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Terms of Sale and Use

Version 1.0. Last updated 30 August 2026.

Read this before you send any money. These Terms form a binding agreement between you and the Project. They limit our liability, exclude refunds entirely, restrict who may participate, and require you to accept substantial risk. If you do not accept every part of them, do not buy. The Risk Disclosure Statement forms part of these Terms and must be read with them.

1. Who these Terms are between

"The Project", "we", "us" and "our" mean the independent, unincorporated group of persons operating the Congressmeow parody meme-token project and this website. "You" and "your" mean the individual accepting these Terms. "Site" means this website and any page on it. "Token" and "$CONGMEOW" mean the prospective crypto-asset described on the Site.

You accept these Terms by ticking the acknowledgement box in the purchase form, by sending funds to the address published on the Site, or by using the Site. If you are accepting on behalf of an entity, you warrant that you are authorised to bind it.

2. Regulatory status: what you are not getting

This is the section most people skip. It is the most important one.

  • The Project is not a bank, quasi-bank, trust entity, investment company, investment house, broker, dealer, salesman or investment adviser.
  • The Project does not hold a licence, registration or authority from the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider, nor a Virtual Asset Service Provider registration from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, nor any equivalent licence in any other jurisdiction.
  • No registration statement covering the Token has been filed with or approved by any securities regulator, and no prospectus has been issued.
  • No government agency has reviewed, approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Token, this Site, or these Terms.

What this means in practice: you do not have the protections that apply to regulated financial products. There is no deposit insurance, no investor compensation fund, no segregated client-money requirement, no regulated complaints ombudsman, and no prudential supervision of the persons holding your funds. If something goes wrong, your remedies are limited to what you can pursue yourself, at your own cost.

The Project operates online and is reachable from many countries. It holds no licence, registration, authorisation or exemption in any jurisdiction, and it has not filed a prospectus, offering document, registration statement or crypto-asset white paper with any regulator anywhere in the world.

Regulation of crypto-assets is active and changing rapidly in every major market. It is your responsibility, not ours, to determine whether buying, holding or disposing of the Token is lawful where you live, and to comply with your own local law, including any tax, reporting, exchange-control or licensing requirement. If you are unsure, obtain independent legal advice in your own jurisdiction before you buy.

3. Nature of the Token: no expectation of profit

The Token is offered purely as a collectible participation in an internet parody. It is not offered, and must not be understood, as an investment.

  • It does not represent equity, debt, a loan, a deposit, a unit, a share of profits, a dividend, a right of redemption, or ownership of any property or enterprise.
  • It confers no voting, governance, management or control rights over anything in the physical world.
  • It gives you no claim against the Project, its members, or any other person.
  • It is not backed by any asset, reserve, revenue stream or guarantee.

We make no representation, projection, promise or forecast that the Token will have or retain value, that any market will exist for it, that it will be listed anywhere, or that you will profit. You must not purchase in expectation of profit derived from the efforts of others. If your reason for buying is an expectation of financial return, you should not buy, and you should treat any third-party statement suggesting such a return as unauthorised.

Roadmap items, target listing prices and stage prices shown on the Site are aspirational statements of intent. They are not commitments, valuations or evidence of worth, and may change or be abandoned without notice.

4. Eligibility

By purchasing you represent and warrant, on each occasion, that:

  • you are at least eighteen (18) years old and have legal capacity to contract;
  • you are acting on your own behalf and not as nominee, trustee or agent for another;
  • participation is lawful under the laws applicable to you, and you have determined this yourself;
  • you are not a Restricted Person as defined in section 5;
  • the funds you send are lawfully yours and are not the proceeds of unlawful activity;
  • you have read and understood these Terms and the Risk Disclosure Statement in full.

We may refuse, cancel, or decline to credit any purchase we reasonably believe breaches this section, without obligation to refund.

5. Restricted Persons and jurisdictions

You must not purchase, and you are a "Restricted Person", if you are:

  • a national or resident of, or located in, any country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the United Nations Security Council, the Republic of the Philippines, the United States (including OFAC), the United Kingdom or the European Union;
  • listed on, or owned or controlled by a person listed on, any sanctions or designated-persons list maintained by any of those authorities, or by the Anti-Money Laundering Council of the Philippines;
  • a person to whom the offer or sale of the Token would require a registration, licence, filing or approval that the Project does not hold, or would otherwise be unlawful;
  • a person located in a jurisdiction that prohibits the purchase, holding or trading of crypto-assets.

