Terms of Service

Acceptance of Terms

By using Brand Share you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the platform. Where you act for a business, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms on its behalf.

What Brand Share Is

Brand Share is a directory and matchmaking tool. We help businesses find non-competing businesses in adjacent niches, introduce them, and verify that each has linked to the other. We are not an SEO agency, we do not sell links, and we do not guarantee any search ranking, traffic, or commercial outcome.

Accounts

You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your password secure. Provide accurate information and keep it current. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms.

Business Listings

When you submit or claim a listing you confirm you are authorised to act for that business and that the information is accurate and not misleading. You keep ownership of your content, and you grant us a non-exclusive licence to display it on Brand Share and in related material while your listing is live. A listing must include a logo or image. We may edit or remove any listing that breaks these terms.

Some listings were added by Brand Share from public sources or affiliate programmes and are labelled as such rather than as owner-verified. If a listing describes your business and you want to control or remove it, you can claim it by verifying an email address on that business's domain.

Getting Listed Free

There are two free routes to a listing, and neither requires payment:

• Backlink Partner. Publish a visible, followable link to BrandShare.io on your website. It must be a normal link on a real page: not hidden, and not marked nofollow, sponsored or ugc. Your site must also be at least six months old, have at least ten pages, and you must verify a work email on your own domain. If the link is later removed, the listing that link earned may be withdrawn.
• Elite Affiliate Partner. Enrol affiliates@brandshare.io in your affiliate or referral programme and give us the tracking link it issues. Your listing's Visit Website button then uses that link, clearly disclosed to visitors. There is no backlink, domain-age or site-size requirement. You may withdraw at any time, which returns the listing to a standard one.

Placement Plans

Placement in the directory is ordinal. Paid plans decide where a listing sits, not whether it appears:

• Spotlight: $9 per month, or $90 per year.
• Headline: $29 per month, or $290 per year.
• Marquee: $79 per month, or $790 per year.

Elite Affiliate Partners rank between Marquee and Headline, because an affiliate link earns on every click. A plan applies to one listing that you own.

Each plan also includes a monthly allowance of backlink invitations, shown on the pricing page and in your dashboard. Because it is part of what a plan buys, we will not reduce an allowance mid-period without telling you first.

Your listing is never removed for not paying. If a plan lapses or is cancelled, the listing moves down the page and stays published.

Billing, Renewal and Cancellation

Plans are billed in advance through Stripe and renew automatically for the same period until cancelled. Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax that may apply to you. You can cancel at any time from your billing page or by emailing us; placement continues until the end of the period already paid for, after which the listing drops back. We do not refund part-used periods. If we change a price we will tell you before it applies to your renewal.

Rankings, the number of listings shown, and the tier system itself may change as the platform develops. We will not reduce what a paid plan does mid-period without telling you.

Backlink Swaps and Invitations

Our crawler checks both sides of a swap: your link to the partner, and theirs to you. Checks repeat periodically, so a link removed later can change the status of a swap.

Invitations are messages to real businesses, so:

• Send them only to businesses you genuinely want to partner with.
• Do not use invitations for advertising, recruitment, or anything unrelated to a link swap.
• Every account has a daily and a monthly invitation limit. The monthly allowance depends on your plan and resets on the first of each month; the daily limit applies on every plan, including the highest, because it protects delivery for all users. Do not try to work around either, including with multiple accounts.
• Anyone can withdraw an invitation they sent; the other business is told when that happens.

Misusing invitations is the fastest way to lose your account, because it puts every other user's messages at risk.

Brand Management and Disputes

Control of a listing is proved by a verified email address on the business's own domain, or by verifying control of the domain itself. Where two people claim the same brand, we resolve it by the seniority of the verified address, and proven control of the website outranks an address alone. Contested claims are held for review. Our decision on who controls a listing is final, and it does not decide who owns a trademark.

Affiliate Links and Disclosure

Some links on Brand Share are affiliate links, and we may earn a commission when you use them at no extra cost to you. These are marked on the page and use rel="sponsored". We do not accept payment to write a favourable description of a business, and a commission does not buy a higher position than the published tier system allows.

Acceptable Use

Do not use Brand Share to publish or promote illegal activity, adult content, hate speech, malware, or anything that infringes another party's rights. Do not scrape the site at scale, attempt to break its security, submit listings for businesses that do not exist, or use it to build a link network. We may remove content and close accounts for any of these.

Other Businesses and Third-Party Sites

Listings describe independent businesses we do not control. We do not endorse them, verify their goods or services, or take responsibility for your dealings with them. Follow an outbound link at your own discretion.

Termination

You can stop using Brand Share and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end access if these terms are broken, or if required by law. Sections that should survive termination (liability, disclaimers, and anything about payments already made) continue to apply.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

Brand Share is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind. We do not promise the platform will be uninterrupted or error-free, that a partner will respond, that a link will be placed, or that any of it will improve your search visibility. Automated checks can be wrong, and search engines change their behaviour without notice.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, including lost profit, revenue, traffic, or rankings. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the previous twelve months or fifty US dollars. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Governing Law

Brand Share is operated by Brand Share, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Delaware.

Changes to Terms

We may update these terms. We will change the date at the top, and for material changes we will tell account holders by email. Continuing to use the platform after a change means you accept it.

Google User Data & Google API Services

Brand Share uses Google APIs to send transactional email from a brand mailbox we own and operate. The following discloses how our application accesses, uses, stores, shares, and retains Google user data, in compliance with the Google API Services User Data Policy. This disclosure also appears in our Privacy Policy.

Data We Access

We request a single Google OAuth permission: the Gmail send-email scope (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send) for one Google account that we own and operate. This permission lets our application send email on behalf of that account. We do not read, download, store, or collect Gmail messages, drafts, contacts, labels, profile information, or any other Google data, and we never access Google accounts belonging to our website visitors or users.

How We Use the Data

We use Gmail send access solely to deliver operational, transactional email, such as contact-form confirmations, business-listing and mutual-backlink request notifications, and direct replies to inquiries. We do not use Google data for advertising, profiling, training machine-learning or AI models, or any purpose unrelated to sending these messages.

Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or share Google user data with third parties. The only transfer that occurs is the delivery of each email to its intended recipient through Google's own Gmail servers. We do not transfer Google user data to others except as necessary to provide this sending feature through Google's APIs, to comply with applicable law, or as part of an email you have asked us to send.

Data Storage & Protection

We do not store Gmail messages or Google account content. The OAuth credentials used to authorize sending (a refresh token) are stored as encrypted, server-side environment variables with our hosting provider, are restricted to our application, and are never exposed in client-side code or to the public. We protect all data in transit using HTTPS/TLS encryption and apply industry-standard security controls.

Data Retention & Deletion

Because we do not read or store Google user data, there is no Google user data for us to retain. You can revoke our application's access at any time from your Google Account permissions page at myaccount.google.com/permissions, which immediately ends our access. You may also email us at privacy@brandshare.io to request revocation or deletion of any associated records, and we will honor such requests promptly.

Limited Use

Brand Share's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Contact

Questions about these terms: legal@brandshare.io.