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Terms of Service

Version: 2026-10 · Effective: 2026-10-25

1. Who we are

YIA Strike (the "Service") is a Counter-Strike 1.6 "Call of Duty Mod" game server, the website yia.network and its store, operated by:

YIA STRIKE, https://yia.network, registered at n/a, VAT ID n/a. Contact: support@yia.network. ("we", "us").

YIA Strike is a fan community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Valve Corporation. Counter-Strike and Steam are trademarks of Valve Corporation.

2. Accepting these Terms

By creating a website account, linking a game identity, buying anything or playing on our server you accept these Terms, our Server Rules, Refund Policy, Virtual Items Notice and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

3. Age and minors

  • You may play from age 13. The digital-consent age in your country applies to the website account (between 13 and 16 in the EU).
  • If you are under 18 you need the permission of a parent or legal guardian to buy anything. The person who pays (the cardholder) is the buyer and accepts these Terms. Parents: see section 8 and the Refund Policy.

4. Accounts and linking

  • You can sign in with Steam or with an email and password. Keep your login private; you are responsible for activity on your account. Use a password that you do not use anywhere else, and never your in-game /account password.
  • You link a game identity to your website account with the 6-digit code from /link in game. A Steam identity is tied to your SteamID. A non-Steam identity is tied to your registered nick and its in-game password.
  • One game identity can be linked to only one website account. Do not sell, share or trade accounts or identities.
  • Purchases are delivered to the game identity you choose at checkout. Check it carefully.

5. Seasons

  • The game runs in seasons of about 12 months. Each season's start and end date and time are published on the website at least 30 days before the season starts and shown on every season-bound product.
  • At the end of a season, progress resets: class levels and EXP, honor balance (earned and bought), skins owned for that season, clan levels, skills and clan honor and season leaderboards. Your web account, linked identities, purchase history, achievement history and timed passes that still have time left are kept.
  • Season-bound items (for example Season passes, skins, Supporter badge) end at the season reset. Timed passes (7, 30 or 90 days) run for their full length, even across a reset.
  • We will not end a season more than 30 days before its announced end date unless we close the Service or are forced to by circumstances outside our control. If we do, section 6 of the Refund Policy applies.

6. The store

  • Prices are shown in EUR, PLN, RON or USD and include VAT where applicable. The price at checkout is the price you pay. Prices of season-bound items fall on a published schedule as the season goes on; this is not a reason for a refund of an earlier purchase.
  • Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card details. The charge appears as "YIA STRIKE" or "YIA* STRIKE".
  • Every product has a fixed, described benefit. We do not sell random rewards, loot boxes or chances.
  • We may refuse or cancel an order (with a full refund) if a product was clearly mis-priced, if the recipient is banned, or if we reasonably suspect fraud. Purchase limits (for example honor packs) are shown on the product page.
  • Delivery is automatic, normally within about one minute while the recipient is on the server, otherwise on the next join. Timed and season passes start at the moment of payment, not at the first join.
  • Withdrawal right: EU consumers normally have 14 days to withdraw from a contract. For digital content delivered immediately you lose this right once delivery starts, if you expressly asked for immediate delivery and confirmed that you lose the right. We ask for this at checkout and confirm it by email. See the Refund Policy for what we refund anyway.
  • Gifts: you can buy a product for another player by entering their nick or SteamID at checkout. It is delivered to that player's linked account and becomes their personal item (section 7); it cannot be passed on again. You, the buyer, stay the customer: the withdrawal waiver, receipts and refunds are yours, and a refund or chargeback revokes the gifted item. We may refuse a gift to a banned player.
  • Subscriptions and automatic renewals are not offered. Passes never renew by themselves.

7. Virtual items

Everything you buy or earn (passes, class access, honor, skins, tags, badges, clan perks) is a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use a feature of the Service. Virtual items have no real-world value, cannot be exchanged for money, cannot be sold or traded outside the game, and may change with balance updates and season resets. Details: Virtual Items Notice.

8. Refunds, chargebacks and revocation

Refunds follow the Refund Policy. If you open a chargeback or payment dispute, the items of that order are suspended while the dispute is open and revoked if the dispute is lost; honor delivered may be deducted (your balance can go below zero), and the store is blocked for your account. Please contact support@yia.network first: we resolve most problems faster than a bank does.

9. Conduct, bans and suspensions

  • You must follow the Server Rules. Cheating, exploiting bugs, harassment, and abusing the store or the earnable rewards are not allowed.
  • We may warn, mute, kick or ban players and suspend website accounts for breaking the Rules or these Terms. A ban for breaking the rules does not entitle you to a refund of items you used before the ban, except where the law requires otherwise. You can appeal as described in the Server Rules.
  • Staff are volunteers or team members of YIA. Staff powers are never sold.

10. Your content

Nicks, chat tags, clan names, descriptions and chat messages must follow the Rules. You give us a free licence to show them in the game and on the website (for example on leaderboards and public profiles). We may reject, change or remove them, and chat tags are approved by staff before they go live.

11. Public profiles

By default your game statistics, classes, achievements, clan, skins, active passes and badges are shown on a public profile and on leaderboards. You can make your profile private in your account settings. See the Privacy Policy.

12. Availability and changes to the game

  • We try to keep the server and website online but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, attacks or provider outages can happen. If the server is down for more than 72 consecutive hours because of us, we extend active timed and season passes by the downtime.
  • The game is balanced over time: classes, items, abilities, prices in honor, EXP rates and similar values may change. A change in balance is not a defect of a purchased item, as long as the item still gives the benefit described on the product page in substance.
  • If we stop the Service permanently we will announce it at least 30 days in advance, stop sales immediately and refund the unused part of active timed and season-bound items as described in the Refund Policy.

13. Liability

Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights as a consumer or our liability for intent, gross negligence, or death or personal injury. Otherwise our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. We are not liable for loss of virtual items caused by a season reset, by your own breach of these Terms, or by events outside our reasonable control.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes are announced on the website and by email to account holders at least 30 days before they apply. Purchases are governed by the version you accepted at checkout. If you do not accept the new version you may close your account.

15. Law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the law of the United Arab Emirates. If you are a consumer living in the EU, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country and may sue in your country's courts. We are not obliged and not willing to take part in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration body . (The EU online dispute resolution platform closed in July 2025.)

16. Contact

support@yia.network · https://yia.network

Questions: support@yia.network