Terms of service

THE LIST is a private online community delivered as a web application. Paying the admission fee grants you a permanent, sequential member number and access to the software: one global room, the member registry, member profiles, private messaging, and the community’s history.

Membership is created only after your payment settles. Creating an account does not make you a member and does not reserve a number. When your payment settles you receive the next chronological member number. You cannot choose your number, and no one can move ahead of anyone else: THE LIST is not an auction and not a leaderboard. There is no bidding, no ranking and no way to displace another member.

Your number is tied to the account that paid for it. It cannot be transferred, gifted or resold, and we do not operate, host or support a secondary market for numbers.

A member number is a record of admission. It is not an investment, a security, a financial product or a redeemable digital asset. We make no representation that a number will hold or gain monetary value. Admission prices rise as the register grows, but a rising price only sets the cost of the next available membership — it does not revalue a number that has already been issued, and it is not a return.

“Permanent number” means one specific thing: your number will not be reassigned to another member. It does not mean that THE LIST, THE ROOM or any other online service is guaranteed to operate forever. Section 7 sets out exactly what we commit to if we ever stop.

Admission is a one-time fee, determined solely by the member number you receive. There is no subscription and no recurring charge.

• #000001 — #000100 — advances $1 with every issued number
• #000101 — OPEN — advances $1 after every 10 issued numbers

Prices are stated and charged in US dollars. The language you read this page in does not change the price or the currency.

The price shown to you at checkout is the price you pay. If the number you were quoted is taken while you are paying, we do not silently charge you for a different one.

Admission itself grants your member number and access to the community software: the global room, the member registry, member profiles, and private messaging between members. That is what you are paying for, and it is available to you as soon as you are admitted.

Some capabilities depend on your total qualifying contribution to THE LIST — a figure recorded on your membership. On the day you are admitted it equals your admission fee. It is a separate figure from your admission price, which is a historical record and is never rewritten. Where an eligibility programme or discount applies, the qualifying contribution level recognised may differ from the cash amount you paid. These capabilities currently include a daily limit on entries written into the global room and the maximum length of an entry.

Promotional rights unlock when your total qualifying contribution reaches $1,000 — not necessarily when that amount was paid in cash at admission. Admission below that level does not carry promotional rights. We do not sell those rights separately, and there is currently no way to raise your qualifying contribution after you are admitted. Where the rights do apply, anything published under them carries your member number publicly, and we may remove promotional content that breaks these terms.

We may change these capabilities as the product develops. We will not raise the price you already paid, and we will not take your member number away except as described in section 5.

The register is a public record. Your member number, display name, the date you were admitted, the amount you paid, and anything you write in the global room are visible to other members and, for the registry, to visitors who are not members.

Do not write anything into the record you would not want attached to your name.

Do not use THE LIST to break the law, harass people, impersonate anyone, send spam, or attempt to interfere with the service. We may suspend or terminate access for any of these.

If your access is terminated for cause, or if you reverse your payment, your member number is not reissued to anyone else. It is retired. The register records that a number was issued once; that record does not change.

Paid admissions are currently closed. No payments are being accepted. The register is not issuing member numbers, no checkout is reachable, and nothing on THE LIST charges you.

We do not currently have an approved payment provider, and we are not naming one before an arrangement is in place. We are not announcing an opening date. When paid admissions reopen, this section will name the provider that actually processes the payment, say whether it acts as the merchant of record, and state who is responsible for billing, applicable sales tax or VAT and refunds before any payment is taken.

Refunds are described on the refunds page.

We aim to keep the register running continuously, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. This is a young product and it may change, break, or be taken offline for maintenance.

Admission is not sold as “lifetime access.” We intend THE LIST to run as a long-term community, and the following is what we commit to if that ever changes.

If we decide to discontinue THE ROOM permanently, we will stop new admissions immediately and give at least 90 days’ notice where that is reasonably possible.

Every member is guaranteed at least 60 calendar days of access, counted from the date their payment succeeded. If THE ROOM becomes permanently unavailable before a member has had those 60 days, that member receives a full refund. A member who has already had at least 60 days of access does not receive an automatic refund on shutdown — including where a wind-down period carries them past the 60 days.

Members will be given an opportunity to export their own profile and their own messages before THE ROOM closes. Where it is legally and technically possible, THE REGISTER will remain available in read-only form for at least 12 months after THE ROOM closes.

THE SPOTLIGHT is not available yet. It is a committed feature, and it will be in place before live admissions are enabled. Nothing described here is running today, and nothing you buy today gives you access to it today. A frame for it appears on the homepage; that frame is a placeholder showing where a promotion would appear, and it is not a working advertising product.

When it launches, THE SPOTLIGHT will carry one active campaign at a time. One credit buys one synchronized hour, and during that hour the same campaign appears in two places at once:

• a dedicated public placement on the homepage, visible to members and non-members alike;
• a compact placement at the top of THE ROOM.

Both placements run from the same server-authoritative start time and end time, and show the same campaign. This is one promotion shown in two places, not two advertisements, and it costs one credit rather than two.

The public placement may identify the advertiser by member number — for example, Promoted by #000025. While a campaign is live, its content, the member number behind it and its destination link are intentionally public, including to people who are not members.

Members #000001–#000100 will receive three complimentary one-hour credits. Members #000101–#001000 will receive one complimentary one-hour credit. Members admitted after #001000 will not receive a complimentary credit by default.

All campaigns remain subject to availability, scheduling, moderation and content approval. We do not guarantee any impressions, traffic, clicks, revenue or other commercial outcome from a promotion.

The service is provided as is. To the extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim relating to THE LIST is limited to the admission fee you paid.

We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced in the global room. Your member number, the price you paid, and the date you were admitted are historical facts and are never altered by a change to these terms.

Questions: support@getonthelist.lol. We answer within two business days.