These are the terms in plain words. They are the whole deal — there is no second set of terms in smaller print.
Pop Relay is sold by Howls over Baaz, a sole proprietorship owned by Jacob Casas, doing business as Pop Relay. When these terms say "we", that is who it means.
Space in our building: hallways on our server that carry your show to your platforms, and your agents' passages to your tools. You keep your own accounts, your own platforms, and your own keys. Your stream keys are placed once, held sealed, and used only to carry your show where you point it. A tenant's keys never open another tenant's hallways.
Flat monthly rent for the plan you picked: Relay $29, Relay Plus $59, House $149, Agent Hallway $19. Founding-cohort members pay nothing while capacity is being proven, then $19/month locked for 12 months. Inside your plan's band, every passage is equal — we never meter the steps inside your own work, and no usage can raise your bill. Subscriptions renew monthly until you stop them. Stop any time: stopping ends the subscription at the end of the paid month. We do not refund partial months — and if we fail to carry your show in a month, you are not billed for that month.
Your plan carries a passage band (passages per minute), printed on your door page before you ever reach it. Hit the top and passages pause until the minute rolls; they resume on their own. Your kill switch stops all of your hallways instantly, and only yours. We hold a house switch too — it exists for abuse and emergencies, and using it on the whole building is recorded and explained.
We record movement only: that a passage happened, when, which direction, where it was going, and whether it arrived — plus a receipt in your own book so no failure is ever silent. We do not record, read, keep, sell, or train on the content of your shows, your messages, your payloads, or your customers' data. Your destinations are the ones you register with us; your agents can only forward to your registered destinations.
Your content is yours — its legality and your standing with each platform are your responsibility. Platforms have their own rules about restreaming and third-party tools; we check eligibility with you at onboarding, and a platform's decision about your account is theirs. No abusive traffic: spam, fraud, scraping floods, or anything unlawful run through your hallways ends your tenancy — fast, and with the receipts to show why.
Best effort, honestly stated. Pop Relay runs on owned hardware in one building on one internet line. We do not print an uptime percentage we have not measured, and the founding period exists precisely because capacity is still being proven. Scheduled shows get priority slots; founding tenants accept best-effort support while the building proves itself — and pay nothing for that period.
You can leave by stopping. We can end a tenancy for abuse (above) or non-payment. When a tenancy ends, your hallways close; your content was never ours to keep, and your movement receipts are yours to take with you.
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