Terms of Service

1. Eligibility and authority

The Service is intended only for people age 18 or older acting for a business or other commercial enterprise, not for personal, family, or household use. By using the Service, you represent that you meet those requirements and have authority to bind the business you identify. The Service is offered for advertising directed to the United States.

2. What a payment buys

Each payment buys a one-time paid advertising placement on the selected leaderboard. It adds the amount paid to the identified website’s lifetime claim and applies any promotion disclosed before checkout. Rank is determined by current claim strength under the rules described on the How it works page, including published aging, boost, and tie-break rules.

Placement begins when payment settles. You are not buying a lead, click, endorsement, review, award, guaranteed result, minimum display period, or permanent position. A competing payment or aging may change your rank immediately. Any projected rank is an estimate made before settlement and is not guaranteed. Outthrone is not a game of chance, sweepstakes, investment, escrow, or auction for goods; no cash or prize is awarded.

3. Charges, taxes, and refunds

Charges are one-time payments in U.S. dollars processed by Stripe. You authorize the amount shown at checkout and are responsible for applicable taxes. Outthrone does not receive or store your full payment-card number.

Because placement begins when payment settles, payments are final and non-refundable except when required by law or when we expressly agree otherwise. Being outranked, changes in claim strength, traffic levels, loss of a promotion, or removal for violating these Terms does not create a refund right. Nothing here limits any non-waivable right to dispute an unauthorized or incorrect charge. Please contact us promptly about a billing error; knowingly false or abusive payment disputes are a material breach.

4. Your listing and license

You represent and warrant that you are authorized to advertise the submitted business, name, website, and content; that all information is accurate and kept current; and that the listing, linked site, and advertised offering comply with all laws, professional rules, licensing requirements, advertising rules, and third-party rights.

You retain ownership of your content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, format, display, and distribute it solely to operate, secure, promote, and improve the Service. This license ends when the content is deleted, except for cached copies, legal records, and public leaderboard history that no longer identifies a natural person.

The first email associated with a settled checkout for a listing controls its editing access. Secure email links and codes are credentials: keep them confidential, sign out on shared devices, and notify us promptly of suspected unauthorized access. Paying toward an existing listing does not transfer its control to a different email. Category and board are part of the purchased placement and cannot be changed through the editor.

5. Prohibited conduct

You may not use the Service to:

• impersonate another person or business, or misstate affiliation, endorsement, licensure, or results;
• advertise illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, unsafe, infringing, hateful, or exploitative content;
• submit malware, credential-harvesting, chat/invite, affiliate-tracking, or technically harmful links;
• manipulate traffic, clicks, rankings, payments, security controls, or another listing;
• scrape, probe, reverse engineer, overload, or access the Service by unauthorized means; or
• use personal information from the Service for spam, harassment, discrimination, or unlawful profiling.

6. Moderation, complaints, and repeat infringement

We may investigate, reject, hide, edit for formatting, or remove listings that we reasonably believe violate these Terms, law, third-party rights, or platform safety. We may preserve evidence and cooperate with lawful requests. We are not obligated to pre-screen or verify listings, and a listing is not our endorsement.

Send trademark, copyright, impersonation, or other rights complaints to legal@outthrone.com with the affected URL, the right at issue, your contact details, and supporting evidence. We may terminate repeat infringers. A copyright notice does not by itself complete the separate U.S. Copyright Office agent registration required for DMCA safe-harbor eligibility.

7. Service and ranking changes

We may change features, board structure, display, reasonable anti-abuse controls, and ranking mechanics prospectively. We will not retroactively change the amount charged. Material changes affecting paid placements will be disclosed on the Service before they apply when reasonably practicable. We may suspend the Service for maintenance, security, legal compliance, or events beyond our reasonable control.

8. Third-party sites and services

Listings link to independent third parties. We do not control or verify them and are not responsible for their content, availability, privacy, security, products, or conduct. Stripe separately governs its hosted checkout. Your dealings with a listed business are solely between you and that business.

9. Intellectual property

The Service, its software, design, and original content are owned by the Operator or its licensors. Except for normal use of the Service, no rights are granted to our trademarks, software, or content. You may give honest feedback or reviews; nothing in these Terms restricts a legally protected report to a regulator or law-enforcement agency.

10. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim all express and implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and warranties arising from course of dealing. We do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation, any traffic level, listing verification, search-engine treatment, or commercial outcome. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so they apply only to the extent allowed.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither the Operator nor its affiliates, personnel, or providers will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, or lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity. Their total aggregate liability arising from the Service will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you paid us during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. These limits do not apply to liability that law does not permit us to exclude or limit.

12. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator and its affiliates, personnel, and providers from third-party claims, damages, judgments, and reasonable legal fees arising from your listing, linked site, advertised business, violation of law or third-party rights, or breach of these Terms. We will give prompt notice and reasonable cooperation, and you may not settle a claim in a way that admits our fault or imposes obligations on us without written consent.

13. Disputes and governing law

Applicable law governs these Terms without regard to conflicts rules. A claim must be brought in a court with lawful subject-matter and personal jurisdiction. No arbitration agreement or contractual forum selection applies unless we both separately agree in writing.

Before filing a claim, each party will send written notice describing the dispute and requested relief and allow 30 days for a good-faith informal resolution. This does not prevent urgent injunctive relief or a filing needed to preserve a limitation period.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms prospectively. We will post the new effective date and, for a material change affecting an existing paid placement, provide reasonable notice when we have a current contact method. The version accepted at checkout governs that transaction; later use or purchases may require acceptance of a newer version.

15. General terms

These Terms and the policies they incorporate are the entire agreement about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the rest remains effective. A waiver must be written and is not a continuing waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, or sale of the Service. Headings are for convenience.

16. Contact

Outthrone · legal@outthrone.com

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