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Terms of Service

Last updated 26 August 2026

STAKE AMERICA is operated by Carl Christoffer Hansson, trading as STAKE AMERICA, Havneholmen 12G, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: support@stakeamerica.lol. In these terms, "we" and "us" mean that operator, and "you" means the person or organisation buying a listing.

By buying a listing you accept these terms, the Refund Policy and the Privacy Policy.

1. What you are buying

You are buying a temporary advertising placement: your chosen name, link and logo displayed on one US state — or on all fifty — on the STAKE AMERICA map, for as long as you hold it under the rules below.

You are not buying:

  • any right, title or interest in a US state, or anything else in the physical world;
  • a permanent placement, or a placement for any minimum period;
  • any guaranteed number of visitors, clicks, impressions or outcomes;
  • exclusivity, ownership of a name, or any intellectual property.

2. How pricing works

Purchase Price
An unclaimed state From $5.00
A state someone already holds 1.5× what the current holder paid, rounded up to a whole dollar
All fifty states at once $1,776, or the total of taking every state individually — whichever is higher

The price shown at checkout is the price you pay. Prices are quoted and charged in US dollars; your bank may apply its own conversion.

A price quote is valid for 30 minutes. If you complete payment after it expires, or if someone takes the state while you are paying, the purchase does not go through and you are refunded automatically. See the Refund Policy.

When you buy all fifty states, what you pay is divided across them in proportion to what each was worth, which sets the price for anyone taking one back.

3. Your placement is not permanent

Anyone can take your state from you at any time by paying 1.5× what you paid. This is the entire point of the service. When it happens you are not notified, not compensated, and not refunded.

There is no minimum duration. You may be displaced seconds after buying, or never. Buy on the understanding that the placement may be brief.

4. Rules for what you list

Your name, link and logo must not:

  • be, or point to, anything unlawful, malicious, deceptive or fraudulent;
  • contain sexual, violent, hateful or harassing content;
  • impersonate any person, brand or organisation you are not authorised to represent;
  • use a link shortener, redirector, invite link or affiliate/tracking URL;
  • infringe anyone's intellectual property or privacy;
  • attempt to interfere with the site, other listings, or other users.

Query strings are stripped from links automatically. Links must resolve to a real domain. Names are limited to 24 characters and may not mix alphabets, which blocks look-alike impersonation.

You confirm you own or are authorised to use everything you submit, and you grant us permission to display it on the site and in automatically generated share images for as long as you hold the placement.

5. We can remove a listing

We may remove any listing at any time, without notice and without refund, if we believe it breaks section 4 — or if we are required to by law, a payment provider, or a hosting provider.

Removal for a rule breach does not reset the state's price. We may also refuse future purchases from anyone who has breached these terms.

6. Availability

The service is provided as-is. We do not promise it will be available, uninterrupted or error-free, and we may change, suspend or discontinue it — including taking the site offline permanently — at any time.

If we discontinue the service, placements end with it. We are not obliged to refund a placement that has already been displayed, though we may choose to refund recent purchases at our discretion.

Sales may be paused when the site reaches an operating limit. When that happens, existing placements stand and nothing new can be bought until it reopens.

7. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or any statutory rights you have as a consumer.

Subject to that: we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, goodwill or anticipated savings; and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for the placement the claim relates to.

We are not responsible for the content of any site a listing links to. Links are screened automatically where possible, but that screening is not a guarantee. Follow links at your own risk.

8. Payments

Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card details. Your placement goes live only once Stripe confirms the payment; returning from the payment page does not by itself grant a placement.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The version in force for a purchase is the version published when you bought, and the date at the top shows when this version took effect. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the current version.

10. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by Danish law, and the Danish courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory law in your country of residence, and you may use the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform.

Consumers in Denmark may complain to Nævnenes Hus, Toldboden 2, 8800 Viborg.

Questions about these terms: support@stakeamerica.lol. We aim to reply within two working days.