Terms of Service

Last Updated: July 24, 2026

Acceptance of Terms
The Artos "Safe Harbor" Mission
Eligibility & Account Registration
Community Standards & Prohibited Items
Fees, Payments & Taxes
Shipping, Returns & Refunds
Intellectual Property
Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability
Indemnification
Dispute Resolution (Binding Arbitration)
Termination
Changes to These Terms
General Terms
Contact Information

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you (a "User," including a visitor, Buyer, Seller, Guild applicant or Member, Ambassador, Parish Partner, collection manager, or other program participant) and Lampstand Digital LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), doing business as Artos. If you register as a Seller or participate in an Artos program, these Terms also govern your commercial and operational relationship with Artos, including payment processing, fees, referrals, commissions, subscriptions, content, and prohibited conduct.

If you apply to the Artos Vendor Guild, the Guild Bylaws separately govern membership eligibility and internal Guild matters. These Terms govern your account and commercial relationship with Artos.

By accessing or using the Artos website, mobile application, or services (collectively, the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Service.

2. The Artos "Safe Harbor" Mission

Artos is a specialized, values-driven marketplace designed to serve as a "safe harbor" for Orthodox commerce. We support Orthodox sellers while welcoming buyers of any faith or background.

You acknowledge that Artos operates as a marketplace facilitator, not a retailer. While we provide the digital infrastructure for transactions between Buyers and Sellers, we also:

Calculate, collect, and remit sales tax on behalf of sellers in certain jurisdictions
Process marketplace payments, payouts, and optional paid-feature subscriptions through Stripe
Facilitate refunds, chargeback responses, and dispute resolution
Set and enforce community standards for listings and conduct
Conduct Guild membership verification to maintain marketplace integrity
Provide optional admin-assisted seller setup, shop preparation, and listing support
Offer recurring shop subscriptions, referral and commission programs, curated content, shipping tracking, and charitable-impact reporting

The contract for sale is directly between the Buyer and the Seller. Artos provides the platform for these transactions and may be responsible for certain tax obligations as a marketplace facilitator.

3. Eligibility & Account Registration

3.1 General Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract.

Buyer access is open regardless of religious affiliation. The Orthodox affiliation requirements in Section 3.2 apply only to Sellers, Guild applicants, and authorized representatives of Seller entities.

3.2 Vendor Guild Membership and Seller Eligibility

To receive seller privileges on Artos, you or your authorized representative must apply for and be admitted to the Artos Vendor Guild under its Bylaws. Eligible applicants must qualify as one of the following:

Individual Applicant: A natural person who is at least 18 years old and a member in good standing of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Entity Applicant: A business, parish, monastery, or other organization acting through a named representative who is at least 18 years old, is a member in good standing of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and is authorized to bind the entity.
Verification: During the Guild membership application, you or your authorized representative must provide the relevant Parish and Priest information required for eligibility review.
Audit Rights: We operate on a high-trust model, but we reserve the absolute right to audit your affiliation at any time.
Misrepresentation: If we discover that a Seller or representative has misrepresented their faith affiliation, authority, or verification details, we may suspend seller privileges immediately and initiate Guild membership review under the Bylaws, which may result in account termination and Guild membership termination.
Mission-Related Review: Serious or repeated conduct that undermines Artos's Orthodox "Safe Harbor" mission or marketplace integrity, including prohibited religious content, occult or blasphemous items, schismatic promotion, fraud, or intentional unethical conduct, may trigger separate Guild membership review under the Bylaws in addition to ordinary account enforcement under these Terms.

3.3 Artos-Assisted Seller Setup

Artos may offer seller-requested setup assistance after receiving authorization from the Seller or authorized representative. This may include creating or reusing a seller account profile, preparing a draft shop, editing shop settings, preparing shipping profiles, importing or creating product listings, editing prices, inventory, variants, images, descriptions, categories, return-policy text, and related marketplace content.

Artos-assisted setup does not make Artos the Seller of record and does not transfer the Seller's responsibilities to Artos. Sellers remain responsible for reviewing prepared content and for the truth, accuracy, legality, completeness, intellectual-property rights, inventory, pricing, tax treatment, shipping settings, return policy, product safety, and compliance of their shop and listings, including content prepared or entered by Artos at the Seller's request or with the Seller's cooperation.

