Early Access Terms of Service

1. About these Early Access Terms

These Early Access Terms govern your use of the Riftr app during its early access phase. They form a binding contract between you and the operator of Riftr (currently Eladio Rubio Hernandez, Fermanagh-Weg 3, 33647 Bielefeld, Germany, see Imprint). The full Terms of Service for the live marketplace will replace these Early Access Terms and require fresh acceptance before any real purchase transactions become possible.

2. What early access covers

During early access:

• You can create an account and use the app as a tracker, deck builder, collection manager and card scanner.
• You can list cards for sale ahead of the public launch ("pre-launch listings"). These listings are visible to other users in the marketplace browse.
• The purchase flow runs end to end against the TEST environment of our payment provider Stripe: orders, shipping states, refund proposals and dispute mediation all work, but only with the test funds provided in the app. No real money changes hands and no real card may be used. Displayed prices are live market reference prices.
• Seller onboarding uses Stripe's test environment; real identity verification and payouts start when live payments switch on.
• You can edit your profile and define your seller status (private or commercial).

What early access does NOT include:

• Real payments or payouts: no real money moves between buyers and sellers until live payments switch on and the final Terms have been accepted.

3. Account requirements

To use Riftr you must:

• If you are a minor, only use Riftr with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Marketplace purchases require you to be at least 18 years old (confirmed at checkout); selling requires identity verification through our payment provider Stripe, which is only available to adults.
• Provide a valid email address that you control.
• Choose a display name that does not impersonate another person, contain offensive language, or violate third-party trademark rights.
• Provide accurate information when you list cards (postal address, seller status, and, for commercial sellers, legal entity name and VAT-ID).

You may not use Riftr if you are on an EU sanctions list, if you act for someone who is, or if you are owned or controlled by someone who is. This applies to buyers and sellers alike. It follows from EU law, not from our house rules, and it applies whether or not we notice. By registering, and with every order, you confirm that this is not the case, and you tell us without delay if that changes.

When you start seller onboarding we compare the name in your seller profile against the consolidated list of persons and entities subject to EU financial sanctions. We match on our own server; nothing about you is sent anywhere for this. A matching name is not an identification and blocks nothing by itself: it is reviewed by a person. See section 4 (g) of the Privacy Policy, and section 9 below for what happens if a match is confirmed.

You may delete your account at any time via Profile → Edit Profile → Delete Account. Deletion is irreversible.

4. Pre-launch listings

When you create a listing during early access, it is stored with status "pre_launch". Pre-launch listings:

• Are visible to other early-access users in the marketplace browse and Smart Cart.
• Can be added to a cart and ordered by other early-access users, but only inside the Stripe test environment described in section 2. No real card is charged and no payout follows. The platform refuses any real payment server-side until live payments switch on.
• Orders placed during early access are simulations. They move no money and do not create a sales contract between you and the other user. They exist so both sides can walk the full order flow before launch.
• Will transition to active "for-sale" status at full launch IF you have completed the seller onboarding, including real identity verification through Stripe, which replaces the test onboarding when live payments switch on. If you have not completed Stripe at launch, your listings stay in pre-launch state until you do.

Listings remain your responsibility: accuracy of card identification, condition, language, foil flag, price, and quantity. Inaccurate listings may be removed by Riftr.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the platform for fraudulent, misleading, or abusive purposes.
• Harass, threaten, or impersonate other users.
• Post listings for items other than genuine Riftbound TCG cards (no counterfeit cards, no proxies marketed as real, no unrelated items).
• Use bots, scrapers or automated tooling to access the platform beyond the official app interface.
• Attempt to bypass the disabled purchase gate or any other security control.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile or modify the app to remove safety features.
• Sell randomised bundles you put together yourself ("mystery boxes"), or sell a slot in a pack opening. Sealed products straight from the manufacturer are fine; what is not fine is packing chance yourself and selling it.

Riftr may suspend or remove accounts that violate these rules. Suspension reasons are communicated in-app where reasonably possible.

6. Your content licence

When you post listings, write reviews, or publish decks ("user content"), you grant Riftr a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, and distribute this content, for the purpose of operating the marketplace and the social features. Where you publish something yourself, a public deck or an active listing, that includes showing it on getriftr.app: publishing is what makes it public, and a deck link points at the website.

What we do not do is use your content to advertise Riftr. In marketing we show only anonymised or aggregated figures, for example how many cards are listed or how often a card appears. If we ever want to feature something of yours by name, we ask you first, and you can withdraw that at any time.

This licence ends when you delete the content or your account. Reviews, both those you have written and those you have received, are deleted as part of account deletion.

7. Intellectual property

Riftr, the Riftr logo, and the platform design are protected. The Riftbound trading card game, including card names, artwork and rules, is owned by Riot Games, Inc. Riftr is an independent companion app and is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with Riot Games. Card names, numbers and images are shown so you can identify a card and find it on the marketplace. They are not yours to reuse outside the app.

Rights holders who believe something here infringes their rights can write to impressum@getriftr.app. We look at every notice and remove what has to go.

