Terms

BrandMyLaptop (“the platform”, “we”) is published and operated by Vynse, a sole trader established in France, SIREN 992 128 017. Contact: vincent@brandmylaptop.com; the full publisher details are on the legal notice.

A seller is the person whose laptop it is. They set the machine, the layout and the prices, they approve or refuse each logo, and they print the stickers and put them on their own lid.

A buyer is whoever pays for a spot on that lid. Spots are sold as advertising space, and most buyers are businesses. If you buy as a private individual, French consumer law applies: you may withdraw within 14 days of the seller’s approval as long as the sticker is not yet on, and by asking for it to go on sooner you agree that the service starts then.

The sale is between the buyer and the seller. The platform is not a party to it. We publish the listing, check that it is not obviously fraudulent, provide the checkout, and take a commission. We do not own the laptop, do not print or ship anything, do not hold the money, and are not the seller’s agent for anything beyond running the listing.

The platform is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple Inc. or any laptop maker.

A sticker spot on one named seller’s laptop lid. It buys a printed die-cut vinyl sticker of your logo, applied to that lid at the size and position the spot describes, and kept there for the number of months that listing shows — the seller chooses it, from three months upward, and it runs from the day the seller approves your logo. It also buys a listing on that lid’s page, and a page of your own on the site, both linking to your website.

Sizes shown are the printed vinyl dimensions. The lid drawn on the site is a diagram of the layout, not a photograph of the seller’s actual machine.

• Each spot has one price, set by the seller. You pay it in full; there is no deposit and no instalment.
• Your card is authorised, not charged. Checkout places a hold on your card for the price. The seller then has six days to look at your logo. If they approve it, the card is charged at that moment; if they refuse it, or do not decide in time, the hold is released and nobody is charged. A released hold is not a refund — no money ever left your account — and your bank clears it on its own schedule, usually within a few days.
• Several brands may hold the same spot at once. The seller picks one; the others are released. A spot stops being buyable only once a logo has been approved on it.
• Some lids are auctions. When a listing says its spots are open to bids, you name a bid at or above the standing bid plus 10%, your card is held for that amount, and another brand can outbid you until the close shown; a bid in the last ten minutes moves the close back by ten. The seller reviews logos while the bidding runs. At the close, the highest bid whose logo the seller approved is charged automatically and takes the spot; every other hold, including a bid the seller never reviewed, is released and nothing is charged. Bidding again on the same spot replaces your earlier bid. A bid cannot be withdrawn before the close. On an auction lid the platform takes 15% of the sale rather than 10%.
• You may take several spots on the same lid in one checkout. They are held and decided together: the seller approves or refuses the checkout as a whole. Spots on a different seller’s laptop are a separate checkout, because they are a separate merchant being paid.
• Payment is taken through Stripe Checkout and goes directly into the seller’s own Stripe account. Stripe deducts the platform’s 10% commission as it passes. At no point does the platform hold your money.
• There is no account to create to buy. Your email is where the receipt, the decision and your brand page link go.
• Each spot is priced and charged in the currency its seller chose (euros, US dollars or pounds sterling), and the price on the buy button is the amount held. A price shown in another currency beside it is an indicative conversion. The listing fee below is charged in US dollars.

When a seller approves your logo and your card is charged, Stripe emails you a receipt for the charge, in the seller’s name. If your books need an invoice, ask the seller: they are the merchant for the sale and the invoice is theirs to issue. The platform is not the issuer.

Putting a lid on the board costs a one-off $19, paid to the platform before the lid is published. It buys the listing itself, not an outcome: it is not a subscription, there is nothing to renew, and it is not returned if your spots do not sell or your goal is not reached. Its purpose is to keep the board clear of listings nobody intends to promote. The platform may waive it for sellers it invites.

The fee is not charged for a seller in a country where Stripe cannot pay them out; such a lid is saved but not published until it can.

Listing is not a guarantee of a sale. BrandMyLaptop brings people to the board and goes looking for brands — that is the platform’s work, and it does it — but it cannot promise that anyone will buy your spots. A brand pays to be seen by the people who already see you, so what a lid sells depends on who you are, what you make, where the machine actually goes, and above all what you post and who you send to your page.

A listing runs for the days you chose, from 7 to 30 — or, on a laptop you already own at fixed prices, with no end date at all, until you close it or it sells out. A dated listing you may extend yourself, free, up to sixty days ahead of today, without changing anything a buyer already paid against. A listing that reaches its date with nothing sold comes off the board and you are told; it stays yours, and one button on your dashboard puts it back up for a fresh run at no charge. One that has sold something closes. A closed lid keeps its page.

When a spot sells, the platform takes 10% of that sale, routed by Stripe out of the seller’s own account. Stripe’s own processing fee is charged to the seller, as the merchant. There is no other charge to either side. Once a month the platform issues the seller an invoice for that commission, from Stripe, marked paid: the amount was collected at each sale and nothing further is due.

If the seller refuses your logo, nothing is charged. The hold on your card is released at the moment they refuse it, or six days after your checkout if they never decide. Nothing is printed and nothing appears anywhere.

Once your card has been charged, the seller has 14 days to put your sticker on and post the photo on their listing. If that passes and it has not happened, you are entitled to ask them for your money back, and they owe it. The same is true if they take your sticker off before the period you paid for has run.

Those 14 days run from the approval, and they apply to a lid whose seller already owns the laptop.

A lid that is still being funded carries no such deadline, and it would be dishonest to print one: the machine has to be paid for, ordered and delivered first, and none of that is in the seller’s hands. What they undertake instead is to apply your sticker and post the photo as soon as the machine arrives. The listing says which of the two kinds it is, in as many words, before you pay.

Reaching the goal is not a condition of your purchase. A funded lid that falls short does not dissolve: the seller undertakes to apply every sold sticker regardless — paying the difference on the machine themselves — or to refund any buyer they cannot deliver to. They are the merchant of the sale, so this obligation is theirs and sits where the money went: with them, not with the platform.

The seller owes you the sticker and any refund, because the sale is theirs. The money is in their account, so they are the one who can return it — the platform cannot refund you out of funds it never held. The one exception: if the platform removes a seller for breaching these terms, it will ask Stripe to refund, from the seller’s account, every buyer whose sticker was never applied, and will tell you either way.

Tell us anyway, at vincent@brandmylaptop.com. We will contact the seller, and we can remove their listing and refuse them the platform — which is the leverage we do have and will use. We cannot compel a payment. If a seller stops answering entirely, your remedies are against them, and a card payment also leaves you whatever your bank offers.

This is the honest shape of the trade: buying here costs less friction than an escrow would, and in exchange you are relying on a seller whose account, listing history and proof photo are all in front of you before you pay.

By putting a lid up you confirm you are 16 or over, and undertake to:

• own the laptop, or — if you listed it as one you are funding — buy the machine you described with what the spots raise;
• review every logo by hand, within six days. You may refuse any of them at your discretion; the lid travels with you and you keep the final say over what it carries. Refusing charges nobody and costs you nothing; a checkout you do not decide in time is released, and the buyer is told;
• print each sticker yourself, at your own choice of printer and finish, and apply it and post the photo on your listing within 14 days of approving it — or, if you are funding the machine, as soon as it arrives. Each buyer paid for their own sticker on its own, so none of them is waiting for the others and a lid that never fills is not a reason to leave the first one unstuck;
• keep them on the lid for the period your listing promised, and use the laptop normally rather than storing it away. If you take one off early, you refund that buyer yourself;
• run one live lid at a time. A second listing on the same machine sells the same space twice;
• print and apply the brandmylaptop.com sticker with the others, at the place the drawn lid shows. It is the one sticker on every lid, it is what tells the next brand where the space was bought, and the file is on your dashboard;
• use only a title, a pitch, pictures and links that are yours to use and that describe you truthfully. A follower count you type in is your claim, shown as such;
• connect your own Stripe account before anyone can buy from you — your lid reaches the board first, marked not on sale, and takes no money until it is connected — and settle your own obligations to your buyers, including refunds where one is due and your own tax and reporting wherever you are. You are the merchant for your own sales; BrandMyLaptop is not;
• invoice a buyer who asks for one. A sale you take through Stripe is a sale you made; Stripe’s receipt goes out in your name, and an invoice, where your buyer or your country requires one, is yours to issue with your own details and VAT status.

The platform may decline to publish a lid, and looks at every lid before it reaches the board. A lid’s prices and spots cannot change once something has sold on it.

Tax reporting. EU rules for platforms (DAC7) may require the platform to report to the French tax authority, once a year, the identity, country, tax number or date of birth, address, Stripe account and gross amounts earned of a seller resident in the EU. That is why the country is asked at listing, and why a seller who sells is asked for the rest from their dashboard. Nothing of it is shown on the listing or given to a buyer, and a seller who is reported receives a copy of what was reported.

By uploading a logo you confirm you have the right to use it and to let the seller and the platform display and print it for this purpose, and to show it on the site’s own pages as a placement on that lid.

It is reviewed by the seller before it appears, and the platform may refuse or remove it independently. A logo refused before the charge is a released hold; one removed after it is the seller’s refund to make.