Before Artos prepares a seller account, shop, or product-listing content for you, you must authorize the requested setup assistance through the method Artos provides, which may include an email-token approval link. Product-listing edit authorization may cover product creation, product edits, media, fulfillment fields, variants or items, prices, inventory, digital files, archives, deletions, and product-mode conversions. You may decline, withhold, or revoke temporary product-listing edit authorization where the Service provides that option.

Separate from seller-authorized help, Artos may moderate, hide, archive, correct, restrict, or otherwise act on shop or listing content for legal, fraud, safety, policy, marketplace-integrity, payment-compliance, tax-compliance, dispute, or enforcement reasons. These enforcement actions do not require temporary product-listing edit authorization.

Artos personnel may not complete Guild eligibility verification or religious-data consent on an applicant's behalf. The applicant or authorized representative must provide that information directly while signed in. After admission, Sellers must also complete Stripe Connect onboarding, banking, tax, and payout setup directly through Stripe or another approved provider when required.

We may maintain internal audit records of Artos-assisted setup authorization requests and responses, email-token approvals, account or shop setup actions, product-listing edit authorization requests and responses, content changes, approval actions, enforcement reasons, and related support activity for marketplace integrity, dispute handling, compliance, legal claims, and fraud-prevention purposes.

3.4 Shop Sync

Artos may offer Shop Sync as an optional paid feature for Seller-managed data transfer and fulfillment operations. Shop Sync may allow Sellers to upload CSV files exported from Shopify or Etsy, review and apply product, inventory, or order data, create platform-formatted CSV exports, maintain inventory across warehouses or other locations, and route Artos order and shipment events to ShipStation or a Seller-chosen HTTPS webhook. Shopify, Etsy, ShipStation, Zapier, Make, and other named third parties are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or responsible for Artos unless expressly stated otherwise.

By uploading a file or enabling a destination, you represent that you control the relevant seller account or data, have authority and a lawful basis to process and share it, have provided any notices required to affected customers or other individuals, and have configured the recipient appropriately. You must not upload scraped, purchased, unlawfully obtained, or unrelated customer data. You are responsible for the third-party accounts, endpoint URLs, credentials, and recipients you choose.

Sellers remain responsible for reviewing the accuracy, legality, completeness, tax treatment, inventory, pricing, warehouse and shipping settings, fulfillment, product safety, intellectual-property rights, and compliance of imported or exported data. Platform CSV formats and field mappings may change or may not map perfectly to Artos. Artos may reject, ignore, flag, require review for, or use disclosed fallbacks for unsupported, unsafe, duplicate, or incomplete rows.

Custom webhooks exclude customer contact and shipping details by default. If you enable customer details or create a ShipStation connection, you authorize Artos to send the disclosed buyer name, contact information, shipping address, order contents, fulfillment, and tracking data to that recipient for fulfillment and related operations. You must pause a destination promptly if the recipient is no longer authorized, secure, or needed. Artos may pause routing for failed delivery, suspected misuse, security, legal, subscription, or operational reasons.

Shop Sync subscriptions are purchased and managed through Stripe. The applicable price, trial, renewal, cancellation, refund, and credit terms are disclosed in the Seller dashboard and Stripe purchase flow. Pausing a webhook or stopping CSV use does not cancel billing; use the Shop Sync billing controls to manage the subscription. Cancellation stops future billing as disclosed in the purchase flow but does not remove records retained for marketplace transactions, tax, fraud, disputes, audits, support, legal obligations, or legal holds. The Privacy Policy explains Shop Sync retention periods and privacy rights.

3.5 Ambassadors, Parish Partners, Referrals, and Curated Collections

Artos may offer application-based or invitation-based programs, including Ambassador profiles and Picks, Parish Partner referrals, Seller-to-Seller Vendor Referrals, Share & Save links, and managed curated collections. Participation is a privilege and may require approval, a verified account, accurate profile or organization information, separate program disclosures, and Stripe Connect onboarding for payouts. Guild membership is not required unless the participant also seeks Seller privileges.

