Please read these in full before using the service, especially the bolded parts. Completing payment means you accept all of these terms.

1. Nature of the service

1. AI-bid (the "Platform") provides a paid-placement disclosure service: users pay for a display slot, and the Platform publishes the ranking derived from cumulative paid amounts.
2. The Platform makes no recommendation, endorsement, or warranty as to the truthfulness, legality, or effectiveness of any listed content. Rank reflects paid amount only and is unrelated to content quality.
3. "Placement" means a specific position on the Platform's pages; "Advertiser" means the person or entity that pays for and receives a placement.

2. Accounts & eligibility

1. An Advertiser must be an individual of full legal capacity, or a duly incorporated and validly existing legal entity.
2. Completing payment means you have read and accepted all of these terms. Business users must ensure the person acting has proper authority.
3. One entity may hold several listings, but may not split itself across entities to evade content review or abuse controls.

3. Listing content rules

1. Listing content must be truthful, accurate, and reachable. It must not contain false or misleading statements, and must not deceive or mislead consumers.
2. Prohibited content includes, without limitation: pornography, gambling, drugs, violent extremism, terror content, unlawful content, cults, fraud, phishing, infringement of third-party rights, and forged credentials.
3. Prohibited advertising claims include unsubstantiated superlatives ("world's best", "number one", "100% guaranteed") and absolute figures you cannot evidence. Comparative claims must be verifiable.
4. Certain categories — medical devices and pharmaceuticals, health supplements, financial services, education, real estate, franchising, and alcohol — require prior submission and approval of the applicable licence. Tobacco and vaping, prescription medicines, and crypto assets / NFTs are never accepted (full list on the licence upload page).

4. Bidding & ranking

1. Rank is based on cumulative paid amount; higher amounts rank first. Ties go to whoever reached the amount first.
2. Identical target URLs are normalised (scheme unified, www. and trailing slash removed, utm_* parameters dropped) and later payments accrue to the existing entry.
3. The Platform may manually review abnormal spikes (over 300% within 24 hours); during review the rank is frozen for up to 4 hours.
4. The Platform offers no "rank guarantee" or "rank lock" service. Anyone claiming to guarantee a rank is not authorised by the Platform.

5. Payment & settlement

1. Fees are collected via the merchant-of-record (MoR) checkout. A payment is deemed successful on the signature-verified asynchronous callback from the payment provider.
2. Orders that fail signature verification, or that the payment provider later flags as fraudulent or charged back, may have their placement revoked without refund.
3. Invoices are issued within 3 business days of request and reflect the actual service. Requests to change the item description or to overstate the amount will be refused.

6. Display periods

1. Periods are 7 / 30 / 90 / 365 days. On expiry the entry leaves the front-page recommendation, but its cumulative amount is not reset.
2. A fee is treated as service started once paid. Renewal before expiry is allowed and accrues to the same cumulative total.
3. Where display is impossible for reasons on the Advertiser's side (dead URL, expired domain), the period is not extended.

7. Refunds

1. Placement fees are in principle non-refundable. The refundable cases, process, and timelines are set out in the Refund Policy.
2. Fees are not refunded where content was taken down for a breach; if a review finds the Platform erred, the fee is refunded in full.

8. Enforcement

1. The Platform operates three-tier review: automated pre-screening, manual sampling, and report response.
2. On finding a breach, the Platform may take one or more of: require a fix within a deadline, hide the description, take down the entry, freeze amounts, blacklist the Advertiser, or report to the competent authority.
3. Minor breaches get a 24-hour fix window. Serious breaches (unlawful content, fraud, third-party infringement) are taken down immediately without refund.
4. Third-party claims, administrative penalties, or criminal liability arising from listed content are borne by the Advertiser alone. Where the Platform pays first, it may recover the full amount from the Advertiser.

9. Intellectual property

1. Page design, code, trademarks, and datasets are owned by the Platform.
2. The Advertiser warrants that submitted names, descriptions, and icons are its own or properly licensed, and grants the Platform a free licence to use them for display.
3. Bulk scraping, mirroring, or reselling of the Platform's ranking data is prohibited. For programmatic access, use the open API.

10. Liability

1. The service is provided "as is". We do not warrant uninterrupted, error-free, or risk-free operation.
2. Our total liability to an Advertiser is capped at the amount that Advertiser actually paid for the relevant listing.
3. We are not liable for interruptions caused by force majeure (natural disaster, war, government action, carrier failure, large-scale cyber-attack).
4. We make no promise as to clicks, conversion rate, or sales volume for any listed content.

11. Changes to these terms

1. We may amend these terms for legal or business reasons, announcing changes on-site at least 7 days in advance.
2. Continuing to use the service means you accept the amended terms. If you disagree, you may stop using it and open a ticket to settle any unperformed part.

12. Governing law & disputes

1. These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules — chosen to match the Platform's merchant-of-record and data-processing arrangements inside the EEA. Mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence remain unaffected.
2. The parties will first attempt to resolve any dispute in good faith. If unresolved within 30 days, the dispute is referred to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Dublin, Ireland; EU/UK consumers may alternatively bring proceedings in their local courts.
3. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect.