Terms of Service

You accept these Terms when you do any of the following: browse the Site; click a listing; submit company name, email, or destination URL; start Stripe Checkout; complete payment; occupy a slot; or use a private owner-desk link we issue after purchase.

Checkout copy stating "By completing payment you agree" is confirmation, not a second contract. Payment is acceptance. If you represent a company, you warrant that you are authorized to bind it and that the company is bound.

The operator is The Valley, doing business at thevalley.bot. No other trade name on a listing, deed PDF, or email changes the contracting party.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. The Site is a commercial sponsorship product for businesses, not a consumer toy and not a real-estate marketplace.

We may refuse, suspend, or reverse a purchase if we reasonably believe you are under 18, lack authority, submitted false buyer data, or are using the Site for a prohibited purpose. A refused or reversed unauthorized attempt does not create occupancy.

We may update these Terms. The effective date at the top of this page is the current version. For material changes we will post the new Terms on the Site and, when we have your email on file, may also send notice. Continued use of the Site or continued occupancy after the new effective date is acceptance of the updated Terms.

A Terms change does not convert a completed digital purchase into a refundable order. It also does not freeze the 3D world, camera, mesh, or art direction as they existed on your purchase date.

The Valley is a living miniature city of the technology industry at thevalley.bot. Sponsors buy time-limited or perpetual digital rights to occupy, brand, and link from specific inventory inside that city: buildings, parcels, boards, and other listed surfaces.

The Service includes the public city, Market, public Deed Registry, public sample report, private owner desk, transactional email, weekly intelligence for occupied Stripe listings, and related checkout and fulfillment. Features may change. We have no obligation to provide support, a particular camera angle, a particular visitor count, or a particular neighboring tenant.

Editorial fixture companies you see in the city are scenery and city life. They are not your competitors' live occupancy unless the listing shows a paying owner. Do not treat fixture presence as a sold-out market or as a performance baseline.

Every SKU on the Site is a digital good: virtual sponsorship, occupancy, customization, and related reporting rights inside TheValley.bot. Nothing you buy is real property, physical land, a leasehold, an easement, legal real-estate title, a deed to earth, equity, stock, a membership interest, a security, a commodity, a derivative, a deposit, a loan, a profit share, a dividend, a yield product, or any other financial instrument.

A Valley Deed represents perpetual digital sponsorship, customization, and occupancy rights to a specific virtual property inside TheValley.bot, subject to The Valley's Terms. It is not real property, physical land, legal real-estate title, equity, or a security, and it does not guarantee investment yield, appreciation, or income.

Marketing language such as "own forever," "move in," "deed," "parcel," "air rights," "registry," or "the internet has real estate now" is product voice for a virtual city. It does not create real-property rights, a recorded interest under any recording statute, or an investment contract. You are not buying an expectation of profit from our efforts.

• No title insurance, survey, closing, escrow of land, or county recording.
• No right to exclude the public from the internet or from the Site.
• No guarantee of appreciation, resale, income, leads, or identified accounts.
• A misunderstanding that you bought physical land or a security is your error. It is not a defect in the digital good and not grounds for a refund or chargeback.

Ordinary live listings use three commercial classes. Prices are set by the live pricing service for that listing and are shown at checkout. These Terms do not quote prices.

• 7 DAYS — a one-time, time-limited placement. Branding and destination rights last about seven days from fulfillment, then the slot returns to market unless you buy another term. Weekly is a short campaign, not a lease and not a Deed.
• 30 DAYS (Residency) — a monthly Stripe subscription. Branding and destination rights last for the paid period. Cancel at period end as described below. Residency is the bridge to a Deed (price lock, first-month credit, and ROFR) when the listing and product knobs allow it — those are product rules, not refunds.
• Deed — perpetual *digital* occupancy, customization, and sponsorship rights to the specific inventory identity, subject to these Terms. A Deed is not a frozen mesh, not a promise the skyline never changes, and not real-estate title.
• Takeover — campaign/media inventory only, when a listing is allowed to sell that class. The window expires. The surface returns to market. Takeover is not a Deed.

Time-limited placements expire automatically. When they end, your logo, name, and destination come down. We may immediately relist the inventory. Expiration is not a breach and not a refund event.

A listing may be ineligible for a Deed (for example, protected inventory). SKU eligibility is enforced at checkout. If a class is not offered on that listing, you cannot buy it by asking support to override the product.

Your rights attach to the inventory / slot identity (the listing and its object id), not to a particular triangle of geometry, a particular neighboring building, a particular camera preset, or a particular day's pedestrian traffic.

The Valley may relocate, restage, retopologize, re-light, replace, or update the 3D world, districts, roads, life, and sponsor surfaces. We may move how a slot is visualized so long as we continue to associate your paid occupancy with that inventory identity. A restage is not a taking of real property and not a failure of delivery.

