TERMS OF SERVICE

Eligibility & your account

• You must be at least 16 years old to use CLAPSTORM.
• Provide accurate information and keep your login credentials secure. You’re responsible for activity under your account.
• One person, one account — don’t create accounts to evade limits or moderation.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Post content that is illegal, infringing, deceptive, hateful, harassing, or spam.
• Submit a product you don’t have the right to promote, or post links to malware, scams, or content that violates others’ rights.
• Manipulate claps, rankings, reviews, or winners — including via bots, fake accounts, paid voting rings, or automated submissions.
• Disrupt, overload, scrape, or attempt to break the security of the service.

Your content

You keep ownership of what you post. By posting, you grant CLAPSTORM a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and share that content to operate and promote the service. You confirm you have the rights to post it, and you’re responsible for it.

Claps & rankings

Claps are a free engagement signal with no cash or monetary value; they can’t be bought, sold, or redeemed. Each weekly round opens, runs, and closes on a schedule, and we crown winners based on claps. We may adjust, reset, or recalculate balances and rankings to keep the board fair or to fix errors and abuse.

Round sponsors (optional)

CLAPSTORM sells one clearly labelled sponsor spot per round. It’s shown beside the board on the homepage and as one labelled line in the weekly digest — never on the board, in the feed, or on a launch’s page.

• It buys attention, not position. Sponsorship never touches claps, ranking, rounds, or winners — see the fairness pledge. Launching, and the dofollow link a launch earns by taking part in its round, stay free for everyone.
• Buying. Anyone with an account can book the current round or the next one on the sponsor page. A sponsorship is a one-time purchase for one whole round, not a subscription. Payments are processed by Stripe; the price, what’s included, and which round you’re booking are shown before you buy.
• No launch that round or the next. A sponsor can’t have a launch in the round it sponsors or the one after it.
• Reviewed before it shows. After paying, you add the sponsor’s image, name, tagline, and link. Nothing appears until we approve it, and changing it after approval takes it down until we approve it again. If we can’t approve it, we refund it in full.
• Your sponsor’s content. You confirm you have the rights to the image, name, tagline, and link you submit, and you’re responsible for them and for where the link leads. You grant CLAPSTORM a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host and display them, labelled as a sponsor and with the link marked sponsored, beside the board for your round and in the weekly digest sent while it runs.
• Taking a sponsor down. We may take a sponsor down if it breaks these terms. If we do, you can update it and send it back for review, or ask us for a full refund.
• Other refunds. If a problem on our side stops your sponsor from running, we’ll refund it. We don’t guarantee any number of views or clicks, and once its round has run, a sponsorship is generally non-refundable — if something went wrong, contact us and we’ll be reasonable.

Moderation & termination

We may hide or remove content, and suspend or terminate accounts, that violate these terms or harm the community — with or without notice. You can stop using CLAPSTORM and delete your account at any time.

Disclaimers & liability

CLAPSTORM is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind. We don’t endorse or vouch for any submitted product, sponsor, or link — use your own judgement. To the fullest extent permitted by law, CLAPSTORM is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the service.

Changes & governing law

We may update these terms; we’ll update the date above and give notice of material changes. These terms are governed by the laws applicable where the operator of CLAPSTORM is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email clapstorm@drizzlelabs.ltd. See also our Privacy Policy.