Creator Terms of Use

1.1 Agreement. By clicking “I Agree”, creating a Creator account, submitting a proposal, or scanning a venue QR code as a creator, you accept the Agreement. Campaign-level documents are accepted separately in-product and each acceptance is versioned and logged.

1.2 Eligibility. You must (a) be at least 18 years old and able to enter contracts, (b) be a real, identifiable individual holding the social accounts you register, (c) complete identity verification when asked — required before any unpublished business material is shared with you, (d) provide valid payout and tax information, and (e) not be barred under a prior suspension. During the pilot, funded campaigns are available only in supported geographies and categories, which we may change.

1.3 One person, one account. One verified identity, one account. Roles attach to campaigns, not to accounts: the same account may film one job, amplify another, and edit a third. You may not operate an account for someone else or let anyone operate yours.

1.4 Creators and businesses are different roles. A business that also creates content uses a separate Creator account and may not work on its own campaigns. You may not propose on a campaign for a business you own, are employed by, or are related to, without disclosing it in-product.

1.5 Independent contractor. You are an independent contractor, not an employee, agent, partner, or joint venturer of VerifyLocal or of any business. You control how you make your content within the campaign's brief and disclosures. You are responsible for your own equipment, expenses, insurance, and taxes.

• Business — an account holder operating a physical venue that creates campaigns.
• Campaign — one engagement with a Campaign Type and a Production Mode.
• Campaign Types: Performance (funded with a budget “B”; the business's fee steps with verified lift in visits), Awareness (funded with B; flat business fee; no lift measured or claimed), Organic Reach (B = 0; originated by you scanning a venue QR; no budget, no escrow, no paid media).
• Production Modes: On-Site (you visit, scan the venue QR, film during that visit, and post on your own channel) and Studio (the business supplies source photos and video captured in-app; you edit remotely, with generative tools available; you assign the edit to VerifyLocal; the business publishes on its own accounts under a licence from VerifyLocal).
• Roles: Filming Creator (On-Site content); Helper / Amplifier, including an Echo (one credited collaborator on a shoot who produces stitches, duets, or reshares from the Filming Creator's content); Production Creator (Studio editing).
• Sparkor — VerifyLocal's managed paid-media service placing geo-targeted advertising (about a 7.5-mile radius, tuned by category) behind campaign content on funded campaigns. Operated entirely by VerifyLocal.
• Business Messages / Promotional Plan — the business's confidential brief: angle, key points, offers, coupon code, posting window, hashtags, do/don't list. Disclosed only under the campaign NDA.
• Verified Visit — your presence check-in recorded server-side when you scan the venue QR at the venue. Local Proof Token — the record issued for a Verified Visit that produced approved on-site content.
• Library — the business's shelf where every video produced for it lands before it selects what runs.
• Verified Receipt — on Performance campaigns, the signed, exportable record of verified in-store visits your content drove.

3.1 NDA first, then the brief. Before you can propose on a campaign you accept its campaign NDA. On acceptance and submission of your proposal you see the full plan and Business Messages (Filming Creators) or the amplification brief only (Helpers). The NDA binds you whether or not you are chosen.

3.2 Proposals are offers. A proposal is your offer to do the job on the campaign terms shown, including the visit window, submission deadline, posting window, and pay. Businesses choose on work and fit; your channel is your portfolio. Do not promise views, growth, or results.

3.3 Acceptance closes bidding. When a business accepts your proposal, the filming slot is yours, bidding closes for that slot, and both sides are bound to the campaign terms. Campaigns carry one to three filming slots; each is a separate slice of the same pools (Section 6).

3.4 The clock. Deadlines are part of the terms. Missing the visit window, the submission deadline, or the posting window can cost you the job after you have invested time in it. If something comes up, say so early through the platform; silence loses the job.

3.5 Not chosen. Nothing is lost. Your NDA remains in force and you may propose on any other campaign.

3.6 Non-circumvention. You will not solicit or accept work from a business you met through the platform for the same or similar services off-platform during, and for 12 months after, your last campaign with that business, and you will not offer or accept anything of value outside the platform in exchange for selection, content, or altered reviews.

4.1 The QR scan is not optional. Scan the venue's QR code at the venue on arrival. It is your proof you were there, it locks in your labour claim, and no campaign is complete without it. You will never scan for another creator, ask a business to scan for you, or take part in any check-in that did not physically occur. Film during that same visit.

