Refund policy
Listing and voting are free. The only thing you can pay for is a sponsor slot, so this page is about that.
Last updated 30 August 2026
What you are buying
A sponsor slot is one clearly labelled placement, for one ISO week, shown to everyone who visits the board that week. Prices are on the pricing page.
- You are buying placement, not a result. We do not promise clicks, signups, rankings or revenue, and a slot that underperformed is not a fault.
- The slot never changes your position in the ranked list. Rank is not for sale.
- Payment is taken in full at booking, and the week is held for you from that moment.
Before the slot runs
- Cancel more than 48 hours before your slot week begins and you get a full refund, no questions asked.
- Inside 48 hours the slot is already off the market for that week, so we offer a move to the next free week instead of a refund.
- One free move per booking. Move it a second time and we treat it as a new booking.
- To cancel or move, reply to your receipt or email us from the address that paid.
Once the slot has run
- A slot shown for its full week is not refundable.
- If it failed to display for more than 24 hours in its week because of a fault on our side, we refund the whole week. You do not need to ask; we check this ourselves.
- If it displayed but the week was shortened by a partial outage, we refund pro rata by day, rounded up.
- Where you prefer, we will run the week again free instead of refunding it. Your choice, not ours.
When we refund without being asked
- We cancel your booking because the product breaks the acceptable use rules in the terms and it had not yet run.
- We double-booked a week, or billed you twice for one slot.
- We ended the sponsor programme before your booked week arrived.
- A pricing or currency error meant you were charged more than the advertised price. We refund the difference.
What is not refundable
- A completed week that simply did not convert as you hoped.
- A slot cancelled by us after it ran because the product turned out to break the rules.
- Downtime caused by your own site being unreachable, or by creative you supplied late or broken.
- Card processing fees on a refunded charge are not returned to us, but we do not deduct them from your refund.
How the money comes back
- Refunds go back to the original payment method. We cannot send them anywhere else.
- We issue the refund within 5 business days of agreeing it. Your bank usually takes another 5 to 10 days to show it.
- Refunds are in the currency you were charged in. Exchange rate movement between charge and refund is your bank’s, not ours.
- You get a credit note by email for your records.
Chargebacks
- Email us first. Almost every dispute we have seen was a refund we would have given anyway.
- An open chargeback pauses any active or booked slot until it is resolved.
- We respond to disputes with the booking record, the receipt and proof the slot ran.
Statutory rights
Nothing here removes a refund right the law gives you. Where your local consumer law is more generous than this page, your local law wins.
Refund questions: hello@rankcert.com. Email from the address that paid so we can find the booking.