Creator Agreement

1.1Status. You are an independent contractor. Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint-venture or franchise relationship between you and Canvas or between you and any Brand. You are not entitled to wages, benefits, workers’ compensation or unemployment insurance from Canvas or any Brand.

1.2Control. You decide whether to apply to any Campaign, when and where you work, what equipment and accounts you use, and how you make your videos, within the Brand’s brief and the standards below. You may work for anyone else, including competitors of any Brand, subject to Section 11.

1.3Taxes and business obligations. You are responsible for all income, self-employment and other taxes on your earnings, for any registrations or licenses your work requires, and for your own insurance. Stripe collects tax information from you and issues tax forms where the law requires.

2.1Age. You certify that you are at least 18 years old. You must not involve anyone under 18 in your content without the lawful consent of their parent or guardian, and never in a way that breaches a Social Platform’s rules.

2.2Your accounts. Any Social Platform account you use for a Campaign must be created by you, in your own name, and operated by you in compliance with that platform’s terms, including its rules on account authenticity and multiple accounts. Where a Campaign asks for a dedicated account, you decide whether to create one, and you may decline a Campaign whose requirements you cannot meet under the platform’s rules. Canvas does not require, and you must not engage in, any conduct that breaches a platform’s terms. You alone bear the consequences of any platform action against your accounts.

2.3Credentials. Never give your platform password, session or two-factor codes to a Brand, to Canvas, or to anyone else. No one at Canvas will ever ask for them.

2.4Handles you register. The handles you submit for a Campaign must be real, yours and used only for that Campaign. Submitting a handle you do not control is a material breach.

3.1Cadence. Campaigns set a weekly target of approved concepts and Posts per creator (default 14). The target is a performance expectation used to decide whether you stay contracted, not a minimum you are paid for. There is no guaranteed minimum volume of work.

5.1Disclose every time. Every Post is paid content. You must clearly and conspicuously disclose that in each Post, in the language of the Post, in a way that is visible without clicking “more” or expanding the caption, using the platform’s paid-partnership or branded-content tool where available and a plain caption disclosure such as “#ad” or “Paid partnership with [Brand]”. Vague tags such as “#sp”, “#collab” or “thanks [Brand]” are not enough. This is required by the United States Federal Trade Commission’s Endorsement Guides (16 C.F.R. Part 255) and by equivalent rules elsewhere, including the UK CAP Code.

5.2Honest opinions. Your endorsement must reflect your honest opinion and actual experience. Do not claim to have used a product you have not used, do not state results you did not get, and do not present a scripted claim as your own experience unless it is.

5.3Consequences. A Post that lacks the required disclosure or makes an unauthorised claim may be rejected and must be corrected or removed. You are responsible for any regulatory action, platform action or claim that results from your failure to disclose or from a claim you added to the brief.

6.1What you earn per Post. For each approved Post, your earnings to date equal (a) a base retainer for every required platform on which the Post has reached that platform’s view floor (500 or 1,000 views, as set by the Campaign), plus (b) CPM earnings on the combined verified views of all links on the Post, calculated cumulatively in the tiers below and subject to the Campaign’s per-Post cap. Base retainers and view floors are shown on the Campaign before you apply. Once a base retainer is earned it is never taken back.

6.2When it accrues. A Post becomes eligible for accrual 7 days after you log it and closes 35 days after you log it. Every Friday the Service computes your earnings to date on each open, eligible, approved Post, subtracts what has already been credited, and credits the difference. Nothing accrues before eligibility, after the Post closes, on a Post that is pending or rejected, or on views that have not been verified under Section 7. Amounts are whole cents, rounded down.

6.3Batching, minimum and timing. Credits are grouped into one batch per creator per Friday. A batch is released when it reaches US $25; smaller amounts carry over. Released batches are sent through Stripe Connect once your Stripe account has payouts enabled, or by PayPal or Wise where Connect is not available in your country. The Platform Fee is charged to the Brand on top of your earnings and is not deducted from them.

6.4Funds come from the Campaign. You are paid only from the Campaign’s locked funds. If those funds run out, the Campaign pauses, accrual pauses, and it resumes when the Brand adds funds. Canvas holds the Campaign Funds but does not guarantee payment from its own money, and you have no claim against Canvas for amounts a Campaign cannot fund. Payouts are also conditional on your account being in good standing and on the Post not having been found in breach.

6.5No other compensation. The Compensation Formula and any Rights Purchase fee are your entire compensation. There is no payment for concepts that are not approved, for Posts that are rejected, for views after a Post closes, for warm-up days, or for expenses.

7.1How to report. You report the view count for each link no more than once every 24 hours, with a PNG or JPEG screenshot (under 5 MB) of the platform’s own analytics showing the count and the Post. The screenshot must be unedited and taken from an account you control.

7.2Verification. Reports under 50,000 views that are not more than ten times the previous verified count are verified automatically. Larger or unusual reports are held until Canvas verifies them, which may take several days. Only the most recent verified report per link counts. Canvas may verify by any reasonable means, including asking you for additional screenshots, screen recordings, or analytics access, and may substitute its own count.

7.3Platform data controls. If a platform removes views, restricts a Post, or its data conflicts with your report, the platform’s data governs and we may correct accruals accordingly.

9.1You own your videos. You keep the copyright and every other right in every video you make. Publishing a Post for a Campaign gives the Brand the organic performance of that Post on the platform and nothing more: the Brand may not download, re-upload, edit, whitelist, boost as an ad or otherwise reuse your video unless it buys usage rights under Section 9.3.

9.2License to Canvas. You grant Canvas the license in Section 7.3 of the Terms so we can operate the Service, show your links, reports and screenshots to the Brand, and verify performance. We will not use your videos in our own advertising without your separate written consent.

9.3Rights Purchases. A Brand may offer to buy usage rights to one of your approved Posts for the Campaign’s rights fee (between US $20 and US $1000, default US $50, shown on the Campaign before you apply). You may accept or decline within 7 days; declining has no effect on your standing. If you accept, you must upload the full-resolution file (under 80 MB) within 7 days. On delivery the fee is added to your next batch. If you do not deliver in time the purchase is cancelled and no fee is owed. The license you grant on acceptance is exactly this text, and its version and the time you accept are recorded:

9.4Warranty for rights files. When you deliver a rights file you warrant that it is the same video as the approved Post, that you hold every right needed to grant the license (including music cleared for paid advertising, which platform personal-use libraries usually are not), and that its use under the license will not infringe anyone’s rights.

13.1Term. This Agreement starts when you accept it and continues until your account is closed.

13.2Leaving a Campaign. You may stop working on a Campaign at any time by telling us. Posts already approved continue to accrue until they close, provided you keep them live under Section 10.

13.3Removal by Canvas or the Brand. We or the Brand may remove you from a Campaign, or we may close your account, at any time, including for missed cadence, rejected content, breach of this Agreement, or platform action against your accounts. Unless removal is for the conduct in Section 8 of this Agreement or another material breach, verified credits already accrued are paid in the ordinary batch cycle.

13.4Survival. Sections 1.3, 5.3, 6.4, 7.3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.3, 14 and 15 survive termination.