4.2 What you deliver. Two videos in two different styles per filming slot, uploaded to VerifyLocal for review in the platform player before anything is public, edited to the campaign's format and duration requirements.

4.3 The brief and your voice. A Business Message tells you what to convey; how you say it is yours. You will not state anything you know to be false, invent reviews or testimonials, omit required disclosures, or make claims the do/don't list prohibits. Category rules (for example alcohol) apply to your content.

4.4 Revisions — two rounds, hard cap. A business may request revisions with specific notes tied to its Business Messages and do/don't list, within two rounds, enforced by the platform. After the final round it approves or declines. You are told this cap exists before you shoot.

4.5 48 hours, both sides. If the business is silent for 48 hours after a delivery, it is treated as approved and you are paid in full. If you are silent for 48 hours after a revision request, you are treated as halfway complete: you keep the assured half and receive no more, and the business keeps what was delivered. Same clock, same consequence, whichever side stopped responding.

4.6 Selection is not payment. Every video you deliver lands in the business's library and the business chooses what runs. You are paid the same whether or not your video is selected to run.

4.7 Posting and disclosures. When your content is approved, you post it to your own channel with disclosures on: TikTok Branded Content toggle; Instagram Paid Partnership label, allowing the business to promote the post; YouTube paid-promotion label plus per-video Brand Partner Access. Tag the venue, name the town in the caption, use local hashtags plus the campaign hashtag, and include your coupon code — it is how your own attribution is measured and credited to you. Disclosure is required by law and by these Terms; a post without it is not compliant delivery.

4.8 Sparkor runs behind your post. On funded campaigns VerifyLocal places geo-targeted media behind your actual post through TikTok Spark Ads, Instagram partnership ads, or YouTube Brand Partner Access. You grant the platform-side permissions the checklist asks for. You never run, fund, or manage the ads.

4.9 Keep the post up. Your post must remain publicly visible — not archived, private, restricted, or deleted — for the campaign's active period and for one month after settlement, so the campaign can be settled, attribution reconciled, and disputes resolved. If a post becomes unavailable, delivery pauses and we contact you; consequences are reserved for deliberate takedown during an active campaign. Use the in-product request removal action if you need a post down; do not simply delete it.

4.10 Revoking ad access. You may revoke Brand Partner Access or partnership permissions at any time. Revoking mid-campaign stops Sparkor delivery on that post, is treated as your withdrawal from the remainder of the campaign, and may reduce performance pay to results to date; the retainer for work already delivered is not affected.

5.1 What it is, said plainly. You scan the venue QR, film during your visit, and submit. There is no retainer — there is no budget to take 20% of. There is no Sparkor boost — B = 0 means no paid distribution at all. The reach is your own followers, and your local audience is the ceiling.

5.2 What you get. Any discount or comped item the business extends is its own offer, applied at its point of sale, unlocked by your scan; VerifyLocal does not set, hold, or take a cut of it. The default suggestion is 50%; the business sets it, and honours what it set. At settlement you are paid your attribution — coupon redemptions and trackable referrals your post actually drove — which may be small or zero.

5.3 The asset and the two doors. On approval the business gets 30 days of use on its own channels. On day 31 the video locks. From then on the business has two doors, and both pay you: Renew at $100 per two months for owned-channel use only (you receive $90; VerifyLocal keeps 10%), or Fund a campaign, in which case you are the filming creator on it — the 20% retainer and performance pay — and the video gets full paid-media rights for that campaign. The business can never run your video as paid advertising without funding a campaign. If they do neither, the video stays locked and stays yours.

5.4 If the business declines. You keep the video; the copyright never left you. Use it in your reel, shoot the same place next season.

5.5 Two-round cap applies. Section 4.4 protects an unfunded shoot exactly as it protects a funded one.

Figures are the platform standard at the Effective Date; the campaign terms you accept control if they differ. Every funded campaign settles to a closed ledger over B bound to the parameter versions in force, so your payment can be re-derived.

6.1 Funded campaigns — Performance

The components do not stack. Retainer plus one performance payment is the whole of it. Your performance pay is computed against your own slice — on a two-creator campaign each creator gets the full better-of-two against half the pool — and nobody's pay depends on how another creator did.

6.2 Funded campaigns — Awareness

Same retainer, same shoot, same automated ad run. No lift is measured, so the lift branch is replaced by a 10%-of-B incentive pool paid on attribution your codes and links drove, gated as stated in the campaign terms. The unearned portion returns to the business.

