Terms of Service

Welcome to Valley Client. These Terms of Service (the Terms) govern your access to and use of the Valley Client launcher, the Valley Client modification for Minecraft: Java Edition, our websites, and every related service, feature and update we make available (together, the Services). They form a binding agreement between you and Valley Client.

By downloading, installing, launching or otherwise using the Services, you confirm that you have read these Terms and that you accept them in full. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you may not use the Services.

These Terms are always read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains what data the Services handle and why.

Valley Client is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to Mojang Studios or Microsoft. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang Synergies AB.

Throughout these Terms, the following words carry the meaning given below, whether they appear in the singular or the plural.

• Client: the Valley Client modification that runs alongside Minecraft: Java Edition.
• Launcher: the Valley Client desktop application used to install, update and start the Client.
• Account: the Valley Client account you sign in with, including any Minecraft account you link to it.
• Cosmetics: capes, body cosmetics, emotes and other visual items that can be applied to your in-game character.
• Valley+: our optional paid subscription, and any feature or item made available only to subscribers.
• Your Content: anything you submit, upload or make available through the Services, including configuration files, screenshots and messages.
• Third-Party Content: mods, resource packs, servers, plugins and any other material provided by someone other than us.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to download and use the Client and the Launcher for your own, non-commercial play. This licence gives you no ownership in the Services.

You may not

• Sell, rent, sublicense, or otherwise distribute the Client, the Launcher, or any part of either.
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Services, except to the extent the law expressly permits it and you have first asked us in writing.
• Remove, obscure or alter any notice of copyright, trademark or ownership.
• Modify the Services in order to bypass a paywall, a subscription check, an authentication step, or any technical measure we put in place.
• Use the Services to build a competing client, or to train a model on our code or assets.

You keep the right to use Minecraft under your own agreement with Mojang Studios. A licence to Valley Client is not a licence to Minecraft, and you must hold a valid Minecraft: Java Edition account to play.

You may use the Services if you are at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the Services with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the Services.

If you are a parent or guardian and you become aware that a child in your care has used the Services or made a purchase without your permission, contact us at legal@valleyclient.com and we will help resolve it.

You may not use the Services if you are barred from doing so under the law that applies to you, or if we have previously terminated your access.

Some features require an Account. You agree to give accurate information when you register, to keep it up to date, and to keep your credentials to yourself. You are responsible for everything that happens under your Account.

Tell us as soon as you suspect that someone else has used your Account. We may suspend an Account while we investigate a report, a payment problem, or a suspected breach of these Terms.

• Do not share, sell, trade or transfer your Account.
• Do not sign in with someone else's Minecraft account, or use credentials you were not given.
• Do not automate account creation, or hold more accounts than you can reasonably use yourself.

Valley+ is an optional subscription. When you subscribe, you authorise us and our payment processor to charge the payment method you provide, for the price and interval shown at checkout, including any tax that applies.

Valley+ renews automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account settings; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep access until then.

We may change the price of a subscription. If we do, we will tell you in advance, and the new price applies from your next billing period. Continuing to subscribe after that point is your acceptance of the new price.

Except where the law gives you a right to a refund, payments are final and subscription periods are not refundable in part. If something has gone wrong with a charge, write to us; we would rather fix it than argue about it.

Cosmetics and other virtual items are licensed to you for use inside the Services. They are not property, they hold no cash value, and they cannot be exchanged for money, transferred between Accounts, or sold to anyone else.

We may add, change, retire or withdraw items, including ones you have unlocked, where we need to for legal, technical or fairness reasons. Where an item is withdrawn permanently and you paid for it directly, we will offer a reasonable replacement or a refund.

Items tied to a Valley+ subscription are available only while the subscription is active.

Valley Client exists to make Minecraft better to play. Do not use it to spoil the game for anyone else. In particular, you agree not to:

• Use, build or distribute cheats, exploits, or anything designed to give an unfair advantage on a multiplayer server.
• Interfere with, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Services or to any system connected to them.
• Harass, threaten, impersonate or abuse anyone, or share content that is unlawful, hateful or sexually explicit.
• Collect other players' personal data, or use the Services to send unsolicited messages or advertising.
• Break the rules of any server you join, or use the Services to help someone else do so.

Servers set their own rules and enforce them themselves. A ban from a server is a matter between you and that server; a ban from Valley Client is a matter between you and us, and either can happen without the other.

The Services let you install and run Third-Party Content, including Forge and Fabric mods, resource packs, and connections to servers we do not operate. We do not review, endorse or take responsibility for Third-Party Content.

Third-Party Content is governed by its own terms and licences, which you are responsible for reading and following. Installing a mod may affect performance, stability or your ability to join a given server, and it may be against the rules of that server.

Where the Services link to a third-party site or store, that link is a convenience and not a recommendation.

You keep every right you already hold in Your Content. By making it available through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to host, store, reproduce and display it to the extent needed to operate, improve and promote the Services.

You confirm that you have the rights you need to grant that licence, and that Your Content does not infringe anyone else's rights or break any law.

We may remove content that breaches these Terms, and we may keep copies where the law requires it or where we need them to enforce these Terms.

The Services, including their code, artwork, cosmetics, interface, name and logo, are owned by Valley Client or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of that to you.

You may take screenshots and record video of your own play, and share them, including on monetised channels, as long as you do not present your content as if it were made or endorsed by us.

If you believe something in the Services infringes your copyright, write to legal@valleyclient.com with enough detail to identify the work, the material you say infringes it, your contact details, and a statement that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them.

We are actively building Valley Client. Features may be added, changed or removed, and the Launcher may install updates automatically so that the Client keeps working with current versions of Minecraft.

We do not promise that the Services will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free. We may take them down for maintenance, and we may discontinue any part of them. Where a change is significant and we can give notice reasonably, we will.

You may stop using the Services at any time, and you may ask us to close your Account. We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if your use puts the Services or other players at risk.

On termination, your licence ends and you must stop using the Client and the Launcher. Any provision that by its nature should survive, including the licence you grant us in Your Content, the disclaimers, the limits on liability, and the indemnity, survives.

The Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Services will meet your requirements, that they will run on your hardware, that they will be compatible with any given mod, server or Minecraft version, or that defects will be corrected.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Where that is the case, the exclusions above apply to you only as far as the law allows.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for lost profits, lost data, lost worlds, or loss of goodwill, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if we were told such loss was possible.

Our total liability arising out of or relating to the Services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or twenty euros.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Valley Client and the people who work on it from any claim, demand, loss or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the Services, Your Content, or your breach of these Terms.

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal data the Services collect, what we do with it, how long we keep it, and the rights you have over it. By using the Services you accept the practices described there.

We may amend these Terms by posting a revised version on this page. The revised version states the date it was last updated, and takes effect on or after the day it is posted.

Where a change materially reduces your rights, we will make a reasonable effort to tell you in advance (in the Launcher, by email, or in our Discord). Continuing to use the Services after a revision takes effect is your acceptance of it.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Denmark, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts of Denmark have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, this does not remove the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in, or your right to bring proceedings there.

Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us; most problems are quicker to solve by email than in a courtroom.

If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, it is severed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

You may not assign or transfer these Terms. We may assign them, in whole or in part, as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services, and replace any earlier agreement on the same subject.

Questions about these Terms, a charge, a copyright claim, or anything else on this page can go to legal@valleyclient.com. For help with the Client itself, our support page and our Discord will get you an answer faster.