Terms

1. Provider And Contact

Nova AntiCheat is provided by the representative listed in the Nova AntiCheat Legal Notice / Impressum. Legal, licensing, privacy, billing and website questions can be sent to cerialnova@gmail.com.

The legal notice is part of these Terms by reference. If the contact details or representative details change, the updated legal notice controls from the time it is published.

2. Acceptance Of These Terms

By purchasing, renewing, activating, downloading, installing, using, testing or requesting support for Nova AntiCheat, you agree to these Terms. If you buy on behalf of a server, network, company, team or other organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organization.

Before opening the purchase or Discord link on this website, you must confirm that you have read and accepted these Terms and that you understand the digital delivery, refund and withdrawal rules. If you do not agree, do not purchase, activate or use Nova AntiCheat.

3. Product Description

Nova AntiCheat is a digital software license for Minecraft server owners and administrators. It includes a server plugin and related license services used for activation, downloads, license management, updates and service reliability.

Nova AntiCheat is not a guarantee that cheating, abuse, malicious clients, modified clients, unfair gameplay, bot activity or bypasses will never happen. Detection behavior depends on configuration, server version, server software, network conditions, client behavior, installed plugins and other factors outside our control.

Website descriptions, examples, console previews, pricing notes and check names are general product information. They are not a promise that a specific detection, punishment, bypass prevention result, compatibility result or performance result will occur on every server setup.

4. Plans, Billing Terms And Capacity

Nova AntiCheat is sold by plan and billing term. HWID capacity and server-instance capacity are separate limits. The current public plans are:

• Basic: 1 HWID, 1 server instance, core Java and Bedrock checks, and stable builds. Basic is currently €6 monthly, €55 yearly or €125 lifetime.
• Standard: 2 HWIDs, 4 server instances, the core checks, Cloud Sync, and stable and beta builds. Standard is currently €10 monthly or €90 yearly. Standard lifetime is not offered.
• Pro: 5 HWIDs, 8 server instances, everything in Standard, and Combat Engine and Crystal Engine. Pro is currently €18 monthly or €160 yearly. Pro lifetime is not offered.
• Enterprise: everything in Pro, custom HWID and concurrent server-instance capacity, and commercial terms for larger networks. Enterprise availability and pricing are agreed in writing.

Basic, Standard and Pro monthly or yearly licenses can add HWID and server-instance capacity independently. One additional HWID is €5 per month or €60 per year. One additional server instance is €3 per month or €36 per year. Add-ons follow the license term, expire with that term and must be renewed manually. Lifetime capacity add-ons are not offered.

Monthly and yearly licenses are time-limited. Lifetime licenses are available only for Basic. Standard, Pro and Enterprise are not offered with lifetime billing. “Lifetime” means the commercial and service lifetime of the applicable Nova AntiCheat product while the authentication, download and other required Nova backend services remain operated. It does not mean the customer’s lifetime and does not guarantee any minimum number of years.

Nova AntiCheat may retire the applicable product or required backend services in the future for business, technical, security, legal or operational reasons. A lifetime license does not promise perpetual hosting, indefinite updates or support, replacement infrastructure, source code, Pro access, future paid features, specific Minecraft versions or uninterrupted service. These limits are subject to mandatory consumer law and other rights that cannot legally be excluded.

The website price calculator and the order confirmed before payment determine the plan, term, HWID capacity, server-instance capacity and price for that purchase. If an order note is unclear, delivery may be delayed until those details are confirmed. A written existing order that expressly grants different capacity continues to control that license.

5. License Grant

After payment is accepted and the license is delivered, you receive a limited, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use Nova AntiCheat for your own Minecraft server operation within the purchased license limits.

The license is for use by the buyer or the server/network represented during purchase. You may not sell, rent, sublicense, share, publish, leak, redistribute, upload, mirror or otherwise make the license key, plugin files, private downloads or authenticated service access available to others.

Sharing a license is strictly prohibited. One license may only be used by the buyer or the represented server/network within its purchased HWID and server-instance limits. Using one license for unrelated people, customers, networks or servers is treated as license abuse even if the key itself is not public.

You are responsible for keeping your license key, license username, downloads and server access secure. Actions taken using your license may be treated as actions taken by you unless you can reasonably show that the access was unauthorized and not caused by your own negligence.

