OnTheList

Terms of Service

Version sponsor-2026-11-03

Status: published. Prepared against the product as built. A version reviewed by counsel, when issued, replaces this one under its own changes section. Version: sponsor-2026-11-03 · Effective: 2026-11-03 · Registry slug: terms Operator: Moretime.ai Inc., a Texas corporation ("we", "us", "OnTheList.Live") · Contact: hi@moretime.ai · Postal address: 5900 Balcones Drive, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78731, United States

1. Who you are, and who we are

These Terms are a contract between you and Moretime.ai Inc., which operates OnTheList.Live.

"You" are one of two people:

  • a sponsor — a person or business that bids for a placement on a board, with or without a sponsor account; or
  • a visitor — anyone who reads a public page, clicks a listing or reports one without bidding.

If you run a board, you are a host, and the Host Terms govern you. Where these Terms mention what a host may or must do, they describe the service; the Host Terms are the document that binds the host.

OnTheList.Live is a service on which hosts run boards: public pages of ranked, paid placements. Sponsors bid for placement on a board. Every listing on a board is a paid advertisement, except two kinds of entry that hold no money and are labelled as such: a host's own house entries — unranked, in their own labelled section below every paid listing — and, on a board that resets, carried rows at $0, marked "Carried" and numbered below every paid listing: a courtesy copy of a listing from the round before, holding no money. We provide the board, the checkout, the ranking, the delivery of the placement and the record of it. The host is the seller of the placement and the merchant of record for your payment. Your card is charged by the host through the host's own Stripe account; we never hold your money. Of the amount charged, the bid goes to the host; the service fee, charged to you on top of the bid (section 5), carries our fee, which is ours, and the card processing, which stays with the host to pay Stripe for processing your card; and any sales tax the host collects is the host's.

Your purchase of a placement is a contract between you and the host, on the terms of sections 3 to 6 and 11 of these Terms, the Bid Rules and the Refund Policy. The host has authorised us to act as its limited agent, for these purposes only: to present those terms to you on its behalf, to create on the host's Stripe account the checkout through which you pay, to deliver the placement and apply the Bid Rules, to instruct refunds on the host's account under the Refund Policy, and to submit the host's evidence if you dispute a charge (section 11). The host may enforce those sections against you. Your contract with us is for what we provide — the board, the checkout, the ranking, the display of your placement and the record of it — and for our fee.

If a placement you paid for is not delivered, the Refund Policy says what comes back, and we issue it. Whether the fault was the host's or ours, we instruct the refund on the host's Stripe account; you write to us, and you never have to work out which of us owes it. One exception: on a board where the host approves each listing first, a payment the host takes from your held card outside our product and that we cannot place is the host's to refund, and we chase it with the host when you write to us. A refund is paid from the host's Stripe balance, and the Refund Policy says what happens when that balance cannot cover it. The host is named on the board's page, and the host's Stripe business name — the name the host registered with Stripe — appears on your card statement (section 5). If you need the host's legal name or address — for an invoice or a dispute — and neither tells you, write to us and we will tell you what we hold or put you in touch with the host.

You accept these Terms, the Bid Rules and the Refund Policy when you place a bid; when you create a sponsor account; and, for the sections that address visitors, when you use a public page. At the checkout that opens a new listing on a board, and on a raise from your listing's manage page, our page names these Terms, the Bid Rules and the Refund Policy, with their version strings, below the payment control, and links to each, beside the two statements you tick (sections 2 and 4). Every payment, on either page, records the version string of these Terms in force at that checkout (section 4). You also agree to the other documents these Terms name:

Where two of these documents say different things about the same point: for money, the Refund Policy governs, then the Bid Rules; for what may be listed, the Prohibited Content Policy governs, then the Acceptable Use Policy; on every other point the document written for that point governs, and these Terms give way to it.

