1. General. These Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of Winkitsearch, including its websites, applications, APIs, advertising technology platforms, demand-side platform services, analytics tools, fraud prevention systems, reporting systems, campaign management tools, and related services. By accessing or using Winkitsearch, advertiser, publisher, agency, customer, partner, or user agrees to be bound by these Terms.
Winkitsearch is operated by Venetix Labs. These Terms supersede any previous agreements, understandings, or arrangements relating to the subject matter described herein, unless a separate written agreement has been signed by both parties.
2. Eligibility and Account Registration. Users must be at least eighteen (18) years of age and legally capable of entering into binding agreements. If using Winkitsearch on behalf of a company, organization, or legal entity, user represents that he or she has authority to bind such entity to these Terms.
Users are responsible for providing accurate, complete, and current account information. Users are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of account credentials and for all activities occurring under their accounts.
3. Winkitsearch Right To Suspend or Terminate. Winkitsearch reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate any account, campaign, traffic source, API access, or service access at any time if Winkitsearch determines, in its sole discretion, that a user has violated these Terms, engaged in fraud, created security risks, failed to pay amounts due, provided false information, violated applicable law, or otherwise harmed the integrity of the platform.
Winkitsearch may also terminate inactive accounts, including accounts inactive for more than 365 days. Termination or suspension may be carried out with or without prior notice where necessary to protect Winkitsearch, its customers, partners, systems, or business operations.
4. Prohibited Activity and Acceptable Use. Users may not use Winkitsearch for any unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, harmful, or unauthorized purpose. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to, hit bots, click bots, automated clicking scripts, impression fraud, click fraud, incentivized traffic where not expressly approved, forced clicks, hidden links, misleading redirects, fake conversions, proxy abuse, VPN abuse, data center traffic abuse, malware, spyware, phishing, spam, unauthorized scraping, unauthorized API usage, or attempts to bypass security controls.
Users may not reverse engineer, decompile, copy, resell, sublicense, redistribute, expose, publish, or commercially exploit any part of Winkitsearch, including software, APIs, data, databases, fraud detection signals, risk scores, reporting systems, algorithms, or platform logic, except as expressly permitted in writing.
5. Member, Publisher, Advertiser and Agency Responsibility. Advertisers, publishers, agencies, and users are solely responsible for all traffic, campaigns, creatives, landing pages, links, targeting settings, tracking technologies, account activity, and materials submitted through or connected to Winkitsearch.
Users must ensure that all advertising materials, websites, landing pages, traffic sources, and data collection practices comply with all applicable laws, regulations, industry rules, advertising policies, privacy requirements, intellectual property rights, and third-party platform rules.
6. Traffic Quality, Fraud Prevention and Invalid Traffic. Winkitsearch maintains fraud prevention, traffic quality monitoring, bot detection, proxy detection, VPN detection, invalid traffic detection, security monitoring, and risk assessment systems. Winkitsearch may analyze IP addresses, device information, user agents, referrers, network data, traffic patterns, campaign activity, conversions, clicks, impressions, and other technical signals to detect fraud, invalid traffic, suspicious activity, and platform abuse.
Winkitsearch has the right, in its sole discretion, to determine whether traffic, clicks, impressions, conversions, leads, searches, or other activity is fraudulent, invalid, artificial, suspicious, non-compliant, or abusive. All such determinations by Winkitsearch shall be final unless otherwise required by law or written agreement.
7. Payments, Deposits and Billing. Advertisers may be required to submit deposits or prepayments before advertising campaigns are activated. Users agree to pay all applicable fees, charges, invoices, deposits, minimum spends, service fees, and other amounts owed to Winkitsearch.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, all payments are non-refundable. Winkitsearch may suspend or terminate services for overdue invoices, failed payments, chargebacks, payment disputes, suspected fraud, or billing irregularities.
8. Publisher Payments and Withholding. Publisher payments, if applicable, are subject to verification, fraud review, traffic quality checks, advertiser confirmation, chargeback review, compliance review, and applicable minimum payment thresholds.
Winkitsearch reserves the right to delay, reduce, withhold, offset, or cancel payments related to fraudulent, invalid, suspicious, artificial, non-compliant, or unverified traffic. No payment shall be owed for traffic determined by Winkitsearch to be invalid, fraudulent, abusive, or in violation of these Terms.
9. Changes, Cancellations and Campaign Management. Campaign changes, cancellations, bids, targeting settings, creatives, budgets, and other advertising specifications may be managed through the advertiser or publisher login where available. Winkitsearch reserves the right to approve, reject, pause, remove, or modify campaigns, creatives, traffic sources, or advertising specifications at any time.
Winkitsearch does not guarantee campaign performance, traffic volume, impressions, clicks, conversions, revenue, ranking position, fill rate, or return on investment unless expressly agreed in writing.
10. Delivery, Reporting and Makegood. All figures relating to impressions, clicks, conversions, searches, traffic, revenue, spend, invalid traffic, and other performance metrics shall be determined by Winkitsearch's systems, unless otherwise agreed in writing.
