Creator Terms

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract. Your sign-in is personal to you: do not share it or let anyone else submit content under it. If you create or submit content for someone else, you confirm you have their permission and the right to grant everything in these Terms.

2. Your Content

"Content" means the videos, clips, footage, photos, audio, voiceovers, scripts, captions, hashtags, and other material you submit to Scout through the Program, including TikTok or Instagram videos you submit by link or by file, and any version of them you approve.

If you submit a link, Scout may ask for a clean, watermark-free export and your original footage so it can use the Content, and you agree to send them. Content you post on your own accounts but never submit to Scout is not covered by these Terms.

3. License to Scout

You keep ownership of your Content. For Content that Scout approves in the Program, you grant Scout a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to use it to promote Scout and the Scout app, as follows. Scout has no license to advertise with Content it does not approve and uses it only to review it.

• Organic use, no end date (irrevocable except as stated in Section 9). Host, reproduce, display, post, and repost the Content on Scout's own accounts and channels (such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest), website, app, emails, and app store listings, and edit it, including cropping, resizing, captioning, subtitling, trimming, adding end cards and logos, combining it with other material, and replacing the audio.
• Paid ads, for 24 months. Use the Content, as edited under this license, in paid ads in any media, run by Scout or on its behalf, for 24 months from the date Scout approves that piece of Content. When the 24 months end, Scout stops running ads with it unless you agree in writing to renew. This applies to every ad, including one that started earlier.
• Helpers. Let Scout's affiliates, advertising platforms, agencies, and service providers do any of these things for Scout.

Scout does not have to credit you, but may tag your handle where it makes sense. Where the law allows, you waive moral rights in Scout's permitted uses. Scout may transfer this license to a successor to its business.

You grant these rights in exchange for access to the Program and the pay and rewards you may earn under the Program Rules (see Section 10). Scout owes no separate fee for each use or ad. If Scout rejects a submission, this license does not apply to it. Scout records the date it approves each piece of Content and shows it to you in the Program. Editing or re-approving the Content does not restart the 24 months unless you agree.

4. Name, Image, Likeness, and Voice

You consent to Scout and its service providers using your name, handle, image, likeness, and voice as they appear in your Content, with reasonable edits, in any media for Scout marketing and ads, without extra pay, for as long as Scout has rights in that Content. Use of your name, image, likeness, and voice is subject to the same purposes, time limits, and takedown requirements as the associated Content under Sections 3 and 9. If you choose to have a public Ambassador page, Scout may also show the name, photo, school, and other details you put on it.

Edits must not misrepresent your statements or imply an endorsement you did not give. Scout will not use your name or likeness to promote anything other than Scout.

No AI replicas, voice cloning, or new synthetic performances of you are allowed. Scout may replace the audio in a video with music or a voice-over, but not with a synthetic version of your voice.

5. Ads Through Your Own Accounts

Posting a video on your own account does not let Scout run ads from that account. Spark Ads, partnership ads, branded-content ads, and any other ad that runs through your TikTok, Instagram, or other account need your separate opt-in for each video.

You give it through the platform's own ad authorization for that video, such as an authorization code you send Scout. It covers only that video and the period you choose, and you can end it at any time in the platform's settings. Scout will only promote the video you authorized and will not post, comment, or change anything else on your account.

This section does not limit Scout's right in Section 3 to run ads from Scout's own accounts using a copy of your Content.

6. What You Keep

You own your Content. You may post it anywhere, including your own channels and portfolio, and you may license it to others, because the license in Section 3 is non-exclusive. You will not give anyone else exclusive rights in your Content that would block the uses in these Terms.

Scout keeps everything it adds, such as its logos, end cards, captions, scripts, and any music or audio Scout supplies, and nothing here gives you rights in Scout's trademarks beyond posting content Scout has approved. You may not imply a continuing affiliation with Scout after you leave the Program.

7. Your Promises

When you submit Content, you promise that:

• Rights. It is yours, or you have the right to use everything in it, except identified third-party material that Scout agrees to remove or replace before reusing it. You have the right to grant everything in these Terms.
• People. Everyone recognizable in it agreed to appear in it and to the uses in Sections 3 to 5. If a child appears, a parent or guardian agreed in writing, and you will not show a child's face, name, school, or location without that agreement.
• Music and third-party material. Popular songs and trending sounds are usually not cleared for ads. Use no music, use music you have the right to use in ads, or tell Scout about it when you submit so Scout can replace the audio. Third-party footage, graphics, fonts, and templates need the same clearance or disclosure.
• Nothing unlawful or misleading. It does not break the law or a platform's rules, defame anyone, invade anyone's privacy, or show other brands' logos beyond incidental appearances. It does not use a school's name, logo, or marks in a way that suggests the school endorses Scout, and any campus activity follows that campus's rules.
• Honesty. You share only honest opinions and real experiences and do not claim Scout does something it does not.

