Macroverse

1. Introduction

In plain terms: Macroverse is a platform for reading, collecting, and supporting digital comics. These Terms cover everyone: readers, collectors, and the producers who run channels.

Macroverse is a digital comics platform operated by Macroverse Media, Inc. The platform includes:

Digital comics and reading: comics, graphic novels, and related content from producers and publishers, readable on macroverse.com, through the Universal Player, and in our mobile apps where available.
The Universal Player: our embeddable comic reader, which lets content be read on third-party websites (see Section 7).
Macroverse Studio: the dashboard where Producers manage their channels, content, and revenue (see Section 11).
Collectibles: digital items (issues, covers, badges, tickets, skins) recorded in your Macroverse collection (see Section 5).
Physical products: physical collectibles such as Authentic Editions facsimile comics and MixPrint variant covers, some of which pair with digital twins (see Sections 5.5 and 6.6).
Quests, badges, and XP: engagement features that reward reading and collecting (see Section 5.6).

Evolving platform: Macroverse continues to grow. Features may be added, changed, or discontinued over time. Where a change materially affects something you paid for, Sections 6 (purchases) and 5 (ownership) describe your protections.

These Terms apply to all users. Section 11 contains additional terms that apply only to Producers. Appendix A contains additional terms that apply when you use a Macroverse app distributed through the Apple App Store or Google Play.

2. Accounts and Eligibility

In plain terms: You need to be at least 13 to have an account (older in some countries). Keep your password safe; your account is your responsibility. You can browse a lot of Macroverse without an account at all.

2.1 Account creation. You can browse public areas of Macroverse without an account. To purchase, collect, subscribe, or participate in community features, you need an account, created with a valid email address and password or through a supported sign-in provider. You must provide accurate, current information and keep it updated.

2.2 Minimum age. You must be at least 13 years old to create a Macroverse account. If the law where you live requires a higher minimum age for us to process your data without parental consent (for example, up to 16 in some European countries), that higher age applies to you.

2.3 Minors. If you are under 18, you may only use Macroverse with the consent of a parent or legal guardian, and your parent or guardian is responsible for your use of the platform, including purchases. Some content on Macroverse carries mature ratings (see Section 10).

2.4 Producer accounts. Using Macroverse Studio to operate a channel requires you to be at least 18 years old, or to have the legal authority to bind the business entity you represent. See Section 11.

2.5 Account security. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity that occurs under your account. Tell us immediately at support@macroverse.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

2.6 Public profiles. Every Macroverse account has a public profile. Your profile, including your username and collection activity, may be visible to other users. Macroverse is a collector platform, and public collections are part of how it works.

2.7 One person, one account. Accounts are personal to you. You may not sell, rent, or transfer your account, and you may not create accounts to evade enforcement actions.

3. Content and Reading

In plain terms: Macroverse hosts comics from producers and publishers. Some content is free, some you buy, some comes with a channel subscription, and some you unlock with XP or quests.

3.1 Content sources. Macroverse hosts digital comics, graphic novels, and related content from Producers, from publishers under license, and from Macroverse's own channels and imprints, including public-domain comics (see Section 12).

3.2 Access paths. Content may be available through individual purchase, channel subscriptions, XP unlocks, quests and rewards, free promotional access, or a combination. The access path and price for each item are shown before you commit to anything.

3.3 Access is account-bound. Content you purchase or unlock is tied to your Macroverse account and is accessible across the surfaces we support (web, mobile apps where available, Universal Player), subject to these Terms.

3.4 Content availability. What content is available on Macroverse, and for how long, is largely up to the Producers and publishers who provide it. A Producer may add, change, unpublish, or withdraw content, or deactivate their channel, at their discretion. Content licensed from publishers may leave the platform for new sales and subscription access if the underlying license ends. When content is withdrawn, it may stop being available to read, including through an active subscription. Except for items you have already purchased, which stay in your collection with full access under Section 5.2, Macroverse does not guarantee that any particular content stays available, and is not responsible for a Producer's or publisher's decision to withdraw it. Sell-through protection for prior purchasers is a condition every Producer and publisher accepts to distribute on Macroverse.

4. Channel Subscriptions

In plain terms: You can subscribe to a producer's channel for a monthly or annual price the producer sets. Your subscription shows up in your collection as a Collectible Ticket. Cancel any time and you keep access through the end of the period you paid for. One caveat: what a channel contains is up to the producer and can change while you are subscribed (see Section 3.4).

4.1 What a channel subscription is. Producers may offer channel subscriptions that provide access to their content library and subscriber-exclusive material for as long as the subscription is active. An active channel subscription is represented in your collection by a Collectible Ticket, a collectible that records your subscription and its history.

4.2 Pricing. Subscription pricing is set by the Producer. Monthly and annual options may be offered; annual plans are typically discounted. Macroverse may run promotional pricing in consultation with the Producer.

4.3 Billing and renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the interval you chose until you cancel. Before you subscribe, we show you the price, the renewal interval, and what is included, and we obtain your consent to the recurring charge.

4.4 Cancellation. You can cancel at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You keep access until then, and you are not billed again. How you cancel depends on where you subscribed. If you subscribed on the web, you can cancel online, at least by emailing support@macroverse.com; we are building self-serve cancellation in your account settings. If you subscribed through an Apple or Google in-app purchase, cancel through that store's subscription settings (see Section 6 and Appendix A).

4.5 What happens to your Ticket. When a subscription lapses, the Collectible Ticket remains in your collection in an inactive state as a record of your support. Access to subscriber-gated content pauses until you resubscribe.

4.6 Platform-wide subscription (not yet offered). We may in the future offer a platform-wide subscription covering content across channels. If we do, its terms, pricing, and what it includes will be disclosed before you can subscribe, and these Terms will be updated. Nothing in these Terms should be read as describing a platform-wide subscription that exists today.

4.7 What a subscription gives you access to. Macroverse builds the publishing tools; Producers decide how to use them. A channel subscription gives you access to whatever content the Producer makes available in that channel while your subscription is active, and that can change during your subscription as the Producer publishes, keeps available, or withdraws content (see Section 3.4). Macroverse does not guarantee that any particular content will be available. Content you have purchased remains in your collection regardless (Section 5.2). Other than your purchases, Macroverse is not responsible for content a Producer withdraws or for a channel a Producer deactivates.

5. Collectibles and Digital Ownership

In plain terms: When you buy an issue or collectible, it's yours: it stays in your collection even if the producer or publisher leaves the platform. No exceptions for who published it. Sell-through protection is a condition every producer and publisher accepts to distribute on Macroverse. "Yours" means a permanent, account-bound digital item that Macroverse maintains for you. It is not an investment. And there is one important exception, stated here and again at Section 13: if you permanently delete your account, eligible collectibles still in it transfer to Macroverse.