6. License Activation, Devices And Instances

Nova AntiCheat uses online license authentication. The plugin may register devices, server instances, generated identifiers, session information and related technical data to validate the license, prevent abuse, enforce purchased limits and provide support.

An HWID identifies one physical or virtual host machine running Nova. An active server instance identifies one separately configured Minecraft server while it has a live Nova session. Multiple Nova servers running on one machine normally use one HWID, while each running Minecraft server uses one active instance allowance. Offline instance records may remain in license history without consuming active instance capacity.

Each license may also have active-session, Pro engine access or other operational limits. The backend may deny authentication, deny a new device or instance, close a session, require a reset, throttle access or require manual review when a limit is exceeded or suspicious activity is detected.

Resets are provided for legitimate hardware changes, reinstallations and server migrations. They are not a right to rotate the same license across unrelated servers, customers or networks in a way that bypasses purchased HWID or server-instance capacity.

7. Pro Engines And Maintenance

Pro includes Combat Engine and Crystal Engine where supported by the plugin version and license state. Ordinary live engine scoring runs inside the server plugin rather than through a cloud scoring service.

Online authentication and licensed resource delivery are still required for Pro entitlement. Nova AntiCheat may disable, pause, throttle, rate-limit, replace or temporarily limit those online services when needed for maintenance, service stability, security, abuse prevention, emergency work, compatibility work, legal reasons, infrastructure issues or product improvement.

This includes the right to disable engine access for a specific license or instance, reject excessive service traffic, close stale sessions, suspend related Pro resources, or require a plugin update while backend services are under maintenance.

Pro is a license plan, not a separately priced engine add-on. Unaffected locally available functions may continue where technically possible during a temporary online-service issue, but Nova AntiCheat does not guarantee uninterrupted authentication, licensed downloads or access to a specific Pro feature.

Short-term maintenance, throttling, capacity management or emergency limitations do not automatically entitle you to a refund, credit or extension unless mandatory law requires it or a separate written agreement says otherwise. If a long-running service issue affects your license, contact support so the situation can be reviewed.

8. Fair Use And Backend Protection

You may not use Nova AntiCheat or the Nova backend to send artificial traffic, stress test the backend without permission, simulate fake players at scale, flood telemetry, bypass license limits, benchmark private infrastructure, scrape responses or interfere with service operation.

The backend may enforce reasonable automated usage limits and temporary abuse protection. Nova does not currently sell a separate Cloud Sync player-cap add-on.

If a server produces abnormal traffic or causes operational risk, Nova AntiCheat may lower capacity, suspend online features, require configuration changes, require an upgrade, deny access or terminate the license if the issue is not resolved.

9. Payments, Manual Delivery And Order Notes

Purchases are currently arranged manually through a Discord ticket or direct communication, and the available payment method is communicated during that process. You must include enough information to identify what you are buying, such as your Discord name or email, requested plan, billing term, HWID capacity and server-instance capacity.

A payment does not automatically create a license until it is reviewed, accepted and delivered. We may refuse or refund an order before delivery if the order is unclear, unsupported, suspicious, abusive, unavailable, incorrectly priced, connected to prior misuse or otherwise unsuitable.

You are responsible for any payment provider fees, currency conversion, bank fees, failed payment fees, taxes or similar charges unless otherwise required by law. Payment provider terms also apply to your payment.

10. Pricing, Taxes And Changes

Prices may change for future purchases, renewals, upgrades, plans, billing terms, HWID capacity or server-instance capacity. A price shown on the website is not a guarantee that the same price will remain available forever.

If a price, feature, Pro or capacity note contains an obvious error, we may correct it before delivery. If you already paid based on an obvious mistake, we may offer the corrected order or refund the payment.

Unless clearly stated otherwise, listed prices do not include taxes, payment provider fees, chargeback fees, exchange-rate costs or any required local reporting obligations.

11. No Automatic Renewal

Nova AntiCheat licenses do not renew automatically. Monthly and yearly licenses expire automatically at the end of the paid term unless the customer manually purchases and pays for a renewal. There are no automatic recurring charges.

If you do not manually renew, the license may expire or be revoked after the paid term ends. Customers do not need to cancel in order to avoid future charges because no further payments are charged automatically.

12. Refunds, Withdrawal Rights And Digital Delivery

Nova AntiCheat is digital software and a digital service. Once a license key, download, update, activation, renewal, Pro access or other digital access is delivered or activated, refunds are generally not provided except where required by mandatory consumer law or approved by us in writing.

