Legal

Terms of Service

Last updated 5 September 2026

The short version. Five dollars buys a set of image files and a lantern on a public board, ranked by what has been paid for it. Payments are permanent, being passed by someone else is the point, and there are no refunds. The files are HDR and do not work everywhere — section 3 says exactly where they fall flat, and buying them anyway is your decision. A lantern can be taken down, and the site itself can be taken down; section 7 and section 9 say when, and neither is refunded. The files you have already downloaded stay yours in every one of those cases.

1. Agreement to these Terms

These Terms are a binding agreement between you and Tugboat Coding Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 11118743), of 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE. Using this site means you accept them.

2. Who may buy

  • You must be at least 18 and able to enter a contract.
  • If you are buying for a company, you confirm you may bind that company, and “you” in these Terms means that company as well as you.
  • You may not buy if sanctions or trade restrictions under UK, EU or US law prohibit us supplying you.

By completing checkout you confirm you have read and accept these Terms.

3. What you are buying

Two things, for one payment:

  • The brand pack. Your own logo, prepared at the same fixed HDR brightness for every buyer, plus SDR and experimental social assets.
  • A lantern. A listing on a public board, linking to the site or profile you give us. It shows your logo unless you choose Make it katakana. That choice generates a Katakana version of the company name from your link and replaces the logo on a new lantern. Later payments for an existing listing keep its original logo or Katakana treatment. The board sorts by the total paid, and your lantern position and brightness both follow that total.

You are not buying: a fixed position, traffic, clicks, an audience, or any outcome at all.

A lantern is a paid advertisement. It is not an endorsement, a review, a recommendation, or a ranking of anything except money paid. Nothing on this board is editorial.

4. What the files do and do not do

The pack is HDR, and HDR is not supported everywhere. Before you pay, understand that:

  • The glow appears on an HDR display in a current browser, and on your own site or app.
  • Instagram and Threads support compatible gain-map HDR photos. The pack marks that workflow as experimental until we verify a real upload on each service.
  • Other social platforms may tone-map or flatten HDR uploads.
  • Email clients, every SDR screen, every screenshot, and battery-saver mode on most phones will show the files without the effect.

These limits are the product working as described, not a fault, and they are not grounds for a refund. The /pack page sets them out in full and forms part of these Terms.

5. Payments are final

  • Paying again on the same link adds to that listing’s total. It does not create a second listing. Your pack keeps the same fixed HDR brightness.
  • When somebody pays more than you, you move down. Your listing does not disappear.
  • To pass a listing you must exceed its total, so the price of the top position only ever rises.
  • Payments are permanent. There are no refunds, including when you are passed, including when the board is quiet, including when your lantern is removed under section 7, including when we stop running the site, and including when you change your mind.
  • We may remove a listing under section 7 without a refund.

If the payment does not complete, or does not stay complete

  • A payment that never clears buys nothing. Your lantern goes up when our payment processor confirms the payment to us, not when you are returned to this site. If the payment is declined, cancelled, or never confirmed, no lantern is hung and no pack is owed.
  • A payment that is later reversed is treated as if it never happened. If you charge back, if your bank reverses the payment, if the card is refused after the fact, or if the processor claws the funds back for any reason, we deduct that amount from your listing’s total. If the total then falls below the minimum in section 3, the lantern comes down.
  • We may charge you what it costs us when that happens, including any fee our processor charges us for the reversal.
  • A chargeback raised without a legally sound reason is itself a breach of these Terms. We may remove the lantern and refuse to sell to you again.
  • Charging back after downloading the pack is not a refund route. The files are delivered at the moment of payment and cannot be taken back, so a reversal takes the lantern and leaves you the files. If you think something has genuinely gone wrong, write to us first — the address is in section 16 and we do read it.

Your right to cancel, and giving it up

If you are a consumer in the UK or the EU you would ordinarily have 14 days to cancel a purchase of digital content. That right is lost once delivery has begun with your agreement.

By completing checkout you ask us to supply the pack and hang your lantern immediately, and you acknowledge that you lose your right to cancel once we have done so. Both happen within seconds of the payment. If you do not want to give up that right, do not buy.

Nothing in this section affects your rights where the pack is not as described in section 3 or 4.

By uploading a logo and giving us a link, you confirm that:

  • You own the logo, or you have permission to use it, and letting us publish it on this board and encode it into files does not infringe anybody’s rights.
  • You are entitled to represent the site or profile you gave us. No impersonating a company, product or person you are not.
  • The file is an image and nothing else. No malware, no tracking, no executable content.
  • The link goes to a product website or a personal profile on X, and to nothing else.

Not allowed, on the lantern or at the other end of the link:

  • Sexual, pornographic or adult-platform content.
  • Chat, invite or messaging-group links — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord and the like — and link shorteners used to hide where the link really goes.
  • Anything unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, hateful or violent, and anything that exploits children.
  • Counterfeit goods, unauthorised streaming, and anything else that infringes copyright, trademark or other rights.
  • Offers that need a licence you do not hold, including financial, medical, gambling and weapons-related offers.
  • Malware, phishing, and any destination whose purpose is to deceive the person who clicks it.

