Welcome to Trickifi. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Trickifi Limited, a Colorado limited liability company (“Trickifi,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of the Trickifi website at trickifi.com, the Trickifi web application, and any related software, features, content, and services we provide (collectively, the “Service”).
By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, the Community Guidelines in Appendix A, and (if applicable) the Affiliate Terms in Appendix B. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1.Eligibility and Accounts#
1.1 Age
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are between 13 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you represent that a parent or legal guardian has read these Terms and consents to your use. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13, and we will delete it if we learn we have.
1.2 Account creation
Accounts require a valid invite code, an email address, and a password. You are responsible for all activity on your account, including activity by anyone using your credentials. Keep your password secret. If you set up the optional six-word recovery phrase from Settings, keep it secret as well. You agree to notify us promptly at security@trickifi.com if you suspect unauthorized access.
1.3 Stagename
You may choose a unique Stagename for display in shared content, Affiliate pages, and forthcoming community features such as Jam Sessions. Stagenames must comply with the Community Guidelines (see Appendix A.6 for the full Stagename rules) and may not impersonate another person, infringe trademarks, or include unlawful content. We may reclaim Stagenames that are abandoned, infringing, or that violate these Terms.
1.4 One account per person
Unless we expressly authorize otherwise, you may hold one personal Trickifi account at a time. You may not sell, rent, lease, lend, or transfer your account.
2.Encryption, Recovery, and the Limits of Our Help#
2.1 Zero-knowledge architecture
Most of what you create on Trickifi (tricks, acts, routines, techniques, backstage records, journal entries, attachments, audio, and images) is encrypted on your device before it reaches our servers. We do not hold the keys. We cannot read this content, restore it, or share it with anyone, including ourselves.
2.2 The optional recovery phrase
From Settings you may optionally generate a six-word BIP39 recovery phrase. The phrase is never sent to or stored on our servers in any form, including hashed; verification happens by trial-decrypting your wrapped data key on your device. If you have set up a phrase, store it somewhere safe. If you forget your password and have not set up a recovery phrase, or you lose both your password and your phrase, your encrypted content is unrecoverable. This is by design. We strongly recommend setting up a recovery phrase and storing it offline.
2.3 The destructive reset
If you cannot recover your account (for example, you have forgotten your password and either have no recovery phrase or have lost it), you may reset from inside the Service. Resetting will permanently destroy your encrypted content, because the keys that protected it cannot themselves be recovered. We will warn you before this happens. Unencrypted data (such as your Stagename, mastery tier counts, and XP totals) is preserved.
2.4 Things that are not encrypted
Some information must remain in plain text on our servers so the Service can function. This includes your email address, subscription status, item counts, mastery tier metadata, XP totals, login records, and similar operational data. The Privacy Policy describes this in detail.
2.5 Not a backup service
Trickifi is not a substitute for your own backups of irreplaceable original work. We recommend keeping your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.
3.License to Use the Service#
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial magic practice and (where applicable) your professional performance career. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
4.Your Content#
4.1 You own your content
You retain all rights you already have in the original notes, journal entries, photos, videos, audio recordings, scripts, presentations, and other material you upload, create, or store on Trickifi (“Your Content”). We do not claim ownership of Your Content.
4.2 The narrow license you grant us
You grant Trickifi a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, transmit, encrypt, back up, display back to you, and otherwise process Your Content solely to operate and provide the Service to you, to make Your Content available to recipients you explicitly choose, and to comply with law. This license ends when Your Content is deleted from the Service, except for backups retained for the limited period described in the Privacy Policy.
4.3 We don't train AI on your content
We do not use Your Content, encrypted or otherwise, to train artificial intelligence or machine-learning models, our own or any third party’s, and we do not share Your Content with third-party model providers for that purpose. If we ever introduce per-user AI features (for example, a personalized assistant that operates inside your encrypted session), we will design those features so that your content remains encrypted at rest and is processed only on your behalf during your active session. We will update this Section 4.3 and provide notice under Section 17 before launching any such feature.
4.4 Your responsibilities
You represent that Your Content does not infringe anyone else’s rights, violate any law, or breach any contract you have entered into. You are solely responsible for Your Content and for any consequences of uploading it.
5.Sharing Between Magicians#
The Service supports limited person-to-person sharing of records you create. If a disagreement arises between you and another magician about shared content, Section 10.5 applies.
5.1 What can be shared
You may share a record you authored from scratch or, if you are an Affiliate, content you have licensed under the Affiliate Terms (Appendix B). You may not share content you received from another magician or Affiliate.
