Terms of Service

These Terms govern your use of The Price of Words (the “Service”), a website where people pay a chosen amount to receive a short, fictional compliment or roast, and watch an aggregate “market” of what others have paid. By using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1Eligibility & age

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By using it you represent that you are 18 or older and legally able to enter this agreement. The Service is not directed to children.

2What the Service is — and is not

The Service is entertainment and a social experiment. When you pay, you receive a short message (a compliment or a fictional roast). The displayed “prices,” “market,” “exchange rate,” “records,” and “predictions” are descriptive statistics of what real people have voluntarily paid, presented for interest and fun.

The Service is not a financial product. Nothing here is a security, investment, commodity, token, or asset that can be bought and sold. You are not buying an asset, share, or stake; the “prices” have no cash value; there is no resale, secondary market, dividend, yield, or expectation of profit. The free daily “prediction” and any “records” or leaderboards are for entertainment only, carry no monetary stake, and award no cash or prize. Do not treat anything on the Service as financial, investment, or gambling activity.

3Payments, pricing & refunds

Payments are processed by Stripe; we never receive your full card details. You choose the amount you pay, subject to a stated minimum and maximum. Because the Service delivers a digital good immediately, all sales are final and non-refundable, except where required by law or at our sole discretion (for example, an obvious error or a good-faith dispute). To request a refund or report a problem, contact hello@thepriceofwords.com.

4Acceptable use

The messages are fictional and meant in play. You agree not to:

• use the Service to harass, threaten, defame, stalk, bully, or intimidate any real person, or to cause a real person distress;
• submit or send content that is unlawful, hateful, or that attacks a person based on a protected characteristic (race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or the like);
• include a real person’s private information, sexual content, content involving minors, threats of violence, or encouragement of self-harm;
• impersonate anyone, or send messages a reasonable person would experience as targeted harassment rather than play;
• abuse, overload, scrape, reverse-engineer, or interfere with the Service.

You are solely responsible for any words you write or send. Sending a message to someone does not make it acceptable if it violates these rules. We may filter, refuse, remove, or refund any content, and suspend access, at our discretion.

5Your content & our license

If you write your own line (whether to send, or to submit to the public gallery), you keep whatever rights you have in it, and you grant The Price of Words a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to store, display, moderate, reproduce, and distribute that content in connection with operating and promoting the Service. You represent that you have the right to grant this license and that your content does not violate these Terms or the rights of others. Submitted content is reviewed before it appears publicly; we may decline or remove anything for any reason.

6Gifts & sealed links

A “gift” produces a private link that reveals its message once, to the first person who opens it. You are responsible for who you send it to and for complying with these Terms. Recipients may report or block content. Do not use gifts or any delivery feature to harass.

7Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what limited, mostly-anonymous data we handle and your choices. By using the Service you agree to it.

8Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that any statistic, “price,” or “verdict” is accurate, complete, or suitable for any purpose. Messages are fictional and are not statements of fact about any real person.

9Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, The Price of Words and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from content submitted or sent by users. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to us in the 3 months before the claim, or US $50.

10Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Price of Words and its operators from any claim, damage, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Service, your content, or your breach of these Terms — including any claim by a person you sent a message to.

11Termination

We may suspend or terminate access at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including a violation of these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

12Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located there for any dispute, except where prohibited by law. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

13Changes

We may update these Terms; material changes take effect when posted with a new date above. Continued use means you accept the updated Terms.

14Contact

Questions about these Terms: hello@thepriceofwords.com.

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