Terms of Service

1. Who we are

The Service is operated by Omkar Jaripatke, an individual based in Silvassa, India (“we”, “us”). Email: theinternetrecords@gmail.com. See also our Contact and grievance page.

2. What the Service is

The Internet Records offers curated platform records. A platform record exists only on this website. It is not an official or independently verified world record, and we are not affiliated with Guinness World Records or any brand, celebrity, game or sports team.

Claiming a record is a paid digital novelty. A claim is not an asset, investment, security, prize, lottery ticket or financial right. It has no monetary value, cannot be sold or transferred, and gives you no ownership of any intellectual property.

3. What you receive when you claim

When your payment is confirmed you receive the following digital items, delivered immediately on our website:

• the status of current holder of that record, shown on its public record page with your display name, the amount and the date;
• a claim certificate: a page with its own link and a shareable preview image, showing the record, your display name, the amount and the date;
• a permanent entry in the record's public history, which stays even after someone else takes the record;
• an in-app notification if you are dethroned, and the ability to claim the record again at the then current price.

That is the whole product. We do not promise any prize, income, appreciation in value, audience, ranking in search engines or media coverage.

4. How claiming and the claim price work

• The next claim price is the current record value plus a step that we set for that record. The step can differ between records and may change over time. We calculate the price on our server and show it before you pay. The price is shown in US dollars; applicable taxes are added at checkout.
• When you start a claim, we reserve the record for you for a limited time (currently about 10 minutes). Only one reservation per record can be active at a time. If it expires, the reserved price is no longer guaranteed.
• You become the current holder only after our payment provider confirms your payment. Returning to our site after checkout does not by itself grant a record.
• Another person can take the record at any time by paying the next claim price. If that happens you are dethroned. You remain in the public record history and may claim the record again at the then current price.
• Records have no fixed end date. You hold a record until someone else claims it, or until we remove or freeze it under these Terms.
• There is no element of chance. The price rule is fixed and the outcome does not depend on luck: whoever pays the next claim price first, and is confirmed, becomes the holder. This is not a lottery, prize draw or game of chance.
• Where two people try to pay for the same record state, only one claim can succeed. If your payment is confirmed but the record can no longer be assigned to you, we will refund that payment in full.

5. Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) and able to enter a binding contract. You are responsible for your account and for what happens under it. You must provide accurate information. One person should not use multiple accounts to create artificial competition for a record. You can stop using the Service and ask us to close your account at any time (see the Privacy Policy for what we keep).

6. Payments and taxes

Prices are shown in US dollars. Payments are processed by Dodo Payments, who acts as the seller of record, calculates, collects and remits applicable taxes (such as GST or VAT) and issues your invoice. Dodo's buyer terms and privacy notice apply to the payment itself. We do not receive or store full card numbers. Your bank or card provider may show the charge in your local currency and may add currency conversion fees.

7. Refunds

Our rules are in the Refund policy, which forms part of these Terms. In short, purchases are generally non-refundable once successfully processed, except where required by law or payment-network rules, or where we fail to deliver what is described in section 3.

8. Public display of your information

When you hold a record, or appear in its history, the following is public: your display name, the amount, and the dates. Choose a display name you are comfortable having public. You can change it in your account. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display your display name on record pages, certificates and share images for as long as the record history is shown. We may change or remove display names that break these Terms.

9. Acceptable use

You may not:

• use a display name or content that is unlawful, hateful, sexual, harassing, defamatory, deceptive, or that impersonates someone else;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights;
• post malicious links, spam, or content that promotes illegal activity;
• manipulate prices, use bots or automation to claim records, bypass rate limits, or attempt to defraud us or other users;
• open a payment dispute or chargeback without a legitimate basis.

10. Our rights

We may refuse, freeze, edit or remove any record, claim, display name or account, and may reverse a claim, where we reasonably believe these Terms or the law have been broken, where fraud or abuse is suspected, where a rights holder complains, or where a payment is refunded, reversed or disputed. We may add, change, pause or discontinue records and features, and may change prices and price steps for future claims. Where we reverse a claim that we wrongly confirmed, we will refund it.

11. Intellectual property and complaints

The Internet Records name, logo and design belong to us. If you believe content on the Service infringes your rights, email theinternetrecords@gmail.com with the page address, what is infringed, your contact details and a statement that your notice is accurate. We will review it and may remove the content while we do.

12. Availability and disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is”. It may be unavailable, slow or contain errors. To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, and that any record, ranking or amount is complete or accurate. Nothing here limits rights you have under mandatory law.

13. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or for lost profits, data or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim relating to a payment is limited to the amount you paid for the claim concerned. We do not limit liability that cannot be limited by law.

14. Complaints and grievance officer

Write to our Grievance Officer, Omkar Jaripatke, at theinternetrecords@gmail.com (details on the Contact page). We acknowledge every complaint within 24 hours and aim to resolve it within 15 days.

15. General, changes and governing law

These Terms and the policies they link to are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If a part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. If we do not enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up. We are not responsible for failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as outages of internet, hosting or payment providers.

We may update these Terms and will change the date at the top. For a payment already completed, the Terms in force at checkout apply unless a change is required by law. These Terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of Silvassa, India have jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer law gives you other rights. Please contact us first so we can try to settle any problem informally.