5.2 What recipients get
A recipient receives a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable license to view the shared content inside their own Trickifi account. Recipients may not duplicate, re-share, export, sell, or commercially exploit shared content. Recipients may not edit origin attribution. Personal layers (journal entries, mastery progress, ratings, performance history, and relational data) are excluded from shared content.
5.3 Shares are permanent once delivered
Sharing sends a copy that the recipient keeps. Our servers briefly decrypt the record with your keys and re-encrypt it under the recipient’s keys, so it lands in their account encrypted. Once delivered, you cannot pull a copy back, and deleting your account does not remove copies others already received. You can always stop future shares of the same record.
Person-to-person shares go to a single recipient at a time. Affiliate-program distribution uses single-use or multi-use links and works differently; see Appendix B for details.
5.4 No marketplace
Person-to-person sharing exists for craft, not commerce. You may not use it as a substitute for the Affiliate program or to distribute commercial magic at scale.
6.Affiliate Program#
If you participate in the Trickifi Affiliate program, the Affiliate Terms in Appendix B apply in addition to these Terms. The Affiliate Terms govern eligibility, content warranties, commission, payouts, and revocation. In the event of a conflict between these Terms and the Affiliate Terms with respect to your Affiliate activities, the Affiliate Terms control.
7.Trickifi+ Subscriptions and Billing#
7.1 Free plan
Trickifi offers a free plan that includes limited repertoire and backstage item uploads and mastery features. We may change the features and functionalities of the free plan from time to time, but core mastery functionality will remain available without charge, now and forever.
7.2 Trickifi+
Trickifi+ is our paid subscription. As of the effective date of these Terms, Trickifi+ is offered at US$9.99 per month or US$89.00 per year, billed in advance. Prices, plan inclusions, and additional plan tiers may change. We will give you at least 30 days’ advance notice of any price increase that affects your existing subscription, and the change will not take effect for you until your next renewal after that notice period.
7.3 Auto-renewal
Trickifi+ subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current rate, using the payment method on file, until you cancel. By starting a Trickifi+ subscription, you authorize Trickifi and our payment processor (Stripe) to charge that payment method on each renewal date.
7.4 Cancellation
You may cancel at any time from your account settings. Cancellation stops the next renewal. You will keep Trickifi+ access through the end of your current paid billing period.
7.5 No refunds
Except where required by law (including, where applicable, statutory withdrawal rights for consumers in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom), payments are non-refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial months, partial years, downgrades, unused features, or periods during which your account remains open but unused.
7.6 Promo codes and discounts
We may offer promotional codes from time to time. Promo codes are subject to additional terms shown at redemption (for example, percent off, duration, expiry, first-time-customer-only). Promo codes have no cash value, are not transferable, and may be revoked or modified at any time for fraud or abuse.
7.7 Taxes
Listed prices do not include applicable taxes. You are responsible for any sales, use, value-added, or similar taxes imposed on your purchase, and we will collect and remit such taxes where required.
7.8 Failed payments
If we cannot charge your payment method, we may suspend Trickifi+ access until the issue is resolved. After repeated failed attempts, your subscription may be cancelled and your account downgraded to the free plan.
8.Prohibited Conduct#
You agree not to, and not to permit anyone else to:
(a) Use the Service in any way that violates law, regulation, or third-party rights;
(b) Re-publish, redistribute, or share to others any third-party magic content that you do not have the right to distribute, including pirated books, video downloads, lecture downloads, and similar commercial works. Adding content to your own Trickifi repertoire for personal study (notes inspired by a book you bought, a lecture you attended, or a performance you watched) is the intended use of the Service and is not a violation of this clause. Sharing under Section 5 and Affiliate distribution under Appendix B are limited to material you have the right to share;
(c) Dox other magicians, as described in the Community Guidelines (Section A.2);
(d) Publicly expose the working method behind another magician’s signature material;
(e) Harass, threaten, dox, impersonate, or stalk any user, employee, or third party;
(f) Upload or transmit content that is illegal, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit involving minors, or that depicts or incites violence;
(g) Distribute spam, malware, or any code intended to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to systems or data;
(h) Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach security or authentication measures (responsible security research is welcome; see Section 16);
(i) Use the Service to operate a competing service, scrape data at scale, or build derivative datasets;
(j) Attempt to circumvent the encryption design, including by attempting to extract another user’s keys or encrypted content;
(k) Use bots, automated tools, or third-party software to interact with the Service in ways not expressly permitted;
(l) Use the Service to send unsolicited commercial messages to other users;
(m) Resell, sublicense, or transfer your account or access;
(n) Take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on the Service or interferes with its proper functioning; or
(o) Submit knowingly false or bad-faith abuse reports or DMCA notices, or use the reporting, sharing, or community features to harass another magician or to gain leverage in a dispute outside the Service (see Section 10.5);
Specific examples and the enforcement ladder are in the Community Guidelines (Appendix A).
