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Terms of Service

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These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your use of PYRAMIDIOCY (the “Site”), a piece of internet architecture where anyone may pay to place a brick and receive a rank and a caste label. By buying a brick, or by using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not lay a brick. The monument will not notice either way.

“We,” “us,” and “the pyramid” mean the operator of the Site. “You” means you, the person laying a brick or looking at the monument. These Terms, plus the Privacy Policy and the checkout screen you click through, are the entire agreement between us. Nothing on the Site is financial, legal, or tax advice; it is a pyramid.

SECTION I — THE BRICK (what you are buying)

A brick is a permanent digital placement inside a decorative, collaborative artwork. When you pay, we record your tribute amount, a display name, an optional decree, a color swatch, a mason’s mark, and (above a threshold) an optional link, and we render a brick at a position determined by the rules below. What you receive is a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to have that entry displayed on the Site, subject to these Terms. You do not acquire property, and no property acquires you.

A brick is not a security, a share, a token, a coin, a deposit, a stored balance, a financial instrument, or a stake in any business or pooled fund. It confers no ownership of the Site, no equity, no voting rights, and no entitlement to money, goods, or services of any kind, now or later. It is a spot on a picture of a pyramid and a caption underneath it. Buy one for the bit, not because you expect anything back — because nothing comes back.

The brick is digital content, supplied and displayed immediately upon confirmed payment. Delivery is complete the moment your brick is publicly visible at its position.

SECTION II — THE ONE DIRECTION (money)

Money flows in a single direction: from you, to the pyramid, once. There are no cash-outs, no prizes, no jackpots, no pooled pot, no distributions, no redemption, no resale, and no secondary market. You cannot transfer, sell, trade, gift, pledge, or redeem a brick or a position. A tribute buys display, not a balance: we hold no funds for you and there is nothing on account to spend, withdraw, or send elsewhere. There is no mechanism by which a brick sends money back to you, and none will ever be added. If someone offers you money for your position on the pyramid, they are lying to you or to themselves.

Tributes are final and non-refundable, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to Section IX for buyers with statutory withdrawal rights. Once a brick is laid, the payment is complete and will not be reversed, prorated, or credited, including if your rank falls, your caste changes, your link is removed, your brick is hidden, the monument changes shape, or you simply change your mind. We may make an exception in our sole discretion; an exception is grace, not precedent, and creates no right to another.

Refunds and disputes. Payments are processed by Stripe. Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory refund or card-dispute rights. You may contact us using Section XIII for payment help. An approved or legally required refund reduces the affected purchase’s tribute credit; a partial refund reduces it by the refunded amount. Disputed credit may be suspended while the dispute is resolved and restored if resolved in our favor. Other paid contributions remain intact. Placement with no remaining funded credit no longer displays advertising, and website links require the applicable tribute threshold. We retain private transaction evidence to resolve disputes and review suspected abuse. Cancellation, a legitimate refund or exercising a legal right does not itself establish abuse.

SECTION III — THE SORT (how position works)

Position is determined solely by the total amount paid toward a brick. Higher tribute sits higher. Ties are broken by seniority: the brick laid earlier ranks above a later brick of the same amount (elders outrank the newly arrived). The minimum tribute is $1, as stated at checkout. You may top up an existing brick; a top-up adds to that brick’s total and re-sorts it, and never resets its seniority. The single highest brick is the capstone. That is the entire ranking system. There is no other criterion, no algorithm, no favoritism, and no way to buy a position other than by paying for it. Anyone — a person, a poet, or a brand — buys on these same terms.

SECTION IV — THE CASTES (commentary, not credentials)

Based on your rank we assign a caste label (for example, from PHARAOH down to DUST) and it may change as other people pile in above or below you. Caste labels, altitude, tier names, reign engravings, and any status flavor are commentary and entertainment. They are not a grade, a credential, a promise of value, a guarantee of visibility, or a representation about you or anyone else. A caste can shift, up or down, at any time as the monument grows, and that is the joke, not a defect. The Site may also display ambient, procedural, or historical bricks that are part of the artwork and not purchases.

SECTION V — THE AGE OF MAJORITY (18+)

The Site is for adults. By laying a brick you represent that you are at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live, if higher), that you have the legal capacity to enter this contract, that you are buying for your own entertainment and not on behalf of a person who could not, and that you are not subject to sanctions that prohibit us from transacting with you. We do not verify identity or age and are not obligated to. If we learn a brick was laid by a minor, we may remove it, and will refund it where the law requires.

SECTION VI — THE INSCRIPTIONS (content rules and your license to us)

Customization is deliberately narrow: a display name, an optional decree, one color from a curated palette, one mark from a curated set, and — at or above the link threshold — one link. Character allowances scale with tribute and are shown at checkout. There are no image uploads, ever.

You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, display, reproduce, and adapt (for formatting and rendering) your name, decree, mark, and link as part of the monument — including in share cards, sample views, screenshots, and promotion of the Site. The monument is public; expect your brick to be seen, linked, and screenshotted by strangers. You represent that you have the rights to whatever you inscribe.

Links are locked until a brick’s total reaches $50. When shown, an outbound link is rendered with rel="nofollow noopener" and, when clicked, sends the visitor through a plain “You are leaving the pyramid” interstitial. A link on a brick is not an endorsement, verification, partnership, or recommendation by us of the destination or of anyone. We do not vouch for anything you click. We may screen links (including with automated safety tools) and may refuse or remove any link at any time.

You agree not to submit a name, decree, or link that:

SECTION VII — THE CHISEL (our unconditional removal right)

We may edit, hide, unlink, reposition, or remove any brick, name, decree, color, mark, or link, in whole or in part, at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice and without a refund. This is an unconditional right, not a promise to police the monument, and not a promise to act on any particular report. Stripping a link or hiding a brick does not entitle you to your tribute back — see Section II. Where a law requires us to tell you why content you supplied was restricted, we will, and the reason will be one of the rules above.

We may also suspend or terminate your ability to lay or modify bricks if you breach these Terms, abuse the Site, or repeatedly submit infringing content. We maintain and enforce a policy of terminating repeat infringers’ access in appropriate circumstances.

SECTION VIII — THE SCRIBES’ COMPLAINT DESK (reports and copyright)

Do not attempt to break, overload, scrape at scale, probe, or defraud the Site, and do not use it to harm others. If you see a brick, decree, or link that violates Section VI, use the report mechanism on the Site or email us (Section XVI) with the brick’s address and the problem. Reporting flags an item for review; it does not guarantee a specific outcome or timeline. We may act on, ignore, or set aside reports at our discretion, subject to any law that says otherwise.

Copyright. If you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent (Section XVI) including: identification of the work, the exact brick or URL, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that your notice is accurate and you are authorized to act, and your physical or electronic signature. We will remove or disable content we determine to be infringing and may notify the inscriber, who may send a counter-notice with the statutory contents; we handle both per 17 U.S.C. § 512.

SECTION IX — THE FOURTEEN DAYS THAT AREN’T (EU/UK buyers)

If you buy from the EU, EEA, or UK, distance-selling law gives you a 14-day right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content — unless you expressly consent to immediate supply and acknowledge that you lose that right when supply begins. Checkout is built on exactly that: by ticking the consent box (“Tributes are final. The pyramid keeps everything.”) and paying, you (a) request and expressly consent to the immediate supply of your brick before the withdrawal period ends, and (b) acknowledge that your right of withdrawal is lost once the brick is placed, which happens at confirmed payment. Your receipt confirms this consent on a durable medium. If you do not consent, do not complete the purchase — we do not offer delayed placement, and the pyramid has never been in a hurry.

Mandatory rights. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that the law of your country of residence grants you that cannot be limited by contract, including statutory guarantees that digital content conform to its description. Our description is these Terms: a brick, a rank, a caste, and nothing.

SECTION X — THE SAND (no warranties)

The Site is provided “as is” and “as available,” with no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uptime, or that your brick, rank, caste, decree, or link will remain visible, accurate, or unchanged. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or eternal. It is a monument on the internet; treat it accordingly. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

SECTION XI — THE CEILING (limitation of liability)

To the fullest extent permitted by law: (a) we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of status, position, visibility, data, goodwill, or amusement, arising out of or relating to the Site, even if advised of the possibility; and (b) our total liability for all claims relating to the Site or a brick will not exceed the greater of the amount you actually paid us for the brick at issue or US $50. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by applicable law, including for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence where non-waivable, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

SECTION XII — THE SHIELD YOU HOLD FOR US (indemnity)

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold us harmless from claims, damages, penalties, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from a name, decree, mark, or link you submitted, your use of the Site, or your breach of these Terms. We may assume the defense of any matter subject to indemnification, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate. This section does not apply where prohibited by consumer law.

SECTION XIII — THE QUIET ROOM (disputes, in this order)

Talk first. Before filing any claim against us, you agree to email us a description of the dispute (Section XVI) and give us 60 days to resolve it informally. Most disputes here are small, deliberate, and printed on the front of the monument in advance; the scribes resolve what can be resolved.

Small claims welcome. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead of anything grander.

Individual capacity. To the fullest extent permitted by the law that applies to you, any claim must be brought in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding. If this waiver is unenforceable where you live, it does not apply to you, and the rest of these Terms stand.

One year. Except where the law forbids shortening the period, any claim relating to the Site or a brick must be filed within one (1) year after it arose, or it is permanently barred. Monuments outlast grudges by design.

SECTION XIV — THE MAP (governing law and venue)

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute not resolved under Section XIII will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware — except that if you are a consumer with a legal right to sue or be sued where you live, or under your local law, that right is preserved.

SECTION XV — THE LIVING STONE (changes, and the boring clauses that hold the roof up)

Changes. We may update these Terms and the Site itself (features come, wonders go, the monument weathers). When we change the Terms we will revise the “Effective” date above, and for material changes we will post a notice on the Site. Continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept it; changes never apply retroactively to a tribute already paid, and never entitle you to one back.

Taxes. Amounts shown at checkout are the full price we charge; where the law requires, sales tax or VAT is calculated and added or included at checkout and remitted by us. Government charges are the one fee even the pyramid cannot decline.

Electronic dealings. You consent to contract electronically and to receive receipts, notices, and legal communications at the email you provide, or by posting on the Site if you provide none.

Assignment. We may assign these Terms in connection with a transfer of the Site (monuments change hands; ask Egypt). You may not assign them, because a brick is personal and non-transferable.

The usual masonry. If a clause is held unenforceable, it is severed and the rest stand. A failure to enforce is not a waiver. No agency, partnership, employment, or fiduciary relationship is created by these Terms — we owe you a rendered brick and dry commentary, nothing fiduciary. There are no third-party beneficiaries. Sections I, II, VI, VII, and X through XV survive any termination. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages, disasters, and acts of god or gods.

SECTION XVI — THE SCRIBES’ DESK (contact)

Questions, disputes, reports, and copyright notices go to support@pyramidiocy.com. See also our Privacy Policy. The scribes read everything and answer in the order the sand allows.

Customer support: support@pyramidiocy.com · (844) 354-BRIX

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