Terms
Created on 12 July, 2024 • 13 minutes read
Terms & Conditions
1. Welcome to TisTos!
It’s great to have you here. These Terms, along with the linked policies, govern your use of our services – the website (https://tistos.com/), apps, and related software or features (collectively referred to as the “Platform” or “TisTos”).
When we use terms like “we,” “our,” or “us” in these Terms, we’re talking about TisTos. By using TisTos, you’re agreeing to these Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) as well as the additional policies linked here and on the Platform. Please take the time to read these Terms carefully, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. If you don’t agree with these Terms, please don’t use TisTos.
2. Changes to these Terms
TisTos is constantly evolving and improving. From time to time we may make changes to the Platform or these Terms. We may need to change these Terms from time-to-time to reflect business updates, changes to the Platform (including if we decide to discontinue any functionality, features or part of the Platform), legal or commercial reasons, or otherwise to protect our legitimate interests. We can make these changes at any time and it’s your responsibility to check these Terms now and then for any changes.
However, if a change will have a material negative effect on you, we’ll use our best efforts to notify you at least 1 month before the change takes effect (e.g. via a notification on the Platform). Your continued use of the Platform after any changes to the Terms is taken as your acceptance of the revised Terms. If you don’t agree with the changes, we ask you to please stop using TisTos and cancel your account.
3. Your Account
To create an account and become a TisTos user, you must be at least 18. If you’re creating an account on behalf of someone else, you must have their permission to do so. You’re responsible for your account and ensuring it is only used in a lawful manner. When you create an account, you agree to comply with these Terms and that you’re over 18 and legally able to enter these Terms with us. You must provide us with accurate info about yourself — if anything changes, please let us know so we can update your details.
If you’re using TisTos on behalf of a business or individual, you confirm that you’re authorized by them to agree to these Terms on their behalf. You’re responsible for anything that happens to your account, so keep your login details and password safe and don’t share them with anyone.
If you think your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately. You must not assign or transfer your account to someone else or use your account (or allow it to be used by anyone) in a way which in our reasonable opinion, causes damage to TisTos or our reputation, or infringes another’s rights or applicable laws and regulations.
4. Managing Your Plan
You can sign up to TisTos on a free or paid plan and cancel at any time. Your plan will start when you accept these Terms and continue until you cancel it. If you cancel a paid plan it will ordinarily continue until the end of your current billing cycle and then automatically convert to a free plan. To cancel, visit the billing page (https://tistos.com/account-payments). To the extent permitted by applicable law, payments are non-refundable. But we know that sometimes your requirements may change. So, if you’ve selected a paid plan, but cancel within 72 hours, we may make an exception (please email us at [email protected]).
5. Your Content
We love the variety of content that our users post on TisTos! However, we want to ensure that everyone who visits the Platform can do so safely – that’s why we have our Community Standards. These standards set out what content is and isn’t allowed on TisTos, so please make sure you follow them, otherwise we may suspend or permanently remove your account.
When we talk about your “content”, we mean the text, graphics, videos, links, products and any other materials you add to TisTos. You’re responsible for your content and you warrant that:
- The content you post is yours, or if you’re using third-party materials, you have the necessary rights to share them on TisTos (and allow us to use them as per these Terms)
- Your content will not infringe on anyone’s privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or any other rights.
- Your content is accurate and honest: it shouldn’t be misleading, deceptive, or violate any laws, and it shouldn’t harm our reputation.
- Your content is free from harmful elements like viruses or disruptive code that could damage the Platform or other systems.
- Your content doesn’t contain automated collection tools: don’t use scripts or scraping tools to gather information from the Platform.
- You will refrain from posting unauthorized ads, solicitations, or endorsements on TisTos.
- Your content aligns with our Community Standards.
Since laws and regulations can differ across the countries we operate in, we might ban content that is considered legal in some regions but not others. We reserve the right to take appropriate steps to keep TisTos safe, including content removal or access restriction.