5.1 What a Collectible is. A "Collectible" is a digital item (an issue, cover, variant skin, badge, Collectible Ticket, or similar item) recorded in your Macroverse collection. When you acquire a Collectible, you receive a durable, account-bound entitlement to that digital item, maintained by Macroverse for the life of your account.

5.2 The ownership promise. Once a Collectible is in your collection:

It stays there, with full continued access (not just a record), even if the Producer or publisher stops distributing content on Macroverse, ends their relationship with us, or removes the content from new sale (see Section 11.10). This applies to all content regardless of source: sell-through protection for prior purchasers is a non-negotiable condition of distributing on Macroverse that every Producer and publisher accepts (Section 11.2), and no separate agreement can override it.
It stays there through platform changes, redesigns, and business transitions (see Section 18.2).
Macroverse will not remove it from your collection except: (a) where the purchase is refunded, reversed, or charged back; (b) where the item was acquired through fraud or a violation of these Terms; (c) where we are required to by law or by a court or government order; or (d) through the account-deletion surrender described in Sections 5.7 and 13.

5.3 What ownership is and is not. Your Collectible is an account-bound entitlement that Macroverse maintains for you. To be clear:

It lives on Macroverse. Your collection is maintained on the platform. Collectibles cannot be transferred or withdrawn outside Macroverse, and we do not represent that they ever will be. If we offer transfers between users in the future, they will work only through platform features (Section 5.4).
It is not an investment. Macroverse makes no representation that any Collectible has or will have monetary value, will appreciate, or can be resold. Buy Collectibles because you want them in your collection, not as a financial instrument.
Underlying intellectual property stays with its owners. Acquiring a Collectible gives you the entitlement to that digital item in your collection and the right to enjoy it through platform features. It does not give you copyright or other intellectual-property rights in the underlying artwork, story, or characters.

5.4 Transfers and secondary market. Today, Collectibles are non-transferable between users. Macroverse may in the future offer platform features for transferring, trading, or gifting Collectibles between users. If and when such features launch, they will operate only through the platform, under posted rules (which may include fees and rights-holder royalties), and these Terms will be updated first. No transfer of a Collectible outside platform features is valid or recognized.

5.5 Digital Twins. Some physical collectibles are paired with a digital counterpart (a "Digital Twin"). Ownership of the physical item grants the right to claim the corresponding Digital Twin, typically by scanning the item's QR code. If you transfer the physical item to someone else, the new owner may claim the Digital Twin through the same mechanism, and your claim ends. Macroverse may arbitrate competing claims (including by requesting proof of purchase or possession) and may transfer a Digital Twin to the person it reasonably determines to be the rightful owner of the physical item. Macroverse's determination in a Digital Twin dispute is final as between the claimants on the platform, without limiting any right you have under applicable law.

5.6 XP, badges, quests, and rewards. Experience points ("XP") are earned through platform activity (reading, collecting, completing quests, daily engagement) and may also be available for purchase in XP packages. XP and quest/badge rewards are engagement features, and the following applies to them:

XP has no cash value. It is not money, not a currency, and cannot be exchanged for cash.
XP is non-transferable today. You cannot send, trade, or sell XP to another user. Macroverse may in the future enable transfer or tipping of purchased XP under posted rules; until such rules are posted, no transfer feature exists.
XP is adjustable. Macroverse may adjust XP earn rates, spend rates, balances, and reward availability to protect platform health, fairness, and integrity, including correcting balances obtained through bugs or abuse.
Paid unlocks are honored. If you spend XP (including purchased XP) to unlock content, that unlock is a Collectible entitlement under Section 5.1 and stays in your collection.
Apple in-app purchase carve-out: any XP or credit purchased through Apple in-app purchase does not expire (see Appendix A).
Badges and quest rewards recorded in your collection are Collectibles under this Section 5; XP balances are not Collectibles and are extinguished (not surrendered or paid out) on account deletion.

5.7 The deletion exception (read this). If you permanently delete your Macroverse account, all eligible Collectibles remaining in your account at final confirmation are irrevocably assigned to Macroverse, without compensation, as an inseparable part of deletion. Before deletion proceeds, you will be shown a summary of what this covers, including how many Collectibles will transfer, and asked to confirm. Deactivation (Section 13.2) does not trigger this; only permanent deletion does. Full mechanics are in Section 13.

6. Purchases, Payments, and Refunds

In plain terms: You're billed through whichever checkout you go through. Most purchases, including ones you start inside our app, run through Stripe's secure web checkout. If we ever offer Apple or Google in-app purchase, those specific purchases are billed by Apple or Google. Digital purchases are final sale (with rights that consumers in some places keep by law). Subscriptions can be canceled any time but run to the end of the paid period, and annual plans aren't refundable mid-year. Physical goods have their own shipping and return terms.

6.1 How purchases are billed. How a purchase is processed depends on the checkout you go through, not simply on the device or app you are using.

Stripe (web-hosted checkout). Most purchases, including purchases you begin inside a Macroverse native app, are processed by Stripe through a secure web-hosted checkout. Using a Macroverse app does not by itself make a purchase an Apple or Google in-app purchase; a purchase you start in the app may still run through Stripe's web checkout.
Apple or Google (in-app purchase). If and where Macroverse offers Apple or Google in-app purchase, those specific purchases are billed by Apple or Google under their terms, and their cancellation and refund rules apply to them.

Macroverse does not store your full card or bank numbers. You are responsible for applicable taxes, which are calculated and shown at checkout where required.

6.2 Digital purchases are final. Purchases of digital content, Collectibles, XP packages, and other digital items are final sale and non-refundable, except (a) as required by applicable law, (b) as expressly stated in these Terms or at the point of purchase, or (c) where Macroverse issues a refund in its discretion (for example, for a duplicate or clearly erroneous purchase). Refunds for Apple or Google in-app purchases, where offered, are handled by that store under its policies, and Macroverse cannot issue those refunds directly. Refunds for Stripe purchases are handled by Macroverse under this Section.

European Union and United Kingdom consumers: If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content within 14 days. This right is lost only where you have expressly consented to immediate performance (immediate access to the content) and acknowledged that you thereby lose the withdrawal right. Unless that express consent and acknowledgment have been captured at checkout, your 14-day withdrawal right applies and we will honor it. The "final sale" rule above does not override it.

6.3 Refund fairness limit. To keep the refund process fair and prevent abuse, discretionary refunds are limited to one per account in any 30-day period. This limit does not apply to refunds required by law, refunds for our billing errors, or physical-goods remedies under Section 6.6.

6.4 Subscription billing mechanics.

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; no partial-period refunds, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
Annual subscriptions are billed for the full year and are non-refundable after purchase, except as required by law. You keep access for the full paid year even if you cancel renewal.
Failed payments: if a renewal payment fails, we will retry and notify you during a grace period of up to 7 days, during which your access continues. If payment is not resolved by the end of the grace period, the subscription is canceled automatically. We will not silently accumulate unpaid balances against you.

