Legal

ShareBid Product Legal Supplement

Effective 2026-08-07 · Version 2026-08-07.v1

Submission and authoritative email

A first-time product submission requires the product domain, a short product description, one primary product category, and an authoritative email address. A new Bid Board submission also requires a cumulative bid target. SZLKPassport sends a one-time verification link and creates or reuses an internal passwordless Passport identity. ShareBid has no login or registration screen, password, public account, or public Passport identity display. The email and Passport subject remain private and are used to establish control of the normalized product domain. Submission and email verification do not prove legal ownership of the domain or imply endorsement by its operator.

Changes, conflicting submissions, and legacy listings

A publicly listed product cannot be overwritten by another submission. A change is accepted only after a fresh one-time email verification matches both the internal Passport identity and the normalized authoritative-email record established at the product's first verified registration. Supplying an email address without completing verification is not sufficient. Listings created before authoritative-email verification was introduced have no original verified identity and remain read-only through the public submission and API paths; matching details may be reused for sharing or bidding, but conflicting details are rejected.

Public machine-readable API

ShareBid publishes machine-readable help and an OpenAPI contract for email-verified Share Board submissions. A batch is bounded, rate limited, and returns an opaque request capability plus per-product results. No product is published or changed until the mailbox link is redeemed. The capability must be kept private. Automated callers must not overload the service, evade limits, impersonate another product authority, or attempt to overwrite an existing listing.

Share Board cumulative and rolling 24-hour rules

The Share Board defaults to cumulative qualified product visits attributed through each product's ShareBid referral link and also offers a latest rolling 24-hour ranking view. Both views use the same qualified visits. When a human visitor opens an active link, ShareBid records minimum referral evidence and immediately redirects the browser to the product's canonical public URL. Known bots, social previews, and browser preloads do not score. For the same product, the same first-party visitor counts at most once in each rolling 24-hour period; duplicate or rejected requests add no score. In the selected view, higher qualified-visit counts rank first. If counts are tied, the product that reached its current count earlier ranks first; if that remains tied, the earlier-created product ranks first. A qualified visit remains in the cumulative view but stops counting in the latest-24-hours view when it leaves that rolling window. The broader public count of product visits from leaderboard links and share links does not determine Share Board rank. ShareBid proves that it issued the product redirect, not that the visitor remained on or converted within the destination product.

Bid Board ranking periods and cumulative bidding

The Bid Board defaults to cumulative confirmed payments retained for each approved product and also offers a latest rolling 24-hour view of confirmed payments. The period switch changes only the displayed score, order, heading, and ranking prompt. Every new or repeat bid still selects a cumulative target, uses the cumulative catalog step, and charges only the difference from that product's retained cumulative confirmed total; the latest-24-hours view never changes the minimum bid, difference payment, or checkout calculation. Anyone may add a bid to an approved product without email verification; doing so never grants authority to change that product's public information. A new product must complete authoritative-email verification before its first Bid checkout is created. Starting or returning from checkout, pending payments, failed payments, rejected payments, and unprocessed events do not count. In the selected view, higher effective confirmed amounts rank first. If amounts are tied, the product that reached its current amount earlier ranks first; if that remains tied, the earlier-created product ranks first. Confirmed refunds, partial refunds, disputes, and chargebacks reduce effective amounts. A payment stops counting in the latest-24-hours view after its confirmation leaves the rolling window but remains in the cumulative total unless reversed.

The two boards never mix

Share Board qualified product visits never increase, convert into, weight, or determine a Bid Board payment total. Bid Board payments never increase, convert into, weight, or determine a Share Board visit count. A product may hold different positions on the two boards and in the two ranking periods at the same time. No blended score is produced.

Data, retention, and analytics

ShareBid stores submitted public product details, an internal Passport subject, and a salted one-way hash of the authoritative email on the product record so later changes can be matched to the original authority. It also stores salted email hashes and short-lived state for pending verification requests, rate-limit evidence, referral and redirect evidence, consent state, payment reconciliation records, and audit events needed to operate and protect the boards. It does not store the authoritative email in plaintext in the ShareBid product database or display it publicly. Anonymous page-view analytics is sent only after consent. Critical submission, authority, share, payment, and reversal events use the durable D1 outbox before delivery to the governed analytics project.