Vortex Battle Arena, its advertisers and affiliates are deeply committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users. Below is information outlining our continued support for the responsible management of consumer information.

Consumer Information

During the process of visiting our websites, Vortex Battle Arena does not collect any personally identifiable information about you such as name, address, or phone number. However, Vortex Battle Arena does obtain some types of non-personally identifiable information such as the Internet Service Provider you use to connect to the Internet, your browser type, or the type of computer operating system you use (Macintosh or Windows, for example). The information collected by Vortex Battle Arena is used for the purpose of targeting advertising.
In some cases, you may voluntarily provide personal information in response to a specific advert (this ad may ask you to fill out a survey or provide your zip code). If this does occur, Vortex Battle Arena may collect this information on behalf of an advertiser. This information is used by an advertiser to respond to your request. In addition, Vortex Battle Arena may combine this information with other users' information and review it in an aggregate form to understand the type of individuals who view a specific type of ad or visit a particular kind of website.

Data Collection

Vortex Battle Arena, as well as most sites on the Internet, use "cookies" to enhance your experience on the web. Vortex Battle Arena cannot use these cookies to personally identify you in any way. What are cookies and why do we use them? A cookie is a piece of data that is provided to you the first time you visit a website. This unique data may later be recovered from your computer. This cookie can help Vortex Battle Arena ensure that we don't serve you the same ad multiple times, and help our advertisers understand what you like and don't like about their offerings so that they can cater better to your needs the next time you are interested in their products or services. We believe that cookies enhance your Internet experience.

Limit of Liability

User agrees that the use of Vortex Battle Arena's services is entirely at User's own risk. Vortex Battle Arena's services are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, constructive, or statutory, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose.

Vortex Battle Arena makes no guarantee of availability of service and reserves the right to change, withdraw, suspend, or discontinue any functionality or feature of Vortex Battle Arena's services. In no event shall Vortex Battle Arena be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of the use of or inability to use Vortex Battle Arena's services or any content thereon. This disclaimer applies, without limitation, to any damages or injury, whether for breach of contract, tort, or otherwise, caused by any failure of performance; error; omission; interruption; deletion; defect; delay in operation or transmission; computer virus; file corruption; communication-line failure; network or system outage; or theft, destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any record.

User agrees to indemnify and hold Vortex Battle Arena harmless from any loss, liability, claims, damages and expenses, including attorneys fees, arising from or related to the content, use, or deletion of User's Files or use of any other feature or service. This expressly includes:

• User's responsibility for any and all liability arising from the violation or infringement of proprietary rights or copyrights.
• Any defamatory or unlawful material contained within User's Files.

To ensure the privacy of kids, we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children of any age. Only a user name that they have chosen and information related to the game (such as Pokemon they have, badges earned, etc) is available to other members, unless they wish to share any internet based networking display names with other members. This feature can be turned off or left blank to protect identities.

Any personal information provided to Vortex Battle Arena will not be sold or given out.

Suggestions may be sent to Vortex Battle Arena, but most will not be reviewed or implemented. Vortex Battle Arena will not give credit or be liable (monetarily or otherwise) to anyone for any suggestions submitted or implemented.

By registering an account on Pokémon Vortex, you agree to the following rules of play. It is not allowed to buy or sell anything on this website for a real currency. This includes but it not limited to the sales and purchases of accounts or individual Pokémon.
The use of any third party apps or scripts for automating game processes is strictly prohibited - Automating battles, trades, captures or anything of the like may result in the loss of certain in-game features or priviledges.
Attempting to scam, phish or minipulate people through in-game messages, the chatroom or Forums is considered fraud and will not be tolerated.

The result of breaking any of those rules could be loss of account or account priviledges.

This website pokemon-vortex.com and pokemonvortex.com is a fan site only and in no way affiliated with the following:

• Nintendo of America
• Nintendo of Japan
• Gamefreak
• Creatures
• Warner Brothers

Or any other companies that own rights to Nintendo and Pokemon.

All Pokemon and their names on this website (Excluding Darkrown, Dratinire, Dratinice & Dratinilic) are copyright of the said companies and are not used in any beneficial way to us.

Pokemon Vortex has no plan to benefit from this website and all money made from advert revenue is used to keep this Pokemon lovers fan site open.

We wish for you to show support to Nintendo by also buying their Pokemon games if you like Pokemon Vortex. We also understand that these companies are entitled to 100% of any money made from this website and are willing to take this on board.

This website was not created in any way to harm the sales and distribution of Pokemon or any other product and we strongly urge you to recommend the Pokemon game series to as many people as possible.

For more information you can email us at admin@pokemon-vortex.com

Developers of Pokémon Vortex

Pokémon Vortex is currently developed and maintained by Patrick

Special Thanks

Of course, Pokémon Vortex wouldn't be possible without the external help of numerous software developers, digital artists, hosting providers and you, the users.
Here are some of the main thank you's we would like to send out in no particular order.

The Players

Without you, we wouldn't exist. You're responsible for funding the website through advertisements, and assisting with ideas for updates that YOU wanted to see in the game. Thank you for sticking with us and making Pokémon Vortex possible!

Pokémon Art

The Pokémon images you see on the website are courtesy of Xous54. We suggest you follow their work and thank them for providing us with enjoyable digital art to display.

Pokémon Sprites

Generation 6, 7 and mega evolution sprites are courtesy of Smogon, They are a great source for learning how to battle competitively in the Pokémon games, check them out.

Various generation 7 Pokémon are by SmartAss and u44151, two very talented spriters here on Vortex.

Darkrown is designed by Esepibe and sprited by Rob. We ask that you please don't use it without proper permission. We also suggest you follow Esepibe's work and thank them for the design of Darkrown.

Rotom (Halloween) was made by Nova back in 2010 on v1 of Pokémon Vortex.

Map Design

Assorted map tiles were made by Kyledove. Follow their work and thank them for making our maps possible.

Custom overworld sprites were made by 874521.

Software & Scripts

Ionicons - Ionicons is a premium icon font for the Ionic Framework. Hundreds of available icons at your disposal.

jQuery, jQuery UI & jQuery Mobile - jQuery is a fast and compact JavaScript library with immense power to bring HTML to life.

TableSorter - tablesorter.js is a nice, efficient way to integrate the ability of table sorting to your HTML table columns without any hassle.

Bootstrap - Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

IPS Community Suite 4 - IP Forums is a small part of what IPS has to offer to run a community YOUR way.

PhotoSwipe - photoswipe.js is a hassle free JavaScript photo gallery that requires no dependancies and is a great way to showcase digital images.

jStorage - jStorage is a cross-browser key-value store database to store data locally in the browser.

Klass - Klass is an expressive, cross platform JavaScript Class provider with a classical interface to prototypal inheritance.

retina.js - retina.js makes it easy to serve high-resolution images to devices with retina displays.

MediaWiki - MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP - Perfect for compiling a knowledge base on any project.

Owl Carousel 2 - owl.carousel.js is a touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful responsive carousel slider.

HTML5 Shiv - The HTML5 Shiv enables use of HTML5 sectioning elements in legacy Internet Explorer and provides basic HTML5 styling for Internet Explorer 6-9, Safari 4.x (and iPhone 3.x), and Firefox 3.x.