By accessing or using the Services, creating an account, purchasing or receiving a membership, purchasing or using virtual currency, or otherwise participating in The Boneyard, you agree to these Terms.
If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Services.
1. Eligibility and Accounts
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and any third-party accounts connected to The Boneyard, including Steam, Discord, Patreon, or other supported services.
You are responsible for activity occurring through your account.
You may not impersonate another person, misrepresent your identity, evade enforcement actions, access another user's account without authorization, or use the Services for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or disruptive purposes.
The Boneyard may require account verification or a linked third-party account to access particular features.
2. Community and Server Rules
Use of The Boneyard is subject to all published community rules, game-server rules, event rules, and other policies applicable to a particular feature or service.
Rules may be updated as the community, game, or Services evolve.
Users may be warned, muted, restricted, suspended, removed, or permanently banned for violations of these Terms or applicable community rules.
Serious misconduct may result in immediate enforcement without a prior warning.
3. Suspension and Termination
The Boneyard reserves the right to investigate suspected violations and to restrict, suspend, or terminate access to the Services when reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect the community, prevent abuse or fraud, comply with legal obligations, or protect The Boneyard's systems and operations.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Cheating, exploiting, hacking, or intentionally abusing bugs.
- Harassment, threats, targeted abuse, or other serious community misconduct.
- Fraudulent transactions, payment abuse, or unauthorized chargebacks.
- Attempting to manipulate virtual currencies, memberships, rewards, or game systems.
- Ban evasion or assisting another user in evading enforcement.
- Unauthorized access to accounts, infrastructure, APIs, administrative systems, or game integrations.
- Intentionally disrupting the website, game server, community, or related infrastructure.
- Other material violations of these Terms or published community rules.
Enforcement decisions may consider the nature, severity, frequency, and circumstances of the conduct.
Termination or suspension of an account does not create an entitlement to continued access to memberships, virtual items, virtual currency, game characters, stored dinosaurs, community roles, or other digital benefits associated with the account.
Nothing in these Terms limits rights or remedies that cannot legally be limited under applicable law.
4. Paid Memberships
The Boneyard may offer paid memberships through Patreon or other approved payment providers.
Membership benefits may include, depending on the applicable tier:
- Recurring Fossil grants.
- Boneyard Credit Grow Shop discounts.
- Dinosaur storage capacity.
- Profile or community benefits.
- Discord roles.
- Access to membership-specific features.
- Other digital benefits described for the applicable membership tier.
Benefits vary by tier. Membership benefits have no cash value and may not be exchanged for money unless expressly required by applicable law.
The Boneyard may add, modify, replace, rebalance, or discontinue membership benefits when reasonably necessary to operate or develop the Services. Material changes will not be used to intentionally deprive members of benefits already earned or purchased.
Membership status may depend on information supplied by the applicable payment provider.
5. Recurring Membership Billing
When a membership is sold as recurring, it may continue to renew until canceled according to the procedures provided by the payment provider.
The price, billing frequency, renewal terms, and cancellation method applicable to a purchase should be presented before purchase through the applicable checkout or membership provider.
Users are responsible for canceling recurring memberships through the applicable provider when they no longer wish to renew.
Cancellation generally prevents future renewals but does not necessarily terminate access to benefits already paid for during the current billing period.
The Boneyard does not control every aspect of third-party payment processing or subscription management.
6. Memberships and Enforcement Actions
Purchasing a membership does not exempt a user from these Terms, community rules, moderation, or server enforcement.
Financial support does not purchase immunity from warnings, suspensions, bans, or other moderation decisions.
A membership may remain subject to the payment provider's billing and cancellation rules even if a user's access to The Boneyard is restricted or terminated.
Where appropriate and technically available, The Boneyard may cancel or terminate benefits associated with a banned account.
Refund eligibility, if any, remains subject to these Terms, the circumstances of the transaction, applicable payment-provider policies, and applicable law.
7. Virtual Currency
The Boneyard may provide virtual currencies, including Boneyard Credits ("BC") and Fossils.
Virtual currencies:
- Are digital features of the Services.
- Are not legal tender.
- Are not bank deposits.
- Are not cryptocurrency.
- Do not represent ownership or equity in The Boneyard.
- Do not accrue interest.
- Have no guaranteed monetary value outside the Services.
- May not be sold, transferred, exchanged, or redeemed for real-world money except where expressly permitted or required by law.
Users receive only a limited, personal, revocable license to use virtual currency within supported portions of the Services.
8. Virtual Currency Adjustments
The Boneyard may correct virtual-currency balances when reasonably necessary because of:
- Bugs or duplicate grants.
- Technical or administrative errors.
- Exploits or unauthorized transactions.
- Fraudulent activity.
- Reversed payments.
- Other incorrect balance changes.
