Advertising Terms & Conditions

1. Agreement

These Advertising Terms ("Terms") govern your purchase and display of advertising on skillzbench.com ("SkillzBench" or the "Site"), operated by AIQ Labs ("we", "us"). By creating an advertising campaign, submitting creative, or paying for a spot, you ("you", "the Advertiser") accept these Terms and the Site's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy where not superseded here. If you accept on behalf of a company, you represent you have authority to bind it.

2. Accounts & eligibility

You must hold a verified SkillzBench account in good standing. One advertiser profile per account. You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter contracts. We may refuse or terminate service to any advertiser at our discretion, including for prior policy violations on any of our properties.

3. Inventory, pricing & rotation

Advertising is sold as fixed-price placements ("Spots") for a chosen period (7 or 28 days). Multiple advertisers may share a Spot; delivery rotates advertisers in substantially equal shares each day. We sell a share of rotation, not a guaranteed number of impressions, clicks, or conversions. Impression and click volumes depend on Site traffic and cannot be warranted. Prices are set per Spot at the time of purchase and shown before payment; later price changes do not affect a purchased period. We may move, resize, or re-skin a Spot for site-design reasons; material changes to what you bought entitle you to a pro-rata refund for the unused days.

4. Content standards

All creatives and landing pages must comply with our advertising content policy, which prohibits (non-exhaustive): adult or sexual material; gambling; drugs, unlicensed pharmaceuticals or supplements; weapons; malware, phishing, scams or deceptive URLs; illegal products or services; misleading, unverifiable or "guaranteed outcome" claims; fake interface elements; hate, harassment or violent content; crypto-token promotions promising returns; infringement or misuse of third-party trademarks, or implying endorsement by SkillzBench or any AI vendor; and low-quality, illegible or spam-like creative. Landing pages must be functional, relevant to the ad copy, and hosted on a domain you plausibly control.

5. Review; no charge until approval

Every campaign is reviewed — first by automated systems, and where flagged, by a human — before it is eligible to run. You are only charged for campaigns that pass review. We may reject any campaign for any lawful reason, and may remove or pause a running campaign at any time if we believe it violates these Terms or harms the Site's readers, with notice to you where practical. Removal for violation forfeits no refund obligation except at our discretion (§8).

6. Payment

Payments are processed by our payment provider (Airwallex) by card at checkout. Prices are in US dollars and exclusive of taxes, which you are responsible for. Your campaign is scheduled only after payment clears. We do not store card details.

7. Scheduling, cancellation & refunds

Campaigns run from their purchased start date for the purchased period. You may cancel a not-yet-live campaign at any time for a full refund. Once a campaign has gone live, spots are fixed-price for the period: cancellation stops delivery immediately but carries no automatic pro-rata refund; we may issue goodwill credits or refunds at our discretion (e.g., outages materially affecting delivery). Refunds, when due, are issued to the original payment method within a reasonable period. Duplicate charges and amounts paid for campaigns that never went live are always refundable in full — email team@skillzbench.com.

8. Stats & delivery reporting

We track impressions (counted when your ad is served) and clicks (deduplicated per visitor per campaign per day) and expose them in your dashboard. Our measurements are the authoritative record for delivery under these Terms. Reporting is provided for information; minor inaccuracies or lost data during incidents do not constitute breach, though we will use commercially reasonable efforts to keep stats accurate.

9. Your representations & warranties

You represent that: (a) you own or are licensed to use all content in your creative and landing page, including trademarks and images; (b) your advertising complies with applicable laws (including consumer protection, advertising standards, and CASL/CAN-SPAM if you link to email capture); (c) your landing page does not violate these Terms; and (d) the information in your advertiser profile is accurate.

10. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold harmless AIQ Labs and its operators from claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs arising from your creative, landing page, products or services, or your breach of these Terms.

11. Disclaimer; limitation of liability

Advertising is provided "as is". We do not warrant traffic levels, audience composition, or business outcomes. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for anything connected to your advertising is limited to the amounts you paid us for advertising in the three (3) months preceding the claim. Neither party is liable for indirect or consequential damages. Nothing limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

12. Termination & suspension

We may suspend or terminate your advertising (and the underlying account) for violations, chargebacks, or abuse. You may stop advertising at any time; §7 governs refunds. Sections 9–13 survive termination.

13. Changes & general

We may update these Terms; material changes are posted on this page with a new date, and terms in force when you paid govern the purchased period. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in force. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada (placeholder pending counsel review), and disputes will be resolved in the courts of Nova Scotia, unless we agree otherwise in writing. Notices go to your account email; ours go to team@skillzbench.com.