1. Agreement, eligibility and who we are
These Terms govern your use of Hypeory, including the public leaderboard, creator pages, the creator studio, checkout, and every payment made through the service. Using Hypeory or completing a payment means you accept them, along with the Privacy Policy, the Refunds Policy, and the Content Policy. If you do not accept them, do not use the service and do not pay for a placement.
You must be at least 18 and able to enter a binding agreement: paying for a placement and managing a profile are both limited to adults. If you act for a company, you confirm you may bind it, and "you" includes that company. You may not use Hypeory where doing so would break sanctions or other law that applies to you.
We have not yet published the operating entity behind Hypeory. Until we do, these Terms describe how the service works but do not name a counterparty, and no payment should be taken on them. This notice is here rather than a placeholder because naming nobody is more honest than naming a party you cannot identify.
2. What Hypeory is, and what a payment buys
Hypeory is a paid ranking. Every position on every board is bought with Hype Points, which are credited when a payment clears. Boosts are whole US dollars from $5 upwards, and one cent is one Hype Point. Nothing on Hypeory is an editorial judgement, a review, a certification, an endorsement, a measurement of popularity, or an independent ranking, and no placement should be read as one.
A payment buys the position that amount supports at the moment it clears, on the board it was paid into. It does not buy views, followers, clicks, revenue, a fixed position, a minimum duration, exclusivity, search ranking, or any other outcome. Somebody else can pay more and take the position. Boards reset on the first of each month at 00:00 UTC and start again from nothing; a reset is how the product works and is not a fault, a loss of something you own, or grounds for a refund.
Hype Points are a scoring unit, not money, credit, a token, or a balance. They cannot be withdrawn, transferred, exchanged, or redeemed, and Hypeory holds nothing on deposit for anyone.
3. Creators listed by somebody else
A fan may pay to place a channel on Hypeory without that creator's involvement. This section is what the creator gets in return, and it applies whether or not they have ever used the service.
Any creator may verify a channel through that platform's own login, at no cost. Verifying proves the channel is theirs; it buys no position and creates no charge. A verified creator may pause their listing, refuse further boosts, ask to change division, or opt out permanently. Opting out removes the listing and blocks the channel from being listed again by anybody.
Money already paid by somebody else does not give that person any claim over the creator, and a creator exercising these rights does not owe a refund to whoever paid. Where a payer is refunded because a listing was removed, that is between the payer and us under the Refunds Policy.
4. Accounts and verification
Keep the information you give us accurate and your account access to yourself. Verify only channels you own or are authorised to manage. We may ask for proof of control and may withdraw a verification we cannot confirm. Verification runs through the platform's own login: connecting a YouTube channel is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service, and connecting a Twitch channel to Twitch's. A channel handle is not identity — platforms let handles be released and re-registered — so we bind a verification to the platform's immutable account id, not to the name.
5. What you promise us
Every time you submit a channel, a handle, or a payment, you confirm that:
- you are entitled to list that channel, or you are paying to list a channel that is publicly available and not your own, understanding that its creator may remove it at any time;
- the listing and the channel behind it comply with the law that applies to them, including rules on advertising, consumer protection, privacy, and whatever the channel's own category requires;
- you are not impersonating anyone and are not claiming a rival's channel as your own;
- what you tell us is accurate, and you will correct it when it stops being.
6. Acceptable use
You may not manipulate rankings or payments, automate access we have not permitted, scrape beyond what our published permissions allow, bypass rate limits, interfere with the integrity of the service, submit unlawful material, impersonate anyone, or present a paid placement as an endorsement by us or by the creator. The Content Policy lists what may not be listed at all; it is part of these Terms.
7. Payments, processors and tax
Checkout is handled by a third-party payment processor. We never receive or store full card numbers, and the processor's own terms and privacy notice apply to the payment itself. Prices are shown in US dollars, and the amount shown at checkout is the amount charged; tax may be added where the law requires it.
Completing checkout is an offer to buy a placement on the terms shown to you at that moment. The placement is created, and its Hype Points credited, when the payment is confirmed — at whatever position the amount then supports. The Terms in force when you paid govern that payment, even if these Terms change later, unless the law requires otherwise.
8. Refunds, withdrawal and chargebacks
A placement is a digital service that begins the moment the payment clears: the listing appears and the points are counted on a public board. By paying you ask us to begin immediately and accept that, so far as the law permits you to give it up, you lose any cooling-off or withdrawal right that would otherwise apply. Where a consumer right cannot be given up, we honour it in full — nothing here removes a protection the law where you live does not let you waive.
Being overtaken, a monthly reset, a division you dislike, downtime, or a removal for breaking these Terms does not create a refund. What does is set out in the Refunds Policy. Please write to Hypeory support before disputing a charge with your bank: raising a chargeback instead of contacting us, where no legal basis for one exists, is a breach of these Terms, and we may reverse the associated Hype Points and refuse further use of the service.
9. Removing a listing
We may refuse, delay, hide, recategorise, suspend, or permanently remove any listing, position, or page — with or without notice — where we believe these Terms, the Content Policy, or the law may have been broken, where a rights holder or platform complains, where a creator has opted out, or where a listing creates a legal, safety, or security risk. Removal on those grounds does not entitle the payer to a refund. Where a listing is removed before it has appeared on a board at all, the Refunds Policy says what happens.
10. Channel names, marks and pictures
To run the board we show publicly available information about listed channels: the channel name, its handle, its link, and the profile picture the platform serves. We use that material only to identify the channel a placement points at, and to operate and moderate the service.
Where United States law applies, naming a channel and showing its picture is intended as nominative fair use of any trademark and fair use of any copyright: we use no more than is needed to identify the channel, we do not adopt it as our own branding, and we do not suggest the rights holder sponsors or endorses Hypeory. Where other law applies, the same material is used solely to identify the account being listed, which is not a claim of affiliation.
Hypeory is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Twitch, YouTube, Kick, TikTok or Instagram. Twitch is a trademark of Twitch Interactive, Inc.; YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC; Kick is a trademark of Kick Streaming Pty Ltd; TikTok is a trademark of ByteDance Ltd.; Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only to identify the channel being listed. The Hypeory name, marks and interface are ours: do not copy the service, reuse the board to build a competing ranking, or use our name in a way that suggests we endorse you.
11. Rights complaints and takedowns
If you believe something on Hypeory infringes your copyright, trademark, publicity, or other rights, or that a listed channel is unlawful, tell us at Hypeory support or through the report form, which needs no account. Please include:
- your name and a way to reach you;
- the Hypeory page or listing concerned;
- the channel or material you are complaining about;
- what the problem is; and
- a statement that your notice is accurate and that you hold the right or may act for whoever does.
We may restrict or remove the listing while we look into it, and we may pass the notice to the person who paid for it or to the creator. Notices that are repeatedly inaccurate or sent in bad faith may be disregarded.
12. The licence you give us
You keep the rights in whatever you submit. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, cache, reproduce, resize, format, and publicly display it, and the public information we fetch about a listed channel, for as long as we need it to run and archive the service — including the closed monthly boards, which are a historical record and are not rewritten. Removing a listing ends its display; it does not undo a payment that already happened, and it does not erase the ledger entry that recorded it.
13. No endorsement, no promised results
A place on a board is not our opinion of a creator, and we do not check that anything a listed channel says is true. Figures we publish — points, positions, boost timelines, visit counts — describe what our systems recorded, not what you should expect to happen. What a placement does for you depends on the position, the channel, the timing, and a great deal we do not control. Links out of Hypeory lead to platforms with their own terms, and we are not responsible for what happens there.
14. Availability and changes
Hypeory is provided as it is and as it happens to be available. It may be slow, interrupted, or wrong. We may change how ranking works, what a boost costs, which divisions exist, and these Terms. When a change matters we will say so before it takes effect where that is feasible, and the date at the top of this page will move. Continuing to use Hypeory after a change means you accept it; a payment already made stays governed by the Terms in force when it was made.
15. Disclaimers and liability
So far as the law allows, we exclude all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that names, pictures, positions, or counts are accurate or complete.
We do not limit liability the law does not let us limit — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, and for anything else that cannot be excluded where you live. Subject to that, we are not liable for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, or indirect or consequential loss; and our total liability for any claim about a payment is limited to the amount you paid us for the placement that claim concerns.
16. Indemnity
If a claim is brought against us because of a listing you paid for, a channel you submitted, a payment or chargeback you made, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of somebody else's rights, you will cover our reasonable losses and legal costs in dealing with it. We may take over the defence of such a claim, and you will help us where we reasonably ask. This does not apply to a consumer to the extent the law where you live says it cannot.
17. Governing law and disputes
We have not yet published a governing law or forum for disputes. Until we do, nothing here should be read as choosing one, and a dispute is governed by whatever law applies to you by default.
Whatever we publish, your mandatory consumer rights where you live will continue to apply, and we will always ask you to write to Hypeory support first — most things are settled that way.
18. General
If any part of these Terms cannot be enforced, the rest still stands and the unenforceable part is read as closely to its intent as the law allows. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. You may not transfer these Terms without our agreement; we may transfer them if the service changes hands.
These Terms, together with the Privacy, Refunds and Content policies and what you confirm at checkout, are the whole agreement between us about Hypeory. Payments, hosting, sign-in, and platform data all depend on third parties whose outages and decisions are outside our control.
Questions go to Hypeory support.