Terms of Service
Last updated: 10 November 2026
These terms govern your use of The Digital Monument (the "Service"), operated by Shabaka LLC, 30 N. Gould St., Sheridan, WY 82801, United States ("we", "us"). By using the Service or making a purchase you agree to these terms.
1. What you are buying
The monument is a 1000 × 1000 grid of 1,000,000 display units on this website. When you buy units you purchase a licence to display an image (and optionally a link and display name) in the selected rectangle on the monument, subject to these terms and our Content Policy.
You do not acquire ownership of any part of the website, any intellectual property of ours, any domain, token, security, or investment. A placement does not represent or promise:
- any amount of traffic, clicks, visibility, or search-engine ranking;
- any financial return or resale value;
- display for any guaranteed period beyond what is described in section 7.
2. Prices and payment
Prices are shown in US dollars per unit before you pay and are calculated by our servers. At checkout you may choose to add an optional extra amount to support the monument. Extra support is voluntary, is not a charitable donation, and does not buy additional units, a better position, or any other benefit. It is part of your order total and is refunded together with it whenever the order is refunded. Payment is processed by Stripe; we never receive or store your full card details. Your selected units are reserved for a limited time while you complete checkout; if you do not complete payment in time, the reservation is released.
A purchase is complete only when our payment provider confirms the payment to us. A confirmation page in your browser is not, on its own, confirmation of payment.
Where the law requires us to charge sales tax, VAT or a similar tax on your purchase, it is either included in the price or added and shown at checkout before you pay. You will never be charged an amount that was not shown to you before payment.
3. Review before publication
Every image, display name, and link is reviewed before it becomes public. We may approve, reject, ask you to change your image, display name, or link, or approve the image while declining the link. Review times vary. Your placement is not visible until approved.
4. Your content
You must own or have permission to use everything you submit. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, resize, re-encode, display, and reproduce your submission as part of the monument and in materials that show the monument as a whole (for example screenshots of the full monument).
You are responsible for your submissions and for the website you link to. You must not submit anything that breaks our Content Policy or Acceptable Use Policy or any law.
5. Moderation and removal
We may hide, remove, or decline to publish any placement or link, at any time, if we reasonably believe it breaks these terms or our policies, is unlawful, is the subject of a credible complaint, or creates risk for visitors. Where we act on a placement you purchased, we will tell you by email and explain your options under the Refund Policy, unless the law or the safety of others prevents this.
Repeated or serious violations, including fraud and chargeback abuse, may lead to removal without refund where the law allows.
6. Cancellation and refunds
At checkout you ask us to start processing your placement immediately. You may cancel for a full refund within 14 days of your purchase as long as your placement has not yet been published. Your right of withdrawal ends once your placement is published. Other refunds are handled under our Refund and Cancellation Policy.
7. Duration and discontinuation
We intend to operate the monument for the long term, but we cannot promise that it will exist forever. If we decide to discontinue the Service, we will give at least 90 days' notice on the website and by email to purchasers, and will try to preserve a static archive of the monument where practical. Discontinuing the Service after this notice does not entitle purchasers to a refund, except where the law requires one.
8. Availability
The Service may be unavailable from time to time for maintenance or reasons outside our control. We are not liable for temporary unavailability.
9. Liability
To the extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim related to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us for the placement concerned. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your statutory rights as a consumer.
10. Changes
We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced on the website. Changes do not apply retroactively to purchases already made, except where required by law.
11. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.
If you have a problem, please email us first at support@milliondigitalmonument.com so we can try to resolve it informally. If we cannot resolve it within 30 days, either of us may bring the dispute before the state or federal courts located in Wyoming, and both of us agree to the jurisdiction of those courts.
If you are a consumer, nothing in this section takes away the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, or your right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country where those laws allow it.
12. Contact
Questions about these terms: email support@milliondigitalmonument.com or see Contact.