You answer for it. If a logo, a name or a link you gave turns out to infringe somebody else’s trademark, copyright or other right, or to be unlawful, the claim is yours to settle, and you will cover the platform and the seller for any cost, loss or demand it brings them. The same goes for a seller and what they put on their listing.

BrandMyLaptop is a trademark of the platform, and the name, the logo, the brandmylaptop.com sticker, the drawn lid, the site’s text, design and code belong to it. You may not use the name or the sticker to sell sticker spots outside the site, present a listing as ours when it is not, or copy the board, its listings or its data to run something like it. Scraping the site is not permitted beyond what a search engine does.

What a seller or a brand puts on the site stays theirs: the title, the pitch, the pictures, the proof photo, the logo. By putting it up they give the platform a free, worldwide licence, for as long as it is on the site and for a reasonable time after, to show it on the site, in the picture a listing makes when it is shared, in the platform’s own posts and announcements, and to describe the marketplace with it. Nothing is sold on to anyone, and a seller who takes their lid down takes their content with it, except where it has already been shared as part of a post.

A seller’s public profile — name, handle, picture and following, as read from the network they signed in with — is part of the listing and appears wherever the listing does, including the shareable picture of it.

No listing, logo, page or link may be unlawful, deceptive, hateful, sexually explicit, or infringe anyone’s rights; no seller may list a laptop that is not theirs to list, or claim an audience they do not have; no buyer may use the checkout to test cards, launder money or hold spots they do not mean to keep. A hold placed and abandoned repeatedly is such a use. The platform decides what crosses these lines, tells the person concerned, and may refuse anyone the platform without owing a reason beyond that.

A seller undertakes to carry your sticker and use their laptop normally. Nobody — not the seller, not the platform — makes any promise about impressions, reach, views, clicks or results. Those cannot be honestly guaranteed for a laptop lid and we will not invent a number. You are buying presence, not performance.

A sticker is a paid placement, not an endorsement, in every direction: the seller does not vouch for the brands on their lid, those brands do not vouch for the seller, and the platform vouches for neither. Nothing on a lid is a recommendation by anyone.

The platform does not verify a seller’s claims about themselves beyond checking that the X or LinkedIn account they signed in with is theirs, and does not inspect any laptop. A follower count shown beside a seller is read from X with their own sign-in and may be out of date.

Nothing is shipped by the platform — no laptops, no stickers, no printed material of any kind. The seller prints and applies everything.

The platform’s liability to a seller or a buyer, for anything arising from the use of the site, is limited to the fees the platform actually received from that person in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that French law does not allow to be limited.

The site is provided as it is. It can be down, changed or withdrawn, and a sale already made is not undone by that: it lives in the seller’s Stripe account and in their undertaking to you. Neither side owes the other for what a strike, an outage at Stripe, Vercel or Supabase, a network that refuses a sign-in, or any other event outside their control prevents.

The platform may suspend or remove any listing, any sticker or any account — before, during or after a sale — where it finds fraud, unlawful content, material misrepresentation, a seller who has stopped answering, or a breach of these terms. Missing the 14 days is such a breach, and it is a dated one: it can be checked against the listing rather than argued about. The seller or brand concerned is told why by email, and may reply to the same address. Removing a listing does not by itself refund anybody, because the money is not ours to return; it stops further sales and ends that seller’s use of the platform.

Anyone who believes a lid, a logo or a page on this site is unlawful can say so at vincent@brandmylaptop.com, with the address of the page and the reason. That address is the platform’s single point of contact for authorities and users alike, and it is read by a person.

The board shows live listings first, ordered by the total sold so far, highest first, then by age; a visitor can re-sort by views, following or closing date. Closed ones follow. A short Featured band above the board is chosen by hand by the platform, with a stated reason, and no seller pays for it. Nothing about the order can be bought.

The rail of sponsor logos at the foot of the site is separate: it is advertising space sold by the platform, for the platform, and has no bearing on any lid.

This site is published and operated by Vynse, France, SIREN 992 128 017 (full details on the legal notice). Contact: vincent@brandmylaptop.com. It is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, United States; its database and files are held by Supabase in Paris, France.

Payments are processed by Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. Each seller holds their own Stripe account and their own relationship with Stripe, under Stripe’s own terms. The platform never sees or stores your card details, and never sees a seller’s bank details or identity documents.

These terms can change. A seller with a live lid is emailed fifteen days before a change that affects them takes effect; a change that only fixes wording, or that the law requires, may apply sooner. A sale is governed by the terms in force when the checkout was opened.

Email vincent@brandmylaptop.com with any question or complaint; we answer within a week. These terms are governed by French law, and any dispute that cannot be settled by email goes to the courts of the platform’s place of establishment in France.