Terms of Service

These terms are a contract between you and Vespera (“we”, “us”), the operator of vesperanights.com, reachable at aliia@kozlo.ski. By browsing the site, buying a Night, or hosting one, you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information and is part of this agreement.

You must be at least 18 to make a purchase, and the payment method must be yours to use. Nights are evenings for adults; guests at your table are your invitation and your responsibility.

A Night is digital content: a narrated script, the recorded voice, the writing pages, and the morning letters, delivered through this website. Each Night’s page describes what it contains and how many guests it seats before you pay. It is an experience you host yourself — we are not present, and section 9 says what a Night is not.

One purchase covers one household’s table. You receive a personal, non-commercial, non-exclusive right to host that Night for private gatherings, as many times as you like, for as long as we operate. Your guests never pay, and nothing in these terms applies to what they write — what your guests write is theirs, and we claim no rights over it.

This license does not include:

• republishing, uploading, or redistributing the scripts, recordings, or designs;
• reselling a Night, charging admission to one, or hosting one commercially;
• public performance or broadcast of the recordings;
• using the material to build a competing product.

The scripts, recordings, voice, design, and the Vespera name remain our property. If you want to do something the license does not cover — a retreat, a paid event, a classroom — write to us; the answer is often yes.

After purchase we open the door in your browser and email you a durable unlock link — the copy that survives cleared cookies, new laptops, and years. Keep that email. The link is yours to use across your own devices and household, and not to post publicly. If a key ends up circulating on the open internet we may retire it and issue you a fresh one; a genuine buyer never loses access this way.

Prices are shown in US dollars on each Night’s page, and payment is processed by Stripe on Stripe’s own hosted checkout; your card number never touches our servers. The price shown is the price charged, plus any tax your jurisdiction requires to be collected at checkout. We may change prices for future purchases; a change never affects a Night you already bought.

If a Night did not work for your table, reply to your unlock email — or write to aliia@kozlo.ski — within 14 days of purchase and we will refund you in full. No forms, no interrogation, even if you hosted the evening. If you are in a place whose consumer law gives you separate rights over digital content, those rights stand untouched next to this promise; where such law asks for your consent to immediate delivery, you give it by unlocking the Night, and our 14-day promise applies regardless.

You can buy a Night for someone else; we email the unlock letter to her instead of you, with your name and note on it. You confirm the recipient’s email address is one you are allowed to give us — we use it once, for that delivery. The recipient gets the same license as any buyer. Refunds under section 7 go to the person who paid.

A Night is a structured dinner party. It is not therapy, counseling, coaching, or medical advice, and it is not a substitute for any of those. The questions can go deep; you and your guests decide what to share, and honesty and silence both count. You know your table — if a subject is raw for someone you love, steer by that knowledge, not by the cards.

You agree not to:

• circumvent or attempt to circumvent the unlock system;
• scrape, copy, or archive the site’s content by automated means;
• use the letter or gift features to email anyone who has not agreed to hear from you;
• interfere with the service’s operation or other tables’ evenings;
• use the site for anything unlawful.

We work hard to keep the doors open, but the service is provided “as is” and “as available,” and we cannot promise it will never stumble. What we do promise: if something breaks on your evening, write to us and we will make it right, up to and including a full refund. And a purchase is a purchase — if we ever retire a Night you bought, your unlock link keeps working, or we refund you.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses — and our total liability to you for all claims together is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited (such as for fraud, gross negligence, or death or personal injury caused by negligence), and nothing reduces the consumer rights your local law guarantees you.

You can stop using Vespera at any time, and section 7 covers your money. We can suspend or retire an unlock key only for a serious breach of sections 4 or 10 — publishing our recordings, reselling seats — and where practical we will warn you first. Sections that by their nature outlive the evening (4, 12, 14, 15) survive.

We may update these terms as Vespera grows. The date at the top moves when we do, and material changes are announced on the site before they take effect. A change never shrinks what you already bought: your license and refund rights are the ones that were on this page the day you paid, unless the law requires otherwise or the change is in your favor.

If something goes wrong, write to us first — a human reads aliia@kozlo.ski and most things are fixed in one reply. These terms are governed by the law of the place where Vespera is established. If you are a consumer, that choice never takes away protections of the law of the country where you live, and where your consumer law allows it you may bring a dispute in your own local courts.

If a court finds one clause of these terms unenforceable, the rest stand. If we do not enforce a clause today, we have not waived it for tomorrow. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about Vespera. We may assign this agreement to a successor who continues operating Vespera under it; your license moves with you only as section 8 describes.