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Last updated 25 September 2026

Terms of Service

1. This agreement

These Terms form a binding agreement between you and Apprizon, LLC, operating buy1minute.com ("we", "us", "our"). By using the site, registering an account, or claiming a minute, you accept them in full. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

These Terms are the entire agreement between us on this subject. They replace anything said or written elsewhere.

Who may use the service. You must be at least 13 years old to use the service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the service only with the consent of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of it.

2. What a minute is, and is not

The day is divided into 1,440 minutes. For a one-time payment in the amount shown at checkout before you confirm, you may claim one minute as a Minute Keeper. You may also use the site as a Time Citizen to save personal minutes to a private collection without claiming a clock slot.

A claim grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable (except as section 3 allows), revocable licence to set a Keeper Note for that minute and to use its address at buy1minute.com/HH-MM. The licence lasts only for as long as we operate the service and you comply with these Terms.

You are not buying property, land, goods, a security, an investment, a share, a trademark, a domain name, or any right in time itself. No ownership of anything passes to you. We use the words "keep", "keeper" and "yours" throughout the site to refer to the stewardship of a claimed minute under this licence, and nothing more.

A minute is not an investment and is not sold as one. We make no representation that a minute has, will keep, or will gain any value.

3. What a claim entitles you to

A claim entitles you to the following, and to nothing else:

  • (a) Keeper Note. To submit one plain-text sentence giving your minute personal meaning. It is limited to 120 characters and carries no image, link, formatting, or control of the platform content. "Platform content" means everything we present at a minute other than its Keeper Note, including its question and answers, its picture, and any Scene. Every submission is screened; each submission accepted by that screen is held for approval. You may have one submission pending at a time, and an approved Keeper Note may be changed no more than once every 30 days, measured from approval. The last approved Keeper Note may remain public while a replacement is reviewed.
  • (b) Premium features, if you pay for them. Certain features are designated premium and require an additional payment in an amount we set. Premium features, such as a Keeper Feature Day that, on a particular date, expands the Keeper Note area or lets you choose one of our Scenes for your minute and supply its words, photo, or date, are governed by their own rules and guidelines, which we will publish when those features become available. We design and build every Scene. A Keeper Feature does not change a minute's question or its answers, and does not edit, sponsor, or grant control of any other platform content. Access to a premium feature is separate from, and not included in, your claim.
  • (c) Marketplace rights, if and when a marketplace exists. If we make a marketplace available, you may list, offer, auction, transfer, or assign your licence through it. Any marketplace will be governed by its own rules, guidelines, eligibility conditions, and fees. Until a marketplace exists, no such right is available to you.
  • (d) Transfer and gifting, where we provide it. Where we make a transfer or gift feature available, you may transfer your minute to another person through it, subject to its rules and to the one-minute-per-account limit in section 5. A completed transfer moves the licence to the recipient and ends yours. Your Keeper Note does not transfer: it is removed from public display, and the recipient may submit their own. We may change, condition, suspend, or withdraw this feature at any time.

No entitlement to future features. Claiming a minute does not entitle you to any feature, capability, service, or content that we may add later, whether premium or not. Anything we add may be limited, conditioned, charged for separately, changed, or withheld, at our sole discretion. Nothing in these Terms or anywhere else is a promise to build, release, maintain, restore, or continue any feature, including any feature described as planned or coming soon.

4. Staying active, and forfeiture

To keep your minute, you must be active at least once in every 30-day period.

Active means deliberately submitting a Keeper Note that our system accepts for review, even if a moderator later rejects it, or using the Keep my minute active control in your keeper dashboard. Signing in, viewing your minute, opening an email, or any automated or incidental activity does not count. Claiming or receiving a minute starts a new activity period.

If 30 days pass without such activity, we may forfeit your minute at our discretion. It remains claimed unless and until we do so. If we forfeit it, the licence ends, the minute returns to the available pool, and its Keeper Note is removed from public display. No refund is due on forfeiture.

We may, but are not required to, send reminders before forfeiture. Failure to send a reminder, or failure of a reminder to arrive, does not delay or prevent forfeiture.

5. One minute per account

Each account may hold at most one minute. We may decline, reverse, or forfeit any claim that attempts to circumvent this, including claims made across multiple accounts controlled by the same person or entity.

6. Price and payment

The price of a minute is the amount shown at checkout for that minute at that time. Prices may change at any time, and different minutes may be priced differently. A claim carries no subscription and no maintenance fee.

You are responsible for any taxes, duties, bank charges, or currency conversion costs that apply to your payment. Payments are handled by a third-party payment provider on their own terms. We do not receive or store your full card details.

7. Refunds

Claims are final. We may issue a refund at our sole discretion. Issuing a refund once does not oblige us to issue another, and creates no policy or precedent. Where we do refund a claim, the minute returns to the available pool and the licence ends. If you are a consumer residing in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with statutory withdrawal rights for digital services, by claiming a minute and requesting immediate performance of the digital service, you expressly acknowledge and agree that you lose your statutory 14-day right of withdrawal upon the commencement of the service. Nothing in this section limits a refund or cancellation right that applicable law does not allow you to waive.

Please contact us at hello@buy1minute.com before raising a dispute with your bank or card issuer.

8. Content standards

You are responsible for each Keeper Note or Keeper Feature submission you make. You are not responsible for the platform content. You must not submit or promote:

  • unlawful content, or material that infringes intellectual property;
  • harassment, threats, defamation, or targeting of private individuals;
  • depictions of child exploitation or sexual abuse;
  • hate speech or violence directed against individuals or groups;
  • private, confidential, or personally identifying information without permission;
  • malware, phishing, deceptive destinations, or impersonation;
  • automated bulk spam or malicious manipulation.

Every Keeper Note submission is screened and held for approval before publication. Review is not an endorsement, does not transfer responsibility for your submission to us, and does not guarantee that we will detect every violation. We may remove, suspend, or refuse any content, and may suspend or close any account, at our sole discretion, with or without notice and with or without reason.

Copyright complaints. Send a complaint to hello@buy1minute.com with your physical or electronic signature, contact information, identification of the protected work, the exact location of the disputed material, a good-faith statement that the use is not authorised, and a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are authorised to act. We may remove or disable material and may terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

9. Your content

You keep whatever rights you already hold in what you publish. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to host, store, cache, reproduce, display, and distribute that content as needed to operate and promote the service while it is public or your claim remains active. We may retain non-public copies afterwards as reasonably needed for moderation evidence, security, backups, disputes, and legal compliance.

You confirm you have the rights necessary to publish what you publish and to grant this licence.

Visitor contributions. Anything visitors submit to, or leave on, a minute, such as responses, votes, taps, inputs, and other interactions, belongs to us. We may use, store, reproduce, aggregate, display, publish, and distribute it for any purpose, with or without attribution. Holding a minute gives you no ownership of, or right to export, visitor contributions, and none passes on transfer or resale.

Personal minutes and private notes. When you save a personal minute to your account, your optional private notes (up to 280 characters) belong to you and remain private to your account. They are not visitor contributions and are never publicly displayed, sold, shared with other visitors, or used to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models. Only anonymous, non-identifying structured choices (such as activity categories) may be aggregated into collective world context.

10. Broadcast and the public record

When the live clock reaches your minute, its approved Keeper Note may be presented on the site beside the platform content. We do not guarantee that it will be shown, that it will be shown for any particular length of time, that it will be shown in any particular place, or that anyone will see or interact with it. Your claim does not give you control of the platform content.

Each minute may carry a public record of activity, such as verified unique reach, interactions, views, and timezone distribution, and an advisory signal derived from it. These figures are estimates produced by automated means. They may be inaccurate, delayed, changed, recalculated, or withdrawn. They are not a valuation, a price, a guarantee, or a promise of any payout, and must not be relied on.

11. Availability and changes to the service

The service is provided without any guarantee of availability, uptime, continuity, or performance. We may change, limit, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service, or the whole of it, at any time, without liability to you.

If we discontinue the service, your licence ends. We may, but are not required to, give notice beforehand or provide any means of exporting anything.

12. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access, your account, or any claim, at our sole discretion, including where we consider that you have breached these Terms. On termination, the licence ends and no refund is due, except where we choose to give one under section 7.

You may stop using the service at any time. You may export your personal minutes or delete your Time Citizen account directly in your account settings. If you hold a claimed minute as a Minute Keeper, you must first release or transfer that minute before your account can be deleted.

13. No warranties

The service is provided on an as is and as available basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions, representations, and terms of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any implied warranty of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted or error-free operation.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary loss, or for any loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, opportunity, data, or anticipated saving, however caused.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the service or these Terms, on any basis whatsoever, is limited to the amount you actually paid us for your current minute claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

15. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold us harmless against any claim, demand, loss, liability, and reasonable cost (including legal fees) arising out of your content, your use of the service, or your breach of these Terms.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms prospectively. The amended version and its effective date will appear on this page. If a change materially affects an existing claim, we will provide reasonable advance notice by email or through the service, except where an urgent legal, safety, or security reason requires earlier effect. Changes do not retroactively alter a dispute that arose before their effective date. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept it, to the extent permitted by law.

17. No obligations beyond those stated

We owe you only the duties expressly written in these Terms. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no other obligation, duty, warranty, representation, undertaking, or liability arises against us by implication, custom, course of dealing, or trade usage. Nothing in these Terms excludes a duty or right that applicable law does not allow either party to waive.

Nothing stated anywhere else creates an obligation on us. That includes marketing and promotional material, the landing page, help, FAQ or documentation pages, roadmaps, blog and social media posts, replies from support, and anything said by any person on our behalf. If any of that conflicts with these Terms, these Terms govern.

Where we describe something as planned, upcoming, or coming soon, it is a statement of present intention only. It is not a commitment, and we may change or abandon it without notice or liability.

18. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms, except by using a transfer or gift feature under section 3(d), or a marketplace under section 3(c), where we make one available. We may assign or transfer our rights and obligations freely, including to a purchaser of the business.

19. Severability and waiver

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, it is severed and the rest remains in force. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it, and does not prevent us enforcing it later.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or the service, are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan and the United States of America, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. You and we submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Michigan, and you waive any objection to venue there. If you are a consumer, this section does not deprive you of mandatory rights or a forum available under law that cannot validly be waived.

21. Contact

Inquiries, refund requests, and support: hello@buy1minute.com · Apprizon, LLC