Terms of Use

Agreement

These Terms of Use apply to the State of Madison websites and services listed in our Privacy Policy, and to in-game systems connected to them. By signing in or using these services, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the websites.

You must also follow the Roblox Terms of Use and Community Standards, and Discord's terms if you use Discord. If these Terms conflict with Roblox's rules, Roblox's rules win.

Roleplay, not reality

Everything in the State of Madison is fictional roleplay. Arrests, citations, warrants, court cases, judgments, licenses, jobs and "government" departments exist only inside the game and its websites.

• They are not real criminal records, real court proceedings or real government services.
• Nothing on our sites is legal advice, and nobody acting as a judge, attorney or officer is a real one.
• State of Madison is not affiliated with any real state, county, court or police agency, and is not affiliated with Roblox Corporation or Discord Inc.

Eligibility and accounts

• You need a Roblox account in good standing and a Discord account linked to it through Bloxlink to sign in.
• You may only use your own accounts. Do not share sessions, sign in for someone else, or use an alternate account to avoid a moderation action.
• Players under 13 can use the websites with the protections described in our Privacy Policy.
• You are responsible for activity under your account. Use Sign out everywhere in account settings if you think someone else has access.

Acceptable use

You must not:

• Harass, threaten, bully or discriminate against anyone, in game, on our sites or in our Discord.
• Post real-world personal information about anyone, including yourself, in filings, reports, applications or messages.
• Post sexual content, content involving minors in any harmful way, extremist content, or anything that breaks Roblox's Community Standards.
• Submit false reports, fake evidence, or appeals in bad faith.
• Attack, scrape, overload or probe our services, use automated tools without permission, or try to get around access controls or rate limits.
• Exploit bugs, or use tools to access records, roles or features you are not entitled to. Report bugs to staff instead.
• Use State of Madison data outside our services, including copying other players' records to other websites, servers or bots.

Staff responsibilities

If you hold a department, court or moderation role, you also agree to:

• Only access a player's information when your role and the situation require it.
• Not share records, reports, appeals, applications or screening results outside our tools.
• Not use your access for personal disputes or to benefit friends.
• Follow the moderation and appeals process and record a reason for every action.

Access is logged. Misuse leads to loss of roles and moderation action.

Your content

You keep ownership of what you write and upload. You give State of Madison a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, copy and process it as needed to run the services, including showing non-sealed court filings on public case pages subject to the privacy rules in our Privacy Policy. You are responsible for having the right to post anything you submit. We may remove content that breaks these Terms.

Moderation and enforcement

We may warn, mute, kick or ban players, remove content, and suspend website access when these Terms or Roblox's rules are broken. Moderation actions are recorded on your account and can be appealed. Details are in Moderation and appeals.

Intellectual property

The State of Madison name, logos, website designs, code and game content belong to their creators. Roblox and Discord names and marks belong to their owners. Do not copy our sites or present yourself as State of Madison staff.

Availability and changes

We run State of Madison as a community project. Features may change, break or be removed, and the service may be unavailable at times. We may update these Terms. When we make a meaningful change, we update the version and ask you to accept it the next time you sign in.

Disclaimers

The services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent allowed by law. We do not promise that records, patrol hours, reports or other data are complete, accurate or always available.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, State of Madison and its staff are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for loss of in-game items, roles, progress or data, arising from your use of the services. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under laws that cannot be waived.

Ending your use

You can stop using the services and ask us to delete your account at any time from account settings. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive (such as content licenses for filings that remain on a case, disclaimers and limitation of liability) continue after your access ends.

Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent through a support ticket in the State of Madison Discord server.