Terms of Service

The below is a universal Terms of Service for the closed species Komaruhoyo. 
Komaruhoyo is an Art Roleplaying Group (ARPG). The group is casual, and members are not obligated to participate in the group activities. Below you'll find more information on Komaruhoyo, including design usage as well as design transfers. 

By joining Komaruhoyo, you agree and understand that you have to abide by rules set by the Owner and team.

Overview

• Komaruhoyo are for personal use only.
• You may not create a closed species Komaruhoyo without a Make-Your-Own (MYO) slot.
• Komaruhoyo reserves the right to deny services to anyone.
• You must be older than 13 to participate in Komaruhoyo

Design Use

• Co-ownership of Komaruhoyo is not allowed.
• You may use your Komaruhoyo in any setting or world and are welcome to make AU/Alternative forms for your Komaruhoyo. 
• AU/Alternative forms will not be considered official or accepted in group activities.
• You may choose to make an Komaruhoyo using an existing design as the base.

Official or Guest Artist (GA) designs will follow the GA's Terms of Service. The designs fall under the terms stated below if there is no ToS provided by the GA.

• Paid Designs: May be resold, gifted, or traded.
• Resale value increases if commissioned art** is included
• Free/Traded art does not count to the value.

**Commissioned art is specified as any art paid for in real-life cash or virtual currency with a static, confirmable exchange rate. Commissioned art must be of your Komaruhoyo-specific design. If you create your own art for your Komaruhoyo and have established commission values then this may also count under this rule.

Designing

• Art from avatar/character makers/AI/Generated Art (ex. GaiaOnline, PicCrew, ArtBreeder) is never permitted. Art must be your own.
• The use of free bases or bases you have purchased the rights to use is permissible.
  • You must credit the base artist when showing off masterlist art made with that base.
• Traced or Stolen art is never permitted.
• The usage of celebrity or existing Intellectual Property (IP) in your CS design is not allowed

Design Sales, Trading, Gifting

• The use of Komaruhoyo as trading fodder, or creating MYOs purely with the intent to sell as adopts (without prior permission as a GA), is discouraged.
• Komaruhoyo have no trade cooldown as of writing.
• Due to Koma's very much being a discord and TH based species all owners of designs must have a TH account. 
  • If a potential owner does not have an account and needs a code to get one please feel free to inquire for one in the Komaruhoyo discord.

Removal/Redesign of Komaruhoyo

Removal / Voiding
Members may choose to remove their characters from Komaruhoyo by first getting permission from the original designer (if not the member themselves), and then informing the Owner and team. You may bring removed designs back into the species, but they will require going back through the approval process with a new MYO slot.

Redesigns
Members may choose to redesign up to 75% their characters, but similar to removals, must get permission from the original designer first if not the member themselves. Any Trait changes with respect to these redesigns will require the appropriate items. Characters must continue to be identifiable as coming from the original design. If you have questions please do reach out to the team on discord.

Additional Note 
We also want to remind everyone that changing an aspect of your design in a fashion that could hurt a minority group or culture should not be done; this includes but is not limited to lightening a design's skin tone.

If you find your desired redesign may cross over this line or are unsure and prefer to be safe - you may wish to obtain a new MYO slot or trade the existing design for an MYO Slot with equivalent traits. We want to assist you in making your dream designs without causing harm to others, even if unintentional. Komaruhoyo aims to build an inclusive community, and part of this is helping others understand when something could be harmful and working together to learn and find a path forward. We thank you for and appreciate your understanding.

Payment

• Payment is taken through PayPal Goods & Services (USD) unless stated otherwise. 
• You may also use our In-Game-Currency (Koma Candy (KC)) to purchase items.
• You may trade or gift KC to other users. KC is not sellable for real-life cash.
• Payments are to be made within 24 hours unless otherwise discussed.
• Sales are final, and there will be no refunds. Buybacks may be discussed but are unlikely.
• Trait changes, the retirement of traits, or changes to the species are not retroactive. No refunds are given for such a situation.
• Charge-backs will result in an automatic blacklist and revocation of ownership of the design.
• Blacklisted individuals will not be allowed to return to the group. Their MYO designs will be retired and not eligible as part of the species even if purchased by a non-blacklisted party.

Conduct Within the Group

The Rules below are written with the discord community in mind but apply to conduct with any interactions held within the Komaruhoyo group.

Bringing up Concerns

Please feel free to bring any and all concerns to the moderation team via our ticketing system. This includes any user or hacker-related statements/warnings. Some of these may be hoaxes, and we want to make sure you get the correct information.

Member Conduct

• We are an LGBTQIAP+ friendly server and CS.
• Be civil and polite to each other, even if you don't get along with the other party. Please respect people's boundaries.
• We have a range of people from different cultural and country backgrounds and ages; this may shape how they type and perceive the world. Always be respectful and ask for clarification if you're unsure of what's being said.

Content Guidelines

The Komaruhoyo server is a community server, and while we aim to be a fun group that allows for plenty of non-Komaruhoyo content discussions, certain topics or extended conversations may be considered off-topic and be asked to be taken to DMs, including but not limited to:

• Extended conversations about other Closed Species - some light conversation directly about a closed species, or discussion of characters in another closed species is acceptable.
• Discussion of potentially triggering subjects (ex., suicide, mental health)
• Anything remotely approaching NSFW - this is a 13+ server
• Excessive Gore - When posting things related to blood/gore, please spoiler the image and indicate why the picture is spoilered, and avoid posting images that have a high level of detail to the gore or of extreme injuries.

Harrassment / Abuse

We do not stand for harassment of any form. Transgressions in this category can result in a two strike warning. This includes but is not limited to:

• Targeting users for making off-brand Komaruhoyo's or making unsolicited offers on designs, slots, or traits belonging to other members
• Giving feedback or crit without another member's explicit go-ahead.
• Tracing art, stealing art, or art bashing without permission from the original creator of the art bashed images.
• Comments regarding negative perceptions of yourself, your art, your MYOs or items, or compliment fishing.
• Bragging regarding adopts or obsessive monitoring of any Komaruhoyo-related payment.
• Scamming behavior such as low-balling, ghosting a trade or mis-representing value.
• Game abuse, ie actively taking advantage of mistakes / bugs in our currency system to acquire currency, items, and/or characters in an illegitimate way, such as discord multi-accounting
• Mini-Modding (aka when member acts like a member of our staff without being one).

Self-Promotion

Advertising of non-Komaruhoyo related adopts, art, character purges, and all similar should be kept to ⁠advertisement  in the discord server. Direct CS advertisement is on permission basis, please feel free to DM moif to get permission. Affiliates are granted implicit permission to advertise their species. Reach out to moif if interested in Affiliation. (edited)

Warning System

You will be given up to three formal warnings if you break specific rules frequently, actively engage in drama with other members in this server, or cause harm to other outside members in a way that could affect our community.

We do not monitor and will not monitor what our members post or do to their designs outside of our sphere (Discord, Toyhouse).We reserve the right to remove you from the community immediately if you eggregiously violate our rules. The following is an example of things that could result in your removal:

• Abuse or harassment of our moderators in ANY form.
• Starting fights with our moderators or owner.
• Posting explicit NSFW content.

Strike Forgiveness

Strikes may be dropped from your record a year from when they were added. It is the responsibility of the user to request of the staff team that the strike be dropped. If a user has more than one strike they must wait a minimum of an additional six months between dropping further strikes regardless of when the strike was acquired.