Legal, Terms & Privacy

In short: Legacy 2 is a fan-made, non-commercial community server. We do not own Lineage II. Lineage II and everything related to it belong to NCSOFT Corporation. We are not NCSOFT, we do not work with NCSOFT, and NCSOFT has not approved this project.

1. Legal disclaimer & intellectual property

Legacy 2 (also "Legacy2 Europe", "we", "us", "the project") is an independent, unofficial, fan-made community project. It is not affiliated with, associated with, authorised, endorsed, sponsored, licensed or approved by NCSOFT Corporation, NC America, NC Europe, or any of their subsidiaries, affiliates, publishers or partners (together, "NCSOFT").

Lineage® and Lineage II® are registered trademarks of NCSOFT Corporation. The game Lineage II, including its name, logos, world, lore, characters, classes, races, locations, artwork, music, sound effects, models, textures, animations, user interface, game client, game data and all other related content, is the exclusive property of NCSOFT and/or its licensors. All rights are reserved by their respective owners.

Legacy 2 does not claim any ownership of, or any right or licence to, Lineage II or any NCSOFT intellectual property.
Any reference to Lineage II, NCSOFT, their games or their content on this website, in the game or on our channels is made only to describe the game this community plays, and does not suggest any connection with, or approval by, NCSOFT.
Nothing on this website or in the service gives you any right or licence to NCSOFT intellectual property.
Legacy 2 is not the official Lineage II service. For the official game, please visit NCSOFT's official channels.
The name "Legacy 2", our own logos and website code belong to the project, without any claim over the underlying game.

Rights holders

We respect intellectual property. If you are NCSOFT, an authorised representative of NCSOFT, or any other rights holder and you believe that content on this website or in the service infringes your rights, please contact us using the details in the Contact section. We will act on any valid request promptly and in good faith, which may include removing the content concerned or suspending or permanently shutting down all or part of the project, without the need for any further action from you.

2. Non-commercial statement

Legacy 2 was created by players, for players. It was not created to make money, and it is not run as a business.

The game is free to play. Creating an account, downloading the launcher and playing every Journey cost nothing. Supporters only get early access to new Journey stories, which then open to everyone.
We do not sell Lineage II, the game client, NCSOFT content, or any licence to them, and no payment you make is a payment for NCSOFT property.
We do not sell in-game items, Adena, enchants, stats or any other in-game advantage, and there is no item shop and no donation coin.
The optional Premium membership is a voluntary contribution that exists only to help cover the running costs of the community (servers, hosting, bandwidth, security and maintenance). The rewards that come with it are a thank-you from the community, not a purchase of the game.
The project does not exist to generate profit for its operators. Contributions are used to keep the community running.
We do not run advertising on this website and we do not sell user data.

3. Terms of service

These terms apply to this website, the game server, the launcher, our community channels and any related service (together, "the service"). By creating an account, downloading the launcher, connecting to the server or otherwise using the service, you confirm that you have read, understood and accept these terms, the server rules and the privacy policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

3.1 Who may use the service

You must be at least 16 years old. If you are under 16, or under the age of digital consent in your country, you may only use the service with the permission of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these terms on your behalf.
You must not use the service if you are prohibited from doing so under the laws that apply to you.
You understand and accept that Legacy 2 is an unofficial community project and not a service provided by NCSOFT, and you will not hold NCSOFT responsible for anything related to it.

3.2 Nature of the service

The service is a free, community-run, hobby project. It is provided "as is" and "as available", without any promise of availability, continuity, quality or fitness for a particular purpose.
We may change, suspend, roll back, wipe or permanently discontinue the service, or any part of it, at any time and for any reason, including at the request of a rights holder, with or without notice.
We may perform maintenance, restore backups or roll back game data after bugs, exploits or attacks. Progress lost in this way will not be compensated.

3.3 Your account

You must give accurate information when you register, including a valid email address that you own.
You are responsible for keeping your login details secret and for everything that happens on your account. Staff will never ask for your password.
Accounts are personal. They may not be sold, bought, traded, rented, shared or given away.
Report any unauthorised use of your account to staff immediately.

3.4 Virtual items and progress

Characters, items, Adena, mounts and all other in-game content have no real-world monetary value, are not your property and cannot be exchanged for money or anything of value.
You receive only a limited, personal, revocable permission to use them inside the service while it is running. That permission ends when your account is closed or the service ends.
Buying, selling or trading accounts, characters, items or Adena for real money or for any outside value (real-money trading) is strictly forbidden and leads to a permanent ban of every account involved.

3.5 What you must not do

Use bots, macros outside the in-game system, packet tools, cheats, hacks, injectors, or any unauthorised third-party software.
Exploit bugs, or keep exploiting them after you have found them, instead of reporting them.
Attack, overload, reverse engineer, scan or try to gain unauthorised access to the service, our servers, our databases or other players' accounts.
Upload or share anything illegal, harmful, hateful, sexually explicit, or that infringes anyone's rights.
Impersonate staff, NCSOFT or any other person or organisation.
Use the service, the Legacy 2 name or any content from the service for any commercial purpose, including reselling access, selling services, or running advertising.
Redistribute, sell or rehost the launcher, client files or any content obtained through the service.

3.6 Enforcement

Staff may, at their sole discretion and without prior notice, warn, mute, jail, suspend, permanently ban, reset or delete any account or character that breaks these terms or the server rules, or that puts the community or the project at risk. Ban evasion leads to a permanent ban of all related accounts. Any Premium rewards on an account banned for breaking the rules are lost and contributions are not refunded.

3.7 No warranty and limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided without any warranty of any kind, express or implied. Legacy 2, its staff and its volunteers are not liable for any loss of data, progress, items, access, time, profit or opportunity, or for any indirect, incidental or consequential damage arising from the use of, or the inability to use, the service, including its suspension or shutdown. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the total amount you contributed to the project in the three (3) months before the event that caused the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, such as liability for intent or gross negligence, or your statutory rights as a consumer.

3.8 Indemnity

You agree to hold Legacy 2, its staff and volunteers harmless from any claim, loss or cost (including reasonable legal fees) that results from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the service, or your violation of anyone else's rights.

3.9 Third-party content and links

The website links to third-party services such as YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, payment providers and download mirrors. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices. Their own terms apply.

3.10 Changes and termination

We may update these terms at any time. The date at the top of this page shows the latest version. Important changes will be announced on our channels. If you keep using the service after a change, you accept the updated terms.
You may stop using the service and ask for your account to be deleted at any time.
If any part of these terms is found invalid, the rest stays in force. If we do not enforce a rule, we do not give up the right to enforce it later.

4. Server rules

Fair play

No bots, macros outside the in-game system, packet tools or any third-party automation.
No exploiting bugs. Report them to staff; confirmed reports may be rewarded.
Box limits apply per hardware ID and are stricter during sieges and the Olympiad. Current limits are published in the News.
No real-money trading of accounts, characters, items or Adena.

Community

Respect other players and staff. Harassment, hate speech, discrimination and threats are not tolerated.
No advertising other servers or services.
No impersonating staff members, NCSOFT or anyone else.
No sharing of other people's personal information.

Names

Character and clan names must not be offensive, political, commercial, or imitate staff or NCSOFT.
Staff may rename characters or clans that break this rule.

5. Premium membership (voluntary supporter contribution)

Premium is a completely optional, voluntary contribution from members of the community who want to help keep Legacy 2 running. Nobody has to contribute to play, and the game itself is free.

What it is. A voluntary monthly contribution of €9.99 towards the running costs of the community: servers, hosting, bandwidth, security and maintenance.
Thank-you rewards. As a thank-you, the community gifts every active supporter a personal mount and extra mount options for as long as the membership is active, one character service per month (name, appearance or clan name change) and early access to Journey III and Journey IV. Early access is temporary: each early-access story opens to every player, free of charge, after the early-access period (currently 90 days from its release). No game content is permanently reserved for supporters. These rewards are a gesture of thanks, not goods or services that are sold, and they may be changed, rebalanced or withdrawn at any time.
What it is not. A contribution is not a purchase of Lineage II, the game client, NCSOFT content, or any licence to them, and no part of it is paid for NCSOFT property. It never includes items, Adena, enchants, stats, or any other tradeable in-game currency or advantage.
Fair play. All items, enchants and levels are earned in the game, the same way for every player.
Cancel anytime. You can stop contributing at any time. Rewards stay active until the end of the period already covered.
Immediate access. Rewards are activated as soon as the contribution is confirmed. By contributing, you ask for immediate activation and acknowledge that, where the law allows, you lose your right of withdrawal once it has started.
Refunds. Except where required by law, contributions are not refundable once a period has started. Rewards are lost if the account is banned for breaking the rules.
If the service ends. The project may close at any time (see section 3.2). If it does, no further contributions will be taken. Where the law requires it, we will refund the unused part of the current period.
Payments. Contributions are handled by a third-party payment provider. We never see or store your full card or bank details. Chargebacks or fraudulent payments lead to the account being suspended.

6. Privacy policy

This policy explains what personal data Legacy 2 collects, why, and what rights you have. We follow the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We collect as little as possible and we never sell your data.

6.1 Who is responsible

The Legacy 2 project team is responsible for your data. You can reach us using the details in the Contact section.

6.2 What we collect and why

Account data: account name, email address and your password, stored only as a one-way hash. Why: to create and secure your account, recover it, and send important service messages. Legal basis: performance of our agreement with you.
Security data: IP address, login attempts and hardware identifiers. Why: to protect accounts, enforce box limits, and prevent cheating, attacks and ban evasion. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe and fair.
Game data: characters, items, chat and in-game activity logs. Why: to run the game, investigate reports and enforce the rules. Legal basis: performance of our agreement and legitimate interest.
Newsletter: your email address and a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address, only if you sign up. Why: to tell you about the launch and major news. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
Premium payments: the payment status and the account it belongs to. Card and bank details are processed by the payment provider, not by us. Legal basis: performance of our agreement and legal obligations.
Support tickets: your first and last name, account name, character name (optional), reply email and your message, when you send a ticket through the Contact form. Why: to answer your request and keep a record of it. Legal basis: performance of our agreement and legitimate interest. Only signed-in players can send tickets, to keep automated spam out.

6.3 Cookies and local storage

This website does not use advertising or tracking cookies and does not use analytics. When you sign in, we set one strictly necessary session cookie (l2site) to keep you signed in. If you choose "Remember me", it lasts up to 30 days. Because this cookie is needed for the service to work, it does not need consent.

6.4 Who we share data with

We share data only with the services we need to run the project, and only as much as they need:

our hosting and server providers, which store the data;
Cloudflare (Turnstile), if enabled, to check that registrations come from humans;
the payment provider, for Premium contributions;
Resend (resend.com), our email service, which sends account emails (confirmation, password reset), support ticket replies, newsletters and announcements, and stores the newsletter list;
Supabase (supabase.com), which hosts our database and account sign-in;
Vercel (vercel.com), which hosts this website;
Google Fonts and cdnjs, which deliver the website's fonts and icons and receive your IP address when you load a page;
authorities, when the law requires it, or to protect the project and its players against fraud or abuse.

Some of these providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. When they do, they use the safeguards required by the GDPR, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

6.5 How long we keep it

Account and game data: for as long as your account exists. When you ask us to delete it, we delete it within 30 days.
Security logs: up to 12 months, unless they are needed to investigate abuse.
Ban records: as long as needed to prevent ban evasion.
Newsletter: until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent.
Support tickets: up to 12 months after the ticket is resolved.
Payment records: as long as the law requires.

6.6 Security

Passwords are stored only as hashes. We use encrypted connections (HTTPS), rate limiting and restricted access to our databases. No system is perfectly secure. If a data breach puts your rights at risk, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

6.7 Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

access the personal data we hold about you and get a copy of it;
correct data that is wrong;
have your data deleted;
restrict or object to how we process it;
receive your data in a portable format;
withdraw your consent at any time, for example for the newsletter;
complain to your national data protection authority.

To use any of these rights, contact us (see Contact). We may ask you to prove that the account is yours, and we will reply within one month.

6.8 Children

The service is not intended for children under 16 without the permission of a parent or guardian. If we learn that we hold data about a child without that permission, we will delete it.

7. Contact

Players can reach the Legacy 2 team through the Contact Support form, after signing in. Privacy requests, account recovery, rights holder notices and any other legal matter can also be sent by email, with or without an account, to . Rights holder and legal notices are handled with priority.