2. Eligibility

To bid you must be at least 18 years old, and you must be bidding either for yourself or for a business you are authorised to bind. Before every payment you confirm this by ticking a box on our own page, unticked until you tick it, which reads, quoted exactly as it appears on the page:

I am 18 or older and bidding on my own behalf or for a business I represent

If you bid for a business, you warrant that you have its authority, and "you" in these Terms means both you and that business. We do not check your age; the affirmation is your warranty, and we rely on it. You also warrant that you are not, and are not acting for, a person or entity on a US or other applicable sanctions list, and that you are not in a country or territory subject to comprehensive US sanctions. We may refuse to deal with anyone, and we may refuse or stop any bid, listing or account under section 9.

3. What a sponsor buys

A bid buys a placement: your listing shown on the board at the rank your cumulative bid total buys, for as long as that total holds it. On a board that runs in rounds, that is the rest of the current round; on a permanent board (its page calls this all-time), it is for as long as your total holds the position. Every paid bid receives a displayed placement, or is refunded: a payment that cannot be applied — one that completes after the round has ended, or one for a destination another sponsor took first — is returned under the Refund Policy, everything but the card processing. On a board where the host approves each listing first, a new listing's card is held, not charged, until the host approves it: a listing the host declines, one the round ends on unreviewed, one you cancel and one whose hold lapses are never charged (section 5). That is the placement the host sells you and we deliver on the host's behalf (section 1), and the Bid Rules say exactly how the rank is computed.

A bid does not buy a rank. Rank is recomputed from every sponsor's total each time a payment completes — Stripe confirms the payment and we apply it to the board — and it may change at any moment until the round ends, including while you are paying. Starting a checkout reserves no rank. The amount you are charged is fixed when you start it: the bid you asked for plus the service fee quoted beside it, and any sales tax Stripe adds from your address; nothing else changes it while you pay. The rank shown to you before you pay is the rank your total would buy at that instant, labelled as such; when your payment completes you receive the rank your total buys then. A round ends at the time its schedule sets. No bid, late or large, extends it or resets any clock.

Rank is decided by cumulative bid amounts, highest first, with a tie going to whoever reached the total first, and by nothing else. Nothing on this service is allocated by chance, and nothing is awarded: a placement is bought, delivered and recorded.

4. All bids are final

All bids are final. A listing whose card is only held, on a board where the host approves each listing first, may be cancelled until the host approves it — nothing was charged; once your card is charged, the bid is final. Nothing in this document takes away a right the law gives you that cannot be waived, or your right to dispute a charge with your card issuer. Being outbid is not a reason for a refund, and neither is changing your mind, a placement that produced less than you hoped, or a round that ended sooner than you expected. Before every payment you confirm this by ticking a second box on our own page, unticked until you tick it, which reads, quoted exactly as it appears on the page:

I understand bids are final and my rank can change as others bid

When you tick the two boxes we record what you ticked: the two sentences above, the version string of these Terms as recorded at that checkout, the instant, the network address your request came from, and a one-way hash of your browser's name and language setting — a value we can compare with another checkout's, not a description of your device. We keep that record with the payment as evidence of what you agreed to, for the period the Privacy Policy states, and we produce it if you dispute the charge with your card issuer.

The only refunds are the ones the Refund Policy lists. That document is the whole of the rule; nothing in these Terms adds to it or takes from it. Where these Terms say a payment "is refunded", they are pointing at a row of that policy, not stating a separate right. Your rights under mandatory law and against your card issuer, above, sit outside that document, and section 19's consumer sentence applies to them.

5. Prices and payment

  • The amount charged to your card is the bid plus the service fee, plus any sales tax the host collects, and you see the exact total before you pay. The service fee has two parts: our fee, the larger of 20% of the bid and $0.50, computed on the amount being charged; and the card processing, the amount that pays Stripe's fee for processing the charge before any tax, at Stripe's standard US card rate (2.9% plus 30 cents), which stays with the host. A $5 bid is charged $6.49; a $1 raise is charged $1.85, the smallest charge there is. These are the platform's current settings; we may apply a lower fee for a particular host's boards, never a higher one, and the service fee quoted at checkout is the service fee charged.
  • The service fee is the only thing we add to a bid. Sales tax is the host's. A host who collects sales tax through their own Stripe account has Stripe calculate it on the bid, from the billing address you give on Stripe's page: the board says "plus any sales tax" before you pay, and Stripe's page shows the tax and the new total before you confirm. Whether a placement is subject to sales or use tax, and who must collect it, depends on where you and the host are: the host is the seller and is responsible for any tax they must collect on their sales, and you are responsible for any tax you owe on your purchases.
  • On a board where the host approves each listing first, a new listing's checkout holds your card instead of charging it. The host's approval charges it. The host's decline, the round's end before the host has reviewed it, your cancel, a release by the host or by us (a suspended board's, for one), or the hold's lapse about seven days after you checked out releases it, and nothing is charged; your bank may show a released hold as pending for a few days. We email you when the hold is placed, with a link to cancel it; you may also cancel from your listing's page, until the host approves. While the hold stands, nobody can bid on that destination on that board, you included.
  • Payment is by card through Stripe's hosted checkout page. We never see or store your card number. Stripe's own terms and privacy policy apply to the checkout page.
  • The host is the merchant of record. The host's Stripe business name appears on your card statement, usually followed by a short form of the board's name.
  • Bids are in whole US dollars on the board's bid step, with a minimum bid of at least $5 (the host may set a higher one). You are charged only the difference when you raise. The Bid Rules carry the rest.
  • We may set a maximum single charge, a minimum single charge — which we may raise temporarily, platform-wide, while a pattern of card testing is detected — and limits on how many checkouts one address or one board may start in a period. Where such a limit refuses a bid, it refuses it before any payment is taken.
  • A checkout stays open for a period we set (30 minutes by default). A payment that completes after the round has ended, or after another sponsor's payment has already taken the same new destination, is not applied and is refunded automatically, everything but the card processing (Refund Policy, row 5). We email you when that happens.
  • We send a receipt for every payment to the address on the listing. Receipts state the bid, the service fee, any tax and the total, and they name the board.

6. Your listing, and the licence you give us

A listing is a destination address you supply, together with what we fetch from it and what you add:

  • The destination. One destination is one listing per round on a board, and its spelling is canonicalised. You must own the destination or be authorised to advertise it.
  • What we fetch. After your first bid completes, we fetch the destination's title, description and an image (its social preview image or icon) and show them on your listing — the title only where you gave no business name. We may fetch again after a later bid or when we re-check the destination, and we do not edit what we fetch beyond trimming its text to a fixed length and making the copy of its image described below. We fetch none of them to show while your listing carries an icon you uploaded, passed by our image scan, and a line you wrote; without a business name it then shows the title we fetched before, if any, else its address. Checking the destination is separate (section 9): we fetch it when a payment completes for a listing nobody has checked since it last changed hands, and at least once a day while the listing is live, follow its redirects and read its title and description for words our policies prohibit, and keep none of the page's text: only when the check ran and what it found — a prohibited word, or the domain the destination now lands on — recorded for a person.
  • Your business name. You may give the name your listing shows, of up to 60 characters — while bidding for a new listing, or later on your listing's page. It is optional: without one, your listing shows the destination's title, else its address. It shows in place of the fetched title wherever your listing shows on the board (phones included), on the board's screen view, in the board's preview image and in the Round Archive, which keeps it for ever. It must be the name of your own business (for a sole trader, that may be your own name), and it may not contain a web or email address or a phone number, our fee's wording, a price or a percentage, the language of contests or chance, a claim of stars, of a score, of being top-rated or number one, or anything that reads as a label of this service or the host — such as saying the listing is unpaid, featured by the host or not an ad. On a board under pre-approval a name you give or change waits for the host before it shows. It is carried with your listing into the board's next round, and removed when another sponsor takes the listing over.
  • What you add. You may upload your own icon (a PNG or JPEG of up to 512 KB and 1280 × 1280 pixels; while bidding, also a WebP or a larger file of up to 5 MB, still at most 1280 × 1280 pixels, which your browser fits to size before sending it) in place of the fetched image, and you may write a short line about yourself of up to 100 characters — while bidding for a new listing, or later on your listing's page in your sponsor account. Your listing shows its line wherever it shows on the board, on a screen at least 640 pixels wide (a phone held upright shows none): the top three places all of it (very wide text, such as a line in capitals, may be shortened), a lower place as much as fits there, shortened and ending in "…". Where you wrote nothing, your listing may show the destination's own description instead. Your line may state your own prices, percentages and offers, such as "20% off" or "Free shipping". They are your statements, not ours or the host's, and you are responsible for them: each must be true, available at your destination on the conditions stated there, and lawful wherever your listing is seen, including the rules on "free" offers and on discounts from a former price. A figure in your line is never the price of your placement and must not be written to read as one, or as a fee: a line that reads like the service fee, what a host keeps or a price to rank on the board may be refused. A lower place shows only the start of your line and a phone none of it, so put any condition an offer needs at its start, and state it in full at your destination; you must change or remove your line on your listing's page when an offer it states ends, and on a board whose rounds reset a line of yours stating a price or a percentage is not carried into the next round (a carried row may show the destination's own description instead). The line may not contain a web or email address or a phone number — your listing itself is the way to you; nor the language of contests or chance, such as a drawing or a chance at a sum or a gift; nor a claim of stars, of a score, of being top-rated or number one, or a count of reviews; and a host who reviews listings may review it. You may also pick up to two tags from lists we wrote: one saying what your destination offers (such as "Offers a discount") and one saying what a visit is for (such as "Book"). An offer tag is your statement that the offer is available at your destination, on conditions stated there: you affirm it when you pick it, it stays your statement while it shows, and you must remove it on your listing's page if the offer ends. On a board whose rounds reset it ends with the round; a board that never resets offers none. The tags show on the top ten spots on a screen at least 640 pixels wide. A tag needs no approval of its own: it shows whenever its listing shows, and a later change shows within seconds, at the board's next refresh. Every image we store, fetched or uploaded, is a copy we make — fitted within 512 pixels a side, its see-through edges trimmed and anything embedded in it, such as where a photo was taken, removed — and an icon with a see-through background is shown on a white or near-black plate, whichever it reads best on. Every image we show, fetched or uploaded, is scanned before it is served and is not shown if it fails: another image that passed, or a placeholder, stands in.

You grant us and the host a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, sublicensable to the service providers who host, scan and deliver the service for us, to reproduce, adapt for display, and publicly display the destination's name, address, title, description and images, your business name, your icon, your line and the tags you pick, for the purpose of displaying and operating the service and the Round Archive — on the board, in the Round Archive, in the board's preview image, in the host's dashboard and in notifications about the board — for as long as the listing exists and for as long as the archive records it. The licence covers nothing else: it does not let us use your name, your destination or your icon in our own marketing, or in any material that names you as a customer or an endorser, without your consent. The archive is permanent, and a settled round is never rewritten.

The licence is subject to the IP Complaint Process, the DMCA Process and the law: a listing removed under either process, or under an order we must obey, stops being displayed on the board and its link stops sending visitors on, whatever this licence says. The Round Archive is a record of settled rounds; section 14 and the Privacy Policy say what it keeps.

You warrant that you have every right needed to grant that licence; that the destination and everything on it comply with the Acceptable Use Policy and the Prohibited Content Policy; that the destination is what it appears to be and will stay reachable; and that nothing you supply infringes anybody's rights or breaks any law. A rights holder's route to us is the IP Complaint Process. Send a copyright notice to the designated agent named in the DMCA Process, which says what the notice must contain.

7. Your identity: addresses, links and accounts

A listing belongs to the address that paid for it. When your first bid completes, the email address you gave becomes the listing's owner address. Your receipt and a magic link go to it. Only the holder of that link can raise the listing, and the outbid-alert box is part of a raise. A link expires after 24 hours; going on to pay for a raise uses it up, even if you do not finish paying, and saving your listing's line and tags with it does not. Every bid receipt, outbid alert and approval notice carries a fresh one, and your listing's manage page offers to send a new one to the owner address. Keep the address secure: whoever can read its mail can manage the listing.

Nobody else can pay into your listing, and you cannot pay into anybody else's. A listing at $0 — a carried row or a house entry — belongs to nobody yet and goes to whoever pays the minimum bid first. A paid listing leaves the board once refunds bring its total to $0, and its destination is open again the same way: whoever pays the minimum bid for it first takes it. When another sponsor takes a listing over, the previous sponsor's business name, line, tags and icon are removed from it and never shown under the new sponsor's placement. A listing that was rejected, removed or put on hold by a dispute is closed for the round (Bid Rules, section 7). If two people are in checkout for the same new destination, the first payment to complete takes the listing and the other is refunded (section 5).

A sponsor account is created for your address at your first paid bid and is optional to use: it is not usable until you claim it by opening a link we mail to that address. It gathers, under one login, the listings whose owner address the account has proved that way. From the account you can see your listings across every board, save boards, set a display name, add or change your business name, your icon and your line on a listing, and mint an API key that reads a board's public standings with your own listings marked. An API key is a secret: keep it safe, and we may revoke it. Raising a listing always goes through the magic link, even when you are signed in. You are responsible for everything done with your account, your links and your keys.

We may disable a sponsor. A disabled sponsor cannot start new bids from any address the account holds; every placement they already paid for stands to the end of its round, and nothing is refunded on that account. There is no self-service deletion of an account or a listing record. To ask what we hold about you, or to ask for it to be removed from where the Privacy Policy allows, write to the address at the top of this document.

8. Notifications and consent

  • Transactional mail is part of the service. Receipts for every payment, a placement receipt when a round you were listed in ends (the rank you finished at, the best rank you held and for how long, and the archive's address), the magic link, refund notices, the notice that your card is held for a host's approval (with its link to cancel) and that a hold was released, and notices that a listing was approved, rejected, removed or reinstated go to the owner address, and you cannot opt out of them while you hold a listing.
  • Outbid alerts are opt-in. You receive an email when another sponsor's bid lowers your listing's rank only if you ticked the box asking for one when you paid — at your first checkout or on a later raise. You may turn them off at any time from the link in any such email; that link asks first and acts only when you confirm. Once you have unsubscribed, ticking the box on a later bid does not turn alerts back on; only the "turn alerts back on" button on the unsubscribe page does. We send at most one outbid alert per listing per hour.
  • Marking our mail as spam turns outbid alerts off for that address.
  • No message we send asks you to pay an amount or quotes one you could pay. A receipt states what was charged — bid, service fee, any tax and total — and a refund notice what was returned; an outbid alert quotes bid totals as standings and never a charge. The all-in total of a raise is shown on your listing's page when you decide to pay.

9. Moderation, and what we and the host may do

A listing is the sponsor's content, not ours: we do not create it, we do not edit it, and we are not obliged to review it before it is shown. The tags a sponsor may pick are words we wrote; which one a listing shows is the sponsor's choice and statement, and we do not check the offer a tag names. Where we do act on a listing we act in good faith under the policies these Terms name.

Every board has a review setting the host chooses — a board a host creates starts on pre-approval unless the host picks another: a listing goes on the board as soon as it is paid; it goes on the board at once and is flagged for the host's review; or, under pre-approval, it is held — unseen, with no rank — until the host approves it, except that a paid listing that takes over a house entry, a carried row or another sponsor's placement that refunds took off the board goes on the board at once and is flagged for the host's review. The Bid Rules describe each.

