Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Devota is run from Belgium. You can reach us at our contact address (published here before launch) for anything, including legal notices. The operator's details are on the legal notice.

Devota is not open to the public yet. The operator's legal name, address, enterprise number and VAT number will be published here before launch.

A fan is anyone who sends a tribute. A creator is anyone with a page on Devota. By sending a tribute or by submitting a page for review, you accept these Terms and the privacy notice.

2. What Devota does

Devota gives creators a page where fans can send them tributes in USDC on the Solana blockchain. When a fan sends a tribute:

• we prepare one Solana transaction that makes two transfers from the fan's wallet: the tribute, to the creator's wallet, and our 8% fee, to our own wallet;
• we also sign that transaction as its fee payer, so we pay the network fee and the fan needs no SOL. That signature can't move anyone's USDC;
• the fan signs and sends the transaction with their own wallet. Nothing moves unless they do.

Devota never holds, receives on anyone's behalf, exchanges or controls anyone's money or keys. We have no agreement with any creator to collect payments for them. The fee is our own charge for our own service. We pay the network fee as a courtesy, and we may stop doing so.

Devota isn't authorised or supervised as a crypto-asset service provider, a payment institution or an electronic money institution. We don't sell, buy, exchange or recommend any crypto-asset, and nothing on Devota is financial, legal or tax advice.

We're not a party to whatever happens between a fan and a creator. Creators are independent people, not Devota.

3. Who can use Devota

• You're 18 or older, or older still if the age of adulthood where you live is higher.
• Using Devota is legal where you are.
• You aren't named on a sanctions list of the United Nations, the European Union, Belgium, the United Kingdom or the United States, and you aren't owned or controlled by someone who is.
• You aren't in a country or region we choose not to serve. Today those are Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Crimea, Sevastopol and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, and we may add others. Don't use a VPN or anything else to hide where you are.
• We haven't removed you from Devota before.

4. Tributes

A tribute is a gift

A tribute is a voluntary gift from a fan to a creator. "Tribute" is just our name for it: it never means something you owe. Nobody has to send a tribute, and a creator can't make anyone pay. A tribute can't be:

• payment for content, a chat, attention, a meeting or any other service, or for access to anything;
• a way into a game, spin, draw, bet, auction or challenge, or a way out of one;
• payment of a "debt", "tax", "fine", "late fee", interest or anything else presented as owed;
• money obtained by a threat or by pressure of any kind.

Devota doesn't record debts, pledges, contracts or amounts "owed". A promise to send money, made anywhere, isn't something we record or enforce, and we don't treat it as binding.

Before you send one

• Send only your own money, and only what you can afford to lose. Don't send borrowed money, or money that belongs to your employer, your family or anyone else, and don't pay for someone else.
• Your USDC doesn't come from a crime or from anyone under sanctions.
• No court has limited your right to manage your own money.
• Don't send because someone is threatening or pressuring you. If that happens, see section 7.
• Each tribute must be legal where you are and where the creator is.
• Don't send tributes to your own page, directly or through someone else, and don't split payments to get around our limits or checks.

What you pay

A tribute is between $5 and $250, in USDC. On top of it you pay our 8% fee, rounded up to the cent, in the same transaction. Before you approve, the page shows the tribute, the fee and the total, and your wallet shows the same amounts. The fee includes any VAT due on it. The creator receives the full tribute. We count 1 USDC as $1, but we don't promise that it's worth $1.

Payments are final

A Solana payment can't be stopped, reversed or charged back, by us or by anyone. If a creator chooses to send money back, that's a new transfer they make, not a reversal.

This doesn't limit your legal rights against Devota. If a payment goes wrong because of a fault on our side, such as a wrong amount, a double charge or a wrong wallet, contact us and we'll put it right, including by refunding our fee. We may also refund our fee when a tribute was sent by a minor, by someone who couldn't manage their own affairs, or under pressure, and we do so where the law requires it.

• Sending again doesn't speed up a payment: it makes a second one. Wait for the page to tell you where your payment stands.
• A transaction we prepared can only land for about a minute. One that expires unsent moves nothing and costs you nothing.
• USDC sent to a creator's wallet in any other way, without a Devota page, is not a tribute under these Terms. We can't see it or help with it.

Our fee, and your right to cancel

Our fee pays for one service: we prepare your transaction, pay its network fee, confirm the payment to you and the creator, and pass on your name and message. When you continue to the payment, you ask us to perform that service right away. It's complete once your transaction is confirmed on Solana. In the EU and the UK you normally have 14 days to cancel a contract for a service; you acknowledge that you lose this right once our service is complete, which happens within seconds. If your transaction never lands, you pay nothing.

Your name and message

A name and a message are optional. Only the creator sees them, on their dashboard and in the email we send them, and our admins only when they handle a report or a request. Don't put threats, anything illegal, or anyone else's personal information in them. Remember that the creator, like anyone, can also see the wallet you paid from on the blockchain.

