Terms and legal information

Legal notice

Contact

theo.yr@proton.me

Hosting

OVH US LLC, 11950 Democracy Drive, Suite 300, Reston, VA 20190, USA (us.ovhcloud.com)

Terms of use

• The service. VGCards is a free collectible card game about video games. By creating an account or using the site, you accept these terms and the code of conduct below.
• Your account. You must be at least 15 years old. One account per person. You are responsible for what happens on your account: keep your password to yourself and use a valid email address, which is used to verify the account and recover access to it.
• Behavior. You agree to follow the code of conduct, so everyone can play in a good atmosphere.
• Moderation. A team of moderators makes sure these rules are followed. To do so, it can see the email address used to create your account, read the messages attached to trade offers and those you exchange with the team, and look at the history of your trades, sales and bets. This information is only used to fight cheating, scams and abuse.
• What you post. Your username, bio, profile picture, messages and suggestions remain your responsibility. The team may edit or remove them if they break the rules.
• Virtual items. Cards, packs and shards have no real-money value (see “Virtual items” below). Their balance (rarities, prices, rewards) may change.
• Sanctions. If the rules are broken, the team may, depending on severity: remove a username, bio or picture, send a warning, freeze the account, take back cards or shards obtained abusively, take away shards (fine), limit for a time what their packs give (nothing better than Rare), or delete the account. To dispute a decision, write to the team with the Contact button or at theo.yr@proton.me.
• Availability. The service is provided free of charge and as is, without warranty. It may be interrupted, changed, reset or shut down at any time, without compensation.
• Changes to the terms. These terms may change; important changes are announced in the game, and continuing to play afterwards means you accept them. You can delete your account at any time from the Account page.

Code of conduct

To keep VGCards enjoyable for everyone:

• Respect other players. No insults, harassment, threats, hateful or discriminatory remarks, in messages or anywhere else.
• A decent profile. Username, bio and profile picture: nothing offensive, sexual or shocking, and no pretending to be the team or another player.
• No personal information. Don't share your contact details (address, phone, social media…) or anyone else's, and never ask someone for their password.
• No cheating. One account per person, no bots, scripts or tools that play for you. Found a bug that helps you? Report it instead of exploiting it.
• Fair trades. No scams or false promises, and no selling or buying cards, shards or accounts for real money or items from other games.
• No spam or advertising. No repeated messages, dubious links or promotion of other services.
• Report instead of taking matters into your own hands. A profile, illustration or card is a problem? Use the “Report” buttons: the team will handle it.

Breaking these rules can lead to the sanctions set out in the terms of use, up to deletion of the account.

Trademarks and non-affiliation

VGCards is an independent, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by any of the developers, publishers, platforms or console makers it shows or mentions (for example Valve and Steam, Nintendo, Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox or Sega). Game names and artwork, studio and publisher names and logos, and platform names belong to their respective owners and are shown only to identify the games, companies and systems they represent. Images come from the public sources listed below (Steam, RAWG, LaunchBox, Wikimedia Commons); their availability there does not imply any permission or endorsement. Rarities are a game mechanic, not a judgment of the quality of a game or company.

Data sources

Game records are compiled from public sources: the Steam store (player reviews, artwork and screenshots), the RAWG video game database, the community-driven LaunchBox Games Database (retro games, box art, screenshots and ratings) and Wikidata (notability and sales, CC0 licence). Thanks to their contributors. Some studio and publisher logos come from Wikimedia Commons (public domain or free licences; authors and licences are listed on each file's page). Ratings, review counts and dates are indicative and may contain errors: please report them through the contact above.

Removal requests

If you hold rights to content shown here and want it removed or corrected, write to theo.yr@proton.me stating the content concerned. It will be removed promptly (the card then uses a generated emblem or is withdrawn).

Virtual items

Packs, cards and the in-game currency are free. They cannot be bought with real money, have no monetary value, and cannot be withdrawn, exchanged or converted into real money. Buying or selling accounts, cards or currency for real money is forbidden and may lead to account closure. One account per player: creating or using other accounts (multi-accounting), for example to send their cards or shards to a main account, is forbidden. The accounts involved may be frozen or deleted, and what they passed on taken back. The service is provided free of charge and as is; it may change, be reset or be shut down at any time.

Drop rates

Each pack contains 5 cards. Chance of each rarity, per card:

• Card type, per card: Game 85% · Studio 10% · Publisher 5% (at most 2 studio or publisher cards per pack).
• Each pack contains at least one Uncommon or better card.
• A Super Rare or better card is guaranteed within 40 packs.
• Each card has a 2% chance to be foil. Diamond is the ultra-rare version of a Legendary card.
• Legend pack (gift or compensation): a single card, Legendary or better guaranteed (Legendary 88.89%, Diamond 11.11%).
• Ultra pack (referrals and play streak): a single card, Ultra Rare or better guaranteed (Ultra Rare 89.89%, Legendary 8.99%, Diamond 1.12%).
• Super Rare pack (collector levels and play streak): a single card, Super Rare or better: Super Rare 81.8%, Ultra Rare 16.36%, Legendary 1.64%, Diamond 0.2%.
• Rare pack (daily play streak): a single card, Rare or better: Rare 67.16%, Super Rare 26.86%, Ultra Rare 5.37%, Legendary 0.54%, Diamond 0.07%.

Privacy

We store only what the game needs: your username (and your old login name, if your account had one), your email address (to verify your account and recover your password), your password (hashed with Argon2, never in plain text), your collection, binders, auctions, trades, follows and blocks, your currency history, and a keyed hash of your IP address to fight abuse. A device cookie (a random identifier, also hashed) is used to spot multiple accounts. Emails (verification and password-reset codes) are sent through our provider Resend, which only receives your address and the message. A session cookie keeps you signed in. The site shows Google AdSense ads: Google may use cookies to serve them and, with your consent (asked through a consent window), to personalize them. You can change this choice at any time; see also Google's policy: policies.google.com/technologies/ads. Your username, showcase and badges (never your email or old login name) are visible to all visitors of the site, even without an account, your collection too if you make it public, and your big pulls and sales appear in your followers' activity feed unless you turn that off in your profile. Data is never sold. You can delete your account and all its data at any time from the Account page; for any other request, write to theo.yr@proton.me.

The moderation team can see the email address used to create your account, read the messages attached to your trade offers and those you exchange with it, and look at your trade history. It only uses them to fight cheating, scams and abuse, and never shows your address to other players. If you report a player for their private messages, it can read your conversation (only that one) to check the report.

Minimum age

You must be at least 15 years old to create an account.