The following Terms of Service extends to all of Pasemi Gardens's official communication hubs and websites that are created and moderated by its founder, user Twin.
These areas are as follows:
The official website , The official discord server , The official toyhouse world group .
You agree to our terms by using Pasemi Gardens's available services and participating in our official communication hubs. As a member of Pasemi Gardens's community, it is your responsibility to report individuals who violate Pasemi Gardens's policies. This in turn will help keep Pasemi Gardens a safespace.
Please note that while our rules and regulations attempts to cover as much interaction related to Pasemi Gardens and its content and community where it could, we cannot guarantee security nor fully regulate activities conducted in third-party websites or unofficial and fan-made pages, Discord servers, chatrooms, or other miscelleneous places that official Pasemi Gardens staff did not make nor approve.
Moving forward, Pasemi Gardens (noted through verbage of "Us", "We", and "Our") will be covering the following topics of our privacy policy below:
GENERAL TERMINOLOGY
Pasemi Gardens uses multiple abbreviation and terminologies coined from artistic fictious specie communities groups on the internet. The definitions are as follows below, to keep you informed should they appear in our website's pages and documents:
ARPG refers to Art Roleplaying Game. These are communities a of creatives that enjoy participating in a system that involves drawing, writing, or other forms of creative works using their original characters made based off of a pre-existing fictional worldbuild online.
OC refers to Original Character. This is a custom made design that belongs to and is made by a user.
Species refer to the fictional inhabitants of Pasemi Gardens, which are the Pasemi species and subspecies.
MYO refers to Make Your Own. This refers to an item found on Pasemi Gardens that functions as an official creation slot. Once an admin approves the usage of this item through design approvals, the user's creations will be officially masterlisted on Pasemi Gardens.
FCFS refers to First Come First Serve, which means that priority is given to users with the fastest responses when claiming to buy a character design or official creation slot on Pasemi Gardens.
FFA means Free For All. That means a site-held giveaway can be entered by any users of Pasemi Gardens's community.
Adoptables refers to digital character designs that is up for sale by an artist online.
One-offs refer to character designs that have no relation to Pasemi Gardens in anyway, nor any similar website communities that have their own original species and worldbuild.
Auction refers to a type of online adoptable sale that involves increments of monetary bidding among users. Auctions have specified limitations and a timeframe noted by the artist or host.
OTA refers to Offer to Adopt. This is a form of selling or trading a character design, whereas the owner or artist notes parameters and preferences they are looking for in the process of wanting to rehome a character design they own.
FTO or NO means First Time Owner or Non-Owner. This means that the user does not currently own any Pasemi Gardens character in the masterlist.
AO means Already Owner. This means that the user does currently owns one or more Pasemi Gardens character/s in the masterlist.
NFS or NFT means Not For Sale or Not For Trade. An owner labels their characters with this as a note that the character is not in the nor are they seeking any offers.
Vouchers refer to when a user is looking for money offers on a character they own that is locked under trade-only attribute. This means that the owner of the character is seeking an amount and purpose (that is admin-approved), that an interested buyer or third person is willing to pay for. This payment should not touch the hands of the original character owner, but only directly sent to the admin approved purpose. These purposes must only be in form of a digital art commission, a digital writing commission, or a digital character design up for sale by an artist online. Physical goods are not allowed for vouchers, as we prohibit the exchange of any personally-identifying information among our users during Pasemi Gardens transfers and transations.
Swaps refer to when a user is seeking offers on their Pasemi Gardens character, but only in exchange for Pasemi Gardens characters as well.
I. USER ETIQUETTE
Section I of our Terms of Service covers user etiquette.
All persons must abide by these code of conduct at all times when participating in Pasemi Gardens's official communities, character ownership of its species, and any other services we provide.
Failure to abide by these rules will result to a warning strike, temporary suspension, or permanent ban depending on the severity and repetition of the acts committed.
A.) Participants of Pasemi Gardens are required to be 16 years of age or older.
B.) Only one account per person. A user discovered to be multi-accounting will be permanently banned. If you wish to change your username, please file a help ticket.
C.) Please be kind to the community members and its official staff. The creators of Pasemi Gardens appreciate participation and suggestions of our worldbuild, however, please note that we are only a small team. We require patience and understanding as we also need time to prioritize our health and respective dayjobs outside of this project.
D.) Avoid discomforting remarks or actions towards Pasemi Gardens's userbase and official staff. This includes art or design theft, public venting, namedropping, bringing up drama, guilttripping, begging, verbal harassment, insults, and other related petty and malicious correspondence. Negatively manipulating the emotions of a community member or official staff about their adoptables, characters, or site inventory is strictly prohibited.
E.) No usage of slurs in any form. Swearing is fine, but please keep it in moderation.
F.) Avoid posting any form of personally-identitfying information or photos of yourself or of others. This includes selfies, schooling location, personal residency, or the like. If an official staff spots such info in our communication hubs, it will be deleted and the user will be given a warning.
G.) No discussion, posting, encouragement or perpetuating of illegal and harmful activity or communications. This refers to the prohibition of non-consensual acts, glorification of extreme violence, cyberbullying, zoophilia, pedophilia, necrophilia, incest, sexism, racism, nazism, lgbtphobia, and any other forms of bigotry or discrimination outside and inside of Pasemi Gardens's premises. Hateful content, discussion, and related remarks are considered harassment and is not tolerated in Pasemi Gardens. Such users caught doing so will be given an immediate parmanent ban from all of Pasemi Gardens's services without any warning, followed by their characters removed and voided from the masterlist, and their profile page inaccessible.
H.) No solicitations of any form. This refers to messaging a community member or official staff to offer on their characters or site inventory without their permission or explicit advertising post in the appropriate places.
I.) No posting of explicit sexual content in Pasemi Gardens's website and official communication hubs. This includes artworks, links, memes, discussions, and the like.
J.) Pasemi Gardens allows the sharing of horror themed media only under specific conditions. Please ensure these are artistic, cartoon, fictional, and not fetish-oriented. Users are required to ensure such sharing is appropriately trigger warning tagged or spoilered, and placed in the correct sharing locations within our official communication hubs. Pasemi Gardens does not allow the sharing nor discussion of content that involves glorification of violence and information regarding real-life events and persons; such as true crime, procedural, or courtroom television drama.
II. OWNERSHIP & USAGE
Section II of our Terms of Service covers the proper use of Pasemi Gardens's official character designs and artworks inside and outside of our website and communication hubs.
A.) Officially masterlisted Pasemi Gardens designs can be owned by only one user at a time per character. Co-ownership is prohbited and will not be acknowledged.
B.) Give credit where credit is due. Do not claim a piece of artwork, character design, or writing is made by you when it is created by someone else.
C.) Personalized stories, worldbuilding, and Alternate Universes (AUs) using your Pasemi Gardens characters that do not conform to our canon lore is allowed.
D.) All Pasemi Gardens character designs and artworks should not disrespect nor harm pre-existing characters, property of others, copyrighted media, cultures, and persons. Strictly no real life person referencing, bigoted, military and cop propaganda, or hateful basis during character and art creation within Pasemi Gardens.
E.) Personal usage only. Fursuits, Virtual Reality models, and digital or physical items created for personal use and for fun is allowed. Please ensure that you have explicit permission to use the artwork or characters from their respective creators.
F.) Commercial purposes or profitable redistribution are prohibited. This includes the prohibition of mass-produced merchandise, game character, business mascot, streaming mascot (monetized video usages), and paywalls (such as VR 3D models only available to your patrons or your personal digital shop). Due to personal experience, we do not have the time to monitor its process nor write you a contract regarding such. Commercial rights cannot be bought from us.
G.) If you want to make a physically different version of your Pasemi Gardens character as an Alternate Universe version (humanoid, other anthros, other species) - please make sure you have the explicit permission of the artist before doing so. These AU variants are locked in ownership with you alongside the Pasemi Gardens version. Upon transfer, all designs sharing such AUs must be bundled together.
H.) A user is allowed to request their Pasemi Gardens characters to be voided at anytime. This is the process of terminating a character from any relation to Pasemi Gardens via permanent deletion or redesigning to remove distinguishable elements from its base species. One may do so by reaching out via messaging Twin on our discord server.
III. TRANSFERS
Section III covers rules that must be followed when transferring or updating the ownership of your Pasemi Gardens character/s.
A.) Always validate and abide by a character's transfer attributes. This can be done by checking a character's official masterlist entry. If you require assistance correcting your character's masterlisted attributes, please reach out to Twin.
B.) All vouchers must be approved by an official admin first via inquiry on our discord server.
C.) Unapproved vouchering, scalping, and any other forms of upselling a Pasemi Gardens character during or after transfers is strictly prohibited. If you need an appraisal or correction of your masterlisted character's value, please reach out to Twin.
D.) A two day (48 hours) cooldown is automatically imposed after a character transfer request is approved on-site by an admin and all parties involved.
E.) Transferring Pasemi Gardens character ownerships to blacklisted users is strictly prohibited and will result in a warning, or if repeated a ban.
IV. SALES
Section IV covers rules regarding sales conducted on Pasemi Gardens. This refers to character designs available for purchase that are announced on our news bulletins, discord server, or toyhouse group.
A.) Only official admins and admin-approved guest artists are allowed to make designs for sale using Pasemi Gardens's species concept.
B.) Only members who are 18 years old or above are allowed to make purchases through the use of real-world currency on Pasemi Gardens and its communication hubs.
C.) All character design sales on Pasemi Gardens and its communication hubs are final and non-refundable.
D.) Staff and official guest artists selling Pasemi Gardens adoptables are allowed to deny sales based on their fair discretion. This is to avoid potential account farming or scams from occuring. Attempted purchases from off-site social media accounts that are no older than two weeks are likely to be rejected for safety reasons.
E.) All character design sales on Pasemi Gardens are to be resolved within 24 hours. If a person claiming an adoptable fails to commit to their purchase, a different user will be considered. However, if the artist accepts payment plans, then this must be discussed and followed through accordingly.
F.) Scamming of any sort is prohbited. This includes despondent communications as well as claiming adoptables and failing to resolve payments regardless of reasons given. Please ensure that you have sufficient funds before participating in any of Pasemi Gardens's sales. Users caught to be repeating such actions more than once in a row may result to a suspension or permanent ban.
G.) Members of the community who self-advertise their commission openings and creative services on Pasemi Gardens's communication hubs must follow through. Failure to accomodate their clients, and reports of such, will result to a ban from our discord server.
CHANGES TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE
Pasemi Gardens may change and update its Terms of Service in our sole discretion. We encourage visitors to check this page frequently, in order to be informed of any potential updates. On the upper-left corner of this document, visitors are able to note when changes were last made.
If an edit outside of typograhpical or grammatical errors were made, such as new clauses, a news bulletin will be made in order to inform Pasemi Gardens's userbase. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Terms of Service will constitute your acceptance of such change.
CONTACT
Please note that user reports are handled on a case by case basis. Please ensure that you are able to provide as much concrete evidence as possible when you have the intention of wanting to suspend or ban a malicious member.
We cannot act on claims solely under "good faith" that lacks any form of legitimate proof. However, community members are always welcome to warn our official staff to keep an eye out for potentially harmful users and suspicious activity within our community.
If you have any questions about our Terms of Service, please contact us via messaging Twin on our discord server or toyhouse, or sending an email to pasemigardens@gmail.com.