to monitor Community Content, but we reserve the right to do so. Any moderation actions are taken in good faith and do not transform Game Launcher Cloud into the publisher, editor, or author of user-submitted Community Content.
5.8 Statement of Reasons and Appeals
When we remove or restrict access to non-manifestly-illegal Community Content that you published, we will, where technically feasible and not prohibited by law, provide you with a clear statement of reasons identifying (a) the action taken, (b) the rule or legal ground relied upon, and (c) the channel to appeal the decision.
You may submit an internal appeal free of charge for at least six (6) months after our decision by replying to the moderation notification or by writing to [email protected]. Appeals are reviewed by a human, not solely by an automated system. Nothing in this section applies to content removed for being manifestly illegal (e.g. CSAM, terrorist content, credible threats), where action is final and reported to authorities.
5.9 Rights Representation for Applications and Builds
Section 5.2 tells you what you may not upload. This Section is the positive statement you make to us every time you do upload. It applies to each application, DLC, build, patch, and launcher you create or distribute through the Service, and you make it separately for each one.
REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTY OF RIGHTS:
You represent and warrant that you own, or hold all licenses, consents, permissions, and authorizations necessary to distribute, reproduce, publicly make available, update, and monetize, every application, build, DLC, patch, asset, trademark, brand element, and other material you upload or distribute through the Service, in every territory where you make it available. You make this representation on each upload and it remains true for as long as the content stays on the Service.
Without limiting the above, you specifically represent and warrant that, for each application you distribute:
- It is not a client, server, emulator, reimplementation, or derivative of a video game, online service, or software product owned by a third party, unless you hold a written licence from that rights holder covering the distribution and any monetization you carry out
- You are not using the Service to distribute, update, or fund access to an unauthorized or unlicensed operation of a third party's game or online service, whether you charge for access, request donations, grant benefits in exchange for contributions, or make it available free of charge
- Any trademark, logo, title, artwork, music, voice, likeness, font, engine, middleware, or third-party library included in or referenced by your application is either yours or licensed to you on terms that permit its use in the way you are using it
- Where your application is derived from, or interoperates with, another party's work under an open-source licence, a mod policy, a fan-content policy, or a similar permission, you comply with the terms of that permission and can produce it on request
Evidence on request. We may, at any time and at our sole discretion, ask you to provide documentary evidence supporting these representations, including licence agreements, trademark registrations, store listings, distribution contracts, or written permissions. You must respond within ten (10) calendar days. If you do not respond within that period, or if the evidence provided does not reasonably support the representation, we may suspend or remove the affected application, suspend the associated launcher, or terminate your account, in each case without refund.
Consequences. A breach of this Section is a material breach of these Terms. It entitles us to act under Section 5.7, Section 10, and the DMCA and copyright policies referenced in Section 6.3, and it triggers your indemnity obligation under Section 9. Asking you for evidence, receiving it, or acting on it does not make us the publisher or author of your content, does not create any duty on our part to verify any other content, and does not constitute a representation by us that your content is lawful.