6. What we can do with Your Content
We love your content and want to show it off. When you post content on TisTos, you grant us a licence to (i) use, publicly display, distribute, modify, adapt and create derivative works of such content; and (ii) use your name, image, voice, photograph, likeness and any other personal attributes in the content; on the Platform and in our marketing in all media (such as our social channels and any other advertising). This license is worldwide, royalty-free and perpetual, which means we can use your content anywhere in the world, without paying you fees, for as long as we like. You agree that you have all third party rights necessary to post the content on TisTos and to grant us this license.
You’ll retain all of your rights in your content. Keep in mind that your content will be publicly accessible, and may be used and re-shared by others on TisTos and across the internet.
Please don’t share personal info on TisTos that you don’t want visible to the world. Never post social security numbers, passport details or similar info that could cause harm in the wrong hands. You may only post another person’s personal information where you have their consent and have kept a record of it. We don’t have to monitor the accuracy, reliability or legality of your content, but we may choose to do so.
We may modify, remove or restrict access to content at any time in line with these Terms or apply a sensitive content warning to content that we deem unsuitable for all audiences.
7. Suspension or cancelation of your Account
If you don’t follow these Terms, or Community Standards or any other linked policies we might need to suspend or cancel your account, or take other action regarding your account or adjust how the Platform works for you. For example, if you miss paying your fees on time, we could switch your paid plan to a free one with fewer features. If you misuse Linker Monetization features, we could remove access to those features for you.
The steps we take will depend on the nature of the non-compliance. In some cases, we might not resort to suspending or canceling your account. However, if there’s a repeated or significant non-compliance, we’re more likely to consider those measures. In the event that we do suspend or cancel your account, we usually aim to notify you beforehand, although we’re not obligated to do so.
Please be aware that you won’t receive a refund for any fees paid in advance. We won’t be responsible for any content that is lost as a result of your account being suspended, canceled or downgraded to a free account (including where functionality that you previously had under a paid account is lost).
If you believe your account was mistakenly canceled or if you encounter issues with these Terms or the Platform, please get in touch with us at [email protected]. We’re committed to making good-faith efforts to resolve the matter, and neither party will initiate legal action concerning the issue until we’ve spent at least one month working together to find a resolution.
8. Your responsibility for your visitors and customers
You are responsible for your visitors, which includes customers who purchase goods or services through TisTos – collectively known as “End Users.” You bear the sole responsibility for (i) how End Users engage with your content, and (ii) ensuring compliance with all applicable laws concerning your End Users and transactions conducted between you and End Users via TisTos (e.g., through our “Commerce” or “Payment block” features). TisTos is not responsible for any products or services advertised or sold via TisTos.
Moreover, you acknowledge that any donations received through our “Support Me” feature are given voluntarily, without expectation of any goods or services in return. This feature should be utilized exclusively for personal donation collection, not for fundraising on behalf of charities or other causes.
9. Feedback
We love hearing your ideas on how we can make TisTos even better! Sometimes, we may make “beta” functionality available to you and seek your feedback. Keep in mind that if you share feedback with us, we’re free to use it however we like, without payment to you (or to not use it at all). We may from time to time make certain functionality of the Platform available to you in “beta” (or similar).
You acknowledge that we are still evaluating and testing such beta functionality and it may not be as reliable as other parts of the Platform.
10. Our Platform
We, as the owners of the Platform, grant you a limited right to use it for sharing content and interacting with other users’ content. However, please note that we are not responsible for any content, products, or services made available through other users. All rights, including Intellectual Property (IP) Rights, related to the Platform (excluding your content) (referred to as “TisTos IP”), are exclusively owned by TisTos or our licensors. You do not acquire any rights in the TisTos IP, and you are not allowed to use it, including our brand name or logo, for any purpose without our prior written approval, such as implying a partnership or endorsement from TisTos.
As a user, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to use the Platform for creating, displaying, using, playing, and uploading content in accordance with these Terms.
