Terms of Service

Noir Grid is an independent discovery and creator-tools platform for Second Life. Noir Grid is an independent service and is not owned, operated, sponsored or endorsed by Linden Lab. Second Life® and Linden Dollars (L$) are trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. Use of Second Life remains subject to Linden Lab's own terms. All prices are in Linden Dollars (L$).

Visitors don't need an account. Creators sign up by verifying their Second Life avatar at an official Noir Grid verification kiosk and choosing a Noir Grid password. You are responsible for your account and for keeping your sign-in details secure. Creator tools are available only after a creator application has been approved.

Store pages, new releases, destinations and event coverage are free. Everything is reviewed before it appears, and Noir Grid may approve, reject, ask for changes to, hide or end any listing. You are responsible for what you submit and must own or have the right to use its text and pictures. Listings with an end date end on their own.

Every payment to Noir Grid is made in-world at the official Noir Grid Payment Kiosk with a one-time payment code (for example NG-AD-…, NG-A-… or NG-SVL-…). The code is tied to one order, one avatar and one exact amount, and expires after a short time (homepage ads: 2 hours). The kiosk only accepts the exact amount from the avatar the code belongs to. Your payment code is your receipt: you can check any code at Check a payment. Second Life does not share its own transaction number with the kiosk, so keep your code.

Never pay Noir Grid any other way (for example by paying an avatar directly). Such payments can't be matched to an order.

• Wrong or refused kiosk payments (wrong amount, wrong avatar, expired or used code): the L$ still reach Noir Grid but nothing is activated. Contact Noir Grid on Discord within 14 days with your code and the time of payment and we refund it in L$.
• Homepage ad not approved after you paid: full refund.
• Cancelling a homepage ad: full refund if you ask at least 24 hours before it starts. Once it has started there is no refund for the remaining days.
• Ads removed for breaking these terms, and creator tools revoked for breaking them, are not refunded.
• Creator tools (Beacon periods and the Smart Vendor license) are not refundable once activated, and a Beacon period is not refunded for unused days.
• If the homepage is unavailable for a long time because of a Noir Grid problem, we add the lost days to your ad or refund them, at our choice.

Homepage and sidebar spots are booked at Book a homepage ad for the price and number of days shown when you book. A booking holds the spot until its payment code expires; it is reviewed after payment and goes live on its start date (SL time). Ads are labelled as sponsored and open the link you provided. Noir Grid may refuse ads that are misleading, unlawful, adult where not allowed, or that break Second Life's terms.

We count views (at least half of the ad on screen, once per visitor per day) and clicks and show them to you on your payment-status page. These counts are a guide; paid placement does not guarantee clicks, visits or sales. You can book the same ad again from the same page.

Support Terminal, Discord alerts and the Creator HUD are free for approved creators. Paid tools are the Beacon (per Beacon, for 30 days, not renewed automatically) and the Smart Vendor license (one-time). Current prices are on Creator Tools. A paid tool starts as soon as its kiosk payment is confirmed. When a Beacon period ends, the Beacon stops counting visitors and your store leaves the Live Grid; your store and records are kept.

Sales at a creator's Smart Vendor are between the shopper and the creator: the shopper's L$ go straight to the creator, and the creator is responsible for the item, its delivery, support and any refund to the shopper. Noir Grid is not a party to those sales.

Noir Grid charges a commission (currently 2%) on each verified successful real sale, rounded down to whole L$. It is added up over a rolling 30-day cycle; when the cycle closes a final bill is issued, payable at the Payment Kiosk within the payment window (currently 3 days). Bills of L$0 need no payment. If a bill is unpaid after its deadline, Smart Vendor selling pauses until it is paid; nothing is deleted. Test sales carry no commission. Each sale keeps the rate that applied when it was made.

Noir Grid devices (kiosks, Beacons, Smart Vendors, Support Terminals and Creator HUDs) are paired to an account and bound to their in-world object. Creators may install protected Noir Grid scripts in objects they own, but may not modify, give away, extract or reverse-engineer them, or use them to get around pairing, limits, payments or commission. Copied or unpaired objects are refused. Beacons count people in an area and never record names.

You may not tamper with devices or scripts, try to get around payments, commission, limits or security checks, access other creators' data, submit misleading or unlawful content, inflate ad views or clicks, or abuse, overload or disrupt the service.

Noir Grid may suspend accounts, remove listings or ads, or revoke devices and tools when these terms are broken or to protect users and the service.

Noir Grid is provided as available. Features may change, and the service may be interrupted, including when Second Life itself is unavailable. We may update these terms; the date at the top shows the latest version, and changes apply from that date. Questions: contact Noir Grid on Discord.