Terms of Service
Terms of Service
The summary cards tell you the shape of the deal in plain language. The full, binding terms follow below them. If the two ever disagree, the full terms control.
Developer payout terms
- You keep 60% of the revenue your attention earns (80% on tipped clicks), with no hidden activity caps or hourly ceiling.
- Payouts are settled from verified impressions and verified, deduped human clicks, and posted in a public ledger.
- A holdback period applies before payout so fraudulent clicks can be reversed. Self-clicking to inflate earnings forfeits them.
- Paid monthly on the 15th via Stripe once your validated balance reaches $10. Balances under $10 roll forward, so you never lose them.
- You must be 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live, to earn.
- Uninstall anytime. There is no lock-in and no account required to use the app.
Advertiser terms
- You pay for verified impressions and verified, deduped human clicks. The launch offer is a deposit-funded balance (tiers from $10 to $250) billed per 1,000 verified impressions at your bid, with clicks billed at a disclosed multiple of the impression rate.
- Every creative and landing page is reviewed by a person and scanned against the published advertiser policy.
- Swapping a reviewed creative or destination after approval ends the account. No contract; cancel anytime. Refunds of unspent balance are handled on request.
The full terms
Last updated: August 7, 2026
1. Agreement to these Terms
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Achieve Total Marketing LLC DBA Tipbar (“Tipbar”, the “Company”, “we”, “us”). They govern your use of the tipbar.ai website, the waitlist, the Tipbar macOS application (the “App”), and the advertising marketplace we operate (together, the “Service”). By using any part of the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. Definitions
“Developer” means a person who installs the App and may earn a revenue share. “Advertiser” means a person or business that purchases sponsor placements. “Verified impression” means a display of a sponsor line for at least five seconds in a visible menu bar during an active agent session, as confirmed by our server-side validation. “Verified click” means a click on a sponsor line that passes our server-side validation, including deduplication, bot filtering, and active-agent gating. These definitions apply whether the words appear in singular or plural.
3. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is greater, to use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement.
4. Current status of the Service
The Service is in a pre-launch period. The App is not yet generally available and the website's primary function is the waitlist. Descriptions of launch features (payouts, the advertising marketplace, open-source publication, signing and notarization) describe what we intend to ship, and become binding commitments only when the corresponding feature is live. We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted operation; we may suspend access for maintenance or updates without prior notice.
5. The App
The App is a macOS menu bar application that reads AI coding agents through each vendor's own documented lifecycle hooks and displays one labeled sponsor line only while an agent is working. The App never modifies, patches, or wraps any agent; the installer previews the documented hook-configuration entries it adds and can revert them. The App does not install background auto-updaters; every version is one you choose to install. The App's source code is published under the Apache License 2.0, and your use of the source code is governed by that license. Your use of any AI coding agent remains governed by that vendor's own terms; Tipbar is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any AI coding agent vendor.
6. Developer earnings and payouts
When the marketplace is live, Developers earn 60% of the revenue attributable to verified impressions and verified clicks on their machine, or 80% on placements where an advertiser has funded an elevated share, with no undisclosed activity caps and no hourly ceiling. Earnings accrue only on verified impressions and verified clicks. Earnings are subject to a holdback period (currently 30 days) before they become payable, during which events that fail validation may be reversed. Aggregate payout figures are published in the public ledger before any money moves. One earning account per physical machine, and one earning account per person. You are responsible for any taxes on amounts paid to you, and payouts may require tax documentation (such as an IRS Form W-9 or W-8BEN) and the information a payment processor legally needs to pay you; payouts may be withheld until that information is provided. Payments to Developers are a revenue share paid to you as an independent recipient, not wages, and create no employment relationship. Where the law requires it, we or our payment processor may report amounts paid to you to tax authorities, for example on an IRS Form 1099. Earnings obtained through fraud (including clicking sponsor lines on your own machine to inflate earnings, automation, or manipulating the activity signal) are forfeited, and we may withhold payment and terminate participation. Payable balances are paid on a monthly schedule (currently on or around the 15th of each month) via our payment processor, subject to a minimum payout threshold (currently $10). Balances below the threshold roll forward to the next payout and are not forfeited. We may adjust the payout schedule or threshold with notice, disclosed before you accrue earnings.