Nova AntiCheat does not use automatic renewals. Monthly and yearly licenses are paid manually and expire automatically at the end of the paid term unless renewed by a new manual payment accepted by Nova AntiCheat. Customers do not need to cancel in order to avoid future charges.

This does not affect any mandatory statutory withdrawal rights. If you are a consumer and you request immediate digital delivery, activation, download access, license access, renewal or Pro access before the withdrawal period expires, you agree that performance begins immediately. You acknowledge that you may lose your right of withdrawal once digital delivery or activation has started, where applicable law permits this.

Refund requests must be sent to cerialnova@gmail.com with the payment information, license user or order reference, only the last four characters of a delivered license key, the reason for the request and any relevant error details. Never email the complete license key. Abusive refund requests, chargebacks after delivery or false claims may result in suspension while the issue is reviewed.

13. Renewals And Upgrades

Renewals are manual only. Nova AntiCheat does not automatically charge, renew or extend licenses. To renew, you must manually pay again and include enough identifying information, such as the current license key, email, Discord name or license username.

If no renewal is purchased and accepted before or after expiry, the license may expire, deactivate or lose access to authentication, downloads, updates, Pro access and other license services.

An upgrade or downgrade may change the plan, billing term, HWID capacity, server-instance capacity, included features, release channels or Pro access at a time agreed in writing.

Standard and Pro are offered on monthly and yearly terms only. A lifetime Basic license does not include Pro and cannot become a lifetime Pro license unless a separate written offer expressly says otherwise.

14. Updates, Compatibility And Feature Changes

Nova AntiCheat may be updated, modified, optimized, restricted, renamed, replaced or discontinued where needed for security, performance, compatibility, detection quality, backend stability, maintenance, legal reasons or product direction.

Minecraft versions, server software, plugins, protocol libraries, hosting providers and third-party platforms can change. Nova AntiCheat does not guarantee compatibility with every Minecraft version, modified server, fork, plugin combination, cracked/offline-mode setup, proxy setup, packet translator or future platform change.

Some checks, commands, messages, configuration values, Pro features, backend behavior or management tools may change over time. Changes intended to reduce false positives, improve performance or protect the service are permitted even if they alter previous behavior.

15. Customer Responsibilities

You are responsible for installing, configuring, testing and operating Nova AntiCheat on your own servers. You are also responsible for server rules, punishments, staff access, backups, player communication, privacy notices, local laws and compliance with any third-party platform rules.

You should test configuration changes before using them on production servers. You should not rely on default punishment settings, Pro verdicts, local verdicts or any single check without understanding how your server handles appeals, lag, version differences and edge cases.

You must keep your server software, dependencies and configuration reasonably maintained. We are not responsible for issues caused by incompatible plugins, broken forks, unstable snapshots, unsupported versions, modified protocol behavior, bad configuration or hosting problems.

16. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to:

• share, leak, resell, rent, sublicense or redistribute Nova AntiCheat, license keys, private downloads or authenticated access;
• use one license across unrelated people, customers, networks or servers outside the purchased HWID and server-instance limits;
• attempt to bypass licensing, HWID limits, server instance limits, Pro access limits, authentication, download restrictions or backend fair-use limits;
• reverse engineer, decompile, modify, patch, crack or tamper with Nova AntiCheat except where mandatory law gives a non-waivable right;
• use Nova AntiCheat to attack, overload, benchmark without permission, disrupt, scrape or interfere with the website, API, authentication backend or licensed resource delivery services;
• submit false purchase details, impersonate another customer, use stolen payment methods or dispute valid delivered purchases in bad faith;
• use the software or service for unlawful, harmful, abusive, deceptive or infringing activity.

17. Suspension, Revocation And Termination

We may suspend, limit, revoke or terminate a license, download access, Pro access, backend access or support access if we reasonably believe there is abuse, unauthorized redistribution, non-payment, chargeback activity, backend attack traffic, license sharing, fraud, security risk, violation of these Terms or violation of law.

In less severe cases, we may ask you to fix configuration, reduce traffic, verify ownership, upgrade capacity, reset devices, remove leaked files or stop the problematic behavior before further action is taken.

Termination for abuse does not require us to refund delivered digital products unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

18. Data, Privacy And Telemetry

Nova AntiCheat processes license authentication data and service-related technical data as described in the Legal Notice / Impressum. This is required to validate licenses, enforce purchased limits, manage sessions, deliver licensed resources and protect the service from abuse.

Combat Engine and Crystal Engine process ordinary live fight scoring inside the server plugin. That scoring is not sent to a cloud model.

Cloud Sync is an optional Standard, Pro and Enterprise feature. When a server owner enables it, the backend may receive player identifiers, detection and reputation data, and server/session context. In global scope, recent reputation derived from other participating licenses may be returned to participating licensed servers for short-lived enforcement decisions. This is separate from local Combat Engine and Crystal Engine scoring.

NovaMLCollector is a separate optional plugin used to build training datasets. It uploads combat feature records only when that plugin is installed, configured and enabled. The main Nova plugin does not need NovaMLCollector for ordinary checks or local Pro engine scoring.

Server owners are responsible for telling their players which optional services are enabled where local law requires it.

Cloud Sync reputation events are normally removed after 3 days. Dormant server-instance history, inactive reset history, closed sessions and webhook delivery history are normally removed after 90 days, while backend audit history is normally removed after 180 days. Finite record limits may remove older history sooner. NovaMLCollector training records use separate, limited storage and remain until an administrator deletes them; collection stops at the storage limit, and a collector server’s last connection address is cleared after 30 days without contact. Records connected to a legal duty, dispute or security incident may need to be retained longer.

Authentication and download traffic may be protected in transit, but encrypted transport does not mean the data is anonymous. The backend must process submitted data to validate licenses, manage sessions, deliver licensed resources, prevent abuse, support customers and operate the service.

19. Support

Support may be provided through email, Discord or another method communicated by Nova AntiCheat. Support availability, response times and scope are not guaranteed unless a separate written agreement says otherwise.

Support may be refused or delayed if the license cannot be verified, if the issue is caused by unsupported modifications, if required logs or details are missing, if the request is abusive, or if the customer is violating these Terms.

20. Intellectual Property

Nova AntiCheat, its website, text, design, code, names, branding, binaries, configuration structure, documentation, backend services, detection logic, management tools and related materials are owned by their respective owners and are protected by intellectual property laws.

Buying a license does not transfer ownership. You receive only the limited use rights expressly described in these Terms.

21. Third-Party Platforms And Affiliation

Nova AntiCheat is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Mojang Studios, Microsoft, Minecraft, SpigotMC, PaperMC, Discord or any other third-party platform mentioned on this website.

Third-party names are used only to describe compatibility, payment, communication or platform context. You are responsible for following the rules of any third-party platform you use with Nova AntiCheat.

22. No Warranties

Nova AntiCheat is provided "as is" and "as available" to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, perfect detection accuracy, zero false positives, zero bypasses, compatibility with every setup, a specific performance level, a specific backend or licensed resource-delivery capacity at every moment or a specific business result for your server.

Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties, remedies or rights that cannot be excluded under mandatory law.

23. Limitation Of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Nova AntiCheat and its representatives are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or business losses, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost players, lost data, server downtime, punishment mistakes, staff mistakes, chargebacks, compatibility failures, hosting failures, third-party service failures or configuration errors.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, total liability for any claim connected to Nova AntiCheat is limited to the amount actually paid for the affected license purchase or renewal giving rise to the claim. For a lifetime license, the cap is the original amount paid for that affected license. This limitation does not apply where mandatory law prohibits it.

24. Indemnity

If your use of Nova AntiCheat, your server operation, your configuration, your staff actions, your player notices, your payment behavior or your breach of these Terms causes claims, losses, costs or disputes against Nova AntiCheat, you agree to reasonably cooperate and cover those losses to the extent permitted by law.

25. Changes To These Terms

We may update these Terms when needed for legal, operational, security, pricing, backend, feature or business reasons. Updated Terms apply when published on this page unless a different effective date is stated.

If a change materially affects an active paid license, we will try to handle the change reasonably. Continued use after the updated Terms are published means you accept the updated Terms.

26. Mandatory Rights And Severability

These Terms do not override mandatory consumer rights, statutory guarantees or other rights that cannot legally be waived. If a part of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining parts remain in effect as far as legally possible.

27. Contact

For questions about these Terms, purchasing, licensing, privacy, refunds, Pro access or the website, contact: cerialnova@gmail.com