Terms of Service

These Terms are a contract between you and The Thousand Numbers (“we”, “us”, “the operator”), which operates The Thousand Numbers (“the Service”).

• Contact: legal@thethousandnumbers.com for anything about these Terms, support@thethousandnumbers.com for anything about the game.

By creating an account, or by rolling, buying, listing, bidding or offering without one, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into a contract. We ask for your date of birth at sign-up and may refuse or close an account where we have reason to believe it is wrong.

You must not use the Service where doing so would breach the law that applies to you. Deciding that is your responsibility, not ours: we do not check the law of every country a visitor might connect from, and we make no representation that the Service is lawful or available anywhere in particular.

One account per person. You are responsible for everything done through your account, and for keeping your password to yourself. Tell us at support@thethousandnumbers.com as soon as you think someone else has it.

The Service offers 1000 numbers, 0 to 999. Each can be recorded against one account at a time. That record is the entire thing.

A number is a row in our database and a permission to display it inside the Service. It is not property, not a security, not a financial instrument, not a token, not a unit of currency, and not a stake in anything. It confers no rights outside the Service, no rights in the numeral itself, and no exclusive rights against anybody in the world. We do not promise that it has, keeps, or will ever have any value.

In particular, and without limiting the above, we do not represent that a number can be resold, that anybody will want to buy it, that it will sell for what you paid, or that the Service will continue to exist. Anything you pay, you should treat as spent.

You may hold at most 10 numbers at once. Numbers you hold are shown publicly, alongside your display name, your avatar and any artwork you have put on them.

Rolling picks a number at random from those nobody has taken. It is free, unlimited, and costs nothing but time. There is no stake, no entry fee, no bet, and no prize: the outcome of a roll is an offer to sell you a number at a price fixed in advance by the number itself, which you may take or ignore without cost.

Because nothing is risked on the random outcome, we do not consider the Service to be gambling and it is not licensed or regulated as such. If the law where you are treats it otherwise, you must not use it.

A roll holds a number for 5 minutes, extended to 15 minutes if you go to create an account and up to 20 minutes in total. When a hold lapses the number returns to the pool and anyone may roll it. Rolling again releases whatever you were holding. We do not guarantee that a held number will still be there.

A number that nobody owns is sold by us, at a price equal to the number itself, in whole units of the stated currency. That sale is between you and us, and clauses 8, 9 and 16 apply to it.

A purchase completes only when the payment is confirmed by our payment provider. Until then nothing is yours, however the page looked. If your payment lands after the number has gone to somebody else, we will refund it; that refund is your only remedy in that situation.

When one player sells a number to another, we are not the seller. We provide the place, the listing mechanics and the payment plumbing. The contract is between the two players. We are not a party to it, not an agent for either side, not an escrow, and not a broker of it, and we take no responsibility for whether either of them performs.

Listings open at 5 or more. A listing is either a timed auction, which may also carry a buy-now price and take offers, or an untimed listing that takes offers alone. The rules the software applies are part of this agreement:

• A bid is binding. Once anyone has bid, the seller cannot withdraw the listing, and the highest bid when the clock stops wins. A bid placed in the final hour pushes the end back to a full hour.
• An offer is not a bid. It is a price you name for the seller to take or leave, it does not have to beat anything, and accepting one ends the listing.
• Winning is not paying. The winner is awarded the number and has 24 hours to pay for it. Miss that window and the award passes to the next bid down. Nothing is charged to a bidder who lets the window lapse, and the seller is not compensated for the delay.
• Buy-now is first come, first served, and reserves the listing for whoever reaches the payment form first, for as long as that form is open.

We may cancel, suspend, reverse or refuse any listing, bid, offer or sale where we reasonably suspect fraud, manipulation, collusion, a breach of these Terms, or a mistake in the pricing or the software. We are not obliged to explain a decision in detail and we owe nothing for having made it, beyond returning money that was taken and not earned.

On a sale between players we take 3% from the seller’s proceeds and 3% on top of what the buyer pays, each never less than 1 of the stated currency. Both sides are shown their figure before they commit. Buying from the pool carries no commission. We may change these rates for future listings by updating this clause.

We do not hold your money. A market purchase is a single card charge, split at our payment provider: the seller’s share goes directly to the seller’s own connected account and we keep only our fee. Money owed to a seller is never ours, is never in our custody, and cannot be spent inside the Service. Payouts are made by the payment provider on its schedule and under its agreement with the seller, not ours.

Card payments are processed by Stripe. To receive money you must complete Stripe’s onboarding and accept Stripe’s terms; we do not decide whether you pass its checks, we are not told why anybody fails them, and we cannot release a payout Stripe is holding. Any balance figure we display is read from Stripe and shown for information only.

Prices are in whole units and exclude any tax that may apply to you. You are responsible for your own taxes on anything you earn through the Service, and for any declaration that goes with it.

Digital content of this kind is supplied immediately, and a number is recorded to your account the moment payment clears.

By buying, you expressly ask for the purchase to be performed immediately and you acknowledge that you thereby lose the 14-day right of withdrawal that would otherwise apply to a distance contract for digital content under Articles L.221-18 and L.221-28 of the French Consumer Code and the equivalent rules elsewhere in the EU.

Beyond that, purchases are final. We do not refund a number because you changed your mind, because you paid more than you now think it was worth, because somebody else got the one you wanted, or because you lost an auction or a hold. We will refund where the law requires it, and where a payment was taken for something that could not be delivered.

A chargeback raised without first contacting us is a breach of these Terms. We may suspend the account and reverse anything the disputed payment paid for.