6.5 Chargebacks. If you dispute a charge with your bank or card issuer rather than contacting us first, we may suspend the associated entitlement while the dispute is open, and remove it if the chargeback is finalized in your favor (since the purchase has then been unwound). Accounts showing a pattern of fraudulent chargebacks may be suspended. We would much rather fix billing problems directly, so write to support@macroverse.com first.

6.6 Physical goods. For physical products (Authentic Editions, MixPrint items, merchandise, and similar):

Shipping costs, methods, and estimated timelines are shown at checkout. Delivery dates are estimates, not guarantees; customs and carrier delays for international orders are outside our control. Risk of loss passes to you on carrier delivery to your address, except where applicable consumer law provides otherwise.
Damage and defects: if a physical item arrives damaged or defective, contact support@macroverse.com within 30 days of delivery with photos of the problem, and we will work with you to make it right.
Refunds for physical goods are otherwise reviewed case-by-case. Made-to-order and limited-run items (including MixPrint one-of-one variants) generally cannot be returned unless damaged or defective, except where applicable consumer law provides otherwise.
Crowdfunded rewards (for example, Kickstarter campaigns) are governed additionally by the terms of the campaign under which you backed them.

6.7 Pricing changes. Prices for new purchases may change at any time. Price changes to an existing subscription take effect no earlier than your next renewal, with advance notice as required by the billing provider and applicable law.

6.8 Future revenue models. Macroverse may offer additional purchase and access models in the future (for example, a platform-wide subscription; see Section 4.6). Any such model will be governed by disclosed terms at launch; nothing here commits us to launch, or you to join, any of them.

6.9 Producer offerings, promotions, and links. Producers use Macroverse's tools to run their own channels, and they control what they publish there. Beyond comics, a Producer may post or link to their own material and offers: promotional content, blog posts, videos (including embedded or linked third-party videos), crowdfunding campaigns (such as Kickstarter), merchandise, and other goods or services they sell or promote, including physical items sold through their channel. These are the Producer's own offerings. Macroverse provides the tools and infrastructure; for a Producer's own offerings it is not the seller and does not take on the Producer's obligations, including fulfillment, delivery, refunds, returns, customer support, or the rewards and commitments of a Producer's crowdfunding campaign. Anything a Producer offers or promotes is a matter between you and that Producer, and a crowdfunding campaign is also governed by the terms of the campaign and the platform hosting it. None of this limits Macroverse's responsibility for its own direct sales, such as Macroverse-published Collectibles and physical products that Macroverse sells and fulfills under Section 6.6. If you are not sure whether Macroverse or a Producer stands behind something, contact support@macroverse.com before you buy.

7. The Universal Player and Embedding

In plain terms: Our reader can be embedded on other websites, like a YouTube video. If you read through an embed, you're using Macroverse and these Terms apply. If you run a website, you can embed our player free of charge, using our embed codes, as long as you don't tamper with it or put it on a site full of pirated or unlawful content. Clips you share from the reader are for personal, non-commercial sharing and may carry a watermark identifying its source.

7.1 Reading through embeds. The Universal Player is Macroverse's embeddable reader. When you view content through a Universal Player embed on a third-party website, you are using the Macroverse platform, and these Terms and the Macroverse Privacy Policy apply to that use. Data collected through embedded players is described in the Privacy Policy, including that we receive the domain of the site hosting the embed and reading-session data.

7.2 Embedding license for site owners. If you operate a website, Macroverse grants you a free, non-exclusive, revocable license to embed the Universal Player using the embed codes and mechanisms Macroverse provides, subject to these conditions:

Use our embed code as provided. You may not alter the player, remove or obscure its attribution or branding, wrap it in interfaces that hide its origin, frame it deceptively, or interfere with its operation, security, or data collection disclosures.
Lawful host sites only. You may not embed the player on sites that host or promote infringing, unlawful, or deceptive content, or use embeds in a way that violates Section 9 (Rules of Conduct).
No implied endorsement. Embedding does not create a partnership with, or endorsement by, Macroverse or any Producer.
We can turn embeds off. Macroverse may disable any embed, on any site, at any time, including where we believe these conditions are violated or where content rights require it.

7.3 Clips and sharing. Where the player offers clip or share features, you receive a limited, personal, non-commercial license to share the generated clip or link, provided that any watermark or attribution included in the clip is kept intact. Clips may not be sold, used in advertising, or presented as your own work. Rights holders may request removal of shared clips, and Macroverse may disable clips at the source.

8. Your Content and the Community

In plain terms: Where you can post things (comments, reviews, profiles, and later fan creations), a few rules apply. Comments, reviews, and profile content: you give Macroverse full, lasting rights to keep and use them to run the platform. Creative works you make, like fan art, stay yours, and you give us a license to show them. Either way, you promise what you post is yours to post. We have zero tolerance for abusive content and abusive users: you can report abusive content and users to us at support@macroverse.com, we review every report within seven business days, and the most serious reports jump the line.

8.1 What this section covers. "User Content" is anything you post, upload, or submit to Macroverse other than as a Producer under Section 11: for example, comments, reviews, profile content, and, if and when fan-content submission features are offered, fan art and other fan creations. Producer channel content is governed by Section 11, not this section.

8.2 Acceptance before posting. You must have accepted these Terms before you can create or upload User Content. By posting User Content, you confirm that acceptance.

8.3 Rights in your User Content. Different kinds of User Content are treated differently.

Comments, reviews, ratings, and profile content. These are part of how the platform works. By posting them, you grant Macroverse a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, display, reproduce, adapt, aggregate, moderate, remove, and otherwise use that content for any purpose connected with operating and promoting the platform, and you agree that Macroverse may keep and display it as part of the platform. You do not keep any exclusive or revocable control over this content: you cannot require Macroverse to stop displaying, or to delete, a comment, review, or rating on the basis that you own it. Macroverse may still remove it under Section 8.6.
Fan art and other creative works. For original creative works you submit through any fan-content feature that may be offered (for example, fan art, fan fiction, cover skins, or similar creations), you keep ownership of your work. You grant Macroverse a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, and promote it on and in connection with the platform, on the terms posted for that feature. Macroverse will not sell it or license it to third parties for their own use, and will not create derivative works beyond technical operations such as thumbnails and formatting. If you remove a creative work, this license ends for future use, except for routine backups for a limited period and copies already shared by other users through platform features before removal.
Everything you post. Whatever the category, by posting or submitting any User Content you grant Macroverse the rights it needs to host, store, display, reproduce for delivery, moderate, and promote that content on and through the platform, including its embedded surfaces. You are responsible for what you post (Section 8.4).

8.4 Your responsibility. You are responsible for your User Content. You represent that you own it or have the rights needed to post it, and that it does not violate law or the rights of others.

8.5 Zero tolerance for objectionable content. The following are prohibited in User Content and in all community conduct, with zero tolerance:

Harassment, bullying, threats, or abuse directed at any person or group;
Hate speech or content that dehumanizes or promotes violence or discrimination against people based on race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or similar characteristics;
Any content that sexualizes, endangers, or exploits minors (including sexual content involving minors in any form, real or depicted) and grooming behavior; reported to authorities where required;
Non-consensual intimate imagery, doxxing, or invasions of privacy;
Spam, scams, phishing, malware, or deceptive practices;
Content that infringes copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights;
Illegal content or content promoting illegal acts, including credible incitement to violence;
Impersonation of any person, Producer, or Macroverse itself;
Content that circumvents or encourages circumventing age restrictions, security, or payment systems.

Platform monetization and reward features may not be used to solicit, reward, or encourage any conduct prohibited by this section.

8.6 Reporting and moderation. You can report content and users to Macroverse at support@macroverse.com, and legal or rights-related matters at legal@macroverse.com. We review reports and act on violating content within seven business days of receiving a report; action can include removing violating content and, where warranted, ejecting the user who posted it. Reports involving the sexualization or endangerment of minors, credible threats, and non-consensual intimate imagery are prioritized ahead of that timeline. Macroverse may remove any User Content and restrict or terminate any account for violations of this section, with or without prior warning depending on severity. Macroverse may also filter or remove content that violates these Terms.

8.7 Moderation decisions. We aim to be fair and will tell you when your content is removed for a violation where practicable. You can contest a moderation decision at support@macroverse.com.

8.8 Fan content and future submission features. If Macroverse launches structured fan-content submission or monetization features, participation will be governed by additional posted terms at launch, including any revenue-sharing and rights-holder-approval rules. Nothing in these Terms grants a right to monetize fan content today.

9. Rules of Conduct

In plain terms: Be decent, don't break the law, don't break the platform.

All users must:

Treat others with respect and act responsibly;
Not engage in fraudulent, deceptive, disruptive, or illegal activity;
Not attempt to circumvent platform security, access controls, age restrictions, content protections, or payment systems;
Not scrape, harvest, or bulk-download platform content or user data except through interfaces Macroverse expressly provides;
Not reverse-engineer, decompile, or interfere with the platform, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by law;
Not use the platform to develop a competing dataset or service from Macroverse content;
Comply with all applicable laws and these Terms.

Enforcement: violations may result in warnings, content removal, feature restrictions, suspension, or permanent account termination, depending on severity and history. Section 14 describes termination effects; Section 5.2 describes the narrow circumstances in which enforcement can affect purchased Collectibles (fraud and Terms violations in acquiring them).

10. Content Ratings and Age

In plain terms: Comics on Macroverse carry content ratings, shown to you before you read. Some content is intended for adults. Parents are responsible for their kids' use of the platform.

10.1 Ratings. Content on Macroverse displays content ratings (such as all-ages, teen, mature). Ratings are applied by Producers and publishers, who are responsible for their accuracy (Section 11.7), and reviewed by Macroverse where flagged.

10.2 Rated content. A content rating is displayed before you access rated content. By accessing rated content, you confirm you meet its age requirement and are responsible for your choice to access it. Macroverse may add or strengthen age-verification or access-restriction mechanisms over time; these Terms do not promise any particular enforcement mechanism beyond the display of ratings described here.

10.3 Parents and guardians. Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising minors' use of Macroverse, including purchases and access to rated content. Macroverse does not currently offer separate parental-control accounts, and these Terms do not promise supervision features beyond the rating display described here.

10.4 No liability for rated content reactions. Macroverse is not responsible for a user's reaction to content whose rating was displayed before access.

11. Producer Terms

This section applies to Producers, the people and businesses that operate channels on Macroverse through Macroverse Studio. By accepting these Terms, you agree to this section in addition to all other sections.

In plain terms: You own your work, full stop. We get a narrow license to distribute and promote it on Macroverse, and nothing more. You get 70% of net revenue (net = what Macroverse actually receives) from your channel, instant payouts from Studio, and full transparent access to all your channel's data. That data is shared with Macroverse, and you can take it with you if you leave (you request an export today; direct self-serve export is coming), with a content wind-down period of up to 180 days, shorter on request. If you have a separate signed deal with us, that deal wins where they differ. The one exception: your readers' ownership of what they already bought, which no deal can take away.

11.1 Eligibility and acceptance

To operate a channel you must be at least 18 years old or have legal authority to bind the entity you represent. Payouts run through your own Stripe Connect account, which you set up through Macroverse Studio. You provide the identity, banking, and tax information required for payouts and tax reporting directly to Stripe through its onboarding, not to Macroverse. Macroverse does not collect your taxes, withhold or remit tax on your behalf, or issue you tax statements; your tax reporting and any tax forms are handled by you and by Stripe as the payment processor (see Section 11.5).

Acceptance. These Producer Terms apply to Producers as accepted in writing or electronically. Where Macroverse offers an electronic click-through acceptance in Macroverse Studio, completing it creates the acceptance record, logged with the Terms version, your user identity, and a timestamp. That record is the binding evidence of agreement. Producers who have entered into a separate written or papered agreement with Macroverse continue under that agreement as provided in Section 11.2.

Teams: each individual with access to your channel in Studio accepts these Terms individually. Where the channel is operated by a business entity, the entity is bound by the acceptance of its authorized representative, and the entity is responsible for its team members' use of Studio.

11.2 Custom agreements take precedence

Some Producers and publishers have separate written agreements with Macroverse. Where a separate written agreement exists, its terms take precedence over this Section 11 on any conflicting point; these Terms fill the gaps. Publisher-licensed channels in particular may operate under publisher agreements that modify these terms. On all points not covered by a custom agreement, these Terms apply.

One floor no agreement can lower: by distributing content on Macroverse, every Producer and publisher, including under a custom agreement, agrees that content already purchased by users remains in those users' collections with continued access per Section 5.2. Custom agreements cannot override the sell-through protection for prior purchasers. This is a condition of using the platform.

11.3 Content license grant

By publishing content to Macroverse, you grant Macroverse Media, Inc. a non-exclusive, worldwide license to:

Distribute your content on the Macroverse platform, including through the Universal Player (including embeds on third-party sites per Section 7) and Macroverse's affiliated digital distribution surfaces;
Display and perform your content to users who have purchased, subscribed to, unlocked, or otherwise gained authorized access to it;
Reproduce your content as necessary to operate the platform (hosting, caching, format conversion for delivery, backup);
Promote your content and channel using excerpts, thumbnails, previews, and promotional materials across Macroverse marketing channels (website, social media, newsletters, advertising).

What this license does NOT include:

No right to create derivative works from your content (beyond technical reproduction above);
No sublicensing: Macroverse cannot license your content to third parties for their own exploitation;
Not perpetual, not irrevocable: the license ends when your content is removed or your Producer relationship ends (subject to the wind-down in Section 11.10 and users' existing Collectibles under Section 5.2);
No transfer of ownership. You retain full ownership of everything you upload.

Macroverse may decline to distribute, or may remove, Producer content that violates these Terms, Macroverse's content policies, or applicable law, with notice to you where practicable.

11.4 Revenue split

Producers receive 70% of net revenue generated through their channel; Macroverse retains 30%. "Net revenue" means what Macroverse actually receives for your channel's transactions: gross revenue minus payment-processing fees actually charged, and minus any amounts withheld by the sales channel before the money reaches Macroverse (for example, an app store's commission on a purchase made through that store is never received by Macroverse and is therefore not part of the split). Whatever revenue comes into the platform for your channel is subject to the 70/30 split. It applies to channel subscription revenue, individual content purchases, Collectible sales, and other revenue generated through your channel, unless a written custom agreement under Section 11.2 states a different split. Any split other than 70/30 must be recorded in a written custom agreement.

If Macroverse introduces a new revenue model (such as a platform-wide subscription), Macroverse will give Producers at least 60 days' notice before including their content, and inclusion requires the Producer's acceptance through updated terms or a separate opt-in. New models may use different, disclosed payout math.

11.5 Payouts

Payouts are initiated by you from the Macroverse Studio dashboard (manual trigger; we do not sweep your balance automatically).
Two speeds: instant (small processing fee, currently 1%, with a minimum payout amount, currently $10) and standard (no fee, minimum currently $1). Current fees and minimums are displayed in Studio and may change with notice.
Payouts are processed through your Stripe Connect account. You complete Stripe's hosted onboarding, including identity verification and any tax forms Stripe requires, before your first payout. Stripe collects and holds this information; Stripe's own terms govern your Stripe account.
Instant payouts are a Stripe product. Payout speed, fees, eligibility, and availability depend on Stripe's product and terms. If Stripe changes or discontinues a capability we rely on, how payouts work on Macroverse may change with it (see Section 18.9). We will maintain the best payout experience available to us and give notice of material changes.
Refunds and clawbacks: refunds and chargebacks on your channel's transactions are deducted from your balance. A negative balance blocks payouts until cleared and may be offset against future revenue.
Your revenue, traffic, and engagement data are available to you in real time in the Macroverse Studio dashboard, which is your record of your channel's activity and earnings.

11.6 Affiliate and referral arrangements

Macroverse's tools support affiliate and referral arrangements, where you can offer another person or channel a share of the revenue from sales made through a link attributed to them. These arrangements are optional and you control them: they apply only where you enable them and set the terms, including any revenue-share percentage, and any share paid to an affiliate comes out of your channel's revenue, not Macroverse's. Where affiliate payouts are automated in Studio, attributed links and payouts follow the percentages you set; until you enable and configure an arrangement, none applies to your channel. Macroverse provides the attribution and payout tools. It does not set your affiliate terms, is not a party to your arrangement with an affiliate, and does not guarantee any referral revenue.

11.7 Producer representations and warranties

You represent and warrant that:

You own or have obtained all rights, licenses, and permissions needed for all content you publish, including all contributor and licensor permissions;
Your content does not infringe any third party's intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
Your content and channel comply with applicable laws;
The account and business information you give Macroverse, and the payout and tax information you provide to Stripe, are accurate and current;
You apply accurate content ratings to your material (Section 10);
Where you access subscriber data (Section 11.9), you will use it lawfully.

11.8 Backer-exclusive and cohort-specific content

Where you have promised exclusive content to a specific group (for example, Kickstarter backers or early subscribers), Macroverse's tools let you deliver that content to the intended audience through platform features such as badges, quest rewards, and targeted claims. Whether that content is later offered beyond the original group, and how, depends on you and on any arrangement in place; Macroverse does not by itself guarantee ongoing exclusivity.

Your promise to that group is about how content is first delivered to them. It does not control what a user who owns a resulting Collectible (for example, a backer badge) may later do with it. Owned Collectibles belong to the user who holds them, and any transfer between users is governed by Section 5, including Section 5.4. If platform-wide transfer or secondary-market features are offered, an owner may transfer an eligible Collectible, and the rewards, attributions, quest access, and other benefits tied to that Collectible pass with it to the new owner (that is much of the value of acquiring a backer item secondhand). Whether a type of Collectible is eligible for transfer is a platform-level decision under Section 5.4, applied consistently across the platform. It is not an individual Producer's call, and Producers do not separately decide what owned Collectibles may or may not be resold.

11.9 Channel data is shared data

In plain terms: everything in Studio is shared between you and Macroverse. You have full, transparent access to all the data and analytics for your channel (your customer list and what each customer did with your channel on Macroverse), and you can take it with you, including if you leave (today by requesting an export from us; direct self-serve export is coming). Macroverse keeps the same data. Anything you bring into Studio (like an existing mailing list) becomes shared too. Anything you keep outside Studio remains yours alone.

The operating rule is that anything in Studio is shared and anything outside Studio remains yours:

Full transparency to you. You have full access to all data and analytics for your channel: subscriber and customer lists (including email addresses), engagement with your channel and content, purchases of your content, revenue, and traffic. Nothing about your channel's performance is hidden from you.
Shared with Macroverse. All channel data in Studio is jointly held: Macroverse collects it, maintains it, and retains it as platform data. Neither side's access excludes the other's.
Export and portability, including if you leave. You can obtain an export of your channel data, including your customer list and each customer's activity with your channel, and use it for your own audience communications (such as adding people to your mailing list). Today you request an export from Macroverse; we intend to offer direct self-serve export in Studio in the near future. If you terminate your Producer relationship, you take your export with you; Macroverse also retains the data. Departure does not un-share what was shared.
What you bring in becomes shared. You may upload your own existing mailing list or customer list to Studio. We encourage it, because it lets us connect your existing audience to your channel. Once uploaded, that list becomes shared data, integrated into the Macroverse system on the same terms as the rest of your channel data. Do not upload a list you are unwilling to share. Anything you keep outside Studio remains yours alone and is untouched by these Terms.
Your commitments. For any subscriber or customer data you access or export: use it lawfully; use it to communicate about your work and channel; honor unsubscribe requests promptly; never sell it or share it with third parties except service providers acting for you. You are responsible for having the right to upload any list you bring in (i.e., the contacts' consent or another lawful basis for the contact and for sharing it with us).

This data flow is disclosed to users in the Macroverse Privacy Policy. Every message sent through Macroverse includes an unsubscribe link, and Macroverse honors unsubscribes and suppression lists automatically for messages sent through its systems, including to uploaded lists. You must honor unsubscribe requests too.

