Terms of Service

1. Agreement to Terms

By accessing or using nohotdog.love ("the Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service. You must be at least 18 years old to use No Hotdog.

2. What No Hotdog Is

No Hotdog is a membership-based community. Members subscribe to one of three tiers (Basic, Pro, or Legend Fr). The net amount of each payment — after applicable payment processing fees and platform fees — is allocated according to the allocation period and any eligible member allocation preference in effect at the time of purchase. By default, membership revenue supports the active voting campaign. The Impact Fund is opt-in through membership preferences.

Membership fees are not tax-deductible charitable donations. Impact estimates displayed on the site are approximations based on third-party research and should not be taken as guarantees of specific outcomes.

No Hotdog is an evolving community. We are actively learning how the membership, voting, rewards, and project-selection systems should work, and that learning will continue before and after launch. We may change product mechanics over time, including voting rules, point grants, boost behavior, reward availability, and project eligibility.

3. Accounts

Accounts are created via Google or Apple sign-in through our authentication provider, Clerk. You may only maintain one account. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms.

4. Subscriptions & Payments

Subscriptions are billed on a recurring basis, monthly or yearly, through supported payment providers. Web payments are processed by Stripe. If native iOS purchases are offered, those payments may be processed by Apple. Prices are as displayed at the time of subscription. We never store your payment credentials. We reserve the right to change pricing for future billing periods.

5. Cancellation & Refunds

You may cancel your subscription at any time through the billing portal in your dashboard. After cancellation, you retain access through the end of your current billing period. Subscription payments are non-refundable.

6. How Funds Are Allocated

We publish the active allocation period for membership revenue, including how net funds are split between the Impact Fund, the active voting campaign, and supported recipients during that period. Allocation percentages and supported recipients may change over time, but each payment remains tied to the allocation period that was active when it was processed.

The current default allocation is 0% to the Impact Fund and 100% to the active voting campaign. Members may choose a different eligible split in membership preferences. The Service may show a recommended split, but that recommendation is not applied unless you choose and save it before a payment is processed.

The Impact Fund is our opt-in high-impact charity portfolio. We may read Impact Fund survey responses when making decisions about the fund, but the fund's recipients, cause areas, and composition remain at No Hotdog's sole discretion.

7. Voting Campaigns

The first voting round will be unlocked once No Hotdog reaches $3,000 in settled member funding. Voting is a way for members to express preferences and support for projects. It is not investing, does not create ownership in any project, and does not entitle a member to any financial return.

Voting may be organized into drops or rounds. A drop may include a project likes, project passes, vote undo behavior while the drop is live, delayed or live results, and boost mechanics. Likes currently determine winners, and boosts may be used as tie-breakers or as extra voting weight in future rules. No Hotdog may change voting mechanics, eligibility, vote values, boost prices, boost weights, tie-breakers, project eligibility, and winner selection rules as we learn what works.

If the funding goal is not reached, voting campaign funds may be held for a future voting campaign, carried forward, or allocated to voting-campaign project recipients under rules we publish. No Hotdog retains final discretion on which projects receive funding, especially where legal, operational, diligence, fraud, safety, or availability concerns arise.

8. Boosts & Rewards

Boosts are non-cash in-app credits used inside No Hotdog voting drops. They are not money, stored value, gift cards, securities, charitable donation credits, or property. They cannot be transferred, sold, withdrawn, exchanged for cash, or redeemed outside the Service.

Members may receive monthly free boosts based on membership tier: Basic members currently receive 1 free boost per month, Pro members 3 free boosts per month, and Legend Fr members 10 free boosts per month. Free monthly boosts reset each calendar month and do not accumulate. Paid boost packs, referral rewards, launch promotions, admin adjustments, refunds, revocations, or future reward programs may add or remove boosts under rules we publish in the Service.

We may modify, pause, expire, reverse, hide, or retire boosts, boost comments, rewards, leaderboards, or related features where needed to correct errors, prevent abuse, comply with law, process refunds or revocations, or improve the product. Any future physical or digital rewards program will be subject to availability and any additional terms shown at the time.

9. Email, Push & In-App Communications

We may send you updates about your impact, new projects, and community news. You can opt out of these communications at any time via your profile settings. We may also show in-app notifications and project update cards. If you allow mobile push notifications, we currently expect to use them sparingly, such as for live voting. Transactional emails — such as payment confirmations and account changes — will always be sent regardless of your preferences.

10. User Content & Profiles

You may create a profile including a username, display name, and bio, location, and public/private visibility preference. We reserve the right to remove content that violates these terms. By creating profile content, you grant No Hotdog a non-exclusive license to display it within the Service.

11. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. We do not guarantee specific outcomes from charitable projects and are not responsible for the actions of third-party charity organizations.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, No Hotdog shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages. Our total liability is limited to the amount you paid to us in the 12 months preceding the claim.

13. Changes to Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via email or a notice on the site. Your continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

14. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States.

15. Contact

No Hotdog is operated by Benjamin Hause. For questions about these terms, contact us at ben@nohotdog.love or reach out on Discord.