Participants must have the authority and rights needed for the names, biographies, images, links, recommendations, collection content, and promotional claims they submit. They may not use spam, misleading statements, self-referrals, fabricated traffic, cookie stuffing, impersonation, unlawful incentives, or other manipulation to obtain attribution, commissions, fee rewards, or access. Invitation recipients must use the account and email address authorized for the invitation and may access collection data only for the granted purpose.

Attribution, commissions, and rewards depend on the eligibility rules shown in the applicable program and may be delayed, adjusted, reversed, withheld, or forfeited for refunds, chargebacks, canceled or fraudulent orders, policy violations, duplicate or mistaken attribution, payout failures, sanctions or tax requirements, or abuse. Public program profiles and published collections may be moderated, suspended, archived, or removed. Artos may change or discontinue a program prospectively and will provide notice of material changes where required.

4. Community Standards & Prohibited Items

To maintain the spiritual and communal integrity of our "Safe Harbor," we enforce strict content guidelines. We reserve the right to remove any listing or ban any user that violates the letter or spirit of these rules.

4.1 Prohibited Items

Sellers may NOT list or sell:

Non-Orthodox Religious Items: Items promoting other faiths, denominations, or syncretic beliefs.
Schismatic or "Unverified" Content: Items promoting groups or individuals not in communion with the canonical Eastern Orthodox Church, or "relics" of unverified authenticity.
Blasphemous or Sacrilegious Content: Anything that mocks, degrades, or disrespects Christ, the Theotokos, the Saints, or the Church.
Occult, Esoteric, or "New Age" Items: Tarot cards, crystals, divination tools, or items claiming "energy healing" or spiritual benefits inconsistent with Orthodox teaching.
Political Propaganda: Merchandise promoting political parties, candidates, or divisive political ideologies.
Sexually Explicit Content: Pornography or erotica of any kind.
Illegal Items: Any item that is illegal to sell, possess, or ship under US law or the laws of your jurisdiction.

4.2 Conduct & Speech

We value free expression but prioritize safety.

Violence: We strictly prohibit speech or content that encourages violence, threatens physical harm, or incites violent acts against individuals or groups.
Civil Discourse: We reserve the right to ban users for harassment, doxxing, or behavior that fundamentally disrupts the peace of the marketplace.
User Content: Reviews, messages, wishlists, profiles, Picks, curated collections, shop pages, campaign content, and other submissions must be truthful, lawful, relevant, and respectful. Users may not post deceptive endorsements, undisclosed conflicts, infringing material, malware, personal data without authority, or content intended to manipulate search, attribution, ratings, or marketplace systems.

4.3 Artificial Intelligence Generated Content

Sellers may not list or sell products where the primary item being sold is AI-generated content, including but not limited to AI-generated artwork, icons, liturgical materials, devotional materials, prayers, hymns, religious writings, audio, video, digital files, or printable goods.

Limited AI-assisted content may be allowed when it is incidental to a lawful, human-made product, such as a product description, packaging mockup, or ebook cover, provided it does not mislead buyers, violate intellectual property rights, or involve Orthodox liturgical, iconographic, devotional, or sacramental subject matter.

Artos may remove listings, request clarification, or restrict seller privileges if we determine that AI-generated content conflicts with the mission, trust, or religious integrity of the marketplace.

5. Fees, Payments & Taxes

5.1 Fees

Artos charges a Platform Commission on the total transaction amount (including shipping). The applicable fee percentage is disclosed to you when you list an item and can be found in our Seller resources.

Standard Vendors: 10% Platform Fee
Verified Custom-Domain Orders: 5% Platform Fee instead of the standard marketplace rate
Existing Founding Vendors: 8% Platform Fee for the first 12 months after their benefit period begins, or as otherwise agreed. The Founding Vendor program closed to new participants on July 18, 2026; previously admitted Founding Vendors retain the benefits and duration communicated when they joined.

