Game Tribute

Have a site that's ready to be hosted? Great! It is important that you read and agree to our terms and conditions for hosted sites.

If your site is not approved, we will tell you why, and you must wait 30 days before you can resubmit the site. This is to prevent someone from submitting the site, making a small change, submitting it again, etc. Please do not make repeat submissions without waiting for 30 days.

If you are under 18, you must have parental consent before applying for hosting.

Unfortunately,due to receiving hundreds of form emails per day from spam-bots, we are unable to accept submissions via the web form anymore. Please e-mail your submission forms to me.

What's my email address? Well, it's for this website, and I go by the name benstylus - you can figure it out.

I - CONTENT

All services must be used for lawful purposes only. You are solely responsible for ensuring the contents of your site do not violate copyright or other laws.

Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on our site. We also do not allow content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the internet, such as computer viruses.

While we may forgive minor copyright violations if the offending content is removed within a reasonable time of you being notified, we have a zero tolerance policy for the last two (porn and malicious software).

The one thing we require is at the bottom of your site's main page, you post a link back to the gametribute.com home page. It should look something like "hosted by gametribute.com"

If you wish to have advertising on your site for your own personal gain (note that this is completely optional), then we ask that you limit it to a single 468x60 banner on any given page. The banner should be in GIF or JPG format, no flash banners please. You are welcome to use referral links when linking to places like Amazon or other online stores. Any sites found using multiple ad banners on a single page will be given a warning, followed by suspension if you do not correct the problem within a reasonable period of time. Sites using pop-up or pop-under ads (ones that open in a new window, or simply cover up your content until you click close) will be immediately and permanently removed. We also do not allow intermediate ad pages (for example - when someone clicks a link, it takes them to an ad page, then they have to click continue to go to the real content). Could you tell we're not big fans of annoying advertisements? Please make sure to keep your advertising tasteful - this means no porn site advertisements.

If you wish, you may also have our gametribute.com donation banner at the bottom of your site's main page to help pay for our bandwidth costs. This is encouraged, but not required.

We are very strict about our advertising policy because we believe that intrusive ads should have no place on the internet. If you are not sure whether an ad is acceptable for your site, it is your responsibility to check with us first.

II - COPYRIGHT

Everything hosted on this site remains the copyright of its original owner. By hosting your site with us, you grant us the right to link to or quote from your material on our site without further compensation for as long as you are hosted here.

If, at any time, you wish for us to remove your site for any reason, simply let us know. We will send you an email to confirm that you wish to have your site removed. Upon your confirmation of that email, we will remove your site within 1 week.

III - SERVICE AND SERVICE LIMITATIONS

When you are approved, we will provide you with a subdomain of gametribute.com, a personalized gametribute.com email address, FTP access for your site, and 25 megabytes of webspace to start. As your tribute site grows, we may grant additional webspace on an as needed basis. When you are within 5 megabytes of your maximum size, you may contact us to request additional space. Please give your reason and how much space you think you will need and we will try to accomodate you. If you've got a special project that requires a very large amount of space (more than a hundred megabytes), we may ask you to help pay for our server costs.

If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask for it. If we can reasonably provide it, we will.

We do not allow IRC bots or spambots to run on our servers. If we get spam complaints against your account, we will first give you a warning, but if we continue to receive these complaints, we will remove your site and terminate all dealings with you.

Due to space limitations, we do not allow message boards to be hosted on our tribute sites. However, we do have a larger message board for the entire site. If you would like to have a dedicated forum for your site on the gametribute.com message boards, we can create one and place you as a moderator of that forum. Alternatively, you can get free message board hosting from ezboard or another place and link to it from your site.

If we modify this agreement or any of our terms after you have been accepted for hosting, we will notify you. You will then have 30 days after your first notification to agree to our new terms, after which time your account may be suspended or removed if you do not.

IV - SAFETY OF DATA

You are solely responsible for maintining backups of the data on your site. We cannot be held responsible for lost data.

A good idea is to keep a separate folder on your hard drive that mirrors the content of the site..

V - WARRANTY

All services are provided on an "as is" basis. We make no guarantees as to speed, site uptime, bandwidth, or anything else - though we will do our best to keep things running smoothly. We also reserve the right to refuse or terminate service for any reason and at any time that we deem necessary without prior notification.

VI - INDEMNITY

By agreeing to these Terms of Service, you indemnify gametribute.com for any violation of the Terms of Service that results in loss to gametribute.com. Essentially this means that if we are sued because of your activity (though we shouldn't be), you accept full legal and financial responsibility, and you will pay any damages awarded against gametribute.com, plus all costs and attorney's fees.

If you wish to be hosted here, you must agree to abide by all the above rules. If there are any rules that you simply cannot agree to, please use our general contact form and let us know which parts you don't agree with and why. If we feel your argument is reasonable, we may grant you hosting under special terms.

VII - YOUR INFORMATION AND YOUR PRIVACY

We do collect personal information from you when you submit your site for hosting. If any of your data changes (such as your email address) it is your responsibility to notify us of this change.

We do not share personal information with any third party unless required to do so by law. We are not going to sell your information to anyone under any circumstances. Basically, we won't disclose anything about you unless we get a court order demanding that we do so.