Effective and last updated: July 12, 2026.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Moonka Hey Ltd. ("Vernus", "we", "us", or "our"). They apply when you visit or use vernus.one, its applications, and the related services we provide (together, the "Service").
Moonka Hey Ltd. is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 12469351, with its registered office at 1a Falmer Court, London Road, Uckfield, TN22 1HN, United Kingdom.
By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and our Cookie & Privacy Policy. If you use Vernus for an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind it. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. Who may use Vernus
You must be at least 18 years old, or otherwise old enough to enter into a binding contract where you live. You may not use the Service if doing so is prohibited by applicable law or if we have previously terminated your account for a serious breach of these Terms.
Accounts are for people. Automated access, agents, and integrations require our prior written approval unless we publish documentation expressly allowing them.
2. Accounts and security
- Provide accurate information, keep it reasonably current, and do not impersonate another person or organisation.
- Keep your password and sign-in methods secure. You are responsible for activity you authorise through your account. Tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access.
- You may collaborate through publication roles and invitations. Do not share credentials; each collaborator should use their own account.
- We may require email verification or other proportionate checks to protect accounts, payments, creators, and readers.
3. What Vernus provides
Vernus provides tools to create profiles and publications, publish and discover work, buy keys, unlock paid posts, donate keys to eligible creators, and view related activity and earnings records. Publications and posts are supplied by their authors and editors, not by Vernus. We do not endorse or guarantee user-published claims.
A confidence score may accompany an account. It is a transparent provenance and platform integrity signal based on stated factors; it is not a measure of a person's worth or the quality or truth of their work. More detail is available on our confidence scoring page.
4. Keys, paid posts, and donations
Buying keys
Keys are digital credits used only within Vernus. The checkout shows the quantity, currency, price, and any applicable tax before you pay. Stripe processes card payments, and keys are credited after payment confirmation.
Keys are not money, electronic money, a deposit, or an investment. They do not earn interest and cannot be redeemed for cash by readers. They may not be sold or transferred outside the features Vernus provides. We do not currently impose an expiry date on purchased keys while your account remains active; spent, refunded, or deleted keys are no longer available.
Unlocking posts and supporting creators
When you confirm an unlock, the displayed number of keys is deducted immediately and the paid content is made available to your account. An unlock gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access that post through Vernus. It does not transfer copyright or permit republication, resale, scraping, or redistribution.
The creator or authorised publication manager receives an earnings record for an unlock or donation. As explained in our Cookie & Privacy Policy, that record may identify the reader or donor by account details, including email address. Those details are supplied for transaction administration, not unrelated marketing.
A key donation is a voluntary, immediate allocation of keys to an eligible creator. It does not buy services, editorial influence, ownership, or a tax-deductible charitable donation.
Cancellations and refunds
Consumer cancellation and statutory quality rights vary by location and are not limited by these Terms. Where the law gives you a cancellation period for digital content, you may lose that right once supply begins if you expressly ask us to supply it immediately and acknowledge that consequence. Unlocks and donations are otherwise final once delivered, except where required by law or where we agree that a payment, credit, or delivery error occurred.
For a mistaken charge, missing keys, inaccessible paid content, or another payment problem, contact human@vernus.one. We may ask for information needed to locate and verify the transaction. Nothing in these Terms excludes remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.
5. Creator earnings
When keys are spent on an author's paid post or donated to a creator, Vernus records a gross value and a platform fee. The current platform fee is 10% of that gross value. The interface shows the fee and estimated net earnings in the relevant settlement currency. Currency conversions use the exchange-rate record applicable when the spend is recorded.
Earnings shown in Vernus are ledger estimates, not a bank balance. Where withdrawals are offered, they may require a completed payout profile, identity, tax, fraud, sanctions, and ownership checks, as well as a minimum balance or other terms shown before withdrawal. You are responsible for your own taxes, invoices, and legal obligations as a creator or publication operator.
We may correct ledger errors and, where lawful, reverse amounts linked to refunds, chargebacks, fraud, or invalid activity. We will provide an explanation when doing so unless law or a security investigation prevents it.
6. Your content and licence to Vernus
You retain ownership of content you create and upload. You are responsible for it and must have every right and permission needed to publish it, including for text, images, files, personal data, quotations, and embedded material.
You give Vernus a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, format, display, transmit, and technically adapt your content only as needed to operate, secure, promote, and improve the Service. This includes showing previews and publication pages and creating technical copies or image variants. The licence ends when the content is removed, except for copies retained in backups, records required by law, and published work retained after account deletion as described below.
Publication owners and authorised editors may manage publication membership and edit, schedule, publish, or remove work within the permissions the Service gives them. Agree on editorial rights and revenue arrangements with collaborators before publishing; Vernus is not a party to those private arrangements.
