Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and the operator of the Adpact service ("Adpact", "we", "us") — the Adpact Telegram Mini App and its related bot and services (together, the "Service"). By accepting these Terms you agree to be bound by them.

Please also read our Privacy Policy, Refund & Dispute Policy, and TON / Blockchain Risk Disclosure — they are part of how the Service works.

1. What Adpact is — and what it is not

Adpact is a marketplace and software tool that helps advertisers and Telegram channel owners agree on ad placements. The payment for a deal is held by a per-deal smart contract on the TON blockchain (the app calls it the "escrow"); automated checks look at whether the agreed ad was posted and kept live, and the deal settles accordingly. The Service is automated: outcomes are produced by software rules, not by people, and everything is provided on a best-effort basis.

Adpact is not:

• a bank, payment processor, money transmitter, custodian, or escrow agent — we never hold your funds; payments sit in a smart contract you interact with directly from your own wallet;
• an investment platform or an exchange, and nothing in the Service is investment, financial, tax, or legal advice;
• a party to your ad deals — the deal is between the advertiser and the channel owner; we provide the tooling, the automated checks, and the settlement rails;
• a guarantor of any outcome — deals settle by what the smart contract and the automated checks actually do, and software (ours included) can have defects;
• a customer-service, arbitration, or dispute desk — there is no manual dispute or appeal; see the Refund & Dispute Policy for how outcomes are decided automatically.

2. Eligibility

To use the Service you must:

• be legally capable of entering a binding contract where you live, and meet the minimum age required by both your local law and Telegram's own terms;
• comply with all laws that apply to you — including advertising, consumer-protection, tax, and cryptocurrency regulations in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for knowing whether using a service like Adpact is lawful where you are;
• not be subject to sanctions or located in a jurisdiction where providing the Service to you would be unlawful.

3. Your Telegram account and wallet

• You sign in with your Telegram account. Anything done through your Telegram session counts as done by you — keep your Telegram account secure.
• Money flows use a TON wallet you connect and control. You are solely responsible for your wallet, its private keys or recovery phrase, and every transaction you approve in it. We never have access to your keys and cannot reverse, cancel, or recover a wallet transaction.
• Review every transaction in your wallet before approving it. A transaction confirmed on the blockchain is generally final.

4. How deals work — the accepted terms are the deal

• An advertiser publishes a campaign (the ad text, optional image or video, budget, and a posting window). Channel owners respond; the advertiser accepts one response.
• When a deal is formed, its exact terms — the creative, the price, the fee, the posting window, both payout addresses — are frozen in a snapshot. That snapshot, not any chat message or later conversation, is what the smart contract enforces. The contract is designed so that once funded, no one — including us — can change the terms.
• The outcome of a deal (payout or refund) is decided automatically by the objective rules described in the Refund & Dispute Policy.

5. Advertiser responsibilities

As an advertiser you agree to:

• provide lawful, accurate, and non-misleading ad content, and only content you have the rights to use;
• set accurate deal terms and fund the deal's smart contract from your connected wallet when you accept an offer (funding deploys the contract; you pay its deployment, storage, and transaction fees);
• understand that the automated checks — not a manual report or appeal — decide each deal's outcome, and that quality complaints which are not non-delivery belong in ratings, which never change settlement;
• not attempt to manipulate, tamper with, or defeat the automated checks.

6. Channel owner responsibilities

As a channel owner you agree to:

• only list channels you genuinely control, keep the Adpact bot added as an administrator with permission to post, and provide accurate channel information (any declared statistics must be truthful);
• post the exact agreed creative through the Service within the agreed posting window, including the required campaign tag;
• keep the post live, unedited, and its links unchanged for the agreed hold period — deleting, editing, or link-swapping an ad before the required time is treated as non-delivery;
• comply with the laws and Telegram rules that apply to your channel and its content;
• not attempt to manipulate, tamper with, or defeat the automated checks.

7. Prohibited content and activity

You must not use the Service to promote, contain, or engage in:

• scams, fraud, phishing, Ponzi or pyramid schemes, or deceptive "guaranteed profit" offers;
• illegal goods or services, including drugs, weapons, stolen data, or counterfeit goods;
• malware, spyware, or links designed to compromise devices or accounts;
• impersonation of people, brands, or organizations, or misleading advertising;
• sexually explicit content where prohibited by law or by Telegram's rules;
• hate speech, incitement to violence, or content that exploits or endangers minors;
• content that infringes copyright, trademarks, or other intellectual-property rights;
• sanctions evasion, money laundering, or structuring transactions to hide their origin;
• manipulation of the automated checks — including tampering with posts to defeat checks, colluding to simulate delivery, or exploiting the Service's automation in bad faith;
• interference with the Service itself (attacks, scraping at abusive scale, bypassing rate limits or access controls).

We may remove listings, refuse campaigns, or restrict accounts involved in prohibited activity (see Section 11); settlement of affected deals still follows the objective rules.