In addition, and because the Project holds no licence or registration anywhere, the Token is not offered to, and must not be purchased by, any person resident in, located in, or a citizen of the following, however they reached the Site:

  • The United States of America, including its territories and possessions, and any "U.S. person" as defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933. No registration statement has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and no exemption is relied upon.
  • The United Kingdom. Nothing on the Site is a financial promotion made or approved by a person authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and no exemption is relied upon.
  • The European Union and the wider European Economic Area. No crypto-asset white paper has been prepared, notified or published as required by Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) for an offer of crypto-assets to the public.
  • Canada, the People’s Republic of China, Singapore and South Korea, and any other jurisdiction in which the offer, sale or promotion of crypto-assets to the public requires a registration, licence, filing or approval that the Project does not hold.

The Site is not directed at any person in those jurisdictions, nor at any person in any jurisdiction where publishing it would be contrary to law. No offer, solicitation or invitation is made to any such person. If you access the Site from one of them you do so entirely on your own initiative and at your own risk, and you must not purchase.

We may apply technical measures to restrict access from particular jurisdictions. The absence of such a measure is not permission to buy and does not waive this section.

6. Anti-money laundering and source of funds

You must not use the Site or the Token to launder money, finance terrorism or proliferation, evade sanctions or taxes, or commit any offence. We may monitor on-chain activity, refuse dealings, withhold the crediting of an allocation, and report to the Anti-Money Laundering Council or other competent authority where we consider it appropriate or are required to do so, without notifying you where notification is prohibited by law.

We may require identity verification before crediting or releasing any allocation, including at the Token Generation Event. If you are unwilling or unable to complete verification when asked, your allocation may be withheld.

7. The purchase process

  1. You connect a Solana wallet you control and specify an amount in United States dollars.
  2. The Site quotes the equivalent in SOL at a rate obtained from third-party price sources, or treats USDC as one dollar.
  3. Your wallet asks you to approve a transfer to the treasury address published on the Site. We never take custody of your keys and cannot initiate a transfer on your behalf.
  4. Once the transfer confirms on the Solana blockchain, we read the transaction from the chain, verify it, and record an allocation against the address that sent the funds, at the stage price then in force.
  5. No token is delivered at this point. Delivery is addressed in section 10.

Stage prices, stage durations, minimum and maximum purchase amounts and total supply are as published on the Site and may be varied prospectively. Exchange rates are obtained from third parties, may differ from rates available elsewhere, and we are not responsible for their accuracy.

Your allocation is calculated from the value we verify on-chain, not from the figure displayed in your browser. Where these differ, the on-chain verified figure governs.

8. Custody: your funds are not held in escrow

Funds are sent to an ordinary Solana wallet controlled by the Project. There is no smart contract escrowing them, no on-chain enforcement of published limits, no milestone-based release, and no automatic return if the Project does not proceed.

Whoever controls that wallet's keys controls the funds. Your practical protections are that the address is published on the Site and that every movement into and out of it is permanently public on the Solana blockchain and auditable by anyone at any time. If that is not a trade-off you are willing to accept, do not buy.

9. No refunds, no cancellation, no withdrawal

All purchases are final. Once a Solana transaction confirms it cannot be reversed by us, by you, or by the network. There is no chargeback mechanism, no cooling-off period and no right of withdrawal.

This applies where you:

  • change your mind;
  • send an incorrect amount, or send to an incorrect address;
  • send from an exchange account or a wallet you do not control;
  • are dissatisfied with the price, stage or exchange rate applied;
  • are affected by delay, suspension or abandonment of the Project.

Nothing in this section excludes any right you may have that cannot lawfully be excluded.

10. Delivery, the Token Generation Event and claiming

Tokens become claimable at the Token Generation Event ("TGE"). No date is committed and none should be inferred. The TGE may be delayed indefinitely or may not occur at all.

At the TGE a claim facility will be published on this domain. You must claim from the same wallet you paid from. We may impose a reasonable claim window, verification steps and technical requirements. Allocations recorded against addresses that cannot claim, including exchange deposit addresses, cannot be delivered.

If the Project is abandoned before the TGE, you will have no token. Any decision to return funds in that event is at our discretion and is not an obligation under these Terms.

11. Parody, and no affiliation or endorsement

Congressmeow is an independent work of political parody, satire and commentary on a matter of public interest. It is not created by, operated by, endorsed by, sponsored by, licensed by, affiliated with or connected in any way to:

  • Kiko Barzaga, in any personal, private or former official capacity;
  • any member of the Barzaga family;
  • the House of Representatives of the Philippines, or any of its members, officers or staff;
  • any national or local government agency, office, instrumentality or political party of the Republic of the Philippines;
  • any other person, brand or organisation referenced on the Site.

