Terms of Use.

1. Acceptance

By visiting TAKEOVER, signing in, uploading advertising material, purchasing or defending a spot, or using a company link displayed on the page, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy, Payments, Rules, and Advertising Content policies incorporated into them.

When the purchase flow presents an agreement checkbox, checking it and proceeding to payment is an express confirmation that you had an opportunity to review and agree to these Terms and the linked policies before paying.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter contracts on behalf of yourself or the business you represent.

2. What you are buying

TAKEOVER sells temporary control of digital advertising space on one webpage. A purchase does not transfer ownership of TAKEOVER, the domain, underlying software, or any other advertiser's property.

Each numbered spot has a current price. An available spot may be purchased at its displayed starting price. An occupied spot may be taken by completing a valid purchase at or above the displayed takeover price. Unless otherwise stated, placement continues until another valid takeover replaces it, the placement is removed under these Terms, or TAKEOVER suspends or discontinues the applicable service.

A placement is not real property, leased property, an investment, a security, an escrowed asset, or a perpetual hosting right. It has no guaranteed resale value, cash value, minimum duration, traffic level, or entitlement to continued operation of TAKEOVER.

Owners of touching spots may choose a Combined display or a Divided display. Combined territory may unlock a short description, offer or pricing line, and one supporting image. TAKEOVER may automatically resize, rearrange, simplify, crop, hide, or fall back to a compact one-spot design as territory changes. If a combined block loses one or more cells, the remaining placement automatically reflows to the space still owned.

3. Passwordless access

TAKEOVER may use email-based passwordless authentication. You are responsible for maintaining control of the email account used to access your spots and for all changes made through that account. Do not use an email address or business identity you are not authorized to represent.

4. Purchases, takeovers, and defenses

A completed takeover purchase is a purchase of advertising placement, not a refundable bid deposit. When you take a spot from another advertiser, the prior advertiser is not ordinarily entitled to a refund simply because their placement ended.

An existing owner may raise the displayed level of their own spot. When TAKEOVER offers this defense feature, the owner pays only the disclosed difference between the existing level and the new level.

Multi-spot purchases must satisfy the connectivity and pricing rules shown in the purchase flow. Prices and ownership are validated on TAKEOVER's server when Checkout begins and again when payment completes.

If the board changes while you are completing Checkout and your paid purchase can no longer obtain the quoted territory, TAKEOVER may reject the stale takeover and automatically return that transaction instead of assigning outdated territory. See the Payments Policy.

5. Advertiser content and sole responsibility

Advertisers, not TAKEOVER, are solely responsible for the advertising they submit. This includes the accuracy, legality, safety, substantiation, and completeness of company names, logos, images, descriptions, prices, discounts, offers, product or service claims, warranties, availability claims, testimonials, trademarks, and destination websites.

You represent that you own or have all rights, licenses, permissions, and approvals required to display every item you submit. You also represent that your advertisement and business comply with applicable advertising, consumer-protection, intellectual-property, privacy, licensing, tax, and industry-specific laws.

You grant TAKEOVER a limited, non-exclusive license to host, resize, crop, display, cache, reproduce, and technically adapt submitted materials as necessary to operate and promote the service.

TAKEOVER does not create, verify, certify, guarantee, recommend, sponsor, or endorse advertiser claims merely because an ad is displayed.

6. No duty to pre-screen; moderation and takedowns

TAKEOVER may use automated or manual moderation, but does not undertake a duty to investigate, verify, monitor, or pre-approve every advertiser or claim before publication. The presence of an advertisement is not a representation that TAKEOVER has checked the advertiser.

TAKEOVER may remove, disable, restrict, or replace content immediately when it receives a credible report or reasonably believes content may involve fraud, scams, impersonation, infringement, malicious links, unlawful activity, safety risk, misleading claims, prohibited goods or services, or other material legal or operational risk.

Anyone may report a placement through the Contact page. We may request supporting information, preserve records, cooperate with payment providers or lawful authorities, or restrict repeat offenders. Removal for a policy violation does not necessarily create a refund right.

7. Third-party businesses, websites, products, and services

Advertisers are independent third parties. TAKEOVER is an advertising platform and is not a party to any transaction, contract, quote, appointment, purchase, delivery, service, warranty, refund, employment relationship, or dispute between a visitor and an advertiser.

Visitors are responsible for independently evaluating an advertiser before sending money, sharing information, purchasing a product, hiring a service, relying on a price or claim, or following an external link. TAKEOVER does not guarantee that an advertiser is licensed, insured, solvent, genuine, qualified, available, or able to perform what it advertises.

