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Code of Conduct

Let's help keep Paintball Vault a safe and secure place to buy, sell and trade our paintball gear. In order to keep Paintball Vault awesome, we expect every user to honor the following Code Of Conduct.

Paintball Vault may not be used in connection with any product, service, transaction or activity that in general:

  • Violates any law or government regulation, or promotes or facilitates such action by third parties
  • Is fraudulent, deceptive, unfair or predatory
  • Causes or threatens to damage Paintball Vault's reputation
  • Violates the terms of any bank, card or electronic funds transfer network
  • Results in or creates a significant risk of chargebacks, penalties, damages or other harm or liability

Paintball Vault has developed our Code Of Conduct to prevent any abuse as outlined above and to protect our users from conduct that may cause harm to their experience of using Paintball Vault or abuse any features of our Service.

By using our Service, you agree to follow the rules and manners as included in our Help Center articles and in our Terms & Conditions and Policies. By using our Service, you agree not to engage in the following Prohibited Conduct:

  • Using the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law or regulation; violate, or encourage others to violate, any right of a third party, including by infringing or misappropriating any third party intellectual property right
  • Posting, uploading, or distributing any User Content or other content that is unlawful, defamatory, libelous, inaccurate, or that a reasonable person could consider objectionable, profane, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, hateful, offensive or otherwise inappropriate
  • Interfering with security-related features of the Service
  • Interfering with the operation of the Service or any user's enjoyment of the Service
  • Performing any fraudulent activity including impersonating any person or entity, claiming a false affiliation to a business, or falsifying your age, date of birth, tax identification number or other information provided to Paintball Vault
  • Selling or otherwise transferring the access granted under these Terms

Actions Paintball Vault May Take

Paintball Vault may take any of the following actions on an account that has violated our Policies or if Paintball Vault suspects prohibited conduct has occurred:

  • We may contact Users or utilize a third party verification service to verify a User, an account or listing information.
  • Paintball Vault may remove an item, refuse a user access to or suspend a user from all or part of the Service until the completion of such verification.
  • Paintball Vault may prohibit a user that is terminated for engaging in any prohibited conduct from using and accessing any future services provided by Paintball Vault.
  • Paintball Vault may hold funds after a suspension or termination to cover chargeback/funds reversal risk or refunds arising from Prohibited Conduct as stated in our Terms of Service.

Restricted Actions

We may update our list of Code Of Conduct from time to time. The following is a list of actions Paintball Vault restricts users from participating in:

Transactions

  • Encouraging payments outside of Paintball Vault
  • Proposing or completing a transaction in person or off of the Paintball Vault platform
  • Two members reducing the price of their own items and purchasing from each other
  • Requiring or encouraging a direct transfer of a product
  • Shipping internationally
  • Selecting inappropriately priced shipping labels
  • Proposing payment for all or part of the item on delivery
  • Returns unauthorized by Paintball Vault
  • Using Paintball Vault for the purpose of money laundering
  • Using Paintball Vault to buy and sell from yourself, or to send funds to yourself
  • Using Paintball Vault for the purpose of utilizing shipping labels for your benefit
  • Providing invalid tracking

Accounts

  • Having multiple Paintball Vault accounts
  • Creating a new account after being limited or permanently banned
  • Creating a new account to bypass restrictions on another account
  • Impersonating a business or other accounts in your username or description
  • Providing false information when registering for or validating any account information
  • Providing false information for W-9 or other tax related inquiries

Listings

  • Listing a Prohibited Item
  • Creating multiple listings of the same item
  • Excessive reposting of previously listed items
  • Listing items with the intent to sell to certain users only
  • Using a stock or advertisement photo as the only image
  • Using photos that you do not own or have not taken yourself
  • Using another member's photos or words without their consent
  • Listing an excessive amount of search keywords
  • Setting unrelated categories
  • Setting a false brand
  • Listing in auction, raffle, or giveaway format
  • Listing free items for purchase
  • Listing another user's personal information in a manner other than specified by Paintball Vault
  • Listing a single product with the purchase price divided into multiple parts
  • Listing items not in your possession, shipping from a third party or stating the item will be shipped at a future date

Solicitations

  • Soliciting users to an external website
  • Soliciting transactions to an external website
  • Soliciting users to provide personal information
  • Soliciting other users to list Prohibited Items or engage in Prohibited Conduct
  • Asking for users to rate before the item is received

Other

  • Threats
  • Slander
  • Trolling
  • Indecent behavior
  • Spamming
  • Copyright infringement
  • Posting false information
  • Abuse of any promotional programs by offering independent rewards for users signing up
  • Actions for the intentions of dating

Do not hesitate to contact Paintball Vault if you come across or are solicited for such actions.