MICROSOFT SERVICE LICENSE TERMS

Service – Bugs.mojang.com / also known as “MOJIRA”

Purpose – User Registration, and User Submission of Bugs in Minecraft products and services


IF YOU LIVE IN (OR ARE A BUSINESS WITH A PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN) THE UNITED STATES, PLEASE READ THE “BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER” SECTION BELOW. IT AFFECTS HOW DISPUTES ARE RESOLVED.


These license terms are an agreement between you and Microsoft Corporation (including its subsidiary, Mojang AB). They apply to the Service named above and any affiliated services and Service updates (except to the extent such services or updates are accompanied by new or additional terms). IF YOU COMPLY WITH THESE LICENSE TERMS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS BELOW. BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS.

  1. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Access to the Service is provided to you free-of-charge. You may use the Service above, solely for the purpose stated above.

  1. DATA. This Service collects data for the purposes of running the service and for improving Microsoft’s products and services. To learn more about how Microsoft processes personal data we collect, please see the Microsoft Privacy Statement at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=248681.

  1. CONTENT. 

    1. If you store or share your content on our Service or receive material from others, we don’t claim ownership of your content. Your content remains your content and you are responsible for it.

    2. When you share your content with other people, you understand that they may be able to, on a worldwide basis, use, save, record, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, share and display your content for the purpose that you made your content available on the Service without compensating you. If you do not want others to have that ability, do not use the Service to share your content. You represent and warrant that for the duration of these terns, you have (and will have) all the rights necessary for your content that is uploaded, stored, or shared on or through the Service and that the collection, use, and retention of your content will not violate any law or rights of others. Microsoft cannot be held responsible for your content or the material others upload, store or share using the Service.

    3. To the extent necessary to provide the Service to you and others, to protect you and the Service, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use your content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools your content on the Service.

  2. CODE OF CONDUCT. 

    1. By using the Service, you agree to the following rules:

      1. Don’t do anything illegal.

      2. Don’t engage in any activity that exploits, harms, or threatens to harm children.

      3. Don’t send spam or engage in phishing. Spam is unwanted or unsolicited bulk email, postings, contact requests, SMS (text messages), instant messages, or similar electronic communications. Phishing is sending emails or other electronic communications to fraudulently or unlawfully induce recipients to reveal personal or sensitive information, such as passwords, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, credit card information, financial information, or other sensitive information, or to gain access to accounts or records, exfiltration of documents or other sensitive information, payment and/or financial benefit.

      4. Don’t publicly display or use the Service to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity).

      5. Don’t engage in activity that is fraudulent, false or misleading (e.g., asking for money under false pretenses, impersonating someone else, manipulating the Service, or affect rankings, ratings, or comments).

      6. Don’t circumvent any restrictions on access to or availability of the Service.

      7. Don’t engage in activity that is harmful to you, the Service or others (e.g., transmitting viruses, stalking, posting terrorist or violent extremist content, communicating hate speech, or advocating violence against others).

      8. Don’t infringe upon the rights of others (e.g., unauthorized sharing of copyrighted music or other copyrighted material, resale or other distribution of Bing maps, or photographs).

      9. Don’t engage in activity that violates the privacy of others.

      10. Don’t help others break these rules.

    2. Enforcement. If you violate these terms, we may stop providing access to the Service to you or we may close your account. We may also block delivery of a communication (like email, file sharing or instant message) to or from the Service in an effort to enforce these terns or we may remove or refuse to publish your content for any reason. When investigating alleged violations of these terms Microsoft reserves the right to review your content in order to resolve the issue. However, we cannot monitor the entire Service and make no attempt to do so.

  3. SCOPE OF LICENSE. The Service is licensed, not sold. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you will not (and have no right to):

    1. work around any technical limitations in the Service that only allow you to use it in certain ways;

    2. reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Service, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Service, except and to the extent required by third party licensing terms governing use of certain open source components that may be included in the Service;

    3. remove, minimize, block, or modify any notices of Microsoft or its suppliers in the Service;

    4. use the Service in any way that is against the law or to create or propagate malware; or

    5. share, publish, distribute, or lease the Service, provide the Service as a stand-alone offering for others to use, or transfer the Service or this agreement to any third party.