6.3 Organic Reach

Attribution only, per Section 5.2.

6.4 Studio

$150 per accepted editor for five videos in five styles (about 40 / 30 / 20 / 15 / 15 seconds), two revision rounds. Half ($75) on delivery of first copies; the balance on approval or deemed approval. The business may add a satisfaction tip of 10–20% of the fee at settlement, paid to you in full; the tip reflects the delivered video, never campaign results. No retainer, no performance pay, no attribution.

6.5 Echo / Helper

An Echo takes the defined share stated in the campaign terms, drawn from the working pool, and is credited on the campaign. One Echo per shoot, hard cap.

6.6 Payouts, taxes, and disputes

Payouts run through the designated provider (currently Stripe) to the account you register. You are responsible for your own taxes; VerifyLocal issues the tax forms the law requires. You may dispute a settlement in-product within 30 days; we re-run it against the recorded log and respond. Absent a successful dispute, settled amounts are final. Payments are not conditioned on whether your video is selected to run.

7.1 You own it. You own the copyright in every video you film. No buyout, no work-for-hire, no perpetual assignment. When a business uses it, it is licensing it, and you are paid for that use. Their use expires; your ownership does not.

7.2 What you grant on a funded campaign. For the campaign period stated in the campaign terms: (a) to the business, a non-exclusive licence to reshare, embed, and display the approved video on its own channels; (b) to VerifyLocal, a licence to run the video as paid advertising through Sparkor on the business's behalf on the platforms the campaign names; and (c) to both, the right to use your name, handle, and likeness as they appear in the video for those purposes. The business may not run it as paid advertising itself, edit it beyond cropping for format, remove your identity or disclosures, or sublicense it.

7.3 What you grant on Organic Reach. 30 days of owned-channel use to the business on approval, then the two doors in Section 5.3. Each renewal is a further two-month owned-channel licence; a funded campaign is a Section 7.2 grant.

7.4 Reuse in a later campaign. By accepting these Terms you agree that a video you filmed may be re-booked into a later campaign by the same business on the terms stated at the time, exercised through a fresh in-product authorisation from you, with a reuse fee paid to you that is always above the renewal price. Re-publishing your video on the business's own advertising account, rather than boosting your post, needs your separate express consent and likeness release, requested at the time.

7.5 Withdrawal. You may withdraw a licence for future use on notice; the business receives at least 48–72 hours' grace. Withdrawal does not affect a live or settled campaign's committed posting window, the post-retention floor in Section 4.9, or a paid renewal period already in progress.

7.6 Expiry is enforced for you. Every licence has a recorded end date. VerifyLocal fingerprints every video it produces; a business that uploads an expired video is routed to renewal, not run. Records of what was licensed, to whom, for how long, and when it ended are retained for audit and enforcement, and you may see yours.

7.7 Your VerifyLocal profile. You grant VerifyLocal a licence to display your handle, profile, approved campaign content, and Verified Receipts on the platform and in reporting to the businesses you work with.

8.1 A different job, disclosed before you propose. Studio jobs are labelled distinctly on the marketplace and carry one plain line: the edit is assigned to VerifyLocal. On first view of any Studio job you acknowledge, once, that Studio work carries different ownership terms. You never discover this after proposing.

8.2 What you do. You edit business-supplied source assets — captured by the business in-app at its venue — into five finished videos in five styles, using the Business Messages and, if you choose, the generative editing tools the platform provides. No visit, no QR scan, no Local Proof Token, no posting; the business publishes on its own accounts. You need not be local.

8.3 Ownership. At award you execute the Studio Production Agreement (Appendix E.1) and its confidentiality annex (E.2). Under it you presently and irrevocably assign the finished edit to VerifyLocal, waive moral rights to the extent the law allows, and keep your pre-existing tools, presets, and know-how. VerifyLocal licenses the finished video to the business; you have no obligations to, and no rights against, the business under that licence. The business keeps its source assets. Nothing about Studio touches the copyright in anything you have filmed, on this platform or elsewhere.

8.4 Portfolio licence. VerifyLocal grants you a narrow licence to show the finished video on your own channels as proof of work, bounded by four terms: portfolio use only (never boosted or advertised; attribution limited to “edited by”); no posting until the campaign's posting window has closed; no campaign hashtag or coupon code; and takedown within five business days on request where identifiable staff or customers appear.

8.5 Generative editing. Where you use generative tools, generation may alter camera motion, pacing, transitions, colour, and framing only. It may not add people, alter the space, add products not present in the source, or change anything a customer would rely on, and may not depict any customer, patron, testimonial, or persona conveying an opinion about the business. You must set the AI-assisted flag on any such video; the generation log is retained with it. A video that breaks these limits is rejected without payment.

8.6 Source assets. They are the business's confidential information and may include interiors, staff, customers, and unreleased pricing. You receive them only through the platform path, will not download in bulk, retain, or reuse them, and will delete every copy and attest to that on completion or on request.

8.7 Warranties. The edit is your original work; it contains nothing third-party other than the source assets and platform-supplied elements; any audio you add is cleared for paid advertising use — social-posting music licences generally are not.

8.8 Reputation. Studio work is rated on a separate production rating and never counts toward your filming reputation, Verified Receipts, or Local Proof Tokens.

9.1 The campaign NDA. Each campaign's plan and Business Messages are the business's confidential information. You use them only to evaluate, propose on, and perform that campaign; never share, screenshot, paraphrase, or reuse them; access only your role's tier; and report any leak to support@verifylocal.ai. Obligations run three years after the campaign ends. Elements the business itself makes public (a live coupon code, a live hashtag) stop being confidential on release; the underlying strategy does not.

9.2 VerifyLocal's information. You will keep confidential VerifyLocal's non-public pricing, measurement methods, settlement mechanics, Sparkor mechanics, and platform information for three years after your last use of the platform.

9.3 Enforcement. A leak can cause harm money cannot fix; VerifyLocal and the business may each seek injunctive relief. Breach of an NDA is also breach of these Terms.

You will not:

1. scan a venue QR for another creator, ask a business to scan for you, or take part in any check-in that did not physically occur;
2. submit content not filmed at the venue during the verified visit, or misrepresent when, where, or by whom content was made;
3. post campaign content without required disclosures, or remove them while a campaign is live;
4. fabricate redemptions, referrals, engagement, or followers, or use bots, pods, or purchased interaction on campaign content;
5. make claims you know to be false, invent reviews or testimonials, or breach the do/don't list or category rules;
6. delete, archive, or restrict a campaign post during the retention period in Section 4.9 other than through the request-removal action;
7. share, sell, or lend your account, or hold more than one;
8. solicit businesses off-platform in breach of Section 3.6, or accept anything of value outside the platform for selection or content;
9. on Studio work, retain, reuse, or share source assets, or use generative tools outside Section 8.5;
10. harass, threaten, or discriminate against any business, its staff, or its customers, or behave at a venue in a way that damages the business's reputation;
11. scrape, reverse-engineer, probe, or disrupt the platform.

11.1 Verified Receipt. On Performance campaigns you receive a portable, signed record of the verified in-store visits your content drove. It cannot be inflated after the fact by VerifyLocal, the business, or you. You may share it freely; you may not alter it or present an estimate as an absolute count.

11.2 What we do not publish. VerifyLocal does not publish a proprietary creator score. Internal matching may use composite signals; what you hold is a count.

11.3 Ratings. Businesses rate delivered work. Filming and production ratings are kept separate. Ratings are not a basis for pay on any campaign.

You represent and warrant that: (a) you meet the eligibility requirements and your account, payout, and tax information are accurate; (b) you own or control the accounts you register; (c) your content is your original work, does not infringe third-party rights, and uses only music and material cleared for the use the campaign makes of it, including paid promotion on funded campaigns; (d) anyone identifiable in your content has consented to appear; (e) your content and posts comply with advertising, endorsement, consumer-protection, privacy, and category rules; and (f) you will honour the campaign terms you accept.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VerifyLocal, its members, officers, employees, and agents, and each business you work with, from any third-party claim arising out of (a) your content, posts, or conduct; (b) your breach of the Agreement, a campaign NDA, or the Studio Production Agreement; (c) your violation of law or third-party rights; or (d) your taxes. VerifyLocal will indemnify you against third-party claims that the platform itself (excluding your content, business content, and third-party services) infringes a US intellectual-property right, subject to prompt notice and control of the defence.

