Terms of service
Draft — needs the founder's legal review; not legal advice. This page explains in plain words how Third Life works and what we and you are each responsible for. It may change before or after the first sales; changes to the plot terms apply to terms bought after they are published.
- About these terms
- Your wallet
- Land: a renewable tenure
- Prices and terms
- Payments and refunds
- Not an investment
- Buying art
- Your content
- NFTs and metadata
- AI agents
- Conduct and moderation
- Suspension and termination
- Third parties
- Availability, no warranties
- Limitation of liability
- Privacy
- Changes
- Contact
1. About these terms
Third Life is a shared 3D town for Tezos art, run by its founder (“we”, “the host”). By entering the town, building, publishing, buying a plot or connecting an AI agent, you accept these terms and the house rules, which are part of them. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.
You must be old enough to enter into a binding agreement where you live, and at least 18 to buy a plot or extra storage. You are responsible for whether using a Tezos wallet and paying in tez is lawful for you.
2. Your wallet
- Your Tezos wallet is your identity here. Signing in is a message you approve; it spends no tez.
- You alone control your wallet and its keys. We never ask for your seed phrase, private key or password, and we cannot recover a lost wallet, reverse an operation you approved, or move tokens on your behalf.
- Anything done with your wallet's signature on this site is treated as done by you.
3. Land: a renewable tenure, not ownership
A plot is a renewable tenure: the right to build and show your work on one numbered place in the town, for a paid term. It is not ownership of land, of the town, of the software or of any share in the project, and there is no token or contract behind it. The register of who holds which plot is kept by the island.
The streets, squares, the park, the beach, the promenade and every other common place are never for sale. Buying a plot gives you the right to build and publish on it, with or without an invitation. The plots facing the Palazzo are reserved for the drop's artists and are not for sale; the host can reserve other plots, give plots as gifts and assign plots directly.
4. Prices, terms, renewal and grace
Prices are fixed in tez, by the plot's size and its zone: the sea front and the plots around the Palazzo delle Arti cost more, the countryside less. The purchase price is a round number and covers the first three-month term; when it ends you renew one term at a time, for about a fifth of the price. A second plot costs twice as much, to buy and to renew, and a third four times as much; one wallet holds at most three, and at most two that touch each other.
- A term lasts three calendar months. You can renew before it ends, up to a year beyond the running term; a renewal always starts where your paid term ends.
- When you buy or renew you can choose 1 year: four terms for the price of three. When the purchase price covers the first term, it counts as one of the three. A year cannot be added when the plot is already paid more than one term ahead.
- If a term ends without renewal, you keep the plot for a grace period of 60 days, during which you can still renew. After that the plot returns to the town and is offered again.
- Extra storage is sold in add-ons of 25 MB, 5 tez per add-on per three-month term, up to 150 MB in all on a 16 m plot and 300 MB on larger plots. It is paid until the plot's term ends, renews with it and goes with the plot when it is resold. If it lapses, the plot falls back to its base allowance: nothing is deleted, but a new version must fit. The island can refuse new storage when its own ceiling is reached.
- Resale: after you have held a plot for 90 days you may list it at a price you choose. The buyer pays in one operation: 95 % to you and a 5 % marketplace fee to the treasury. The buyer inherits the rest of your paid term and the same obligations, and starts their own 90 days before reselling.
- The drop and gifts: the drop's plots are given by the host for their first term, and gifted plots are claimed at 0 tez with their first term paid. After that they renew like any other plot of their zone. A gift can be revoked until it is used.
- Your work is kept. Losing a plot never deletes what you made: your published gallery is taken off the map, but its files are kept. You can export your drafts at any time, and the host can send you a copy of your published gallery.
5. Payments in tez are final
Your wallet pays the island's treasury directly, in one operation that you approve. The island reads that operation back from the Tezos chain before recording your plot. Network fees are paid by your wallet.
Payments are final. If a payment cannot be applied (for example, someone else's payment for the same plot was verified first, the amount was wrong, or the price changed while your wallet was open), nothing is recorded and the host returns the tez by hand. The island never sends refunds automatically. Apart from such manual corrections, there are no refunds, including when a plot lapses, is taken back for breaking these terms, or when the site changes or closes.
6. Not an investment
A plot is a place to build, not a financial product. We make no promise of profit, value, resale or demand. Do not buy one expecting a return: terms must be renewed, resale is slowed down on purpose, the number and layout of plots can change, and the price of tez moves. Nothing on this site is financial, legal or tax advice.
7. Buying art
The Buy button on an artwork uses objkt's marketplace contract: the purchase is between you and the seller, at the listed price, with royalties and objkt's fee as objkt sets them. We are not the seller, take no commission on artworks, and cannot reverse, refund or guarantee a purchase. Check the work, the artist and the listing before you approve.
8. Your content and the licence you give us
- You are responsible for everything you build, upload, hang, write or link on the site: your plot, models, images, gallery sign, portals, chat and anything an agent builds for you.
- You promise that you have the right to publish it, and that it does not break the law, the house rules or anyone else's rights (copyright, trademark, privacy, image).
- You keep every right you have in your work. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, resize and re-encode (for example, the WebP images and the display copies made at publish), display and transmit it to visitors, and to show it in the town's maps, the home page and the gazette and in posts that present the site, for as long as it is published and for a reasonable time after, plus backups and copies already made.
- Published content can be seen, downloaded and screenshotted by any visitor's browser. Do not publish anything you want to keep private.
9. NFTs and their metadata
When you hang an NFT, the site records the token reference (contract and id) and shows the token's current public metadata, read from objkt, TzKT and IPFS. We do not verify authorship, ownership of rights, or the accuracy of any metadata, and showing a token is not an endorsement. If the metadata or the files behind it change or disappear, what the town shows changes with them. Display copies made at publish are lighter versions for viewing, not the original work. Tokens stay in your wallet; the site never holds them.
10. AI agents
You may connect an AI agent (ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Cursor or others) to build drafts of your plot. An agent cannot publish, sign or spend tez: you review its draft and publish it yourself, and you are responsible for what you publish. The agent's provider has its own terms and may process what you send it. You can disconnect an agent at any time from your account.
11. Conduct and moderation
The house rules apply everywhere on the site. The host may pause chat, remove a person from a room, hide a gallery sign or a gallery world, take a published plot off the map, suspend a creator or take back a plot, without notice when the matter is urgent (illegal content, scams, harassment). Moderation decides what this site shows; it never touches tokens on the chain.
12. Suspension and termination
- We may suspend or end your access, your right to build, or your plot if you break these terms or the house rules, if the law requires it, or to protect visitors or the site. A plot taken back for a breach is not refunded.
- You can stop using the site at any time: disconnect your wallet, let your plot lapse, or ask the host to remove your published work.
- We may change, pause or close the site or parts of it. If the mainland closes for good while plot terms are paid, the host intends to give notice and to say what happens to unused terms; that commitment is part of this draft for the founder to confirm.
13. Third parties
The site depends on services we do not control, each with its own terms and privacy policy:
- Tezos and its network, where payments and tokens live;
- wallets such as Kukai and Temple, and the Beacon connection they use;
- objkt (listings, purchases, metadata and media) and TzKT (chain data and names);
- IPFS gateways (such as ipfs.io and dweb.link) for artwork files, and Tezos Domains for names;
- Cloudflare, which hosts the site, its database, files and live rooms;
- Google Fonts, from which pages load their typefaces;
- the AI providers you choose to connect, and sites that portals and signs link to.
We are not responsible for their availability, their content, or what they do with your data. A link out of Third Life always warns you first.
14. Availability and no warranties
Third Life is young, built and run by a small team on free hosting plans, and offered as is and as available. It may be slow, full (the town holds 50 people at once), interrupted, changed or lose data. To the extent the law allows, we give no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a purpose, accuracy and uninterrupted service. Keep your own copies of your work.
15. Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost profits, lost data, the value of tez or tokens, or losses caused by wallets, the Tezos network, objkt, IPFS, Cloudflare or other third parties. Our total liability to you for anything related to the site is limited to the tez you paid us for plots and storage in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
16. Privacy
What the site stores
- Your wallet address, with what you do that needs it: invitations, plots and their terms, payments, publications, gallery worlds, your gallery sign, agent drafts and connections. Payments and tokens are also public on the Tezos chain, where nobody can delete them.
- Your nickname, which others in the room see with your wallet address while you are there.
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Sign-in cookies:
thirdlife-session(lasts 8 hours) andthirdlife-login(5 minutes, during sign-in), both HttpOnly and limited to the site's API. We store only a hash of the session. - Chat: the town's live chat is passed on to the people present and not stored. In published creator spaces using the fallback connection, the last 60 messages of a room are kept for at most 5 minutes.
- Reports record the space, the reason and your note, not who sent them.
- Network addresses are used to limit how often agent sign-ins and connections are requested, and are kept in that limits table. Our host's logs may also record requests.
- Agent connections are stored as hashes of their tokens, never the tokens themselves.
- Daily usage counts (requests, visitors), without personal data.
What your browser stores
The site keeps working data in your browser's storage (localStorage, IndexedDB and Cache Storage): your drafts, your nickname and avatar choice, small settings, caches of artworks and your imported models, and NFT display copies. It stays on your device; clearing site data deletes it, including unpublished drafts. Your wallet connection keeps its own data. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.
What we do not do
We do not sell your data, show advertising or build profiles of visitors.
Deletion and your rights
You can delete your gallery worlds and agent drafts yourself, disconnect agents and sign out. To ask for a copy of, a correction to, or deletion of anything else the site holds about your wallet, write to the host (see contact). We will delete what we can; we cannot delete what is on the Tezos chain, and we may keep payment records we need for accounting or the law.
17. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The date below shows the current version. Changes to prices and plot terms apply to terms bought after they are published; for other important changes we will give notice on the site. Using the site after a change means you accept it.
18. Contact
To be completed by the founder: the operator's name, a contact address for questions, reports, appeals and privacy requests, and the governing law and courts.