These terms are an agreement between you and Quinn Luevano (“Vyral”, “we”, “us”). They cover the Vyral app, the Vyral Terminal at terminal.vyral.market, the beta.vyral.market website and everything else we offer (together, “Vyral”). By creating an account, joining the waitlist or otherwise using Vyral, you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't use Vyral.
The short version
You must be 18 or older.
VYR is play money. It has no cash value. You can't buy it, sell it, transfer it or cash it out, and there are no prizes.
Markets settle on Vyral's own counted views at the deadline. We can void a market and refund VYR at cost.
No fake views, bots, multiple accounts, or trading on your own (or linked creators') videos.
You own what you post and give us a license to show it on Vyral.
Vyral Forecasts are information, not advice.
1. Who can use Vyral
You must be at least 18 years old. We ask for your date of birth when you sign up and you must give your real one. If we learn that someone is under 18, we'll close the account.
You must be able to form a binding contract and not be barred from using Vyral under the laws that apply to you.
During the beta, you need an invite to create an account. Invites are personal; don't sell them.
One person, one account. Don't create an account for someone else or share yours.
If we've suspended or removed your account, don't create a new one without our permission.
2. Your account
You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email. Keep your email account secure: anyone who can read your email can sign in as you. You're responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us right away at fidrec26@gmail.com if you think someone else has accessed it.
Give us accurate information and keep your email current. Your handle must not impersonate anyone or infringe anyone's rights, and we may reclaim or change a handle that does.
3. VYR is play money
VYR is a virtual, in-app play currency. You get a starting balance of 10,000 VYR, and you may get more through payouts, refunds, referral bonuses or other promotions we run.
VYR has no cash value. It is not money, a security, a cryptocurrency, a deposit or property of any kind.
You can't buy VYR. We don't sell it and you can't pay for it.
You can't sell, transfer, trade or gift VYR to anyone, inside or outside Vyral, and you can't exchange it for money, goods, services or anything else of value.
VYR can't be redeemed or cashed out, ever, including when your account closes.
There are no prizes. Vyral is not gambling, betting or a sweepstakes. Nothing of value is staked and nothing of value can be won. Leaderboards, badges and similar features are for fun and recognition only.
You have a limited, revocable license to use VYR inside Vyral under these terms; you don't own it.
We can change VYR. We may reset, adjust, cap or remove VYR balances, change the starting balance or how VYR is earned, or discontinue VYR, at any time and for any reason, including at the end of the beta or a season, to fix errors, or because of a violation of these terms. We are not liable to you for any of these changes.
If a bug, outage or mistake credits or debits VYR incorrectly, we may correct it, including by reversing trades or payouts.
Any arrangement to buy, sell or trade VYR or Vyral accounts for real money is prohibited and void, and may lead to your account being removed.
4. Calls and markets
Calls. A call is a free Yes/No question about a video, such as whether it will reach a view target before a deadline. Making a call costs nothing and pays nothing; it only affects your record and in-app stats.
Markets. Each call can also have a play-money market where you trade binary YES and NO contracts with VYR. A winning contract pays 100 VYR; a losing contract pays nothing. Prices run from 1 to 99 VYR. Orders are matched by Vyral's order book; an order may fill partly, fully or not at all, and you can cancel the unfilled part of an open order.
Limits and controls. To keep markets fair and the system stable, we set limits, for example on how many contracts you can hold in one market, how many open orders you can have, and how fast you can place orders, with lower limits for new accounts. We may also pause, halt or close a market, cancel open orders, or refuse an order, at any time, including when data is stale, a video is under review, or we suspect manipulation.
Your own videos. You can't make calls or trade in markets about your own videos, or about videos of creators you're linked to. We consider you linked, for example, if you've used the same device as the creator, used the same network as the creator recently, or followed the creator from a newly created account. We decide what counts as linked and may block, cancel or void activity on that basis.
