What you buy, and what you own.
These terms cover the works published by TIC Association: the tools you download, the letters you subscribe to, and the repair service. We have kept them short, and we have put the uncomfortable parts in plain sight rather than in a footnote.
Last updated 14 July 2026
TIC Association, reachable and answerable.
TIC Association publishes the works on this site. We are a pseudonymous collective and we do not publish the legal names of our members. What we do publish is a contact address that a real person answers: hello@ticassociation.com.
Payments are taken by Stripe and by Gumroad, both of which hold verified account information about us. If a purchase goes wrong, you are not left shouting into the dark: you have a working contact address, a refund route, and a card issuer behind you.
You own the copy you buy.
XDB and IDB are one time purchases, not subscriptions. When you buy one, you get a licence to install and use it on machines you own, for as long as you like. There is no recurring charge, no renewal, and nothing to cancel. If we vanish tomorrow, the copy on your machine keeps working, because it does not phone home to a server of ours.
You may not resell the software, redistribute it, or pass off our work as yours.
Refunds: XDB and IDB carry a 14 day money back guarantee. Ask within 14 days and you get your money back. You do not have to justify it to us.
The tools automate your own account.
Our audience tools carry out actions on accounts you control, at a pace you set, that you could perform by hand. They do not create fake accounts, they do not manufacture engagement, and they do not buy followers. Every action targets real accounts, and every follower gained is a real account that chose to follow back.
The honest risk, stated once and clearly: automating actions on any account carries platform risk under that platform's own terms, whatever tool is used and whoever makes it. We build in conservative limits and human scale pacing, and we will not promise you immunity, because no one can. You decide how to use the software, and the consequences on your account are yours.
You agree not to use our tools to harass anyone, to break the law, or to violate the terms of any service you connect them to.
Research, not advice. No custody, ever.
Layer 0 is a subscription letter that publishes one considered market setup per issue: the pair, the range, the stop, and the leverage cap. Basic is 49 USD per month, Pro is 99 USD per month. You can cancel at any time, and cancelling stops any future billing. If a month passes with nothing worth publishing, no issue ships and the letter says so.
This is not financial advice, and we are not licensed to give it. Layer 0 is published research and nothing more. We never take custody of your funds, we never touch your exchange account, and we never trade on your behalf. Any capital you put at risk is yours, the decision is yours, and the loss is yours. Trading with leverage can cost you more than you put in. Where we show past results, they are labelled as such, and past results tell you nothing reliable about future ones.
If you need financial advice, speak to someone licensed to give it in your country. That is not us.
You pay after it works.
The diagnosis is free. You describe the broken application, and we tell you in plain language what is wrong and what it would take to fix. You owe nothing for that, and you are free to take the diagnosis and fix it yourself.
If you ask us to do the fix, the fee is agreed before we start, and you are charged only after the fix is verified working. The code we hand back is yours. We do not hold it hostage, and we do not lock you into us.
We will tell you when we cannot fix something, rather than bill you to find out.
What we do not promise.
The software is provided as it is. We work hard to make it correct, and we fix what breaks, but we do not warrant that it will be free of every fault or that it will meet every purpose you had in mind. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our liability for any claim is limited to what you paid us.
None of this takes away the rights the law gives you as a consumer where you live. If your local consumer law grants you something stronger than what is written here, your local law wins.
Write to us first.
If something has gone wrong, write to hello@ticassociation.com before anything else. Most problems are a refund or a fix, and we would rather give you one than argue with you.
If we change these terms, we change this page and move the date at the top. Changes are not retroactive: the terms that apply to your purchase are the ones that were published when you made it.
See also: Privacy.