Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of napmap.net (the "Service") operated by NapMap. By visiting the site, registering as a publisher, or sending traffic to a NapMap URL you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

1. What NapMap actually is

NapMap is a content recommendation platform. Independent publishers write a short editorial article around a source URL they want to recommend. Readers visit those editorial pages, read the recommendation, and click through to the source if they want. Publishers earn a share of advertising revenue based on engaged reading time on the recommendation page — never on the click itself.

NapMap is not a redirect-only link service, an interstitial ad gateway, an affiliate funnel, or a CPM-per-click network. The recommendation page must have standalone editorial value or it is removed.

2. Eligibility and account

• You must be at least 13 to read content on the Service.
• You must be at least 18 to register as a publisher and receive payouts.
• One account per person. Multi-accounting (running more than one publisher account, or registering on behalf of someone else) is grounds for termination and forfeiture of unpaid earnings.
• You're responsible for activity on your account. Keep your password reasonably secure. We strongly recommend enabling two-factor authentication from your profile.
• We may decline new registrations for any lawful reason and don't have to explain why.

3. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to publish, link to, or distribute:

• Adult or sexually explicit material.
• Pirated software, cracked games, leaked content, or links to copyright-infringing material.
• Hate speech, harassment, or content that targets a person or group based on protected characteristics.
• Malware, phishing pages, fake giveaways, scam funnels, fake login screens, or any technique that deceives readers.
• "Get rich quick", forex, crypto pump-and-dump, MLM recruitment, or aggressive affiliate funnels.
• Content that violates Google AdSense's publisher policies or program policies. Compliance with AdSense is a baseline requirement, not an aspiration.
• Auto-generated, scraped, or pure-AI output without substantial editorial review. AI-assisted drafts are fine; raw model output is not.
• Content that targets children under 13.

You also agree not to:

• Inflate engagement metrics through automated traffic, click bots, residential proxies, paid-traffic farms, incentivized clicks ("PTC", "shortlink-paying" sites), or any other artificial means.
• Reverse-engineer the click-validation system or attempt to bypass fraud-detection signals.
• Scrape the Service at scale, hammer the API beyond rate limits, or otherwise burden our infrastructure.
• Resell access, share login credentials, or use the Service on behalf of others without written permission.
• Impersonate any person or organization, including NapMap staff.

Violations may result in invalid traffic flagging, earnings reversal, account suspension, account termination, or legal action — at our sole discretion.

4. Editorial standards

• Each recommendation article must be at least 200 words of substantive content. We recommend 300–600.
• The article must give the reader genuine value before the source link — context, your point of view, why this is worth their time. The source URL is presented as a citation, not a "destination".
• Articles must be original. Paraphrasing or summarizing the source briefly is fine; copy-pasting the source's content is not.
• Headlines must be specific and honest. No clickbait ("You won't believe…", "10 things that…").
• You may not describe the NapMap link in your articles, profile, or marketing using redirect-product language — terms commonly associated with URL-shortening services, "wait-to-continue" gates, "skip-the-ad" timers, "earn-per-click" networks, or anything that frames the recommendation page as an obstacle. The platform is positioned as content recommendation; that framing protects AdSense compliance for everyone on the platform.

5. Content ownership and license

You retain copyright and all other rights in the recommendations and other material you publish. By publishing on NapMap you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, modify (only for formatting and accessibility), and distribute that content as part of operating the Service — including in RSS feeds, social previews, search engine snippets, and email digests.

You confirm you have the right to publish what you post, including any embedded images or quoted material. If you cite the source URL, you're representing it as a public, non-infringing destination.

6. How earnings work

What we pay for

You earn for engaged reads, not clicks. A click counts as an engaged read only when all of the following are true:

• ≥ 15 seconds of total time on the recommendation page
• ≥ 10 seconds of visible time (Page Visibility API, including focus / blur)
• ≥ 25% scroll depth
• ≥ 3 user interactions (mouse moves, key presses, taps)
• Composite fraud risk score below 70 (combined from bot UA detection, per-IP velocity, burst clicks, repeat IP, IP reputation when configured, and behavioral signals)
• The browser hasn't already counted this link from the same visitor token in the past 24 hours

Clicks that fail any of those checks are recorded as invalid and do not earn. Bot-leaves-tab-open scenarios fail the visible-time check. Click farms typically fail multiple checks.

CPM tiers

Each engaged read pays a fraction of a country-tier CPM. Current tiers (these can shift quarterly with advertiser demand and are always live in your dashboard):

• Tier 1 — $3 to $8 CPM: US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Netherlands
• Tier 2 — $1 to $3 CPM: India, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Poland
• Tier 3 — $0.20 to $1 CPM: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Philippines
• Other (anywhere not in the rate sheet, or country undetected): a fallback rate of $1.00 CPM

Pending vs. available balance

Earnings are credited to your pending balance in real time. After a 24-hour fraud-review window, valid earnings move to your available balance and become withdrawable. AdSense itself reports settled revenue on a delay (typically 2–3 days), so very recent earnings are estimates that may be revised.

Reversals

We can reverse pending or available earnings tied to invalid traffic, fraud, policy violations, or AdSense-level reversals (e.g., when AdSense itself claws back a payment). If your available balance goes negative due to a reversal, no further withdrawals are processed until earnings cover the deficit.

What we do not pay for

• Clicks where the reader bounced before the engagement gates above.
• Clicks generated through paid traffic, residential-proxy networks, or PTC sites.
• Clicks from your own IP, device, or household — self-clicks are filtered.
• Clicks generated by browser extensions or scripts that auto-click NapMap links.

7. Payouts

• The minimum withdrawal threshold is USD 5.00. Some payment methods set a higher minimum and a per-method processing fee — both are shown when you select the method.
• Supported methods at launch: PayPal, UPI (India), domestic bank transfer, USDT (TRC20). Each saved method must be verified via a one-time email code before its first use.
• Most withdrawals are reviewed and paid within 3 working days of request. PayPal and UPI typically clear same day after approval; bank transfers take 1–3 days; USDT is usually within an hour.
• You're responsible for entering correct payout details. We can't recover a payout sent to the wrong destination because of a typo.
• Taxes on your earnings are your responsibility. We don't withhold tax. If your jurisdiction requires you to invoice or self-report, do so.
• If your account stays inactive for 12 months with a balance below the minimum, the balance may be voided.

8. Advertising

Recommendation pages and other parts of the Service display third-party advertising — Google AdSense by default, with possible fallback or replacement networks like Adsterra. By using the Service you acknowledge that ads will be shown alongside content. We follow AdSense's policies on placement, density, and labelling. If you spot an ad you believe violates those policies, please report it to [email protected].

9. Suspension and termination

We may suspend your account (reversibly) or terminate it (permanently, with forfeiture of unpaid earnings) when we reasonably believe:

• You've violated these terms or AdSense policies.
• You've engaged in fraud, automated traffic, or earnings manipulation.
• You've published banned content or repeatedly received DMCA notices ("repeat infringer policy").
• Continuing to operate your account exposes the platform to legal or compliance risk.

You can close your account from your profile page at any time. Closing an account doesn't release us from obligations or liabilities that arose while it was active.

10. API, webhooks, and automation

• The public API at /api/v1/* requires a bearer token issued from your dashboard. Tokens are scoped (read-links, articles, earnings, clicks). Default rate limit: 60 requests per minute per token. We may throttle or revoke tokens that abuse the API.
• Outbound webhooks (when configured) are HMAC-SHA256 signed with the secret shown once at creation. You must verify the X-MetaLink-Signature header. Webhooks auto-disable after 5 consecutive delivery failures.
• Don't use API or webhooks to mirror, republish, or feed third-party AI training datasets.

11. Multi-domain operation

NapMap may operate the same backend across multiple consumer-facing domains for reliability, AdSense distribution, or experimental purposes. If you registered on one of our domains, your account credentials work across all of them; payouts are consolidated. We may move existing recommendation URLs to a different domain for operational reasons; permalinks always continue to resolve.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We don't guarantee that recommended sources are accurate, available, lawful in your jurisdiction, or appropriate for you. Visit external sites at your own discretion. We don't control them and can't be responsible for their content, security, or privacy practices.

We don't guarantee any specific level of traffic, CPM, earnings, uptime, or AdSense approval — for you or for the platform.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, NapMap, its operators, contractors, and affiliates are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill arising out of or related to your use of the Service. Aggregate liability for any direct damages will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount we paid you in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) USD 100.

14. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless NapMap from any claim or demand made by a third party arising out of content you publish, your violation of these terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

15. Changes

We may update these terms from time to time. The current version is always live at this URL with a "Last updated" date. Material changes affecting publisher economics or content rules will be announced via email and a banner on the dashboard at least 7 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after the effective date counts as acceptance.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws applicable at the registered office of NapMap, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute will be resolved in the competent courts of that jurisdiction. Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking interim relief in any competent court.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]. For copyright takedowns, see the DMCA page.