If we provide you with images, icons, themes, fonts, videos, graphics, or other content, please only use them on TisTos and in line with any guidelines we make available to you. Please don’t remove, hide, or alter any proprietary notices or trademarks on the Platform. Copying, reproducing, distributing, licensing, selling, reselling, modifying, translating, disassembling, decompiling, decrypting, reverse-engineering, or attempting to derive the source code of the Platform or any part of it is strictly prohibited.
When you visit TisTos as a “visitor,” we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to view and interact with the Platform through user. To the extent allowed by law, we are not responsible for any opinions, advice, statements, products, services, offers, or other content posted by other users on TisTos.
11. Privacy
At TisTos, safeguarding your privacy and that of your Visitors is our priority. Our Privacy Notice outlines how we handle your personal data for our internal purposes.
All data, including any intellectual property rights associated with it, that either we or the Platform generate from your use (or the use of visitors or other users) of the Platform or content (“Data”) will be owned by TisTos. As part of the service offered on the Platform, we might provide you with Data or visual representations of it, which we refer to as “Data Analytics.” While we make no warranties about the accuracy or completeness of the Data Analytics, we do our very best to ensure they are as accurate and complete as possible.
12. Confidentiality
From time to time, we may share information with you that is confidential (e.g. we may reveal new and upcoming features to you if you take part in beta testing with us). If we share any confidential info with you, about TisTos or the Platform, you must keep it secret and secure. You must also use reasonable measures to prevent others from accessing it. If you are participating in a Beta trial, and there is information we are comfortable with you sharing publicly as part of your participation, we will make that known to you.
13. Recommended Content
TisTos may suggest products or other content that may be interesting to you as a user of certain TisTos features, or to your audience. TisTos uses the data you provide and the data TisTos has about other users to make these recommendations. These recommendations are in no way an endorsement of the products or content by TisTos.
14. Liability
We want to clarify that we are not responsible for how you use the Platform, and it’s crucial that you maintain backups of your own content. We are not liable for any damages resulting from actions such as downloading, installing, or utilizing the Platform, or even copying, distributing, or downloading content from it. It’s on you to ensure your data, content, and devices are adequately protected and backed up while using the Platform.
You agree to protect us from any losses that arise if you breach these Terms or if a third party raises a claim against us related to your content. Neither of us will be liable for indirect, punitive, special, incidental, or consequential damages. These might include losses in business, revenue, profits, privacy, data, goodwill, or other economic benefits. This applies whether the issue stems from a contract breach, negligence, or any other cause—even if we were aware of the potential for such damages.
Our liability to you under these Terms or related to the Platform will not go beyond the greater of the fees you paid us in the 12 month period before the liability emerged, or $100.
15. Disclaimers
We want to make a few important disclaimers within these terms. When you use TisTos and explore any content on the Platform, you’re doing so at your own risk. The Platform is provided to you “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, without any warranties of any kind, whether they’re express or implied, including (but not limited to), up-time or availability, or any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or course of performance.
TisTos, its affiliates and its licensors do not make any express or implied warranties or representations, including that:
- the Platform will function uninterrupted, securely or be available at any time or place;
- any errors or defects will be corrected;
- the Platform is free of viruses or other harmful components;
- the Platform is effective or the results of using the Platform will meet your needs; or
- any content on the Platform (including any user content) is complete, accurate, reliable, suitable or available for any purpose.
These Terms apply to the maximum extent permitted by law and nothing in them is intended to exclude, restrict or modify legal rights that you may have, which cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by contract.
16. Third Party Services
TisTos collaborates with various third-party products and services. We may provide access to specific third-party features or services within the Platform, such as a payment portal or an online store. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, we do not endorse or make any warranties about any third-party products or services, nor do we offer refunds for payments made to third parties. Your use of any third-party product or service may be subject to separate terms and conditions, which you are responsible for reviewing, accepting, and complying with. Failure to accept or adhere to these third-party terms may result in the suspension, cancellation, or limitation of your account or access to these services on our Platform.