Online Harry Potter Universe

A massive welcome to WoPUK!
Although you’re probably pretty excited to jump in and get started, do have a proper read through all the rules and guidelines first as there’s a lot of important information in each section.

Firstly, if you didn’t already know, World of Potter is a text-RPG site which focuses on the universe of the Harry Potter. This involves the creation of your own character and with the purpose of meeting other Harry Potter enthusiasts of all ages. Having your own character to work on will allow you to fully immerse yourself in everything World of Potter has to offer. To build and develop your character, and even enjoy and improve on the writing side of the site. This is achieved by becoming a part of one of the four Houses and engaging in various activities offered by the site.

When you first join you will start as an 11-year-old first-year student. Your objective is to progress through the school years and eventually graduating from Hogwarts. Life for your character doesn’t stop after graduation, you can carry on developing and earning house points!

1. To hold an account on World of Potter UK, you must be at least 13 years of age. Failure to follow any of the below rules can lead to expulsion and a ban from World of Potter UK.

2. Due to copyright, please do not use a character's name from the Fandom as your own! This includes anything similar to fandom names/mixed names etc. Each individual character belongs to their creator only, and it is not permitted in any way to steal another person’s character (even for another site).

3. Behaviour:
Users are not allowed to write in a derogatory or offensive manner to treat others poorly. Bullying is in no way accepted on site. Continuous breaks of this rule can lead to a ban from World of Potter. Even if you blame your character’s attitude, if you talk in a way anywhere on site which makes other people uncomfortable or are intentionally being rude, this will not be tolerated. This does not include agreed development between users.

4. Encouraging others to participate in illegalities are forbidden in pursuant to British Laws.

5. Removal & Account Bans:
World of Potter can at any given point remove content from a page, as well as terminate an account (ban) or remove a user without warning. World of Potter is not obliged to state a reason for expulsion of the person in question.

6. Responsibility:
The owners of World of Potter are not responsible for what the users write on site. It is solely the users’ responsibility if the user writes content that can be prosecuted.

7. External Media:
Sharing any links that provide explicit materials, direct links to private social media accounts or sites that are illegal, containing pirating or illegal streaming access is against the rules. This also applies to linking to other sites outside the World of Potter Universe as this is advertising. It is also not permitted to discuss illegal streaming/downloads etc. in open chat even if a link is not shared.
It isn’t against the rules to ask for a user’s Social Media account in private, but if this is declined then this must be respected. To harass for any account information (this includes things such as Skype and Discord etc.) is completely a break of the rules.

8. Code Templates:
Just like theft on writing is not permitted, code theft is also not allowed. There are websites available to obtain free codebases, and these can be used so long as credit is always given to the creator of the code. If anyone claims full ownership over these codes then this is still deemed as theft regardless of the content or edits you do to it.
It is not permitted to intentionally copy another person’s code either. All other codes found on the site belong to the author, admin and creators of World of Potter. Further action will be taken by World of Potter if codes from the site are used without consent.

9. Confidentiality:
Any information learned on World of Potter must remain confidential. When talking in owls, it is not allowed to share the content of a private message to any other person without the consent of the other person(s) within the original owl. If it is found out that you have shared messages, screenshotted or revealed anything of a confidential nature to any person who is not in that owl (this includes sharing on WoP or externally) then further action will be taken.
The same goes for knowledge of alternative accounts. On WoP UK we respect a person’s right to hold a secondary account and be completely anonymous on who they are if they wish. However, should anyone discover such information and share it - regardless of whether the person they are sharing with knows or not - this is a complete break of that confidential rule.

Please be aware that sharing screenshots when reporting another user's behaviour to a member of management is still permitted, but so long as it only goes to a member of staff and no further.

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World of Potter reserves the right to change these rules at any given time and with immediate effect. These are the rules that you agree to when creating an account on WoP UK.

Last amended: 31st March 2020 by Lynessa Addison