When we may refuse a tribute

We may refuse to prepare a transaction, or limit amounts, for example when a wallet fails the sanctions check, when we suspect fraud, money laundering or a minor, when limits are reached, or to protect a fan. The law may forbid us from telling you why. We aren't liable for refusing in good faith.

5. Your wallet and the blockchain

• Your wallet is yours. Phantom, Solflare and other wallets are third parties with their own terms. We never have your keys and can't recover a wallet you lost.
• You're responsible for what you sign. Check the amounts in your wallet before you approve. Devota will never ask for your recovery phrase and never asks for money in a direct message. Watch out for fake Devota accounts and fake creator pages.
• Payments are public. Every tribute is on the Solana blockchain forever: the wallet it came from, the creator's wallet, the amount and the time. Because every tribute also pays our fee wallet, anyone can see which wallets have paid tributes through Devota. See the privacy notice.
• USDC is a token, not a bank balance. It's issued by Circle under Circle's own terms, and your rights in it are against Circle. It can lose its link to the dollar, redeeming it can be limited or delayed, and Circle can freeze USDC in any wallet, including a creator's. We have no control over Circle and can't move, return or recover frozen USDC.
• Sanctions checks aren't a guarantee. We check wallets with an outside provider before each tribute. A wallet that passes isn't thereby lawful, and a check gives no one a claim against us.
• Solana can be slow or down. A payment can land later than you sent it, or not at all.
• Software has bugs, ours included. We test our transactions, and you see every amount in your wallet before you approve.

6. Creators

Who you are

• You prove that you're 18 or older with an identity check at Didit before your page goes live. We may ask you to do it again, for example after a report.
• You run your page yourself. It's about you, the person who passed the check. One page per person.
• Nobody else may control your page, tell you how to use it, or take a share of your tributes by force, threats or pressure.
• You aren't a Russian or Belarusian national or resident, unless you are also a citizen of, or have a residence permit for, a country of the EU, the European Economic Area or Switzerland. Then you verify with that passport, ID card or permit: we can't accept an ID issued by Russia or Belarus.
• You don't live in the US state of New York. Devota isn't open to creators there yet, and we don't accept an ID issued there or an identity check made from there.
• Tell us at once if anything here or in section 3 changes.

Your receiving wallet

• The receiving wallet must belong to you alone and be controlled by you alone. No manager, agency or other person may control it.
• You prove you own it by signing a message, which moves no money. We check it against sanctions lists before we accept it.
• Once your page has been submitted, changing the wallet takes a signature from both wallets, a confirmation by email and 48 hours. If you lost the old wallet, it takes a new face check, our approval and 7 days. This protects you from someone who takes over your account.
• Keep your keys safe. We can't recover money sent to a wallet you lost or to a wallet you gave us by mistake.

Nothing in return

Don't promise, offer or hint at anything in return for a tribute: no content, chats, calls, meetings, attention or access. Devota is not a place to sell anything.

How you treat fans

These rules cover everything you do that's connected to your Devota page, on Devota or anywhere else, including X and direct messages.

• No threats. Never threaten to expose, publish or contact anyone, or to reveal someone's identity, photos, messages, money or interests. Not even as roleplay: we can't tell real pressure from play, so "blackmail" and "exposure" scenes aren't allowed in connection with Devota.
• No debts. No "debt contracts", interest, late fees, fines, "taxes" or any claim that a fan owes you money.
• No games of chance. No wheels, spins, dice, coin flips, "double or nothing" or anything else where chance decides the amount or the outcome.
• No ranking of fans by how much they paid, and no tools that do it.
• Stop when asked. Stop asking a fan for tributes when they ask you to, when they say they can't afford it or can't stop, or when they might be under 18.
• No pressure about money. Never ask or encourage a fan to borrow, use credit, sell their belongings, or use money that belongs to their employer, their family or anyone else. Don't tell a fan that your livelihood depends on them.
• Tell us about danger. If a fan seems to be under 18, says they're in debt or out of control, or you suspect their money is stolen, stop accepting their tributes and tell us. We may suspend a page and tell the police.
• No sexual services and no offers of in-person meetings.
• Be honest about Devota. Don't tell fans they owe tributes, that tributes buy anything, or that Devota is something it isn't.

Fans' information

Use a fan's name, message and wallet address only to receive their tribute and to thank them. Don't publish, share or sell them, and don't try to find out who a fan is from their wallet or in any other way. If you download your tributes, you're responsible for keeping that file safe.

Taxes

Tributes may count as income where you live. Declaring them and paying any tax is up to you. You can download a list of your tributes from your dashboard. That list is a record, not tax advice and not an official receipt. Where the law requires it, we give information to tax authorities.

You're independent

You don't work for Devota and don't speak for it. What you say and do, on Devota or elsewhere, is your own responsibility.

