TERMS OF SERVICE

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Levelstair (Pvt) Ltd (Reg. No. PV00353633, Sri Lanka), governing your access to and use of the Levelstair Community platform at portal.levelstair.com ("the Platform").

By creating an account, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not register for or use the Platform.

• You must be at least 16 years old to register for an account. We ask for your date of birth at registration and verify it. Under section 56 of the Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022 a "child" is anyone under 16; we do not process children's personal data on this platform.
• You must provide accurate, current information when creating your account and profile.
• You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and secure.
• One account per person; do not create duplicate accounts to evade moderation action.
• Chapter and campus programs that include participants under 16 run in person, under a separate guardian consent process, and do not create accounts on this platform.

Use of the Platform is subject to the Code of Conduct and the Community Constitution, incorporated into these Terms by reference. In addition, you agree not to:

• Violating the Community Code of Conduct or Constitution.
• Impersonating another person, member, or Levelstair staff.
• Uploading unlawful, harassing, hateful, or sexually explicit content.
• Scraping, reverse-engineering, or interfering with platform infrastructure.
• Using the platform for unauthorized commercial solicitation or spam.
• Creating multiple accounts to evade a suspension or ban.

You retain ownership of the content you create and submit: profile content, canvas artwork, event submissions, and similar member work. Levelstair claims no ownership over member projects.

By posting content that is visible to other members (such as directory profiles or canvas contributions), you grant Levelstair a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, and distribute that content solely for the purpose of operating the Platform. You are responsible for ensuring you have the rights to anything you submit, and for giving proper credit to the work of others.

The Levelstair name, logo, and brand assets remain the property of Levelstair (Pvt) Ltd and may only be used in accordance with our Brand Usage Guide.

Registering for an event, jam, or chapter program means agreeing to any additional event-specific rules communicated at the time. Levelstair may adjust, reschedule, or cancel events, and may set participant limits or eligibility criteria for specific programs.

Where you name other people in an event or jam submission (teammates, collaborators, credits), you confirm you have their agreement to share their names with us for that purpose, and that you have told them their names will appear on the submission.

You may stop using the Platform and request account deletion at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, the Code of Conduct, or applicable law, following the enforcement process described in the Code of Conduct where reasonably practicable. We reserve the right to remove content that breaches these Terms without prior notice.

Closing your account starts a 30-day period during which you can restore it by signing back in. After 30 days your personal data is permanently deleted. What we keep, and for how long, is set out in section 8 of the Privacy Policy.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Levelstair (Pvt) Ltd, its directors, staff, and volunteers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Platform. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law. The Platform is provided free of charge as a non-commercial community service; Levelstair's operational role is described further in the Community Constitution.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of the Platform will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Sri Lanka.

Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022, including your right to complain or appeal to the Data Protection Authority.

Levelstair runs an official Discord server as part of the Community. We operate our own bots there, for moderation and automated rule enforcement, and for event and game jam utilities such as posting announcements and pulling submission or RSVP information from the Platform. Using our Discord server and these bots is also subject to Discord's own Terms of Service, and your conduct there remains subject to our Code of Conduct.

Other bots may be present in the server that we did not build and do not control. Those bots, and whatever they do with your data, are governed by their own developers' terms and privacy policies, not by us, the same as the third-party links disclaimer above.

We may revise these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last Updated" date above. Continued use of the Platform after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.