8. The smart contract, fees, and settlement

• Non-custodial by design. Each deal uses its own smart contract on TON. The advertiser deploys and funds it directly from their wallet. Adpact holds no user funds and has no funded wallet that could move your money.
• How settlement works. When a deal's outcome is recorded, our system signs an authorization that permits exactly one action (payout or refund) on exactly that contract. The receiving party claims the funds from the contract — the channel owner clicks Collect, the advertiser clicks Claim refund — and the claimant pays the small network fee of the claim.
• No remedies outside the contract. All money movement happens exclusively through each smart contract's own payout, refund, and timeout paths. Because we hold no user funds, we cannot reimburse, compensate, top up, or reverse anything outside those paths — whatever the reason, including defects or delays in the Service's own software.
• Platform fee. The fee is a percentage of the deal amount, between 1% and 10% (currently 10% by default; discounts — for example the advocacy discount — can lower it). The exact fee is shown before you accept a deal and is frozen with the deal terms. It is charged only on a successful payout, as an on-chain split at release. A refund carries no platform fee. Where a referral share applies, it is paid out of the platform's fee — never on top of it.
• Network fees. Blockchain transaction, deployment, and storage fees are paid by whoever sends each transaction and are not refundable (see the Risk Disclosure).
• Timeout safety net. The smart contract is built so that if a funded deal is never settled, the advertiser can reclaim the funds after a timeout — directly from the contract, with no signature from us. Details and timing are in the Refund & Dispute Policy; like everything on-chain, this depends on the contract operating as designed (see the Risk Disclosure).

9. Automated checks and their limits

• The bot checks delivery objectively: right channel, required campaign tag, matching content and link destinations, posted within the window, and kept live through the hold period. Honest deliveries are designed to be paid automatically; clear failures are designed to be refunded automatically.
• The checks are software operating on top of the Telegram platform and public networks. They can fail, run late, be unable to decide, or — rarely — record a wrong result. Deals settle by the outcome the system records; where no outcome is ever recorded, the timeout refund is the backstop. By using the Service you accept that automation, not human judgment, decides deals — including the possibility of software error — and that there is no manual dispute, review desk, or appeal.
• Where the checks genuinely cannot decide (for example, a funding mismatch), no person decides the deal: it is left to the smart contract's timeout refund, from which the advertiser can reclaim the funds — see the Refund & Dispute Policy.
• Small tolerances (grace periods) exist so that minor timing edge cases don't punish honest behavior. Quality complaints that don't amount to non-delivery belong in ratings, which never block settlement.

10. Cross-promotions and points

• The cross-promo feature lets two channel owners promote each other without payment or a smart contract. Both posts are published by the bot and policed by the same objective liveness rules; cheating (deleting or tampering early) fails the exchange for the offender.
• Engagement points are an activity feature: earned through use of the Service, spent on features like cross-promo. Points are not money, have no monetary value, are not redeemable, refundable for value, or transferable, and can be adjusted or discontinued. Points never affect deal settlement.

11. Suspension, cancellation, and restrictions

• We may warn, restrict, suspend, or disable accounts and channel listings that violate these Terms, attempt to manipulate the automated checks, or create risk for other users or the Service — temporarily or permanently, with or without prior notice depending on severity.
• Restriction does not confiscate funds held by a deal's smart contract: in-flight deals still settle by the objective rules, and the timeout refund remains available to the advertiser.
• You can stop using the Service at any time; deals you have already funded continue to settle under their frozen terms.

12. Intellectual property

• Advertisers keep ownership of their ad creatives; channel owners keep ownership of their channel content. Each side is responsible for having the rights to the content they submit or publish.
• By submitting a creative, the advertiser grants the channel owner and Adpact the right to publish it in the agreed channel and to store and process it for verification, evidence, and audit purposes.
• The Service itself (software, design, branding) belongs to the operator or its licensors; these Terms grant you no rights in it beyond using the app.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", on a best-effort basis. To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties (merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement). We do not warrant that the Service, its automated checks and monitoring, the smart contracts it deploys, the Telegram platform, the TON network, or any wallet will be uninterrupted, error-free, defect-free, or secure, or that any check will always be possible or correct. Nothing in these Terms excludes rights that your local law does not allow to be excluded.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law:

• we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data;
• we are not liable for losses caused by the Telegram platform, the TON network, wallet providers, your loss of keys, transactions you approved, defects or delays in the Service's software or in the smart contracts it deploys, or the actions of the other party to your deal;
• our total aggregate liability arising out of the Service is limited to the platform fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

This section does not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited (for example, for willful misconduct or where consumer law provides non-waivable rights).

15. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the operator's country of residence, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Legal disputes between you and Adpact that cannot be resolved informally will be brought before the courts competent under that law. Mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence remain unaffected where they apply. (This section concerns legal disputes between you and Adpact; it does not create any in-app dispute process over a deal's outcome — those are decided automatically per the Refund & Dispute Policy.)

16. Changes to these Terms

Each new version of these Terms is published in the app with a new version number and effective date. When a version changes, the app asks you to review and accept it before you create or fund new deals. Deals funded under an earlier version keep the rules that applied when they were funded.

17. Contact & support

Questions, problems, or violation reports: use Report a violation in the app (Settings → Report a violation). Include the deal or campaign involved, and add your email in the form if you want a reply. Contact is handled on a best-effort basis.