MWMP Terms of Use and Privacy Notice

1. Agreement and eligibility

These Terms of Use and Privacy Notice (the "Agreement") are a binding agreement between you and the operator of the MWMP.GG community project ("MWMP," "we," or "us"). They govern the MWMP website, launcher, game servers, downloads, voice and text features, accounts, and related services (collectively, the "Services"). By checking the required boxes and selecting Accept, you electronically sign this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

You represent that you are at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this Agreement. The Services are for adults only. We may suspend or terminate an account if we reasonably believe its user is under 18 or has misrepresented their age. Do not create an account for, share an account with, or permit use by anyone under 18.

2. Zero-tolerance piracy policy

You must own or otherwise have lawful access to every game, expansion, mod, and other copyrighted work you use with the Services. MWMP does not provide a copy of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind or authorize infringement.

Piracy is never allowed. You may not request, offer, provide, link to, explain how to obtain, encourage, or facilitate unauthorized copies of Morrowind or related copyrighted material through any MWMP website, server, voice channel, text channel, direct message, or community space. A good-faith private report to staff about suspected infringement does not violate this rule.

This is a zero-tolerance rule. A confirmed violation will result in removal and permanent termination of access, and the account, characters, and associated content will be scheduled for deletion without prior warning. We may retain limited records needed for security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, enforcement, or backups, preserve evidence, and cooperate with rights holders or lawful authorities.

3. Community conduct, voice, and other users

The Services include live voice communication and player-generated text or conduct. Other users may be offensive, deceptive, inappropriate, or may record or redistribute communications without our knowledge. Do not disclose information you want to keep private. Use mute, block, and reporting tools where available.

You may not harass, threaten, stalk, dox, impersonate, exploit, groom, sexually target, or endanger another person; share unlawful, infringing, hateful, or sexually exploitative material; cheat or disrupt the Services; evade moderation; access another account; distribute malware; or use the Services for unlawful activity. You are responsible for your communications and conduct. We may monitor or review information available to us for moderation, security, and enforcement, but we do not promise to monitor every interaction.

4. Accounts and enforcement

Keep your credentials secure and promptly tell us if you suspect unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity through your account to the extent permitted by law. Accounts and access are personal, revocable, non-transferable, and provided for this private community project.

We may investigate suspected violations and may remove content, mute, suspend, terminate, or delete an account or character when we reasonably believe it is necessary to enforce this Agreement, protect people or systems, comply with law, or discontinue the Services. Serious violations, including piracy facilitation, may result in immediate action. You may contact us at [email protected] to ask about an enforcement action.

5. Software, mods, and intellectual property

We grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use MWMP-provided launcher software only to access the Services. You may not bypass security, probe or attack systems, misuse credentials, introduce malicious code, or reverse engineer the Services except where applicable law expressly permits it.

Mods, game files, libraries, trademarks, and other third-party material remain the property of their respective owners and may have separate licenses. You are responsible for reviewing and following those licenses. Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda, ZeniMax, OpenMW, TES3MP, and other names belong to their respective owners. MWMP is an independent fan project and is not endorsed by or affiliated with those owners.

6. Your content

You retain any rights you have in content you submit. You give MWMP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, transmit, display, adapt, and remove that content only as reasonably needed to operate, moderate, secure, improve, or provide the Services. You represent that you have the rights needed to submit it and that it does not violate law or another person's rights.

Send copyright complaints to [email protected] with your contact information, identification of the protected work, the location of the material, a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act, and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove reported material and terminate repeat infringers.

7. Downloads, device risk, and backups

The launcher downloads and changes software, mods, configuration files, and game-related files on your device and starts third-party programs. Mods and updates may conflict, fail, corrupt data, reduce performance, trigger security software, or cause loss of settings, saves, files, or access. Back up important files before installing or launching and review the source and permissions of third-party software.

You knowingly assume the risks of downloading, installing, configuring, and using the Services and third-party material. You are responsible for your device, network, backups, game license, and compliance with third-party terms.