The host may approve, reject, suspend or remove a listing on their board. We may do the same on any board, and we may suspend a whole board or a host. The consequences for your money are the Refund Policy's, and only these:

  • a listing the host rejects under review, or one a round ends on before the host has reviewed it, is never charged — its card hold is released — or, where the payment was already taken, is refunded except the card processing (row 3);
  • a listing removed for your own breach of the Acceptable Use Policy or the Prohibited Content Policy is not refunded (row 2);
  • a listing removed through the host's or our own fault, or a board we suspend mid-round, is refunded in full or pro-rated, except the card processing (row 4). On a permanent board a row-4 refund is full: there is no round length to pro-rate against;
  • a suspension is reversible and decides nothing about money until it resolves.

Some checks are automatic and happen before or without a person: a destination containing a term on our prohibited-keyword list is refused when you submit it; a destination on a website the board's host has blocked — the site itself or any address under it — is refused when you submit it, before any payment; a destination added to our denylist stops being linked the moment it is clicked and goes to a person for review; destinations are re-checked at least once a day, when a payment completes for a listing nobody has checked since it last changed hands, and whenever somebody reports a listing, each check reading where the destination lands and its title and description for prohibited words; images are scanned before they are served. We record signals about bidding patterns — a paying address that belongs to a member of the host's own team, one address paying an outsized share of a board's volume, a destination that imitates another, a card declined in a pattern that looks like card testing — for a person to review. We hold no card number. A refused payment's opaque card id is kept only to count distinct cards in a card-testing pattern, and a person may compare a checkout's recorded address and fingerprint to identify a returning repeat infringer (IP Complaint Process, section 6, and the DMCA Process, section 7, once it is published); nothing matches them automatically to refuse you. A refusal by a host's blocked websites is recorded (up to 100 new records a board a day, and none where the request's network address cannot be read or the record fails to be written) — the website typed, the step, when, a one-way hash of the network address under our own key and, at the start of payment, the email address typed — and a checkout's recorded address and email may be compared with that record, automatically, to decide whether a placement got round a host's block (section 10; Refund Policy row 2). Recording a signal refuses nothing by itself.

We may limit how often any address, account or key may call the service, and a request over the limit is refused, not queued.

A report from a visitor is recorded and reviewed by a person. It never takes a listing down by itself, and we do not promise the reporter a reply.

10. What hosts may do, as it affects you

The Host Terms govern the host. As it affects a sponsor:

  • a host may stop a board at any time. The page stays up, every placement already paid for keeps showing — to the end of its round, or for as long as its total holds it on a permanent board — new bids stop, and nothing is refunded;
  • a host may change a board's minimum bid, bid step, cadence, opening hours or review setting. A change to the cadence or hours applies from the next round; a raised minimum bid does not bind a listing already on the board;
  • a host may pin up to three unpaid house entries of their own, in a labelled section below every paid listing. Paying for one of those destinations takes the listing over;
  • a host is barred from presenting their board as their recommendations and from adding any review-style layer to it;
  • a host may decline or remove a listing under stricter rules of their own — a topic they do not want, a competitor, a tone — and may refuse a website before you pay, through the board's list of blocked websites, which takes no listing already on the board down. After the checkout has refused a website, getting round that refusal — through a redirect, a link shortener or another address of the same business — is evading a refusal the checkout gave you, a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy, and a listing we remove for it is not refunded (row 2). The only rules whose breach forfeits your payment are ours, the Acceptable Use Policy and the Prohibited Content Policy (Refund Policy, row 2). A listing a host declines before it is shown is never charged, or, if its payment was already taken, is refunded except the card processing, whatever the reason (row 3); a listing removed after it was shown for a rule of the host's own — one you were not told of before you paid, or one you were — is a removal through the host's fault, and row 4 applies. The Host Terms, section 6.6, carry the host's side of this;
  • a host may issue a refund from their own Stripe account at their discretion (Refund Policy, row 8). We do not promise that any host will.

If we suspend a board as a platform takedown, the placements on its live round are refunded under row 4. If we disable a host, their boards keep their pages and their live rounds, every placement stands, and no money moves.

11. Chargebacks and disputes

If something is wrong with a charge, write to us first; most problems are quicker to fix than a dispute. If you dispute a charge with your card issuer:

  • Stripe debits the disputed amount from the host's Stripe account at the moment the dispute is opened, and your bid's contribution is taken off your listing's total at the same moment. If the dispute is on your own listing, or is coded as fraud, or leaves the listing below the board's minimum bid, the listing is suspended — but if refunds had already brought your listing to $0 and another sponsor has since bought that spot, their placement is never suspended for your dispute;
  • the card network decides the dispute. If it decides for you, the money it returned stays returned and the deduction from your listing stands (row 6). If it decides for the host, the card network returns the disputed amount to the host and the deduction is put back; no refund reaches you for the dispute itself — but a refund a platform decision already owed on that payment while the dispute held it (your listing declined in review, or taken off the board by a board suspension or by the platform through no fault of yours) is issued then (row 7) — unless the platform had issued that refund before the dispute and Stripe reversed it because the charge was disputed: the platform cannot issue it again, and asks the host to refund you from their own Stripe account. The listing goes back to the state the dispute took it from — unless the round has ended by then: once the last dispute on the listing closes, a listing never shown is declined and a shown one is marked as ended with its round. The settled record is annotated and never re-ranked — unless another sponsor had bought the spot after refunds ended your placement, whose record carries no note. An inquiry — a card issuer's request for information before any chargeback — takes nothing off your listing and suspends nothing; if it becomes a chargeback, the above applies from then;
  • we give the card issuer the record the Refund Policy's "Disputes" section lists — your two ticked statements with their instant and version string (section 4), the charge, the ranks and clicks, and the board's and archive's addresses.

If you dispute a charge for a placement that was delivered as these Terms describe, we contest it with the record above. We may refuse further service to an address that disputes a delivered placement, and the Refund Policy's rows 6 and 7 say what happens to the listing.

12. What we do not promise

We do not promise, and you do not rely on:

  • any amount of traffic, clicks, visitors, attention or conversions;
  • any return, revenue or result from a placement;
  • any rank, or that a rank will last — a rank lasts exactly as long as your total holds it;
  • any effect on search-engine standing — every destination link is marked rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", which asks search engines not to treat it as an endorsement, and we do not control what they do with it;
  • the host's endorsement, recommendation or opinion of your destination — every listing on a board is a paid advertisement except the two labelled kinds that hold no money (section 1), and every board says so;
  • that a board will run for any particular time, that a round will be followed by another, or that a host will keep their board published;
  • that the service will be available at any particular moment. A payment that completes while the service is unavailable is applied when it is delivered to us; a payment that cannot be applied is refunded under the Refund Policy.

13. Visitors

You may read any public page without an account. When you click a listing you are sent to the sponsor's destination through our redirect, and the click is counted; a board may show rounded click counts, and exact counts are never public. We do not vouch for any destination. You may report a listing from the board; see section 9 for what a report does. You may not scrape, mirror or automate access to the service except through a documented interface, and you may not interfere with a board, a checkout or another person's listing. The Acceptable Use Policy applies to visitors too.

14. Intellectual property

The service — its software, design, text, and the name OnTheList.Live — is ours or our licensors'. These Terms give you no right in it beyond using the service as these Terms allow. Your destination, your business name, your icon and your line stay yours, subject to the licence in section 6. The board's title, logo and arrangement are the host's or ours. The Round Archive is a record we publish and keep, and its contents are ours to display for as long as we run the service.

If you send us suggestions, we may use them without owing you anything.

15. Disclaimer

The service is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim every warranty not stated in these Terms, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that a board will be visited, or that any destination is safe or accurate.

Nothing in this section limits the one thing the sale does promise (section 3): every paid bid receives a displayed placement, or is refunded under the Refund Policy.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

  • we are not liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or data, however it arises;
  • our total liability to you for everything arising out of these Terms or the service, in contract, tort or otherwise, is capped at the greater of our fees you paid us — the part of the service fee that is ours — in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim and US$100;
  • the host, not us, is the seller of your placement. A claim about whether a placement was delivered as sections 3 to 6 describe is a claim under that sale, and the Refund Policy is its remedy — a remedy we perform (section 1): you write to us, we issue the refund the policy owes on the host's account, and you never have to work out whether the host or we were at fault to be issued; a claim about the host's board, business or conduct outside the service is against the host alone.

Nothing in this section limits or excludes either party's liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability that cannot be limited by law. Nothing in it caps a refund the Refund Policy owes you. Some laws do not allow some of these limits. Where that is so, they apply to you only as far as the law allows, and section 19's consumer sentence stands.

17. Indemnity

If you are a business, you will defend and indemnify us, and hold us harmless, against any claim, loss, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your destination, your listing, anything you supply, your breach of these Terms or of any policy they name, or your breach of any law or of anybody's rights — except to the extent a claim arises from our own negligence, wilful misconduct or breach of these Terms. We notify you promptly of any such claim; we may take over its defence at our own cost; you cooperate with the defence; and neither of us settles a claim in a way that admits fault on the other's behalf without the other's consent.

18. Termination

You may stop using the service at any time. A placement you have paid for is delivered whether or not you use the service afterwards, and stopping is not a reason for a refund.

We may suspend or end your use of the service, disable a sponsor account, revoke links and keys, and remove listings, at any time and for any reason, with or without notice. If we do so because you breached these Terms or a policy they name, your placements are removed under Refund Policy row 2. If we do so for any other reason, your placements either stand to the end of their round or are refunded under row 4. Sections 4, 6 (the licence, for as long as the archive records the listing), 11, 12 and 14 to 21 survive the end of these Terms.

19. Governing law and disputes with us

These Terms are governed by the law of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. If you deal with us as a consumer rather than as a business, any protection you have under the mandatory law of the place you live still applies to you.

Any dispute between you and us that we cannot resolve by talking is brought in the state or federal courts sitting in Travis County, Texas, and you consent to their jurisdiction. Before bringing a claim, you will write to us at the address at the top of this document and give us thirty days to respond. That waiting period does not delay a complaint to a regulator, a dispute with your card issuer, a takedown notice under the IP Complaint Process or the DMCA Process, or urgent relief from a court.

20. Changes

To the service. We may change, add to or withdraw any part of the service at any time. A change never alters a placement already paid for: its rank is computed under the rules in force when the payment completed, and it is delivered under the Refund Policy in force then. If we close the service, delivery of every placement ends with it: we treat a closure as our suspension of every board, so every payment behind a live round is refunded under row 4 of the Refund Policy, everything but the card processing, and the Round Archive stays online for as long as we reasonably can keep it. A host cannot close a board that holds paid placements (Host Terms, section 8); a host may only stop new bids on it (section 10), and if we suspend it the Refund Policy's row 4 applies.

To these Terms. We may change these Terms. Every version carries a version string, and a new version gets a new one. The version string recorded with your payment (section 4) names the rules in force at that checkout, and those rules govern that payment; a later version governs later bids and your continued use of the service. If a change is material we email every sponsor account and every owner address with a live listing at least 14 days before it takes effect. The current version is always at /legal/terms, and its version string is printed on it.

21. General

  • These Terms and the documents they name are the whole agreement between you and us about the service.
  • If a court finds any part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest stands.
  • You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor to the service.
  • Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.
  • Neither party is liable for a failure or delay caused by events outside its reasonable control — including failures of Stripe, a card network, a hosting or email provider, or the internet — except that this does not excuse an obligation to pay money or a refund the Refund Policy owes.
  • You may send us any notice by email to hi@moretime.ai; a notice the law requires to be served in writing goes to the postal address in the header. Notices to you go to the owner address on your listing or the address on your account.
  • Apart from the limited agency in section 1, nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment between you and us, or between you and a host.

22. Contact

Write to hi@moretime.ai, or to the postal address at the top of this document. Contact and Support says how a sponsor with no account and only a magic link reaches a person, and what to do if the link has expired.