Terms and Conditions

Preamble:

PushStartPlay.com is your independent home for gaming news. We focus on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC with the odd industry commentary.

Your use of PushStartPlay in any format is subject to your acceptance of these terms and conditions. All content on this site is deemed to be the personal opinion of the individual author unless specified as a quote or press release. No factual basis is implied unless categorically specified. We are not responsible for any damage or losses incurred as a result of your use of this website, or related websites, in any way.

If you are under the age of 18 or don’t understand these Terms or their meaning, please ask a parent or guardian to explain them and their meaning to you.

PushStartPlay is intended for and directed at the UK and no representation or warranty is made as to whether PushStartPlay complies with the regulatory regime and local laws of any other countries.

PushStartPlay is owned by Daniel Pepper and Barry Davis

Site Design:

PushStartPlay, does not license content or design elements which appear on PushStartPlay to any other site. The WordPress theme used was built by PenciDesign and is the legal property of PenciDesign, No part of the theme may be used on any other site. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Article authors are the individual owners of the article content. No article or part of this website may be reproduced in any form without written consent from the author.

 

Review Policy:

We enjoy having great publisher relations but our reviews are entirely unbiased and are based objective as any one person’s view of a game can be. Games are scored on a scale of 0-10 with 5 being average. You can read our expanded Review Policy here.

 

Third Party Websites:

PushStartPlay. implies no affiliation with any third party websites. PushStartPlay. is not affiliated with any retailers that may advertise on PushStartPlay website, or related websites, in any way. PushStartPlay. is not responsible for any orders which the readers of PushStartPlay or related sites place with any retailers or for any other contracts entered into with any third party.

 

Site Content:

The site design, theme and coding belong to PushStartPlay but no liability is implied by this. The design of the website is solely the work of PushStartPlay and cannot be used elsewhere in any form without express written consent.

PushStartPlay has the right to go into maintenance at any time, this could be due to or affected by faults or circumstances outside of our control. No warranty is given about the quality, functionality, availability or performance of the site or any content on the site. We reserve the right to change, suspend or withdraw content from the site and hold the right to suspend your access to the site if required. You are responsible for your Internet Service Provider fees and any other fees related to your use of PushStartPlay or related sites.

You must not damage, interfere with or disrupt access to the site or its content, nor do anything that may impair functionality or interfere with another person’s access to the site or its content.

The contents and copyrights of the articles on the site are owned solely by the authors credited. PushStartPlay. retains legal rights to re-use and republish that content, for any purpose, in perpetuity.

 

PushStartPlay Competitions and Voucher Codes:

All competition prizes are done in good faith, but PushStartPlay cannot be responsible for any problems arising from expired or otherwise non-working voucher codes, game disks or other promotional prizes. We have the right to withhold prizes for any reason, without explanation.

There are no cash alternatives to any competition prize.

By entering a contest or competition on PushStartPlay you agree to these Terms and Conditions. You must be over the age of 16 or have the permission of a parent or legal guardian. If prizes are subject to an age rating you submit that you are above that age rating. This is your responsibility and yours alone, PushStartPlay. accepts no responsibility for any prize items delivered to anyone who has not been honest about their age.

In order to enter competitions on PushStartPlay you must be a member of PushStartPlay and you must submit to the finality of the decisions made by those in control of the competition. Unless otherwise stated, all prizes are eligible to be won by UK residents only. Digital codes can be emailed anywhere in the world but will usually be for European based services.

 

Comments, Posts and User Accounts:

PushStartPlay. reserves the right to edit and/or delete any articles, comments, or forum posts for whatever reason without prior notice. All user accounts are created under the rules of these disclaimers. If any comments use racist or derogatory terms you will be instantly band.

PushStartPlay. reserves the right to ban or prevent from posting any user for any reason and for any period of time without warning or explanation. There are no rights to appeal any bans and all decisions are purely those of the site staff and are not reversible. You agree to not make any claims against the site for any such bans for whatever reason.

Any comments, forum posts and articles submitted to the site for publication regardless of nature, delivery method and content can become the copyright of PushStartPlay if we so choose and PushStartPlay. then own the content of such material immediately and indefinitely without variation.

We reserve the right to use any comments, forum posts and articles you make for promotional use without boundaries or limitations, including posting such comments and articles on other sites or using them in press releases. You grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully transferable right to use, copy, modify, publish and display any content which you post or upload on our sites, and to incorporate it in other works. You waive any moral rights which you may have in this content.