9.Termination and Suspension#
9.1 By you
You may close your account at any time from your account settings. Account deletion is described in the Privacy Policy.
9.2 By us
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, the Community Guidelines, or applicable law; if your account creates a safety, security, fraud, or legal risk to us, other users, or third parties; if your payment fails repeatedly; or if your account has been inactive for an extended period.
For most violations, we will provide notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure where practical. For severe violations, including but not limited to child sexual abuse material, fraud, security threats, repeat infringement, or credible threats of violence, we may terminate immediately and without prior notice.
10.Intellectual Property#
10.1 Our IP
The Service, including the Trickifi name, logo, website, application, original artwork, design system, copywriting, documentation, and underlying software, is owned by Trickifi or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of those rights to you.
10.2 Trickifi systems
Trickifi’s mastery methodology, including the spaced-interval mastery formula, the tier progression model, the rehearsal cadence rules, the practice exercises and exercise library, the self-assessment scoring system, the regression triggers, the training-module sequence, the journey step machine, and the XP and CardRank progression systems, is proprietary to Trickifi and is protected as a trade secret, as a copyrighted compilation, and where applicable under patent. You may use these systems through the Service for your own non-commercial practice and professional performance career under the license in Section 3. You may not copy, reverse-engineer, replicate, reimplement, or build a substantially-similar product around any of these elements, alone or in combination, whether or not you alter the names or surface details. This Section 10.2 survives termination.
10.3 Incorporating Feedback
If you send us suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use that feedback for any purpose, without obligation to you. We will not publicly attribute feedback to you without your permission.
10.4 Copyright complaints (DMCA)
We respect intellectual property rights and respond to valid notices under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). To submit a takedown notice, send the following to dmca@trickifi.com or to our :
- A physical or electronic signature of the rights holder or an authorized agent;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it;
- Your contact information (name, address, telephone number, email);
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the rights holder, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder.
Counter-notifications may be submitted following the procedure in 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). We will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers under appropriate circumstances.
10.5 Disputes between magicians
Magic has a long history of independent invention, borrowed variation, and material passed hand to hand without paperwork. Who created what, who had permission, and who crossed a line are questions magicians have argued about for a century. Trickifi is not equipped to answer them, and will not try.
(a) We are not a party. Trickifi is not a party to any dispute between users concerning authorship, credit, originality, permission, licensing, royalties, exclusivity, or the unauthorized distribution of magic material, whether or not that material ever touched the Service. Those disputes are between the magicians involved. They must be raised, negotiated, and resolved directly between the parties, or before a court, arbitrator, mediator, or other body with authority to decide them, and pursued outside Trickifi channels. Our support, abuse, DMCA, Affiliate, and community channels are not a forum for litigating them.
(b) We do not adjudicate ownership. We will not decide who created a trick, who owns a method, who is owed credit, or whether an agreement between users was breached. We take no position on those questions, and we act as no one’s referee, arbitrator, escrow, investigator, or evidence locker. Nothing generated by the Service, including origin attribution fields, timestamps, share records, and Affiliate records, is a determination of ownership by Trickifi or is offered as proof of authorship, priority, or provenance in any proceeding.
(c) We cannot look inside another magician’s vault. As described in Section 2.1, your content is encrypted before it reaches us and we do not hold the keys. We cannot inspect another user’s records, compare two accounts, confirm who saved something first, or verify any claim that depends on content we cannot read. We will decline requests to do so, however they are framed.
(d) What we will act on. Valid DMCA notices under Section 10.4; valid subpoenas, court orders, and other lawful process; and violations of these Terms or the Community Guidelines reported under Section A.5. Reporting a violation is welcome and encouraged. It is simply not the same thing as us resolving your dispute, and it is not a substitute for the remedies available to you outside Trickifi. We will not disclose another user’s identity, account contents, or account records to you in connection with a private dispute. Requests of that kind require valid legal process, and the anti-doxxing rules in Section A.2 continue to apply.
