Internet sites use Clean Tickets to purchase or access free content -- whole editions or single stories, foreign-language text, spoken language, pictures, videos, blogs, links.
THE START PAGE
Content is presented with scrollling rectangles on the START PAGE, or with a single rectangle on any partcipating web site. Look for the 2-digit BADGE NUMBERS that identify an item of content, and the Clean trademark that identifies the Clean Ticket Company. Clock the badge to download content. It appears in a new browser window and is saved in the TICKET REPORT, which is available from Ticket Window #9. The little number below the badge number shows the day it first went online as an ordinal count of the days in the year.
At the top of the Start Page is the publication name (any kind of periodical content) of the BUREAU. The bar controls the presentation. On the left, click the flag for your choice of Spansh or English. On the right, the question mark shows this text.
Next to that is a Clean logo button, which selects a different bureau. The green and red arrow jump forwards or bakwards; select "fast" or "slow" for this to be done automatically. Near the flag is the 3-letter name of the current bureau. You can usually click this for a drop-down selection of other bureaus associated with this one.
Beside this is a green or clear little button that causes the (fast or slow) rotation to jump to the next bureau in this group, or stay with this one.
The upper right corner of a Start Page shows Ticket Window #1, where you get a new ticket or add money to one, or Ticket Window #9, where you sign in your ticket or view the Ticket Report. The little logout and balance buttons are here too.
Beneath these are three boxes that show advertising or short editorial content. A variety of them (the "Uprights") fade in and out.
CLEAN TICKETS
Paid tickets, printed (from the Ticket Report) read $8, but this is just a suggestion. When you buy a new ticket you can enter any amount (less than $50), or nothing. When you buy content without a sufficient cash balance we extend creedit to you (up to a limit). The credit can be paid off when you have a cash balance. The abbreviation "P.T.O.", stands for "paid ticket only" and purchasing such a badge requires a cash balance. Ticket windows #9's balance button show a cash or credit balance, or both.
Signing in a badge is made easier because there are little pictures that appear as you enter your ticket code, which helps you remember them. A code is seven characters long, but you only need to enter the last four if you sign in at the bureau where you brought it. Carefully observe each key as you press it. Don't forget to check the "caps lock" and "num lock" keys. The BUREAU PREFIX, three characters long, is at the start of every ticket it issues; select the icon to enter them. Write down your ticket code immediately. If you lose and foret your ticket code, after 24 months of non-use, any funds on it are forfeit, and the ticket is extinguished.
You pay for your ticket with a credit card. Nevertheless, ticket holders remain anonymous since the code is not assigned until after the credit card is processed. On the other hand, the Ticket Report has a "profile" section where you can reord personal information if you wish.
There can only be on active ticket at a time, but the same ticket can be used by more than one person at a time. You assume responsibility for keeping your code private of trusting others with it.
Acquired content items have a line in the Ticket Report. Click the right side of the line to see your content again. Or click the left side to select the line. Selected lines can be exported to a text file, or erased. There are only 80 lines in a ticket report; lines at the bottom of the list are erased when new ones are added. So download and erase content you want to save.
You are protected from accidentally buying the some content twice if your orignal purchase is still in the Ticket Report.
The "Showcase" type of Ticket Window contains multiple content itmes. One price or one click acquires them all.
Content items can receive your comments and gratuities. This gives you the ability to make a cash-equivalent contribution to the creator of content you appreciate. However, your ticket must have a cash balance. 100% of the amount goes to the person(s) to whom it is intended.
CLEAN TICKET Wi-Fi
Where reception is available, your ticket can access the "Clean Ticket Cafe" Wi-Fi signal. The cost is one penny per minute for the first five hours of use, or $3 per day. The monthly rate of $30 applies instead to a ticket used 10 days in a month.
