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Terms of Use

1. Who these terms are with​

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Olympus Association, a non-profit association in Zug, Switzerland ("the Association", "we", "us").

They govern your use of olympusdao.finance and its subdomains (the "Sites"), and any other interface, tool or application the Association uses, including applications we use on third-party platforms such as Discord — and including those built, hosted or operated for us by others. References in these Terms to the Sites include those interfaces, tools and applications.

By using the Sites, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use them.

Where the acknowledgement shown when you first open our dApp refers to the "Site Operator", that means the Association.

Our Privacy Policy explains what information we collect.

2. What the Sites are, and what they are not​

The Olympus protocol is a set of smart contracts deployed on public blockchains. No one — including the Association — can reverse or recover a transaction once it has been made.

The Sites are an interface: a way to read public blockchain data and to construct transactions that you sign and submit with your own wallet.

That distinction matters, so it is worth stating plainly:

  • We never take custody of your assets. They move directly between your wallet and the smart contracts. They do not pass through us.
  • We cannot execute a transaction for you, and we cannot stop or undo one you have executed.
  • We do not hold your keys and cannot recover them, your wallet, or a wallet you have lost access to.
  • The protocol continues to function without the Sites. You can interact with the smart contracts directly, and other interfaces to them may exist.

3. Who may use the Sites​

You may use the Sites only if you are at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into these Terms.

Prohibited Localities. Parts of the Sites let you interact with the Olympus protocol — connecting a wallet and constructing transactions. We call these the Protocol Interfaces. You may not use the Protocol Interfaces if you reside in, are a citizen of, are incorporated in, or have a registered office in any Prohibited Locality, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria or the United States, or if you are subject to any applicable sanctions.

The rest of the Sites — our public websites, documentation and community spaces — are open to anyone, subject to the rest of these Terms and to any applicable law.

You also may not use any part of the Sites if doing so would breach a law that applies to you.

Determining this is your responsibility. Laws differ by jurisdiction and change. We do not advise you on whether your use is lawful where you are, and using the Sites does not mean we have concluded that it is.

We may restrict access from any jurisdiction, or by any person or wallet address, at any time, without notice.

4. Not advice, and not an offer​

Nothing on the Sites is financial, investment, legal, tax or accounting advice, and nothing on them is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any asset. We are not your broker, agent, adviser or fiduciary, and no such relationship arises from your use of the Sites.

Nothing on the Sites is an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument in any jurisdiction where that would be unlawful.

Decide for yourself, or take your own advice. Assess the risks against your own circumstances before you do anything. You are solely responsible for any taxes arising from your use of the Sites.

5. Risk​

Using blockchain protocols carries real risk of total loss. By using the Sites you confirm you understand and accept, at minimum:

  • Market risk. Digital assets are volatile. OHM can lose value, including all of it.
  • Smart contract risk. Contracts may contain bugs or vulnerabilities. Audits reduce risk; they do not eliminate it, and an audit is not a guarantee of safety.
  • Protocol and governance risk. Parameters and mechanisms can change through governance, and those changes can affect the value or behaviour of assets you hold.
  • Irreversibility. Transactions are final. A mistake — a wrong address, a wrong amount, a bad approval — cannot be undone by anyone.
  • Wallet and key risk. Losing your keys means losing your assets permanently.
  • Third-party risk. Wallets, bridges, oracles, node providers and other integrations can fail, be exploited, or be discontinued.
  • Regulatory risk. The legal treatment of digital assets is unsettled and may change in ways that affect you.
  • Availability risk. The Sites may be unavailable, delayed or interrupted.

6. Information on the Sites​

We work to keep the information on the Sites accurate, and much of it is drawn from public blockchain data, third-party indexers and price oracles.

We do not warrant that it is accurate, complete or current. Data can be delayed, stale, or wrong because of an upstream failure we do not control. Do not rely on the Sites as your only source for a decision that matters — verify against the underlying contracts and public data.

Where we link to third-party sites, tools or data, we do so for convenience. We do not endorse them, we do not control them, and we are not responsible for them.

7. How you may and may not use the Sites​

You agree not to:

  • use the Sites in breach of any applicable law, or to facilitate any unlawful activity, including money laundering, terrorist financing or sanctions evasion;
  • interfere with or disrupt the Sites, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to them or to any related system;
  • introduce malware, or use any automated means to access the Sites in a way that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure;
  • attempt to manipulate the protocol, its markets or its governance through deceptive means;
  • misrepresent yourself as affiliated with, or authorised to speak for, the Association or Olympus;
  • reverse engineer or copy any part of the Sites except where the underlying code is open source, in which case its own licence applies.

Security research is welcome and is not a breach of these Terms where it is conducted in good faith and in line with our bug bounty programme and any security policy we publish.

8. Intellectual property​

These Terms grant you no licence to use the Olympus name, logos or branding appearing on the Sites, other than to refer to Olympus accurately and descriptively.

Much of what we publish — including protocol source code and documentation — is released under open source licences. Where a licence applies to a particular work, that licence governs, and these Terms do not restrict what it permits.

9. Third-party services​

The Sites work alongside services we do not operate — wallets, block explorers, the governance forum, bridges, and platforms such as Discord. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for them or liable for what they do.

10. Disclaimer​

The Sites are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, or that the Sites will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free.

11. Limitation of liability​

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Association and its members, officers, contributors and service providers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or digital assets, arising out of or connected with your use of the Sites — whether or not we were advised such loss was possible.

In particular, we are not liable for losses arising from: transactions you execute through your own wallet; smart contract bugs or exploits; the value of any digital asset; inaccurate, delayed or unavailable data; the acts or failures of third-party services; or your loss of keys or wallet access.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total aggregate liability is limited to CHF 100.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under Swiss law — including, under Article 100 of the Swiss Code of Obligations, liability for unlawful intent or gross negligence.

12. Indemnity​

You agree to indemnify the Association against any claim, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these Terms, your breach of any law, or your infringement of anyone's rights.

13. Changes​

We may change these Terms. The revised version takes effect when posted. Where a change is material, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to your attention. Continuing to use the Sites after that means you accept the change.

We may also change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Sites at any time.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction​

These Terms are governed by the laws of Switzerland, without regard to conflict of law rules. Any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Zug, Switzerland.

The Sites are operated from Switzerland and are deemed to be based solely there. They may be reachable from other countries, but that availability does not by itself give any court outside Switzerland jurisdiction over us.

15. Resolving disputes​

Talk to us first. If you have a dispute with us, email communications@olympusdao.finance and set out the problem. Most things can be resolved that way, and we ask you to try for 60 days before starting formal proceedings.

Arbitration. If a dispute is not resolved in that period, it will be finally settled by arbitration under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration of the Swiss Arbitration Centre. The seat is Zug, Switzerland, the language is English, and there will be one arbitrator.

No class actions. You agree to bring any dispute in your own capacity, and not as a claimant in or member of a class, collective or representative proceeding.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, neither this section nor section 14 deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in your country of residence, of the right to bring proceedings in your local courts, or of any right you have not to be bound by an arbitration agreement made before the dispute arose.

16. General​

  • Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest continues in force.
  • No waiver. Not enforcing a provision does not waive it.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may, to a successor.
  • Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any acknowledgement you accept when opening our dApp are the whole agreement between us about the Sites.
  • Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is for convenience, and the English version governs.

17. Contact​

communications@olympusdao.finance Olympus Association, Zug, Switzerland