11.10 Termination and wind-down

You can leave: terminate your Producer relationship with 30 days' written notice, and remove individual content at any time through Studio.
We can terminate your Studio access for material breach, with 30 days' notice and opportunity to cure. The exception is illegal activity, which may result in immediate termination.
Wind-down: after notice of termination by either party, Macroverse has up to 180 days to wind down and remove your content from new distribution. All terms (including the revenue split on revenue generated during wind-down) continue during wind-down. If you request a shorter wind-down in your notice, Macroverse will accommodate within 30 days where operationally feasible.
After wind-down: the Section 11.3 license terminates on content removal; accrued unpaid revenue is paid within 60 days of wind-down end; and content already purchased by users remains in their collections under Section 5.2 (the part that protects your readers). No new primary sales of your content occur after wind-down. If platform transfer features exist under Section 5.4 at that time, user-to-user transfers of already-owned items may continue under their posted rules.

11.11 Mutual indemnification

You will indemnify and hold harmless Macroverse Media, Inc. from claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your content infringing third-party rights, or (c) your violation of law.

Macroverse will indemnify and hold harmless Producers from third-party claims, damages, losses, and expenses arising from (a) Macroverse's material breach of these Terms, (b) infringement claims caused by the platform's own code, design, or branding (excluding Producer content), or (c) Macroverse's use of Producer content outside the scope of the Section 11.3 license.

11.12 Makers and credited contributors

Credited contributors on works ("Makers": writers, artists, and other credited roles) may claim and manage their contributor profile through platform features. Claiming a Maker profile requires accepting these Terms; it does not by itself create a Producer relationship, revenue entitlement, or content license beyond profile management.

11.13 Your offerings and your responsibility

You control what you publish on your channel, and you are solely responsible for it. This covers your comics and any other material or offers you post or link to: promotions, blog posts, videos and other linked or embedded third-party media, crowdfunding campaigns, merchandise, and any other goods or services you sell or promote through your channel. Macroverse provides the tools and infrastructure. It does not become the seller of, or a party to, your offerings, and it does not assume your obligations for them, including fulfillment, delivery, refunds, returns, customer support, tax on your own direct sales, or the rewards and commitments of your crowdfunding campaigns. You represent that you have the right to make each offering and that it complies with applicable law and any third party's terms (for example, a crowdfunding platform's rules or a linked service's terms). Your indemnification under Section 11.11 covers claims arising from your offerings and promotions. This Section does not apply to sales that Macroverse itself makes and fulfills.

12. Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Public Domain

In plain terms: The platform belongs to Macroverse; the comics belong to their producers and publishers. If you think something on Macroverse infringes your copyright, we have a real takedown process, including a fast lane for public-domain disputes. And our vintage catalog is presented as history: original works, unedited, from a different era. Making them available is not endorsing what they depict.

12.1 Macroverse property. The Macroverse platform (its software, design, branding, and Macroverse-original content) is owned by Macroverse Media, Inc. and protected by intellectual-property laws. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works of the platform except as these Terms allow. Content protections in the reader (such as canvas rendering) are part of the platform; circumventing them violates Section 9.

12.2 Producer and publisher content. Content from Producers and publishers belongs to them, and Macroverse claims no ownership of it. Macroverse distributes it under the license a Producer grants by accepting these Terms (Section 11.3), or under a separate publisher agreement. That license is what lets Macroverse host, display, and promote the content on the platform; it does not transfer ownership.

12.3 Copyright complaints (DMCA). If you believe content on Macroverse infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Macroverse's Copyright Agent:

Macroverse Media, Inc., Copyright Agent Email: legal@macroverse.com

Your notice must include: (a) identification of the copyrighted work; (b) identification of the allegedly infringing material with enough detail for us to locate it; (c) your contact information (name, address, email, phone); (d) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent, or the law; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.

Counter-notification: if your content was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification with the elements required by the DMCA; we will forward it to the original claimant and may restore the content as the DMCA provides.

Repeat infringers: Macroverse terminates the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

12.4 Public-domain works and rights-holder notice. Macroverse publishes public-domain comics (under the Vintage Editions imprint and elsewhere) after a documented clearance process that includes copyright-renewal research. Copyright status of mid-century works can be genuinely hard to establish, so:

If you believe a work presented as public domain is not in the public domain, or you hold rights in it, contact legal@macroverse.com. Rights-holder notices about public-domain classifications receive expedited review, and we will remove or suspend the work promptly while a credible claim is evaluated.
Macroverse warrants its clearance process, not the provenance of every historical work: beyond that documented process, Macroverse makes no warranty that any given public-domain work is free of all third-party claims.

12.5 Historical works presented as artifacts. Historical works on Macroverse, including public-domain comics, are presented as historical artifacts: in their original form, without modification, editing, or censorship by Macroverse. (We present these works as they are and do not alter what they depict or say.) These works reflect the era in which they were published. Some contain depictions of race, religion, gender, culture, and violence that were common in their time and are not reflective of current standards. Macroverse presents them for their historical and cultural value: the history of comics as a medium, and comics' place in and reflection of the popular culture of their time. We recommend viewing them through that lens. Making these works available is not an endorsement, by Macroverse or by any Producer or publisher, of any depiction they contain.

Content ratings under Section 10 apply to historical works. The community standards in Section 8 govern what users post on Macroverse today; they are not applied retroactively to edit or censor historical works. Macroverse removes or restricts a historical work only where required by applicable law, through the rights-holder process in Section 12.4, or under the exceptions in Section 5.2.

12.6 Feedback. If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback about the platform, you grant Macroverse the right to use them to improve the platform without compensation or attribution obligation. Don't send us confidential ideas expecting payment.

13. Account Deactivation and Deletion

In plain terms: Two different doors. Deactivate = take a break: everything public-facing about you is hidden, activity pauses, and everything, collection included, is preserved invisibly for when you come back. (One carve-out: if you're a credited maker, your public credits on published works stay visible; see 13.2.) Delete = permanent: your account and personal data are removed, and any eligible collectibles still in your account are permanently transferred to Macroverse, without payment. If that transfer isn't what you want, deactivation is always the other door. We show you a summary of what that means and confirm it with you before we process anything, and you consent to it separately and explicitly. Deleting is serious. That's why we offer deactivation too.

13.1 Two options

Macroverse offers two separate options: deactivate your account and delete your account. They are different things, and we will never treat one as the other. Right now, both are handled by emailing support@macroverse.com from your account email address; there is no self-serve button for either yet, and we will tell you which option you are choosing before we act.

13.2 Deactivation (reversible)

Deactivating your account:

Removes your public-facing presence. Your public profile, username visibility, and social activity are hidden from other users, and notifications pause;
Preserves everything privately. Your login identity, profile data, collection, ownership records, history, and preferences become invisible on the platform but remain on our servers, in full, so the account can be reclaimed;
Can be reversed at any time by reactivating: you return to the same account, same collection, same state. To deactivate, or to reactivate later, email support@macroverse.com.

If a Maker profile is connected to your account (Section 11.12): creative credits are public data about published works, not private account data. Your credit list, the works you are credited on, and items connected to you that live in other users' collections remain publicly visible during deactivation. The works you helped make stay part of the public record and part of what their owners bought. Deactivation removes you from public view; it does not remove your published work's history.

Deactivation is not deletion: it does not delete personal data, does not cancel subscriptions unless you cancel them separately, and does not trigger the Collectible surrender in Section 13.3. It is a pause button, and it is always available as the alternative if you want to step away without the permanent consequences of deletion.

13.3 Deletion (permanent)

You can permanently delete your account by emailing support@macroverse.com from your account email address. There is no self-serve deletion button today.

Here is the whole flow. When you ask to delete, we show you a summary of what is in your account and tell you plainly: deleting is permanent, and the eligible Collectibles in your account will be irrevocably transferred to Macroverse. You will not get them back. Then you choose:

Yes, delete. We permanently delete your account and personal data (except the limited records in Section 13.5), cancel your subscriptions as we confirm with you, and transfer your remaining eligible Collectibles to Macroverse without compensation. Any experience points (XP) balance is extinguished. The account cannot be recovered or reactivated. If you subscribed through Apple or Google, deleting your Macroverse account does not stop app-store billing; you must also cancel in the store's settings, and we will remind you.
No. Nothing is deleted. Keep your account as it is, or deactivate instead (Section 13.2) to step away without losing anything.

That is it: a summary, one clear consequence, and your yes or no. You give your consent to the transfer separately and explicitly as part of confirming; we will not infer it.

One separate path: if you only want your personal data deleted under privacy law (for example, the CCPA/CPRA or GDPR) and do not want to give up your collection, that is a different request. Email privacy@macroverse.com, and we will delete or anonymize your personal data while keeping a pseudonymized ownership record, so your collection is not forfeited. See the Privacy Policy.

13.4 The transfer, in a little more detail

After a transfer, Macroverse may hold, retire, reissue, resell, or give away those items, to the extent the underlying rights permit.
Items that are disputed, refunded, charged back, or on hold are excluded from the transfer, and their status never holds up your deletion.
If the platform ever supports transferring or exporting an item, you can do that before you confirm; anything eligible left in the account at confirmation transfers to Macroverse.
Macroverse keeps a record of the transfer (what transferred and when) as proof of ownership. This record survives even after your personal data is deleted (Section 13.5); it is not a usable account.

13.5 What we keep after deletion

After deletion we retain only: transaction and tax records; fraud-, security-, and dispute-related records; the chain-of-title/surrender ledger from Section 13.4; suppression lists (your opt-out records, kept so we never contact you again); terms-acceptance records (which Terms version you accepted, and when); and other records we are legally required to keep. We retain nothing beyond legal requirements and the specific categories listed here, each for the periods stated in the Privacy Policy retention schedule. Kept records are access-restricted and are not a live account.

13.6 Timing

Deletion begins when you confirm the request (new sessions and purchases are blocked at that point) and completes within 30 days, including a short window during which you can cancel the request by emailing support@macroverse.com. You will receive confirmation when deletion completes.

13.7 Termination by Macroverse

Macroverse may suspend or terminate accounts for violations of these Terms (see Sections 8, 9, and 14). Platform-initiated termination is not a "deletion" you requested: your data-rights options under the Privacy Policy (including requesting deletion) survive, and Section 5.2 governs what happens to purchased Collectibles.

14. Suspension and Termination by Macroverse

In plain terms: If you break the rules we can suspend or close your account. Even then, we don't confiscate what you legitimately bought, apart from narrow fraud exceptions.

14.1 Grounds. Macroverse may suspend features, suspend your account, or terminate your account for material or repeated violations of these Terms, for unlawful activity, to protect users or the platform, or where required by law. Where practicable and lawful, we will notify you of the reason and, for non-severe violations, give you a chance to correct it.

14.2 Effect. A suspended or terminated account loses access to platform features, community surfaces, XP earn/spend, and unpurchased content. Purchased Collectibles remain recorded in the account's collection except where Section 5.2's narrow exceptions apply (refund/chargeback, items acquired through fraud or Terms violations, legal requirement). A terminated user may still exercise data rights, including requesting account deletion under Section 13.3 (with its stated consequences).

14.3 Appeal. You may contest an enforcement action at support@macroverse.com.

15. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

In plain terms: We work hard to keep Macroverse running well, but we provide it "as is" and can't promise perfection. Our financial liability to you is capped, except where the law says it can't be.

15.1 "As is." Macroverse is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant uninterrupted access, error-free operation, or that any feature will remain available in its current form. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

15.2 Collectibles and XP. Except for the ownership commitments expressly made in Section 5, Macroverse disclaims any representation about the value, rarity-driven worth, resale prospects, or future utility of Collectibles, XP, badges, or rewards. On-platform utility and availability of engagement features may change per Section 5.6.

15.3 Third-party content and sites. Producers and publishers are responsible for their content. Embeds appear on third-party sites we do not control; those sites' own terms and practices are theirs, not ours.

15.4 Limitation of liability. To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) Macroverse Media, Inc., its officers, directors, employees, and agents are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from or relating to the platform or these Terms; and (b) Macroverse's total aggregate liability arising from or relating to the platform or these Terms is limited to the greater of (i) the amounts you paid Macroverse in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (ii) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, to Macroverse's indemnification obligations to Producers under Section 11.11, or to either party's liability for willful misconduct or fraud.

15.5 Consumer-law floor. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under mandatory consumer-protection law in your place of residence.

16. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

In plain terms: Talk to us first; most problems are fixable at support@macroverse.com. If we can't fix it, disputes go to individual binding arbitration in Los Angeles County under California law, not to class actions. One exception in your favor: you can always use small-claims court instead.

16.1 Informal resolution first. Before starting a formal proceeding, contact support@macroverse.com with a description of the dispute. Both sides will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days. Most disputes end here.

16.2 Binding arbitration. Except as provided in Section 16.3, any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the platform that is not resolved informally will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its applicable rules, in Los Angeles County, California (or, for consumer claims, by remote/telephonic hearing or in your home county where AAA consumer rules so provide). Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Each party bears its own attorneys' fees unless the arbitrator awards them under applicable law; arbitration fees are allocated per AAA consumer rules where they apply.

16.3 Small-claims carve-out. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead of arbitration, if the claim qualifies there.

16.4 Class-action waiver. To the extent permitted by law, disputes will be resolved on an individual basis only. Neither you nor Macroverse may bring or participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action against the other. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) proceeds in court rather than arbitration. Nothing in these Terms waives your right to seek public injunctive relief to the extent such a waiver would be unenforceable under applicable law.

16.5 Governing law and venue. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 16.2. For disputes not subject to arbitration, the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction there, except that consumers may sue where mandatory consumer law gives them a home-court right.

16.6 Injunctive relief. Either party may seek temporary injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or platform security pending arbitration.

17. Changes to These Terms

In plain terms: We may change these Terms at any time. The version posted here is the one that applies when you use Macroverse, so check back now and then. If we materially change the Producer Terms, producers get a new copy to review and accept before they keep going.

