Terms of Service
1. What Vybridge is
Vybridge is a specialized marketplace for website advertising slots. Advertisers book placements on websites. Publishers (website owners or authorized operators) list those placements. The canonical path is: Advertiser → Website → Page/route → Slot → Booking → Creative → Serving → Measurement → Settlement.
Vybridge provides marketplace software, booking and quoting, payment coordination through Stripe, serving technology, and settlement tooling. Vybridge is not the publisher of third-party websites, not the advertiser, not a bank, not a payment institution, and does not provide escrow. Advertiser payments are processed by Stripe. Vybridge does not hold advertiser funds in a separate escrow or trust account.
Vybridge does not offer Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram, podcast, influencer, or offline advertising inventory. A publisher may be a company, creator, blogger, media organization, developer, or individual. Eligibility is website advertising inventory, not publisher type.
2. Operator identity
The Vybridge platform at https://vybridge.com is operated by Volodymyr Momot. Canonical support contact is support@vybridge.com.
There is currently no separate company or trade licence established specifically as “Vybridge”. These pages therefore do not state a Vybridge company name, legal form, registered office, company registration number, tax number, or VAT number. No Data Protection Officer is formally appointed. Questions: support@vybridge.com.
These Terms do not choose a governing law or exclusive court. If mandatory consumer-protection rules apply to you, they are not waived by this document.
3. Accounts and eligibility
You must provide accurate registration information and keep your login credentials secure. New accounts have one role:
- Advertiser — books website advertising slots and pays for placements.
- Publisher — lists slots on a website they own or are authorized to operate, reviews creatives where required, serves booked campaigns, and may receive settlement when eligible.
You are responsible for activity on your account. You may not share accounts to evade eligibility, payout, referral, or compliance rules. Vybridge may suspend or terminate accounts for fraud, policy breach, unpaid chargebacks, or legal risk.
By creating an account you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy.
4. Advertiser responsibilities
Advertisers must:
- Have the rights needed to use submitted creatives, trademarks, and destination URLs.
- Submit lawful, non-malicious, non-deceptive advertising that matches the destination.
- Comply with publisher restrictions, targeting rules, and applicable law.
- Pay the amount shown at checkout: publisher price plus the Vybridge platform fee.
- Keep booking communication on Vybridge rather than taking the transaction off-platform to avoid fees.
The advertiser remains responsible for the advertisement, creative, destination URL, product or service, and claims. Publisher Manual approval, Automatic publication, or Your Offer bidding is not content moderation and is not a Vybridge warranty that the ad is lawful or suitable.
A booking does not guarantee traffic, clicks, sales, or any marketing result.
5. Publisher responsibilities
Publishers must:
- Control, or have authority to sell advertising on, the listed website and slot.
- Keep site, slot, listing, pricing, availability, and targeting information accurate.
- Install and maintain the Vybridge serving integration so booked ads can display.
- Complete Stripe Connect payout setup before inventory can accept bookings.
- Review bookings and creatives within the applicable window for that commercial mode.
- Not generate fake impressions or clicks, not misrepresent traffic, and not interfere with measurement.
Publishers set the publisher price for Fixed Price listings. That price is the publisher’s listing price, not Vybridge’s revenue.
6. Three commercial modes (not identical)
Vybridge has three website-slot commercial modes. They are not the same flow.
6.1 Fixed Price — Manual (default)
For new Fixed Price (listing-rate) bookings in Manual mode, Vybridge uses Booking Commercial Flow V2:
- The advertiser configures dates and targeting, accepts clickwrap / electronic transaction terms, and pays first through Stripe Checkout.
- Payment is confirmed only after Stripe confirms it. A Checkout redirect alone is not confirmation.
- The advertisement does not serve before publisher approval. After payment is confirmed, the booking waits for publisher decision for 48 hours.
- If the publisher approves, the booking proceeds toward creative/serving according to product rules. Publisher payout follows the confirmed-booking path. Normal Vybridge fee and referral rules apply.
- If the publisher rejects, or the 48-hour window expires without a decision, or the advertiser cancels before that publisher decision, Vybridge creates a refund of the succeeded payment (publisher price + platform fee) and a worker submits that refund to Stripe. Publisher €0. Vybridge retained fee €0. Referral €0. There is no hidden rejection fee.
A reservation that is not paid within the payment window (currently 30 minutes) expires and does not remain booked. That 30-minute window is the Fixed Price reservation Checkout window, not the Your Offer V2 winner payment window.
Historical bookings created under the older decide-then-pay flow keep their original commercial version. Vybridge does not rewrite those rows into V2.
6.2 Fixed Price — Automatic publication (optional)
Automatic publication is available only for Fixed Price slots after the publisher’s unchecked clickwrap / electronic acceptance (not a qualified electronic signature). It is not used for Your Offer. Paid ads may start automatically at the booked start time if payment, availability, creative, and serving conditions are met. Future bookings do not show immediately after payment. The publisher then has up to 48 hours (or until the booking ends, if sooner) to Confirm that specific booking, creative version, and destination URL. Confirm: serving continues; publisher payout becomes eligible; normal fee; normal referral; a final executed booking agreement is stored and emailed. Reject or timeout before Confirm: the ad stops; full refund even if provisionally visible; publisher €0; Vybridge retained fee €0; referral €0. No provisional proration. No hidden rejection fee.
7. Your Offer V2
Your Offer does not use the Fixed Price Automatic publication toggle. The publisher selects an offer collection period of 1 to 5 days. The first valid bid starts that countdown. Higher bids do not reset or extend the deadline. Only strictly higher totals (proposedAmountCents for the same exact dates and inventory) are accepted. Exact same dates share a round. Non-overlapping dates may start a separate round. Partial overlap with an open round is blocked. Every valid new leader is emailed to the publisher. Bidder identity is not disclosed to competitors. The highest eligible bidder has 12 hours to complete Stripe Checkout. If they do not pay, the next eligible bidder may receive a fresh 12-hour window. Bidding does not restart. Stripe Checkout may require user action / SCA. Off-session charging is not used. A paid winner waits until booking start, then may become provisionally live. The publisher has up to 48 hours to Confirm, with the same full-refund-before-Confirm money rules as Automatic publication. There is no fallback to another bidder after provisional publication. Legacy Your Offer rows created when V2 was off (publisher accept, then advertiser pays; offer validity currently 72 hours) keep that stored commercial version.
Details: Marketplace rules and Cancellation & refunds.
8. Money: publisher price, platform fee, advertiser total
For each current advertising purchase:
- Publisher price — the placement amount (listing rate or accepted offer), which is the amount used for publisher settlement when eligible.
- Vybridge platform fee — charged on top of the publisher price, paid by the advertiser. Under current Booking economics the fee does not reduce the publisher price.
- Advertiser total — publisher price + platform fee. That total is not Vybridge revenue. Vybridge’s fee is only the platform fee portion.
The applicable Vybridge platform fee is determined by the value of the current advertising purchase (the publisher-price subtotal of that purchase), not by accumulated advertiser spend, and is shown before payment. Checkout is authoritative: publisher price + Vybridge platform fee = advertiser total. The percentage applied to a purchase is taken from Vybridge’s then-current fee tables and snapshotted onto that booking; the fee you see at checkout for that purchase is the fee that applies.
Bookings also have a minimum advertising purchase floor (currently €30 EUR / $35 USD on the publisher-price subtotal). Charges are collected in EUR. Other currencies shown in the interface are display estimates only.
Taxes, if applicable to a user, remain that user’s responsibility unless a tax product is explicitly shown at checkout. Vybridge is not your tax advisor and Stripe does not handle all taxes on your behalf.
9. Stripe and Connect
Advertiser charges and publisher transfers are processed by Stripe. Vybridge never stores full card numbers, IBANs, or identity-document images. Stripe may require identity verification and a connected account before payouts. Payout availability depends on Stripe account status and whether the connected-account country is in Vybridge’s supported corridor. See Publisher payouts.
Bank arrival timing is controlled by Stripe and banking rails. Vybridge does not guarantee a calendar date on which funds arrive in a bank account. Stripe does not guarantee a payout date to Vybridge users.
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10. Creatives, serving, and measurement
The advertiser must submit a specific creative and destination URL. Publisher review, where required, is of that specific version and URL, not a blanket approval of the advertiser. Manual: serving begins only when payment, publisher approval, creative, inventory, targeting, and serving requirements are satisfied. Automatic publication and Your Offer V2: provisional serving may begin at booking start if those technical gates pass, before final publisher Confirm. Approval of creative is not a promise that the ad appears at that instant.
Country targeting uses approximate IP geolocation and fails closed when country cannot be resolved. Worldwide inventory follows worldwide serving rules. Measurement for bookings is a limited serving ledger (impression/click events with resolved country when available). It is not a full analytics product and does not prove unique visitors or marketing performance.
11. Cancellations, refunds, disputes
Automatic refunds exist for defined pre-Confirm outcomes (publisher reject, publisher timeout, and for Manual, advertiser cancel before publisher decision) of the succeeded Stripe payment. For Automatic publication and Your Offer V2 this is a full refund even if provisional serving occurred: publisher €0, Vybridge retained fee €0, referral €0, no elapsed-time proration, no hidden rejection fee. After final publisher Confirm, Vybridge does not currently provide a general post-transfer reversal product, and a later change of publisher preference is not an automatic refund. Post-Confirm enforcement is separate. Chargebacks and Stripe disputes may pause settlement. See Cancellation & refunds.