The Boneyard may investigate unusual transactions and temporarily restrict transfers or spending while an investigation is pending.
9. Digital Items and Game Benefits
Dinosaurs, growth, skins, stored dinosaurs, profile benefits, roles, Fossils, BC, membership benefits, and similar features are digital components of the Services.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, acquiring a digital benefit does not transfer intellectual-property ownership in the underlying content.
Game updates, server changes, balancing decisions, technical limitations, resets, wipes, bugs, third-party changes, or discontinued functionality may affect digital benefits.
The Boneyard will make reasonable efforts to preserve legitimate user benefits but does not guarantee permanent availability of any specific game mechanic or third-party-dependent feature.
10. Refunds
Except where required by applicable law or expressly stated otherwise at the time of purchase, purchases of consumed or delivered digital benefits are generally final once fulfilled.
Refund requests may be reviewed individually for circumstances such as duplicate charges, technical failures, incorrect fulfillment, or other exceptional circumstances.
Nothing in this section removes refund, cancellation, dispute, or consumer rights that cannot legally be waived.
11. Chargebacks and Payment Disputes
Users should contact The Boneyard or the applicable payment provider regarding legitimate billing problems.
Fraudulent chargebacks, knowingly false payment disputes, or deliberate attempts to retain digital benefits after reversing payment may result in restriction or termination of the associated account and reversal of benefits obtained through the disputed transaction.
A legitimate good-faith billing dispute will not, by itself, be treated as misconduct.
12. Third-Party Services
The Boneyard integrates with services operated by third parties, which may include Patreon, Discord, Steam, payment processors, hosting providers, and game-related services.
Those services are governed by their own terms and policies. The Boneyard is not responsible for outages, policy changes, account actions, data errors, discontinued functionality, or other circumstances controlled exclusively by third-party providers.
13. The Isle and Other Third-Party Intellectual Property
The Boneyard is an independent community project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or operated by the developers or publishers of The Isle unless expressly stated otherwise.
Names, trademarks, game assets, and other intellectual property belonging to third parties remain the property of their respective owners.
14. Availability and Changes to the Services
The Services are provided on an evolving basis. Features may be introduced, modified, temporarily unavailable, replaced, or discontinued because of development, maintenance, security, game updates, infrastructure changes, legal requirements, or circumstances outside The Boneyard's control.
The Boneyard does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.
15. Prohibited Conduct
Users may not:
- Exploit vulnerabilities or bugs for unauthorized advantage.
- Interfere with or attack The Boneyard infrastructure.
- Circumvent authentication, authorization, moderation, or enforcement systems.
- Scrape or automate access in a manner that harms the Services.
- Reverse engineer protected components except where applicable law expressly permits it.
- Manipulate payments, rewards, membership systems, virtual currency, or game integrations.
- Distribute malware or malicious code.
- Obtain or disclose another person's private information without authorization.
- Use the Services for unlawful purposes.
Security vulnerabilities should be privately reported rather than exploited.
16. User Content and Community Contributions
Users retain ownership of content they create to the extent they hold rights in that content.
When content is voluntarily submitted to public or community-facing portions of The Boneyard, the user grants The Boneyard a non-exclusive license to host, display, reproduce, and distribute that content as reasonably necessary to operate and promote the Services.
Users must have the necessary rights to content they submit.
17. Disclaimer of Warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE."
THE BONEYARD DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR COMPATIBLE WITH EVERY GAME UPDATE, THIRD-PARTY SERVICE, DEVICE, OR CONFIGURATION.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty disclaimers, so some of these limitations may not apply to you.
18. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE BONEYARD AND ITS OWNERS, OPERATORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVELOPERS, CONTRACTORS, AND REPRESENTATIVES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO USE OF THE SERVICES.
This includes, to the extent permitted by law, loss of digital items, game progress, access, data, profits, or other intangible benefits resulting from service interruptions, game updates, third-party services, technical failures, or user misconduct.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
19. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Boneyard and its owners, operators, administrators, developers, contractors, and representatives from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful conduct, material violation of these Terms, infringement of another person's rights, or misuse of the Services.
20. Changes to These Terms
The Boneyard may update these Terms as the Services evolve or as legal, operational, security, or business requirements change.
The effective date or last-updated date will be revised when these Terms materially change. Where legally required or reasonably appropriate, users will receive additional notice of material changes.
Continued use after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by applicable law.
21. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain effective to the fullest extent permitted by law.
22. No Waiver
Failure to enforce a provision of these Terms on one occasion does not waive the right to enforce that provision later.
23. Governing Law
Except where applicable consumer law requires otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
24. Contact
Questions concerning these Terms, billing issues, account enforcement, or the Services should be submitted through The Boneyard's designated support channels.
By creating an account, purchasing a membership or digital benefit, or continuing to use The Boneyard after these Terms become effective, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms.