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The Terms of Service (also known as ToS), is the total set of rules on Wajas. Read these when you are starting out, so that you won’t end up accidentally breaking any rules. The breaking of any of these rules may result in a warning (multiple warnings will result in a ban) or an instant ban, depending on the severity of your violation.
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Terms of Service (or ToS) are a set of rules which one must agree to in order to use the services that the terms were written for.  By making an account on Wajas.com, you are automatically saying that you have read and agreed to their Terms of Service and all clauses within. If a user violates the Terms of Service, they are subject to the consequences regardless of whether or not they ever actully read the document.
  
You can access the Terms of Service from the link at the very bottom of every page on Wajas.
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Ignorance is not an accepted excuse for violating the ToS.  You are expected to have read and understood them if you have an account, so if you violate the ToS you can recieve a warning or an instant ban, depending on how sever the violation was.  Terms of Service, unless proven to violate a consumer protection law, are usually legally binding.
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The Terms of Service for Wajas.com can be found at any time through a link at the bottom of every page on the site.
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==Terms of Service for Wajas.com==
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Wajas, INC ("http://www.wajas.com", "Http://www.wajas.net","http://www.wajas.org", "Wajas", "site") provides its services to you subject to the following Terms Of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. You can review the most current version of our TOS at http://wajasdev.com/terms_of_service.php.
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Wajas, INC is an online virtual gaming site involving, but not limited to, virtual pets, it's own virtual currency, virtual items, and other virtual services/properties.
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All content, coding, scripts, documents, and other text are copyrighted to Wajas, INC. All graphics and breeds are copyrighted and trademarked to Wajas, INC through the United States Copyright Office. No copyrighted or trademarked content, graphics, text, script can be duplicated, used, sold, edited, claimed without written permission of Wajas, INC.
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Wajas, INC tries its best to provide a safe site and protect the privacy of all its users. Wajas, INC is intended for individuals over or at least the age of thirteen. Those below this age must provide written consent of parent(s) or guardian(s) prior to registration of account(s), be it by email or message via Wajas, INC. messaging system. As the legal guardian, is it your responsibility to determine if Wajas, INC. is appropriate for your child. In addition, there are no areas that are described and/or specifically restricted as 18 years or above access on Wajas, INC.
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When using any services provided by Wajas, INC. that require information, such as registering or purchasing cwp, you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Wajas, INC. has reasonable grounds to suspect that said information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Wajas, INC. has the right to freeze your account and refuse any current or future use of services.
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All users are granted certain privileges, not rights, that can be taken away at any time for any reason with or without warning or explanation. Privileges include things such as using an account, using services provided through the site such as forums and private messaging, owning virtual wolf-like creatures, applying tasteful and appropriate virtual accessories, virtual wallpapers to said virtual pets, providing descriptions and/or role-playing the virtual pets, and other features included within. Any violation to TOS may result in all privileges being revoked and account permanently frozen. TOS applies to all users regardless of account type ("basic", "upgraded", "forever").
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Occasionally Wajas, INC may offer a sale of "forever upgraded" status of an account. This grants the user the advantage of never having to pay for an account subscription for said account in the future; so long as Wajas, INC stays online and in business. Should Wajas, INC ever shut down, the forever account upgrade is therefore void and no refund will be offered.
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Wajas, INC is a tax paying business and runs on paid services, providing customized virtual pets, and virtual services such as upgraded accounts, the ability to place a tag on account, and visiting locked areas on the site exclusive to upgraded users only. Wajas, INC. is not a nonprofit organization nor does it run on donations. Staff and artists may be paid for specific services or commissions, which include but are not limited to, virtual accessories, virtual wallpapers, virtual pets, or PHP code.
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Wajas, INC. runs solely through PayPal ("http://www.paypal.com") with a verified account business type. Unless stated otherwise, no other payment types will be accepted. (this includes snail mail) Users that plan to or have purchased anything from Wajas, INC. agree that they have permission and right to use the PayPal account in their possession and that they have permission to spend the available funds. User also acknowledges that no refunds will be issued at any time and PayPal Charge backs result in AUTOMATIC PERMANMENT BAN until charge backs are reversed in full or to the satisfaction of Wajas, INC..
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Your use of Wajas, INC services are at your sole risk. These services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
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Wajas, INC. reserves the right to shut down, sell, trade or otherwise disown the site at any time, with or without notice, permanently or temporarily at any time. Wajas, INC. also holds the right to make the site private, or inaccessible for whatever reason, be it beta testing, bug fixing or for administrative reasons with or without notice, permanently or temporarily at any time.
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Wajas, INC. holds the right to confiscate, reclaim, switch out, delete, remove any virtual item or virtual pet from the site with or without notice or permission for temporary or permanent purposes.
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Wajas, INC. holds the right to redraw any graphics and/or redesign any features or games within the site.
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User understands that all information, text, photographs, messages, tags, or other materials ("content"), whether publicly posted or privately posted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You, not Wajas, INC. are entirely responsible for all content that you upload, post, email or otherwise make available via Wajas, INC. services.
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User agrees to not use Wajas, INC. services to upload, post, transmit, or make available any content that is unlawful, threatening, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, or invasive of one's privacy. In addition, User will not upload, post, transmit, or make available any content that is stolen, traced, copied, edited, plagiarized, infringes, or otherwise not copyrighted to him/her.
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Users may not impersonate any person or staff member or misrepresent affiliation to a person, staff member or entity.
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Wajas, INC. can not be held liable for any data loss or harm to your computer or hardware while accessing the site.
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Content you submit or make available publicly for Wajas, INC. you grant Wajas, INC. worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s). You grant Wajas, INC. the right to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, redraw, publicly display any content you make available.
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Unless hired by Wajas, INC., any graphics or photos you provide will not be directly accepted or uploaded. Official Wajas, INC. artists will redraw the graphics and/or photos in question.
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By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, photos or pictures to Wajas, INC. user is responsible that all content does not contain confidential or proprietary information. User agrees that all content automatically become property of Wajas, INC. without any obligation of Wajas, INC. to you. You are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Wajas, INC. under any circumstances.
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Users are allowed up to two accounts and only two accounts. Users may share accounts, however, the shared account is still considered an account for EACH user. Should the users share one account, they are entitled to ONE other account of their own. Users are held liable for their own actions and the actions of said partner(s). If a partner breaks the TOS and causes the account to be frozen, both users are at fault. Wajas, INC. will not reimburse virtual items, virtual pets, virtual wallpapers, etc. to individuals who claim they "did not do it".
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Individuals who wish to have their brother, sister, child, cousin, or other family member join the website may do so. There are no restrictions here. However, the two accounts per user rule still stands. Family members may not team together over any events, games, etc. to get an unfair advantage.
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Users may sell or buy Wajas, INC. accounts with virtual currency or virtual items, however, the two accounts per user rule still stands. User must abandon or give away any additional accounts gained after buying new accounts.
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Should User lose access to his or her account, they may contact an Administrator to receive access information. User will be required to provide evidence that the account is theirs. Evidence such as virtual items in inventory, messages in inbox, Wajas Credits in bank, or other information that can not be obtained by someone who does not have access to the account. Wajas, INC. staff will NEVER ask for a user's password.
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Wajas, INC. provides a public forum to all users for many topics and discussions or debates. The forums are monitored hourly by volunteer moderators. All content is attempted to be child friendly, however, due to different personalities and opinions, Wajas, INC. can not be held responsible for any distress caused by user made threads. It is asked that if a user stumbles on an offensive thread or a violation of TOS it be reported immediately to staff so that action can be taken.
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User acknowledges that Wajas, INC. may or may not pre-screen content, has the right to refuse, remove, and/or censor any content to its sole discretion.
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The following rules must be followed while posting on Wajas, INC. and should any user neglect to follow these rules, they may be fined, temporarily banned or permanently frozen from the site.
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1. User will not use any extreme swears that most would find insulting
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or inappropriate. If you are wanting to use a word that you are unsure
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if its offensive or not, don't use it.
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2. No topics about Religion or Politics may be discussed as these
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topics are usually inclined to start arguments and fights.
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3. Absolutely no spamming or begging.
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4. No pornography, yiff, yaoi, hentai or other sexual materials may be
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posted.
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5. Be respectful and polite towards all users, including staff and vice
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versa!
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6. All staff members have the ability to enforce the TOS. Users are
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expected to adhere to instructions rendered, but are allowed to contact another STAFF
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member to further discuss actions the User feels are unfair.
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7. User will not post personal information (Entire Name, Home Address,
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Phone Number, etc)
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8. Upgraded users may not have a tag thats exceeds 150 x 150 pixels.
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Wajas, INC. allows trading of its virtual goods such as virtual accessories, Wajas Credits ("WC"), Crazy Wajas Points ("CWP"), virtual pets, and virtual wallpapers for other VIRTUAL currencies or VIRTUAL items on other websites that ALLOW TRADING WITH OTHER WEBSITES. Wajas, INC. can not be held responsible for poor decisions or otherwise faulty/scammed trades. Wajas, INC. will not reimburse any stolen/scammed virtual items when involved with other website virtual currency or virtual items.
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If evidence is provided that a user has offered, traded, or sold Wajas, INC property for real currency, Wajas, INC. holds the right to freeze all accounts, buyer and seller, involved in the transaction(s).
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Various features on Wajas, INC. are offered to provide the user a trustworthy and legitimate way to sell and/or trade virtual Wajas, INC. currency, virtual items, and virtual pets with other Wajas, INC. users. Any user that intentionally scams another user will be fined, temporarily banned or frozen for such actions. Where Wajas, INC. will attempt to reimburse any stolen/scammed virtual properties lost on the site due to vicious user(s), there is no guarantee that reimbursement will be successful.
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User may also be held responsible for abusing system glitches or bugs found on Wajas, INC. It is requested that users report all bugs to Wajas, INC. staff and hold any duplicated, illegitimate, or virtual items, virtual pets, virtual wallpapers, etc. that shouldn't exist off to the side so that a staff member can work to resolve the problem.
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Usage of Wajas, INC. signifies that you, the user, have read, understood, accepted and agreed to the above TOS. Any violation of the TOS may result in a fine of virtual currency, temp bans or permanent ban from Wajas, INC. Wajas, INC. holds the right to change, modify, add or subtract any contents of this TOS at any time with or without notice, or explanation. It is the user's responsibility to frequently check the TOS to see if any revisions have been made. If user does not agree, accept or understand the above TOS, user is to immediately cease use of this website.

Revision as of 23:40, 14 January 2011

Terms of Service (or ToS) are a set of rules which one must agree to in order to use the services that the terms were written for. By making an account on Wajas.com, you are automatically saying that you have read and agreed to their Terms of Service and all clauses within. If a user violates the Terms of Service, they are subject to the consequences regardless of whether or not they ever actully read the document.

Ignorance is not an accepted excuse for violating the ToS. You are expected to have read and understood them if you have an account, so if you violate the ToS you can recieve a warning or an instant ban, depending on how sever the violation was. Terms of Service, unless proven to violate a consumer protection law, are usually legally binding.

The Terms of Service for Wajas.com can be found at any time through a link at the bottom of every page on the site.

Terms of Service for Wajas.com

Wajas, INC ("http://www.wajas.com", "Http://www.wajas.net","http://www.wajas.org", "Wajas", "site") provides its services to you subject to the following Terms Of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. You can review the most current version of our TOS at http://wajasdev.com/terms_of_service.php.

Wajas, INC is an online virtual gaming site involving, but not limited to, virtual pets, it's own virtual currency, virtual items, and other virtual services/properties.

All content, coding, scripts, documents, and other text are copyrighted to Wajas, INC. All graphics and breeds are copyrighted and trademarked to Wajas, INC through the United States Copyright Office. No copyrighted or trademarked content, graphics, text, script can be duplicated, used, sold, edited, claimed without written permission of Wajas, INC.

Wajas, INC tries its best to provide a safe site and protect the privacy of all its users. Wajas, INC is intended for individuals over or at least the age of thirteen. Those below this age must provide written consent of parent(s) or guardian(s) prior to registration of account(s), be it by email or message via Wajas, INC. messaging system. As the legal guardian, is it your responsibility to determine if Wajas, INC. is appropriate for your child. In addition, there are no areas that are described and/or specifically restricted as 18 years or above access on Wajas, INC.

When using any services provided by Wajas, INC. that require information, such as registering or purchasing cwp, you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Wajas, INC. has reasonable grounds to suspect that said information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Wajas, INC. has the right to freeze your account and refuse any current or future use of services.

All users are granted certain privileges, not rights, that can be taken away at any time for any reason with or without warning or explanation. Privileges include things such as using an account, using services provided through the site such as forums and private messaging, owning virtual wolf-like creatures, applying tasteful and appropriate virtual accessories, virtual wallpapers to said virtual pets, providing descriptions and/or role-playing the virtual pets, and other features included within. Any violation to TOS may result in all privileges being revoked and account permanently frozen. TOS applies to all users regardless of account type ("basic", "upgraded", "forever").

Occasionally Wajas, INC may offer a sale of "forever upgraded" status of an account. This grants the user the advantage of never having to pay for an account subscription for said account in the future; so long as Wajas, INC stays online and in business. Should Wajas, INC ever shut down, the forever account upgrade is therefore void and no refund will be offered.

Wajas, INC is a tax paying business and runs on paid services, providing customized virtual pets, and virtual services such as upgraded accounts, the ability to place a tag on account, and visiting locked areas on the site exclusive to upgraded users only. Wajas, INC. is not a nonprofit organization nor does it run on donations. Staff and artists may be paid for specific services or commissions, which include but are not limited to, virtual accessories, virtual wallpapers, virtual pets, or PHP code.

Wajas, INC. runs solely through PayPal ("http://www.paypal.com") with a verified account business type. Unless stated otherwise, no other payment types will be accepted. (this includes snail mail) Users that plan to or have purchased anything from Wajas, INC. agree that they have permission and right to use the PayPal account in their possession and that they have permission to spend the available funds. User also acknowledges that no refunds will be issued at any time and PayPal Charge backs result in AUTOMATIC PERMANMENT BAN until charge backs are reversed in full or to the satisfaction of Wajas, INC..

Your use of Wajas, INC services are at your sole risk. These services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

Wajas, INC. reserves the right to shut down, sell, trade or otherwise disown the site at any time, with or without notice, permanently or temporarily at any time. Wajas, INC. also holds the right to make the site private, or inaccessible for whatever reason, be it beta testing, bug fixing or for administrative reasons with or without notice, permanently or temporarily at any time.

Wajas, INC. holds the right to confiscate, reclaim, switch out, delete, remove any virtual item or virtual pet from the site with or without notice or permission for temporary or permanent purposes.

Wajas, INC. holds the right to redraw any graphics and/or redesign any features or games within the site.

User understands that all information, text, photographs, messages, tags, or other materials ("content"), whether publicly posted or privately posted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You, not Wajas, INC. are entirely responsible for all content that you upload, post, email or otherwise make available via Wajas, INC. services.

User agrees to not use Wajas, INC. services to upload, post, transmit, or make available any content that is unlawful, threatening, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, or invasive of one's privacy. In addition, User will not upload, post, transmit, or make available any content that is stolen, traced, copied, edited, plagiarized, infringes, or otherwise not copyrighted to him/her.

Users may not impersonate any person or staff member or misrepresent affiliation to a person, staff member or entity.

Wajas, INC. can not be held liable for any data loss or harm to your computer or hardware while accessing the site.

Content you submit or make available publicly for Wajas, INC. you grant Wajas, INC. worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s). You grant Wajas, INC. the right to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, redraw, publicly display any content you make available.

Unless hired by Wajas, INC., any graphics or photos you provide will not be directly accepted or uploaded. Official Wajas, INC. artists will redraw the graphics and/or photos in question.

By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, photos or pictures to Wajas, INC. user is responsible that all content does not contain confidential or proprietary information. User agrees that all content automatically become property of Wajas, INC. without any obligation of Wajas, INC. to you. You are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Wajas, INC. under any circumstances.

Users are allowed up to two accounts and only two accounts. Users may share accounts, however, the shared account is still considered an account for EACH user. Should the users share one account, they are entitled to ONE other account of their own. Users are held liable for their own actions and the actions of said partner(s). If a partner breaks the TOS and causes the account to be frozen, both users are at fault. Wajas, INC. will not reimburse virtual items, virtual pets, virtual wallpapers, etc. to individuals who claim they "did not do it".

Individuals who wish to have their brother, sister, child, cousin, or other family member join the website may do so. There are no restrictions here. However, the two accounts per user rule still stands. Family members may not team together over any events, games, etc. to get an unfair advantage.

Users may sell or buy Wajas, INC. accounts with virtual currency or virtual items, however, the two accounts per user rule still stands. User must abandon or give away any additional accounts gained after buying new accounts.

Should User lose access to his or her account, they may contact an Administrator to receive access information. User will be required to provide evidence that the account is theirs. Evidence such as virtual items in inventory, messages in inbox, Wajas Credits in bank, or other information that can not be obtained by someone who does not have access to the account. Wajas, INC. staff will NEVER ask for a user's password.


Wajas, INC. provides a public forum to all users for many topics and discussions or debates. The forums are monitored hourly by volunteer moderators. All content is attempted to be child friendly, however, due to different personalities and opinions, Wajas, INC. can not be held responsible for any distress caused by user made threads. It is asked that if a user stumbles on an offensive thread or a violation of TOS it be reported immediately to staff so that action can be taken.

User acknowledges that Wajas, INC. may or may not pre-screen content, has the right to refuse, remove, and/or censor any content to its sole discretion.

The following rules must be followed while posting on Wajas, INC. and should any user neglect to follow these rules, they may be fined, temporarily banned or permanently frozen from the site.


1. User will not use any extreme swears that most would find insulting or inappropriate. If you are wanting to use a word that you are unsure if its offensive or not, don't use it. 2. No topics about Religion or Politics may be discussed as these topics are usually inclined to start arguments and fights. 3. Absolutely no spamming or begging. 4. No pornography, yiff, yaoi, hentai or other sexual materials may be posted. 5. Be respectful and polite towards all users, including staff and vice versa! 6. All staff members have the ability to enforce the TOS. Users are expected to adhere to instructions rendered, but are allowed to contact another STAFF member to further discuss actions the User feels are unfair. 7. User will not post personal information (Entire Name, Home Address, Phone Number, etc) 8. Upgraded users may not have a tag thats exceeds 150 x 150 pixels.

Wajas, INC. allows trading of its virtual goods such as virtual accessories, Wajas Credits ("WC"), Crazy Wajas Points ("CWP"), virtual pets, and virtual wallpapers for other VIRTUAL currencies or VIRTUAL items on other websites that ALLOW TRADING WITH OTHER WEBSITES. Wajas, INC. can not be held responsible for poor decisions or otherwise faulty/scammed trades. Wajas, INC. will not reimburse any stolen/scammed virtual items when involved with other website virtual currency or virtual items.

If evidence is provided that a user has offered, traded, or sold Wajas, INC property for real currency, Wajas, INC. holds the right to freeze all accounts, buyer and seller, involved in the transaction(s).

Various features on Wajas, INC. are offered to provide the user a trustworthy and legitimate way to sell and/or trade virtual Wajas, INC. currency, virtual items, and virtual pets with other Wajas, INC. users. Any user that intentionally scams another user will be fined, temporarily banned or frozen for such actions. Where Wajas, INC. will attempt to reimburse any stolen/scammed virtual properties lost on the site due to vicious user(s), there is no guarantee that reimbursement will be successful.

User may also be held responsible for abusing system glitches or bugs found on Wajas, INC. It is requested that users report all bugs to Wajas, INC. staff and hold any duplicated, illegitimate, or virtual items, virtual pets, virtual wallpapers, etc. that shouldn't exist off to the side so that a staff member can work to resolve the problem.

Usage of Wajas, INC. signifies that you, the user, have read, understood, accepted and agreed to the above TOS. Any violation of the TOS may result in a fine of virtual currency, temp bans or permanent ban from Wajas, INC. Wajas, INC. holds the right to change, modify, add or subtract any contents of this TOS at any time with or without notice, or explanation. It is the user's responsibility to frequently check the TOS to see if any revisions have been made. If user does not agree, accept or understand the above TOS, user is to immediately cease use of this website.