Mandatory consumer-protection rights, if they apply to a particular user, are not waived by these Terms. How those rights interact with this marketplace is a matter for professional legal review; these pages describe implemented product behavior.
12. Publisher settlement
Advertiser payment, booking start, and provisional live display do not make publisher payout eligible for Automatic publication or Your Offer V2. Payout before publisher Confirm is impossible for those provisional flows. Publisher final Confirm may make the existing Booking payout intent eligible. When a Manual booking is approved, or a provisional booking is finally Confirmed, and a booked placement has validly begun serving and payout-readiness, refund, dispute, and compliance gates are clear, Vybridge’s settlement worker creates a Stripe Connect Transfer of the publisher price automatically. The Vybridge owner does not manually approve each normal payout. Settlement is not paid merely because a campaign calendar has ended. See Publisher payouts.
13. Electronic acceptance and transaction agreements
Acceptance on Vybridge is clickwrap / electronic acceptance / transaction acceptance. It is not a qualified electronic signature and not a qualified digital signature.
Fixed Price advertiser payment records clickwrap through the booking’s rules-accepted timestamp and Stripe Checkout consent metadata (Terms and Privacy versions). A full durable TransactionAgreement document for that booking is generated when the publisher finally Confirms. Your Offer V2 bids, and publisher enablement of Automatic publication or Your Offer bidding, create their own stored agreement records at those actions. The final executed booking agreement contains both parties’ acceptance records where stored (user, booking or offer, site, slot, dates, amount, commercial mode, bidding duration if applicable, creative version identifier, destination URL, policy versions, acceptedAt) and is emailed to advertiser and publisher. Duplicate Confirm does not create multiple executed agreements. The stored document records the creative version identifier; it does not claim a separate content-hash field unless that hash is actually written on the agreement record.
14. Website referral program
Registered users may invite website owners using a personal referral link. Attribution is durable to a canonical website, currently for a 12-month term from the referred publisher’s registration. The first eligible paid deal of that website can accrue a tracked reward of 50% of Vybridge’s actual platform fee (not 50% of the advertising price). Later eligible deals in the term can accrue 1% of eligible advertising GMV. Publisher revenue is not reduced. Self-referrals and same-website resets are not rewarded. Deleting and re-registering a site does not reset durable website attribution where that protection is implemented. A booking fully refunded before final publisher Confirm produces referral €0.
Referral rewards may be recorded as pending or tracked until they satisfy payout eligibility under the Affiliate Program terms. Tracked amounts are not a withdrawable cash balance. Once a reward satisfies eligibility, settlement, review and payout requirements, Vybridge processes the monetary reward through Stripe Connect. A tracked or pending reward is not a completed payout. Completing Stripe payout onboarding (supported country and a ready Stripe Connect account) is required for any referral payout. Onboarding does not pay ineligible amounts and does not itself complete a payout while a reward is still pending, held, or under review. Refunds, disputes, and fraud/review holds can delay or invalidate recorded rewards. Public overview: Vybridge Affiliate Program.
15. Acceptable use
You must follow the Acceptable use & advertising policy. Illegal content, malware, deception, traffic fraud, measurement circumvention, and inventory misrepresentation are prohibited.
16. Intellectual property
Vybridge owns its platform, trademarks, and software. Publishers retain rights in their websites. Advertisers retain rights in their creatives, and grant Vybridge a limited license to store, transmit, and serve those creatives for the booking. You may not scrape, copy, or reuse the marketplace to build a competing inventory database in violation of applicable law.
17. Platform availability
Vybridge provides the service as a live internet product. We do not warrant uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, abuse mitigation, and third-party outages (including Stripe or hosting) can affect booking, serving, or payouts.
18. Suspension and termination
Vybridge may suspend listings, serving, payouts, or accounts where we reasonably believe there is fraud, legal risk, chargeback abuse, policy breach, or a safety issue. You may close an account from your profile when the product allows, subject to open bookings and financial records we must retain.
19. Limitation of liability
Vybridge provides marketplace infrastructure “as is.” We are not responsible for the content or performance of publisher websites or advertiser creatives, nor for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of the platform, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Where limitation is allowed, our total liability related to the platform is limited to the platform fees you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.
20. Changes
We may update these Terms as the product changes. The effective date at the top will change. Material commercial behavior is also described on Marketplace rules, Refunds, and Payouts pages. Continued use after an update means you accept the updated Terms, except where applicable law requires a different method of acceptance.
21. Contact
Operator: Volodymyr Momot. Questions: support@vybridge.com or Contact.