Third-party tracking systems may differ from Winkitsearch's reporting due to latency, filtering, fraud detection, redirects, browser behavior, time zones, caching, or technical differences. Winkitsearch's reporting shall govern billing, payments, fraud review, and campaign performance unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing.
11. Keywords, Targeting and Inventory. Winkitsearch offers no exclusivity on keywords, phrases, traffic sources, audiences, placements, publishers, or inventory unless expressly agreed in writing. Ranking, delivery, and availability may be based on bids, quality, compliance, traffic availability, advertiser demand, system settings, and other platform factors.
12. Rejections. Winkitsearch reserves the right, without liability, to reject, omit, exclude, suspend, pause, or terminate any advertisement, campaign, creative, landing page, link, publisher, traffic source, account, API request, or platform activity for any reason at any time, with or without notice.
13. API Usage. Users using Winkitsearch APIs are responsible for protecting API credentials and using APIs only for authorized business purposes. Users may not exceed rate limits, abuse endpoints, bypass authentication, scrape data, interfere with systems, or use APIs in a manner that may harm platform stability, security, or availability.
Winkitsearch may limit, suspend, rotate, revoke, or disable API keys at any time for security, compliance, billing, fraud prevention, or operational reasons.
14. Licenses and Indemnification. Advertiser, publisher, agency, or user grants Winkitsearch a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, process, reproduce, display, transmit, distribute, analyze, and use submitted advertisements, creatives, landing page URLs, campaign data, tracking data, and related materials solely as necessary to operate, provide, secure, monitor, improve, and enforce the Services.
Advertiser, publisher, agency, or user represents and warrants that it owns or has all necessary rights, licenses, permissions, and authorizations for all materials and activities submitted to or conducted through Winkitsearch.
Advertiser, publisher, agency, or user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Winkitsearch, Venetix Labs, its officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, licensors, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, expenses, penalties, fines, and reasonable legal fees arising out of or related to user activity, advertising materials, traffic sources, violation of these Terms, violation of law, infringement claims, privacy claims, or third-party claims.
15. Intellectual Property and Copyright. All content, software, source code, APIs, databases, algorithms, systems, user interfaces, documentation, reports, trademarks, logos, designs, fraud prevention logic, analytics systems, and platform materials of Winkitsearch are owned by Venetix Labs or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws.
Users may not copy, modify, reproduce, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on Winkitsearch without prior written approval.
16. Confidentiality. Users may receive access to confidential business, technical, financial, operational, pricing, platform, API, fraud prevention, or reporting information. Users agree to protect such information and not disclose it to third parties except as required for authorized use of Winkitsearch or as required by law.
17. Privacy and Data Protection. Use of Winkitsearch is subject to the Privacy Policy of Venetix Labs. By using Winkitsearch, users acknowledge that information may be collected, processed, stored, analyzed, and shared as described in the Privacy Policy.
Users are responsible for obtaining all legally required consents, notices, and permissions relating to their own websites, applications, landing pages, tracking technologies, cookies, pixels, advertising identifiers, and personal data processing activities.
18. Third-Party Providers. Winkitsearch may use third-party infrastructure providers, security vendors, fraud prevention partners, geolocation providers, analytics providers, payment processors, hosting providers, and other service providers to operate and protect the Services.
Users may not access, copy, extract, redistribute, sublicense, expose, reverse engineer, or commercially exploit any third-party data, fraud prevention data, geolocation data, risk scores, security intelligence, or proprietary datasets made available through or used by Winkitsearch.
19. Limitation of Liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL Winkitsearch, VENETIX LABS, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE LOSSES, OR ADVERTISING LOSSES, WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, Winkitsearch'S TOTAL LIABILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY THE CUSTOMER TO Winkitsearch DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
20. Disclaimer of Warranties. Winkitsearch IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Winkitsearch DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, UNINTERRUPTED OPERATION, ERROR-FREE OPERATION, OR FITNESS FOR ANY SPECIFIC ADVERTISING OUTCOME.
21. Sanctions, Export Controls and Restricted Use. Users may not use Winkitsearch in violation of applicable sanctions, export control laws, trade restrictions, anti-money laundering laws, anti-bribery laws, or other legal restrictions. Winkitsearch may restrict or terminate access where required for legal, compliance, or risk reasons.
22. Force Majeure. Winkitsearch shall not be liable for delays, interruptions, failures, losses, or damages caused by events beyond reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, labor disputes, internet failures, hosting failures, data center failures, power outages, cyberattacks, third-party service failures, or network disruptions.
23. Change Of Terms. Winkitsearch may edit, add, remove, or update portions of these Terms at any time. Updated Terms will be posted on this page with an updated effective date where applicable.
If any modification is unacceptable to the user, the user's only remedy is to stop using Winkitsearch. Continued use of Winkitsearch after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
24. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria, without regard to conflict of law principles.
Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, Winkitsearch, or Venetix Labs shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria.