Terms of Service

1. Using the Service

These terms govern your use of Product Updates (the “Service”), a directory for discovering products and managing product launches. By using the Service, you agree to these terms. If you use it for an organization, you must have authority to act on its behalf.

Listed products are offered by their publishers. Product Updates does not sell those products or guarantee their quality, availability, safety or suitability. Purchases from a listed website are governed by that publisher’s terms.

2. Accounts and responsible use

Keep your sign-in account secure and provide accurate information. You are responsible for submissions and activity carried out through your account.

Do not submit unlawful, deceptive or infringing content, impersonate others, distribute malware, send spam, manipulate votes or rankings, bypass access controls, or interfere with the Service. Votes must reflect genuine user choices; purchasing promotion does not buy votes.

3. Your content and publication

You retain your rights in the content you submit. You must own it or have permission to use its text, logos, images and other materials, and have authority to submit the product and website.

You grant the Service a non-exclusive permission to store, process, resize and display submitted content as needed to operate the directory and deliver your requested launch or promotion. This does not transfer ownership of your content.

Submissions are subject to review. The Service may decline, hide or restrict content or accounts that violate these terms or create security or legal concerns. Payment does not guarantee approval or bypass review.

4. Free launches

The Free path requires a public website, installation and successful verification of the product-specific badge, complete product details, and confirmation of an available launch date. Dates use UTC. Applicable capacity and account limits are shown during submission.

Confirming a reservation holds the available place, subject to review. Publication requires approval and a final successful badge check. A missing approval or failed eligibility check can prevent publication. Reservation, approval and publication are separate states. Keep the required badge on your website while using the Free listing path.

5. Product updates and weekly rankings

Each published product may publish one free substantive update per UTC week, from Monday 00:00 until the following Monday 00:00. Drafts do not consume this allowance. Editing or hiding an update does not return the allowance, refresh its publication date or enter it into a later week’s ranking.

New products participate in their first publication week. Updates have a separate weekly ranking and independent votes. Each verified account has one effective vote per product or update, which can be withdrawn. Closed-week tallies exclude later voting changes; hidden content is excluded from public results. Promotion does not buy votes or ranking weight.

6. Featured promotion and payments

Available plans, prices, currency and duration appear before payment. Purchases use Stripe-hosted checkout when sales are enabled. Featured is sponsored placement and is identified separately from organic discovery. It does not promise clicks, sales, search ranking, backlinks or a particular vote count.

For current purchases, choose a plan and pay, complete the product details, obtain approval and explicitly confirm publication. The Service then checks eligibility and available promotion capacity. Paid promotion does not require a Free badge or date reservation.

Payment alone does not publish the product, reserve a Featured place or start the timer. The full purchased duration starts when publication successfully begins. If capacity is unavailable, your unused entitlement remains available for a later attempt; there is no guaranteed start date or automatic queue. Previously created orders retain their disclosed purchase conditions.

7. Cancellations and refunds

Before a current promotion starts, you can request a refund of the full remaining unused payment from its order page. A refund request prevents that entitlement from being started. The order shows the request and processing status; a request is not confirmation that money has reached your payment method.

Once promotion has started, the unused-order self-service refund option is no longer available. Fulfillment problems are reviewed against the order and delivery records; refunds are not automatic because a listing receives few clicks or conversions. Applicable mandatory refund rights remain unaffected.

Refunds are processed through the payment provider, and settlement timing depends on the provider and your payment method. See your order for its recorded status. Canceling a Free reservation and refunding a paid promotion are separate actions.

8. Availability and changes

The Service may change and may be interrupted for maintenance, security or technical reasons. Product information is supplied by publishers and can change. Evaluate a product and its own terms before relying on it.

These terms do not exclude rights or obligations that cannot be excluded under applicable law. Changes to these terms will be dated and explained through the Service, with additional notice or agreement where required. Updates do not silently replace the purchase conditions recorded for an existing order.

9. Privacy and managing your products

The Privacy Policy explains how the Service handles account, submission, usage and payment information. Use Your products to manage submissions, reservations and orders.