BY OWNING A LOCKMATE, YOU'RE AUTOMATICALLY AGREEING TO THE FOLLOWING RULES / TOS. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE RULES WILL RESULT IN A BAN.
- Lockmates are a CLOSED SPECIES! Meaning, you're not allowed to make your own without a MYO slot or explicit permission. This means that the general species lore and universe is exclusive and only available to this species.
- Under NO CIRCUMSTANCE will your lockmate ever be taken away from you! In the event that you are banned, your lockmate designs will be voided. When a design is voided it will no longer be considered an official lockmate and you'll be free to do whatever with the design as long as the species is changed to something different. To clarify; Once your lockmate is voided, you'll be allowed to keep the design but it will not be an official lockmate. You'll be asked to change it to a cat, dog, or other CS. Just not a lockmate.
- Void lockmates are no longer covered by our species guidelines and rules! Once the design is voided, it is out of group jurisdiction.
- When trading your lockmate, you may trade it for whatever you want as long as both parties are satisfied with the trade. If you receive a lockmate via free event or as a gift / contest prize, you can only trade it. (However, if you have purchased art of your lockmate, you're eligible to apply for apprisal!)
- If selling, please check the masterlist entry for the sell price. (If the lockmate has extra art, please NOTE the group about having the sell price raised! This appraisal will be added to the masterlist.) *Note; even if you received your Lockmate via trade, you are allowed to sell it so long as there is a sell price listed on their masterlist entry! Anyone caught selling a lockmate without a price will recieve a warning.
- For appraisals, we ask that you provide and prove the amount you'd paid for each individual piece of art your lockmate has acquired. Personal art, gifts, and art trades will not count towards appraisals as we're looking to calculate the exact monetary value of your character, not the amount of time that has been sunk into it. (If you cannot remember the amount, we're sorry but we cannot count it!)
- Any form of scamming will not be tolerated and will result in an automatic ban. This means selling a lockmate that you know belongs to someone else, making illegitimate lockmates and selling / trading them, etc.
- Any form of harassment or guilt tripping to a mod or fellow Deviant will result with you being placed on a watch list. Any attacks on members or staff will result in an immediate ban. (NOTE: If you have drama with another member that has nothing to do with lockmates, we will not ban them on your behalf.)
- Lockmate MYO slots are currently tradeable / sellable, but they must be uploaded on our visual masterlist before they can be transferred between users. Any MYOs traded / sold that are not on our masterlist will be viewed as void until we recieve proof of the MYO slot. (To get your MYO slot on the masterlist, please note the group.)
- You are not allowed to steal, revoke, or forcefully take back a lockmate. Once you've traded or sold it, it's out of your hands and you no longer control what happens to it. Once the lockmate is created, you must understand that your general design Terms of Service no longer apply directly to the design and, though you have made the design, you cannot just take it back. Just because you don't want someone to own it or you want it back DOES NOT mean you have the right to take it back. As long as it's a lockmate, it belongs to the person who received it fair and square and you must respect that. Doing this will result in an immediate ban.