Terms
What vertio.ch is
vertio.ch keeps public leaderboards for Switzerland. You buy a place on them. The rank is the bid: who pays more stands higher. There is no other criterion, no algorithm and no editorial choice.
Every listing is a paid placement. The paid amount is shown publicly beside the rank. The board does not rate the businesses and says nothing about their quality.
Who may bid
Businesses and persons based or resident in Switzerland may bid. You may link only to an offering of your own.
The linked address must be publicly reachable over HTTPS. Short links are not allowed, and neither are affiliate, referral, invitation or tracking links. A redirect is accepted only inside the same domain.
Content that is forbidden under Swiss law is not allowed. The title, the description and the icon must not be obscene or pornographic.
How bidding works
The smallest bid is CHF 1.00. Payment is in Swiss francs only. Each amount must sit on the grid of its magnitude: steps of CHF 0.01 below CHF 10, of CHF 0.10 below CHF 100, of CHF 1 below CHF 1'000, of CHF 10 below CHF 10'000 and of CHF 100 above that.
Each amount is unique per board. An amount that somebody already holds cannot be bought. Per board, one bidder holds one listing.
A top-up on an existing listing is additive: a listing at CHF 1.00 for which CHF 4.00 more is paid then stands at CHF 5.00. The new amount must be free and on the grid. Anyone may pay a top-up with any card; it can only raise the listing.
As soon as a bid starts, the amount is reserved for 30 minutes. If payment does not follow in that time, the reservation lapses and the amount becomes free again. The rank is granted only when the charge has succeeded.
The two boards
There are two boards, independent of each other. The all-time board keeps a listing with no time limit. The weekly board removes a listing seven days after its last successful payment; its amount then becomes free again. A top-up starts those seven days again.
Prices and payment
Payment is by card through Stripe Checkout. A billing address in Switzerland is necessary. Receipts are sent by Stripe; vertio.ch sends no receipts of its own.
Prices are in Swiss francs. Taxes are added as applicable.
No refunds
Payments are not refunded. There is one single exception: if vertio.ch cannot honour a charge, it is refunded automatically. That is the case when the card already holds a listing on the same board, or when the billing address is not in Switzerland. Both show only at the time of the charge.
The service is performed immediately and in full: as soon as the payment succeeds the rank is yours, it is publicly visible, and the amount is blocked for everybody else on that board. Whoever places a bid expressly asks for this immediate performance. After payment there is therefore nothing left that could be given back.
Moderation and take-down
Every listing is checked automatically at submission: the address, the blocklists, the title and the description. A language model reads the landing page and assesses it. That assessment is only an aid; the decision is made by hand.
The operator may take a listing down at any time, at their own discretion and without a refund. After a lost dispute, the domain, the email address and the card identity may be blocked.
Chargebacks
If the original payment for a listing is charged back, the listing is taken down and its rank released. If the chargeback concerns only a top-up, only that contribution falls away: the listing then stands at its previous amount, or at the nearest free step below it.
If a dispute is won, the listing is restored, provided the rank is still free. If a dispute is lost, the listing stays down, and the domain, the email address and the card identity are blocked.
A chargeback for a listing that was published is a breach of contract: the service had already been performed at that moment. vertio.ch reserves the right to claim the amount owed and the resulting loss, including the fee the payment provider charges for the case, through debt enforcement if necessary. It is different when the payment was not yours: report a misuse of your card to info@vertio.ch and the matter is settled at no cost to you.
Changes to a listing
The title, the description and the icon can be changed. For this, vertio.ch sends a single-use link to the email address given at Checkout. The URL, the commune and the category cannot be changed.
Availability
The operator gives no availability guarantee. The site is run on a best-effort basis. Breaks for maintenance, faults and outages are possible and give no right to a refund.
Liability
The operator's liability is limited to the extent the law allows. The linked websites are the sole responsibility of their operators. vertio.ch checks the addresses at submission, but takes no responsibility for their content.
Changes to these terms
The operator may change these terms. The new version is published on this page. It applies to bids placed after that. For a listing already paid for, the version accepted at payment applies.
Governing law and jurisdiction
Swiss law applies. The place of jurisdiction is Geneva. Mandatory statutory provisions are reserved: consumers may always rely on the court at their own domicile.