Terms of Service - The Modding Community

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If the laws where you live set a higher minimum age for consenting to online services, you must meet that age instead.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Keep your connected sign-in providers secure, do not share access, and enable two-factor authentication — it is available to every account and we strongly recommend it.

API keys are credentials . Treat them like passwords: never commit them to a public repository, never paste them into a support channel, and revoke any key you believe has been exposed.

If you suspect your account has been compromised, contact us immediately.

Do not create multiple accounts to inflate ratings, evade a moderation action, or otherwise misrepresent community sentiment. Do not impersonate another person, another creator, or a member of our staff.

You may delete your account at any time from the Security tab of your account settings. Deletion is permanent and irreversible , and removes the content you published along with it. If you want your work to remain available to the community afterwards, transfer ownership or publish it elsewhere first.

To operate the service, we need permission to actually show your work to people. By publishing content on TMC you grant us a non-exclusive , worldwide , royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute that content, and to create the technical derivatives needed to serve it — thumbnails, previews, cached copies and format conversions.

This licence exists solely to run the platform . We do not use it to sell your work, to sublicense it to third parties, or to claim credit for it. It ends when you remove the content, except for reasonable backup copies and for copies others have already legitimately obtained under the licence you chose.

We may also feature your work in our own promotional material — a screenshot on the home page, a mention in a blog post, a highlight on social media — with attribution. If you would rather we did not, just tell us.

Every mod and asset published on TMC carries a licence that you select. That licence — not these terms — governs what other people may do with your work. Please read our licences page before publishing; choosing one is a real decision with real consequences.

You are responsible for making sure you actually have the right to upload what you upload. That means, at minimum:

• You created the content, or you have permission from whoever did.
• Any third-party code, models, textures, sounds or fonts you included are used in accordance with their licences, and are credited as those licences require.
• You are not redistributing paid or proprietary game assets , ripped content, or material extracted from another game without permission.
• Your work complies with the terms of the game or platform it targets. Some publishers restrict what may be modded, monetised or redistributed, and those restrictions apply regardless of what we allow.

• Malware of any kind — including keyloggers, miners, remote access tools, or code that is deliberately obfuscated to hide what it does.
• Cheats, exploits or griefing tools intended to ruin multiplayer games for other players.
• Pirated software , cracks, licence bypasses, or links to them.
• Illegal content , or content that sexualises minors. This results in an immediate permanent ban and, where appropriate, a report to the authorities.
• Harassment , threats, doxxing, or hate speech targeting people on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.
• Spam , mass unsolicited advertising, referral-link farming, or engagement manipulation.
• Someone else's personal information shared without their consent.

Adult or otherwise sensitive content that is legal is permitted where relevant, but must be marked NSFW so that members who have opted out do not see it.

• Attack our infrastructure — denial of service, vulnerability scanning without permission, or attempting to access accounts, data or systems that are not yours.
• Scrape or overload our services . We provide an API for programmatic access; use it, respect its rate limits, and do not attempt to bypass them by rotating keys or addresses.
• Manipulate rankings through vote brigading, fake reviews, self-voting rings or artificially inflated download counts.
• Misrepresent your content — misleading titles, screenshots from a different project, or descriptions that hide what the download actually contains.
• Resell or relist our data as your own service without our written permission.

We welcome responsible security research. If you find a vulnerability, report it to us privately and give us reasonable time to fix it before disclosing it. Do not access, modify or exfiltrate data belonging to other members while testing. Researchers who follow this will not face action from us.

Claiming a server on TMC requires proving control of it through a short-lived claim token . Claiming a server you do not control, or attempting to seize a listing from its rightful owner, is a violation of these terms.

Every penalty we issue comes with a reason and an appeal thread where you can talk directly to our staff. If you believe an action was a mistake, use it. We do reverse decisions when we get them wrong.

If you see something that breaks these rules, report it . Reports go to our moderation staff and are not visible to the reported party's audience. Filing reports in bad faith — to harass a creator or bury a competitor — is itself a violation.

If you believe content on TMC infringes your copyright, contact us with:

• Identification of the work you say has been infringed.
• A link to the infringing content on our services.
• Your contact details .
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised, and that the information you have given is accurate.

We take valid complaints seriously and act on them promptly. We also honour counter-notices — if your content was removed and you believe that was wrong, tell us. Members who repeatedly infringe others' copyright will lose their accounts.

TMC is provided as is and as available . We are actively developing it, which means features will change, appear, and occasionally break. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, and we may modify or discontinue any part of the service.

We make backups and we take reliability seriously, but you should keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose. Do not treat TMC as your only backup of your work.

Mods and assets on TMC are created by community members , not by us. We moderate what we can and remove what we find, but we cannot review every file. Nothing we host should be treated as verified or endorsed by us.

Modifying a game can break saves, violate a publisher's terms, or get you banned from that game's official services. That is your call to make , and your responsibility.

Our services link to and integrate with third parties — Discord, Steam, GitHub, Google, external repositories and game servers. We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

The Modding Community is an independent, community-run project . We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise connected to any of the game developers or publishers whose titles we support.

That includes — but is not limited to — Valve, Facepunch Studios, The Indie Stone, Bohemia Interactive and Tripwire Interactive. Their games, logos and trademarks belong to them, and are referenced here purely descriptively — to identify which game a mod, asset or server relates to. We hold these studios in high regard ; their willingness to support modding is the reason communities like ours exist at all.

The same applies to other modding platforms and install sources . TMC is not affiliated with Nexus Mods, CurseForge, GameBanana, Thunderstore, the Steam Workshop or any similar service. Where a mod or asset on TMC points at one of those platforms as an install source, that is a reference , not a partnership. We have enormous respect for the work those teams have done for modding over the years — we see them as peers in the same ecosystem, not competitors — and we make no claim over their content, branding or communities.

If you represent a studio or platform named on our services and would like something changed, corrected or removed, contact us and we will work with you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, TMC and its staff are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of our services — including lost data, lost profits, damage caused by content you downloaded, or the conduct of any third party on or through our services.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and nothing here affects consumer rights you have under the law where you live.