Codes of Conduct – IGEA Trust & Safety

Codes Of Conduct | Implementing codes of conduct to set
standards for acceptable behaviour.

Codes Of Conduct | Implementing codes of conduct to set standards for acceptable behaviour.

Online games are social spaces where players interact with each other. To ensure a fun, fair, and safe gaming experience for everyone, there are codes of conduct that players have to follow.

These codes of conduct set the rules and expectations for online behaviour, such as being respectful, polite, and honest. They also protect players from harmful or inappropriate actions, such as cheating, hacking, or harassing.

Players who break the codes of conduct may face consequences, such as losing their game account or facing legal action. By following the codes of conduct, players can enjoy online games and be part of a positive gaming community.

You can see below a range of Code of Conducts from our members.

Activision Blizzard

The first step to a universally great game experience for everyone is a clear set of rules, communicated consistently.

Here’s what Activision Blizzard is doing:

Activision observes a franchise-wide Code of Conduct for Call of Duty focused on three core pillars: treat everyone with respect, compete with integrity, and stay vigilant. This new policy is bolstered by an increase in reporting and enforcement to protect a fair, fun, and safe gameplay experience. Players are required to acknowledge the Call of Duty Code of Conduct in order to play multiplayer modes. Further, the Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy clearly states that any player who is found to use aggressive, offensive, derogatory, or culturally charged language will be penalized. Cyber-bullying and other forms of harassment are classified as extreme offenses and result in the harshest penalties.

Blizzard’s in-game Code of Conduct includes specific policies for communication (e.g. appropriate language is required), naming (e.g. offensive names are barred), cheating (zero tolerance), and behaviour (nothing that detracts from others’ experience). When players first log in to World of Warcraft, they will be greeted by a Social Contract that outlines both positive and unacceptable behaviour and must be read and accepted before a player can continue into the world of Azeroth.

King’s Code of Conduct bars harassment, hate speech, and objectionable communication, behaviour that infringes on others’ privacy, and more.

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts’ (EA) commitment to building healthy game communities that are positive, fun, fair and safe led to the launch of its Positive Play Charter, a set of community guidelines that amplifies the Rules of Conduct in EA’s User Agreement and the consequences for engaging in disruptive behaviour. EA has also built a dedicated team focused on ensuring that the principles of positive play are integrated across EA’s products and services.

League of Geeks

We, League of Geeks Pty Ltd, based in Melbourne, Australia are the Publisher and Developer of Jumplight Odyssey. We welcome you and thank you for joining us and coming along for this wonderful voyage in Jumplight Odyssey. The following bits are important and legal-y, we’ve tried to keep it to a minimum so bare with us.

We invite you to play Jumplight Odyssey and engage with our online community through our various platforms and partner platforms. We want you to enjoy Jumplight Odyssey, a game we’ve spent years pouring our love into. We ask that you always remain a friendly and respectful player when interacting with others in the community, our development and publishing team.

When you play Jumplight Odyssey we create an online account for you, so we can support our online features such as bug reporting, crash reporting and tracking gameplay telemetry, these online features help us diagnose problems and make Jumplight Odyssey better. We never track personal information or any information that’s not relevant to the performance of Jumplight Odyssey. You can opt-out of having an online account using the in-game settings, this will set the game into a silent running mode where it will only receive information online and not send any packets back to us. With respect to international data collection and privacy laws, if you are considered a child in your region, in most regions younger than 13 years old (if in doubt, you should be over the age of 16 years old), you must opt-out of data collection. We cannot collect your personal data, if you are considered a child. This is a legal requirement, not our own invention. You can play Jumplight Odyssey without an online account, cloud saves and any other platform specific features will continue to work such as achievements and automatic updates.

The types of data we collect while you play while opt’d-in are game analytics and tracking tools, we use to find bugs, frequency of bugs in different regions and the type of hardware and system settings those bugs might appear on; We also track gameplay analytics to help balance Jumplight Odyssey, and we use this data to prioritize feature work and improve the player experience. We may store this data throughout the life of Jumplight Odyssey to help us compare the performance of features over time and we may also delete or reset this data at any time. We will make the data anonymous as soon as possible and only store it as long as it’s useful and needed. Only those team members within League of Geeks who need access to this data will have access. We use a number of third party tools and services to analyze this data and respond to player support requests. Some of the third party cloud services we use are Steam partner services, Sentry, PlayFab, Microsoft Azure, Mailchimp, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Discord and Google services.

We don’t collect personal data to sell or share to third parties for any reason, including marketing reasons. We may from time to time email addresses subscribed to our Jumplight Odyssey newsletter with significant news and any essential communications services, status and content.

We take your personal data very seriously and want you to know that there is always a chance online that your personal data could be compromised or intercepted. If you think this has happened to you, with respect to Jumplight Odyssey, you should get in contact with us immediately.

We also want you to know that some international jurisdictions including the European Union with their General Data Protection Regulation grants you the right to access your data, correct it, restrict access to it, delete it, or download it, you may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

What breaks our hearts is when players don’t engage with Jumplight Odyssey in the spirit it was intended, or worse, ruin the enjoyment of the game for other players! Boo-hiss, very very bad.

We at League of Geeks take the protection of our users’ enjoyment of our game, as well as their right to feel safe and right to common respect, very seriously.

We reserve the right to ban you from our forums, website and portals we control.

We reserve all rights to issue temporary or permanent bans to users who we believe have compromised other users’ enjoyment of Jumplight Odyssey. If you are reported to be abusive, trolling, griefing, being a jerk or otherwise damaging the experience for other players – We will ban you.

We also strongly suggest you review our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy which can be found on the Jumplight Odyssey and League of Geeks websites.

League of Geeks grants you a personal, non-exclusive, limited right and license to install, store and play Jumplight Odyssey, including future patches and updates, ONLY for personal use and enjoyment. Jumplight Odyssey is not being sold, given or otherwise transferred to you.

League of Geeks provides Jumplight Odyssey “AS IS” without warranty and “with full faults”, we will strive throughout the active life of Jumplight Odyssey to patch it regularly and make improvements and fixes, but ultimately Jumplight Odyssey is provided “AS IS”.

By playing Jumplight Odyssey you agree to the terms of our Jumplight Odyssey EULA (End User License Agreement) and agree to play Jumplight Odyssey in the spirit it was intended and that you will treat all other players with respect. You also agree IF you create an online-account to our collection of data so we can continue to improve Jumplight Odyssey and to support it into the future.

We also reserve the right to modify the terms and conditions in this EULA as required and post these updates to the EULA for your review. You will be deemed to have accepted such changes by continuing to play Jumplight Odyssey.

You can terminate this license at any time by ceasing to play Jumplight Odyssey and deleting the game from your system.

If you have any questions please contact us at admin@leagueofgeeks.com our support team and/or designated Data Protection Officer can assist you.

For all purposes, this English language version of the EULA is the original, governing instrument and understanding of the parties. In the event of any conflict between this English language version and any translation made available by League of Geeks, the English language version shall govern and control.

Now go and have fun, and Keep Hope Alive!

Microsoft

Xbox is built for all players, and it prioritizes the safety of everyone in its global community. While the Code of Conduct section of the Microsoft Services Agreement applies to all Microsoft products, Xbox offers so many ways to interact with others that it benefits from an additional resource to help keep the community safe and fun for all. The Community Standards act as a roadmap for upholding Xbox’s values and maintaining good conduct and appropriate content, whether players are brand new to gaming or have been playing for decades. Content and behavior that puts players at risk or makes them feel unwelcome has no place at Xbox. If players violate the Community Standards, they may face consequences such as restrictions placed on their profile and/or device.

Nintendo

As part of their commitment to keeping Nintendo games, online services and events safe, friendly, welcoming and fun for all, Nintendo has established a clear set of Community Guidelines that outline the expectations for players when engaging with Nintendo products, services or events. Nintendo utilizes various approaches when enforcing its policies, and takes actions to hold players accountable for actions that do not uphold its values. Nintendo works through various channels to make users of its services aware of these expectations and help promote respectful and welcoming engagement.

Riot Games

Riot Games publishes clear and comprehensive codes of conduct for League of Legends and Valorant. The codes are designed to uphold competitive integrity and ensure that every player can enjoy Riot’s games without fear of harassment, hatred and abuse. Players who fail to live up to the expectations outlined in each code are subject to penalties ranging from restricted access to certain features to temporary or indefinite suspension from all of Riot’s games.

Roblox

Roblox’s Community Standards set clear expectations for how to behave on Roblox. They require that everyone treat each other with civility and respect and help keep everyone safe by prohibiting content and behavior that may be inappropriate or harmful. We update these as the needs of our community and the product evolve.

Roblox’s Terms of Use also covers topics like Roblox Creator Terms (which covers use of Roblox Studio, Experiences and Virtual Content, and the use of music on the Services), our Privacy Policy, Roblox Community Standards and Experience Guidelines (which provides information regarding the age recommendations and content descriptors associated with Experiences).

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