You may release a number at any time. It returns to the pool, anybody may roll it, and nothing is refunded. It cannot be undone, which is why it takes a link sent to your email address rather than a button.

Deleting your account releases every number on it, on the same terms.

You can customise a number you own: colours, patterns, stickers, drawings, fonts and the position of the numeral. That artwork (“your content”) stays yours.

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, adapt for display, and publish your content for the purposes of operating and promoting the Service, including in the shareable images the Service generates. The licence lasts as long as the content is on the Service, and survives afterwards only to the extent needed for backups, records and images already shared elsewhere.

Artwork travels with the number when it is sold, and the new owner may redraw it. You cannot get it back from them.

You promise that your content is yours to give, and that it is not:

• somebody else’s copyright, trade mark or likeness;
• unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or an incitement to any of that;
• sexual content involving minors, or anything sexualising a minor;
• a real person’s private information, or an impersonation of a real person or organisation;
• an advertisement, a solicitation, a payment address, or a link out of the Service.

We may remove any content, or blank any number, at our discretion and without notice. We do not pre-screen content and we are not responsible for content anybody else has drawn. If something here infringes your rights, write to legal@thethousandnumbers.com with enough detail to identify it and we will deal with it.

• Use scripts, bots, or any automated means to roll, bid, offer or buy, or to work around the pacing the Service applies to rolling.
• Hold more than 10 numbers by using more than one account, or use a second account for any other purpose.
• Bid on your own listing, arrange sales to inflate what a number appears to be worth, or coordinate with others to do either.
• Settle a sale outside the Service to avoid the commission, or advertise numbers for sale off the Service.
• Probe, scrape, overload, reverse engineer, or interfere with the Service, its security, or anybody else’s use of it.
• Use the Service to launder money, to move funds, or for anything unlawful.
• Present the Service, or a number, as an investment, a fund, a token sale or a financial product.

We may suspend or close any account, cancel any listing, reverse any transaction, and remove any number, where we reasonably believe this clause has been broken. Where we do, you are not entitled to compensation, and we may keep fees already earned.

The Thousand Numbers is early access. Features, prices, rules and balances may change, and data may be reset. Do not spend anything you would mind losing.

We may change, suspend, limit or discontinue the Service, or any part of it, at any time and without notice. We may change these Terms; the version on this page governs from the date it says, and continuing to use the Service after a change is acceptance of it. Where a change materially reduces what you get, we will make a reasonable effort to tell registered players by email first.

If the Service closes, numbers, records and balances end with it. We are not obliged to buy anything back, to refund anything, or to keep any record running, beyond paying out money already earned and held by the payment provider for you.

We do not promise the Service will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or free of error, and we do not promise that any particular number will ever be available to you.

You may close your account at any time from your account page. Closing it releases your numbers, ends any listing you have, and cannot be undone.

We may close or suspend an account for a breach of these Terms, for a legal requirement, or where an account has been dormant for a long time and we have given notice. Where we close an account for a breach, any number on it returns to the pool without compensation.

Sales that really happened are kept as a record, with the parties’ names removed, so that the other side of a trade does not lose their history when somebody leaves. Clause 6 of the Privacy Policy explains this.

The Service links to and relies on things we do not run: the payment provider, sign-in providers, font and image sources, and whatever anybody pastes a link to. We do not control them, we do not endorse them, and we are not responsible for them. Your dealings with them are between you and them.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service and everything in it is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, or non-infringement.

Nothing in this clause removes the guarantees a consumer has by law that cannot be excluded, including the legal guarantee of conformity and the guarantee against hidden defects under Articles L.217-3 and following of the French Consumer Code and Articles 1641 and following of the Civil Code.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you. Where you deal with us as a consumer, your mandatory rights are unaffected by anything below.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law allows:

• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive loss, nor for loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, opportunity, or anticipated saving, however caused.
• We are not liable for the value of a number, for a number becoming unavailable, for a number you lost, released, sold, failed to buy, or failed to pay for in time, nor for the conduct of any other player.
• We are not liable for anything caused by a third party we rely on, by your own equipment or connection, by unauthorised access to your account where we were not at fault, or by data you lost that you had not kept elsewhere.
• Our total liability to you, for everything arising out of or connected with the Service, is capped at the greater of 100 of the stated currency and the total amount you actually paid us in fees and pool purchases in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

You will indemnify us against any claim, loss, liability or reasonable cost arising from your breach of these Terms, from your content, or from your dealings with another player, except to the extent it was caused by us.

Neither side is liable for a failure caused by something beyond its reasonable control, including outage of a network, hosting provider or payment provider, act of a public authority, or event of force majeure.

Write to legal@thethousandnumbers.com first. Most things are settled that way, and we would rather deal with a complaint than a dispute.

If you are a consumer and we cannot settle it between us, you may refer the matter free of charge to a consumer mediator. A mediator will be named here before the Service takes payments in France; until then, write to us and we will tell you which body to use. You may also use the European Commission’s online dispute resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

These Terms are governed by French law. Disputes go to the competent courts of Paris, France. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of your own country, and you may bring proceedings in the courts there.

• If any clause is held unenforceable, the rest stands and that clause is read down to what is enforceable.
• Not enforcing something once does not waive it. A waiver has to be in writing.
• We may transfer these Terms to a successor to the business. You may not transfer them, and an account is not a thing you can sell.
• These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us about the Service.
• Nothing here makes either of us the other’s partner, agent or employee, and nobody else acquires a right to enforce these Terms.
• These Terms are written in English. A translation is provided for convenience only; where the law lets us choose, the English governs.