Terms of Service

Last updated: August 22, 2026 · version 2026-08-22

These Terms are a binding contract between you and THE BEST. By using THE BEST or buying Points you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

1. Who we are

THE BEST is operated by THE BEST, established in España. Contact: info@thebestcountry.lol. Company details and our contact point for authorities are listed in the Legal notice.

2. What the service is

THE BEST is a paid online entertainment service. You buy Points and assign them to a country. Points push that country up a public ranking. Each season the ranking resets; the top twenty countries of each season score toward a permanent all-time table.

That is the whole product. Points are the digital content you receive, and their only function is to move a flag up a leaderboard on this website.

3. What the service is not

• It is not gambling, a lottery, a raffle, a sweepstake or a game of chance. Nothing is decided at random: rankings are the arithmetic sum of the Points assigned.
• There is no prize, no payout, no jackpot and no money to be won. No participant can receive money or anything of monetary value from us as a result of the ranking.
• It is not a donation or a charitable contribution. No money is transferred to any country, government, state, institution, non-profit or individual. The purchase price is the price of the digital content and stays with THE BEST.
• It is not an investment, a security, a financial product, a token or a crypto-asset. Points cannot appreciate, cannot be resold, cannot be traded and have no market.
• It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to any country, government, state, national team, olympic committee, sports federation or public body.

4. Who may use it

You may buy Points only if you are at least 18 years old — or older, if that is the age of majority where you live — and have legal capacity to enter into a contract. The service is not directed at children and we do not knowingly sell to minors.

You may not use the service if you are located in, or are a resident or national of, a country or territory subject to comprehensive economic sanctions, or if you appear on any applicable restricted-party list. Choosing a country inside the ranking is not a transaction with that country: it is a label on a leaderboard, and it says nothing about where you are or what we do with the money.

You are responsible for checking that using this service is lawful where you are. If it is not, do not use it.

5. Points

• Points are digital content supplied without a tangible medium. They are delivered immediately, as soon as payment is confirmed.
• Points have no monetary value. They cannot be redeemed for cash, transferred to another person, exchanged, resold, gifted or converted into anything else.
• Points are assigned to a country at the moment of purchase and cannot be moved to a different country afterwards.
• Points count toward the season in which they were bought. When a season closes, the standing is frozen and recorded in the all-time table. Points do not carry over to the next season.
• We may cancel Points, remove them from the ranking and suspend access if the payment behind them is reversed, disputed, fraudulent, or made with a payment method you were not authorised to use.

6. Price, payment and tax

Prices are shown in US dollars before you confirm. The total price of your purchase is displayed on screen at the moment of purchase and is the price you pay.

Where we are required to charge value added tax, sales tax, GST or an equivalent consumption tax on digital services, that tax is calculated and shown at checkout. You are responsible for any other tax that applies to you personally.

Payments are processed by a third-party payment provider. We never receive or store your full card number, and your card details are never on our servers. Your bank or card issuer may apply currency conversion or foreign transaction fees that we neither set nor receive.

7. Cancellation and refunds

Points are delivered immediately, so purchases are final. If you are a consumer in the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for digital content — and you lose it once delivery begins with your express consent. We ask for that consent explicitly at checkout and record it.

The full rules, the exceptions where we do refund, and how to ask for one are in our Refund and Withdrawal Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

8. Messages and other content you submit

If your purchase is large enough, you may attach a short public message and a nickname. What you may and may not post, how we moderate, and how to report content is set out in our Content and Moderation Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

You keep ownership of what you write. You grant THE BEST a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute your message and nickname on the service and in material promoting the service, for as long as we operate it. You confirm that you have the right to grant that licence and that your content does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

We are not obliged to publish, keep or restore any message. Messages are a free add-on: your Points buy ranking position, not publication. If the automated filter refuses your message the purchase does not complete at all, so nothing is charged; if a published message is later removed, your Points stay on the ranking and no refund arises.

Do not put personal data in a message or nickname — yours or anybody else’s. Messages are public, permanent by default, indexable by search engines, and we cannot un-publish something that has already been copied.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use bots, scripts, automation or any other means to submit purchases, reports or messages other than through the normal interface;
• manipulate or attempt to manipulate the ranking by fraudulent payments, stolen payment methods, chargeback abuse or coordinated abuse of the reporting mechanism;
• probe, scan, overload, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service, its infrastructure or other users’ data;
• circumvent rate limits, moderation filters or access controls;
• scrape or reuse the ranking data at scale for a competing service;
• use the service for money laundering, sanctions evasion, or any unlawful purpose.

10. The rules of the game may change

The season length, the points table, the price per Point, the champion multiplier and the ranking rules are part of the game and we may change them. Changes apply going forward and are shown on the site. We will not retroactively remove Points you have already bought, except in the fraud and payment-reversal cases described in section 5.

We may extend, shorten, close or void a season where necessary to deal with fraud, a technical failure or a legal requirement. If a season is voided because of our own technical failure, we will publish what happened and how we handled it.

11. Intellectual property

The service, its code, design, text and graphics belong to THE BEST or its licensors. You get no rights in them beyond using the service as intended.

Flags are national symbols and are used descriptively, to identify the country a ranking row refers to. No claim of ownership over any national symbol is made, and no endorsement by any state or public body is implied or claimed.

12. Availability

The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at any particular time. We may suspend it for maintenance, or discontinue it entirely, at any time.

If we discontinue the service permanently, we will announce it on the site with reasonable notice and let the running season close normally, so that Points already bought are counted in the standings one last time. Points are delivered and consumed the moment they move a flag, so shutting down later does not undo a delivery already made and does not by itself give rise to a refund. If we cancel a season before it ends while the service continues, those Points carry over in full to the next season.

13. Liability

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law: death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or your statutory rights as a consumer.

Subject to that, THE BEST is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for loss of profit, goodwill, data or opportunity. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

We are not liable for the content of messages written by users. We are not liable for the acts, omissions or content of the payment provider, the hosting provider, or any other third party.

14. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify THE BEST against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the service, or content you submitted — except to the extent the claim results from our own act or omission. This clause does not apply to consumers where mandatory law says otherwise.

15. Suspension and termination

We may restrict or suspend your access, and remove Points or content, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms, committed fraud, or exposed us to legal risk. Where the law requires it and it is safe to do so, we will tell you why and how to challenge the decision.

You may stop using the service at any time. There are no accounts to close.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The version in force is the one published here when you buy, and its version identifier is recorded with your purchase. Material changes are announced on the site. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the new version; changes never apply retroactively to a purchase already made.

Current version: 2026-08-22.

17. Law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the law of España, and the courts of España have jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you habitually live, and you may bring proceedings in your own courts. If you live in the European Union, you may also use an alternative dispute resolution body available in your country.

Before starting proceedings, please write to info@thebestcountry.lol: most disputes are cheaper and faster to solve that way.

18. Miscellaneous

• If a clause is found invalid, the rest stays in force.
• These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Refund and Withdrawal Policy and the Content and Moderation Policy, are the entire agreement between us.
• We may transfer our rights and obligations to a successor; your rights are not affected.
• Not enforcing a right on one occasion is not a waiver of it.
• Neither party is liable for failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• These Terms are published in English and Spanish. In case of conflict, the English version prevails.