Terms of Use

Purpose and acceptance

These terms govern the use of Black Empire. They are explicitly accepted at sign-up, via a dedicated checkbox — the account creation button stays disabled until it is ticked, and the server refuses any sign-up where this acceptance was not transmitted.

Your account on Black Empire

Sign-up is currently limited to four accounts per internet connection — a technical limit applied automatically at account creation, and not a legal rule defining the number of accounts allowed per person. A compliant password (8 characters minimum, uppercase, lowercase, digit, special character) is required, and the e-mail address must be verified before the account is fully usable. You are responsible for the confidentiality of your credentials.

Rules of use and sanctions

The detailed game rules (combat, vacation mode, restricted-access zones) are described on the Rules page. On the security side: the system watches for multi-account signals, suspicious sessions and economic anomalies, but never sanctions automatically — each alert is reviewed by a staff member. An account may receive a warning, then a reinforced warning; from the third, the sanction becomes automatic (temporary ban and logout of all sessions). A contest mechanism exists in the interface — its contact address depends on the production environment configuration, which this document cannot confirm.

Payments and shop

When the Stripe payment module is enabled and configured on the production environment — which this document cannot confirm with certainty at this stage — shop purchases are handled by a secure payment page hosted by Stripe: no bank card data goes through Black Empire’s servers or is stored there. Each purchase is a one-off payment (no recurring subscription). If a refund is processed by Stripe, the rewards already granted in the game are not taken back automatically — only the order status is updated.

Account suspension and deletion

Your account may be suspended or banned if the rules are not respected (see above). You can request the deletion of your account at any time: after confirmation by password and by e-mail, a seven-day grace period opens — logging back in during this period automatically cancels the deletion. After that delay, the erasure is final and irreversible.