Terms

Who runs Struck

Struck is run by its founder, an individual based in the United States, not a registered company. You can reach us at struckritual@gmail.com.

What Struck is

Struck is a ritual: a way to mark a decision to leave something behind. It is a symbolic experience and a piece of generated art. No ritual can promise to change how you feel. Struck is not therapy, medical care, crisis support or advice of any kind, and it is not a substitute for them. If what you’re carrying feels heavy, please reach out to someone you trust or a helpline. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.

Using the site

You must be at least 18 to make a purchase, or have the permission of a parent or guardian. Use the site as it is meant to be used: one person, one browser, one ritual at a time. Please don’t try to break it, copy it, scrape it, overload it, or use it to harm or harass anyone. We may block access that does any of this.

What you buy

A real-flash ritual is a one-time digital purchase: one lightning flash, recorded by one of NOAA’s GOES satellites minutes earlier, paired with your ritual and never reused, plus the artwork, certificate, wallpapers and shareable files generated from that flash’s data. The location on your keepsake is the flash as estimated from orbit, to about 8 km. The artwork is generated; it is not a photograph of the bolt. A gift bundle is two of these: one for you and a link for someone else, who decides when to use it. Prices are shown before you pay and are charged in US dollars through Stripe. Paid rituals are currently sold to customers outside the European Union and the United Kingdom; the free ritual is open to everyone.

How delivery works

• Payment received: Stripe confirms your payment, we create your ritual, and we email your private link.
• Ritual ready: the link opens the writing page. Nothing has been used yet, and you can still cancel.
• Delivered: when you hold to let go, a flash recorded in the previous minutes is assigned to your ritual and cannot be used again. Your keepsake page, artwork, certificate and files are available from that moment.

If no fresh flash is available when you hold, the page waits for one. If none arrives, the refund policy applies. A gift bundle holds two rituals: each is delivered when it is run, the gift link may be used whenever the recipient chooses, and an unclaimed gift stays refundable as the policy says.

Starting straight away

Before paying you tick a box asking us to make your ritual available at once and accepting that, once it has run, the purchase cannot be cancelled. Before it runs, you have 14 days to change your mind for a full refund. We keep a record of that consent with your order.

Refunds

Our refund policy says exactly what we refund and how to ask. In short: failures we cannot fix and duplicate charges are refunded in full, a ritual not yet run can be cancelled within 14 days, and a ritual that has run cannot be.

Your words and your keepsake

What you write is yours, and it never reaches us. Your keepsake page stays online at its private link for at least twelve months from purchase, and we intend to keep it much longer; download your files to be sure. Buyers keep whatever was promised when they bought. The artwork and files made for you are yours to keep, print, share and post for personal use. You may not resell them or present them as your own product or service. If you choose to share a keepsake, its page is public to anyone with the link, so share it as you would any public post.

Ours

The Struck name, site, design, storm animation, artwork generator, text and code belong to Struck’s founder. Nothing here gives you a right to use them beyond enjoying the site and your own keepsake.

Availability

Struck depends on a satellite feed and on services we don’t control. There may be minutes without a fresh flash, and the site may pause for maintenance or fail unexpectedly. We provide the site as it is, without warranties of any kind, and we may change or end it. If a fault stops your purchase from being delivered, the refund policy applies.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, Struck’s founder is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses arising from the site, and total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before it. Nothing here limits rights that consumer law gives you and that cannot be limited. You agree to hold Struck’s founder harmless from claims that arise from your misuse of the site.

The data

Lightning data comes from NOAA’s GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper and is public domain. Struck is not affiliated with NOAA. See About the data.

Changes and law

We may update these terms; the date above says when. The version on this page applies to purchases made after that date. These terms are governed by the law of the United States and of the state where Struck’s founder is based, and if any part of them cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.

Contact

Questions, refunds or deletion requests: struckritual@gmail.com.