Sleepwalker Ownership & Usage
- If you are a member of the SleepwalkerSanctuary Group on Deviantart, you are not required to participate in group events or prompts.
- If you do participate in group events or prompts you need to follow the Group Rules.
- Your Sleepwalker(s) does not have to have their bonded explicitly drawn or described if you do not want them seen/used, but they do need to have them mentioned somewhere as Sleepwalkers cannot exist without one.
- Your Sleepwalker(s) does not have to be a companion to anyone if you do not wish it.
- Your Sleepwalker's backstory can exist outside of Canon, but if you'd like them to exist in canon, they must follow the species rules.
- Backstories that do not follow Sleepwalker Canon are not eligible to be used in Events/Prompts.
Terms of Usage/Service
- Rules and T.O.U/S. are subject to change at any time.
Acts that will get you banned:
Character/Design Usage:
- Rules and T.O.U/S. are subject to change at any time.
Acts that will get you banned:
- Harassing other owners/species creatures
- Scamming others out of their Sleepwalkers
- Theft (of art or characters)
- Failing to pay on time.
Character/Design Usage:
- All Sleepwalker (this means both official and MYOs) rights operate under the currently active T.O.U/S.
- Failing to comply with the T.O.U/S, terminates any of your rights to the species.
- While you may own the design/character, we retain partial rights to any design that is created/sold.
- This means that should you break the rules, we have the freedom to redistribute any Sleepwalker you own.
- We retain the right to use any design in any of our galleries/website for promotional/showcase purposes.
- If you purchase a Sleepwalker you are buying the rights to that character and design and not the species itself.
- When drawing them and posting their image online, please credit the creator of the species (and designer if separate) the first time.
- You are allowed give your character a name, gender, backstory, personality, etc. for personal use, but you are not allowed to use them commercially (For example, making and selling t-shirts with the character on them).
- If you sell your Sleepwalker, please make sure that the new owner reads and abides by this T.O.U/S.
- Blacklisted users are banned from owning Sleepwalkers and participating in events. There is no way to get off the blacklist, so make sure you don't get there.