5. How markets resolve
Source of truth. Calls and markets resolve only on Vyral's own official counted views for the video, as recorded by Vyral's servers. View counts shown by other apps or websites don't matter.
Counting rules. Not every play counts as a view. Our counters apply rules such as a minimum watch time, limits on repeat views from the same person or device, excluding a creator's own views and views from flagged accounts, and filtering suspected bots. We may change these rules, and we may later remove views we find to be invalid.
YES when the counted views reach the target before the deadline (the market can resolve as soon as that happens). NO if they haven't reached it at the deadline.
Frozen counts. If a video's views are under review (for example, a suspicious spike), the count markets see may be frozen at its last good value until the review ends.
Void. We may void a call or market if the video is removed or taken down, the creator's account is deleted, our data is unavailable or unreliable, we find manipulation, or a mistake or outage affected the market. When a market is voided, open orders are cancelled and positions are refunded at cost (what you paid in VYR), which may be reduced proportionally if needed so the market's VYR balances.
Settlement. Payouts and refunds are made in VYR to your balance. Resolution can take a few minutes after the deadline.
Corrections. If a market was resolved on wrong data or by mistake, we may re-resolve or void it and adjust VYR balances accordingly. Our decision on how a market resolves is final.
6. Vyral liquidity
So there is usually someone to trade with, a Vyral-operated system account labeled “Vyral liquidity” places buy and sell quotes in markets and can be on the other side of your trades. Its prices come from an automated pricing rule based on public video data such as views and time remaining. It does not use your orders, positions or other private information to price against you, and it is not the Vyral Forecast. Vyral liquidity may change its quotes, widen them, or stop quoting at any time, and it does not guarantee that you can trade at any price. It plays with VYR, which has no cash value.
7. Forecasts are not advice
Vyral may show forecasts, probabilities, crowd percentages, prices, charts, “infection” levels and similar signals. These are informational estimates. They can be wrong, may be based on incomplete data, and change often. They are not financial, investment, legal or any other kind of advice, and they are not a promise about what any video will do. Make your own calls.
8. What you can't do
You agree not to:
inflate or fake views, likes, comments, shares or follows, or pay or coordinate others to do so;
use bots, scripts, emulators, automated tools or view farms, or access Vyral other than through our apps and published interfaces;
create or control more than one account, or use other people's accounts, devices or networks to get around limits or the linked-creator rule;
trade on or make calls about your own videos or videos of creators you're linked to, or help a creator do so;
manipulate markets, including wash trading, coordinated trading, spoofing (placing orders you intend to cancel to move prices), colluding with other users, or acting on non-public information about a video's views;
buy, sell or trade VYR, accounts, invites or handles for anything of value;
exploit bugs or errors (report them to us instead);
post content that breaks section 9;
harass, threaten, bully, impersonate or dox anyone;
use Vyral if you are under 18, or help anyone under 18 use it;
scrape or collect other users' information, or reverse engineer, interfere with, overload or try to break into Vyral or its security;
use Vyral for anything illegal, or to promote real-money gambling or betting.
If we believe you've done any of this, we may remove content, cancel orders, void or reverse trades and payouts, remove VYR, exclude views, and suspend or close accounts, including accounts we believe are linked to yours.
9. Your content
You own it. You keep ownership of the videos, captions, comments, profile details and other content you post (“your content”).
License to us. By posting, you give Vyral a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable license to host, store, copy, process, stream, display, distribute, adapt (for example, transcode, resize or make thumbnails and previews) and promote your content, in connection with operating, improving and promoting Vyral, including in feeds, the Terminal, market pages and our marketing. This license lets us keep using content in records, backups and content shared by others before removal, and to keep de-identified data derived from it (such as view-count histories). Otherwise it ends when you delete the content or your account, after a reasonable time to remove it from our systems.
License to other users. Other users can view and share links to your content within Vyral.
Your promises. You confirm that you own or have permission to post your content (including any music, sounds, images and people in it), that people who can be identified in it agreed to appear, and that it follows these terms and the law.
