Terms of Service
Last updated 13 September 2026
openthis is run by one person. These terms are the deal between us. They're written
plainly on purpose — if something here is unclear, ask before you buy.
What you're buying
You pay a one-time fee to publish one gift page. You fill in a name, a letter, photos,
a song link and a few captions, and you receive two web links: one to send to the
person the gift is for, and a private one that reopens the editor so you can change it.
There is no account, no subscription, and nothing recurring. One payment publishes
one gift.
Keep your links
Those two links are the only way back to your gift. There's no password to reset and no
account to log into, which is deliberate — but it means that if you lose both links,
I may not be able to recover the gift for you.
Save them somewhere. Your payment receipt is a good backup.
What you upload
You keep ownership of everything you put into a gift — your words, your photographs.
I don't claim any rights to them beyond what's needed to store the gift and show it
to whoever opens the link.
By uploading, you're confirming that you have the right to use the material, and that
it doesn't break the law. Specifically, don't upload:
- Photos of anyone who hasn't agreed to be in them, where that would be unfair or harmful to them.
- Anyone else's copyrighted work that you don't have permission to use.
- Anything sexual involving minors, ever. This is reported, not deleted quietly.
- Harassment, threats, or content designed to frighten or humiliate the recipient.
- Anything illegal where you are or where the recipient is.
If a gift breaks these rules I'll remove it, and you won't get a refund. If you think
a gift someone sent you breaks them, write to me and I'll look.
How long a gift lasts
I intend published gifts to stay online indefinitely, and I have no plans to delete them.
But this is a small operation, and I can't promise a link will work forever. If openthis
ever shuts down, I'll give notice where I can and try to make gifts downloadable first.
Unpaid drafts are cleared out after thirty days.
Things I can't promise
The site is provided as it is. I'm not promising it will never be down, never have a bug,
or work identically on every phone and browser. The song plays through YouTube, so if
a video is deleted or made private by whoever uploaded it, it stops playing — that's
outside my control.
If something goes wrong
If openthis causes you a loss, what you can recover from me is limited to the amount you
paid — that is, the price of the gift. That's not me being cavalier; it's the only
sensible limit for a $7.59 product run by one person.
Nothing here limits anything that can't legally be limited.
Age
You need to be at least 13 to use openthis. If you're under 18, use it with a parent's
knowledge. I don't knowingly collect information from children under 13, and if I find
out I have, I'll delete it.
Changes
If I change these terms I'll update the date at the top. Changes apply going forward,
not retroactively to gifts you've already bought.
The boring bits
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.