THE PLATFORM, SPARKOR, MEASUREMENT, AND ALL RELATED SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. VERIFYLOCAL DOES NOT GUARANTEE ANY REACH, VIEWS, FOLLOWERS, ENGAGEMENT, LIFT, ATTRIBUTION, SELECTION, RENEWAL, FUNDED CAMPAIGN, OR EARNINGS BEYOND THE RETAINER AND MILESTONE PAYMENTS STATED IN CAMPAIGN TERMS YOU ACCEPT. VERIFIED LIFT IS AN OBSERVATIONAL ESTIMATE WITH A STATED CONFIDENCE BAND. VERIFYLOCAL DOES NOT KNOW, AND DOES NOT CLAIM, ANY RATE AT WHICH ORGANIC REACH CONVERTS TO A FUNDED CAMPAIGN. BUSINESSES ARE INDEPENDENT, AND VERIFYLOCAL DOES NOT WARRANT THEIR CONDUCT, OFFERS, OR VENUES. THIRD-PARTY SOCIAL AND ADVERTISING PLATFORMS ARE OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL, AND THEIR POLICIES, OUTAGES, OR ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS MAY AFFECT DELIVERY, ATTRIBUTION, OR SETTLEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL. VERIFYLOCAL'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS PAID OR PAYABLE TO YOU FOR THE CAMPAIGN GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT. THESE LIMITS DO NOT APPLY TO BREACHES OF SECTIONS 8.6, 9, OR 10, TO INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS, OR TO LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW.

16.1 By you. You may close your account at any time in-product. Live campaigns you hold a slot on complete under their terms or, if you withdraw, settle as your withdrawal: retainer for delivered milestones is paid, an abandoned slot before content submission voids the retainer, and post-retention and confidentiality obligations continue.

16.2 By us. We may suspend or terminate your account, or remove you from a campaign, immediately on notice for breach, suspected fraud, fabricated check-ins or attribution, a platform-policy violation we cannot remediate, a legal requirement, or conduct toward businesses that violates Section 10. We may otherwise terminate on 30 days' notice.

16.3 Effect. On termination: (a) amounts earned for delivered milestones are paid; unearned amounts are not; (b) your copyright in filmed work is unaffected, and licences already granted run to their stated end dates; (c) Studio assignments already made are unaffected; (d) confidentiality, post-retention, non-circumvention, and record-retention obligations survive; (e) we retain licence, settlement, and verification records for audit, dispute, legal, and tax purposes.

16.4 Survival. Sections 3.6, 4.9, 6.6 (as to amounts accrued), 7, 8.3–8.8, 9, 10, 12–15, 16.3, 17, and 18 survive.

17.1 Governing law. Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

17.2 Venue. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts located in Connecticut, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any competent court to protect confidential information or intellectual property.

17.3 Informal resolution first. Before filing any claim, contact support@verifylocal.ai and work with us in good faith for at least 30 days. Settlement disputes follow Section 6.6 first.

17.4 Individual basis. To the extent permitted by law, disputes are resolved individually and each party waives class, collective, or representative proceedings.

18.1 Changes. We may update these Terms with at least 14 days' notice in-product or by email for material changes. Continued use after the effective date is acceptance. A campaign is governed by the Terms and campaign terms in effect when you accepted it; pay, licence, and ownership rules never change retroactively for an accepted campaign.

18.2 Electronic acceptance. Clicking “I Agree” or an equivalent control is your electronic signature; the recorded acceptance (identity, version, timestamp) is the definitive record.

18.3 Precedence. If documents conflict: (1) a signed written agreement between you and VerifyLocal for a specific engagement governs that engagement only; (2) the Studio Production Agreement governs a Studio engagement's ownership and pay; (3) the campaign NDA governs confidentiality for that campaign; (4) the campaign terms you accepted govern that campaign's figures and dates; (5) these Terms govern everything else. Nothing in any document transfers the copyright in a video you filmed.

18.4 Notices. To you: the email on your account or in-product. To VerifyLocal LLC: support@verifylocal.ai.

18.5 Assignment. You may not assign the Agreement or your account. We may assign to an affiliate or successor.

18.6 Entire agreement; severability; waiver; force majeure. The Agreement is the entire agreement on its subject and supersedes prior discussions. Unenforceable provisions are modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stands. Non-enforcement is not waiver. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including third-party platform outages or policy changes.

18.7 Trademarks. VerifyLocal™, Sparkor™, the Trust Badge, and related marks are trademarks of VerifyLocal LLC. You may reference VerifyLocal accurately in describing your work and may not imply endorsement beyond the fact of the engagement.

18.8 Contact. VerifyLocal LLC · support@verifylocal.ai · verifylocal.ai