You will cover Scout's reasonable losses from a third-party claim to the extent it is caused by your breach of this Section 7. You are not responsible for claims caused by Scout's edits, by materials or music Scout supplies, or by use of your Content outside these Terms.

8. Disclosing Your Relationship with Scout

Every post that promotes Scout must clearly show that you have a relationship with Scout, because you earn pay, commissions, bonuses, or perks through the Program. This follows the FTC Endorsement Guides.

• Use "#ad" or "Paid partnership with Scout" and the platform's paid-partnership label where there is one.
• Put a clear disclosure on screen near the start of the video. If you speak about Scout in the video, also say the disclosure out loud. Match the disclosure to how the endorsement is made.
• Repeat it early in the caption, not buried in hashtags.
• Follow Scout's brief for the exact wording and placement, and include your referral link directions.

Scout will give you a one-page guide and will review sponsored posts shortly after they go up. If a disclosure is missing or unclear, you will fix it promptly after Scout asks.

9. Removal, Takedowns, and Ending the License

Your posts. You may take down a post on your own account at any time, except where the Program Rules require a mission post to stay up for a set period. You may remove one earlier for a good reason, such as safety or harassment, by telling Scout.

Scout's takedown. You will promptly remove a post if Scout reasonably asks in writing to address a legal, rights, confidentiality, or misleading-content concern.

Your request. If you ask in writing to remove Content for a good reason, such as safety, harassment, or privacy, Scout will stop any ads using it within 2 business days, and sooner where reasonably possible in urgent cases. Scout will also remove it from its own organic channels within 5 business days and will not use it in new ads. Scout will not republish or otherwise reuse it without your written agreement and will tell any agency acting for it to stop using it.

When you leave. If you stop taking part, or Scout ends your participation, the license in Section 3 continues for Content Scout approved earlier, on the same terms. The 24-month paid-ad window runs from each piece's approval date, not from the date you leave.

What removal cannot undo. Scout cannot recall copies that platforms, other users, or search engines have already shared or saved.

10. Program Rules, Pay, and Your Relationship with Scout

Mission pay, referral commissions, bonuses, payment timing, and how referrals are counted are set out in the Program Rules (the Terms section of the Program guide) or in any separate agreement you signed. These Terms do not change them. In exchange for access to the Program and the pay and rewards you may earn under those rules, you grant the license in these Terms, and Scout owes no separate fee for using your Content. Approving Content gives Scout the rights in Section 3, but whether and how much you are paid depends on the Program Rules, and approval alone does not guarantee payment.

Scout does not have to post, use, or approve any Content, and submitting Content does not by itself earn pay. You are an independent contractor, not an employee of Scout. You are responsible for your own taxes and may need to complete tax and payment forms before Scout pays you.

11. Connected Accounts and Program Data

If you connect a social account, such as Instagram, you allow Scout to read only what the connection screen lists, such as your profile, list of posts, and each post's views, shares, likes, and comments. Scout uses this to confirm your posts, credit your missions, show you your results, and measure how the Program and its content perform. Scout never sees your password and stores the access securely.

You can disconnect at any time from your dashboard or in the platform's settings. When you disconnect or remove Scout, Scout deletes your access token. When a platform sends a data-deletion request, Scout also deletes the stats it read from that platform. Links and Content you already submitted stay under these Terms.

Scout also records how the Program is used, such as scans of your link and QR code, sign-ups credited to you, and what you submit in the portal, to run the Program and pay you correctly.

12. Confidential Information and Feedback

Features, plans, and results that Scout shows you in the Program and has not made public are confidential. Do not share or post them, except Content Scout has approved. If you record a testing session with other people, do it only with their consent.

If you give Scout ideas or feedback, Scout may use them without paying or crediting you.

13. Changes, Privacy, and General Terms

Changes. Scout may update these Terms. We will tell you in your dashboard or by email, and by continuing to use the dashboard after that, you accept the new version. New terms apply to Content you submit after you accept. They do not take away the license you already granted for earlier Content, unless you and Scout agree.

Privacy. Scout handles personal information as described in its Privacy Policy.

Law. New York law governs these Terms, and the state and federal courts in New York have exclusive jurisdiction.

The rest. You may not assign these Terms without Scout's written consent. Scout may assign them to a successor to its business. These Terms, the Program Rules, the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, and any separate agreement you signed with Scout are the whole agreement about the Program. Accepting electronically is as binding as signing. If any part is unenforceable, the rest still applies, and waiving one breach does not waive others. Sections 3 to 10, 12, and 13 survive when your participation ends. Ending your participation, or being removed from the Program, does not cancel pay you already earned under the Program Rules.

Contact. Questions or takedown requests: support@shoponscout.com. Scout, 54 State Street, Ste 804 #9144, Albany, NY 12207.