Terms of Services

Foreword

EDR is a hobby project, primarily developed by one person, in their spare time. My goal with EDR is to help more people enjoy Elite: Dangerous by providing various guidance (e.g. what rare materials you can expect in a given system, whether or not another commander is dangerous) or by facilitating opportunities for more interesting experiences (e.g. reporting sightings of known outlaws, or powerplay enemies).

We refer to all our products together with our websites as “Services” in these Terms Of Services.

Note that by virtue of playing Elite: Dangerous, you have already agreed to terms set by Frontier in the following documents:

We strongly recommend that you get yourself familiar with these documents before reading our Terms Of Services.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS OR OUR PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT ACCESS NOR USE OUR SERVICES, AND DO NOT INTERACT WITH ANY OTHER ASPECT OF OUR OFFERING.

Terms of Services

By using our Services, you agree to abide by the rules set forth in this document. If you break any of the following rules, you may be banned from our Services. Your use of our Services is not an inherent right and we may take action against anything we find to be disruptive or harmful to our Services, other Services users, and the Services operators. If you do not agree, you shall NOT access nor use our Services.

Age requirement

You must be 13 years or older to use our Services, whether as a guest or as a registered user.

If you are under 16, please make sure you have consent from your parent(s) and/or guardian(s) before using the Services.

Code of conduct

Disruptive behavior is strictly NOT tolerated. Non exhaustive examples of disruptive behavior:

  • Our goal is to help Elite: dangerous players have fun and meaningful experiences. For example, do NOT mark commanders with public tags, such as the outlaw tag or enforcer tag, with the intent of confusing other users. Use custom tags that only you or your squadron can see instead.
  • Threats of any kinds against other commanders will not be tolerated.
  • Do NOT dox or attempt to dox anyone.
  • You must NOT impersonate, or attempt to impersonate, other users, commanders, FDev employees, or law enforcement agencies.
  • Respect the game rules, and Frontier’s own terms of services. Failing to do so may contribute to losing access to our Services. This will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
  • Do not post hateful, intimidating, demeaning, harassing, offensive, threatening messages. Promoting harm to others is also forbidden. Using language of this kind may result in being banned from the Services. Hate speech isn’t tolerated either whether it’s about race, religion, personal values, gender, or sexual orientation.
  • The discord bot is provided for the purpose of informing its users. Do NOT spam messages with the intent of disrupting the Services or annoying its operators.

Appealing a ban

Before you attempt to appeal your ban, here are a few things to keep in mind:

  • It doesn’t matter if you only violated the Terms Of Services once. These terms are here for a reason.
  • No details about your ban will be revealed. The information is a valuable part of how we enforce the terms of services, and will therefore NOT be revealed.

If you have been banned from using our Services, you may appeal your ban by contacting us (see footer) with the following information:

  • Account details, e.g. commander name, email address.
  • Date of occurence
  • Your side of the story
  • Why do you feel the ban should be lifted

Be honest in your answers and give as much detail as necessary.

Do NOT use any of the following excuses:

  • It wasn’t me. It was my little brother/friend/roommate… Actions are taken against the account, not the individual. You are responsible for what happens on your account at all times.
  • I did nothing wrong on THAT account. No sympathy for you with that line of argumentation.
  • I did that a long time ago, why now? Reviewing may take time.
  • I was only testing/checking things out. Our Services are not your sandbox.

Attempting to circumvent a ban by changing username, IP address, or using proxies is termed as ban evasion. If you repeatedly try to evade a ban, you will lose any appeal opportunity and your Internet Service Provider will be contacted.

Services disruption

You must NOT disrupt nor attempt to disrupt our Services or the servers they run on, including but not limited to DDoS attacks, attempts to gain privileges, flooding, spamming, faking data or otherwise interfering with the Services.

Illegal activities

Online isn’t a place where anything goes. Laws apply equally online as they do offline. Any illegal activity is NOT allowed through our services. Hacking, denial of services, spamming are illegal and can get you in trouble.

Inappropriate uses

You are NOT allowed to repurpose the output of our Services for your own, or others’ purposes, i.e. republishing the data or facilitating access to the data via third party APIs or tools is not allowed. Exceptions: information displayed in-game when recorded as part of a live stream or video shared on popular sites such as Twitch or YouTube.

You are NOT allowed to modify our Services, nor allowed to create softwares/services that uses our Services' data or resources.

Changes to our Terms of Services

We may change the content of our websites, or the services of our tools and consequently our Terms of Services may change in the future. If we change these Terms Of Services, we will update the date it was last changed below. If these changes are material, we will indicate this clearly on our Website or our tools.

These Terms Of Services were last updated on October 4th 2022