7. Advertiser terms
Advertising is curated. Every advertiser, creative, and landing page is reviewed by a person and screened against the published advertiser policy before it can serve, and re-screened continuously. Changing a reviewed creative or destination after approval without re-review terminates the account. Pricing clears through a second-price auction with a published reserve floor; you pay for verified impressions and verified clicks, with clicks billed at a disclosed multiple of the impression rate, and never more than your funded balance. The launch offer (a deposit-funded balance from $10 billed per 1,000 verified impressions at your bid) is honored as stated at the time of purchase. Any promotional credit we grant is spend-only, non-withdrawable, and non-transferable. There is no term commitment: you may cancel at any time. Refunds of unspent balance are handled on request and are otherwise at the Company's reasonable discretion. You represent that your ads and landing pages are lawful, accurate, and yours to run, and you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display your creative within the Service for the purpose of serving your campaign.
8. Prohibited activities
You agree not to: use the Service for any unlawful purpose; attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems or another user's data; interfere with the integrity of impression or click counting; generate fraudulent, automated, or incentivized clicks; misrepresent an advertised product or swap destinations after review; resell or sublicense placements without our written consent; or use the Service to distribute malware, phishing, or unsolicited promotional material.
9. Fees and payments
Advertisers authorize us to charge applicable fees to the payment method they provide. Specific pricing and any promotional terms are communicated at the time of purchase. Amounts owed at termination remain payable.
10. Privacy
Our collection and use of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy. In short: the website counts page views with cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics, keeps anonymous aggregate counts of App downloads and of a few key interactions (per day, event, and page, with nothing recorded about you), and does no cross-site tracking; the App sends a normalized activity signal, an ad-slot ID, a coarse locally-computed targeting bucket, and impression and click events, never your code, file paths, repository names, prompts, agent output, or credentials.
11. Intellectual property
The Tipbar name, logo, and site content are owned by the Company. Except for the App source code once published under Apache-2.0, nothing in these Terms grants you rights in the Company's trademarks or content. Agent vendors' names and marks belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify compatibility.
12. Termination
You can stop using the Service at any time; uninstalling the App reverts the hook entries it added. We may suspend or terminate access without prior notice for breach of these Terms, fraud, or activity that harms the Service or its users. Ending your participation does not erase validated earnings: any balance that has cleared the holdback and meets the payout threshold remains payable to you, and uninstalling the App is not the same as closing your earning record. If you close your earning record voluntarily, we settle any payable balance first; only a remainder below the payout threshold may be forfeited, and only after we notify you. If we end your participation for fraud or breach, earnings voided as fraudulent are not paid, but we do not confiscate your validated, non-fraudulent earnings. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including accrued payment obligations, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification) survive.
13. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any particular level of earnings or advertising results will be achieved.
14. Results and earnings disclaimer
Results are not typical and will vary based on individual usage, agent activity, and advertiser demand. Any earnings figures, projections, or examples shown anywhere on the Service are for illustrative purposes only and are not a promise or guarantee of earnings. All ventures involve risk; conduct your own research and due diligence before making financial decisions. This website is not endorsed by Meta, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, or any other third-party platform.
15. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, or data, arising from your use of the Service. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company's total liability for any claim arising out of the Service will not exceed the greater of one hundred U.S. dollars ($100) or the amounts you paid to the Company in the twelve months before the claim arose.
16. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your breach of these Terms, your content or campaigns, or your misuse of the Service.
17. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict of law principles.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Updates are posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date, and material changes to payout or advertiser terms will be called out in the changelog-style summary cards above. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
19. Contact
Questions about these Terms: hello@tipbar.ai.