Modification
Batteram, Inc. reserves the right to change, modify or make exceptions to all policies at will.
By participating in any Batteram, Inc. service (i.e. website, Ram Jam, forum, or chat) you accept and abide by the policies stated below.
Refund Policy
We currently do not issue refunds on our monthly subscriptions.
Payment Details
Any personal payment details (i.e. credit cards) will solely be used to purchase the direct item you are purchasing (i.e. subscriptions) and will not be shared in any way to another third party or service.
Content Policy (Your Intellectual Property)
Batteram is about collaboration, innovation and opportunity. All users, participants and members are expected to share their games with the public through video, description and images as asked of through the submission form.
Games are shared under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
Essentially, this means that the team that created the game, owns the original content and can do with it as they please, and that Batteram retains the previous stated materials as display for non-commercial purposes. Batteram is not responsible nor involved in any of our users', participants' or members' intellectual property matters. These issues are placed solely in the hands of the creators.
Inclusiveness Policy
Batteram is dedicated to uniting the game developer community through collaboration, innovation and opportunity and our website employs this initiative. We have zero tolerance for sexism, racism, discrimination or any kind of exclusion in association with any feature contained in our website and we reserve the right to refuse and/or remove content that threatens our principles. We foster inclusive and welcoming environments that bring unity and opportunity to all of our participants, a place where creativity and artistic expression can flourish. However, Batteram is not liable for anyone's specific views, opinions or expressions.
Code of Conduct
Purpose
Batteram is dedicated to uniting the game developer community through collaboration, innovation and opportunity and our website employs this initiative. Therefore, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and inclusive environment for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender, appearance, ability, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or religious affiliation.
This code of conduct describes our guidelines for all those who participate in our website and community, as well as the consequences for any unacceptable behavior.
Appropriate Behavior
We would ask that all users of our website exercise extreme consideration and respect in their speech and actions, attempt compromise before conflict, and abstain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech. We also expect these same values to be applied to all games and content created through the use of our website.
Unacceptable Behavior
Unacceptable behaviors include, but are not limited too, intimidation, harassment, abuse, discrimination, offensiveness or belittlement in speech or action by any user of our website or through communications carried out in the context of community business. This includes harmful or prejudicial verbal or written comments related to gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, appearance, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, socioeconomic status, or religion as well as deliberate intimidation, stalking or following and unwelcome sexual attention.
Consequences of Unacceptable Behavior
Anyone asked to stop any unacceptable behavior(s) is expected to adhere to this request immediately. If a community member engages in unacceptable behavior, we may take action to stop the unacceptable behavior, up to and including a temporary ban or permanent expulsion from the community without warning (and without refund). This includes removal from the Leaderboard.
If You Witness or Are Subject to Unacceptable Behavior
If you are subject to or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please contact us immediately here.
Addressing Grievances
If you feel you have been falsely or unfairly accused of violating this Code of Conduct, you should contact us with a concise description of your grievance.
Scope
We wish for all community participants, users and members to abide by this Code of Conduct in any item associated with Batteram as well as in all one-on-one or group communications pertaining to community business.
License and attribution
This Code of Conduct is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The original is available at http://opensourcebridge.org/about/code-of-conduct/.
Privacy Policy
Policy for Email Usage (general)
Batteram respects our community member’s privacy. Batteram will never sell or otherwise share participant email for the purpose of profit to any third party organizations. Our general email list is a private list, used only for official communication from the Batteram and includes our newsletter. However, our forums and chat provide an opportunity for the members of our Batteram community to contact Batteram participants. Although your email is not made public, we suggest that you create and alternate email address for use with Batteram Forums and Discord so that you may moderate how you are contacted by other members. We allow this so that members can contact each other for greater team building opportunities.
Consent to this general email usage policy is granted by participating in or registering for Batteram and it's websites, forums and Discord.
For Participants: Your email address will only be used by Batteram. We do not sell or rent or email our general list of email addresses to third parties. Other than what is explicitly stated below, Batteram will not share email addresses with unrelated third-parties or affiliates. Please understand, your email address will be shared internally for communication within Batteram and for compliance to any legal matters. At the same time, your email will not be shown to other members public, although the will be able to contact you by email through our forums and chat.
Batteram, Inc. may also share your email address with third parties to enable Batteram to take security measures to help protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. Finally, Batteram may share email addresses with third parties as necessary for Batteram to perform certain services on our behalf, such as packaging, mailing and delivering products and processing event registrations and to respond to your service requests.
Usage of General Participant Emails:
Once collected, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information in a variety of ways including, but not limited to:
Opt in Email Usage
Publish membership directories and registration lists to a limited audience (non-public distribution)
Sharing with certain other companies to offer you products and services that may be of interest to you as described below:
Use of the Batteram logo
Third parties may not use the Batteram logo (or any of it's subsidiary logos) without expressed written permission. The logo must always be accompanied with the words “Batteram” and linked directly to “batteraminc.com”. It must not be used for any purpose other than to identify Batteram.
Age Policy
No person may participate in any website, forum or chat associated with Batteram unless they have reached 18 years of age or the age of majority (e.g. are legal adults) in the country of participation (whichever is younger).
Media Disclosure
Any identification (i.e. name or social media profile) submitted to us at game completion will be posted in our news and social media, and may be shared by others. This is to increase your exposure in a positive way.
Inappropriate Username
We reserve the right to change a username, or request it to be changed, if it is found to go against our conduct stated above.
Content of Website
Batteram, Inc. owns the rights and intellectual property of all of OUR content displayed through our websites and service. This includes, but is not limited to, designs, names, logos and processes.
Reviews and Comments
Any reviews or comments being posted on our website (i.e. news or archives) must adhere to the Code of Conduct stated above.
Limitations and Liability
Batteram, Inc. is not liable for any dispute, conflict, disagreement or issue between users or any of their remarks, comments or content created. If disputes should arise, users will indemnify Batteram of any liability or responsibility regarding such matters between users.
Batteram, Inc. Copyright
Batteram, Inc. has copyrighted every original aspect of our website. This website is not to be used for any means other than the purposes of Batteram, Inc. and no one may use any copyrighted (this website) material for monetary gain.
Batteram, Inc. reserves the right to change, modify or make exceptions to all policies at will.
By participating in any Batteram, Inc. service (i.e. website, Ram Jam, forum, or chat) you accept and abide by the policies stated below.
Refund Policy
We currently do not issue refunds on our monthly subscriptions.
Payment Details
Any personal payment details (i.e. credit cards) will solely be used to purchase the direct item you are purchasing (i.e. subscriptions) and will not be shared in any way to another third party or service.
Content Policy (Your Intellectual Property)
Batteram is about collaboration, innovation and opportunity. All users, participants and members are expected to share their games with the public through video, description and images as asked of through the submission form.
Games are shared under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
Essentially, this means that the team that created the game, owns the original content and can do with it as they please, and that Batteram retains the previous stated materials as display for non-commercial purposes. Batteram is not responsible nor involved in any of our users', participants' or members' intellectual property matters. These issues are placed solely in the hands of the creators.
Inclusiveness Policy
Batteram is dedicated to uniting the game developer community through collaboration, innovation and opportunity and our website employs this initiative. We have zero tolerance for sexism, racism, discrimination or any kind of exclusion in association with any feature contained in our website and we reserve the right to refuse and/or remove content that threatens our principles. We foster inclusive and welcoming environments that bring unity and opportunity to all of our participants, a place where creativity and artistic expression can flourish. However, Batteram is not liable for anyone's specific views, opinions or expressions.
Code of Conduct
Purpose
Batteram is dedicated to uniting the game developer community through collaboration, innovation and opportunity and our website employs this initiative. Therefore, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and inclusive environment for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender, appearance, ability, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or religious affiliation.
This code of conduct describes our guidelines for all those who participate in our website and community, as well as the consequences for any unacceptable behavior.
Appropriate Behavior
We would ask that all users of our website exercise extreme consideration and respect in their speech and actions, attempt compromise before conflict, and abstain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech. We also expect these same values to be applied to all games and content created through the use of our website.
Unacceptable Behavior
Unacceptable behaviors include, but are not limited too, intimidation, harassment, abuse, discrimination, offensiveness or belittlement in speech or action by any user of our website or through communications carried out in the context of community business. This includes harmful or prejudicial verbal or written comments related to gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, appearance, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, socioeconomic status, or religion as well as deliberate intimidation, stalking or following and unwelcome sexual attention.
Consequences of Unacceptable Behavior
Anyone asked to stop any unacceptable behavior(s) is expected to adhere to this request immediately. If a community member engages in unacceptable behavior, we may take action to stop the unacceptable behavior, up to and including a temporary ban or permanent expulsion from the community without warning (and without refund). This includes removal from the Leaderboard.
If You Witness or Are Subject to Unacceptable Behavior
If you are subject to or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please contact us immediately here.
Addressing Grievances
If you feel you have been falsely or unfairly accused of violating this Code of Conduct, you should contact us with a concise description of your grievance.
Scope
We wish for all community participants, users and members to abide by this Code of Conduct in any item associated with Batteram as well as in all one-on-one or group communications pertaining to community business.
License and attribution
This Code of Conduct is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The original is available at http://opensourcebridge.org/about/code-of-conduct/.
Privacy Policy
Policy for Email Usage (general)
Batteram respects our community member’s privacy. Batteram will never sell or otherwise share participant email for the purpose of profit to any third party organizations. Our general email list is a private list, used only for official communication from the Batteram and includes our newsletter. However, our forums and chat provide an opportunity for the members of our Batteram community to contact Batteram participants. Although your email is not made public, we suggest that you create and alternate email address for use with Batteram Forums and Discord so that you may moderate how you are contacted by other members. We allow this so that members can contact each other for greater team building opportunities.
Consent to this general email usage policy is granted by participating in or registering for Batteram and it's websites, forums and Discord.
For Participants: Your email address will only be used by Batteram. We do not sell or rent or email our general list of email addresses to third parties. Other than what is explicitly stated below, Batteram will not share email addresses with unrelated third-parties or affiliates. Please understand, your email address will be shared internally for communication within Batteram and for compliance to any legal matters. At the same time, your email will not be shown to other members public, although the will be able to contact you by email through our forums and chat.
Batteram, Inc. may also share your email address with third parties to enable Batteram to take security measures to help protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. Finally, Batteram may share email addresses with third parties as necessary for Batteram to perform certain services on our behalf, such as packaging, mailing and delivering products and processing event registrations and to respond to your service requests.
Usage of General Participant Emails:
Once collected, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information in a variety of ways including, but not limited to:
- Provide service communications such as confirmations, program registrations, and community service messages
- Respond to your emails or online requests for products, services, or information
- Deliver and process surveys
- Personalize and improve the usability of the website
- Fulfill and/or deliver Batteram tools products and services
- Tailor content, advertising and marketing to you
- Share with third parties as required by law
Opt in Email Usage
Publish membership directories and registration lists to a limited audience (non-public distribution)
Sharing with certain other companies to offer you products and services that may be of interest to you as described below:
- Third party sponsors wishing to contact our community about products, services and opportunities
- Other game making contests, press, journalists or allied communities within the Batteram community network for the purpose of announcing, recruiting, advertising and applauding efforts of Batteram participants.
- The organization reserves the right to provide these emails to third parties when explicit consent is provided by the participant.
Use of the Batteram logo
Third parties may not use the Batteram logo (or any of it's subsidiary logos) without expressed written permission. The logo must always be accompanied with the words “Batteram” and linked directly to “batteraminc.com”. It must not be used for any purpose other than to identify Batteram.
Age Policy
No person may participate in any website, forum or chat associated with Batteram unless they have reached 18 years of age or the age of majority (e.g. are legal adults) in the country of participation (whichever is younger).
Media Disclosure
Any identification (i.e. name or social media profile) submitted to us at game completion will be posted in our news and social media, and may be shared by others. This is to increase your exposure in a positive way.
Inappropriate Username
We reserve the right to change a username, or request it to be changed, if it is found to go against our conduct stated above.
Content of Website
Batteram, Inc. owns the rights and intellectual property of all of OUR content displayed through our websites and service. This includes, but is not limited to, designs, names, logos and processes.
Reviews and Comments
Any reviews or comments being posted on our website (i.e. news or archives) must adhere to the Code of Conduct stated above.
Limitations and Liability
Batteram, Inc. is not liable for any dispute, conflict, disagreement or issue between users or any of their remarks, comments or content created. If disputes should arise, users will indemnify Batteram of any liability or responsibility regarding such matters between users.
Batteram, Inc. Copyright
Batteram, Inc. has copyrighted every original aspect of our website. This website is not to be used for any means other than the purposes of Batteram, Inc. and no one may use any copyrighted (this website) material for monetary gain.