8. Service availability and changes

The Services are an experimental, volunteer-run project offered for fun. They may contain errors and may be changed, interrupted, reset, or discontinued at any time. We do not promise that accounts, characters, worlds, downloads, or other data will always be available, compatible, secure, or preserved. We may update this Agreement by publishing a new version. You must accept the new version on each required surface before continuing to use that surface.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES AND ALL SOFTWARE, DOWNLOADS, MODS, CONTENT, AND SUPPORT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS. MWMP AND ITS OPERATOR, CONTRIBUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND VOLUNTEERS DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, SECURITY, ACCURACY, COMPATIBILITY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MWMP AND ITS OPERATOR, CONTRIBUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND VOLUNTEERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOSS OF DATA, SAVES, FILES, PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR USE; DEVICE OR SOFTWARE DAMAGE; ACCOUNT OR SERVICE LOSS; OR CLAIMS ARISING FROM OTHER USERS, THIRD-PARTY CONTENT, INFRINGEMENT, SECURITY INCIDENTS, OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGE WAS POSSIBLE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THEIR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID MWMP FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR US$100. These limits do not exclude liability that applicable law does not allow to be excluded, including liability for willful misconduct or gross negligence where it cannot lawfully be limited.

11. Indemnity

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless MWMP and its operator, contributors, administrators, and volunteers from third-party claims, damages, judgments, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from your content, your infringement or unlawful conduct, your violation of this Agreement, or your misuse of the Services. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by a protected party's own conduct for which indemnification cannot lawfully be required.

12. Information we collect

We collect account information such as username, email address, password hash, role, account status, and verification state; authentication and security information such as session identifiers, token records, IP address, user agent, sign-in and audit history, rate-limit records, and agreement acceptance evidence; technical information provided by network requests, support messages, or diagnostic reports; and gameplay information such as account and character identifiers, character state and inventory, permissions, server sessions, connection status, moderation actions, and aggregate server activity.

The launcher stores preferences, mod selections, manifests, downloaded files, and configuration data on your device and reads technical details needed to update and start the game. MWMP does not receive locally stored details unless they are included in a request to the Services or you choose to provide them, such as in a diagnostic report.

Voice communications are relayed live to other players when voice features are used. MWMP does not intentionally record voice audio as part of the Services, but recipients or third-party software may record it. Text communications may pass through and be visible to the game server, staff, recipients, and logs used for operation or moderation. Do not treat in-game communications as private.

13. How we use and disclose information

We use information to create and secure accounts; authenticate users; operate the website, launcher, downloads, and game servers; save characters; provide voice and text features; support users; detect abuse, cheating, piracy, and security threats; moderate and enforce rules; diagnose and improve the Services; maintain audit records; and comply with law.

We may disclose information to infrastructure, hosting, email, security, and other service providers that process it for us; to other players as part of gameplay and communications; to moderators and project personnel who need it; in a reorganization or transfer of the project; when required by law or valid legal process; or when reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, users, or systems. We do not sell personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

14. Retention, security, and choices

We keep information only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described above. Account, agreement, enforcement, and character records may remain while an account is active and afterward when needed for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, disputes, or enforcement. Security audit history is generally configured for one year and server analytics for 30 days. Short-lived login credentials expire sooner. Deleted information may remain temporarily in restricted backups until those backups rotate.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no system is perfectly secure. You may update account information through the website. You may request access, correction, or deletion by emailing [email protected]. We may verify your identity, retain information where legally permitted or required, and respond according to applicable law. Privacy rights vary by location.

15. General terms

This Agreement is the entire agreement concerning the Services and replaces earlier versions. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign this Agreement without our consent; we may assign it with the project or Services. Headings are for convenience only.

The law applicable at MWMP's operator's principal place of business governs this Agreement, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where your local law requires otherwise. Courts with lawful jurisdiction over that principal place of business will be the agreed forum unless applicable law gives you another right. Before filing a claim, you and MWMP agree to try in good faith for 30 days to resolve it by contacting [email protected]. Nothing in this paragraph prevents urgent injunctive relief or a claim that cannot lawfully be subject to this process.