The fine print

Short, because there isn't much to hide. buythe.earth is run by an Australian sole trader (ABN 74 890 631 084). Prices are in Australian dollars.

What you're buying

The Owner of the Earth position on this website: your name, optional link and optional message displayed on the homepage until someone takes the position from you, plus your permanent numbered entry in the history. That's the whole product. You are not buying legal title to the planet. Obviously.

Refunds

• Ownership can end at any moment — that's the game. Being taken over is not grounds for a refund.
• If someone beats you to it while your payment is processing and your amount no longer meets the new minimum, you are refunded automatically and in full.
• If something genuinely went wrong (charged but never made owner), write to us and we'll fix it or refund it.

Your name, message and link

They go live on the homepage the moment you pay, visible to everyone. We remove scams, hate, impersonation, anything sexualising minors, malware, and anything else vile, at our sole judgement, without refund. Removed content — the name included, if it has to be — is redacted to “Owner #N (removed)”; the numbered entry and the payment stand.

The 51%

51% of every dollar paid, before fees, goes to the Earth through environmental restoration. Every payout is published with proof on the receipts page. Nothing is listed there until it has actually been paid.

Privacy

• We collect what you put on the form: your public name, message and link, and the amount you paid.
• Payment runs entirely on Stripe. This site never sees or stores your card details. Stripe collects your email for the receipt; we use it only to tell you when someone takes the Earth from you.
• We count page views and link clicks in aggregate. No advertising trackers, no data sold.

Questions: the owner's link on the homepage usually knows where to find us.