8. Early-access software: limitation of liability

Riftr early access is provided "as is" and "as available". Features may break, data may be lost in catastrophic failure scenarios, and the app may be unavailable due to maintenance or third-party-provider outages. To the extent permitted by law, Riftr is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of early access.

These limitations do not apply to:

• Mandatory liability under the German Produkthaftungsgesetz.
• Liability for injury to life, body or health caused by negligent breach.
• Damages caused by intentional misconduct or gross negligence.

9. Termination

You may stop using the app at any time and delete your account in-app. Riftr may terminate your access for material breach of these Early Access Terms (e.g. fraud, harassment, abuse), with prior notice unless the breach is so severe that immediate termination is required (e.g. ongoing fraud).

Sanctions are the one exception to all of the above. If a person at Riftr confirms that the sanctions match described in section 3 is really you, we block the account and your listings and refuse further orders. That is a legal duty, not a house rule, so the notice and severity considerations above do not apply to it. Riftr does not decide about money that has already reached Stripe: freezing funds is for Stripe and the competent authorities, not for us. Open orders are unwound under the ordinary refund rules.

If we get this wrong, say so. You can object through the complaints route in the final Terms and show us that you are not the listed person. A person looks at it again, and a mix-up is corrected and your account restored without delay.

10. Governing law and venue

These Early Access Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

For consumers ordinarily resident in the EU, mandatory consumer-protection laws of the consumer's country of residence remain unaffected.

Place of jurisdiction for non-consumer disputes is Bielefeld, Germany.

11. Payments and Stripe (at launch)

Riftr is only an intermediary. When the marketplace goes live, payments between buyers and sellers are handled by companies of the Stripe group. The regulated payment and e-money services are provided by Stripe Technology Europe, Limited, which is authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland as an electronic money institution (reference C187865). The remaining services run under the agreement with Stripe Payments Europe, Limited. Riftr is not a payment service, holds no customer funds and has no access to your payouts, and there is no Riftr balance or wallet.

Payments run as Stripe destination charges. That means the gross amount of an order passes through Riftr's Stripe platform balance at the moment it is captured, and is routed on to the seller's Stripe account in the same step. Riftr cannot keep it there, cannot move it to itself, and cannot move it to anyone other than the seller of that order or back to you. Riftr does carry the payment default risk: if a chargeback is lost, it is charged to Riftr and not to the seller.

To receive payments, you as a seller complete Stripe's own identity and KYC process and enter into a direct contract with Stripe, the Stripe Connected Account Agreement (https://stripe.com/legal/connect-account). You receive your own Stripe Express dashboard with login, an overview of your payouts and control of your payout details. KYC, anti-money-laundering compliance, payout handling and the management of your financial data take place solely between you and Stripe.

There is no Riftr escrow account and no Riftr collection account holding your funds. Payouts to sellers run automatically on Stripe's payout schedule, and Riftr cannot pay you out itself or move buyer funds on its own. One setting is ours to write, and only because you ask us to: when you complete seller onboarding you instruct Riftr to set the payout delay on your Stripe account to one of four published values, 7, 5, 3 or 1 day, depending on your seller tier. We never set a value outside that list, we never change it because an order is in dispute, and we never steer the payout of an individual order. Stripe may enforce a longer delay of its own on new accounts, and we respect that floor. You can withdraw this instruction at any time and without giving reasons; your account then falls back to Stripe's standard payout setting and you stay on the marketplace.

Marketplace prices are in euros and your sale proceeds settle in euros. If the bank account you register with Stripe is held in another currency, Stripe converts your payout into that currency at Stripe's exchange rate at the time of settlement. The cost of that conversion is borne by you; Riftr does not perform the conversion and receives no part of it.

Payouts and any refunds happen automatically through Stripe under the Stripe Connected Account Terms and the refund rules set out in these Terms, and Riftr does not make case-by-case decisions over your money against the will of either party.

12. Changes and final Terms

Riftr may amend these Early Access Terms during early access to reflect feature changes, legal updates, or feedback. Substantial changes will be notified in-app at least 30 days before they take effect. That notice will tell you what changes, when it takes effect, and that you can object. If you do not object before the effective date, the changes are treated as accepted. If you do object, you can stop using the app and delete your account at any time; we will not apply the new terms to you before that.

This silence-is-agreement rule has a hard limit. It never applies to changes that shift the balance between what you get and what you pay. In particular, we will never introduce a fee, raise a fee, or extend what a fee applies to this way. Any such change needs your active agreement, and until you give it, the terms you accepted keep applying to you.

BEFORE the marketplace transitions to full launch (with real payments and shipping), these Early Access Terms will be replaced by the final Terms of Service. You will be prompted to review and accept the new Terms in-app. You cannot make or receive real payments without that acceptance.

13. Contact

For questions about these Early Access Terms, please write to contact@getriftr.app. For data-protection requests, see the Privacy Policy. For imprint information (§ 5 DDG), see the Imprint screen.