Legal
Terms of Service
The short version. You must be 18. You sign in with Google and prepay a wallet through Stripe. Publishing spends $1 from that wallet and puts your message on the public internet at your-title.a7a.io for one week. Wallet money is not refundable. You own what you write and you are responsible for it. We only remove content that is illegal or dangerous. Washington law applies.
The full terms below control if anything in this summary differs.
1. Agreement
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and A7A.IO LLC, a Washington limited liability company (“A7A,” “we,” “us”). They govern your use of the website at a7a.io, every subdomain of a7a.io, and the related services (together, the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. The Service contains profanity and unfiltered opinion and is not intended for minors. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements. The Service is in beta and access may be limited to invited users at our discretion.
3. Your account
You sign in with a Google account. We receive your name, email address, and profile photo from Google. You are responsible for keeping your Google account secure and for everything that happens under your A7A account. Notify us at a7aezay@a7a.io if you believe your account has been used without your permission. We may refuse, suspend, or close an account that violates these Terms.
4. Wallet and payments
Publishing is prepaid. You add funds to a wallet in U.S. dollars through Stripe, our payment processor. Stripe handles your card details under its own terms and privacy policy; we never see your full card number. Your wallet balance is a prepaid credit toward Service fees. It is not a bank deposit, does not earn interest, and has no cash value outside the Service.
Top-ups are not refundable except where applicable law requires a refund. Unspent balance stays in your wallet and can be used for future publishing. If we discontinue the Service we will tell you in advance and either let you spend your balance or refund it.
Fees are shown before you confirm a purchase. Current pricing is described in Section 5. We may change pricing for future purchases at any time; a change does not affect credit you have already spent.
You agree not to dispute or charge back a Stripe payment for funds you intentionally added. If a chargeback or reversal occurs, we may deduct the amount from your wallet, suspend your account, and remove content purchased with the disputed funds.
5. Publishing
A “post” is a message you publish under a title. The title becomes a public address at title.a7a.io, and the post may also appear in the Live gallery at a7a.io/live in the order it was published. Titles are first come, first served and must use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.
- Duration and price. For a limited introductory period, publishing costs $1 and keeps a post live for seven days. We may end or change this offer for future posts. You may extend a live post before it expires; extensions are priced per day as shown at the time of purchase.
- Expiry. When a post expires it is removed from its public address and from Live. The title then becomes available for anyone to publish. We do not reserve expired titles. A record of your post remains in your My Posts page until you delete your account.
- Anonymous or named. You choose whether a post shows your name and photo or “Anonymous.” Anonymous hides your identity from visitors. It does not hide it from us, and we may disclose it where Section 10 or the law requires.
- Public. Everything you publish is public, can be read by anyone with the link, and may be indexed by search engines. Do not publish anything you need kept private.
- No guarantee of availability. We try to keep posts reachable for the paid period but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. If we remove a post for violating these Terms, no refund is owed. If a post is unavailable for an extended period because of our error, contact us and we will extend or credit it.
6. Your content
You own the content you publish. You grant A7A a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, and transmit your content for the purpose of operating the Service, including showing it at its public address and in Live. This license ends when the post is deleted, except that copies may remain in backups for a limited time and in records we must keep by law.
You represent that you have the rights needed to publish your content and that it does not violate Section 7. You, not A7A, are solely responsible for your content and for any consequences of publishing it.
7. What we remove
A7A exists for blunt, unfiltered reaction. We do not rank, filter, or editorialize, and we do not remove content because it is rude, offensive, profane, or critical of a public figure or institution. We do remove content, and may suspend the account behind it, when it is illegal or dangerous, including:
- Content that sexually exploits or endangers minors.
- True threats of violence, or incitement to imminent violence against a person or group.
- Doxxing: publishing a private individual’s home address, phone number, government ID, financial account details, or other non-public personal information.
- Content that infringes a copyright or trademark, when we receive a valid notice (Section 8).
- Malware, phishing, or links designed to compromise devices or steal credentials.
- Spam, automated bulk publishing, or attempts to game title availability.
- Content a court or competent authority has ordered removed.
You also agree not to interfere with the Service, probe or attack its infrastructure, scrape it at volume, impersonate A7A, or circumvent payment, rate limits, or access controls.
8. Copyright claims
If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to a7aezay@a7a.io with the subject “Copyright notice.” Include: the work you claim is infringed; the exact URL of the post; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We will remove or disable access to content identified in a valid notice and notify the poster, who may send a counter-notice. We may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
9. Opinion and third-party content
Posts are written by users, not by A7A. They express the views of the people who publish them. A7A does not endorse, verify, or take responsibility for any post. A7A is an interactive computer service and is not the publisher or speaker of user content. If you believe a post about you is unlawful, contact us and we will review it under Section 7.
10. Enforcement and legal requests
We may remove content, suspend or terminate accounts, and take other reasonable steps to enforce these Terms or protect the Service and its users. We may disclose account information, including the identity behind an anonymous post, when required by law, subpoena, or court order, or when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to prevent imminent harm or to investigate a violation of Section 7.
11. Termination
You may stop using the Service at any time and may request deletion of your account by emailing a7aezay@a7a.io. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service. On termination for violation, unspent balance is forfeited. On termination for any other reason, Section 4 applies to your balance. Sections 6 through 16 survive termination.
12. Beta service and changes
The Service is in beta. Features may change, break, or be withdrawn. We may update these Terms. If a change is material we will post the new version here with a new effective date and, where we have your email, notify you. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the change. If you do not accept, stop using the Service.
13. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that posts will remain available for any period, or that content on the Service is accurate or lawful.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, A7A and its members, managers, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from or related to the Service or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility. Our total liability for all claims arising from the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to A7A in the twelve months before the claim or one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
15. Indemnification
You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless A7A and its members, managers, employees, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, or expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from your content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.
16. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us at a7aezay@a7a.io and try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least thirty days. Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in King County, Washington, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. Either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.
17. General
- These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and A7A about the Service.
- If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
- Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
- You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor of the Service.
- Notices to you may be sent to the email address on your Google account. Notices to us go to a7aezay@a7a.io.
18. Contact
A7A.IO LLC
Washington, United States
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