  4. SUPPORT SERVICES. Microsoft is not obligated under this agreement to provide any support services for the Service. Any support provided is “as is”, “with all faults”, and without warranty of any kind.

  5. UPDATES. The Service may update and add, remove or modify features at Microsoft’s sole discretion. Microsoft may update these license terms at any time by providing notice (including on the website dashboard), in which case your continued usage of the Service will constitute acceptance of the updated terms. If you reject the updated license terms, you must stop your usage and access of the Service.

  6. BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER. This Section applies if you live in (or, if a business, your principal place of business is in) the United States. If you and Microsoft have a dispute, you and Microsoft agree to try for 60 days to resolve it informally. If you and Microsoft can’t, you and Microsoft agree to binding individual arbitration before the American Arbitration Association under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), and not to sue in court in front of a judge or jury. Instead, a neutral arbitrator will decide. Class action lawsuits, class-wide arbitrations, private attorney-general actions, and any other proceeding where someone acts in a representative capacity are not allowed; nor is combining individual proceedings without the consent of all parties. The complete Arbitration Agreement contains more terms and is at https://aka.ms/arb-agreement-4. You and Microsoft agree to these terms.

  7. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This agreement, and any other terms Microsoft may provide for supplements, updates, or third-party applications, is the entire agreement for the Service.

  8. APPLICABLE LAW AND PLACE TO RESOLVE DISPUTES. If you acquired the Service in the United States or Canada, the laws of the state or province where you live (or, if a business, where your principal place of business is located) govern the interpretation of this agreement, claims for its breach, and all other claims (including consumer protection, unfair competition, and tort claims), regardless of conflict of laws principles, except that the FAA governs everything related to arbitration. If you acquired the Service in any other country, its laws apply, except that the FAA governs everything related to arbitration. If U.S. federal jurisdiction exists, you and Microsoft consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the federal court in King County, Washington for all disputes heard in court (excluding arbitration). If not, you and Microsoft consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the Superior Court of King County, Washington for all disputes heard in court (excluding arbitration).

  9. CONSUMER RIGHTS; REGIONAL VARIATIONS. This agreement describes certain legal rights. You may have other rights, including consumer rights, under the laws of your state, province, or country. Separate and apart from your relationship with Microsoft, you may also have rights with respect to the party from which you acquired the Service. This agreement does not change those other rights if the laws of your state, province, or country do not permit it to do so. For example, if you acquired the Service in one of the below regions, or mandatory country law applies, then the following provisions apply to you:

    1. Australia. You have statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and nothing in this agreement is intended to affect those rights.

    2. Germany and Austria.

      i.Warranty. The properly licensed Service will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany the Service. However, Microsoft gives no contractual guarantee in relation to the licensed Service.

      ii.Limitation of Liability. In case of intentional conduct, gross negligence, claims based on the Product Liability Act, as well as, in case of death or personal or physical injury, Microsoft is liable according to the statutory law.

      Subject to the foregoing clause ii., Microsoft will only be liable for slight negligence if Microsoft is in breach of such material contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which facilitate the due performance of this agreement, the breach of which would endanger the purpose of this agreement and the compliance with which a party may constantly trust in (so-called "cardinal obligations"). In other cases of slight negligence, Microsoft will not be liable for slight negligence.

  10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. THE SERVICE IS LICENSED “AS IS.” YOU BEAR THE RISK OF USING IT. MICROSOFT GIVES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, OR CONDITIONS. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS, MICROSOFT EXCLUDES ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

  11. LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES. IF YOU HAVE ANY BASIS FOR RECOVERING DAMAGES DESPITE THE PRECEDING DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY, YOU CAN RECOVER FROM MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS ONLY DIRECT DAMAGES UP TO U.S. $5.00. YOU CANNOT RECOVER ANY OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING CONSEQUENTIAL, LOST PROFITS, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES.

    This limitation applies to (a) anything related to the Service, services, content (including code) on third party Internet sites, or third party applications; and (b) claims for breach of contract, warranty, guarantee, or condition; strict liability, negligence, or other tort; or any other claim; in each case to the extent permitted by applicable law.

    It also applies even if Microsoft knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages. The above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you because your state, province, or country may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential, or other damages.