Terms of Service
Effective Date: April 19, 2026 · Version 2026-04-19
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. By downloading, installing, or using the CIPHER application (the "App"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (the "Terms"). If you do not agree to all of these Terms, do not use the App. These Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and VEXNODE LLC ("Company", "we", "us", or "our").
1.1. By creating an account, installing, accessing, or otherwise using the App, you represent that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.
1.2. We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified to you in-app. Your continued use of the App after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
"$CIPH" or "CIPH" means the in-app virtual currency used within the App for in-app rewards, in-app purchases, and eligibility to participate in community surveys. $CIPH has no real-world monetary value, is not legal tender, is not a financial instrument, is not a security, and is not redeemable for cash, fiat currency, cryptocurrency, or any item of real-world value.
"App" means the CIPHER mobile application made available by the Company through authorized application stores.
"Company", "we", "us", or "our" means VEXNODE LLC, a limited liability company registered in Georgia under Tax Identification Number 405850066, the operator of the App.
"User", "you", or "your" means any individual who accesses or uses the App in accordance with these Terms.
"In-App Reward Pool" means the internal ledger balance from which the Company, at its sole discretion, distributes $CIPH to Users as in-app rewards.
"Invite Bonus" means the one-time, single-level in-app bonus described in Section 7.
"Locked Deposit" means the optional in-app feature described in Section 10.
3.1. The App is available only to individuals who are at least 18 years old. By using the App, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older.
3.2. You must provide accurate and complete information during registration, and you agree to keep this information up to date. You may not impersonate another person or create an account under false pretenses.
3.3. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials (including your recovery key and, where applicable, your Vault password) and for all activity that occurs under your account.
3.4. We may require identity verification ("KYC") to use certain features of the App. KYC is voluntary; features that require KYC will remain unavailable until you complete it. All KYC processing is described in our Privacy Policy.
3.5. We may refuse, suspend, or terminate any account at our sole discretion, including without limitation for fraud, abuse, violation of these Terms, violation of applicable law, or inactivity.
$CIPH is an in-app virtual currency used exclusively within the App. $CIPH is not a cryptocurrency, is not a token, is not issued on any blockchain, is not traded on any exchange, and is not transferable to any wallet, account, or service outside the App. $CIPH has no real-world monetary value and cannot be exchanged for cash, fiat currency, goods, or services outside the App.
$CIPH is not offered or sold as an investment, is not a security, is not a financial instrument, and does not represent any ownership interest, equity, debt, profit share, dividend right, or claim against the Company or its assets. Users should not acquire or accumulate $CIPH with any expectation of profit, financial return, or future monetary value. The Company makes no representation or warranty regarding any future utility, availability, or value of $CIPH.
$CIPH is licensed to the User, not sold. You receive a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use $CIPH within the App solely as permitted by these Terms. The Company retains all right, title, and interest in and to $CIPH and the In-App Reward Pool.
The App operates an internal ledger known as the In-App Reward Pool, which the Company uses to track and distribute $CIPH to Users. The Company may, at its sole discretion, set a maximum internal ledger cap of up to 21,000,000,000 units of $CIPH. This cap is an internal accounting figure only and does not represent a token supply, a circulating supply, a market capitalization, or any tradeable quantity. The Company may adjust, reset, or modify the In-App Reward Pool, including the internal cap, at any time without notice.
The Company allocates the In-App Reward Pool across the following internal-use categories, solely for purposes of managing in-app rewards, in-app distribution, and operational sustainability:
All allocations are internal bookkeeping categories only. No allocation represents a distribution of securities, tokens, equity, or any instrument of real-world value. The Company may reallocate between internal categories at any time at its sole discretion.
$CIPH cannot be withdrawn, cashed out, transferred to another User's external account, exported, sold, or converted to any currency or asset outside the App. Any attempt to do so is prohibited and may result in suspension or termination of your account and forfeiture of your $CIPH balance.
$CIPH balances may be forfeited upon account termination, prolonged inactivity, violation of these Terms, or discontinuation of the App. You have no right to compensation for any forfeited $CIPH.
5.1. You agree not to:
5.2. We may investigate suspected violations and take appropriate action, including warning, suspension, permanent ban, and forfeiture of $CIPH balance.
6.1. The App and all content, features, functionality, design, graphics, trademarks, logos, and code within it are owned by the Company or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
6.2. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the App on a device you own or control, solely for your own personal, non-commercial use.
6.3. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, create derivative works of, or otherwise exploit any part of the App except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by applicable law that cannot be lawfully excluded.
6.4. Any content you submit through the App (for example, usernames, chat messages, support tickets) remains yours, but you grant the Company a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, reproduce, and transmit that content solely to operate and improve the App.
The App offers an optional Invite Bonus feature that allows a registered User (the "Inviter") to share a unique invite code with another person. When a new User registers using that invite code and completes the verification steps required by the App, the Inviter may receive a one-time in-app bonus credited in $CIPH to the Inviter's in-app balance.
The Invite Bonus operates on a single level only. The Inviter receives a bonus equal to five percent (5%) of certain qualifying in-app activity of the directly invited User, as determined by the Company. There are no second-level, third-level, downline, upline, team, matrix, or multi-tier bonuses of any kind. The Company does not operate and will not operate any multi-level marketing, network marketing, pyramid, referral chain, or similar structure.
All Invite Bonuses are funded exclusively from the In-App Reward Pool maintained by the Company. No portion of any Invite Bonus is taken from, deducted from, or paid out of any invited User's balance, payments, purchases, or in-app activity. Invited Users lose nothing by being invited and do not pay, contribute, or transfer value to the Inviter in any form.
The Invite Bonus does not guarantee any earnings, income, or financial return. Actual bonuses depend on the invited User's voluntary in-app activity and on the Company's discretionary rules. The Company makes no representation regarding the amount, frequency, or value of any Invite Bonus. Because $CIPH has no real-world monetary value and cannot be withdrawn (see Section 4), the Invite Bonus is not an income opportunity, business opportunity, or earnings program of any kind.
Users may not share invite codes through spam, fraudulent means, purchased traffic, incentivized traffic, bots, self-referrals, duplicate accounts, or any method prohibited by these Terms, by applicable law, or by applicable application-store policies. The Company may suspend, reverse, or forfeit Invite Bonuses and related accounts for any violation, in its sole discretion.
The Company may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Invite Bonus feature at any time without notice and without liability. Users have no vested right to the Invite Bonus.
8.1. Our collection, use, and protection of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
8.2. By using the App, you acknowledge that you have read the Privacy Policy.
8.3. Where we process special-category data (such as biometric data used for liveness verification in KYC), we do so only with your explicit consent, which you may withdraw at any time as described in the Privacy Policy.
9.1. The App may offer optional in-app purchases processed exclusively through the applicable application store (Google Play, Apple App Store). All payment processing, currency conversion, tax collection, and refunds are handled by the application store under its own terms.
9.2. In-app purchases, where available, entitle you to an in-app delivery of $CIPH or in-app items within your account. Because $CIPH has no real-world monetary value (see Section 4), purchases constitute the purchase of an in-app digital license, not of any financial product.
9.3. Refund requests must be directed to the applicable application store. We cannot issue refunds for purchases made through an application store.
9.4. We may add, remove, or change in-app purchase offerings and prices at any time.
The App offers an optional in-app feature that allows a User to voluntarily lock a portion of the User's in-app $CIPH balance for a selected period of time in exchange for a boosted in-app reward rate during that period (a "Locked Deposit" or "Reward Boost"). The feature is entirely optional, requires no payment of real-world currency, and operates solely within the App.
The Locked Deposit feature is not a deposit account, savings product, investment product, security, yield product, lending product, staking product, or financial instrument. It does not generate interest, dividends, yield, or any financial return. The Company does not use any "APR", "APY", "yield", or other financial-return metric in connection with this feature, and any such metric, if displayed, is for illustrative in-app progress only and does not represent a financial return. No funds are held, invested, or managed on behalf of the User. The User's locked $CIPH remains an in-app ledger balance at all times.
During the lock period, the User may receive in-app rewards at a rate higher than the base in-app reward rate, as determined by the Company at its sole discretion. The boosted rate is a gameplay parameter, not a financial return, and is subject to change at any time. The Company makes no guarantee as to the amount, frequency, or continuation of any boosted in-app reward.
Locked $CIPH and any boosted in-app rewards remain in-app virtual currency governed by Section 4. They cannot be withdrawn to fiat currency, cryptocurrency, external wallets, external accounts, or any item of real-world value. They are not redeemable for cash.
A User may request to end a Locked Deposit before the end of the selected lock period. In such case, an early-unlock penalty may apply, reducing the amount of $CIPH returned to the User's in-app balance. Any penalty is assessed and retained entirely within the App and the In-App Reward Pool, and does not involve any real-world funds.
Because $CIPH has no real-world monetary value and is not transferable outside the App, Locked Deposits carry no financial risk, but they do carry in-app product risk: the Company may modify boosted rates, lock periods, penalties, or the feature itself at any time, or discontinue it entirely, without liability. Users have no vested right to any particular in-app outcome.
From time to time the Company may invite verified Users to participate in non-binding community surveys regarding product direction, feature priorities, user experience, and roadmap preferences. Participation is voluntary.
Each verified User is entitled to one (1) vote per survey question. Voting weight is not proportional to any User's $CIPH balance, Locked Deposit, account age, purchase history, or any other factor. Participation eligibility may require identity verification or other anti-abuse measures, as determined by the Company.
All community survey results are advisory and informational only. Survey results do not bind the Company to any specific product, technical, operational, business, financial, or strategic decision. The Company retains sole and final discretion over all decisions concerning the App, including design, features, pricing, availability, continuation, and discontinuation. No survey constitutes a shareholder vote, governance vote, or any form of legally binding decision-making, and no User acquires any governance right, control right, voting right, or ownership right in the Company or the App by participating.
The App does not operate a decentralized autonomous organization, on-chain governance system, token-weighted voting system, or any similar mechanism. Community surveys are an in-app feedback tool only.
The Company may modify, suspend, or discontinue community surveys at any time without notice and without liability.
12.1. AS-IS. The App is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
12.2. No uptime guarantee. We do not guarantee that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free from viruses or other harmful components.
12.3. Limitation of liability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither the Company nor its directors, employees, affiliates, agents, or licensors will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or related to your use of the App, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the App shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid to us through in-app purchases in the 12 months preceding the claim, or (b) USD 100.
12.4. Consumer rights. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities. To the extent those exclusions or limitations are unenforceable in your jurisdiction, they will be limited to the minimum permitted by law; nothing in these Terms limits your non-waivable statutory rights as a consumer.
13.1. You may stop using the App and request account deletion at any time (see our Privacy Policy Section 9A, or use delete-account.html).
13.2. We may suspend or terminate your access to the App at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including violation of these Terms or inactivity.
13.3. Upon termination, your right to use the App ceases immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4.6, 4.7, 6, 12, 14, and 15) will survive.
14.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of Georgia (the country), without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
14.2. Except where prohibited by applicable consumer-protection law, any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be submitted to the competent courts of Tbilisi, Georgia.
14.3. EU and UK consumers: nothing in this Section 14 deprives you of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, including the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.
14.4. Informal resolution. Before filing a formal claim, we encourage you to contact us at ciph.official@gmail.com to attempt an amicable resolution.
15.1. Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms explicitly referenced, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the App and supersede any prior agreements.
15.2. Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
15.3. No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be a waiver of that right or provision.
15.4. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms at any time, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
15.5. Contact. Questions about these Terms may be directed to ciph.official@gmail.com.