17.1 Changes to these Terms. Macroverse may update these Terms at any time. Changes take effect when the updated Terms are posted, and your continued use of Macroverse after that constitutes acceptance. We do not separately notify you of every change, so please check the current version. If you do not agree with a change, stop using the platform and, if you wish, close your account under Section 13. One protection does not change: no amendment reduces the ownership protections for Collectibles you have already purchased under Section 5.2.

17.2 Producer re-acceptance. When Macroverse materially changes the Producer Terms (Section 11), producers are presented with the revised Producer Terms in Macroverse Studio to review and accept before continuing, the way an app store presents updated terms; that acceptance is recorded with version and timestamp. Until a producer accepts, they may view their dashboard but may be restricted from publishing new content or initiating payouts. Custom agreements under Section 11.2 are unaffected except as those agreements provide.

18. General Terms

In plain terms: Standard closing provisions, plus one that matters to collectors: if Macroverse is ever acquired or reorganized, your collection and entitlements go with the platform.

18.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Macroverse Privacy Policy, posted policies referenced in these Terms, Appendix A where it applies, and any custom agreement under Section 11.2, are the entire agreement between you and Macroverse about the platform, and supersede any prior version of these Terms and any prior agreement on the same subject.

18.2 Assignment and business transitions. Macroverse may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets. In plain terms for collectors: in any such transition, user collections and entitlements under Section 5 transfer with the platform. The successor takes on these Terms, including the ownership commitments, as they stand or as lawfully amended under Section 17. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms without Macroverse's written consent (Collectible transfers, if ever offered, happen only through Section 5.4 platform features).

18.3 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in full effect, and the invalid provision is enforced to the maximum extent permitted.

18.4 No waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

18.5 Force majeure. Macroverse is not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control (natural disasters, war, labor disputes, internet or utility failures, acts of government, and similar).

18.6 Export and sanctions compliance. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting," and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You will comply with applicable export-control and sanctions laws in using the platform.

18.7 Notices. Notices to Macroverse: legal@macroverse.com. Notices to you: the email address on your account or in-platform notification. Keep your email current.

18.8 Survival. Sections that by their nature should survive termination do, including Sections 5 (as to retained records and completed surrenders), 11.11, 12, 13.4–13.5, 15, 16, and 18.

18.9 Third-party services and dependencies. Parts of the platform depend on services we do not control: payment providers (Stripe), app stores (Apple, Google), identity providers, hosting, email delivery, and similar. In plain terms: we will do our best to maintain the existing level of service and feature set, but when a third party we depend on changes its products, terms, pricing, or availability, we may have to adjust the affected features to match; that is not a breach of these Terms. Where a third-party change materially affects a feature you use (such as payout speed or a purchase flow), we will give notice as far in advance as the third party's own timeline allows and provide the closest available alternative.

19. Contact Information

Questions, help, or reports of violations:

Support: support@macroverse.com
Legal (including DMCA and rights-holder notices): legal@macroverse.com
Privacy (including deletion requests): privacy@macroverse.com

Macroverse Media, Inc.

Appendix A: App Store Terms

In plain terms: If you got the Macroverse app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, a few extra terms apply because the stores require them. Short version: your agreement is with Macroverse, not Apple or Google; the stores handle billing and refunds for anything you bought through them; and if you subscribed through a store, you cancel through that store.

This Appendix applies when you use a Macroverse app distributed through an app store. When you download or use a Macroverse app distributed through an app store, the terms in this Appendix supplement the Terms above, and the store's own required terms apply to the app distribution. If this Appendix conflicts with the body of the Terms as to app-store-distributed apps, this Appendix controls for that subject.

A.1 Multiplatform access

Content and Collectibles you purchase or unlock on the web or another platform are accessible in the app when you sign in to the same Macroverse account, subject to these Terms. Purchases made through an app store are likewise reflected in your account across surfaces. Where the app offers app-store purchases, it includes a restore-purchases mechanism for restorable purchases.

A.2 Subscription cancellation routing

Where you cancel depends on where you subscribed:

Subscribed through Apple → cancel in your Apple ID settings (Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions).
Subscribed through Google Play → cancel in the Play Store subscriptions center.
Subscribed on the web → cancel by emailing support@macroverse.com (self-serve cancellation in your account settings is being added).

Deleting your Macroverse account does not cancel app-store billing (Section 13.3); we remind you to cancel with the store.

A.3 App-store purchases and refunds

Purchases billed by Apple or Google are subject to the store's billing terms, and refund requests for those purchases go to the store, not Macroverse (Section 6.2). Any in-app credit or XP purchased through Apple in-app purchase does not expire, notwithstanding anything else in these Terms.

A.4 Apple: acknowledgement

These Terms are an agreement between you and Macroverse Media, Inc. only, not with Apple Inc. or its subsidiaries ("Apple"). Macroverse, not Apple, is solely responsible for the app and its content. These Terms do not provide usage rules for the app that conflict with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions as of the effective date (which you acknowledge you have had the opportunity to review).

A.5 Apple: scope of license

The license granted to you for the iOS app is a non-transferable license to use the app on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the app may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing.

A.6 Apple: maintenance and support

Macroverse is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support services for the app, as specified in these Terms or required by law. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services for the app.

A.7 Apple: warranty

Macroverse is solely responsible for any product warranties for the app, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the app (if any) to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty are Macroverse's sole responsibility.

A.8 Apple: product claims, intellectual-property claims, legal compliance

Product claims: Macroverse, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the app or your possession and use of it, including: (i) product-liability claims; (ii) any claim that the app fails to conform to applicable legal or regulatory requirements; and (iii) claims under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
Intellectual-property claims: in the event of a third-party claim that the app or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual-property rights, Macroverse, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of the claim.
Legal compliance: you represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties (see also Section 18.6).

A.9 Apple: developer contact information

Direct questions, complaints, and claims about the app to Macroverse Media, Inc. at support@macroverse.com (legal matters: legal@macroverse.com). The developer's full contact details, including a mailing address, are provided in the app's App Store listing at the time of distribution.

A.10 Apple: third-party terms and beneficiary

You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the app (for example, your wireless data agreement). Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms as they relate to the iOS app, and upon your acceptance, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

A.11 Google Play

Where the app is distributed through Google Play: your agreement is with Macroverse Media, Inc., not Google LLC; Google is not responsible for the app or its content and has no obligation to provide support for it; purchases billed through Google Play are governed by Google Play's terms and refund policies; subscription management and cancellation for Play-billed subscriptions occur through the Play subscriptions center; and Google Play's required terms for distributed apps supplement these Terms while you use the Play-distributed app.

A.12 Store rules evolve

App-store rules about external purchase links and billing options change over time and vary by country. Where the app offers a path to purchase on the web, that path and its availability follow current store rules for your storefront; where it does not, purchases made on macroverse.com in a browser remain accessible in the app under Section A.1.

Macroverse Media, Inc. Macroverse Terms of Service, version 2026-07.