Terms and Conditions | High Ground Gaming

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the www.highgroundgaming.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website (taken together, the Website). The Website is owned and operated by Top Shelf Media, LLC (“Top Shelf Media”). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Top Shelf Media’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Top Shelf Media (collectively, the “Agreement”). For rights and obligations pertaining to our shop, see our eCommerce terms and conditions page.

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Top Shelf Media, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

1. Your www.highgroundgaming.com Account and Content

If you create a post/account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and post, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the post. You must not describe or assign keywords to your post in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Top Shelf Media may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Top Shelf Media liability. You must immediately notify Top Shelf Media of any unauthorized uses of your post, your account or any other breaches of security. Top Shelf Media will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

2. Store Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Top Shelf Media’s Website, specifically for the e-commerce section located at https://www.highgroundgaming.com/shop.

By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use The Shop @ High Ground Gaming if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

2.1 The Basics

The Shop @ High Ground Gaming is operated by Top Shelf Media. We are registered in Oregon, USA, and our main office is located at 665 Conger St, Ste S, Eugene, Oregon, 97402. We sell accessories and equipment for gamers.

2.2 Copyright Notice

2.3 License to Use Website

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
- Republish material from this website in neither print nor digital media or documents (including republication on another website).
- Sell, rent, or sub-license material from the website.
- Show any material from the website in public.
- Reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose.
- Edit or otherwise modify any material on the website.
- Redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

2.4 Acceptable Use

You agree not to use The Shop @ High Ground Gaming in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful.

2.5 Products and Services

Purchases: If you wish to purchase any product or service made available through the Service (“Purchase”), you may be asked to supply certain information relevant to your Purchase including, without limitation, your credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card, your billing address, and your shipping information.
Pricing: We reserve the right to correct any errors in pricing and product descriptions and to cancel or refuse orders for items listed at the incorrect price.

2.6 Returns and Refunds

Please review our Return Policy which governs any purchases you make on our website.

2.7 User Accounts

If you create an account on our website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorized uses of your account or other breaches of security.

2.8 Privacy Policy

Your use of The Shop @ High Ground Gaming is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms and Conditions by this reference.

3. Ad Free Subscription Payment and Renewal

3.1 General Terms

By selecting a product or service, you agree to pay Top Shelf Media the one-time and/or monthly or annual subscription fees indicated (additional payment terms may be included in other communications). Subscription payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis on the day you sign up for an Upgrade and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated. Payments are not refundable.

3.2 Automatic Renewal

Unless you notify Top Shelf Media before the end of the applicable subscription period that you want to cancel a subscription, your subscription will automatically renew and you authorize us to collect the then-applicable annual or monthly subscription fee for such subscription (as well as any taxes) using any credit card or other payment mechanism we have on record for you. Upgrades can be canceled at any time by submitting your request to Top Shelf Media in writing.

4. Services

4.1 Fees; Payment

By signing up for a Services account you agree to pay Top Shelf Media the applicable setup fees and recurring fees. Applicable fees will be invoiced starting from the day your services are established and in advance of using such services. Top Shelf Media reserves the right to change the payment terms and fees upon thirty (30) days prior written notice to you. Services can be canceled by you at any time on thirty (30) days written notice to Top Shelf Media.

4.2 Support

If your service includes access to priority email support. “Email support” means the ability to make requests for technical support assistance by email at any time (with reasonable efforts by Top Shelf Media to respond within one business day) concerning the use of the VIP Services. “Priority” means that support takes priority over support for users of the standard or free www.highgroundgaming.com services. All support will be provided in accordance with Top Shelf Media standard services practices, procedures and policies.

5. Responsibility of Website Visitors

Top Shelf Media has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Top Shelf Media does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Top Shelf Media disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

6. Content Posted on Other Websites

We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which www.highgroundgaming.com links, and that link to www.highgroundgaming.com. Top Shelf Media does not have any control over those non-Top Shelf Media websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Top Shelf Media website or webpage, Top Shelf Media does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Top Shelf Media disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Top Shelf Media websites and webpages.

7. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy

As Top Shelf Media asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by www.highgroundgaming.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Top Shelf Media in accordance with Top Shelf Media’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Policy. Top Shelf Media will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. Top Shelf Media will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Top Shelf Media or others. In the case of such termination, Top Shelf Media will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Top Shelf Media.

8. Intellectual Property

This Agreement does not transfer from Top Shelf Media to you any Top Shelf Media or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Top Shelf Media. Top Shelf Media, www.highgroundgaming.com, the www.highgroundgaming.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with www.highgroundgaming.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Top Shelf Media or Top Shelf Media’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Top Shelf Media or third-party trademarks.

9. Advertisements

Top Shelf Media reserves the right to display advertisements on your post unless you have purchased an ad-free account.

10. Attribution

Top Shelf Media reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘Post at www.highgroundgaming.com,’ theme author, and font attribution in your post footer or toolbar.

11. Partner Products

By activating a partner product (e.g., theme) from one of our partners, you agree to that partner’s terms of service. You can opt out of their terms of service at any time by de-activating the partner product.

12. Domain Names

If you are registering a domain name, using or transferring a previously registered domain name, you acknowledge and agree that use of the domain name is also subject to the policies of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), including their Registration Rights and Responsibilities.

13. Changes

Top Shelf Media reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Top Shelf Media may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

14. Termination

Top Shelf Media may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your www.highgroundgaming.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you have a paid services account, such account can only be terminated by Top Shelf Media if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from Top Shelf Media’s notice to you thereof; provided that, Top Shelf Media can terminate the Website immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

15. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Website is provided “as is”. Top Shelf Media and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Top Shelf Media nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

16. Limitation of Liability

In no event will Top Shelf Media, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Top Shelf Media under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Top Shelf Media shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

17. General Representation and Warranty

You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Top Shelf Media Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

18. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Top Shelf Media, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

19. Amazon Associates Disclosure

We are a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites.

20. Miscellaneous

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Top Shelf Media and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Top Shelf Media, or by the posting by Top Shelf Media of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Lane County, Oregon. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in Salem, Oregon, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Top Shelf Media may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.