Terms of Service

These Terms are issued by the operator of MAD and mad-ads.com, referred to here as MAD. The monitored contact for the operator is maximusik2@gmail.com.

When creating an account, you must actively accept these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. MAD records the applicable document versions, timestamp, locale, and age confirmation in account metadata. Continued browsing may also constitute acceptance where applicable law permits, but it does not waive mandatory rights.

You must be at least 18 years old to create a MAD account or apply to the MAD community. If you act for a company or organization, you represent that you have authority to act for it. Public editorial pages may be read without an account.

MAD provides editorial content about marketing, learning materials, account/profile tools, community application and merch pre-order workflows, and an internal CMS. Features may change, pause, or be discontinued, subject to any mandatory notice or consumer right.

Community membership, MAD+, events, merch, or paid features may have additional terms presented before a person joins or pays. If additional terms conflict with these Terms, the more specific terms govern that feature, subject to mandatory law.

Submitting an application does not guarantee admission. MAD may approve, decline, suspend, or end access to protect participants, enforce these Terms, or preserve the purpose of the community. The application privacy acknowledgment is not marketing consent.

Community participants must respect confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, and other participants. Do not harass, discriminate, scrape member information, disclose another person's private information, or send unsolicited promotions.

You retain ownership of content you submit. You grant MAD a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, display, and otherwise use that content only as reasonably needed to operate, secure, improve, and, where you specifically submit material for publication, promote the service.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed for anything you submit. Profile avatars may be publicly readable. Community application answers are not licensed for public promotion and are handled under the Privacy Policy.

MAD and its licensors own the site's design, branding, software, databases, workflows, graphics, and editorial materials, except for content owned by users or third parties. You may read public content and share links for personal or professional reference.

You may not republish, sell, translate, alter, distribute, or create derivative works from MAD content without permission unless a license or applicable law allows it. References to third-party brands and campaigns do not imply sponsorship.

MAD content is for editorial, informational, and educational purposes. It is not legal, financial, investment, tax, employment, medical, or other regulated professional advice. Campaign examples and past results may not apply to another business or future event.

MAD aims to be useful and accurate but does not guarantee that every source, conclusion, translation, or result is complete, current, or error-free. Make important decisions using appropriate independent advice and primary sources.

MAD may use AI-assisted ingestion, relevance scoring, drafting, translation, and review tools. AI output can be incomplete or inaccurate and remains subject to human/editor judgment.

Unattended ingestion, localization, scoring, and drafting jobs do not auto-publish public content. Publication requires an intentional publish instruction by an authorized editor or through authorized MCP publishing tooling. Leaving that MCP workflow available does not authorize an unattended scheduler to publish.

The Privacy Policy describes personal-data processing and is incorporated into these Terms. Essential authentication and security storage is required for account features.

Meta Pixel and Amplitude are enabled by default when configured. This setting is not described as consent. You may disable or re-enable marketing analytics at any time through the persistent Privacy choices control; MAD also treats an exposed Global Privacy Control signal as an opt-out. The control does not retroactively delete previously transmitted events.

Current integrations may include Railway, Supabase, Resend, Meta, Amplitude, and OpenAI for the functions described in the Privacy Policy. Their own terms and policies also govern their services.

A protected Listmonk webhook exists as optional infrastructure, but Listmonk is not an active marketing sender unless separately deployed and configured. No payment provider or live MAD+/merch checkout is selected in the current service.

A merch pre-order request records interest and contact details only. It does not reserve stock, guarantee production or delivery, take payment, or create a purchase obligation. Payment fields and subscription labels remain scaffolding until MAD presents an active checkout.

Before any paid transaction, MAD must display the seller/operator identity, total price, currency, billing frequency, renewal and cancellation terms, refund or return rules, delivery terms, payment provider, and any additional information required by the consumer's law. An unchecked box or other affirmative action will be used where required.

Do not test, scan, attack, access, modify, delete, copy, or disclose MAD systems or data without written authorization. If you find a suspected vulnerability, report it responsibly and avoid accessing data that is not yours.

MAD may monitor for security and abuse, investigate incidents, preserve evidence, restrict access, and work with providers or authorities where lawful and reasonably necessary.

You may stop using MAD at any time. MAD may suspend or end access when reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance, nonpayment after paid services launch, a material breach, harm to others, or abuse of the service.

Where mandatory law requires notice, an explanation, an opportunity to cure, data access, or an appeal, that right applies. Provisions that by nature should survive termination, including ownership, licenses already needed for published material, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute provisions, remain effective.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, MAD is provided as available and without implied warranties of uninterrupted operation, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or accuracy.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits a warranty, remedy, consumer right, privacy right, liability for intentional misconduct, gross negligence, personal injury, or any other right or liability that applicable law does not allow the parties to waive. In particular, mandatory Ukrainian and U.S. state consumer protections prevail over inconsistent language.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, MAD and its team are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business interruption arising from the service.

Where liability may lawfully be limited but not excluded, MAD's aggregate liability for the event is limited to the greater of the amount you paid MAD for the relevant service during the three months before the claim or USD 100. This limit does not apply where mandatory law requires a higher or unlimited remedy.

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify MAD against third-party claims and reasonable costs caused by your unlawful content, material breach of these Terms, or violation of another person's rights. This clause does not require a consumer to indemnify MAD for MAD's own misconduct and does not reduce mandatory consumer remedies.

These Terms do not impose a contractual choice of governing law or an exclusive forum. A dispute is governed by the mandatory and conflict-of-law rules that apply to the relationship and may be brought before a court or authority that has jurisdiction under those rules.

Before filing a non-urgent claim, contact maximusik2@gmail.com with a short description and requested resolution so the parties can try to resolve it informally. This does not shorten a limitation period, prevent emergency relief, restrict a regulator complaint, or require arbitration.

MAD may update these Terms as the service or law changes. The page will show a new version and date. Material changes will receive additional notice where appropriate or required, and account holders will be asked to accept a new version when the change requires renewed agreement.

Terms, legal notices, and privacy requests: maximusik2@gmail.com. This address is operationally monitored. If a translated version conflicts, the version mandatory law requires or the version expressly accepted for a transaction will control; otherwise the English version is the reference text.