Terms of Use

Who can use Celestia

You can browse and download without an account. To create an account you must be at least 13 years old. If you’re under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian’s permission, and they’re responsible for your use of the site.

Your account

• Give a real email address you can receive mail at, and keep your password and API tokens private.
• You’re responsible for what happens through your account and its API tokens. Tell us at no-reply@celestiamods.com if you think someone else has access.
• One person per account. Don’t use someone else’s account or create accounts to get around a suspension.

Mods and other content you upload

You keep ownership of everything you upload: mod files, images, descriptions and comments.

The permission you give us. So we can run the site, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, scan, analyse, display and distribute your content on Celestia and through its API. This includes:

• scanning files for malware and suspicious code, and keeping the results
• downloading the public source repository you link, building it and comparing the result with your upload, and publishing that comparison report
• showing your mod, its images and description in search results, lists and on the home page
• keeping backups for up to 30 days

The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for backups until they expire and records we must keep for moderation or legal reasons.

The licence players get. Players download your mod under the licence you choose on the mod page. If you choose “All Rights Reserved”, players may download your mod and use it with Vintage Story for their own play and on servers they run, but may not redistribute or modify it.

What you promise. When you upload, you confirm that:

• you made the content, or you have permission to share everything in it, and you credit others’ work as their licences require
• it follows our Content Rules and Anego Studios’ terms for Vintage Story and its mods
• it contains no malware and does nothing hidden or harmful
• its description, screenshots, game versions and source link are accurate

Review and moderation

Moderators review new mods before they go public, and may review updates. We may approve, reject, unlist or remove content, hide comments, and suspend or close accounts that break these terms, our Content Rules or the law.

When we restrict your content or account, we tell you which content, what we did, and why, through a notification and by email if your address is confirmed, unless the law stops us or telling you would put others at risk. You can ask us to look at the decision again: reply within 6 months to no-reply@celestiamods.com with the reasons. A different moderator reviews it where we can.

The Tested and Matches source marks

• Tested release means a moderator ran that exact file with the game version shown.
• Matches source means our automatic check rebuilt the mod from its linked repository and every file in the download matched. When the repository is private (shared with our GitHub App), only the mod’s team and our moderators can see its details.

These marks help you decide what to trust. They are not a guarantee that a mod is safe, bug-free, or compatible with your game, other mods or your saves. Mods are made by their authors, not by us. Back up your worlds before installing mods.

The API

You can use the API to search, download and publish. Stay within the rate limits, identify your application, and don’t use the API to copy the site’s content wholesale or to get around moderation. We may revoke tokens or block clients that cause problems.

Things you must not do

• probe, attack, overload or get around the security or limits of the site
• upload malware, or anything that collects data or runs code without users knowing
• impersonate others, mislead people, or post spam
• use Celestia for anything illegal

Reporting content

Anyone can report a mod, version, comment or user from its page. For copyright, trademark, personal-data or other legal complaints, use the legal notice form. See Copyright and takedown for how we handle notices.

Changes to the site and these terms

Celestia is provided free of charge. We may change, add or remove features. If we change these terms in a way that matters to you, we’ll show a notice on the site and email confirmed addresses at least 14 days before the change applies, unless the law requires a faster change. The date at the top shows the current version.

Leaving

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. Mods you own are deleted with it; transfer ownership first if you want a mod to stay. Your comments stay visible but show “Deleted user” instead of your name. We may close accounts for serious or repeated breaches of these terms.

Disclaimer and liability

Celestia and the mods on it are provided “as is”. As far as the law allows, we make no promises about the site’s availability or about any mod, and we’re not liable for indirect losses, or for lost game worlds, saves or data caused by mods.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn’t allow us to limit, such as liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your rights as a consumer.

Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Canada, and its courts handle disputes. If you’re a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and can bring claims there.

Contact

Aegis Networks. Email no-reply@celestiamods.com. Postal address: Request Over Email.