Terms of Service

By buying or using Masher Sites you confirm that:

• You have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms
• You are an adult as defined by the law where you live
• If you act for a business, you are authorized to bind that business to these Terms

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not buy or use the Service.

Your sites are managed from the control panel at members.mashersites.com. You must give complete and truthful information for your account, keep your login and two-factor authentication details confidential, and you are responsible for everything done under your account. Tell us at [email protected] right away if you believe your account or API keys have been compromised.

Suspension and deletion

We may suspend or delete accounts and sites that break these Terms, without notice where the breach is serious or unlawful. Suspension or deletion for a breach does not entitle you to compensation or a refund.

Masher Sites is a managed news site platform. We host your sites, keep the platform updated and handle its security, so there are no plugins for you to install or update.

• Network packs. You buy a network of sites. Its size shows in your control panel as site credits, and each site you set up uses one.
• Setting up a site. Your sites are provisioned by the Masher Sites team. To connect a domain, send it to support; we give you the DNS record to add at your domain registrar. You must own or control every domain you connect.
• Styles and features. You choose a site style at setup. Sites include site-wide and per-category RSS feeds, ad zones, and an API that NewsMasher, RSSMasher, AIMasher and other connected Masher tools publish into. You can also post by hand.
• Not included. Email hosting and other advanced DNS features are not part of the Service. A CDN can be added to a high-traffic site on request through support.
• Lifetime hosting. "Lifetime" means the life of the Masher Sites product, as determined by Launch Ninjas, Inc. (see section 08). It is not the lifetime of a person or a domain.
• Built for the Masher tools. Masher Sites is designed to be used with the Masher tools. We do not support third-party publishing software.

Your content

You own the articles, images, ads and other content you or your tools publish to your sites. You give us the right to host, copy, display and serve that content as needed to run your sites. You promise you have all the rights needed to publish it, and you are responsible for its accuracy and legality, including content written for you by AI tools.

Content rules

Site content must stay within the scope of YouTube's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, and within the policies of any ad network you use on your sites.

Our software

The Masher Sites platform, its themes, its code and this website belong to Launch Ninjas, Inc. or its licensors. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the platform to run your sites. This license gives no right to the source code and ends when your agreement with us ends.

API

Use of the Masher Sites API, directly or through a connected tool, is bound by these Terms. Keep your API keys private. We are not responsible for losses caused by the use of your keys or by third-party products that use them.

You may use Masher Sites only for lawful purposes and within these Terms. We may remove content, suspend sites, terminate accounts and report misconduct to the authorities if you:

• Break the law, these Terms, or anyone else's rights, including copyright and trademark
• Publish content that is defamatory, obscene, hateful, harassing, threatening or deceptive
• Host malware, phishing pages, scams or anything that harms visitors
• Use your sites to send spam or to support spam campaigns
• Connect a domain you do not own or control
• Attack, overload, probe, scrape or try to reverse-engineer the platform
• Share your account, credentials or API keys with unauthorized people
• Do anything else we reasonably decide harms the platform, its users or the public

Masher Sites is sold as one-time network packs. There is no subscription and no monthly hosting bill.

Prices and packs may change without notice; the price you pay is the one shown at checkout. All payments are processed by PayKickstart. We do not collect or store card details, and receive only confirmation that a payment went through. Any taxes are shown before you pay.

No refunds once a site is set up

Work on your network starts as soon as you buy. If you change your mind before any site in your network has been set up, email [email protected] with the subject line "Refund Request" and we will refund your purchase in full. Once the first site in your network has been set up, the purchase is not refundable.

There is no money-back guarantee on Masher Sites, and no refund for traffic, rankings, earnings or other results, which depend on you and on third parties.

EU consumers: right of withdrawal

Users who are European Consumers have a legal right to withdraw from contracts made online within 14 days, for any reason. Users who withdraw correctly are reimbursed for all payments made, without undue delay and no later than 14 days after we receive the withdrawal notice.

UK consumers: right to cancel

Users who are Consumers in the United Kingdom have a legal right to cancel contracts made online within 14 days, for any reason, with reimbursement no later than 14 days after we are told.

Digital services, EU and UK. Where you ask us to start setting up your sites within the withdrawal period and acknowledge that you lose the right once the service is fully performed, the right of withdrawal may be lost or reduced as the law allows. Where it applies, this is presented and confirmed at the point of purchase.

We may interrupt the Service for maintenance, updates or other changes, and will tell users where we reasonably can. We work to keep sites online but do not promise uninterrupted service.

We may discontinue Masher Sites. If we do, we will give account holders notice and help them retrieve their content and Personal Data, and we will respect any rights the law gives them.

Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not promise any level of traffic, search ranking or ad income.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Launch Ninjas, Inc. and its people are not liable for:

• Indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential damages, including lost profits, goodwill or data
• Damage caused by hacking or unauthorized access to the Service or your account
• Content you or your tools publish, including AI-written content
• Interruptions to the Service or to the sites hosted on it
• Changes, outages or decisions by third parties, including registrars, ad networks and search engines

Our total liability will not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Launch Ninjas, Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, agents and partners from any claims, losses, liabilities and costs arising from your use of the Service, the content on your sites, your breach of these Terms or the law, or your infringement of anyone else's rights.

Masher Sites works with services we do not control, including domain registrars, Cloudflare (DNS), ad networks such as Google, the Masher tools and other publishing tools, and PayKickstart (payments). Their own terms apply to your use of them. We are not responsible for their availability, policies or decisions, such as an ad network declining or closing an account.

We may change these Terms at any time. We will post the new version on this page with a new effective date and, where we can, email account holders. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept it. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Service.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce any part of these Terms is not a waiver of it.

No reselling

You may not resell, sublicense or give access to the Masher Sites platform itself without our written permission. Selling space, guest posts or ads on your own sites is allowed.

Privacy

How we use personal data is described in the Privacy Policy.

Assignment

We may transfer or subcontract any of our rights or obligations under these Terms. You may not transfer yours without our written permission.

Severability

If any part of these Terms is found invalid, the rest still applies, and the invalid part is read as closely to its original intent as the law allows.

Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict of laws rules. The courts of Collin County, Texas, have exclusive jurisdiction. This does not take away the protection of local consumer law from Consumers in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway or Iceland.

Disputes

Before starting legal proceedings, a chargeback or a PayPal dispute, please email [email protected] with a short description and your order details. We will respond without undue delay and within 5 business days. European Consumers may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform.