Terms & Rules

Accounts

• You may only have one (1) account on ectunnel. Do not create another account. (if you want to change your name, use the Ducat shop).
• Do not share your account.
• Sharing a physical computer and/or IP address with someone else will make you liable for their actions.

Content
    When contributing, you may not:

• Post content or items in an inappropriate category or areas on ECTunnel.com.
• Violate any laws or third party rights unbeknownst to the buyer.
• Use ECTunnel.com if you are not able to form legally binding contracts, are under the age of 18, or are temporarily or indefinitely banned from ECTunnel.com.
• Post false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, or libelous content (including personal information).
• Distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm ECTunnel.com, or the interests or property of ECTunnel.com users.
• Copy, modify, or distribute content from ECTunnel.com and ECTunnel.com's copyrights and trademarks or harvest or otherwise collect information about users, including email addresses, without their consent.
• Create unnecessary drama.
• Reveal the name of anyone's character without staff approval.
• Post similar threads more than once a week.
• Irrationally accuse someone of scamming.
• Have more than three (3) "self-bumped" threads on the first page at any time.
• Link to external sales sites or communities (including group-chats) in posts or conversations without admin approval.
• Reply to a sales thread with the sole intention of increasing its visibility.

Trading

• You must keep your promise to trade, unless one party has changed the terms after your agreement.
• Don't take deposits without clearly stating your refund terms. (deposits are considered to be refundable in the event of non-delivery, unless otherwise stated.)
• ECTunnel will not hold anyone responsible for the actions of a GM, guild, glitch, or act of God outside of either party's control after a completed transaction, unless under the purview of a trader's explicit policy or other written agreement.
• This is covered by the above rule, but to be clear: ECTunnel will not hold anyone responsible for a banned account after a completed transaction. (Your honest feedback is encouraged to be left for the trader.)
• We hold users to all stated agreements, including their refund policies.
• Buyers may demand a refund from the seller if the trade was incomplete. For accounts, an incomplete account trade is when the buyer was never able to log in to an account.

Feedback

• Feedback must be honest, and may cover completed, substantially attempted, or failed transactions.
• Feedback may otherwise be removed by moderators under these conditions:
1. Both parties agree to removal.
2. A "dispute feedback" community vote is purchased in the Ducat shop, and won.
3. The feedback is from an account that's no longer in good standing.
• You may not take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as leaving frequent dishonest feedback, displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of ECTunnel.com or for using it for purposes unrelated to ECTunnel.com)

Civility

• Respect your fellow tunnelers, treat them as equals and not as servants.
• Malicious action on behalf of either party leading to a game account ban is against the rules.
• Do not harass the staff. They're attempting to do a job, don't make it harder.
• Don't go negative or put down other sellers in your listings. Stay positive by focusing on what you offer, not what others don't.
• Please don't engage in any actions or post any methods that would cause a game company to lose business.
• Do not plagiarize. If you want to use a portion of someone's work, please ask permission.
• Do not dox users with malicious intent, even if you feel it's justified. This includes their in-game or RL details.
• Do not threaten anyone with physical harm.
• Don't post anything that encourages white supremacy or misogyny. Let's just talk about EverQuest.
• Goodbye threads. If you're leaving the community, your account will be banned as it's no longer needed.
• Don't be a jerk. This is a requisite catch-all rule.

Identity Rules
To use the sell/buy/trade section on this site you have to meet the following requirements:

• Be at least 18 years old.
• Cannot misrepresent your identities.
• Must always provide valid and complete contact information and must always have a valid email address.
• Cannot publish the contact information of other members in an online public area.

Release

If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release us (and our staff, account testers, moderators and any other that are dirrectly affiliated with ECTunnel.com) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

API

Without explicit permission granted by us via a separate written or electronic agreement, you agree not to (i) rent, lease, sell, publish, distribute, license, sublicense, assign, transfer, or otherwise make available EC Tunnel or our application programming interface ("API"), (ii) copy, adapt, create derivative works of, decompile, reverse engineer, translate, localize, port or modify the App, the API, any website code, or any software used to provide EC Tunnel, (iii) combine or integrate EC Tunnel or the API with any software, technology, services, or materials not approved by us, (iv) bypass any functionality that controls access to or otherwise safeguards EC Tunnel or the API, or (v) remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices. You are obliged not to use EC Tunnel or the API in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that infringes any applicable law.