Eligible fee reductions may lower the custom-domain rate further, with a 0% floor. In addition to the Platform Commission, you are responsible for the payment-processing fees disclosed in the transaction or Seller resources, which are deducted automatically from your payout. Provider pricing can vary by country, currency, payment method, connected-account configuration, or later provider changes. Earned fees are non-refundable except where these Terms, the applicable purchase flow, or law expressly provides otherwise.

Optional seller add-ons, including custom storefront domains, email marketing, and Shop Sync, may have separate monthly subscription fees disclosed in the Seller dashboard and Stripe purchase flow before purchase.

Promotions, trials, custom rates, Share & Save reductions, Vendor Referral rewards, credits, and other fee benefits are limited, conditional benefits rather than permanent fee changes unless Artos expressly agrees otherwise. Artos may correct a benefit applied because of error, ineligible activity, refund, chargeback, fraud, or abuse. A fee change will apply prospectively with any notice required by law or the applicable purchase terms.

5.2 Vendor Referral Fee Rewards

An eligible Seller may receive a unique Vendor Referral link. If another eligible Seller uses that link when applying, completes the normal Guild and Seller activation requirements, and records five distinct fully paid qualifying orders, the referred shop currently receives a 90-day 0% Artos Platform Commission window and the referring shop receives a one-month 0% window. Refunds before activation can remove a sale from progress. Self-referrals, duplicate shops, test orders, unpaid or fraudulent orders, oversold-refund orders, and other ineligible activity do not qualify.

Reward windows begin or extend automatically under the program rules shown in the Seller dashboard. Multiple earned rewards may extend an existing window. A 0% Artos Platform Commission does not waive Stripe processing fees, taxes, subscription charges, shipping costs, refunds, chargebacks, or other amounts. Artos may investigate, correct, pause, or revoke unearned rewards and may change or end the program prospectively, subject to applicable law and any reward already validly earned.

5.3 Payment Processing

Marketplace checkout payments and Seller payouts are processed via Stripe Connect. Optional paid seller features, including Shop Sync, are processed through Stripe Checkout unless the purchase flow expressly identifies another provider.

Buyers: You agree to pay for items using a valid credit or debit card. We do not accept cryptocurrency.
Sellers: You must maintain a connected Stripe account to receive funds. You appoint Artos as your limited agent for the sole purpose of orchestrating transactions for you.
Paid-feature and Shop Subscribers: Stripe processes recurring charges. Artos receives and stores limited subscription metadata, such as Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, plan or offering, billing interval, trial, payment, renewal or cancellation state, and payment-method status, to provide and administer the subscription.

5.4 Recurring Shop Subscriptions

Participating Sellers may offer monthly deliveries that a Buyer purchases on a monthly or annual recurring billing interval. The offering page and Stripe checkout disclose the current price, billing interval, included products, shipping, taxes, capacity, first eligible delivery cycle, and other offer-specific terms. By completing checkout, you authorize Stripe to charge the disclosed recurring amount until the subscription is canceled. An annual payment ordinarily grants twelve monthly delivery credits; it is not a one-time purchase of goods for immediate delivery.

Recurring shop subscriptions renew automatically for the selected interval unless canceled. A Buyer may cancel online from the Artos account subscription page or the linked Stripe billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period unless the purchase flow or applicable law states otherwise. Cancellation does not automatically refund a completed charge or an order, delivery credit, or cycle already allocated or fulfilled. Refunds, replacements, and failed fulfillment remain subject to the Seller's disclosed policy, these Terms, card-network rules, and applicable law.

The Seller remains responsible for subscription descriptions, product safety, inventory, substitutions or changes disclosed to the Buyer, shipping, fulfillment, and customer service. Artos and the Seller may suspend or cancel future fulfillment for failed payments, unavailable inventory, discontinued offerings, legal or safety concerns, fraud, or Service termination. Material price or renewal-term changes apply only with the notice and consent required by law. The Privacy Policy explains how subscription, payment, address, and fulfillment records are handled.

5.5 Off-Platform Transactions

Sales discovered through Artos must be completed through Artos checkout. Sellers may link approved social profiles for identity, community, and brand presence, but may not use listings, shop profiles, messages, QR codes, external URLs, payment instructions, or similar content to move orders, payments, negotiations, or customer service for Artos-discovered sales off the Service.

We may remove content, restrict messaging or selling features, cancel transactions, hold or reverse payouts where permitted by law, or suspend or terminate accounts that attempt to avoid Artos checkout, platform fees, buyer protections, dispute handling, tax handling, or marketplace records.

5.6 Taxes

Artos may calculate, collect, and remit applicable sales tax as a marketplace facilitator in jurisdictions where law requires it or where we have configured our payment and tax infrastructure to comply with marketplace facilitator obligations. Sellers remain responsible for taxes and obligations not collected or remitted by Artos, including income taxes, VAT, customs duties, and any other business taxes applicable to their operations.

5.7 Seller Email Marketing

Sellers who use Artos email marketing may contact only people who explicitly opted in to that Seller's marketing emails or whose consent the Seller has confirmed before import. Sellers are responsible for the content of their campaigns and must not upload purchased, scraped, or non-consenting contact lists. Artos may pause or remove email marketing access for suspected abuse, excessive bounces, spam complaints, legal noncompliance, or misuse of sending domains.

5.8 One-Time Shop Launch Notifications

Visitors may ask Artos to send a one-time email when an empty shop posts its first active product. These notifications are informational Service features, may be delayed or unavailable, and are not guaranteed. Artos may modify, suspend, or discontinue the feature.

The launch-alert form may separately offer an optional, unchecked choice to receive Artos news and promotions. Selecting that choice enrolls the submitted address in Artos's platform-wide marketing audience; it is not required for the launch alert and does not enroll the visitor in a Seller's marketing list. Marketing emails include an unsubscribe path, and cancelling the launch alert does not cancel the separate marketing subscription.

A Seller may receive a signup alert containing a partially masked version of the subscriber's email address. That alert is only an interest signal. It does not give the Seller permission to identify or contact the subscriber, add the subscriber to a marketing list, or use the masked address for any purpose outside the launch-notification feature.

5.9 Charitable Impact

Artos may designate an active charitable campaign and allocate a stated portion of Artos's retained marketplace revenue from eligible purchases to support that campaign. This allocation does not increase the Buyer's price, reduce the Seller's payout beyond the separately disclosed Platform Commission, or make the Buyer or Seller the legal donor unless a separate offer expressly says otherwise.

Buyer and Seller impact pages are informational estimates based on eligible orders and can change after refunds, chargebacks, payment corrections, or campaign adjustments. Amounts shown are not customer donations, charitable receipts, or tax-deductible contributions by the Buyer or Seller. External campaign pages and direct donations are governed by the recipient's own terms and privacy practices. Artos may correct records, change the active campaign or allocation prospectively, or pause the feature while preserving required transaction and accounting records.

6. Shipping, Returns & Refunds

6.1 Shipping

Unless a listing is identified as Artos print on demand, Sellers are responsible for packaging and shipping items promptly. For an Artos print-on-demand listing, the Seller authorizes Artos to transmit the production file and order details to a print and fulfillment provider, currently Prodigi, and to arrange production and shipment on the Seller's behalf. The Seller remains the seller of record and remains responsible for the listing, customer service, legal compliance, refunds, and remedies owed to the Buyer.

Print-on-demand availability, substrates, colors, sizes, production locations, delivery estimates, and branding options can vary by destination or provider. Artos may substitute a comparable production location, pause a format, or reject a production file that does not meet provider requirements. Made-to-order and preorder timing shown on a listing is additional to, and does not guarantee, provider production or carrier delivery time.

Prodigi contracts with Artos for supplier fulfillment and does not enter into a direct sales contract with the Buyer or Seller. White-label fulfillment means Prodigi ordinarily ships without presenting itself as the buyer-facing seller; it does not guarantee custom Artos or Seller branding, inserts, packaging, or a particular production facility for every order.

