Last Updated: 7 August 2026
Agreement: By creating an account, accessing, or using Steply (the “Services”), you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not access or use the Services.
Authority: If you create an account or use the Services on behalf of a business, company, or legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind that entity to these Terms.
Account Integrity: You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to maintain and update such information to keep it accurate.
Credential Protection: You are responsible for safeguarding your login credentials. You accept sole responsibility for all activities or actions that occur under your account. You must notify us immediately at steply.legal@gmail.com of any unauthorized access or breach of security.
Security Controls: Where the Services offer multi-factor authentication, single sign-on (SSO), or team permissions, you are responsible for configuring these features appropriately. Steply is not liable for losses arising from your failure to enable available security controls.
Entire Agreement: These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any official order forms or supplemental terms referenced herein (including, where applicable, a separate End User Licence Agreement or enterprise order form), constitute the complete agreement between you and Steply regarding the Services.
Eligibility & Minors: If you are under the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction (typically 18 years of age), you may only use the Services with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. By allowing a minor to access or use the Services, or by creating an account used by a minor, the parent or legal guardian agrees to be fully bound by these Terms and accepts sole legal and financial responsibility for:
Misrepresentation & Misconduct: Steply relies on user representations regarding identity and authorization. If a user (or minor operating an account) engages in prohibited conduct, unauthorized financial transactions, fraudulent ad submissions, or illegal activity, Steply reserves the right to immediately suspend or terminate the account, reverse or withhold unverified transactions or payouts, and enforce indemnification remedies against the responsible parent, guardian, or account holder.
Global Availability: The Services are made available to users worldwide. You are responsible for ensuring that your access to and use of the Services complies with the laws applicable to you in your country or region of residence.
Local Consumer Protections: Where you are accessing the Services as a consumer in a jurisdiction that provides mandatory statutory protections which cannot be excluded or limited by contract (including, without limitation, the Australian Consumer Law, UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, EU consumer protection directives, or equivalent state or national laws), nothing in these Terms limits those protections. In the event of a conflict, your locally mandated rights will prevail over any inconsistent provision of these Terms, but only to the extent required by that law.
Export Control & Sanctions: You may not access or use the Services if you are located in, or a resident or national of, any country subject to comprehensive trade sanctions, or if you are listed on any applicable government restricted-party or denied-persons list. You agree to comply with all applicable export control and economic sanctions laws in your use of the Services.
A. General Platform Conduct
You agree not to engage in any of the
following prohibited activities while using the Services:
B. Advertising Network Content Standards
All ad creative assets, titles,
taglines, URLs, QR code destinations, and landing pages submitted to the Steply Advertising
Network must strictly adhere to brand safety guidelines. The following content categories
are strictly prohibited:
C. Moderation & Enforcement Rights
Steply Pro Subscriptions: Subscriptions to Steply Pro are billed on a recurring, auto-renewable basis through our payment processor (Stripe). You may cancel your subscription at any time via your Billing Portal. Cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing cycle.
Ad Campaigns & Impression Pools: Advertisers purchase impression allocations for network display. Payments are non-refundable once an ad campaign has entered the active display rotation, except as determined by automated 24-hour settlement reconciliations.
Wallet Balances & Withdrawal Floor:
Fraud & Chargebacks: We reserve the right to withhold, reverse, or claw back wallet credits, payouts, or subscription access associated with fraudulent activity, chargebacks, disputed payments, or manipulated telemetry, and may deduct associated processor fees from your balance.
Price Changes: We may change subscription pricing with at least 30 days' advance notice before your next renewal. We will not apply a price increase to a current billing cycle you have already paid for. Continued use after a price change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new price; if you do not agree, you may cancel before the change applies.
Taxes & Indirect Tax: You are responsible for any applicable sales, use, Goods and Services Tax (GST), Value Added Tax (VAT), or other indirect or withholding taxes associated with your use of the Services in your jurisdiction, other than taxes on Steply's net income. Prices displayed may be adjusted to reflect the applicable tax treatment of your location.
Steply Ownership: The Service, including software, design systems, algorithms, brand logos, widgets, and layout architectures, remains the exclusive property of Steply and its licensors.
Licence to Use: Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Steply grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Services for your internal business or personal purposes. This licence does not permit reverse engineering, resale, or unauthorised modification of the Services.
User Assets: You retain ownership of any logos, images, or text assets you upload. By uploading content, you grant Steply a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, resize, and display those assets solely for operating and delivering the Services.
Feedback License: If you submit ideas, suggestions, or feedback about the Services, you grant Steply an unrestricted, perpetual, royalty-free license to use that feedback for any purpose without obligation or compensation to you.
Trademark Restrictions: You may not use Steply's name, logos, or trademarks without our prior written consent, except as necessary to accurately describe your use of the Services (e.g., “Powered by Steply”).
Copyright Infringement Notice: Steply respects intellectual property rights. If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, submit a written notice to steply.legal@gmail.com including: (1) identification of the copyrighted work; (2) identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location; (3) your contact information; (4) a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorized; and (5) a statement that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
Our collection, use, and management of personal information in connection with the Services is detailed in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. We implement technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.
Multi-Jurisdictional Compliance: Depending on your location, our handling of your personal information is designed to align with applicable data protection law, including the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and applicable US state privacy laws (such as the California Consumer Privacy Act).
Cross-Border Data Transfers: Because the Services are provided globally, your personal information may be collected, stored, and processed in countries other than your own, including Australia and countries where our hosting or service providers operate. Where required by law, we rely on appropriate safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses or equivalent mechanisms) for such transfers.
Your Rights: Subject to applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port your personal information, and to object to or restrict certain processing. Requests can be made in accordance with the process set out in our Privacy Policy or by contacting steply.legal@gmail.com.
Third-Party Feeds: Integrations with third-party providers (e.g., Google Calendar, Google News, Open-Meteo, Financial Exchanges) rely on external APIs. We do not guarantee uninterrupted uptime, accuracy, or availability of third-party data streams.
External Links: The Services may contain links to third-party websites or services not owned or controlled by Steply. We are not responsible for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites.
“As-Is” Delivery: Subject to non-excludable legal guarantees, Steply is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
Service Availability: We aim to keep the Services available on a continuous basis but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. Scheduled maintenance and updates will be communicated in advance where reasonably practicable, except in the case of emergency or security-related maintenance. Specific uptime or performance commitments apply only where set out in a separate service level agreement (SLA) or enterprise order form.
Statutory Guarantees: Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy under applicable law that cannot lawfully be excluded, including under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) or equivalent legislation in your jurisdiction. Where permitted by law, our liability for breach of a non-excludable guarantee is limited, at our option, to re-supplying the Services or paying the cost of having the Services re-supplied.
Beta & Experimental Features: We may offer preview, beta, or experimental features. These are provided for evaluation purposes only, may be modified or discontinued at any time, and are not covered by standard performance commitments.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Steply, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with: (a) your use or misuse of the Services; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including intellectual property or privacy rights; or (d) any content, advertisement, or data submitted through your account.
Exclusion of Consequential Loss: To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Steply, its directors, employees, partners, and suppliers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business interruption arising out of your access to or use of the Services.
Liability Cap: Our maximum aggregate liability for any claims under these Terms shall not exceed the total amount paid by you to Steply in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim.
Statutory Compliance: This limitation applies to the fullest extent permitted by law and does not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including certain non-excludable guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law or equivalent mandatory consumer protection laws in your jurisdiction. Nothing in this section limits liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence, where such limitation is not permitted by law.
Termination for Cause: We may terminate or suspend your account and access to the Services immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you breach these Terms, engage in fraudulent activity, or where required to comply with applicable law.
Termination for Non-Payment: We may suspend or terminate access where payment obligations are not met, subject to any notice period set out in an applicable order form.
Effect of Termination: Upon termination, any outstanding cleared wallet balances above the applicable minimum payout threshold will be paid out in accordance with Section 4, less any amounts withheld for fraud, chargebacks, or investigation of a Terms violation. Sections relating to Intellectual Property, Indemnification, Limitation of Liability, Dispute Resolution, and Governing Law survive termination.
Data Export on Termination: For a period of 30 days following termination or closure of your account, you may request an export of your account data in a commonly used, machine-readable format by contacting steply.legal@gmail.com. After this period, we may delete your data in accordance with our data retention practices, except where retention is required by law.
User Account Closure: You may stop using the Services and close your account at any time via account settings or by contacting steply.legal@gmail.com. Closure does not entitle you to a refund of any non-refundable amounts already paid.
Informal Resolution First: Before filing a legal claim, you agree to contact us at steply.legal@gmail.com and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days.
Mediation: If informal resolution fails, either party may refer the dispute to mediation administered by a recognised dispute resolution body before commencing court proceedings, unless the dispute involves urgent injunctive relief to protect intellectual property or confidential information.
Consumer Rights Unaffected: If you are accessing the Services as a consumer, this section does not remove or limit your right to bring proceedings before a court or regulator in your country of residence where applicable law grants you that right.
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of South Australia, Australia, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding arising under these Terms shall be brought exclusively in the courts located in South Australia, except where mandatory local consumer protection law requires otherwise or where the Dispute Resolution section provides an alternative mechanism.
Force Majeure: We will not be liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes outside our reasonable control, including natural disasters, pandemics, war, civil unrest, labor disputes, cyberattacks, internet or telecommunications failures, or failures of third-party hosting or payment providers.
Assignment: You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms without restriction, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of assets.
Severability: If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force.
No Waiver: Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights.
Electronic Communications: You consent to receive communications from us electronically (via email or in-platform notifications) and agree that such communications satisfy any legal writing requirements.
Notices: Notices to Steply must be sent to steply.legal@gmail.com. Notices to you will be delivered to the email address associated with your account.
Relationship of the Parties: Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and Steply.
Modifications to Terms: We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated via platform notifications or email at least 14 days prior to taking effect, except where a change is required immediately for legal or security reasons. Continued usage of Steply after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
For any questions or legal notices regarding these Terms, please contact us at: steply.legal@gmail.com.