Fixture companies are not occupants. A fixture on a nearby lot does not mean that lot is sold. Your occupancy is the paid overlay on your listing. Do not treat scenery as a comparable sale or as guaranteed adjacency.

Deed architectural rights and a founding rebuild, when included, are requests into the world/build pipeline. They are not self-serve mesh replacement from checkout. We may approve, queue, adapt, or decline a customization that would break the city, violate law, or violate these Terms.

The digital good is delivered immediately when payment succeeds. Delivery means we reserve or activate the listing, attach your buyer record, and begin occupancy fulfillment: name/logo/destination on the slot as the pipeline allows, receipt email, and — for a Deed — registry/PDF when generated.

Because this is a digital good that is reserved or goes live on successful payment, you understand you are not buying a shippable item, a cooling-off catalog good, or an undelivered service package. The slot is taken off the open market for your term. That is the delivery.

A hold during checkout is a short reservation so two buyers cannot pay for the same open slot. If you abandon Stripe Checkout, fail or abandon 3-D Secure, or the hold expires, the slot returns to market and you have no occupancy.

Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store full primary account numbers. Stripe Checkout creates a Payment Intent (one-time for 7 DAYS, Deed, and takeover; subscription for 30-day Residency).

3-D Secure / SCA. Your bank or Stripe may require 3-D Secure or other strong customer authentication. That challenge is part of paying, not a defect in The Valley. If you fail, cancel, time out, or abandon authentication, there is no successful charge and no occupancy. A failed 3DS attempt is not a refund because nothing was delivered and, if no charge captured, nothing is owed back.

Friction, a declined card, a lost SMS code, or a bank app you did not open is not our breach and not grounds to dispute a later successful charge on a completed order.

Taxes may be collected by Stripe where required. You are responsible for any taxes not collected at checkout.

All sales are final. Except where a mandatory consumer-protection statute applicable to your purchase requires otherwise, The Valley does not offer refunds, credits-as-cash, cancellations-for-cash, chargebacks-as-a-courtesy, or partial refunds of a paid term.

You acknowledge the good is digital, custom-allocated inventory, and delivered immediately on successful payment. You will not seek a refund or payment-network dispute for any of the following:

• Change of mind, budget change, or internal approval that arrived late.
• Dislike of creative rendering, logo treatment, lighting, camera, neighbors, or city art direction.
• Lower-than-hoped impressions, clicks, identified accounts, conversions, or destination identification.
• A world restage, district update, or visual change that keeps your rights on the same inventory identity.
• 3-D Secure / SCA friction, a bank challenge, or an abandoned authentication on an earlier attempt.
• A belief that you purchased real property, land, title, equity, a security, or a guaranteed investment yield.
• Misreading the public sample report as a baseline, forecast, or live occupancy.
• Air Rights resolving as Valley Credit of zero or of a small amount.
• Expiration of 7 DAYS, Residency, or takeover at the end of the paid window.
• Cancel-at-period-end of a Residency (you keep the paid period; you do not get that period back in cash).

See All Sales Final for the short-form policy we may present to Stripe or a card network. The short page does not limit this section.

You agree not to file a chargeback, retrieval, or payment-network dispute on the grounds listed in the no-refunds section. If you do, we may present these Terms, the checkout agreement text, Stripe Payment Intent / Checkout logs, reservation and fulfillment records, occupancy timestamps, and delivery emails as evidence that a digital good was sold, accepted, and delivered.

A chargeback does not by itself unwind occupancy. If a network reverses a charge that we reasonably contest, we may suspend the slot, remove branding, and treat the account as in default. You remain responsible for the purchase amount and our reasonable costs of contesting an improper dispute.

If a statute that cannot be waived and that actually applies to your purchase requires a refund, cooling-off right, or similar remedy, that statute controls to the minimum required extent. This is not a voluntary refund window and not an invitation to ask for one.

To invoke a mandatory right, email deeds@thevalley.bot from the buyer email on the order within any statutory deadline, identify the listing, Stripe reference, and the specific statute, and include facts showing why that statute applies to a delivered digital sponsorship good. We may request additional verification. We will evaluate the claim. We do not promise a refund while we evaluate.

Many digital-content and B2B sponsorship purchases are excluded from cooling-off rules once performance begins. Immediate allocation of a unique slot is performance.

30-day Residency is a Stripe subscription billed on a monthly interval unless the live checkout states otherwise. You authorize recurring charges until you cancel.

Cancel at period end. Cancellation stops renewal. You keep occupancy through the paid period. We do not prorate and we do not refund the current period because you cancelled mid-cycle, unused days remaining, or creative fatigue.

