Terms of Use — summary

⚠️ This page is a summary, not the legal document

This English page explains the rules in plain language, section by section, matching the French Terms of Use. It is provided for convenience only. The full Terms of Use are written and legally binding in French only — switch the site to French (the FR button in the menu) to read the complete, legally authoritative text. If anything on this page ever seems to disagree with the French version, the French version is always the one that applies.

Key terms used below

The Association: BE HAPPY BE SPORTIF, running the platform under the public name "We Help Each Other" (see Legal Notice). Member: anyone with an account who accepted the Terms. Round: a period of open help requests, ending when its pot is shared out. Gross pot: all mining rewards received by the Association during a round. Running costs: the share of the gross pot kept to cover real platform costs (rate published every round). Net pot: gross pot minus running costs — this is what actually gets shared with members. Score: the public ranking method described on the Transparency page. Gift: any amount the Association sends a member as help.

Who runs this

We Help Each Other is the public name of BE HAPPY BE SPORTIF, a French non-profit association ("loi 1901 " association, a standard French legal form for non-profits), declared with the French authorities (RNA number W343027034). Full legal details are on the Legal Notice page. These Terms complete the Association's bylaws, which take priority if there is ever a conflict between the two.

What this is — and what it is not

• It is: a mutual-aid network. Members who want to can lend their computer's unused power to mine Monero (XMR), a cryptocurrency, into a shared pot. Anyone who needs help can ask for some of that pot — whether or not they have ever mined anything.
• It is not a loan. Any help you receive is a gift, decided by the Association under its public scoring and payout rules. You never have to pay it back, and no interest is ever charged.
• It is not an investment, a savings product, or a way to "earn" money. Lending your computer's power does not buy you a cryptocurrency, does not promise any return, and does not create any right to a specific payment.
• It is not insurance and not a mutual fund. There is no fee priced against a risk, and no payout owed automatically when something bad happens. Whether you get help, and how much, depends on the shared pot and on a public ranking method — never on a contract promising a fixed payout.
• The Association never holds crypto-assets on your behalf. Mining rewards go straight to the Association's own wallet — never through a wallet that first belonged to a member. Under French and EU financial law, this means the Association does not act as a digital-asset custody or exchange service (it is not a "PSAN" or "PSCA" / CASP, the French and EU licenses required for crypto-asset service providers).
• Monero is never converted to euros or any other currency by the Association. Any € amount shown on the site is just a reference price, to help compare requests — the money that actually moves is always Monero. This summary can change if crypto-asset regulation or the platform itself changes; any major change would go through a new legal review first.

Joining

Signing up on /register counts as asking to join the Association and accepting these Terms. It is open to any adult (or legally emancipated minor) able to enter into a contract — no minimum time as a member, no prior mining, no referral needed. You give a nickname (never your real name), an email, a password, and the Monero address you want any help sent to — this address is required, and entirely your responsibility: a typo can make a payment unrecoverable, with no recourse against the Association.

One account per person. Creating multiple accounts to game the score or the votes is fraud (see "Fair use" below) and can lead to exclusion and to the related requests or votes being cancelled.

How the mutual aid works

• You mine using the app provided by the Association, at a power level you control, never at the expense of your computer's normal use. You can pause or uninstall it anytime.
• Mining rewards go straight to the Association's wallet — never to a wallet that first belonged to a member. So the Association never ends up holding a digital asset on behalf of someone else.
• When a round ends, running costs (hosting, Monero network fees) are taken out of the gross pot first. The rate applied, the amount taken, and the resulting net pot are published for every round, with no exception.
• The net pot is paid out to requesters ranked by Score: if it covers every request, everyone gets their full amount; if not, the highest-ranked members are paid in full until the pot runs out, and unpaid requests carry over to the next round.
• The Score only orders requests when the pot is too small for everyone — it never decides whether you're allowed to ask for help, and it never guarantees an amount proportional to past contribution.

A gift, never a loan

Any amount you receive as help is a gift, decided by the Association under its public scoring and payout rules, and paid in native Monero — never converted to euros or any other currency by the Association. This gift comes with no repayment obligation and no interest.

