This “Chongyou Game License and Service Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) is entered into by and between you and Chongyou Game Service Provider, and this Agreement shall have legally binding force. Please carefully read and fully understand each clause of this Agreement, especially the clauses that exclude or exempt the liabilities of Chongyou (hereinafter referred to as the “Exemption Clauses”), the clauses that limit the rights of users (hereinafter referred to as the “Limitation Clauses”), the clauses related to dispute resolution and court jurisdiction, and the separate agreements for activating or using certain services. The Exemption Clauses, Limitation Clauses, dispute resolution related clauses and jurisdiction related clauses, including but not limited to Clause 2, Clause 3, Clause 4, Clause 6, Clause 9 and other related clauses of this Agreement, may be provided in bold, with color or in other reasonable forms to draw your attention. Your acceptance of these clauses may cause difficulties, inconvenience or losses to you under certain circumstances, so please make sure to double check the above-mentioned clauses before you accept this Agreement or use Chongyou Game Service. Both parties agree that these clauses are legitimate and effective, and they do not constitute any of the clauses proscribed in Article 40 of Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), by which a party “exempts itself from its liabilities, increases the liabilities of the other party, or deprives the material rights of the other party.”
Unless you have read and accepted each and all clauses of this Agreement, you shall not be allowed to use Chongyou Game Service. You may contact Chongyou’s customer service department if you have any suggestion and comment on this Agreement or Chongyou Game Service, and we will provide you with necessary help. It is deemed that you have already read and agreed to sign this Agreement, if you click “Agree”, “Accept” or “Next Step” button, or register and use Chongyou Game Service.
If you are under the age of 18, please read this Agreement in company with your legal guardian and pay special attention to the clauses regarding use for minors. If you are the legal guardian of a minor, who wishes to arrange the entertainment time of your child in a reasonable way and help your child to adopt a healthy game habit.
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1Agreement, refers to the text of this Agreement, the “Chongyou Terms of Service” and Service Agreement”, the “Chongyou Privacy Policy” and the Game Rules as well as its amendments. Each of the above-mentioned documents constitutes an inseparable part of this Agreement once being officially published. This Agreement also includes the “Mandatory Terms of Formatted Agreement for Online Game Services” issued by the Ministry of Culture (“MOC”) pursuant to the “Interim Provisions on the Administration of Online Game ” (Decree No. 49th of the MOC).
1.2 Game Rules, refer to Chongyou Game’s user codes, player regulations, game announcements, tips, notifications, and other contents, which are issued and updated by Chongyou Game Service Provider from time to time.
1.3 Chongyou Game Service Provider, refers to CHONGYOU (SHANGHAI) NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. herein referred to as “Chongyou” in this Agreement, which provides you with Chongyou Game and Chongyou Game Service.
1.4 Chongyou Game, collectively refers to all the games operated by Chongyou, including client-based PC games, web games, HTML5 games (H5 games), mobile games, TV games and other types of games; and Chongyou Game may be provided in the form of software, in which case Chongyou Game also includes the related software and documents.
1.5 Chongyou Game Service, refers to all the online operation services regarding the games provided by Chongyou to you.
1.6 You, also referred to as “player(s)” or “user(s)”, refers to any natural person who is authorized to use Chongyou Game and Chongyou Game Service.
1.7 Game Data, refers to all types of data generated during your use of Chongyou Game and recorded by the servers, including but not limited to character data, virtual item data, behavior logs, purchase logs, and other data.
2. GAME ACCOUNT
2.1 If you want to use and enjoy Chongyou Game, you need to log in the Real-Name Registration System to perform real-name registration in accordance with the requirements of the “Interim Provisions on the Administration of Online Game”and the“Mandatory Terms of Formatted Agreement for Online Game Services”issued by the MOC. Your application and use of the Chongyou account shall comply with the “Chongyou Terms of Service” and “Chongyou Software License and Service Agreement” issued and updated by Chongyou from time to time.
When performing the real-name registration, you shall provide authentic, legitimate, accurate and valid identification information along with other relevant information about yourself, and you shall never use the identity of another person to perform the real-name registration. Otherwise, Chongyou will be entitled to terminate your Chongyou Game Service and take punitive measures against your game account, including but not limited to issuing warning, restricting or prohibiting the use of all or part of your game account function, deleting game account and Game Data, deleting related information, banning game account (hereinafter referred to as “Account Banning”) and canceling game account (for the convenience of description, the punitive measures hereof are sometimes referred to as “Punishment”). You shall be responsible for all the consequences caused by these measures, including but not limited to confiscation or cancellation of game account assets that you or your account may own.
If you fail to register in real-name or provide complete registration information, you may be unable to use Chongyou Game or be subject to relevant restrictions during the use of Chongyou Game.
2.2 You further acknowledge and agree that you may not be able to recharge for your game account or make purchase when using a guest account. Once you uninstall/re-install Chongyou Game or replace your terminal device such as mobile phone or computer, or your terminal device is damaged, all the Game Data generated during your use of a guest account may be deleted and cannot be queried or recovered. You shall be responsible for all your losses arising from these circumstances.
2.3 You fully understand and agree that, Chongyou is entitled to verify the authenticity and validity of the information provided by the user during registration, and take reasonable technical and administrative measures to guarantee the safety and validity of the user’s account. The user is obligated to take care of his/her account and password, and to use the account and password in a safe manner. If any party fails to perform any of the above obligations and thus results in the loss or theft of account and password, the party should be legally responsible for any damage caused to the civil rights of the user or other third-party.
If you find anyone else assumes or steals your game account and password, or uses your game account and password without your authorization, you shall immediately notify Chongyou in an effective manner in accordance with Chongyou’s request and inform Chongyou of the measures need to be taken. When you notify Chongyou, you shall provide your valid personal identity information that is consistent with your registered information. Upon receiving your valid request and completing the verification, Chongyou will take corresponding measures based upon your request or upon the specific circumstances (including but not limited to suspending the log-in and use of the account, or other measures). You should be responsible for any loss of yourself and other users caused by the measures taken by Chongyou following your request. If you do not provide valid identity information or the personal information you have provided is inconsistent with your registered identity information, Chongyou is entitled to reject your request, and you should be responsible for any loss caused by such rejection.
2.4 You fully understand and agree that, in order to ensure the effective use of the server resources, if you do not use your game account to log-in Chongyou Game in three years, Chongyou is entitled to take relevant measures, such as deleting your account along with the Game Data and other information related to the account upon prior notification.
2.5 You fully understand and agree that, you shall not provide your game account to anyone else for use in any manner, including but not limited to assigning, leasing and lending your game account to anyone else for commercial use, including but not limited to live broadcasting, videotaping, surrogate training/ gaming. Otherwise, you shall be responsible for any legal consequences and liabilities caused by your action, and Chongyou will be entitled to take punitive measures against your game account, including but not limited to issuing warning, restricting or prohibiting the use of all or part of your game account function, deleting game account along with Game Data and other related information, banning and canceling of game account, while you will be responsible for all the losses caused thereby.
3. USER INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE AND PROTECTION
3.1 You agree and authorize Chongyou to collect your user information for the purposes of performing this Agreement, including your registration information in the Real-Name Registration System, Game Data of your game account, and other information you have provided during the use of Chongyou Game Service and the information collected by Chongyou for the sake of information security and user experience optimization, and so forth. Chongyou will collect your user information pursuant to this Agreement and relevant laws and regulations.
3.2 You fully understand and agree that, based on your user information, Chongyou or third parties in cooperation with Chongyou may provide you with various information about Chongyou Game's activities, promotion information and other information through messages, phone calls, emails and other means.
3.3 You fully understand and agree that, in order to provide better game services to you and to improve your gaming experience, Chongyou may use the information such as nicknames and avatars in your Game Account, and related operation information and gaming information in Chongyou Game (hereinafter referred to as the“Information”, including but not limited to your log-in status, battle information/status, and achievement information, and so forth) and Chongyou may display the Information to yourself, your friends or other users.
3.4 You shall fully respect the personal information of others, including but not limited to, the personal information of other users that you obtain, receive or have access to through Chongyou Game and related services. You should not collect, copy, store, propagate, or in any other way use other users' personal information, otherwise you will be responsible for any consequences arising therefrom.
3.5 Protecting user information and privacy is a basic principle of Chongyou. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, the collection, use and protection of user information in Chongyou Game Service shall comply with relevant privacy policy issued by Chongyou (www.iamsuperstar.com).
4. CHONGYOU GAME SERVICE
4.1 Subject to your compliance with this Agreement and relevant laws and regulations, Chongyou hereby grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive license to use Chongyou Game Service. You shall use Chongyou Game Service only for non-commercial purposes, including:
(1) receiving, downloading, installing, starting, upgrading, logging in, displaying, running and/or screenshotting of Chongyou Game;
(2) creating a game character, setting online name, viewing Game Rules, user profiles and game battle results, creating a game room, setting game parameters, purchasing or using game items, game equipment, game currency and so forth in Chongyou Game, and using chatting function as well as social sharing function; and using one or several other functions supported and granted by Chongyou Game.
4.2 During your use of Chongyou Game Service, you shall not record, broadcast or share with others the content of Chongyou Game in any way without the permission of Chongyou, including but not limited to web-casting and broadcasting Chongyou Game through any third-party software.
4.3 In the event that Chongyou Game is provided in the form of software, you shall also comply with the provisions of Clause 5 of this Agreement regarding software licenses when using Chongyou Game Service.
4.4 All other rights that are not expressly authorized in this clause or other clauses of this Agreement will be reserved by Chongyou. You must obtain Chongyou’s separate written approval before exercising these rights.
4.5 Upon your breach of this Agreement, Chongyou is entitled to take appropriate measures, including but not limited to, deleting relevant content at any time without notice, and, depending on the nature of the violation, taking punitive measures against the violating game account, including but not limited to issuing warning, restricting or prohibiting the use of all or part of the game account function, banning the account, canceling the game account, publishing announcement about the punishment, demanding you to compensate the loss of Chongyou due to your violation.
4.6 You fully understand and agree that, Chongyou is entitled to reasonably judge the user’s violation of relevant laws and regulations or the provisions of this Agreement, take appropriate legal actions against any illegal and violating user, and store and report the relevant information to the relevant departments in accordance with the laws and regulations and so forth. The user shall be solely responsible for all the legal consequences arising therefrom.
4.7 You fully understand and agree that, you shall be solely responsible for any claims, demands or losses claimed by any third-party resulting from your violation of the provisions of this Agreement or other related terms of service; and you shall indemnify Chongyou for any loss arising therefrom, if any.
4.8 You fully understand and agree that, all game items, game equipment, game currency, and so forth are part of Chongyou Game Service, and Chongyou hereby grants you the right to use them under this Agreement. Your purchase and use of the game items, game equipment, game currency and so forth shall comply with the requirements of this Agreement and the specific rules concerning the game. Also, these game items, game equipment, game currency and so forth may be expired subject to a certain valid period even if you have never used them within the valid period. Except for force majeure or other reasons attributable to Chongyou, they will automatically expire upon the end of valid period.
You fully understand and agree that to provide better Chongyou Game Service to users, Chongyou is entitled to make adjustments, updates or optimization to any content or constituent element of the game (including but not limited to making adjustments, updates or optimization, and so forth of the art design, performance and related numerical settings of your purchased or in-use characters, game equipment and other game items). You agree not to hold Chongyou accountable for any legal liability arising from the above-mentioned adjustments, updates or optimization made by Chongyou.
4.9 You fully understand and agree that, to protect the security of your game account and create a fair, healthy and safe gaming environment, during your use of Chongyou Game Service, subject to the stipulation of relevant laws, Chongyou is entitled to have access to the random-access memory (“RAM”) of your terminal device and other relevant programs running in parallel with Chongyou Game through technical means. Upon discovery of any unauthorized or harmful program that hinders the normal operation of Chongyou Game Service, Chongyou is entitled to collect all the relevant information and take reasonable measures against such program.
4.10 You fully understand and agree that, to ensure the gaming experience for you and other users, Chongyou is entitled to transfer or clear some obsolete Game Data stored in Chongyou’s game server.
4.11 In accordance with the relevant laws and regulations and this Agreement, if you are a minor, you are required to send Chongyou your legal guardian written guarantee of all responsibilities that you may have in using Chongyou Game Service and agree to this Agreement. Chongyou has the right to take effective measures to protect the legitimate rights and interests of minors during their use of Chongyou Game Service, including possible measures to prohibit minors from engaging in inappropriate games or game functions, to limit minors’ gaming time, and to prevent minors from internet addiction. All minors shall read and follow Chongyou Game Service guidelines and instructions carefully under the guidance of the legal guardian. Other players shall avoid publishing or generating any content that may harm the physical or mental health of minors during the use of Chongyou Game Service, so as to create a healthy gaming environment.
4.12 If you are under the age of 18, to protect your legal rights, Chongyou is entitled to take one or several of the following measures in accordance with the stipulations of the relevant laws, regulations and policies, the terms of other clauses of this Agreement, the operation strategy of Chongyou Game, or the reasonable requests of your legal guardian:
(1) providing your legal guardian with related information about your game (including but not limited to log-in information of your game account, recharging and consumption information, and so forth), so that your legal guardian can be informed of your gaming situation timely or simultaneously;
(2) limiting the consumption cap of your game account;
(3) adopting technical measures to block certain games or certain functions of Chongyou Game or limiting the gaming time or duration for you;
(4) canceling or deleting your game account, Game Data and other related information; and
(5) taking any other reasonable measures following the request of your legal guardian or the reasonable discretion of Chongyou to restrict or prohibit your use of Chongyou Game.
4.13 The provision of Chongyou Game Service by Chongyou is a commercial activity, for which the user is entitled, at his/her own discretion, to decide whether or not to pay associated fees to obtain the corresponding Chongyou Game Service, according to the list of charging item unilaterally issued by Chongyou (including but not limited to purchasing the right to use virtual items in the game as well as receiving other value-added services and so forth) and Chongyou’s corresponding charging rates. You are unable to enjoy certain game services if you fail to pay the fees according to the relevant charging rates.
You acknowledge and agree that changes or adjustments to the charging items or charging rates are normal business activities and you shall not request Chongyou to indemnify or compensate you for any change or adjustment to the charging items or charging rates.
4.14 In no event shall Chongyou be liable for any damage suffered by you as a result of force majeure during the use of Chongyou Game Service. Such force majeure events include but not limited to laws, regulations, policies of the state, orders from state organs, other governmental acts, or other unforeseeable, unavoidable and insurmountable events, including but not limited to earthquakes, floods, snowstorms, fires, tsunamis, typhoons, strikes, wars and so forth.
4.15 Chongyou Game may encounter abnormality due to game software bugs, version update flaws, third-party virus attacks, or any other factors, which may lead to the data abnormality of game characters, game items, game equipment, and game currency of your game account. Chongyou is entitled to temporarily freeze the game account before the cause of the abnormality is identified. If the Game Data abnormality is identified to be caused by abnormal game behavior, Chongyou is entitled to restore the Game Data of the game account to the original status before the abnormality occurs (including requesting a transfer-back of the Game Data from a third-party), under which circumstance Chongyou will not be responsible for any consequences arising therefrom.
4.16 Chongyou does not grant you the right to obtain game accounts, game items, game equipment, game currency, and so forth from any third- party by purchasing, accepting gifts or other ways. Chongyou will not be responsible for any third-party transaction, and will not accept any complaint arising from the disputes of third-party transactions.
4.17 You fully understand that, there are objectively existing incompatibilities in different operating systems, and such objectively existing incompatibilities cannot be attributed to Chongyou, thus your recharging fees and Game Data in one operating system may not be smoothly transferred to another. You, rather than Chongyou shall be responsible for the loss of your recharging fee or Game Data caused by your switch of different operating systems.
4.18 You fully understand that, there may be mandatory battle zones or battle gameplay in Chongyou Game. If you do not agree to be assigned to such mandatory battle, please do not enter these games or battle zones; and your entry will be deemed as agreement to the battle gameplay and acceptance of the consequences.
4.19 If the operation of Chongyou Game is terminated upon Chongyou’s own discretion or for any other reasons, Chongyou will handle the termination of the game operation in accordance with the relevant provisions issued by the MOC regarding termination of online games, so as to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the users.
5. SOFTWARE LICENSE
5.1 You may need to download and install relevant software to use Chongyou Game Service, and you can obtain the software directly from Chongyou’s related websites or from third parties authorized by Chongyou. If you obtain Chongyou Game or a game with the same name as Chongyou’s game from a third-party not authorized by Chongyou, you will be deemed to have not obtained license from Chongyou, and Chongyou will not guarantee the normal use of the game, nor compensate you for any damage caused thereby.
5.2 Chongyou may develop different versions of a software for different terminal devices or operating systems, including but not limited to different versions for Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, Blackberry and so forth. You may choose to download the appropriate version for installation in the light of actual conditions, and after downloading the installation program, you should install the program by correctly following the instructions provided by the program.
5.3 If Chongyou Game is provided in the form of software, Chongyou grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive license to use the software. You may download, install, log in and use Chongyou Game software on a single terminal device only for non-commercial purposes.
5.4 In order to provide more high-quality and safe service, Chongyou may recommend you to install other software during the game software installation process, you can choose to install them or not.
5.5 If you no longer need to use the software or to install a new version, you can uninstall on your own. If you are willing to help Chongyou to improve its product and service, please inform Chongyou of your uninstallation reason.
5.6 In order to ensure the security and functional consistency of Chongyou Game Service, Chongyou is entitled to update the software and to change or limit certain functional effects of the software.
5.7 After a new version of software is released, the older versions may become unusable. Chongyou cannot guarantee the continuous usability and the relevant client services of the older version software, please check and download the latest version regularly.
6. USERS’CODE OF CONDUCT
6.1 You fully understand and agree that, you shall be responsible for all actions of your game account, including any content you post and the consequences arising therefrom.
6.2 Aside from using Chongyou Game Service pursuant to this Agreement, you shall not engage in any activity that infringes the intellectual property of Chongyou Game or engage in any activity that is harmful to the legitimate interests of Chongyou or other third parties.
6.3 You shall comply with the laws and regulations during the use of Chongyou Game or Chongyou Game Service. You shall not use Chongyou Game or Chongyou Game Service to engage in any illegal conducts, including but not limited to the followings:
(1) opposing the fundamental principles determined by the Constitution;
(2) jeopardizing the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state;
(3) divulging state secrets, undermining state security or damaging the honor or interests of the state;
(4) inciting hatred or discrimination among ethnic groups, undermining the solidarity among ethnic groups, or disrespecting ethnic customs and practices;
(5) promoting heresy or superstition;
(6) spreading rumor, creating social disorder or harming social stability;
(7) advocating obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, or abetting the commission of a crime;
(8) insulting or defaming others or infringing any legitimate rights of others;
(9) harming social morality;
(10) containing any other content prohibited by any law, administrative rule or national regulation.
6.4 Unless permitted by laws or written consent of Chongyou, you shall not engage in any of the following conducts:
(1) deleting the copyright information on the game software or its copies;
(2) reverse engineering, reverse assembling, reverse compiling of the game software, or any other attempts to obtain the software source code;
(3) scanning, exploring and testing the game software to detect, discover and identify the possible bug or vulnerability therein;
(4) copying, modifying, adding, deleting, mount-running or creating any derivative work from the game software or the data released to the RAM of any terminal device during the running of the software, or the interactive data between the client terminal and the server terminal during the running of the software, or the system data necessary for the running of the software, in such ways including but not limited to using plug-in, cheating tool or unauthorized third-party tool/service to access the software and related systems;
(5) modifying or forging any instructions and data during the running of the software, adding, deleting or changing the function or operation result of the software, or operating and propagating relevant software or method which can used to achieve the above-mentioned function, no matter whether or not the above actions are conducted for commercial purpose;
(6) using Chongyou Game and Chongyou Game Service through third-party software, plug-in, cheating tool or system that is not developed nor authorized by Chongyou, or creating, publishing and propagating third-party software, plug-in, cheating tool and system that is not developed nor authorized by Chongyou;
(7) using, leasing, lending, copying, modifying, linking, forwarding, assembling, publishing, issuing or establishing mirror site of the content in the game which Chongyou owns intellectual property rights;
(8) establishing mirror site related to Chongyou Game, or taking snapshot of relevant web page (web site), or providing service identical or similar to Chongyou Game Service by establishing server or alike;
(9) isolating any part of Chongyou Game from its main body for separate use, or using Chongyou Game in other ways which breaches the provisions of this Agreement;
(10) using, modifying or covering the name, trademark and other intellectual property of Chongyou Game;
(11) any other conducts without Chongyou’s express authorization.
6.5 If you engage in any of the following conducts during your use of Chongyou Game Service, according to the stipulations of this Agreement and relevant Game Rules, Chongyou is entitled to take punitive measures against you depending on the severity of the circumstance, including temporarily banning the login of the game account (i.e., banning game account), deleting the game account and Game Data, deleting relevant information and so forth. Under severe circumstances, Chongyou will report your conduct to administrative regulators to seek administrative penalties or criminal liabilities against you.
(1) implying or falsely claiming to be internal employees of Chongyou or certain special identities in any way, in order to gain improper benefits or impact the rights and interests of other users;
(2) using illegal or inappropriate word, character and so forth in Chongyou Game, including using them as the name for game character;
(3) undermining Chongyou Game or interrupting the normal operation of Chongyou Game Service in any way;
(4) using any illegal cheating tool;
(5) spreading illegal or inappropriate information;
(6) stealing other user’s game account and game item;
(7) making unauthorized transaction of game account;
(8) making unauthorized transaction of game virtual currency, game equipment, game currency and other game item;
(9) breaching any term of this Agreement; or conducting any other misconduct that is widely recognized within the industry, no matter whether or not such misconduct is explicitly stipulated in this Agreement and the Game Rules.
You acknowledge and agree that, due to the hidden and fast-disappearing nature of cheating tool, Chongyou is entitled to decide whether you have conducted behaviors of using illegal cheating tool based on your Game Data and abnormal performances.
6.6 You acknowledge and agree that, if Chongyou takes Account Banning measures against your game account pursuant to this Agreement, Chongyou is entitled to determine the duration of the ban based on the severity of your violation.
You acknowledge and agree that, (1) the game virtual currency, game equipment, game currency and other game item of your game account may be unusable during the period of Account Banning; (2) if the aforementioned game virtual currency, game equipment, game currency and other game item is subject to certain valid period, the valid period may expire during the period of Account Banning, and thus you will not be able to use the expired game virtual currency, game equipment, game currency and other game item after the expiration of Account Banning period. You hereby agree that you will not pursue any legal liabilities against Chongyou for the occurrence of any of the aforementioned circumstances (1) and/ or (2).