7. Acceptable use
You must not use the Service to:
- exploit or sexualise children; facilitate abuse, trafficking, terrorism, or credible threats of violence; or share intimate material without consent;
- harass, stalk, dox, defame, impersonate, or unlawfully discriminate against another person;
- infringe copyright, trade marks, privacy, publicity, database, or other rights;
- commit fraud, phishing, money laundering, sanctions evasion, payment abuse, spam, or deceptive manipulation;
- distribute malware, probe or bypass security, interfere with the Service, evade limits, or access data without permission;
- scrape, copy, or use content or personal data at scale without permission or a lawful basis; or
- break applicable law or help someone else do any of the above.
You must make any AI-related disclosure required by the publishing interface and must not present generated or altered material in a materially deceptive way.
8. Reports, moderation, and account action
You can report a post through Vernus or email us. We may investigate, restrict distribution, remove content, reverse unauthorised activity, suspend features, or disable an account when we reasonably believe it is necessary to enforce these Terms, protect people or the Service, comply with law, or prevent fraud or security harm.
We consider the nature, context, severity, frequency, and likely impact of a violation. When appropriate, we will give notice and a reason, but we may act without advance notice in an urgent case or where notice would create risk or be legally prohibited. To challenge a decision, email human@vernus.one with the account, content, and decision involved.
9. Copyright complaints
If you believe material on Vernus infringes your rights, email human@vernus.one with: your contact details; the work or right concerned; the Vernus URL; why you believe the use is unauthorised; and a statement that the information you provide is accurate. We may forward the substance of a complaint to the affected user so they can respond.
10. Vernus intellectual property
The Service, including its software, visual design, brand, and documentation, belongs to Moonka Hey Ltd. or its licensors. These Terms do not grant you a right to copy, sell, reverse-engineer, or misuse those materials, or to use Vernus's names and marks in a way that suggests endorsement.
11. Privacy, security, and third parties
Our Cookie & Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data. We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards, but no online service can promise absolute security.
Posts may contain links or embeds from third-party services. Those services are responsible for their own content and practices. Your use of Stripe, Google, social-media embeds, or any other third-party service may also be governed by that provider's terms.
12. Changes and availability
The Service evolves. We may add, change, limit, or discontinue features and may change key pricing or fees. We will give reasonable advance notice of a change that materially and adversely affects an existing paid feature, key balance, or creator fee, unless an urgent legal, security, or technical reason makes advance notice impracticable.
We aim to keep Vernus available, but do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. Maintenance, incidents, third-party failures, and events outside our reasonable control may interrupt access.
13. Closing your account
You may schedule account deletion from Settings. Access is disabled immediately and a seven-day recovery period begins. The private link emailed to your account is the automated way to cancel during that period. Export any data you want to keep before scheduling deletion.
After the recovery period, we erase or pseudonymise profile data, credentials, drafts, private activity, linked accounts, trust records, exports, and unused keys. Published work remains attributed to "Deleted user" so publications and readers retain an editorial and purchase record. Financial, moderation, deletion-audit, and backup records may remain where law, fraud prevention, or legal claims require them. More detail is in the Cookie & Privacy Policy.
Provisions that by their nature should survive closure continue to apply, including content licences needed for retained published work, payment records, intellectual property, liability, disputes, and general terms.
14. Disclaimers and liability
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of a right that cannot lawfully be excluded, or any other liability that applicable law does not allow us to limit.
If you are a consumer, we are responsible for losses that are a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or failure to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for losses that were not foreseeable, for your own unlawful or unauthorised use, or for business losses arising from consumer use. Your mandatory consumer rights remain intact.
If you use Vernus wholly or mainly for business, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law: neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss or for lost profit, revenue, goodwill, or anticipated savings; and our total liability arising from the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of £100 and the fees you paid to us or that we deducted from your earnings during that period.
15. Governing law and disputes
Please contact us first so we can try to resolve a concern informally. These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
If you are a consumer, you keep any mandatory protection given by the law of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in any court available to you under mandatory consumer law. If you are acting for a business, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms to reflect product, business, or legal changes. We will post the new version here and update the date above. For a material change, we will give reasonable notice by email or through the Service. Changes do not apply retroactively. If you do not agree to a material change, you may stop using Vernus and close your account before it takes effect.
17. General terms
If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the remaining parts continue to apply. A delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent; we may transfer them as part of a merger, reorganisation, or sale of the Service, provided your rights are not materially reduced. These Terms, the policies they link to, and any transaction-specific terms shown before purchase form the agreement between us about the Service.
18. Contact
Questions, complaints, and appeals can be sent to human@vernus.one or by post to Moonka Hey Ltd., 1a Falmer Court, London Road, Uckfield, TN22 1HN, United Kingdom.