Terms of Sale.

1. Who you are contracting with

The ledger is operated by IP Strategy UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Neuss (“we”), whose details are in the Impressum.

Dodo Payments acts as our merchant of record. That means Dodo is the seller of record for the transaction: it takes the payment, handles VAT and sales tax, and issues your receipt. Dodo's own buyer terms apply to the payment itself alongside these terms. Everything about the listing, the ranking and the crest is between you and us.

2. What is sold

A single purchase buys, together:

• A ranked listing on the public ledger for one year, showing your name, your link and your one-line description, positioned by total capital deployed.
• A title corresponding to your total, as set out in the Rules.
• A numbered digital crest — bearing your house's mark (the emblem published at the address you list, retrieved automatically where possible, otherwise a gold monogram of your house name) and the regalia of your title, supplied as a 1080 × 1080 image file for social use.

Delivery

The listing appears on the ledger once payment is confirmed. The crest is sent to the email address on your payment automatically, typically within minutes of confirmation and no later than 24 hours. No physical goods are shipped.

What is not included

No guarantee of traffic, clicks, exposure, business outcome or return of any kind.

3. How a contract is formed

Submitting a bid is an offer. The contract is formed when the payment is confirmed and your listing is placed. We may refuse or reverse an entry, refunding it in full, only on objective grounds: where the content standards in clause 6 are not met, where Dodo Payments' acceptance policy prohibits the entry, where we are required to by law or by a competent authority, or where we reasonably suspect fraud or an unauthorised payment.

You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract. Where you bid on behalf of a business, you confirm you are authorised to do so.

4. Price and payment

You choose your own amount at or above the minimum, in increments of €100. The full amount is charged at once when you pay. All amounts on this site are stated exclusive of VAT. The tax-inclusive total for your location is displayed by Dodo Payments at checkout before you confirm the payment, and appears on your receipt.

5. Term, and the annual Tribute

A seat is held for one year from the date of purchase.

To keep the seat beyond that, an annual Tribute of €1,000 falls due on each anniversary. It counts toward your cumulative total in the same way as any other payment.

If the Tribute is not paid, your listing simply stops being shown. Titles already earned and crests already issued remain yours; the seat does not. There is nothing to cancel — not paying is the cancellation.

6. What you supply, and our standards

You provide a name, a link and an optional one-line description, and we may retrieve the emblem or logo your site publishes at that address to render your crest. You confirm that you own or are licensed to use all of it — the name, the link, the description and that emblem — and you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to display and reproduce it on the ledger, in the crest, and in our own promotion of the ledger, for as long as your listing runs.

We refuse and refund entries that are unlawful or deceptive, that impersonate another party, or that promote malware, adult content, gambling, weapons, pharmaceuticals, hate material, or anything Dodo Payments' acceptance policy prohibits.

7. Right of withdrawal

Consumers in the EU have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within fourteen days, without giving a reason. Your purchase has two components, and the right works differently for each:

• The crest — digital content. If you expressly consent to immediate supply and acknowledge that you thereby lose the right, and we confirm that consent to you on a durable medium, the withdrawal right for the crest expires when it is supplied.
• The one-year listing — a service. Even where you ask for it to begin immediately, you may still withdraw within the fourteen days. If you do, we refund the payment minus a proportionate amount for the period the listing has already run at your request.

You are asked for the immediate-performance consent when you bid, and it is restated in the order confirmation we email you. The full withdrawal instruction, the model withdrawal form, and the effects of withdrawal are in the Refund & Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these terms.

8. Availability and liability

We aim to keep the ledger available but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. We may change the design, the tier thresholds or the mechanics; changes do not reduce a title already earned.

We are liable without limit for injury to life, body or health, for intent and gross negligence, and under mandatory statutory liability. For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation, and then only for foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract, capped at the amount you paid. Nothing here limits rights that cannot be limited by law.

9. Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence. For merchants, the place of jurisdiction is Neuss, Germany.

Should any provision be invalid, the remainder stands.