Joining the Association and contributing mining power do not, by themselves, create any right to be paid: nobody can demand a specific amount or a specific payment date. A member who has never mined can still receive full help right after joining if the pot allows it; conversely, a member who has mined a lot might receive nothing in a round where the pot is too small and their ranking unfavourable. The Association guarantees neither the amount, nor the timing, nor even that help will be available at all on a given round — especially while the network of mining members stays small, a round's gross pot can be modest.

Crypto risks you should know about

By accepting help in Monero, you acknowledge that:

• Monero's value against regular currencies is volatile and can swing sharply between when you post a request and when it is paid;
• some exchanges restrict or stop supporting Monero because of its privacy features, which can make converting it to regular currency harder depending on your country or the exchange you pick — that choice, and its consequences, are entirely your own responsibility;
• keeping your own Monero wallet safe (backing up your private key / seed phrase) is entirely up to you: the Association never has and never will have access to that key, so it cannot recover it or undo a payment already sent;
• the Association gives no individual financial, tax, or legal advice about holding or reselling the Monero you receive — any tax obligations remain yours to handle.

Fair use

Members agree not to:

• create or use more than one account for the same person;
• manipulate or try to manipulate the score (fake votes, fake mining numbers, organised collusion between accounts);
• use the mining app for anything other than its intended purpose, or redirect it to a wallet other than the Association's;
• give false or misleading signup information.

Any breach can lead, depending on how serious it is, to a cancelled request or vote, a suspended account, or exclusion from the Association, after review by the administrator. These decisions are logged in the audit log like any other operation.

Liability

The Association does its best to keep the platform running well, to keep score and payout calculations honest, and to keep the public audit log available. If its liability is ever engaged, it is limited to direct damages personally suffered by the member, excluding any indirect damage (lost opportunity, emotional distress, Monero's value changing between request and payment).

In particular, it cannot be held responsible for:

• a wrong Monero address you provided, or the loss of your private key;
• the third-party mining pool being unavailable, misbehaving, or its payout rate changing (infrastructure the Association does not control);
• a given round's pot being too small compared to the requests made;
• a case of force majeure under French law (article 1218 of the Civil Code), including an outage or attack affecting the Monero network or the third-party mining pool, the hosting provider being unavailable, or a regulatory change forcing a feature to pause temporarily or for good.

Your personal data

What data is collected and how it is used is described in the Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms.

Intellectual property

The platform's source code (scoring, treasury, and distribution engines, backend, frontend, mining app) is public and open to review, as noted in the Legal Notice. The site's editorial content (text, presentation) belongs to the Association and cannot be reused commercially without permission.

Ending your membership

You can stop mining, uninstall the app, and ask for your account to be deleted at any time (see the Privacy Policy for how, and for the exceptions tied to the audit log). Deleting your account stops you from posting new help requests, but does not undo operations already carried out.

Changes to these Terms

The Association may update these Terms, in particular to reflect a change in the service or in applicable regulation. The last-update date is shown at the top of the French version of this page. For any substantial change, active members will be told (by email and/or a banner on the site) before it takes effect.

Other legal basics

If a court or a regulatory change ever finds one clause of these Terms illegal, void, or unenforceable, all the other clauses stay fully valid — the affected clause is treated as replaced by a valid one that comes as close as possible to its original intent. Similarly, if the Association doesn't enforce a clause at one point in time, that does not mean it gives up the right to enforce it later.

Which language counts, and where disputes are handled

These Terms are written in French. If translated into another language, only the French version counts if there is ever a disagreement about meaning. These Terms are governed by French law. If you have a question or a dispute, contact the Association first, at contact@wehelpeachother.org, to try to sort things out directly. Failing an amicable agreement, French courts with territorial jurisdiction have sole authority.

Want the full legal text?

This summary stays close to the French version, but it is still a summary, written in simpler language on purpose. For the complete, legally binding Terms of Use, switch to French using the FR button in the menu.