Failed renewal payment may end occupancy after Stripe's retry window. Loss of occupancy for nonpayment is not a refund of earlier successful periods.

When product rules say so, a qualifying 30-day Residency may include: a Deed price lock for a limited option period; a credit of a configured percent of the first month toward that Deed; and a right of first refusal if a third party tries to buy the Deed during your occupancy.

Those mechanics are product rules, not refunds. A credit reduces a future Deed quote. It is not cash, not a store credit you can withdraw, and not a partial refund of Residency. Unused option credit expires when the option expires. Weekly terms do not receive lock, credit, or ROFR unless the live product knobs say otherwise.

ROFR is a hold on a third-party Deed attempt for the then-current window. If you do not buy in that window, the third party may proceed and you have no claim to the Deed. Opening ROFR is not a sale to you and creates no refund.

A Deed purchased while a short occupancy is still running may start permanent branding when that occupancy ends. Paying for a Deed during a 7-day term does not extend the 7-day window as extra free time.

"Air Rights" on a Deed are a product benefit that may accrue Valley Credit — not cash, not a rebate, and not a revenue share. The default credit percent may be zero. A zero percent setting is not a breach.

Valley Credit, if any, applies only as the product then allows (for example, toward qualifying Valley purchases). It is not withdrawable, not transferable for money, and not a security.

Impressions, lingering views, outbound clicks, city visitors, identified accounts, sessions, conversions, match rate, and destination identification are estimates or observational counts. They are not guarantees, not SLAs, and not a basis to unwind a purchase.

Counts may undercount (bot filters, ad blockers, cookie refusal, UTM stripped by the destination, identification miss). We do not warrant that any visitor will be identified, that any account will convert, or that your destination will load.

The public report at /sponsor/sample is authored, labeled SAMPLE / ILLUSTRATIVE. It is not a baseline, forecast, median, or live occupancy. You may not treat those numbers as promised results for any listing you buy.

Weekly intelligence and Valley Mail, when sent, describe a placement you already occupy. They are not solicitations that reset your refund rights, because you have none beyond mandatory law.

You will not use the Site, a slot, a destination URL, or sponsor creative to:

• Advertise or facilitate illegal activity, or creative that is unlawful in a jurisdiction we serve.
• Impersonate another company, person, or public authority, or suggest The Valley endorses your product.
• Infringe intellectual property, publicity, or privacy rights.
• Serve malware, phishing, bait-and-switch, or a destination that unexpectedly collects credentials or payments under false pretenses.
• Traffic in weapons, illegal drugs, or other categories we reasonably refuse to host on a family-visible city.
• Scrape, harvest, or bulk-export the city, tokens, or other occupants' reports.
• Interfere with checkout, reservations, or other buyers.
• Remove, forge, or instruct us to drop required attribution parameters. Outbound destination links use `utm_source=the-valley` (and related campaign parameters). You will not strip them as a condition of the buy, and you will not represent Valley traffic as a different paid channel.

Destination URLs must be yours to use, must use https where the destination supports it, and must not redirect through an undisclosed malware or affiliate cloak that we reasonably reject. We may request a change of URL.

You grant The Valley a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, reproduce, display, adapt for the 3D city and emails, and publicly perform your company name, logo, brand color, destination URL, and other creative you submit, for the purpose of running your occupancy, the Registry, receipts, owner desk, and city reporting, and for reasonable archival and newsroom facts about the ledger.

You represent you own or have licensed those materials and the destination. The license survives for residual caches, screenshots, newsroom records, and deed PDFs that already issued.

We may take down or refuse creative or a destination that violates these Terms, law, a rights-holder complaint, or the city's standards. Takedown is not a refund. Time lost during a takedown you caused is forfeited.

Checkout collects company name, email, and optional destination URL. We may create a buyer record without a password account. Possession of a private owner-desk token is access to that occupancy's desk. Treat the token as a secret. Anyone with the link can see the desk.

You are responsible for activity using your email and tokens. Notify us if a token leaked. We may rotate a token. We are not liable for occupancy changes made by someone who had your link.

We may suspend a desk or occupancy for Terms violations, unlawful creative, chargeback abuse, or security risk.

Deeds and other occupancies are personal to the buyer of record and subject to these Terms. The Site does not currently operate a public resale marketplace. Fields that may exist in the ledger for a future transfer are not an offer to list, auction, or broker your Deed.

You may not sell, sublicense, or assign occupancy as if it were real property or a security. If we later agree in writing to record a transfer, the transferee takes subject to these Terms and any outstanding takedown or default. We may refuse a transfer that would violate law or these Terms.

Time-limited SKUs expire; they do not transfer as leftover days unless we expressly agree in writing.

The Valley city, code, art, marks, Registry design, and documentation are owned by us or our licensors. These Terms grant you only the occupancy rights you paid for, not ownership of the city or a right to copy the world.

If you send feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it without attribution. Do not send feedback you consider confidential.

Use of the Site is also governed by the Privacy Policy, including cookies, pixels, and processors. If these Terms and the Privacy Policy conflict on personal-information practices, the Privacy Policy controls for that subject.

The Site links to destination URLs you and other sponsors provide, and it uses processors named in the Privacy Policy (including Stripe, email, hosting, analytics, and destination identification). We do not control third-party sites. Their terms apply to your use of them.

Interactions with other occupants are between you and them. We have no duty to mediate.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release The Valley and its operators, contractors, and agents from claims arising out of third-party services, other occupants, or destination sites. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 1542 (unknown claims).

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless The Valley and its operators, contractors, and agents from claims, damages, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of: (i) your creative, brand assets, or destination URL; (ii) your occupancy or use of the Site; (iii) your breach of these Terms; (iv) your violation of law or third-party rights; or (v) a payment-network dispute you file in breach of the no-refunds and chargeback sections.

We may assume control of the defense at your expense. You will not settle a claim against us without our prior written consent.

THE SITE AND EVERY SKU ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT UNINTERRUPTED UPTIME, ERROR-FREE RENDERING, PARTICULAR TRAFFIC, PARTICULAR IDENTIFICATIONS, OR THAT THE CITY WILL LOOK THE SAME TOMORROW.

WHERE LAW REQUIRES A WARRANTY THAT CANNOT BE DISCLAIMED, IT IS LIMITED TO NINETY (90) DAYS FROM FIRST SUCCESSFUL PAYMENT FOR THE AFFECTED SKU, AND OUR SOLE OBLIGATION IS RE-PERFORMANCE OF THE DIGITAL OCCUPANCY OR, IF RE-PERFORMANCE IS IMPOSSIBLE, THE REMEDY THAT MANDATORY LAW REQUIRES — NOT A VOLUNTARY CASH REFUND.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST LEADS, LOST DATA, COST OF SUBSTITUTE ADVERTISING, OR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; AND (B) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS OR A PURCHASE IS CAPPED AT THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO THE VALLEY FOR THE SPECIFIC SKU AND LISTING GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. MULTIPLE CLAIMS DO NOT INCREASE THE CAP.

These limits apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose, and even if we were advised of the possibility of damages. They do not limit liability that cannot be limited under applicable law (for example, certain personal-injury or fraud claims).

These Terms apply while you use the Site and, for paid rights, for the life of those rights and any survival clauses. We may suspend or terminate access, occupancy, or a token if you materially breach these Terms, if payment is reversed, or if law requires it.

On termination of a time-limited SKU, occupancy ends. On termination of a Deed for your material breach, your perpetual digital rights end and the slot may return to market. Sections that by nature should survive (including digital-goods character, no-refunds, license leftovers, indemnity, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute provisions) survive.

If you are a California resident, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services, California Department of Consumer Affairs, 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N-112, Sacramento, CA 95834, (800) 952-5210. Under California Civil Code § 1789.3, the provider of the Site is The Valley, reachable at the contact section below.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, and other state privacy rights are described in the Privacy Policy. Nevada residents may email us to opt out of a future sale of covered information for monetary consideration; we do not sell covered information for money today.

These Terms and any dispute arising out of the Site or a purchase are governed by the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The product clock is Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles).

The parties will first try to resolve a dispute by emailing deeds@thevalley.bot with a short statement of the facts and the relief sought, and waiting thirty (30) days. That wait does not limit our right to seek injunctive relief or to contest a chargeback.

If unresolved, exclusive venue is the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California. Each party consents to personal jurisdiction there. Either party may still seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or the city, and may bring an individual small-claims action in a court of competent jurisdiction if the claim fits that court.

Claims must be brought only in your individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding, to the fullest extent permitted by law. If a court finds this waiver unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim may proceed in court solely as to that claim; the rest of this section remains. This section does not require arbitration; no arbitration forum is designated.

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the All Sales Final page, the checkout agreement text, and the SKU/eligibility rules applied to your listing are the entire agreement for the Site and your purchase. They supersede prior discussions. A deed PDF or email that quotes the Deed legal sentence does not create extra warranties.

Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent required, or severed. The rest remains in force.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a sale of the project, a reorganization, or to an operator who continues thevalley.bot.

No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. "Including" means "including without limitation."

Export. You will not use the Site in violation of U.S. export or sanctions laws.

Electronic communications. You consent to receive contracts, notices, receipts, and occupancy mail electronically. Electronic form satisfies any writing requirement.

Accessibility. If you have trouble using the Site, email deeds@thevalley.bot. We will make reasonable efforts to help.

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