And you may not interfere with the board: no scraping beyond ordinary browsing, no manipulating counts, no working around rate limits, no automated purchases without our written permission, and no reverse engineering except where the law says you may.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, resize, re-encode and publicly display your logo or Katakana name, for as long as your lantern is shown and for the purpose of showing it. You keep every other right in it. We claim no ownership.

We decide whether a listing breaks this section, and we will not be talked round.

7. When a lantern comes down

A lantern is not a permanent fixture. We may remove one at any time, without notice and without a refund, in any of these cases:

  • It breaks section 6 — the logo is not yours to use, the link goes somewhere you may not represent, or the listing is one of the kinds this page does not allow.
  • A rights holder tells us it should not be there. If a listing uses your brand without permission, email hello@outglow.lol with the listing and what is wrong. We would rather take one down and be wrong about it than leave one up and be wrong about that.
  • The link stops working, or stops being what it was. A domain that expires, a page that disappears, a redirect to somewhere else, or a destination that becomes harmful — a board of dead and hijacked links is worth nothing to the people still on it.
  • You ask us to. Tell us and we will take it down. It is still not refunded.
  • The payment behind it is reversed, as section 5 describes.
  • A law, a court, a regulator, or a supplier we depend on requires it.

We decide whether one of these applies, and we will not be talked round. If you think we have got it wrong, write to us and say why.

We do not sell advertising space beyond what this page describes, we do not share revenue, and no position on this board can be obtained except by paying for it.

8. Cosmetic referrals

Opening a lantern can keep its public identifier for the current browser session. If Dodo confirms a new purchase from that session, the referrer may gain one cosmetic firefly, up to three. A firefly has no cash value and changes no rank, brightness, payment, pack, or position. There are no accounts, payouts, rewards, or identity checks.

9. The site itself, and what happens if it stops

Provided as it is, with no warranty. It may be offline, it may be slow, it may lose a deploy, and it may go away entirely.

We may stop running outglow at any time, for any reason, without notice. If we do, every lantern stops being displayed, including yours, including if you paid for it an hour earlier, and nothing is refunded. There is no minimum term, no guaranteed period of display, and no promise that the board will exist next month. A payment buys the pack outright and a position for as long as the board runs, which is a length of time nobody here can promise.

The files you have already downloaded stay yours in that case and in every case in section 7. They are ordinary image files on your own machine and nothing we do can reach them. That is the part of the purchase that does not depend on us continuing to exist, and it is deliberately the larger part.

We will delete uploaded logos when we stop; see the privacy page.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything arising out of this site is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

10. Payments and tax

Payments are taken by Dodo Payments as merchant of record. They are the seller of record for the transaction, they handle payment details and any sales tax or VAT, and their terms cover the payment itself. We never see your card details. These Terms cover what the payment buys here.

They can refuse a payment and we cannot overrule them. If they decline your payment, reject your business, or close our account, no lantern is hung and none is owed. If they close our account while the board is running, section 9 applies: the board may stop, and nothing is refunded.

Prices are in US dollars. Any tax added at checkout is collected by Dodo Payments and does not count towards your position on the board.

11. No endorsement, and no promise of results

A lantern on this board is a paid advertisement. It is not our opinion of a product, not a review, not a certification, and not a ranking of anything except money paid. We do not check whether a listed company, claim, price or result is true.

Nothing here promises you traffic, clicks, customers, revenue or any other outcome. What you get depends on your rank, your own destination, the timing, and a great many things neither of us controls.

Links from this board leave this site. Those destinations have their own terms and their own practices, and they are not ours to answer for.

12. Our side of it, and the limits of it

Our brand and this site are ours. outglow, its wordmark and the look of the board belong to us. You may not copy the site, scrape the board to build a competing ranking, or use our name in a way that suggests we endorse you. (We are openly a copy of outbid.lol’s mechanic, which we say on the board itself. That is the mechanic, not their brand or their code.)

Third-party names — X, Dodo Payments, Cloudflare, DataFast, LinkedIn — belong to their owners. We use them only to say what a thing is.

We disclaim what the law lets us disclaim. To the fullest extent permitted, we give no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the board will be uninterrupted, secure, or free of errors, or that names, images, ranks or counts on it are accurate.

You cover us for what you brought. You will indemnify us against claims, damages, losses and reasonable legal costs arising out of your lantern, your logo, your destination site or profile, your payment or chargeback, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of anybody’s rights. We may take over the defence of such a claim, and you will help us with it.

Limits. We are not liable for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill or any indirect or consequential loss. Our total liability to you for anything arising out of this site is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

13. Governing law

The laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in.

14. Changes

If these Terms change materially, the date at the top of this page changes with them. A change does not retroactively alter a listing you have already paid for.

15. The rest

  • If any part of these Terms cannot be enforced, the rest still stands, and the unenforceable part is read as the closest thing to it that works.
  • Not enforcing something once does not mean we have given it up.
  • You may not transfer these Terms to somebody else without our agreement. We may transfer them if the site changes hands.
  • These Terms, the privacy notice, and what you confirmed at checkout are the whole agreement.
  • Payments, hosting and analytics involve third parties, including Dodo Payments, Cloudflare and DataFast. Their outages and their decisions are outside our control.

16. Contact

hello@outglow.lol.