Version 2026-05-12 · Last updated: May 12, 2026
Vectorate LLC
2108 N St, Ste N
Sacramento, CA 95816, USA
Registered agent: Northwest Registered Agent, Inc.
Contact (general, legal, privacy, abuse / DMCA): [email protected]
The Service is not an official Minecraft product and is not approved by or associated with Mojang Studios, Microsoft Corporation, or any of their affiliates. “Minecraft” is a trademark of Mojang Studios. All references to Minecraft are nominative and descriptive. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the Service on any Minecraft server complies with the Minecraft End User License Agreement, Commercial Usage Guidelines, brand guidelines, and any other policy applicable to your server. We may modify, restrict, or discontinue the Service at any time to comply with policies of Mojang, Microsoft, or any other platform, marketplace, host, or payment provider on which the Service depends, without liability to you.
This Privacy Policy applies to: (a) publishers who sign in to the Service and link Minecraft servers (“Publishers”); (b) advertisers and prospective advertisers who contact us or use any advertiser-facing surface of the Service (“Advertisers”); and (c) end-user Minecraft players whose limited click-validation data is forwarded to us by Publishers' servers (“Players”).
Publishers may sign in either with Google (the recommended method) or by creating a username and password. We strongly recommend Google sign-in because it provides stronger account protection, including two-factor authentication and Google's account-recovery flow. Username-and-password accounts have no recovery: if you forget your password we cannot reset it for you, and password accounts cannot be granted administrator privileges.
When you sign in with Google we receive, with your consent:
When you register with a username and password we store:
_, ., -).At Terms acceptance we record: the IP address you accepted from, your browser User-Agent (truncated), the Terms version, and a timestamp. At payout request we collect the PayPal email address you supply and any tax or sanctions-screening information we request. Advertisers may additionally provide billing contact, company information, creative assets, and destination URLs.
When a Player views or right-clicks a banner on a Publisher's server, the Publisher's server forwards to us:
We do not collect Minecraft usernames, chat content, inventories, location, gameplay activity, device identifiers, advertising IDs, precise geolocation, biometric data, or any other content not listed above. We do not build behavioral profiles of Players, do not perform interest-based or personalized advertising, do not engage in retargeting, do not link Players across servers or sites, and do not sell, rent, or share Player data with any third party for cross-context behavioral advertising. The Service is a contextual ad network only: ads are selected by campaign and server, not by the identity, behavior, or inferred attributes of any individual Player.
Where the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation applies, we rely on the following legal bases: performance of a contract (operating your account, computing earnings, paying out, billing advertisers); legitimate interests (preventing click fraud and abuse, securing the Service, validating clicks attributed to a Publisher — balanced against the minimal data we process about Players); legal obligation (tax records, sanctions screening, retention of evidence of consent and acceptance); and consent where you have given it (e.g. by signing in with Google).
We do not sell your personal data and we do not share personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share information only with service providers that help us operate the Service, and only as needed:
We may disclose information without notice if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, requested by lawful authority, or necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Service or others.
We minimize what we keep. Specific retention windows:
Account self-deletion is available from the dashboard and cascades to your servers, clicks, impressions, daily statistics, and payout requests. Records we are required to retain for legal, tax, fraud-prevention, or dispute reasons are kept in a minimized form for the period required.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to: access the personal data we hold about you; correct it; delete it; receive a portable copy; restrict or object to certain processing; opt out of sale or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising; limit the use of sensitive personal information; and lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information beyond what is necessary to provide the Service.
To exercise a right, email [email protected] from the email address associated with your account, or use the in-dashboard controls where available. We will verify your identity (typically by confirming control of the account email) before acting on a request. We will respond within the period required by applicable law. You may use an authorized agent where the law permits; we will require proof of authorization.
Players who believe their click-validation data is held by us should ask the Publisher whose server forwarded the data to act as the primary contact, but may also contact us at [email protected]. We will work with the relevant Publisher to honor verified requests to the extent required by law.
AmethystAds stores a session token in your browser's localStorage
after you sign in. We do not use third-party advertising cookies, third-party
analytics cookies, ad pixels, or cross-site tracking technologies.
The dashboard and any advertiser-facing surface of the Service are not directed to children, are not intended for use by children under 13 (or the minimum age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from such children through those surfaces. You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) to operate as a Publisher or Advertiser.
We are aware that Minecraft servers operated by Publishers may be played by users of all ages, including children. Because of this:
If you believe a child has provided us with personal information in violation of this policy or applicable law, contact [email protected] and we will investigate and, where required, delete the information.
The Service is operated from, and data may be stored or processed in, the United States and other jurisdictions through our service providers (including Cloudflare, Google, PayPal, and GitHub). Where transfers from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland occur, we rely on appropriate transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, and the EU-US / UK-US / Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks where applicable to a given provider. By using the Service you acknowledge these transfers.
You may use the Service only if (a) you are at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction); (b) you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract; (c) you have the right to operate any Minecraft server you link to your account; and (d) you, your principals, and your beneficial owners are not the subject of any sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom, or any other applicable authority, and you are not ordinarily resident in or operating from a comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction (currently including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, so-called Donetsk People's Republic, and so-called Luhansk People's Republic regions). You will notify us promptly if any of these representations ceases to be true. You are solely responsible for all activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure.
We offer two ways to sign in: Google (recommended) and a username with a password (discouraged). If you choose the password method, you are responsible for selecting a strong, unique password and for keeping it confidential. We store only a salted PBKDF2-SHA256 hash of your password and cannot reset or recover it; if you lose access, you will lose access to any balance, linked servers, and history associated with that account. Password accounts cannot be granted administrator privileges. You may not share, sell, or transfer your account or credentials. We may at any time disable password sign-in for any account or require migration to Google sign-in.
We may suspend, terminate, or restrict your account at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including suspected violation of these terms or suspected invalid traffic.
These additional terms apply if you fund a campaign or use any advertiser-facing surface of the Service.
Without limiting our discretion to reject any creative or destination, the following categories are prohibited on the Service:
Destination URLs must lead to a working page that matches the represented offer, must not auto-download files, must not trigger interstitials or pop-unders, and must comply with all of the above. We may follow destination URLs, sample landing pages, and verify compliance at any time.
If you believe that material accessible through the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) to our designated agent at [email protected] with: identification of the copyrighted work, identification of the allegedly infringing material and where it appears, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner, and your physical or electronic signature. Counter-notices may be sent to the same address. We will respond to valid notices in accordance with the DMCA and may, in our sole discretion, remove material, suspend campaigns, and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers without notice.
Sole discretion. Earnings, balances, and payouts are calculated, adjusted, approved, withheld, refused, reversed, recouped, set off, or forfeited at the sole, absolute, and unreviewable discretion of Vectorate. We may delay, reduce, withhold, suspend, decline, or cancel any payout, in whole or in part, at any time, with or without notice, with or without cause, and for any reason or no reason whatsoever, including but not limited to: suspected or actual click fraud or invalid traffic, suspected or actual breach of these terms, chargebacks or refunds from advertisers, advertiser non-payment, identity or tax verification, sanctions screening, payment-processor restrictions, risk or anti-abuse signals, technical errors, accounting corrections, account inactivity, operational or financial considerations of Vectorate, or for no stated reason at all. Nothing in these terms creates any obligation, guarantee, expectation, or entitlement on our part to make any payment to you at any time.
Balance is provisional. Any balance, earnings figure, statistic, or amount displayed in the dashboard is an unaudited estimate, is provisional, may contain errors, and may be revised, reduced to zero, or removed at any time. A displayed balance does not represent funds held on your behalf, does not constitute money, a deposit, stored value, a wallet, an account balance with a regulated institution, a debt owed to you, or any other liquid claim, and confers no contractual, equitable, or property right to payment.
Holding period and reserve. Earnings credited to your balance are subject to a holding period (currently 30 days from the click event, which we may change at any time) during which they remain subject to fraud review and retroactive removal. We may also withhold a discretionary reserve (a percentage of recent earnings, set by us from time to time) against potential reversals, chargebacks, and clawbacks. Reserved amounts may be released, reduced, or forfeited at our discretion. Payout requests will be considered only against amounts that have cleared the holding period and any applicable reserve.
Forfeiture. We may permanently forfeit, void, or zero out any unpaid balance, in whole or in part, at any time, including upon: suspected or actual invalid traffic; suspected or actual breach of these terms; account suspension, termination, deletion, or inactivity for any period determined by us; advertiser disputes, refunds, chargebacks, or non-payment; failure to complete identity, tax, or sanctions verification; or any other reason in our sole discretion. Forfeited amounts are not recoverable and no compensation is owed.
Minimum payout threshold. The minimum payout threshold is US$5.00. We will not consider, process, or pay any payout request below this amount. We may raise, lower, or otherwise change this threshold, the supported payout methods, processing times, and any associated fees, at any time, in our sole discretion, with or without notice. Reaching or exceeding the threshold does not entitle you to a payout and does not obligate us to make one.
Payout requests. Submitting a payout request is a request only and is not an order, demand, instruction, or guarantee. We may approve, partially approve, defer, decline, or cancel any request at our sole discretion. We may require additional information (including identity, tax, sanctions-screening, or beneficial-ownership information) before considering a request, and may decline a request if such information is not provided to our satisfaction. Payouts, if made, are typically issued via PayPal to the email address you provide; you are solely responsible for the accuracy of that address and for any fees, taxes, currency conversion, intermediary deductions, or losses associated with the transfer. We are not responsible for funds delivered to an incorrect, fraudulent, closed, or non-existent PayPal account that you supplied or for any consequence of a payout that the receiving provider rejects, holds, freezes, or reverses.
Set-off and clawback. We may set off, deduct, recoup, or claw back from your balance, from any future earnings, or from any pending or future payout, any amount that we determine, in our sole discretion, was paid in error, paid based on invalid traffic, paid based on inaccurate or incomplete information, subject to chargeback or advertiser reversal, or otherwise not owed.
No agency, trust, deposit, or money transmission. No fiduciary, trust, joint venture, partnership, agency, or employment relationship is created by these terms. We do not hold funds in trust or as a custodian for you, do not operate a stored-value or wallet service, do not engage in money transmission, and do not provide banking or payment services to you. You waive any claim that any displayed balance is held on your behalf.
Taxes and information reporting. You are solely responsible for determining, reporting, and paying all taxes, levies, withholdings, contributions, and reporting obligations of any kind arising from your use of the Service or from any amount paid to you. We may require you to provide a completed IRS Form W-9 (U.S. persons) or the appropriate IRS Form W-8 (non-U.S. persons), and any other tax or beneficial-ownership documentation we determine is necessary, before any payout. We may withhold any amount we determine is required by law (including U.S. backup withholding) and may issue Form 1099 or any other information return as required.
Sanctions and prohibited persons. You represent and warrant that you, your principals, and your beneficial owners are not on any applicable sanctions or denied-persons list and are not ordinarily resident in or operating from a comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction. We may screen you and any payout against such lists, may refuse, freeze, or claw back any payout we believe would violate sanctions or other law, and may report the matter to the appropriate authorities. No payout will be made into a jurisdiction or account that our compliance review prohibits.
Invalid traffic. Clicks or impressions that we determine, in our sole discretion, to be invalid, fraudulent, incentivized, automated, duplicative, non-human, mis-attributed, or otherwise non-compliant will not be counted, may be retroactively removed from your balance, may give rise to advertiser credits or refunds, and may result in account suspension, termination, and forfeiture of any unpaid balance.
Acknowledgement. You acknowledge and agree that you have read this section, that you accept that no payment is ever guaranteed, and that you are using the Service at your own risk with no reasonable expectation of being paid any particular amount or at any particular time, or at all.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for: (a) your use of the Service; (b) the operation, security, content, audience, and legal compliance of any Minecraft server you link, including any obligation to obtain verifiable parental or other consent for child users; (c) all interactions between Players on your servers and the Service; (d) any taxes, fees, or charges arising from your earnings or your campaigns; (e) the accuracy, legality, and ownership of any advertising creative or destination URL you submit; and (f) any harm, loss, or liability that arises from your use of the Service or your breach of these terms. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Vectorate and its members, officers, employees, contractors, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (i) your use of the Service, (ii) your breach of these terms, (iii) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party (including any Player or rights-holder), or (iv) any creative or destination you submitted.
The plugin distributed through the Service auto-updates against published releases on GitHub. While we use commercially reasonable measures to secure our release pipeline, you acknowledge that automatic updating involves running new code on your infrastructure and that we cannot guarantee that any release is free of defects or unauthorized modification. You are responsible for backing up your server and for verifying release integrity before deploying to production environments where this matters to you. You may disable auto-updating by removing the plugin.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT EARNINGS, PAYOUTS, OR ANY OTHER OUTCOME WILL BE ACHIEVED OR MAINTAINED.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL VECTORATE OR ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR ANTICIPATED EARNINGS, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT WE HAVE PAID OUT TO YOU (OR, IF YOU ARE AN ADVERTISER, THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO US AND THAT WE HAVE NOT REFUNDED) IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR (B) TWENTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$20). YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THESE LIMITATIONS ARE A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND US.
You use the Service at your sole risk. You assume all responsibility for any loss, liability, or damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service, including loss of earnings, account suspension, data loss, downtime, regulatory action, or third-party claims.
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time without notice and without liability, including to comply with the policies of Mojang, Microsoft, any platform, any payment processor, or any legal or regulatory requirement. We may revise these terms at any time by posting an updated version and may require renewed acceptance on next sign-in. Your continued use of the Service after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. We may terminate or restrict your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice.
These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. To the extent permitted by law, you waive any right to a jury trial and to participate in any class, collective, or representative action.
You expressly consent to forming a contract by electronic means. By checking the acceptance box presented at sign-in, by clicking any “I agree,” “Continue,” or similar button, by funding a campaign, by submitting a payout request, or by otherwise using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these terms and the Privacy Policy, that your electronic acceptance has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature, and that Vectorate may rely on your acceptance as conclusive evidence of agreement. We may record the time, network address, version of these terms, and other metadata associated with your acceptance and use that record in any dispute.
We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance, including any delay or failure to make any payout, caused in whole or in part by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, sanctions, embargoes, pandemic, labor disputes, internet or telecommunications failures, hosting-provider or payment-processor outages, security incidents, action by Mojang or Microsoft, or other force-majeure events.
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. You may not assign or transfer these terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these terms, in whole or in part, to any successor or affiliate without notice or consent. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy above, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings.