Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and ViewStage LLC ("ViewStage," "we," "us"). By creating an account or using the ViewStage platform (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service on behalf of a company, you represent that you are authorized to bind that company, and "you" means that company.

Section 19 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver that affect your legal rights. Please read it carefully.

1. The Service

ViewStage is a marketplace that connects brands with video creators for sponsored content, with AI-assisted matching and an automated quality-assurance review. ViewStage facilitates introductions, review, and payment for deals booked on the platform. ViewStage also operates the UGC Marketplace, a separate product for user-generated content engagements; those engagements are additionally governed by the UGC Marketplace Terms, which control over these Terms for UGC engagements where the two conflict.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. By using the Service you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements.

3. Accounts

3.1 Creators must provide accurate information and connect their own, authentic social accounts. 3.2 Brands must represent a legitimate business and describe campaigns accurately; you are responsible for everyone you authorize on your brand account. 3.3 You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for all activity under your account.

4. Connected platforms (OAuth)

When you connect a third-party platform (today YouTube and TikTok, and others as we enable them), you authorize ViewStage to access your profile, analytics, and engagement data to build your match profile, and, where you enable it, to publish content you have approved to your connected channels on your behalf. Our Privacy Policy lists the access we request and the data we store for each platform. You can disconnect at any time; on disconnection we delete the stored access credentials and the platform data we synced for that connection. Your use of each platform remains subject to that platform's own terms (for YouTube, the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy).

5. Creator content & license

You keep ownership of the content you create.

5.1 The brand's license. The license you grant the brand takes effect when the submission is approved (by the brand, or deemed approved under Section 9) and the creator's payment for it is released. A deal that ends without an approved delivery, including one ViewStage refunds under Section 11, grants the brand no license to the delivered video. The scope of the license is the usage rights stated in the campaign brief: where the content may run, for how long, on which platforms, in which territory, and whether the brand may run it as a paid advertisement. What the brief does not grant is not granted.

5.2 ViewStage's operating license. You grant ViewStage a limited, worldwide license to host, store, process, display, and transmit your content solely to operate and provide the Service, including AI review and delivery to the brand. That license runs from the moment you submit, because the review cannot run without it. ViewStage claims no ownership of your content.

6. Creator representations & warranties

For every submission, you represent and warrant that:

• You own or have all rights, licenses, and permissions necessary for the content and for the rights you grant the brand — including all music and audio, any third-party footage, and the name, voice, image, and likeness of every person who appears.
• You have obtained any required releases (including from any person featured) and any required music/sync licenses. Music made available within a social platform's library is generally not cleared for a brand's paid or off-platform use unless you have separately licensed it.
• The content does not infringe anyone's rights, is not defamatory or illegal, and complies with our Acceptable Use & Community Guidelines.
• You will clearly and conspicuously disclose the sponsored nature of the content as required by the FTC's endorsement guidelines.

7. Brands

You agree to run only lawful campaigns and to provide accurate briefs, including the usage rights you need. You receive only the license a creator grants you under Section 5, which means the usage rights stated in the brief and only once the submission is approved and paid. Any use beyond that scope (for example, running a deliverable as a paid ad if the brief did not grant that) is your responsibility, including clearing any additional music, footage, or likeness rights. You are responsible for your own advertising-disclosure compliance and for paying for agreed deals.

8. AI review

Every submission is screened by an automated AI review (using models such as Whisper, Gemini, and Qwen) for FTC disclosure, brand safety, competitor conflicts, sponsor presence, production quality, and the campaign's stated do's and don'ts. The review transcribes the video's audio in full and samples frames across its whole length; it does not examine every frame. The disclosure check reads three channels: the spoken transcript, text on screen in the sampled frames, and the video's title and caption. A disclosure that appears only in the caption does not clear the check on its own.

Some submissions pass or are declined automatically by this review; others are routed to the brand with the specific findings attached, which means work the review flagged does reach the brand, labeled, rather than being blocked. A passing review is not a guarantee of approval, payment, or any particular result, and it is not advice about your own advertising-disclosure obligations.

If the review declines a submission, the creator sees the specific findings and may revise and resubmit, up to three AI review rounds per deal. Each decline opens a 7-day window to send a revision, counted from that decline and shown on the submission. A review that fails for a technical fault on our side opens the same window and does not use up a round. If the rounds are used, or a window closes with no new submission, ViewStage closes the deal, refunds the brand's charge under Section 11, and notifies both parties with the reason. A brand may also request changes, which starts a new review of the resubmission. You may contact us to request human review of an automated decision.

9. Payments & payouts

ViewStage facilitates payments through third-party processors: Stripe for brand payments and Trolley for creator payouts. When a deal is agreed, ViewStage charges the brand's payment method for the agreed price plus the service fee. ViewStage pays the creator's share, net of fees, on approval of the delivered video.

9.1 Deemed approval. A delivered video is approved in one of two ways: the brand approves it, or the brand's review window closes without a decision, in which case the submission is deemed approved and the creator is paid. The review window is 10 days, counted from the moment the AI review returns its verdict on the delivered video, not from upload. The clock runs on a submission the review cleared and on one it routed to the brand flagged, with the findings attached. A submission the AI review declined is never deemed approved, and neither is one the brand rejects or disputes within the window. A deal settles this way only after ViewStage has notified the brand that a video is waiting and sent a reminder before the deadline. Asking the creator for changes does not stop the clock, and a new delivery that reaches the brand starts a fresh window. Across every revision round the total is capped at 21 days from the first delivery, so a later window can run shorter than 10 days, and never shorter than one day. The deadline that applies is shown on the submission. ViewStage records whether a deal settled on a brand decision or on the review window.

9.2 How creators are paid. ViewStage pays creators through Trolley, a third-party payout provider. Before your first payout, you complete Trolley's setup form, which opens inside ViewStage. You enter your bank or other payout details, identity information, and tax form there; no ViewStage form asks for them. Trolley's privacy policy for your country governs that information, and any terms Trolley presents during setup apply between you and Trolley. Our Privacy Policy lists what we send Trolley and what Trolley sends back to us. By setting up payouts, you authorize ViewStage to open your Trolley recipient profile and to instruct Trolley to pay the amounts you earn to the payout method you choose.

ViewStage sends a payout only after the brand's charge for that deal has succeeded, and pays Trolley's per-payout fee itself, so that fee does not reduce your payout. Your bank, your payout method, or a currency conversion you choose may charge its own fees, which ViewStage does not control or cover. ViewStage does not send a payout under US $1.00, so if your share of a deal comes to less than that, ViewStage refunds the brand and sends no payout. If a payout comes due before your setup is complete, the payout waits and ViewStage notifies you. If your setup is still incomplete 14 days later, ViewStage may cancel the payout and refund the brand. If Trolley reports that a payout failed, or your bank or payout method returns it, ViewStage notifies you and may cancel the payout and refund the brand, so keep your payout details current in Trolley's form. If you set up a Stripe payout account before ViewStage moved payouts to Trolley and have not set up Trolley, ViewStage keeps paying you through Stripe.

ViewStage does not hold customer balances. You authorize the applicable charges and payouts. You are responsible for your own taxes. Trolley collects tax forms (such as Form W-9 or W-8) during payout setup, and ViewStage or Trolley issues tax forms (such as Form 1099) where the law requires.

10. Fees

ViewStage charges brands a 5% service fee added to the agreed deal price, and deducts a 5% platform fee from the creator's payout — roughly 10% of a deal combined. Both fees are disclosed before a deal is agreed; payment-processing costs come out of ViewStage's share. Any fee change applies prospectively, to deals agreed after the change, with notice as described in Section 21.

11. Refunds & cancellations

11.1 When the brand is refunded. A deal that ends without an approved delivery is refunded in full to the brand's payment method. ViewStage issues that refund on its own in two cases: the brand records a rejection of the delivered video within its review window, and the AI review's revision rounds or revision window run out with nothing that passes. In every other case the refund follows a cancellation under 11.3, which either party may start while the deal is still open. A brand whose creator has not delivered is free to cancel and be refunded at any point before a delivery is reviewed.

11.2 When amounts are final. Once a submission is approved and the payout is released, amounts are final. Approval here includes deemed approval under Section 9.1: a brand that lets its review window close on a submission the AI review cleared, or routed to it flagged, has approved that submission, and the charge is not refundable on the ground that the brand never clicked approve.

11.3 Cancelling an agreement. Every cancellation requires a written reason, which ViewStage passes to the other party. Once a delivered video has been reviewed, a brand cannot end the deal with a bare cancellation: it must record an approval, a rejection, or a request for changes on the submission, with a reason the creator can read. A rejection then closes the deal and refunds the charge under 11.1. A creator may withdraw from their own deal; the brand is refunded.

11.4 Chargebacks and abuse. We handle chargebacks and disputes case by case. In cases of fraud, abuse, or violation of these Terms, we may cancel a payout that has not been sent, reverse a sent payout where the payout provider allows it, recover amounts paid as the law permits, or refund a charge.

12. Acceptable use

You agree to follow our Acceptable Use & Community Guidelines, which prohibit, among other things, faking engagement, plagiarism, illegal or harmful content, impersonation, and circumventing the platform to take a ViewStage-discovered deal off-platform to avoid fees. For UGC Marketplace engagements, the non-circumvention terms in Section U9 of the UGC Marketplace Terms also apply.

13. Copyright & DMCA

We respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement under the DMCA and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. See our Copyright & DMCA Policy.

14. Suspension & termination

We may suspend or terminate your access for conduct that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or harms other users, us, or third parties. You may close your account at any time. On termination, the licenses you granted under Section 5 for content a brand has already approved and paid for survive, to the extent of the usage rights stated in the relevant brief. For deletion of your data, see our Data Deletion page.

15. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the AI review will identify every issue or that any campaign will achieve any particular result.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, ViewStage will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total fees you paid to ViewStage in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

17. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold ViewStage harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

18. Independent relationship

Creators are independent contractors and are not employees, agents, or partners of ViewStage or, through ViewStage, of any brand. Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship. For UGC Marketplace engagements, Section U2 of the UGC Marketplace Terms governs the relationship between creator and brand.

19. Dispute resolution; arbitration & class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully — it affects your rights. We will try to resolve any dispute informally first: before filing a claim, you agree to email [email protected] and give us 30 days to resolve it.

19.1 Binding arbitration. Except as provided below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its applicable rules, seated in Utah. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

19.2 Class-action & jury waiver. You and ViewStage agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding. You and ViewStage waive any right to a jury trial.

19.3 Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court for intellectual-property or unauthorized-access claims.

19.4 30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing [email protected] within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect the rest of these Terms.

20. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. For any matter not subject to arbitration, the state and federal courts located in Utah have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to that jurisdiction and venue.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms with a new "Last updated" date and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

22. General

These Terms, together with the policies they reference, are the entire agreement between you and ViewStage about the Service. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control. We may give notices to the email on your account; you may send notices to the address below.

23. Contact

ViewStage LLC · [email protected]
2986 Lehman Avenue #405
West Valley City, UT 84119, United States