Terms of Use
Last updated: 31 August 2026
These terms govern your use of topsummit.lol (the "Site") and your purchase of sponsor placements on it. By using the Site or buying a placement, you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't use the Site.
1. What you're buying
A claim purchases a digital sponsor placement: your submitted URL, logo (fetched from your site's public favicon), and one-line description displayed at a chosen waypoint on the Site's interactive mountain. Placement is delivered automatically within seconds of your payment being confirmed by our payment processor. You are buying visibility on this page — nothing else. No goods are shipped and no services beyond display are provided.
2. The rules of the mountain
- There are 28 spots. Ranks 28 to 14 (Lukla up to Crampon Point at Base Camp) have a base price of $1; ranks 13 to 1 are priced $2 (Khumbu Icefall) to $14 (the Summit).
- Any occupied spot may be taken by another buyer paying exactly $1 more than its current holder paid ("cutting"). The cut holder's placement moves one rank down toward the first open spot below; if the mountain is full, the rank-28 placement is removed entirely.
- Being cut, moved down, or swept off is a core mechanic of the Site, is expected to happen, and is not grounds for a refund.
- Ranking is determined solely by verified payments; ties are impossible because every claim carries a payment timestamp.
- Prices shown are tax-inclusive. Payment processing is handled by Dodo Payments as merchant of record; their terms also apply to your purchase.
- Sponsor links on the Site are standard (followed) links. We may change how links are marked up at any time to comply with search-engine policies, and we make no promise about search rankings, domain metrics, or any SEO outcome.
3. Acceptable content
Your URL, name, and description must not be illegal, deceptive, hateful, sexually explicit, malware-bearing, or an impersonation of someone else's brand. We may remove any placement that we reasonably believe breaks this rule or exposes the Site to legal risk, at our discretion; if we remove a compliant-turned-litigious edge case wrongly, our maximum liability is a refund of what you paid for that placement.
4. Charity commitment
We commit 50% of gross claim revenue to Save the Children's Nepal flood response, with additional donations to Nepal's Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund, and we publish donation receipts on the Site. TopSummit is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, either organization. Your payment is a purchase of advertising, not a charitable donation, and is not tax-deductible by you.
5. No guarantees
The Site is provided "as is". We don't guarantee uptime, traffic, clicks, or that the mountain will remain online forever. If the Site permanently shuts down within 30 days of your claim, you may request a pro-rated refund. Total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us.
6. Changes
We may update these terms; the "last updated" date changes when we do. Material changes to game mechanics apply only to claims made after the change.