Terms of use

Needs legal reviewInsert the operating entity’s legal name, company number, registered address and contact email. Every clause below depends on knowing which entity contracts with the customer and under which law.

Marsbid is an interactive map on which businesses may purchase sponsorship placements over rectangular parcels of the Martian surface. The substance of what is sold is set out in the rules, which form part of these terms.

Nothing purchased through this service conveys ownership of, or any legal interest in, Mars, any named feature on Mars, or any celestial body. Placements are advertising on a website and nothing more. This clause survives termination.

You warrant that you have the right to use the brand name, logo, description and destination URL you submit, and that they do not infringe anyone’s rights. You grant us a non-exclusive licence to display them on this site for as long as your sponsorship runs.

We may remove any submission that breaches the content standards in the rules.

Do not attempt to interfere with the service, circumvent its rate limits, or acquire territory by any means other than the published checkout.

The service is provided as-is. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, and features may change.

Needs legal reviewDecide whether any uptime or minimum-display commitment is being offered to paying sponsors, and state it precisely. An unqualified “as-is” may not be enforceable against consumers.

Needs legal reviewLimitation of liability, indemnity, warranty disclaimers, governing law, jurisdiction and dispute resolution all need to be drafted for the operating entity and the markets it sells into. We have deliberately not written placeholder text here: an invented limitation clause is worse than none.

The Mars model and surface imagery are produced by NASA and are in the public domain. NASA does not endorse this site. Feature names and coordinates come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature and are used descriptively. Brand names shown on this site belong to their respective owners.