(e) Our enforcement decisions are not findings. Any action we take, or decline to take, under Section 9.2 or Section A.5 is a discretionary business decision about the Service. It is not a legal finding, it does not establish or disprove infringement, ownership, or wrongdoing, it creates no rights in any user, and it may not be characterized as a determination by Trickifi in any outside proceeding. We have no obligation to monitor, pre-screen, or investigate content, and no obligation to preserve content, accounts, or records for your dispute. Retention and deletion work as described in the Privacy Policy, and we preserve material only where valid legal process requires it.
(f) Don’t use Trickifi as leverage. Filing knowingly false or bad-faith reports or DMCA notices, coordinating reports against another magician, or using the Service to pressure, retaliate against, or pursue someone in an outside dispute violates these Terms and Section A.2, and may result in enforcement against your own account.
(g) Relationship to other sections. Section 14 governs disputes between you and Trickifi only. It neither creates nor limits any right to arbitrate disputes between users, and it does not make us a participant in them. Your indemnification obligation under Section 13 covers claims arising out of disputes with other users. This Section 10.5 survives termination.
11.Disclaimers#
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TRICKIFI AND ITS SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY INFORMATION OR CONTENT IN THE SERVICE IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
THE MASTERY FORMULA, EXERCISES, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND OTHER GUIDANCE WE PROVIDE ARE EDUCATIONAL TOOLS. THEY ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OR FOR MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, OR LEGAL ADVICE. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PRACTICE, YOUR PERFORMANCES, AND YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER MAGICIANS, AUDIENCES, AND THIRD PARTIES.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.
12.Limitation of Liability#
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:
(A) TRICKIFI, ITS OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES; AND
(B) OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (I) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR TRICKIFI+ IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (II) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100).
THESE LIMITATIONS APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY (CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE) AND EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations may not apply to you. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
13.Indemnification#
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Trickifi and its officers, members, employees, contractors, agents, and suppliers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to (a) Your Content, (b) your use of the Service, (c) your breach of these Terms, (d) your violation of any law or third-party right, or (e) any dispute between you and another user. We may, at our option, assume exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate.
14.Arbitration Agreement and Class Action Waiver#
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT.
14.1 Agreement to arbitrate
Except for matters listed in Section 14.4, you and Trickifi agree to resolve any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service (“Dispute”) through final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, available at adr.org. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator. The seat of arbitration is Denver, Colorado, and the arbitration may be conducted in person, by telephone, or by written submissions, at your election where the claim is for US$25,000 or less.
14.2 Class action waiver
YOU AND TRICKIFI AGREE TO BRING CLAIMS AGAINST EACH OTHER ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, REPRESENTATIVE, OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE CLAIMS OF MORE THAN ONE PERSON AND MAY NOT PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
If a court decides that this Section 14.2 is unenforceable as to any Dispute, that Dispute will be severed from arbitration and brought in court, while the remaining Disputes continue in arbitration.
14.3 30-day opt-out
You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending a signed written notice to legal@trickifi.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, including your name, account email, and a clear statement that you opt out. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.
14.4 Exceptions
Either party may bring (a) an action for injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect its intellectual property rights, (b) a claim in small claims court if it qualifies, and (c) any claim that cannot lawfully be subject to arbitration.
14.5 Fees
Filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees will be allocated according to the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules. We will pay any AAA fees we are required to pay by law or by those rules.
14.6 Survival
This Section 14 survives termination of these Terms.
15.Governing Law and Venue#
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict of laws rules. To the extent any Dispute is not subject to arbitration under Section 14, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
16.Security Research#
We welcome responsible security research. If you discover a vulnerability, please report it to security@trickifi.com with a description of the issue and steps to reproduce it. We will not take legal action against researchers who act in good faith, do not access or modify other users’ data beyond what is necessary to demonstrate the issue, and give us a reasonable opportunity to investigate and remediate before public disclosure.
17.Changes to These Terms#
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email and through the Service and post the updated Terms with a new “Last Updated” date.
For changes that materially reduce your rights or increase your obligations, we will give at least 30 days’ advance notice before the change takes effect, and the change will apply only to use of the Service after that effective date.
For any change that affects how your encrypted content is processed, stored, or protected, we will give at least 90 days’ advance notice before the change takes effect, and the change will apply only to encrypted content you create or modify after that effective date.
Continued use of the Service after the applicable effective date constitutes acceptance.
18.Other Provisions#
18.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Community Guidelines, and, if applicable, the Affiliate Terms, are the entire agreement between you and Trickifi regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
18.2 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect.
