Terms & Conditions

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service (or at least 16 if you are in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, unless a lower age is permitted by your country’s law), and at least the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction (typically 18) to make a purchase or enter a binding contract. If you are between the applicable minimum age and the age of majority, you may use the Service only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements and that your use does not violate any law.

BBSlapsis a public, shared wall on which users place small images (“slaps”) at coordinates, optionally with a message, display name, tags, and (for business slaps) a link. BBSlapsis an interactive computer service under 47 U.S.C. §230(f)(2): all slaps and other Content are created and provided by third-party users, and BBSlaps is not the author, creator, or publisher of user Content. Automated or human screening of uploads does not make BBSlaps the author or publisher of any Content that passes or fails screening. We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. Features, sizes, and pricing may change.

Curated archive (past-year boards).In addition to user slaps, some boards — in particular read-only past-year (“historical”) boards — contain artwork we create ourselves as an editorial, nostalgia retrospective of that year. This curated artwork consists of original, stylized illustrations(not photographs): we do not reproduce, and do not intend to reproduce, any third party’s logo, trademark, photograph, poster, album cover, or other source artwork. Where a piece is recognizable as a notable film, song, game, product, person, or event of that year, it is an interpretive, transformative depiction offered as editorial commentary and historical reference— not an official, authorized, or licensed reproduction — and any name appearing in a slap’s caption or description is used descriptively, for identification (nominative reference), to recall that year. We are not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by any named third party, and imply no such affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement. If you are a rights holder (including as to your name, likeness, or persona) and believe a piece of curated artwork infringes your rights or misuses your likeness, contact us at support@bbslaps.comand we will review and remove it promptly (see Section 11). The §512 safe harbor applies to user-submitted Content rather than to artwork we create, and we honor takedown requests for our curated artwork as a matter of policy.

You can use much of the Service without an account, but managing your slaps requires signing in. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information and for all activity under your account, and for keeping your sign-in method secure. Notify us at support@bbslaps.com if you suspect unauthorized use. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

You retain ownership of the content you place (your “Content”). By placing Content, you grant BBSlaps a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, and create thumbnails and derivative formats of your Content for the purposes of operating, displaying, promoting, and improving the Service (including on the wall, on share/preview cards, and in marketing of the Service). This license continues for as long as your Content is on the wall and, for incidental copies already made (such as backups, caches, or promotional material existing at the time of removal), only for as long as is reasonably necessary to purge them from our active systems, and in any event no longer than 90 days after removal.

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have all rights, licenses, and permissions necessary to place the Content and grant the license above, including any copyright clearances for artwork, photographs, logos, and other protectable elements visible in your Content;
• Your Content does not infringe or violate the copyright, trademark, other intellectual property, privacy, right of publicity, personality, or other rights of any person or entity;
• You have obtained any model releases, property releases, or other consents needed from every identifiable person (and, where required, property owner) depicted in your Content, and those consents have not been revoked;
• Placing your Content on the Service — a public, lasting, commercial platform — does not violate any person’s right of publicity or personality rights; and
• Your Content does not violate the acceptable-use rules in Section 5 or any law.

You agree not to place, and the wall may not be used for, any of the following:

• Sexual content, nudity, or any content that sexualizes minors.
• Content that is illegal, threatening, harassing, or incites violence.
• Hate symbols or content attacking people based on protected characteristics.
• Content you do not have the rights to — others’ trademarks, art, or photos.
• Private or personal information about others, or impersonation.
• Spam, scams, malware links, or prohibited-industry promotion.

You also agree not to misuse, overload, scrape, or interfere with the Service; circumvent rate limits, CAPTCHA, or moderation; circumvent the wall’s placement, overlap, or adjacency rules; or use the Service to violate any law or the rights of others. Every uploaded image is automatically screened before it can appear, and content may be reviewed, moved, or removed after publication. We may suspend or terminate users, with or without notice, at our discretion (see Section 9).

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM).We have zero tolerance for CSAM. If we become aware of apparent CSAM, we remove it, report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) CyberTipline as required by U.S. law (18 U.S.C. §2258A), preserve related records, and cooperate with law enforcement.

Reporting & takedown. To report content that breaks these rules, use the report form or email support@bbslaps.com. We aim to review reports of live content within 24 hours.

If you place a gift slap, you confirm you have a good-faith basis to contact the named recipient at the email address you provide and that doing so does not violate any law or their rights. We send the recipient a notification so they can view and claim the slap. A claimed gift is managed by the recipient; until it is claimed, the gifter may manage it. Recipient contact details are kept private.