Names, likenesses, imagery and events are referenced solely for purposes of parody, satire, criticism and commentary on matters already in the public domain. No endorsement, sponsorship, approval or association by any named person or body is claimed, implied, or should be inferred.

If you are a person referenced on the Site and consider that any material infringes your rights, contact us through the channel in section 20 and we will review it promptly and in good faith.

12. Intellectual property

The Site, its text, design and original artwork are owned by the Project or used with permission, and are protected under Republic Act No. 8293 (the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines) and applicable international law. You may not copy, reproduce or adapt the Site or its content to operate a competing or imitating site, or in any way likely to mislead others into believing they are dealing with the Project.

13. Acceptable use

You must not:

  • impersonate the Project or any of its members, or create imitation sites, channels or accounts;
  • publish or circulate any payment address purporting to be ours;
  • interfere with, probe, overload or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site or its supporting systems;
  • submit false, manipulated or automated data, including forged transaction references;
  • use the Site in a way that breaches Republic Act No. 10175 (the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012) or any other law.

14. No advice and no fiduciary relationship

Nothing on the Site, in any social channel, community group, reply or communication from anyone associated with the Project constitutes financial, investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, a recommendation, or an inducement to transact. We are not licensed to provide such advice and do not purport to. No fiduciary, advisory, agency or trust relationship arises between you and the Project.

Statements made by community members, influencers, promoters or third parties are not authorised by, attributable to, or the responsibility of the Project.

15. Taxes

You are solely responsible for determining, reporting and paying all taxes arising from your purchase, holding, disposal or claim of the Token in every jurisdiction that applies to you. We give no tax advice and make no representation about tax treatment.

16. Disclaimers

The Site and the Token are provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults, and without warranty of any kind, express, implied or statutory, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that price data will be accurate, that any blockchain or third-party infrastructure will function, or that the Token will ever be created, delivered, listed or tradeable.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Project and its members, contributors and associates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, goodwill, data or anticipated savings, however arising, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), restitution or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms, the Site or the Token shall not exceed the amount you actually paid to the Project in the transaction giving rise to the claim.

We are not liable for losses caused by: blockchain failure, congestion, fork or reorganisation; wallet, extension or third-party software failure; your loss of keys or access; your error in sending funds; unauthorised access to your devices or accounts; the acts of impersonators or third-party fraud; price-source inaccuracy; or regulatory action.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including under Republic Act No. 11765 (the Financial Products and Services Consumer Protection Act) to the extent it applies.

18. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Project and its members and associates from any claim, demand, loss, liability, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these Terms, your breach of any law, your violation of the rights of a third party, or your use of the Site.

19. Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, epidemic, war, civil unrest, industrial action, failure of telecommunications, internet or blockchain infrastructure, cyber-attack, change in law, or action by any government or regulator.

20. Complaints, and how to reach us

We would rather resolve a problem directly than leave you without recourse. Contact us through the official Telegram channel linked in the footer of the Site, with your wallet address and transaction signature.

We will acknowledge a complaint within a reasonable period and work in good faith to resolve it. Because your payment and any allocation are recorded on a public blockchain, the transaction signature is usually sufficient to establish what happened.

Nothing here prevents you from raising a concern with a competent authority, including the Securities and Exchange Commission or the National Privacy Commission.

21. Governing law and venue

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

The parties shall first attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute amicably within thirty (30) days of written notice. Failing that, the courts of the Republic of the Philippines shall have jurisdiction, and the parties submit to the venue of the appropriate courts of Cavite.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law and venue does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory provision of the law of your country of habitual residence that cannot be derogated from by agreement, and you retain any right you may have under that law to bring proceedings in the courts of your place of residence.

22. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms. The version in force is the one published on this page at the time of your purchase, identified by the version number and date at the top. Material changes will be announced on the official channels. Changes do not apply retrospectively to completed purchases.

23. General

  • Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary, or severed, and the remainder shall continue in full force.
  • No waiver. A failure or delay in enforcing any provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign ours on notice.
  • Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Risk Disclosure Statement and the Privacy Notice, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Project and supersede all prior statements, including any made in any social channel or community group.
  • No third-party rights. No person other than you and the Project has any right to enforce these Terms.
  • Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is for convenience only, and the English version governs.

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