7. What's not allowed on a page

• Explicit content. Suggestive is fine. Nudity, sexual acts and explicit descriptions of them are not.
• Anything involving a minor, or anything that presents someone as a minor in a sexual way, whatever their real age or the story around it.
• Someone else's identity: their name, their photos, or AI-made pictures of a real person.
• Images shared without consent. Every real person in a picture must be an adult who agreed to appear.
• Hate, harassment, threats and violent content.
• Scams, fraud, money laundering and anything else that breaks the law.
• Material that isn't yours to use, such as someone else's photos, logos or trademarks.

The rules for how you treat fans (section 6) apply to your page too.

If someone threatens or pressures you: you don't have to pay. Stop answering, keep the messages, and report the page. If someone threatens to share intimate images of you, StopNCII.org helps you stop them being posted, and Take It Down does so for images taken before you were 18. In danger, call the local emergency number (112 in Europe).

8. How we review pages and handle reports

• Before a page goes live, a person at Devota reviews its name, picture and bio. Every later change waits for the same review, and until then the page keeps showing what we approved.
• Anyone can report a page, without an account, with "Report this page" at the bottom of it. For a detailed notice, for example about copyright or an illegal page, email our contact address (published here before launch) with the page's link, why you think it breaks the law or these Terms, your name and email address (not needed for a report of child sexual abuse material), and a statement that your notice is accurate and made in good faith.
• We act on reports about a possible minor, a threat to someone's safety or intimate images shared without consent within 48 hours, and on others within 7 business days.
• A person decides. We don't use automated tools to judge pages. The automated checks we do run are about payments and identity: the sanctions check, the limits on how often requests can be made, and the identity check. A page goes offline by itself in one case only: when its creator's identity check is withdrawn. We email the creator at once, and a person looks at it if they reply.
• What we can do: decline a page or a change to it, or suspend a page. A suspended page is offline and takes no tributes.
• We tell you why. When we decline or suspend your page, we email you what we decided, the facts it rests on, and whether it's because of the law or of these Terms.
• If you disagree, reply to that email within 14 days with your side, and we look at it again. You can also change your page and ask for a new review on your dashboard, use an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified under the Digital Services Act, or go to court.
• We tell the authorities when the law requires it, and when we learn of a threat to someone's life or safety. We report child sexual abuse material.

We aren't obliged to watch everything on Devota, and we don't. What we do is described above.

9. Closing a page

• You can close your page at any time by emailing our contact address (published here before launch) from the address you sign in with.
• We may suspend or close a page that breaks these Terms or the law, that fails or refuses an identity check, or where the law requires it. Before we close a page for good, we give 30 days' notice with our reasons, unless it's about illegal content, someone's safety, repeated breaches, or a legal obligation.
• Tributes already sent are in your wallet: we never held them, so closing a page doesn't touch them. What we keep after a page closes is in the privacy notice.

10. Your page's content, and our name

You keep the rights to your name, picture and bio. You allow us to store, resize and show them, on your page, on the pictures of tributes fans and you can share, and in the review and records described here, for as long as your page exists and for the time we need afterwards to remove copies. You confirm that you have the right to use everything on your page.

Devota's name, design and software are ours. Don't use them in a way that suggests we endorse you or something else.

11. Liability

We provide Devota as it is. We don't promise that it's always available or free of errors. We check that a real adult is behind every page, but we don't check what creators say or do, and we can't control how they use tributes.

As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect losses, lost profits, or losses caused by what fans and creators do between them, by wallets, by the Solana network or by Circle. Our total liability to you for all claims in any 12 months is at most the greater of the fees you paid us in those 12 months and €100.

None of this limits our liability for death or personal injury, fraud, intent or gross negligence, for not providing the core of our service, or any liability the law doesn't allow us to limit. Nothing in these Terms takes away rights you have under consumer law that can't be excluded, including the law of the EU country where you live.

Creators compensate us for claims by others that come from their page, their conduct towards fans, their taxes, or a breach of these Terms, to the extent it's their fault.

12. Changes

• These Terms have a version and a date. We change them only for a good reason, such as a change in the law, a new or changed feature, or protecting fans and creators.
• When we change them in substance, we email creators at least 15 days before the change applies, unless the law or a security risk requires it sooner. A creator who doesn't agree can close their page before then.
• A tribute is always governed by the version of these Terms shown when it was sent.
• A new fee applies only to tributes started after the page shows it.
• We may change, add or remove features of Devota.

13. Law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Belgian law. If you're a consumer living in the EU, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of your own country, and you can bring a claim before its courts. Other disputes go to the courts of Belgium.

Please write to us at our contact address (published here before launch) first: we try to solve any problem within 30 days. Consumers can also turn to the Belgian Consumer Mediation Service.

14. The rest

• These Terms and the privacy notice are the whole agreement between us.
• If a part of these Terms doesn't hold, the rest still does. If we don't enforce a rule once, we can still enforce it later.
• We may transfer this agreement to a company that takes over Devota, and we'll tell creators when we do. You can't transfer your page.
• We communicate by email and on the site, and that counts as in writing.
• We aren't responsible for delays caused by events outside our control.