One Million Characters (“the Service”, “we”, “us”) is an online publication wall accessible at onemillioncharacters.com. The Service is operated by:
Under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act) we maintain a single point of contact for recipients of the Service and a single point of contact for the authorities of the Member States, the European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services. In both cases that point of contact is the email address above. Communication with us may be in English or Polish.
These Terms are drawn up in English; English is the contract language between us and the user.
Visitors may purchase characters of text which, once paid for, are published on a public wall at $1 per character. The total capacity of the wall is one million characters. Each purchase is final upon publication.
The Service is intended for individuals aged 18 or older. Prices are displayed in USD and are inclusive of any applicable VAT. Polish VAT applies to sales to consumers in Poland. Our cross-border sales to consumers in other EU countries remain below the EU-wide threshold of EUR 10,000, so Polish VAT applies to those sales as well. Supplies to customers outside the European Union are not subject to Polish VAT. We are not registered for the EU One Stop Shop (OSS) scheme. If the EUR 10,000 threshold is exceeded, we will register for the OSS scheme and VAT will from that point be accounted for in the consumer’s country of residence.
The following content is not allowed and will be rejected before payment or removed after publication:
Every submission is screened before payment by a single automated call to Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 model, which classifies the text against the rules above. We do not use a word filter and we do not use any other moderation provider. The check is fail-closed: if the moderation service cannot be reached, the purchase is refused in full and no charge is made. Submissions that fail the screening are also refused with no charge, and you are free to revise the text and submit it again.
All sales are final upon publication. Refunds are issued in the case of a technical failure on our side (for example, payment is captured but the message never appears on the wall).
Because every submission is screened before payment, removal after publication is exceptional. Where we do remove published content, we refund the fee in proportion to the unexpired part of the publication period, less a reasonable deduction covering the administrative cost of handling the case. No refund is due where the removed content was manifestly illegal, or where the buyer deliberately circumvented the screening, for example by disguising, splitting or encoding prohibited content in order to pass the check.
Nothing in this section limits or excludes your statutory rights as a consumer.
Under Article 16(m) of EU Directive 2011/83 and the corresponding provisions of the Polish Act on Consumer Rights, a consumer normally has 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract for digital content. When you tick the “request immediate publication” checkbox at checkout, you expressly consent to performance beginning immediately and acknowledge that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal once the message has been published.
As required by art. 21(2) of the Polish Act on Consumer Rights, after payment you receive on a durable medium, at the email address you gave at checkout, a confirmation of the concluded contract together with a confirmation of your prior express consent to immediate performance and of your acknowledgement that this causes the loss of the right of withdrawal. That confirmation is delivered as a Stripe invoice, emailed automatically once the payment succeeds.
You can complain about the Service, about a purchase, or about a moderation decision by writing to thedevinczi@gmail.com. Please describe the problem and, where relevant, give the email address used for the purchase and the position of the message on the wall. We answer complaints within 14 days of receiving them.
Digital content and digital services supplied to consumers are covered by the statutory conformity regime in Chapter 5b of the Polish Act on Consumer Rights (ustawa o prawach konsumenta). Where what we supply does not conform to the contract, you may require that it be brought into conformity and, in the cases set out in that Chapter, submit a price-reduction statement or withdraw from the contract. Those rights follow from the law, apply regardless of anything in these Terms, and are not limited by them.
Out-of-court complaint and redress mechanisms are available to consumers. In Poland these include mediation and the permanent consumer arbitration courts operated by the Trade Inspection (Wojewódzki Inspektorat Inspekcji Handlowej), and free advice and assistance from the municipal and district consumer ombudsmen (powiatowy rzecznik konsumentów). Details of how to use these procedures are available from those bodies. Using them is voluntary, both for you and for us.
We are a hosting service provider within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act). As a micro-enterprise we are exempt from the obligations set out in Section 3 of Chapter III of that Regulation.
Any individual or entity can notify us of content on the wall that they consider illegal or in breach of section 3, using the form at /Report. The form collects the exact location of the content (the segment number), a sufficiently substantiated explanation of why the content is objectionable, the name and email address of the notifier, and a statement confirming that the notice is submitted in good faith and that the information it contains is accurate and complete.
We confirm receipt of every notice to the email address given in it, review the notice in good faith and without undue delay, typically within 24 to 48 hours, and then inform the notifier of our decision and of the redress available against that decision.
Where we remove or otherwise restrict content, we send the affected buyer a statement of reasons setting out the decision, the ground for it and its scope. The buyer may appeal by replying to that notice. Appeals are reviewed by a human being, not by automated means, before any decision is made final. Refunds in removal cases are handled as set out in section 4.
By publishing a message you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, cache and distribute that message as part of the public wall for as long as the Service operates. You retain ownership of your content.
The Service is provided “as is”. Except where Polish or EU consumer law requires otherwise, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from use of the Service. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Poland. That choice of law does not deprive a consumer of the protection afforded by the mandatory rules of the country in which the consumer has their habitual residence.
Jurisdiction is determined by the applicable statutory rules. We do not designate a court. A consumer may always bring proceedings against us before the courts of the country in which the consumer is resident, and we may bring proceedings against a consumer only before the courts of that country.
We may update these Terms from time to time. The version you agreed to at the moment of purchase is recorded with your purchase and governs that purchase. Material changes take effect for new purchases only.
General questions and complaints: thedevinczi@gmail.com. Notices about published content: /Report.