Terms of Service

1.Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and the legal owner of raliess.com ("Raliess," "we," "us," "our"), which owns and operates the Raliess brand, website, and software (together, the "Service"). By creating an account, installing the software, enabling earning, funding a campaign, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind it, and "you" means both you and that organization.

2.Definitions

• Developer — a user who installs the software and earns a share of ad revenue for ads displayed on their device.
• Advertiser — a user who funds a campaign to have ads served on a Surface.
• Surface — a place an ad is shown: the terminal / CLI, the editor extension, or the browser. Each Surface runs its own independent auction.
• Block — a unit of ad inventory equal to 1,000 qualifying impressions on a chosen Surface.
• Qualifying impression — a genuine on-screen view of an ad, at least five (5) seconds, during a real wait while the user is active, verified server-side.
• Bid — the price an Advertiser offers per Block on a Surface, at or above that Surface's floor.
• Balance — a Developer's accrued, not-yet-withdrawn earnings.

3.Eligibility & Availability

You must be 18 or older and able to form a binding contract to use the Service, and sign-up requires an affirmative age attestation (Privacy Policy, Section 12). The Service is available only where its operation is lawful; you are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you, and you may not use the Service if doing so is prohibited where you are. We may decline, suspend, or limit the Service to anyone at our discretion, including where required for legal, fraud-prevention, or operational reasons.

4.Accounts & Device Pairing

You are responsible for your account and for keeping your sign-in secure. Provide accurate information and keep it current. One account per person, and one device per account: a given account can be paired to only one machine at a time, and a given machine can hold only one account at a time. Attempting to attach a second device says the account is already paired (remove the first); attempting to attach a different account to a paired device says the device is already connected (sign out first). You may move to another device by removing the current one. Operating multiple accounts, sharing accounts, or circumventing device pairing to inflate earnings is prohibited (Sections 9–10) and may result in forfeiture and termination.

5.How the Service Works (Developers)

When an AI coding assistant on your machine is generating, the software may display one short sponsored line or card in the dead space. It appears only during a genuine wait and only while you are active; it is dismissible, never covers the assistant's answer, and disappears when the answer arrives. The software reads only local session state to time display and never reads or transmits your prompts, code, file contents, or the AI's output (Privacy Policy, Section 4). Earning is opt-in; you may turn it off or sign out at any time, which stops ad display and further accrual. Ads are served from our own advertiser auction — we do not sell or share your identity with advertisers.

6.Earnings, Payouts & Withdrawals

6.1 Revenue share. For qualifying impressions and other earning-eligible engagement, you accrue 60% of the net advertising revenue attributable to ads displayed on your device. The remaining share supports operating the Service. Rates and the share may change prospectively on notice under Section 20.

6.2 Accrual. Earnings accrue to your Balance only for impressions verified server-side as qualifying (Section 2). Views under five seconds, views on idle or unattended windows, and any activity flagged as invalid do not accrue.

6.3 Withdrawals. Once payouts are enabled for your account, you may withdraw when your Balance exceeds the then-current Payment Threshold (currently US $2), subject to a daily withdrawal limit of US $10.00. Payouts are made to the destination you choose — for example UPI or a Virtual Visa — and can take up to 14 days to deliver. You are responsible for providing an accurate destination; a wrong, invalid, or non-existent destination cannot be recovered, and we cannot reimburse funds sent to a destination you supplied.

6.4 Taxes. You are solely responsible for any taxes on your earnings and for any information or documentation required by law. We may withhold or report as required.

6.5 Fraud screening & forfeiture. Payouts are subject to review. We may withhold, reverse, or forfeit any Balance or earnings we reasonably determine arose from fraud, invalid traffic, prohibited conduct, or a breach of these Terms (Section 9). Earnings are not a wage, guarantee, or entitlement, and no minimum is promised.

6.6 Dormancy & closure. On account deletion we first pay out any Balance eligible for payout, then close the account (Privacy Policy, Section 13). Abandoned balances are handled in accordance with applicable law.

7.Advertisers — Campaigns, Bidding & Payment

7.1 Campaigns & auction. You create a campaign by providing your ad, choosing a Surface, setting a Bid per Block (at or above that Surface's floor), and choosing how many Blocks to buy. Each Surface runs its own auction; the highest eligible Bid on a Surface serves first, and lower Bids queue behind it. Delivery depends on available inventory and is not guaranteed by a deadline.

7.2 Funding in USDC. Campaigns are funded in USDC. The amount due is your Bid × Blocks, shown before you pay. You must send exactly the amount shown. Because settlement is on a public blockchain, transfers are irreversible: over-payments, under-payments, wrong-network transfers, or sends to an incorrect address cannot be recovered or refunded, and we cannot help recover them. Funds are applied to your campaign after on-chain confirmation.

7.3 No refunds. Amounts paid are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated by us in writing. Unspent budget is consumed as impressions/clicks deliver; remaining budget is governed by the campaign controls in the product.

7.4 Your responsibilities. You represent that you own or are licensed to use everything in your ad, that it is accurate and not deceptive, and that it complies with Section 8 and all applicable law. You are responsible for your destination URL and its content.

8.Advertising Content Standards

Ads and destinations must not: be illegal, deceptive, or fraudulent; infringe intellectual-property or other rights; contain malware, cryptojacking, or unwanted software; impersonate a person or brand; promote hate, harassment, violence, or discrimination; target or exploit minors; or contain sexually explicit, self-harm, or other content prohibited by applicable law or our published policies. We may review, reject, label, pause, or remove any ad or campaign at our discretion, with or without notice, and may refuse service to any Advertiser. Approval or serving of an ad is not our endorsement of it.

9.Fraud, Abuse & Enforcement

9.1 You must not generate or attempt to generate invalid, non-genuine, or artificial impressions, clicks, or earnings by any means, including bots, scripts, emulators, automation, click farms, incentivized or hidden displays, running tools solely to farm impressions, or manipulating detection.

9.2 We operate automated and manual systems to detect fraud, invalid traffic, and abuse. We may, at our discretion, filter or discount events, withhold or reverse earnings, pause serving, limit features, suspend, or terminate accounts.

9.3 We may share the minimum information necessary with our providers to investigate and prevent fraud and abuse, as described in the Privacy Policy.

9.4 Enforcement decisions are made in good faith based on the signals available to us; a decision does not waive our other rights.

9.5 Earnings determined to be fraudulent or non-qualifying may be forfeited (Section 6.5); Advertiser funds tied to fraud or abuse may be withheld.

9.6 We may report unlawful activity to authorities where appropriate.

9.7 Human review. Where an automated fraud- or abuse-prevention decision produces a legal or similarly significant effect for you (for example, forfeiting a Balance or terminating your account), you may request human review by contacting [email protected]. You may share your point of view, and a person not involved in the original decision will reconsider it. We will respond within a reasonable time.

10.Acceptable Use & Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to: use the Service unlawfully or in breach of these Terms; interfere with, disrupt, or overload the Service; probe, scan, or bypass security or rate limits; reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract source except to the extent applicable law prohibits that restriction; resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service except as expressly allowed; scrape or harvest data; misrepresent your identity; create multiple or shared accounts or circumvent device pairing; or use the Service to build a competing product from our confidential information. You also agree not to display ads in a way that is deceptive, hidden, involuntary, or otherwise contrary to Section 5.

11.USDC Payments & Blockchain Risks

Advertiser funding and, where applicable, payouts involve digital assets (such as USDC) and public blockchains, which carry inherent risks: transactions are irreversible, network fees and confirmation times vary, wrong-address or wrong-network transfers are unrecoverable, and stablecoin value or availability may fluctuate or be affected by third parties outside our control. You are responsible for your wallet, keys, and network selection. We are not a bank, money transmitter, exchange, or custodian of your wallet, and we do not provide financial or investment advice. You are responsible for complying with any laws applicable to your use of digital assets.

12.Intellectual Property; License to the Software

The Service, including the software, website, designs, and content, and all intellectual-property rights in them, are owned by the legal owner of raliess.com or our licensors. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the software solely to use the Service as intended. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. You retain your rights in the ad content you submit and grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, reproduce, adapt (for formatting/display), and display it to operate and promote the Service and to serve your campaign. "Raliess," our logos, and product names are our trademarks; do not use them without permission.

13.Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it for any purpose without obligation to you.

14.Third-Party Tools & Services

The Service runs alongside third-party developer tools, editors, browsers, AI assistants, wallets, and payout and infrastructure providers. We do not control those third parties, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their acts, availability, terms, or content. Your use of them is governed by their own terms. The software is designed to be non-intrusive and reversible and does not modify third-party tools beyond what is necessary to display an ad in dead space; if you uninstall or disable the Service, that display stops.

15.Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect and how we use and share it, and forms part of these Terms. In short: we never read your prompts, code, or the AI's output; we are a first-party advertising platform and do not share your identity with advertisers or sell your data to brokers.

16.Disclaimers

The service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that any amount of earnings, impressions, delivery, or fraud detection will be achieved. Any material downloaded or obtained through the service is accessed at your own risk.

17.Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the legal owner of raliess.com and its officers, employees, and providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, earnings, data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the service, even if advised of the possibility. Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amounts you paid to us, or that we paid to you, in the three (3) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted.

18.Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the legal owner of raliess.com and its officers, employees, and providers from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to your ad content, your use or misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms or applicable law, or your infringement of any third-party right.

19.Term & Termination

These Terms apply while you use the Service. You may stop at any time by turning off earning, uninstalling, or deleting your account. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, including for breach, fraud or abuse, legal risk, or discontinuation of the Service. On termination: your license to the software ends and you must stop using it; we pay out any Balance eligible for payout and handle the rest under Section 6 and the Privacy Policy; and Sections that by their nature should survive (including 6.5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16–18, and 20–23) survive.

20.Changes to the Service & These Terms

20.1 We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time.

20.2 When we make a material change to these Terms, we will update the effective date above and provide reasonable advance notice by a notice on the website, an email, and/or a notice in the product before the change takes effect, except where an immediate change is needed for legal or security reasons. Your continued use after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you do not agree, stop using the Service before then.

21.Governing Law & Disputes

Before bringing a formal dispute, you agree to contact us at [email protected] and try in good faith to resolve it informally for at least 30 days. Any claim must be brought within one (1) year after it arises, to the extent permitted by law. Nothing here deprives you of any protection of mandatory law that applies to you.

22.General Provisions

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service and supersede prior agreements. Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and the provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or asset sale. No agency. No partnership, agency, or employment is created. Notices. We may give notice by email, the website, or the product; you contact us under Section 23. Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures beyond our reasonable control.

23.Contact Us

Questions about these Terms: [email protected]. Privacy questions and requests: [email protected].

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