Advertisers are solely responsible for fulfillment, customer service, taxes, permits, licenses, product safety, service quality, warranties, refunds, chargebacks arising from their own customers, and disputes concerning their own goods or services.

8. Availability, suspension, and permanent discontinuation

TAKEOVER does not promise uninterrupted, continuous, or permanent operation. The website, purchasing system, authentication, payment functions, ad display, domain, or any individual feature may be delayed, limited, paused, migrated, changed, suspended, or permanently discontinued at any time.

Reasons may include maintenance, security incidents, abuse, legal or regulatory concerns, provider failures, payment issues, hosting or domain problems, technical defects, data integrity issues, financial or business considerations, or a decision that continuing all or part of the service is no longer practical.

If TAKEOVER is temporarily unavailable, a placement does not automatically earn an extension, replacement exposure, impression credit, refund, or other compensation. Any stated protection or exclusivity period may continue to run during an outage unless TAKEOVER expressly grants an extension.

If TAKEOVER permanently discontinues the service, all remaining placement rights end when the applicable service ends. Advertisers have no contractual right to force TAKEOVER or its operator to keep the website, domain, payment system, or advertising board online. Refunds, if any, are governed by the Payments Policy and applicable law.

TAKEOVER may pause new purchases before or during a shutdown, maintenance event, investigation, migration, or other operational change. Obvious display or configuration errors may be corrected, and a transaction materially affected by TAKEOVER's own error may be reversed or refunded where appropriate.

9. Events outside reasonable control

To the fullest extent permitted by law, TAKEOVER and its operator are not responsible for delay, interruption, data loss, failed delivery, reduced availability, or inability to perform caused by events outside their reasonable control. These may include failures or changes involving hosting, cloud infrastructure, CDN, DNS, domain registrars, email providers, authentication providers, payment processors, banks, card networks, internet or telecommunications services, power, cyberattacks, denial-of-service attacks, malware, third-party software, government action, changes in law, natural disasters, fire, flood, severe weather, labor disruptions, public-health emergencies, war, terrorism, civil disorder, or similar events.

10. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

TAKEOVER does not promise any particular number of visitors, clicks, impressions, leads, sales, revenue, publicity, search ranking, conversion rate, or minimum placement duration.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, TAKEOVER and its operator disclaim liability arising from or related to advertiser-created content, fraudulent or misleading advertiser conduct, scams, inaccurate prices or claims, third-party products or services, external websites, malware on third-party destinations, intellectual-property violations by advertisers, customer disputes with advertisers, or a visitor's reliance on an advertiser's representation.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, TAKEOVER is provided on an “as available” and “as is” basis without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, continued operation, permanent hosting, or error-free operation. TAKEOVER and its operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost business, lost opportunity, lost exposure, lost traffic, lost data, reputational harm, or similar losses arising from use, interruption, suspension, modification, or discontinuation of the service.

Where applicable law does not permit a complete exclusion, aggregate liability arising from a TAKEOVER placement or platform transaction will be limited to the amount paid directly to TAKEOVER for the specific transaction giving rise to the claim, except to the extent a different limitation is required by law.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

11. Advertiser indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, an advertiser agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TAKEOVER and its operator from third-party claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, settlements, penalties, and reasonable legal fees arising from or related to: the advertiser's submitted content or destination site; the advertiser's products, services, prices, offers, claims, fulfillment, or customer disputes; alleged infringement or misuse of another party's intellectual-property or privacy rights; the advertiser's fraud, misrepresentation, unlawful conduct, or regulatory noncompliance; or the advertiser's breach of these Terms.

12. Prohibited conduct

You may not manipulate payments, probe or bypass security controls, automate abusive purchase attempts, interfere with other users, exploit race conditions, submit fraudulent payment information, impersonate another business, distribute malware, misstate prices or material terms, or use TAKEOVER unlawfully.

13. Changes

TAKEOVER may change its number of spots, starting prices, minimum takeover increment, visual layout, creative formats, payment provider, authentication method, moderation systems, availability, or other mechanics. Changes do not retroactively convert a completed purchase into a guaranteed minimum duration unless expressly stated.

These Terms may be updated prospectively. The effective date above identifies the current version.

14. Governing law and support

Unless mandatory law requires otherwise, these Terms are governed by applicable United States federal law and the law of the state in which the operator maintains its principal place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Before escalating a dispute, contact TAKEOVER through the support page so the matter can be reviewed.