Terms of service
These terms are an agreement between you and EPI STUDIO ("Moud", "we"), who runs this website, the Moud catalog and the services behind them. By signing in, publishing a game or posting, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the services.
Moud is a free hobby project run by one person. It is not a company product and comes with no paid plan.
What Moud is#
Moud is a game engine and platform that runs inside Minecraft: Java Edition. The services covered here are:
- this website, including the games catalog, the docs, the blog and the forum
- the catalog the Moud mod talks to: sign in, game listings, joining servers, friends, parties and invites
- game publishing, review and the servers and storage that run published games
- crash reporting from the Moud mod and from game servers
The Moud source code is published separately under its own license. These terms do not change that license; they cover the services we run.
Your account#
You sign in with your Minecraft account. The Moud mod proves to Mojang that you own it, and the site then uses your Minecraft name and id. We never see your Microsoft password or tokens. Your use of Minecraft stays subject to Microsoft's and Mojang's own terms, including the Minecraft EULA.
- You must be at least 13 years old to use an account. If you are under 15, or under the age of digital consent where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission.
- Keep your Minecraft account and the sign in codes the mod shows you to yourself. Anything done with your account is your responsibility unless you tell us it was taken from you.
- One person, one account. Do not sign in as someone else or let someone else post under your name.
Your content#
"Your content" is anything you put on Moud: games and their files, names, descriptions and pictures, forum topics and posts, uploads, badges you make, and data your game stores.
You keep the rights you have in your content. To run the services you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, review, display and distribute your content, and to make the technical changes needed for that (for example resizing pictures, packing game files or sending them to players' clients). The license covers showing your public content to other people, including in previews, search results and announcements about Moud.
The license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for:
- copies other players already downloaded to play a game
- forum posts that others quoted or replied to, as far as needed to keep the thread readable
- backups, which are overwritten on their normal cycle
- what we must keep to meet a legal obligation or to defend a claim
You promise that you have the rights needed to publish your content and to give us this license, and that it does not break these terms or the law. Games often reuse assets made by others: only publish assets whose license allows it, and credit authors where their license asks for it.
Publishing games#
Every game version is reviewed by Moud staff before it is listed. Review is a light check, not an endorsement and not a security audit. We may refuse, hide or take down a game, or a version of it, with a reason, when it breaks these terms or the community rules.
A game creator is responsible for their game, its content, the data it collects about players through Moud's scripting features, and any server they run for it themselves. If your game stores data about players, only store what the game needs.
Studios, keys and webhooks#
A studio can own games together with its members. The studio's owners are responsible for its games as a creator is for their own. API keys act with your rights, limited to the scopes you choose: keep them secret and revoke one if it leaks. Webhooks send information about your games to the address you choose, and you are responsible for that address and what it does with the information.
Rules#
Follow the community rules. In short, do not:
- post or publish anything illegal, including content that sexualises minors, terrorist content, hate speech, harassment or threats
- infringe someone else's copyright, trademark or other rights
- publish malware, or games or scripts that try to escape the Moud sandbox, harm players' computers, steal accounts or collect data they do not need
- cheat the catalog: fake votes, fake visits, spam, or automated accounts
- attack, overload, scrape at scale or probe the services without our written permission
- resell or charge for access to the services
Moderation and takedown#
We can remove or hide content, mute or ban accounts, and take down games when content breaks these terms, the community rules or the law, or when we receive a valid notice. Where reasonable we tell you why and you can ask for the decision to be looked at again by writing to contact@epistudio.fr.
To report illegal content, use the report button on the forum or write to contact@epistudio.fr. Copyright notices follow the copyright procedure.
Ending your account#
You can stop using Moud at any time and ask us to delete your account by writing to contact@epistudio.fr from your Minecraft name or with proof that the account is yours. The privacy policy says what is deleted and what is kept.
We can suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms. We may also stop the services, or part of them, at any time. Since Moud is a free hobby project we will try to give notice, but we cannot promise it.
No warranty#
The services are given as they are and as available. Moud is in active development: games, data, servers and features can break, change or disappear. Back up anything you care about, especially your game projects. We do not promise the services will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, or that a game made by someone else is safe or fit for anything.
Liability#
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect damage, lost data, lost profits or damage caused by other users, their games or their servers. Since the services are free, our total liability to you for anything related to them is limited to 100 euros.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or your rights as a consumer under the law of the country where you live.
Not Minecraft#
NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang AB.
Changes#
We may change these terms. When a change matters we will announce it on the site at least 15 days before it applies. If you keep using the services after that, you accept the new terms. The date at the top of this page shows the last change.
Law and disputes#
These terms are governed by French law. Before going to court, write to contact@epistudio.fr and we will try to settle it. As a consumer you can also use a consumer mediator or the European Commission's online dispute platform. If no agreement is found, the French courts have jurisdiction, without taking away the protection of the law and the courts of the country where you live as a consumer.
Contact#
EPI STUDIO, 22 allée du Loiret, 31770 Colomiers, France, contact@epistudio.fr. See the legal notice.