Rates and Tracking: Shipping prices, delivery estimates, local-delivery eligibility, and tracking events may depend on Seller settings, carriers, Shippo, or another third party and can be incomplete, delayed, or corrected. Sellers remain responsible for selecting the service, entering accurate tracking, and resolving fulfillment problems.
Print-on-Demand Supplier Costs: The disclosed supplier production and shipping amount, plus the disclosed Artos risk reserve, may be withheld from Seller proceeds. The reserve is not an additional Buyer charge and is non-refundable to the Seller. If the final provider charge exceeds the amount withheld, Artos may debit the difference from future Seller proceeds, require repayment, or pause new print-on-demand orders until the balance is resolved.
Risk of Loss: Risk of loss and title pass as provided by the Seller's disclosed shipping terms and applicable law. Nothing in these Terms limits a Buyer's non-waivable rights for goods that are lost, damaged, or not delivered.

6.2 Returns & Refunds

Physical Goods: Each Seller sets their own return policy. Buyers should review these policies before purchasing. However, Artos reserves the right to refund a Buyer (and charge the Seller) if an item is never shipped or is significantly not as described.
Printed or Personalized Goods: Print-on-demand, made-to-order, personalized, and custom goods may be final sale for change-of-mind returns where law permits and the listing discloses that limitation. Damaged, defective, materially misprinted, incorrect, or undelivered goods remain eligible for the remedies required by the Seller's policy, Artos policy, and applicable law. Buyers may be asked for photographs or other reasonable evidence so Artos and the Seller can investigate with the provider.
Digital Goods: Due to the nature of digital content, sales of digital files are ordinarily final once the file has been accessed or downloaded, except where the Seller agrees otherwise or applicable law requires a cancellation, refund, replacement, or other remedy. Where law requires consent to immediate digital performance or acknowledgment that a withdrawal right will be lost, the checkout disclosure and applicable law control.

7. Intellectual Property

You retain ownership of content you submit, such as product photos, descriptions, reviews, public wishlists, profiles, Picks, collections, resources, and shop pages. Content posted, imported, prepared, or edited by Artos through admin-assisted setup at your request or with your cooperation is treated as your content once you review and accept responsibility for it. By posting content on Artos, or authorizing us to post or prepare content for you, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for formatting or accessibility, display, distribute, and use that content as needed to operate, secure, moderate, and promote the Service (for example, displaying a public collection or featuring a shop in Artos marketing).

You represent that you own or have permission to use and license your content and that our permitted use will not violate intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights. For print-on-demand listings, this representation specifically covers reproducing, adapting for production, printing, packaging, and shipping the submitted artwork or publication files through Artos's fulfillment providers. If you connect a custom domain or link an external service, you are responsible for your rights to the domain, DNS and account security, external-service terms, and any content or data you direct through that service.

License Termination: This license terminates when you delete your account or remove the content from the Service, except that we may retain or use copies as reasonably needed for cached delivery, backups, completed transactions, subscription or order history, moderation, security, legal compliance, disputes, and a reasonable transition of marketing materials previously created. Public display in new marketing will stop within a reasonable period after removal, ordinarily no more than 90 days.

8. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE."

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LAMPSTAND DIGITAL LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED.

IN NO EVENT SHALL LAMPSTAND DIGITAL LLC BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUE, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Lampstand Digital LLC, its officers, directors, and employees from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including legal fees) arising out of or related to: a. Your use of the Service; b. Your violation of these Terms; c. Your violation of any rights of a third party (including intellectual property rights); or d. Any dispute between you and another User.

10. Dispute Resolution (Binding Arbitration)

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

10.1 Binding Arbitration

Precedence: These Terms of Service govern commercial disputes with Lampstand Digital LLC arising from marketplace transactions, payments, fees, refunds, or platform use. The Bylaws of the Artos Vendor Guild govern internal Guild membership matters. In case of conflict between these Terms and the Bylaws regarding commercial matters, these Terms shall control.

Steward Classification: If either party contends that a dispute belongs under the Bylaws, the Stewards may make a preliminary administrative classification. That preliminary classification does not waive any arbitration right or override the role assigned to the arbitrator under this Section.

Exclusion for Internal Guild Membership Disputes: This Section 10 does NOT apply to disputes concerning membership eligibility, religious standing, or Guild membership consequences under Article VI of the Bylaws. Such disputes are governed exclusively by the Bylaws.