18.3 No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
18.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all assets.
18.5 No agency. These Terms do not create any agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship between you and Trickifi.
18.6 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, government action, internet failures, or third-party service outages.
18.7 Notices. We may give notice to you by email to the address on your account or by posting in the Service. You may give us notice at legal@trickifi.com or by .
18.8 No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms are for the benefit of you and Trickifi only. No other person or entity is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms, and no one may compel us to enforce them against another user.
18.9 Contact. Questions about these Terms: legal@trickifi.com.
Appendix A
Community Guidelines#
We’re building Trickifi for serious magicians who want to learn, master, and perform stronger magic. These Guidelines describe how we expect everyone to behave on the Service. They are part of the Terms of Use and are enforceable as such.
A.1 Respect the craft
Don’t pirate magic. Do not upload, share, distribute, or otherwise traffic in tricks, methods, books, videos, lecture notes, downloads, or other material you do not have the right to share. Owning a copy does not give you the right to redistribute. If you didn’t create it and you don’t have a license, don’t share it.
Don’t expose other magicians’ methods. Even when material is legitimately yours to use, publicly exposing the working method behind another magician’s signature material is off-limits. This is the magician’s code in modern form. If you are not sure, don’t.
Don’t pirate the Service. Do not attempt to extract, decrypt, scrape, or circumvent Trickifi’s encryption or systems to access content that is not yours.
A.2 Respect each other
No doxxing. Many magicians work under a Stagename for safety, professional, or personal reasons. Do not publish, threaten to publish, or attempt to discover the legal identity behind another magician’s Stagename without their consent. Exception: if a magician has voluntarily added their real name (or other identifying information) to their public Trickifi profile, that information is no longer protected by this rule for the categories the magician has chosen to share.
No harassment. Do not threaten, bully, demean, sexually harass, or stalk another user. This includes targeted negative campaigns and coordinated pile-ons.
No hate. Content that attacks or dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, or similar protected characteristics is prohibited.
No impersonation. Do not pretend to be another magician, a public figure, a Trickifi employee, or anyone else. Performing as a character is fine; impersonating real people to deceive others is not.
A.3 Keep it lawful and safe
No illegal content. Do not use Trickifi to plan, promote, or carry out illegal activity.
No CSAM. Child sexual abuse material is strictly prohibited. We will report all detected CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement, and we will preserve evidence as required by law.
No incitement. Do not incite violence or threaten serious bodily harm against any person or group.
No spam. Do not use the Service to send unsolicited promotional content, mass messages, or repetitive low-value material to other users.
No malware. Do not upload, transmit, or link to anything containing viruses, worms, ransomware, or any code designed to disrupt or compromise systems.
A.4 Use the Service the way it’s designed
Don’t game the metrics. Do not use bots, scripts, or other automation to inflate XP, mastery progress, leaderboard standings, Affiliate referrals, or any other measurable on Trickifi.
Don’t abuse Affiliate or referral programs. Do not generate fake redemptions, use stolen payment methods, or otherwise defraud the commission system.
One account per person. Do not create alternate or “burner” accounts to evade enforcement.
A.5 Reporting and enforcement
How to report. To report a violation, email abuse@trickifi.com with the Stagename or content URL involved, a description of what happened, and any supporting context. For DMCA claims, follow the procedure in Section 10.4 of the Terms.
How we respond. We review reports on a rolling basis. Typical responses, from least to most severe, include:
- A warning and a request to remove the offending content or behavior.
- Temporary feature restrictions (for example, sharing or Affiliate access).
- Account suspension pending investigation.
- Permanent account termination and reclamation of the Stagename.
- Referral to law enforcement.
For severe violations, including CSAM, fraud, security threats, threats of violence, or repeat infringement, we may skip the ladder and terminate immediately. For minor or first-time violations, we will generally try to resolve through warning and education first.
What we don’t do. We don’t settle disputes between magicians. We won’t decide who created a trick, who owns a method, or who is owed credit, and we won’t search another magician’s account on your behalf. Most of it is encrypted and we can’t read it. Reporting a violation is welcome, and we may act on it to protect the Service and the community, but a report is not a ruling in your favor, and it doesn’t take the place of working things out directly or taking the matter to a court or mediator. See Section 10.5 of the Terms.
Appeals. If you believe an enforcement decision was made in error, you may appeal by replying to the enforcement email within 30 days, including any context we should consider. Our decision on appeal is final.
A.6 Stagename guidelines
A Stagename is the unique, public Trickifi username displayed in shared content, Affiliate pages, and forthcoming community features. These guidelines mirror the rules surfaced inline when you create or change a Stagename inside the Service.
Format requirements. A Stagename:
- is 4 to 16 characters long;
- contains at least one letter (upper or lower case);
- may include numbers;
- may include underscores, periods, and hyphens, but no consecutive special characters and no special characters at the beginning or end.
Conduct requirements. A Stagename may not:
- impersonate an individual, group, organization, or Trickifi staff;
- attack other people or promote hate;
- contain sexually explicit or inappropriate language;
- infringe trademarks or use someone else’s brand without authorization.
Reclamation and rate limits. We may reclaim Stagenames that are abandoned, infringing, or in violation of these guidelines, and may delete accounts that materially violate them. Stagename changes are rate-limited (currently twice per 14 days) to discourage churn-based impersonation.
Appendix B
Affiliate Terms#
These Affiliate Terms (“Affiliate Terms”) apply to magicians, shops, dealers, authors, lecturers, publishers, and influencers who are approved to participate in the Trickifi Affiliate program (“Affiliates”) and to use the Affiliate-only sharing and referral features. By applying to the Affiliate program and by using Affiliate features, you agree to these Affiliate Terms in addition to the Terms of Use.
B.1 Eligibility and application
B.1.1 Eligibility. To apply, you must meet all of the following:
- (a) Be at least 18 years old;
- (b) Have more than 10,000 combined followers or subscribers across your public social media accounts, or at least US$1,000 in verifiable sales of original or properly licensed magic content in the prior 12 months; and
- (c) Be in good standing on Trickifi and not have had an Affiliate status revoked for a material violation in the prior 12 months.
B.1.2 Application and identity verification. Every Affiliate is manually reviewed and anyone can apply from their account settings. We may request supporting evidence including analytics screenshots, sales records, distributor verification, and government-issued identification for tax onboarding.
Affiliates may not participate anonymously. Your verified legal identity must be on file with Trickifi, your Trickifi Stagename and profile information must clearly identify the human or organization producing the content, and Trickifi may publicly attribute Affiliate content to your Stagename (and any other identifying information you have made public on your profile) so other magicians can see where the content comes from.
We may approve or deny any application in our sole discretion. Approval is per-account and not transferable.
B.1.3 Content warranties. You represent and warrant, on an ongoing basis, that:
- All content you distribute through the Affiliate program is either originally created by you, owned by you, or licensed to you with the right to distribute it through Trickifi;
- You have the right to share any third-party trademarks, methods, presentations, or copyrighted works that appear in the content;
- You will not use the program to distribute pirated, unlicensed, or stolen magic; and
- Your participation does not violate any agreement you have with a publisher, dealer, lecturer, employer, distributor, or other third party.
B.1.4 Investigation. We may request documentation of your rights to any content at any time and may suspend Affiliate features while we investigate. Suspending, restoring, or declining to act on Affiliate features is a decision about the Service, not a determination of who holds rights in the content. Section 10.5 governs any dispute between you and another magician or rights holder about material you distribute through the program.
B.2 Sharing links
B.2.1 Single-use links. Single-use links are intended for one-to-one distribution (for example, included in an order confirmation email, printed on a QR card handed to a customer at a booth, or sent directly to a buyer). They expire on first redemption.
B.2.2 Multi-use links. Multi-use links are intended for one-to-many distribution (for example, posted publicly on social media or your website). They remain valid until you deactivate them or we revoke them.
B.2.3 Server-side decryption of shared content. When you create an Affiliate sharing link, the underlying content must be temporarily decrypted on Trickifi servers so it can be wrapped to each redeeming recipient’s keys at the moment they accept it. While the link is active, the decrypted plaintext is visible to Trickifi administrators with access to the link’s storage. If you deactivate the link, or we revoke it, the server-side plaintext copy is destroyed and only the recipient copies, encrypted under each recipient’s keys, remain. If you delete the underlying content, the server-side plaintext copy is destroyed at the same time. This is structurally different from person-to-person sharing under Section 5, which decrypts only momentarily and never persists plaintext on the server.
B.2.4 Recipient experience. Anyone redeeming a share link will have the content automatically added to their account. Recipients who do not already have a Trickifi account can use share links as invite codes for instant account access that bypasses the Trickifi waitlist. The same sharing restrictions apply to Affiliate content as to any other shared content as outlined in Section 5: no duplication, no re-sharing, no commercial exploitation, restricted editing, and locked origin attribution.
B.3 Commission
B.3.1 No cost to participate. There is no application fee, monthly fee, or revenue minimum to apply for or maintain Affiliate status. The Affiliate program is free to join and free to use; you do not pay Trickifi for any aspect of being an Affiliate.
The revenue we share with you today flows from one source: a percentage of Trickifi+ subscription revenue from subscribers you refer, detailed in Sections B.3.2 through B.3.5 below. As we expand Trickifi to support direct Affiliate monetization of your own content (for example, paid memberships, paid lectures, paid downloadable content, or other Affiliate-economy surfaces inside Trickifi), a share of that revenue will also flow to you. Direct-monetization revenue share is not yet active; the specific terms will be added here in advance of launch and described in the relevant in-product flows.
B.3.2 Rate and duration. For a limited time, approved Affiliates earn a 50% commission on Trickifi+ subscription revenue that we actually receive from each subscriber who joins Trickifi using that Affiliate’s invite code or link, for up to 24 months from the date the subscriber’s Trickifi account was activated (the “Commission Window”). Commission accrues only on Trickifi+ subscription revenue, not on free-tier activity, add-ons, taxes, gift purchases, or any other non-subscription revenue.
Example. If a subscriber activates their Trickifi account on January 1, 2026 and subscribes to Trickifi+ at different points during the following 24 months, commission accrues as follows:
| Subscriber activation | First paid subscription | Commission Window ends | Commission paid on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2026 | Jan 1, 2026 | Dec 31, 2027 | 24 months of Trickifi+ revenue |
| Jan 1, 2026 | Jan 1, 2027 | Dec 31, 2027 | 12 months of Trickifi+ revenue |
| Jan 1, 2026 | Feb 1, 2028 | Dec 31, 2027 | none (Commission Window expired before first payment) |
B.3.3 Attribution. Attribution is determined by the invite code or link used at signup and is recorded at account creation. Attribution does not transfer if the subscriber later changes accounts, and only one Affiliate may be attributed per subscriber.
B.3.4 Exclusions. No commission accrues on revenue from:
- (a) Subscribers who redeemed a Trickifi staff or affiliate-owned invite code;
- (b) Refunded, charged-back, or disputed transactions (see Section B.5);
- (c) Free trials or promotional-credit periods, until and unless they convert to paid;
- (d) Subscribers who close their account during the billing period for which commission would otherwise have accrued;
- (e) Sandbox, test, fraudulent, or self-referred transactions; or
- (f) Subscribers attributed to you under accounts later determined to violate these Affiliate Terms.
B.3.5 Program changes. The commission rate and Commission Window may change for new referrals on a forward-looking basis. We will provide at least 30 days’ notice before reducing the rate or duration. Changes do not apply retroactively to commission already accrued or to referrals already attributed before the effective date of the change.
At some point in the future, Trickifi will no longer be invite-only, and anyone will be able to create an account without an invite code. When that happens, Affiliate invite codes will continue to function and Affiliate commission sharing will remain active for as long as the Affiliate program is active.
B.4 Payouts
B.4.1 Processor. Payouts are made through Stripe Connect. You must complete Stripe Connect onboarding, accept the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, and provide accurate banking and tax information before any commission is paid. This can take up to 2 weeks from Affiliate account status approval.
B.4.2 Minimum payout.
- U.S. Affiliates: US$20 minimum balance per payout.
- International Affiliates: US$40 minimum balance per payout (to absorb cross-border and foreign-exchange fees).
Balances below the applicable minimum roll forward to the next payout cycle until the threshold is met.
B.4.3 Schedule. Payouts are issued monthly via standard bank transfer to U.S. Affiliates with a balance at or above the minimum, on a date selected by Trickifi (currently the 15th of each month, for commission earned through the prior calendar month). International payouts follow the same cycle subject to banking corridor constraints. To bypass bank transfer wait times (which can take a few business days), instant payouts via Stripe are available at the Affiliate’s election and at the Affiliate’s cost.
B.4.4 Currency and fees. Commissions are calculated and accrued in US dollars based on the US dollar revenue we receive from Trickifi+ subscriptions. Stripe Connect issues your payout in the local currency of the country tied to your Stripe Connect account, converting from US dollars as part of payout where applicable. Stripe Connect’s standard transaction, conversion, and bank fees apply and are deducted from your payout. As of the effective date of these Terms, Stripe Connect Standard charges approximately 0.25% + US$0.25 per payout in the United States, with additional cross-border and foreign-exchange fees for international payouts; see Stripe’s current fee schedule at stripe.com/pricing/connect for live pricing. We do not absorb Stripe Connect fees.