We intend slaps to remain on the wall for the life of the project, but we make no guarantee of permanence, uptime, or availability. A slap may be removed, moved, or hidden at any time for legal, safety, moderation, payment, technical, or policy reasons, and the project may wind down. Placing a slap does not grant you ownership of, or any property right in, any pixel, coordinate, or area of the wall.

Some sizes and features are paid. Prices are shown before purchase and may change over time. Payments are processed by Stripe under its terms; EGO HERO LLC, a Wyoming, USA limited liability company (not Stripe) is the merchant of record for all transactions. You authorize the charge and are responsible for applicable taxes. Because a paid slap is delivered (published) immediately, all sales are final and non-refundable, except: (a) if we remove a paid slap due to our own error, we will refund it; and (b) any rights you cannot waive under applicable consumer law. You acknowledge this at checkout. Chargebacks made in bad faith may result in account termination.

We may, with or without notice, remove content, refuse service, and suspend or terminate your access or account if we believe you have violated these Terms or our policies, or to protect the Service or others. You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your slaps from your dashboard. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including content license for copies already made, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and dispute terms) will survive.

The Service itself — including BBSlaps, our names, logos, design, and software — is owned by us or our licensors and protected by law. These Terms do not grant you any right to our branding or software except to use the Service as intended.

BBSlapsrespects intellectual-property rights and responds to valid takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §512 (the “DMCA”). We also respond to trademark complaints and enforce the repeat-infringer policy described below.

To submit a copyright takedown notice, email support@bbslaps.com with all of the following:

• Your physical or electronic signature (or that of the person authorized to act for the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed).
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed (or a representative list, if multiple works are covered by one notice).
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it — for example, the slap’s link or its coordinates and board year on the wall.
• Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

We will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice, and we may notify the person who placed it.

Counter-notification. If you believe your Content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to support@bbslaps.com containing: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the removed material and the location where it appeared before removal; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address, and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. federal district court for the district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, any district in which BBSlapsmay be found) and will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice. On receipt of a valid counter-notification we will follow the process required by 17 U.S.C. §512(g), which may include restoring the Content within 10–14 business days unless the complainant first seeks a court order.

Repeat-infringer policy. In appropriate circumstances, and at our discretion, we will disable or terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

Trademark complaints. To report trademark infringement, email support@bbslaps.com with a description of your mark, the Content you believe infringes it, and your contact information.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information. By using the Service you acknowledge that the content you place is public and that permanence is a goal but not a guarantee — see Section 7.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that content will be preserved. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of the above may not apply to you.

User Content. BBSlaps is a platform for third-party user Content. We do not pre-screen Content for copyright ownership, trademark clearance, right-of-publicity compliance, or any other intellectual-property consideration before or after it appears on the wall, and we make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, legality, or rights-clearance of any user Content. The presence of Content on the wall is not an endorsement by BBSlaps or any representation that the user had the right to place it. BBSlaps is not the author, creator, editor, or publisher of user Content.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, BBSlaps and its operators, owners, members, and providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or content, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Our total aggregate liability for all claims (whether in contract, tort including negligence, statute, strict liability, or any other theory) relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD $100. This cap governs claims between you and BBSlaps; it does not alter the rights of third-party rights holders under copyright or other intellectual-property law, which are addressed through the DMCA procedure in Section 11. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be excluded by law. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you.

You agree to defend (at BBSlaps’s election), indemnify, and hold harmless BBSlapsand its operators, owners, members, officers, employees, agents, successors, and service providers from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, damages, liabilities, losses, settlements, judgments, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and litigation costs) arising out of or in connection with: (a) your Content, including any third-party claim that your Content infringes or violates a copyright, trademark, right of publicity, right of privacy, or other intellectual-property or proprietary right; (b) any DMCA notice, counter-notification, or related claim arising from Content you placed; (c) your use of the Service; (d) your violation of these Terms; or (e) your violation of any law or the rights of others. This obligation survives termination of these Terms and your use of the Service.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Before filing any claim, you agree to first contact us at support@bbslaps.com and try in good faith to resolve it informally for at least 30 days.

If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, you and BBSlaps agree that any dispute will be resolved by binding individual arbitrationadministered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, rather than in court, except that either party may bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court or seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court for intellectual-property misuse. You and BBSlaps waive any right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action or representative proceeding. You may opt out of arbitration by emailing support@bbslaps.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. If arbitration does not apply, the exclusive venue is the state or federal courts located in Wyoming, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will update the “Last updated” date and, for material changes, provide additional notice where required. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the revised Terms.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

For questions about these Terms, contact us at support@bbslaps.com.