Terms of Service

Last updated 19 September 2026 · Version 2026-09-19

Acceptance

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of curltact at curltact.holtzhost.com (the “Service”), operated from Colorado, United States (“curltact”, “we”, “us”). By signing in to the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not sign in and do not use the Service.

The service, and its availability

curltact turns a name at curltact.holtzhost.com/my-name into a plain ANSI contact card that renders the same way to anything that requests it (curl, wget, a browser). A free tier shows your name and a few lines; a one-time Extended Card purchase unlocks a longer card, and further one-time purchases unlock cosmetic seals and skins.

curltact is an independent project and is currently in beta. We may change, suspend, limit, or discontinue any part of the Service, or the whole Service, at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you or anyone else. We do not guarantee that the Service will be available, uninterrupted, or preserved, and you should not rely on it as your only copy of anything.

Your account

You sign in through GitHub or GitLab; we do not issue passwords. You are responsible for keeping your provider account secure and for everything done through your curltact account. You must be at least 13 years old, or older where your country sets a higher age for agreeing to online services, and old enough to enter a binding contract. Do not create multiple accounts to abuse limits or evade a suspension.

Acceptable use

You are responsible for the content you engrave on your card. You agree not to use the Service to publish or do anything that:

• is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or fraudulent;
• is, or links to, child sexual abuse material or content that exploits minors. We report such material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and law enforcement;
• impersonates someone, or harasses, threatens, or promotes violence or hatred;
• contains malware or phishing, or is intended to harm or deceive whoever curls it;
• attempts to breach, overload, probe, or disrupt the Service.

Because a card is served publicly, treat everything on it as public.

Our discretion over content, names, and cosmetics

We have no obligation to screen, monitor, review, or edit anything on the Service, and we do not pre-screen cards.

We may, in our sole and absolute discretion, modify, remove, hide, refuse, reclaim, or refuse to render any card, any content on a card, any name, or any cosmetic, at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without notice, and without explanation or liability to you or to anyone else. Reasons may include, without limitation: a breach of these Terms, a legal requirement, a complaint from anyone, a trademark or brand objection, a commercial or sponsorship arrangement, our own judgment about what belongs on the Service, or nothing at all. We do not have to tell you why, and we are not obliged to reinstate anything.

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, email contact@curltact.com with enough detail to identify the work and the card, and we will address it. We may remove content in response to a complaint without deciding who is right.

Repeat infringers. We have adopted and we apply a repeat-infringer policy: in appropriate circumstances we terminate the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe the rights of others. In the normal case that is the third copyright notice we act on against an account, and it can be the first where the infringement is blatant, commercial, or plainly deliberate. We do not email you about any of this: you find out by signing in. We keep a record of the count, and a terminated account gets no refund and keeps no cosmetics. Its names go back in the pool unless the name itself was the infringing thing. Signing in through a different provider account to get around a termination is a breach of these Terms and we terminate that account too. The full policy, including how a strike is recorded and when it comes off, is on our Copyright & DMCA Policy page and forms part of these Terms.

Names

Names at curltact.holtzhost.com/my-name are granted first come, first served, subject to a list of reserved words, and are intended for active use. A name is a revocable permission to use an address on the Service. You do not own it and you acquire no property right in it.

We may reclaim, reassign, rename, or refuse any name, at any time, for any reason or for no reason, without notice and without liability or compensation to you. Reasons may include, without limitation: inactivity, abuse, impersonation, a trademark or brand objection, a sponsorship, advertising, or commercial arrangement, or our own judgment.

• Inactivity. A name may be reclaimed if the account shows no activity for 365 consecutive days. Activity means signing in, updating your card, or making a purchase.
• Squatting. You may not claim names in bad faith, including hoarding, claiming names to resell them, impersonation, or claiming names to keep others from using them. Accounts doing so may be suspended without notice.
• No trading. Selling, buying, transferring, or soliciting payment for a name is prohibited and may result in immediate permanent suspension.
• Sponsors and trademarks. We may reclaim any name for a sponsor, advertiser, commercial partner, or trademark holder, without notice, compensation, or obligation to you.

Payment

• Free tier. The free card stays live at no cost, subject to these Terms and to our right to change or discontinue any part of the Service.
• One-time purchases, not a subscription. Extended Card, seals, and skins are each a single one-time charge. Nothing renews, nothing bills again, and there is no expiry date on what you buy. All fees are in U.S. dollars unless noted.
• Payment processor. Payments are made through Paddle.com Market Limited (“Paddle”), our authorised reseller and merchant of record. Your purchase contract is with Paddle, not with us. Paddle issues your receipt and determines, collects, and remits applicable taxes. Your purchase is also governed by Paddle's buyer terms, which give buyers in some countries rights we cannot override, including a 14-day right of withdrawal in the European Union. We are not responsible for any act or omission of Paddle. For questions about billing, invoices, or tax, contact Paddle.
• Price changes. We may change prices at any time. A change does not affect an order already placed.
• Taxes. You are responsible for any applicable taxes not collected by Paddle.

What a cosmetic actually is

When you buy the Extended Card, a seal, a skin, or any other cosmetic (“Cosmetics”), you receive a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to display that Cosmetic on your own curltact card, for personal, non-commercial use, for as long as you hold an account and we continue to offer it. The licence has no fixed end date, but it is a licence, not a sale, and not ownership. You are not buying the artwork, the code, or any property right in the Cosmetic.

We may manage, regulate, change, suspend, discontinue, or remove any Cosmetic at any time, in our sole discretion, and we will have no liability to you or anyone else for doing so, including where a Cosmetic you have paid for is later changed, removed, or discontinued.

Cosmetics are recorded against your account rather than against a single card, so deleting a card and claiming a new name does not destroy them. That is how the Service is built today, and it is not a promise about how it will work in the future.

Refunds

Every paid tier is a one-time purchase, so there is nothing to cancel and nothing to unsubscribe from. Fees are non-refundable except at our discretion, and except where Paddle or your local consumer law requires otherwise. That said, we are reasonable people: if you email us a good reason we may refund you. Write to contact@curltact.com and ask.

Chargebacks

If you think a charge is wrong, contact us first at contact@curltact.com, or contact Paddle, who processed the payment and handles disputes. Give us a reasonable chance to sort it out.

Starting a chargeback or payment dispute with your bank or card issuer without first contacting us or Paddle is a breach of these Terms. In response we may suspend or terminate your account, provide Paddle and your card issuer with evidence of your purchase and use of the Service, and decline to serve you in future. Accounts used to make fraudulent or repeated unfounded chargebacks may be permanently suspended.

Your content, and the licence you give us

You keep all rights to the content you engrave. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, render, and publicly serve that content for the purpose of running the Service. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in routine backups for a limited time. You represent that you have the rights to everything you host.

Our content

The Service itself, including the curltact™ name, the site design, the software, and the seal and skin artwork, belongs to curltact. A Cosmetic licence lets you display it on your own card; it does not transfer ownership, and you may not resell or redistribute it. “curltact” is a trademark claimed through use in commerce and is not registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Nothing in these Terms grants you any licence to use the name, and you may not use it in a way that suggests we made, endorsed, or are otherwise behind something we are not.

Feedback

Any feedback, suggestion, idea, or feature request you send us is voluntary and unsolicited. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to use, adapt, and build on it, in this or any other product, without compensation or obligation to you. We are not required to act on any feedback, and doing so creates no partnership or obligation between us.

Communications from us, and to us

You consent to receive communications from us electronically: by email, by a notice posted on the Service, or by an update to these Terms. You agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing, and that posting a notice or an updated version of these Terms on the Service is valid notice to you, whether or not you read it.

We are under no obligation to reply to anything you send us. Contacting us creates no duty to respond, to act, or to help, and we may choose not to answer any email, report, or request. This does not apply where the law requires a response, including requests about your personal data under data-protection law (see our Privacy Policy) and copyright notices and counter-notices, which we handle within the time the law allows.

Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, remove or modify your card, or reclaim your name, at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or for no reason at all, including breach of these Terms, a legal requirement, protection of the Service or its users, inactivity, or our own business judgment. We will have no liability to you on account of any suspension, termination, reclamation, or change.

You may stop using the Service and delete your card at any time. No refund is due on termination for any reason, including termination on our initiative, except where Paddle or your local consumer law requires otherwise.

These sections survive termination: Our discretion over content, names, and cosmetics; What a cosmetic actually is; Our content; Feedback; Disclaimers; Limitation of liability; Indemnification; Disputes; Class action waiver; and Governing law.

Third-party services

The Service relies on GitHub, GitLab, and Paddle, each under its own terms. We are not responsible for the availability, performance, or practices of those third parties.

Independent engravers

curltact may list or display contact information for independent artisans who specialize in custom ASCII seal engraving. These artisans are independent individuals or businesses. They are not employees, agents, contractors, or affiliates of curltact, and curltact does not employ, direct, or supervise their work.

Any arrangement you make with a listed engraver, including pricing, scope, delivery, payment, and any dispute, is solely between you and that engraver. curltact is not a party to any such transaction and assumes no responsibility or liability for the quality, delivery, timeliness, or outcome of any work you arrange through a listed engraver.

A listing on the Service is not an endorsement, a recommendation, or a guarantee of any kind. We may add or remove listings at any time without notice.

Where you may use the Service

You may not use the Service if you are located in, or are ordinarily resident in, a country or region subject to comprehensive United States sanctions, or if you appear on a United States restricted-party list. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply where you are.

Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free from data loss. You acknowledge that the internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to or from the service.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, curltact and its operator will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of data, profits, goodwill, cosmetics, or access to your name or card, arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the service will not exceed the greater of the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty U.S. dollars ($50.00).

Each provision of this section is severable and independent of every other provision of these terms. These limits apply to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, notwithstanding the failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so some of the above may not apply to you.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless curltact and its operator from any third-party claim, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms. This applies to third-party claims only, and not to claims arising solely from our own negligence.

Disputes

Talk to us first. Before filing anything, you agree to contact us at contact@curltact.com and give us 30 days to resolve the dispute informally. Most things are fixable by email.

If that fails, the state and federal courts located in Colorado, United States have exclusive jurisdiction and venue over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court where the claim qualifies. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking emergency injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction, and nothing here stops you from complaining to a government agency or consumer-protection body.

Class action waiver

You and we agree that any claim relating to these terms or the service will be brought solely on an individual basis. You waive any right to bring, join, or participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. To the extent permitted by law, you and we each waive any right to a trial by jury.

If this section is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim shall proceed in court without this section, and the rest of this section shall continue to apply to all other claims.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer resident outside the United States, this does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory law of the country where you live, and any right you have under that law applies in addition to these Terms.

Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, pandemics, war, civil unrest, government action, internet backbone failures, or power outages.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date and version above, and for material changes we will make a reasonable effort to notify you. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any part is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor, such as a future company that takes over the Service. Headings are for convenience only.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Write to contact@curltact.com.

See also our Privacy Policy.