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Terms

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Effective [DATE]. Last updated [DATE].

These Terms govern access to and use of droptick.io (the “Service”), including the promoted link, the category archive and checkout. By using the Service or completing a payment you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. They work alongside the Rules; where the two conflict, these Terms control.

1. Operator

The Service is operated by Carsten Sachse, Taunusstrasse 42a, 61440 Oberursel, Germany. Contact: me@carstensachse.de. Full provider details are in the Imprint.

2. What the Service is

Droptick sells one promoted link on its front page, once per calendar week, at a price that falls over time and is disclosed only on request. The link is paid advertising. It is not an editorial review, certification, endorsement or independent ranking, and there is no ranking, score or ordering on this site for it to influence.

3. What a purchase does and does not buy

A completed purchase buys exclusive placement as the only promoted link on the front page from the moment our payment provider confirms payment until the next Monday 08:00 Europe/Berlin time (the “Period”). During the Period nobody else can buy the slot and no later payment displaces you. That exclusivity is the product.

The Period is whatever remains of the current week at the moment you pay, and the price reflects that. It is stated on the button, in checkout, on the invoice and on the confirmation page. The Period does not extend, renew or carry over.

A purchase does not buy traffic, clicks, customers, revenue, leads, a search-engine ranking, coverage beyond the Period, or any particular commercial result. We may change, pause or discontinue features.

4. Who may buy

The slot is sold exclusively to entrepreneurs within the meaning of § 14 BGB, acting in the course of their trade or profession. By completing checkout you confirm this, and if you are buying for a company that you are authorised to bind it. You may not use the Service if you are barred from receiving services under the law of Germany, the European Union or another applicable jurisdiction, including trade sanctions.

5. Price, formation of contract and payment

The price opens at €10,000 every Monday 08:00 Europe/Berlin time and falls over the week in irregular hourly steps along a curve we do not publish and that differs from week to week. At any given moment the price is the same for everyone. It is disclosed to you on request, once per 30 minutes, and only after you have entered the address you intend to promote. A disclosed price is not an offer and is not held for you; the price charged is the price at the moment checkout opens, which is never higher than the last one disclosed to you.

Opening checkout reserves the slot for 10 minutes and freezes your price for that time; it does not reserve it beyond that. The contract is formed when payment is completed and confirmed by our payment provider, not when checkout opens. Performance begins immediately upon confirmation.

Payment is processed by Stripe; we never see card numbers. Stripe's own terms apply to the payment itself. No VAT is charged (small-business rule, §19 UStG). The amount disclosed is the amount charged and the amount invoiced; no tax is added at checkout. Business customers in other EU member states are asked for their VAT identification number for reporting purposes. An invoice is issued automatically.

If two payments for the same Period complete, the earlier one prevails and the later is refunded in full.

6. Your listing: warranties

By submitting a URL and completing payment you represent and warrant that:

• you own the destination or are authorised to represent it;
• the destination displays valid, current provider details identifying who is legally responsible for it, to the extent the law applying to that site requires them;
• the listing and destination comply with applicable law, including advertising, consumer, data-protection, intellectual-property and regulated-industry rules;
• you are not impersonating another person, brand or company, and are not claiming the slot for a competitor without authorisation;
• the destination is not malware, phishing, or a site whose main purpose is to deceive visitors;
• the information you submit is accurate and kept accurate.

7. What we will not run

We do not accept links to:

• adult or sexual content, and adult platforms;
• chat, invite or messaging-group links, and link shorteners or redirects that hide the real destination;
• gambling, and offers requiring licences the advertiser does not hold;
• content that is unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, hateful or violent;
• counterfeit goods and other infringement of third-party rights;
• misleading claims, including invented results or testimonials.

Because the link goes live automatically, review happens after publication. If a listing breaches these Terms we may take it down at any time; in that case we refund the unused part of the Period pro rata by time, and nothing further is owed. If the breach was deliberate — impersonation, malware, unlawful content — we may withhold the refund and reserve further claims.

8. What is public

Your company name, destination link, its title, description and icon, the category you picked, the week, the price you paid and the click count on your link are shown publicly and may be indexed by search engines. Past weeks stay visible as an archive. The price paid being public is deliberate: an advertisement that hides what it cost reads as an editorial choice, and this site must never read as one. Do not buy if you do not want those details shown.

9. Rights in listing material

To display the link we fetch and show publicly available information about the destination: name, title, description and icon. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, cache, resize and publicly display that material and your listing for as long as needed to run the Service and keep a record of past weeks.

Third-party names and logos are used solely to identify the destination being advertised. That is not an affiliation with, or endorsement by, the rights holder unless the advertiser is that rights holder.

10. Complaints and rights notices

If you believe a listing infringes your rights or that a destination is unlawful, email me@carstensachse.de with your contact details, the destination, a description of the problem, and a statement that your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act. We may restrict or remove the listing while we review, and may pass the notice to the advertiser.

11. Availability

We provide the Service as-is and do not warrant uninterrupted availability. If the front page is unavailable for more than [4] hours in aggregate during your Period, you may request a pro-rata refund for the affected time.

12. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health, and under mandatory product liability rules. For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an obligation essential to this contract, limited to the foreseeable damage typical for it, and in no case more than the amount paid for the Period the claim concerns. We are not liable for lost profits, lost data or goodwill, or other indirect or consequential damage. [Review against §§ 307 ff. BGB.]

13. Indemnity

You will indemnify us against claims, damages and reasonable legal costs arising from your listing, your destination, your breach of these Terms or your infringement of third-party rights.

14. Law and venue

German law applies, excluding the CISG and conflict-of-law rules. For merchants, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is [CITY].

15. Changes and general

The Terms in force are those published when you bought. If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands. Failure to enforce a clause is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a transfer of the Service.