Content rules. Don't post content that:
sexualizes or endangers minors in any way, or shows anyone who appears to be under 18 in a sexual or unsafe context;
contains nudity or sexual content;
is violent or graphic, threatens or incites violence, or promotes self-harm or terrorism;
is hateful, harassing or bullying, or shares someone's private information;
is spam, a scam, misleading about who you are, or promotes illegal goods or services;
infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights;
is designed to manipulate views or markets.
We don't pre-approve content and aren't responsible for content posted by users. You can report content and accounts in the app.
10. Copyright complaints
We respond to notices of copyright infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content on Vyral infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent:
Your notice must include: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) the copyrighted work you say is infringed; (3) the content you say is infringing and enough information to find it (for example, the video link or ID); (4) your contact details; (5) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.
If your content was removed and you believe it was a mistake or you had the right to post it, you can send a counter-notice to the same agent with the details required by the DMCA. We'll close the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.
11. Moderation and termination
We may review, hide, limit the reach of, or remove any content, and we may hide a video from feeds while reports about it are reviewed. We may suspend or close any account, at any time, if we believe it broke these terms, creates risk or legal exposure for Vyral or others, or for any other reason permitted by law. Where reasonable, we'll tell you why.
You can stop using Vyral at any time, and you can delete your account in the app (Profile → Settings → Delete account). When an account is closed for any reason, its VYR, positions, calls and history end with it and have no value; what we keep after deletion is described in our Privacy Policy.
Sections 3, 5, 7 and 9 (license for content already shared), and sections 12 through 21, survive after your account ends.
12. Vyral's rights
Vyral, including the app, the Terminal, our software, design, the Vyral name and logo, the organism mark, forecasts and market data, belongs to us and our licensors. We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Vyral for its intended purpose under these terms. You may not copy, modify, sell or build on Vyral, or use our name or logos, without our written permission.
If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without any obligation to you.
If you got the app from Apple's App Store or Google Play, their terms also apply to your use of the app. Apple and Google are not parties to these terms and are not responsible for Vyral.
13. Beta and changes
Vyral is in an early beta. Features may be incomplete, change, or be removed, and there may be bugs, outages and data loss. We may change, suspend or stop any part of Vyral at any time, with or without notice. Promotional benefits (for example, founding-creator status or feed boosts) are offered at our discretion and don't guarantee any number of views or any outcome.
14. Future real-money features
Vyral does not offer real-money trading, deposits, withdrawals or prizes. If we ever offer features involving real money or anything of value, they will be offered only where legally permitted, will be subject to separate terms and eligibility checks, and will require your separate agreement. Nothing in Vyral today, including your VYR balance, history, rank or founder status, gives you any right to money or to participate in such features.
15. Disclaimers
VYRAL IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DON'T WARRANT THAT VYRAL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT VIEW COUNTS, FORECASTS, PRICES OR OTHER DATA WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE, OR THAT CONTENT WILL BE PRESERVED.
Some places don't allow these exclusions, so some of them may not apply to you.
16. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, VYRAL AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL OR VYR, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO VYRAL OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE.
OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATED TO VYRAL OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AND (B) US $50.
These limits apply whatever the legal theory, and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They don't limit liability that can't be limited by law.
17. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you'll defend and indemnify Vyral against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your use of Vyral, or your breach of these terms or the law.
18. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Alameda County, California, and you and Vyral consent to those courts' jurisdiction. If you live in a country whose laws give you the right to bring claims in your local courts or under your local law, nothing here takes that right away.
Before filing a claim, please contact us at fidrec26@gmail.com so we can try to resolve it informally.
19. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We'll change the “Last updated” date, and if the changes are significant we'll tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. If you keep using Vyral after the changes take effect, you accept the new terms. If you don't agree, stop using Vyral and delete your account.
20. General
These terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Vyral about Vyral. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don't enforce a provision right away, we haven't waived it. You may not transfer these terms or your account; we may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. We aren't responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control.