Do not post links unrelated to your comment, or links containing affiliate or otherwise unnecessary tracking codes.

You are entirely responsible for any text, video, audio, images, photographs or any other materials or content you provide for the site. Please use any available community tools responsibly. In particular, do not post content that infringes the law or third party rights, or which includes activities or statements which are discriminatory, offensive, obscene or defamatory or which may cause offence to others on grounds of nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, faith or disability. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold PushStartPlay. harmless with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your posts or comments.

You should not use the community areas for any commercial purpose.

You understand that we do not monitor all user-generated content on our sites and we are under no obligation to do so. However, we reserve the right to monitor all such content and, without notice, to edit, delete or remove any content which we deem to be inappropriate.

You may not create alternative or multiple accounts.

The views expressed in the community areas (including the comments and the forums) are those of members of the public and are not those of PushStartPlay. or its staff. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of PushStartPlay. or any entity associated with it.

We reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you), typically in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.

 

You must not disclose your username and password to any third party nor let anyone other than you use your account. You are and shall remain solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your email address, username, password and account. You are and shall remain solely responsible for all activities that occur using your email address, username, password and account.

Other important information:

This site is an independent gaming website and is not related to Sony, SCEE, Microsoft, Nintendo or any third party in any way shape or form. Our content and personal opinions are no reflection of those of any other party.

Unless a post is clearly described as a press release or an interview, you can assume all copy, content and opinion on this site should be taken as unofficial and not the opinion of any third party referenced or otherwise.

PushStartPlay is not connected to any other company and no connections are implied. The PushStartPlay website name is initially derived from the pushing the start button on a controller and playing a game.

PushStartPlay. is not responsible for the content of any external links. If a link’s content changes, is deleted or moves, PushStartPlay. cannot be held responsible.

All content on the site is subject to change without notice and only the current, most up-to-date version of any post should be taken as our opinion. No opinion of any member of PushStartPlay on any published or pending article, comment or email is legally binding and no facts are implied. Any edits or previous versions, including those cached on search engines or stored locally on your computer must be disregarded and do not represent our view or opinion in any way.

If a publisher, developer or individual related to an article wishes us to remove or alter any such content on PushStartPlay please get in touch and we’ll remove it immediately within working hours. This does not extend to user and PushStartPlay’ writers submitted material (such as comments and articles) – the removal or alteration of such is solely at the Editor’s discretion.

Exercise caution with regards to user content:

It is a known risk of internet usage that people are not necessarily who they say they are. People may provide information or behave in a way that is unreliable, misleading, unlawful or illegal. PushStartPlay. has no way of telling if statements made by other users are true. This is a decision that can only be made by you. You should therefore exercise some degree of caution when using any website.

By using PushStartPlay.com and its services you accept that this is the case and accept that you therefore use PushStartPlay.com at your own risk.

 

Passwords, emails and your personal information:

As with all WordPress sites that store logins like PushStartPlay, your password is hashed and salted, but your email address is not and is stored as text in the database. You are solely responsible for your own personal information, this includes your email address and anything else you add to PushStartPlay, such as PSN or Gamertag IDs, which are also stored as text. All information is submitted to PushStartPlay freely. You are free to remove or change your email address or any other data at any time via the profile panel. PushStartPlay stores your current IP address as text along with any comments you make in the database. PushStartPlay does not ask for or store first or last names, date of birth, postal addresses or any payment information.

Your password should be unique to each and every site and service you sign up for, including PushStartPlay.com.

 

Disclaimer:

PushStartPlay. is not responsible for any stress, upset, damages or losses of any kind caused by the reading or other use of this website, its articles, comments or forum posts. This extends to any virus or trojans that may be on the site. Although we aim to keep the site clean of such electronic threats, you are responsible for your own virus protection.

PushStartPlay. does not warrant the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any information contained on the website. To the fullest extent permitted by law, PushStartPlay, our affiliated companies and/or licensors exclude all liability for any loss or damage suffered by you or any third party whether direct or indirect, incidental or consequential and howsoever arising from your use of or access to, or inability to use or access a site, including any loss of data or damage caused by downloading content from our sites.

Closing Statement

All content on PushStartPlay is published without prejudice to our whole rights and pleas and is not to be founded upon in the terms of any future litigation, negotiation or otherwise.

Published 2016