B.4.5 Tax. You are an independent contractor, not an employee, and you are responsible for all taxes on your commission — both the US-source-income obligations described below and any reporting and remittance obligations in your country of residence. Stripe Connect collects the tax forms required for U.S. tax compliance during onboarding: a Form W-9 from U.S. Affiliates, or a Form W-8BEN (or W-8BEN-E for entities) from non-U.S. Affiliates. You complete these forms with Stripe, not with Trickifi directly. Where required by U.S. federal or state tax law (generally, where your annual Trickifi payouts equal or exceed the applicable IRS reporting threshold, currently US$600 as of the effective date of these Terms), you will also receive a Form 1099 reflecting those payouts. Non-U.S. Affiliates are solely responsible for declaring and remitting any local income tax, VAT/GST, or other taxes due on their commission in their country of residence; Trickifi does not withhold or remit non-U.S. taxes. We may pause payouts until Stripe has received your tax documentation.
B.4.6 Statements. You can view your earnings, attributed subscribers, and payout history in the Affiliate dashboard. Statements are made available monthly.
B.5 Clawback and chargebacks
If a subscription attributed to you is refunded, charged back, voided, or determined to be fraudulent, the commission associated with that subscription is reversed. Reversed commission first offsets your unpaid balance. If your unpaid balance is insufficient, the reversal may be deducted from future commission. If we determine that you encouraged or facilitated the reversed transaction (for example, through fake-account farming, refund chains, or stolen card use), we may revoke your Affiliate status, claw back commission already paid for the underlying account or campaign, and pursue any other remedy available to us.
B.6 Brand and conduct
B.6.1 Honest promotion. You agree to make truthful statements about Trickifi and to disclose your Affiliate relationship where required by law or platform policy, including, for U.S. Affiliates, the FTC’s Endorsement Guides. Do not claim affiliations, sponsorships, or features that do not exist.
B.6.2 No bidding on Trickifi terms. You may not bid on “Trickifi,” “Trickifi+,” common misspellings, or related domain names through paid search, paid social, or other paid placement without our prior written permission.
B.6.3 Use of the Trickifi name, marks, and Affiliate brand kit. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to use the Trickifi name and the official Affiliate badge to refer to your relationship with Trickifi during your participation in the program. As part of the program we will also provide each approved Affiliate with an Affiliate brand kit containing official Trickifi logos, the Affiliate badge, brand color values, typography references, and usage guidance for promotional materials. Do not modify the marks, present them as your own, or use them in ways that imply endorsement of products or services that are not part of Trickifi. Your license to the brand kit and to all Trickifi marks ends when your Affiliate status ends.
B.6.4 Promotional use of your identity. During your participation in the Affiliate program, you grant Trickifi a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use your Stagename, your public profile image, headshot, your name, and your Affiliate content excerpts on Trickifi’s marketing site, social channels, advertising materials, in-product Affiliate showcases, and similar promotional surfaces, in connection with promoting you as an Affiliate and promoting the Affiliate program generally. We will not use you to endorse third-party products without your separate consent. This license ends when your Affiliate status ends, except that materials already published or in flight at that time may remain in their normal distribution lifecycle (printed materials, ad campaigns already scheduled, archived social posts, and similar).
Although Trickifi briefly holds decrypted copies of your Affiliate content to operate sharing links (see B.2.3), the promotional license above extends only to excerpts and identified marketing uses. It does not authorize Trickifi to distribute, sell, or otherwise share the full underlying content.
B.7 Suspension and revocation
We may suspend or revoke your Affiliate status at any time, with or without notice, if you breach these Affiliate Terms, the Community Guidelines, the Terms of Use, or applicable law; if your content distribution generates substantive infringement complaints; if your commission patterns suggest fraud or abuse; or if you bring Trickifi into reputational disrepute through public conduct. We may also pause Affiliate status during investigation of any of the above.
Revocation ends your right to earn future commission. Commission already accrued on attributed paying subscribers continues to be payable through the next monthly payout, subject to the clawback rules in Section B.5, unless we have a good-faith basis to withhold pending investigation.
B.8 Surviving terms
Sections B.1.3, B.4.5, B.5, B.6.4 (only as to materials already published or in flight at the time your Affiliate status ends), B.7, and the indemnification, limitation of liability, arbitration, and governing law provisions of the Terms of Use survive revocation or termination of your Affiliate participation.