Escrow

• ECTunnel will not be held responsible for any escrow transactions of any type where an item or account sold or traded is recalled after the completion of the transaction. You acknowledge that ECTunnel is not the owner of these items or accounts. If an item or account is recalled by a previous owner or is hacked, you acknowledge that ECTunnel is not responsible and will be unable to help recover the items or account.
• For escrow services, you acknowledge that ECTunnel does not protect sellers from payment disputes or chargebacks. The buyer sends payment directly to the seller, so ECTunnel is not involved in the payment process and will not issue refunds or cover the lose of funds due to payment disputes or chargebacks.
• Escrow providers are not employees of ECTunnel (RedGuides LLC). They are long term ECTunnel members who have been verified and have a strong history of positive feedback. For account sales or trades during an escrow provider service, you acknowledge that a provider will access the account being sold to secure it. The seller acknowledges that by using escrow, ECTunnel is not responsible for anything that happens to the account while a provider transaction is being conducted or after it's completed.
• If the account is banned or suspended while an escrow provider has access to it, we will conduct an investigation to why it was banned or suspended. If it is determined the ban or suspension was caused directly by a provider accessing your account, it is up to the seller to recover and unban the account. ECTunnel will not provide any compensation for the account even if it can't be unbanned. You acknowledge that someone accessing an account one time, is not a significant violation. If the account is permanently banned due to this one-time access, you acknowledge the account has had many previous violations and is a high-risk account. Due to this high risk, ECTunnel is not held responsible and will not provide any compensation.
• If a scam occurs during a provider transaction, while the provider has control of the account, ECTunnel will conduct an investigation. Based on this investigation the provider fee could be refunded and partial compensation could be paid out to the victim. The partial compensation is limited to a maximum of $100.

Disclaimers

WELCOME TO EC TUNNEL.

We (RedGuides, LLC.) hope you find it useful. By accessing or otherwise interacting with our servers, services, websites, or any associated content/postings (together, "ECT"), you agree to these Terms of Use ("TOU") (last updated December 29, 2017). You acknowledge and agree ECT is a private site owned and operated by RedGuides, LLC. If you are accessing or using ECT on behalf of a business, that business agrees to the TOU. If you do not agree to the TOU, you are not authorized to use ECT. We may modify the TOU at any time in our sole discretion. You are responsible for periodically checking for changes and are bound by them if you continue to use ECT. Our privacy policy (https://ectunnel.com/community/pages/privacy/), prohibited list (https://ectunnel.com/community/help/terms), and all other policies, site rules, and agreements referenced below or on ECT, are fully incorporated into this TOU, and you agree to them as well.

LICENSE.

If you agree to the TOU and (1) are of sufficient age and capacity to use ECT and be bound by the TOU, or (2) use ECT on behalf of a business, thereby binding that business to the TOU, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-assignable license to use ECT in compliance with the TOU; unlicensed use is unauthorized. You agree not to display, "frame," make derivative works, distribute, license, or sell, content from ECT, excluding postings you create. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, worldwide, fully paid/sublicensable license to use, copy, display, distribute, and make derivative works from content you post.

USE.

Unless licensed by us in a written agreement, you agree not to use or provide software (except general purpose web browsers and email clients) or services that interact or interoperate with ECT, e.g. for downloading, uploading, creating/accessing/using an account, posting, flagging, emailing, searching, or mobile use. You agree not to copy/collect ECT content via robots, spiders, scripts, scrapers, crawlers, or any automated or manual equivalent (e.g., by hand). Misleading, unsolicited, and/or unlawful postings/communications/accounts are prohibited, as is buying or selling accounts. You agree not to post content that is prohibited by any of ECT's policies or rules referenced above ("Prohibited Content"). You agree not to abuse ECT's flagging or reporting processes. You agree not to collect ECT user information or interfere with ECT. You agree we may moderate ECT access/use in our sole discretion, e.g., by blocking, filtering, re-categorizing, re-ranking, deleting, delaying, holding, omitting, verifying, or terminating your access/license/account. You agree (1) not to bypass said moderation, (2) we are not liable for moderating or not moderating, and (3) nothing we say or do waives our right to moderate, or not.

LIQUIDATED DAMAGES.

You further agree that if you violate the USE section, or you encourage, support, benefit from, or induce others to do so, you will be jointly and severally liable to us for liquidated damages as follows for: (A) collecting/harvesting ECT users' information, including personal or identifying information - $1 per violation; (B) publishing/misusing personal or identifying information of a third party in connection with your use of ECT without that party's express written consent - $1,000 per violation; (C) misrepresenting your identity or affiliation to anyone in connection with your use of ECT - $1,000 per violation; (D) posting or attempting to post Prohibited Content - $4 per violation; (E) posting or attempting to post Prohibited Content in any paid section of ECT - the price per post applicable to that section of ECT; (F) sending an unauthorized/unsolicited email to an email address obtained from ECT - $25 per violation; (G) using ECT user information to make/send an unauthorized/unsolicited text message, call, or communication to a ECT user - $500 per text/call/communication; (H) creating a misleading or unlawful ECT account or buying/selling a ECT account - $4 per violation; (I) abusing or attempting to abuse ECT's flagging or reporting processes - $1 per violation; (J) distributing any software to facilitate violations of the USE Section - $1,000 per violation; (K) aggregating, displaying, copying, duplicating, reproducing, distributing, or exploiting ECT content for any purpose without our express written consent - $3,000 for each day you engage in such violations; (L) requesting, viewing, or accessing more than 1,000 pages of ECT in any 24-hour period - $0.25 per page during the 24 hour period after the first 1,000 pages; (M) bypassing or attempting to bypass our moderation efforts - $4 per violation. You agree that these amounts are (1) a reasonable estimate of our damages (as actual damages are often difficult to calculate), (2) not a penalty, and (3) not otherwise limiting on our ability to recover under any legal theory or claim, including statutory damages and other equitable relief (e.g., for spam, we can elect between the above liquidated damages or statutory damages under the anti-spam statute). You further agree that repeated violations of the USE section will irreparably harm and entitle us to injunctive or equitable relief, in addition to monetary damages.

FEES.

You authorize us to charge your account for ECT fees in paid areas). Any tax is additional. Fees are non-refundable, even for posts we remove, delay, omit, re-categorize, re-rank, or otherwise moderate. We may refuse any posting.

DISECTAIMER & LIABILITY.

You will not hold ECTunnel.com responsible for other users' actions or inaction's, including things they post. You acknowledge that we are not a traditional auctioneer. Instead, ECTunnel.com is a venue to allow anyone to offer, sell, and buy just about anything, at anytime, from anywhere. We are not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. We have no control over and do not guarantee the quality, safety or legality of items advertised, the truth or accuracy of listings, the ability of sellers to sell items, the ability of buyers to pay for items, or that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction.

We do not transfer legal ownership of items from the seller to the buyer, and nothing in this agreement shall modify the governing provisions of California Commercial Code § 2401(2) and Uniform Commercial Code § 2-401(2), under which legal ownership of an item is transferred upon physical delivery of the item to the buyer by the seller. Unless the buyer and the seller agree otherwise, the buyer will become the item's lawful owner upon physical receipt of the item from the seller, in accordance with California Commercial Code § 2401(2) and Uniform Commercial Code § 2-401(2). Further, we cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our services, and operation of ECTunnel.com may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. Accordingly, to the extent legally permitted, we exclude all implied warranties, terms and conditions. We are not liable for any loss of money, goodwill, or reputation, or any special, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of your use of ECTunnel.com. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you.

To the full extent permitted by law, RedGuides LLC, and its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, affiliates, and successors in interest ("ECT Entities") (1) make no promises, warranties, or representations as to ECT, including its completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, propriety, security or reliability; (2) provide ECT on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis and any risk of using ECT is assumed by you; (3) disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including as to accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement; and (4) disclaim any liability or responsibility for acts, omissions, or conduct of you or any party in connection with ECT. ECT Entities are NOT liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, special, punitive, or other losses, including lost profits, revenues, data, goodwill, etc., arising from or related to ECT, and in no event shall such liability exceed $100 or the amount you paid us in the year preceding such loss. Some jurisdictions restrict or alter these disclaimers and limits, so some may not apply to you.

CLAIMS & INDEMNITY.

You will indemnify and hold us (and our staff, account testers, moderators and any other that are directly affiliated with ECTunnel.com), harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

You agree to indemnify and hold ECT Entities harmless from any Claims, losses, liability, or expenses (including attorneys' fees) that arise from a third party and relate to your use of ECT; and be liable and responsible for any Claims we may have against your officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, or any other party, directly or indirectly, paid, directed or controlled by you, or acting for your benefit.

MISC. Users complying with prior written licenses may access ECT thereby until authorization is terminated. Otherwise this is the exclusive and entire agreement between us and you, and our actions or silence toward you or anyone else does not waive, modify, or limit the TOU or our ability to enforce it. The USE, LIQUIDATED DAMAGES, and ECTAIMS & INDEMNITY sections survive termination of the TOU, and you will remain bound by those sections. If a TOU term is unenforceable, it shall be limited to the least extent possible and supplemented with a valid provision that best embodies the intent of the parties. The English version of the TOU controls over any translations. If you reasonably believe content infringes your IP rights, or have any questions, use the "Contact Us" link below.