7. I NTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
7.1 Chongyou owns all the intellectual property rights of Chongyou Game. All copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets and other intellectual properties, along with other legitimate rights and interests of Chongyou Game (including the overall Chongyou Game and all contents, components or elements related to Chongyou Game), as well as all information and contents related to Chongyou Game (including texts, images, audios, videos, graphics, interface designs, layout frameworks, related data or electronic documents, and so forth) are protected by the laws and regulations of the PRC and relevant international treaties. Chongyou owns the aforesaid intellectual property rights and legal rights, except for the rights enjoyed by the relevant right owners in accordance with the laws. Without prior written consent from Chongyou, you shall not use Chongyou Game (including the overall Chongyou Game and all contents, components or elements related to Chongyou Game) in any way for commercial purpose.
7.2 Notwithstanding any other stipulations in this Agreement, the ownership and intellectual property rights of the Game Data generated during your use of Chongyou Game Service is solely owned by Chongyou, and Chongyou is entitled to store and dispose of the Game Data. Among which, Chongyou’s preservation period for the user's purchase record of game virtual currency will be in compliance with the “Interim Provisions on the Administration of Online Game ” issued by the MOC. Unless otherwise stipulated by state laws and regulations, the preservation period for other Game Data shall be solely determined by Chongyou.
7.3 Chongyou Game may involve third-party intellectual property rights, and if such third-party holds any requirement on the intellectual property rights which you may use in Chongyou Game in pursuance of this Agreement, Chongyou will inform you of the said requirement in an appropriate manner and you shall comply with such requirement as well.
8. COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS
8.1 During your use of Chongyou Game Service, you shall abide by local laws and regulations and respect local ethics and customs. If your conduct is in violation of local laws, regulations or moral customs, you shall be solely responsible for the consequences arising therefrom.
8.2 You should avoid getting Chongyou involved in political and public incidents for your use of Chongyou Game Service. Otherwise, Chongyou is entitled to suspend or terminate the provision of services to you.
9. JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
9.1 This Agreement is signed in Jingan District, Shanghai Province of the PRC.
9.2 The conclusion, validity, performance and interpretation of this Agreement and resolution of disputes in connection herewith shall be governed by the laws of the mainland China (excluding the applicable conflict of law rules).
9.3 In the event of any dispute or controversy, the parties shall in the first place use their best efforts to settle such dispute or controversy through amicable negotiation. You agree that any dispute or controversy which cannot be settled by negotiation, shall be submitted and finally resolved by the people’s court at the place where this Agreement is entered into and has jurisdiction over such dispute or controversy.
9.4 The headings of all clauses in this Agreement are established merely for the ease of reading, which do not carry any substantive meanings and shall not be used as references for the interpretation of this Agreement.
9.5 If any clause of this Agreement is deemed invalid for any reason, the rest of the clauses shall survive and remain binding to both parties.
10. MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 Chongyou is entitled to amend the terms of this Agreement when Chongyou deems necessary, and you may find the up-to-date version of this Agreement on relevant webpage. By continuing to use Chongyou Game Service after the amendment of the terms of this Agreement, you will be deemed to have accepted the amended agreement.
10.2 According to the advice regarding the healthy gaming habit issued by the State Administration of Press and Publication, Chongyou hereby reminds you to avoid inappropriate games, refuse piratical games, pay attention to self-protection, stay vigilant about fraud, play game moderately to relax your brain and refrain from addiction to games.
10.3 This Agreement is written in Chinese (www.iamsuperstar.com) and English. In the event of any conflict or discrepancy between the two aforementioned versions, the Chinese version shall prevail in determining the spirit, intent, and meaning of this Agreement.