1. Acceptance of these terms
By creating an account, buying adbid rights, or otherwise using Adbidvertiser (the "Platform"), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity on your account.
3. What the Platform is
The Platform provides an unpaid discovery tier in which approved ads may be listed in the Evergreen Directory. It separately sells optional advertising exposure: advertisers buy and activate adbid rights to promote a selected approved ad on the Public Exposure Ledger and compete for the Top Sponsor spotlight. The paid product is measurable advertising visibility, not basic directory eligibility.
4. Adbid rights are advertising credits only
- Adbid rights are non-redeemable, non-refundable advertising credits usable only inside the Platform.
- They are not money, not stored value, not an investment, and not a deposit.
- They cannot be sold back to the Platform or exchanged for cash.
- Activating rights into the ledger is irreversible; active rights cannot be returned to inactive manually.
5. Purchases and fees
Adbid rights are bought through our third-party payment providers. A 10% platform fee is added to every purchase, and adbid rights are credited only after the payment is confirmed. USD and NGN may have different minimums: USD uses a processor-safe minimum, while NGN may be configured to purchase at least 1.00 inactive adbid right before platform fee and VAT are added. Prices, exchange rates, taxes, VAT settings, and the fee may change; changes apply to future purchases. See our Refund Policy for billing-error, duplicate-payment, failed-payment, and non-refundable-credit rules.
6A. The ledger, scores and rankings
Rising Challengers are the nine eligible advertisers closest to the Top Sponsor. They are ranked by Challenge Score, with Exposure Score and activation time used as tie-breakers. All other eligible advertisers are placed on the Public Exposure Ledger primarily by Exposure Score, with Challenge Score and activation time used as tie-breakers. The Platform may adjust ranking rules, slot layout, rotation, and configurable amounts (such as the entry minimum, bonus percentage, and countdown duration) at its discretion.
Search and category tools are discovery filters for the ordinary Public Exposure Ledger. They do not alter Exposure Score, Challenge Score, Top Sponsor eligibility, Rising Challenger order, or any advertiser's official Ledger position. Search-related appearances, qualified views, clicks, and shares may be recorded as aggregate performance analytics. Raw visitor search phrases are not stored or disclosed to advertisers.
When country ledgers are enabled, advertisers may appear both in International and in the ledger for their registered primary advertising market. Country-level contests can have their own top sponsor, countdown, challenge window, and deposition flow. IP location may be used to choose an initial viewing experience, but advertiser eligibility is based on the advertiser's registered market, not the viewer's IP.
Your full paid-active-rights base counts in both International and your primary-country ledger. A spotlight reservation locks a stated amount for one specific Top Sponsor position, but does not divide or reduce that base score. The next challenge target is the amount a challenger must meet or exceed and can be higher than the reservation because of the configured Top Sponsor bonus.
6B. Multiple ads, versions and discovery tiers
An account may keep multiple ads. Rights, activations, scores, challenges, spotlight commitments, rewards, alerts, automation and analytics are attributed to the specific ad selected for the action. Selecting another default ad does not transfer existing economic state.
Public-ad content changes may create a pending version while the last approved version remains visible. Classification-only changes, including category and geographic coverage, may be applied and audited without another content review. The Platform may archive ads while retaining financial, moderation and analytics history.
Approved ads without current-round paid activity may appear in a clearly labelled Evergreen discovery tier. Evergreen placement is not a paid active right, creates no Challenge Score, cannot challenge or depose, reserves no rights and earns no spotlight reward. Continued directory eligibility may require periodic advertiser confirmation.
Hierarchical category, search and state or region controls filter eligible ads without changing official paid ranking. Parent categories include eligible ads in descendant categories. A countrywide ad may match a regional filter, but geographic coverage is an advertiser-supplied classification and is not a guarantee that goods or services are available at every location.
6C. Ad media, galleries and external videos
Advertisers are responsible for having the right to use every image, GIF, gallery item, logo, text, link and external video URL submitted with an ad. Uploaded media may be compressed, resized, watermarked, rejected, or rate-limited according to the current admin settings.
YouTube and Instagram URLs may be attached to an ad for click-to-load viewing. The Platform does not host those videos, does not control the external provider, and may remove, hide, or return an ad to moderation if the linked video is unavailable, misleading, unsafe, or materially inconsistent with the approved ad.
Public ad-copy, display-name, media, gallery or video changes may require moderation before becoming live. CTA URL removal or same-domain path/query updates may be auto-approved where the system determines that the destination remains within the previously approved hostname.
7. Top Sponsor, challenges and rewards
Each International or country contest has one Top Sponsor spotlight at a time. A challenge must be backed by sufficient paid active rights and creates a spotlight reservation in that contest. If a funded challenge validly deposes you, your reserved spotlight rights come back as a Deposition Return — expiring inactive adbid rights usable for the round you were deposed plus 2 more rounds — plus a Comeback Boost to the ledger scope in which you were deposed for that round plus 1 more. These are advertising credits only, never cash. If returned rights are automatically reactivated, they become irreversible active rights again and expire at the end of that round unless a later valid deposition returns the applicable spotlight reservation. A reward is never owed if the countdown expires without a deposition.
8. Referral program
Referral exposure boosts reward the referrer for a referred user's qualifying paid activation. Boosts affect visibility only and can never be used to depose a sponsor, trigger or increase a reward, or be redeemed for cash. Self-referrals and abuse of the referral program are prohibited and may be reversed.
8A. Coupons, sharing rewards and promotional credits
Coupons, share-load bonuses, comeback boosts, referral boosts, and other promotional credits are platform credits only. They may increase visibility according to their configured rules, but they have no cash value, may be capped, may expire, and may be reversed for abuse, fraud, error, or breach of these terms. Promotional accounting may be tracked separately from ordinary paid purchases.
9. Acceptable use and content
You are solely responsible for your advert and links. You must not post scams, impersonation, illegal products, hateful or harassing content, adult content, misleading financial claims, regulated-product claims without approval, or malware or unsafe links. We may moderate, reject, suspend, edit the visibility of, or remove any ad, and freeze accounts that break these rules.
10. No guarantee of results
Advertising exposure depends on many factors and is not guaranteed. We do not promise any specific number of impressions, clicks, ranking, sales, or outcomes, and we make no promise of earnings or financial return of any kind.
11. Payments, chargebacks and fraud
You agree not to make fraudulent payments or improper chargebacks. We may delay rewards, hold reserves, reverse referral boosts, claw back credited rights, and freeze accounts to manage chargeback and fraud risk. Repeated cards, devices, IP addresses, or accounts may be flagged for review.
12. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate your access at any time for breach of these terms, suspected fraud, or legal or risk reasons. Adbid rights have no cash value and are not refunded on termination for cause, except where required by law.
13. Intellectual property
The Platform, its software, branding, and content are owned by the operator. You retain ownership of the advert content you submit but grant us a licence to display and syndicate it (including on partner and sister-site placements) as part of providing the service.
14. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
The Platform is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential losses, lost profits, or loss of adbid rights, and our total liability is limited to what we may determine appropriate in the event of a claim.
15. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use after changes means you accept the updated terms.
16. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Platform operator is established (Nigeria), and disputes are subject to the courts of that jurisdiction, except where mandatory local consumer law provides otherwise.
17. Contact
Questions about these terms? Reach us through the Contact page.