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation, or validity thereof shall be determined by binding arbitration in New Hampshire before one arbitrator. The arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) pursuant to its Consumer Arbitration Rules. Questions about whether a commercial dispute falls within the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, including any challenge to a Steward's preliminary classification, shall also be determined by the arbitrator, except to the extent applicable law requires a court to decide the issue or if the matter may proceed in Small Claims Court under Section 10.3. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.

10.2 Class Action Waiver

YOU AND LAMPSTAND DIGITAL LLC AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

10.3 Small Claims Exception

Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may bring an individual action in Small Claims Court in New Hampshire (or your local jurisdiction if required by law), provided the claim is within that court's jurisdiction and proceeds only on an individual basis.

10.4 Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of New Hampshire, without regard to its conflict of law principles, except that this choice does not deprive a consumer of non-waivable protections of the law that otherwise applies to that consumer.

11. Termination

We may remove listings, suspend seller privileges, restrict your account, hold payouts to the extent permitted by law, or terminate access when we reasonably determine that action is needed for a violation of these Terms or the Bylaws, fraud, safety, legal compliance, nonpayment, risk to users or the Service, or discontinuation of a feature. We may act immediately without prior notice when reasonably necessary, but will provide notice where required by law or reasonably practical. Reasons may include:

Loss or termination of the Vendor Guild membership required for seller privileges.
Posting prohibited content (Blasphemy, Violence, Occult, etc.).
Fraud, intentional unethical conduct, or misuse of the marketplace.
Repeated fulfillment failures, unresolved customer harm, or a sustained pattern of serious marketplace complaints.

Ordinary violations of these Terms are addressed through platform enforcement under these Terms. Separately, serious mission-related or integrity-related violations may be referred to the Stewards for Guild membership review under the Bylaws and may result in suspension or termination of Guild membership in addition to any account-level action.

Upon termination, the affected right to use the Service will cease. Termination does not erase completed orders, payment obligations, refunds, chargebacks, tax records, licenses needed for retained records, or provisions that by their nature should survive. If Artos discontinues a paid subscription or terminates it without User breach, any refund or credit will follow the purchase terms and applicable law.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms to reflect new features, program rules, legal requirements, safety needs, or operational changes. For every update, we will post the revised Terms, update the "Last Updated" date, and send an email notice to every registered User at the email address associated with their account. The notice will summarize the change and identify its effective date. These legal notices are service communications, not marketing messages.

For a material change, we will send the email notice before the change takes effect when reasonably practicable and may also provide a prominent notice through the Service. We may require renewed agreement where appropriate or required by law. A person who uses the Service without a registered account should review the posted Terms periodically because we may not have an email address at which to contact them.

Changes apply prospectively from their effective date. Continued use after that date constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law. If you do not agree, you must stop using the affected Service and cancel any future-renewing feature before the change takes effect. Changes to recurring prices or renewal terms receive the notice and consent required by applicable law.

13. General Terms

Entire Agreement and Order of Precedence: These Terms, the Privacy Policy, applicable purchase or program disclosures, and, for internal Guild membership matters, the Guild Bylaws form the agreement governing the Service. A specific checkout or program disclosure controls over a general provision only for the subject it expressly addresses. The Terms control commercial matters; the Bylaws control internal Guild membership matters as stated in Section 10.
Severability: If a provision is held unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. If the class-action waiver is held unenforceable for a particular claim and applicable law prevents individual arbitration of that claim, that claim may proceed in a court with jurisdiction while arbitrable claims remain subject to Section 10.
No Waiver: A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
Assignment: You may not assign or transfer these Terms or an account without our written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or transfer of the Service, subject to applicable law and the Privacy Policy.
Electronic Communications: You agree that notices, agreements, disclosures, receipts, and other communications may be provided electronically. You are responsible for keeping your account email current. This does not limit any right to a different form of notice under applicable law.
Events Beyond Reasonable Control: Neither party is responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, except for payment obligations and duties that applicable law does not permit a party to exclude.

14. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

Lampstand Digital LLC
66 Evans Street
Gorham, NH 03581
New Hampshire, USA

Email: hello@artosmarket.com