Clipping Program Terms of Use

Article 1 — Purpose

These terms (the "Clipping Terms") govern the paid clipping program (the "Program") operated by StreamClipping, a French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with a share capital of €1,000, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 107 353 054, with its registered office at 5 rue des Wallons, 75013 Paris, trading under the name "StreamClipping AI" (the "Platform"), accessible at streamclipping.ai/clipping.

The Program connects two types of participants: Advertisers (brands, agencies or creators who fund a clip-based promotion campaign) and Clippers (creators who produce and publish clips and are paid on performance). These terms supplement the Terms of Use, the Terms of Sale and the Privacy Policy. Any participation constitutes full and unreserved acceptance of these terms.

Article 2 — Definitions

• Campaign: an operation funded by an Advertiser, defining a topic, a brief, requirements (required audio, hashtags, platforms, countries) and a budget.
• Pool: the share of the Campaign budget allocated to Clipper compensation, after the Platform's commission.
• CPM: the amount paid per thousand confirmed views (up to €1 / 1000 views).
• Confirmed view: a view of a clip which, measured via the platforms' official APIs (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram), was already counted at least 14 days earlier and still is ("settling period"). More recent views, or views that have since disappeared, are not confirmed.
• Threshold: the minimum number of confirmed views a Clipper must reach on a Campaign to trigger a payout.
• Remainder: the share of the Pool not distributed at the end of the Campaign.

Article 3 — Role of the Platform

The Platform contracts in its own name with the Advertiser: it supplies a clipping campaign service, covering campaign design, distribution to registered Clippers, the compliance review of submitted clips, and the measurement of confirmed views. The decision to accept a compliant clip rests with the Advertiser, on the terms and within the deadline set out in Article 5; the Platform only establishes compliance with the objective criteria of that Article.

It contracts separately and in its own name with each Clipper, from whom it purchases the service of producing and publishing clips. There is no direct contractual relationship between the Advertiser and the Clippers: the Platform is the sole counterparty of each.

Payments (collection of the budget and payouts to Clippers) are executed by Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe), a licensed payment services provider. The budget is collected by the Platform for its own account; it accordingly bears refunds, unpaid amounts and payment disputes ("chargebacks").

Article 4 — Advertiser terms

• The Advertiser warrants that it holds all rights (image, trademark, music, source content) required to run its Campaign, and indemnifies the Platform against any third-party claim in this respect.
• License over the source content. The Advertiser grants the Clippers taking part in its Campaign, free of charge, the right to reproduce, cut, modify and communicate the content it makes available (videos, audio, trademarks, visuals), for the sole purpose of producing and publishing the Campaign clips, on the platforms the Campaign targets, worldwide and for the duration of the Campaign. This license is non-exclusive and non-transferable; it survives the closing of the Campaign solely so that clips already published may remain online. Without this license, no Clipper would be entitled to use the source content.
• Campaign budgets are stated excluding VAT. Applicable VAT is added at payment; an Advertiser that is a business established in the European Union and provides a valid EU VAT number is invoiced without VAT (reverse charge).
• The budget covers the Clipper compensation Pool and the Platform's commission. As long as the Campaign has not started — that is, as long as no clip has been approved — the Advertiser may request a full refund. Once the Campaign has started, the budget covers commitments made to Clippers and becomes firm and non-refundable.
• Should the Platform cancel a Campaign of its own doing, the Advertiser is refunded up to the amounts not yet committed to Clippers.
• Any payment dispute ("chargeback") or unpaid amount arising after compensation has been paid out gives rise to recovery of the corresponding sums from the Advertiser, plus any fees charged to the Platform by the payment services provider.
• The view volumes shown ("view potential") are indicative estimates. They constitute no guarantee of results. The Platform commits to means — making the tool available, distributing the Campaign to registered Clippers, reviewing the compliance of submitted clips and measuring views — not to a number of views achieved. As Clippers freely decide whether or not to take part, the volume of clips produced cannot be guaranteed.
• Any Remainder of the Pool remains the Platform's and gives rise to no refund.
• Tracked links, promo codes and sales. The Advertiser may entrust the Platform with promo codes it has created in its store; the Platform assigns one, within the limit of the codes entrusted, to each Clipper taking part in the Campaign. The Advertiser remains solely responsible for these codes, their terms and their validity.The Advertiser may send the Platform the sales attributed to these codes or to the Campaign's tracked links: order number, date, amount, currency, status (paid, refunded or cancelled), code or link used and, if it so wishes, the country of the order. It sends no data identifying its customers. For this data, the Platform acts as the Advertiser's processor, under the appendix "Processing of sales data".The sales shown are those the Advertiser or its store has sent; the Platform does not verify them. The cost per sale is the Campaign's committed budget divided by the number of sales sent, excluding refunded or cancelled sales, to date. A code may circulate outside the clips, on coupon sites: a sale made with a code is not always due to a clip.If the Advertiser turns on the campaign parameters or the link that applies the code, it informs the visitors of its site of the measurement it carries out with them.

Article 5 — Clipper terms

• The Clipper participates as an independent contractor. No relationship of subordination or employment contract is created. They are solely responsible for their reporting, tax and social-security obligations related to their income.
• The Clipper must connect a verified social account they own, prove ownership of the videos submitted, and follow the Campaign requirements (required audio and its portion, required hashtags, platforms, no prohibited logo/watermark, commercial-partnership disclosure, etc.). They remain solely responsible for the advertising disclosures that the applicable law imposes on them.
• Compliance review. Each submitted clip undergoes a review, automated and/or human, which bears exclusively on the following objective criteria:
  1. presence of the audio required by the Campaign;
  2. the time portion of the audio required by the Campaign;
  3. audibility of the required audio;
  4. absence of the logos and trademarks prohibited by the Campaign;
  5. presence of the hashtags required by the Campaign;
  6. publication on a platform targeted by the Campaign;
  7. ownership of the publishing account and of the submitted clip;
  8. absence of manipulation within the meaning of Article 7;
  9. lawfulness of the content and absence of infringement of third-party rights;
  10. use of the source content provided by the Campaign, or presence of its subject (creator, product or work);
  11. no removal, restriction or penalty of the clip by the publishing platform under its community guidelines;
  12. accuracy of the figures, results and testimonials attributed to the Advertiser or its product;
  13. presence of the commercial-partnership disclosure requested by the Campaign ("Ad" or "#ad" text, or the platform's "paid partnership" label);
  14. compliance with the Campaign's own requirements, on the twofold condition that they were announced before the clip was submitted and that they are objectively verifiable.
  Criteria 10 to 13 apply to clips submitted on or after November 8, 2026. A criterion that presupposes a Campaign requirement (audio, audio portion, hashtags, commercial-partnership disclosure) applies only to Campaigns that set that requirement.Any clip meeting these criteria is accepted as of right. The review involves no assessment of the quality, style, editing, editorial line or performance of the clip, and the Platform holds no discretionary power of refusal. Within these criteria, the Clipper freely chooses the content, the form, the timing and the volume of their publications.Any refusal is reasoned by stating which of the criteria listed above is not met, is notified to the Clipper, and is reviewed again upon their simple objection. The views of a non-compliant clip are not counted. A refusal constitutes neither a sanction nor a disciplinary measure: it restricts the Clipper's access neither to the Campaign concerned, to which they may submit a new compliant clip, nor to other Campaigns.
• Advertiser approval and tacit acceptance. Once compliance has been established, the decision to accept the clip rests with the Advertiser, not with the Platform. The Platform sends them a personal approval link.
  1. The Advertiser has seventy-two (72) calendar hours from the sending of that notification to approve the clip or object to it. A reminder is sent halfway through.
  2. Absent a reply within that period, the clip is accepted as of right and the Clipper's compensation becomes due. This deadline is strict: the compensation of an independent contractor cannot depend on a third party's inaction.
  3. The Advertiser may object only under the 14th criterion above — failure to comply with a requirement specific to their Campaign — and must state which requirement. They may not refuse a clip under the thirteen other criteria, which the Platform has already established: should they dispute those, the clip returns to the Platform for review. They hold no power to assess the quality, style, editing or performance of the clip.
  4. Where the notification cannot be delivered to the Advertiser, the clip is accepted as of right upon expiry of a seven (7) day period from the compliance finding. The Platform assumes this choice: the impossibility of reaching the Advertiser cannot indefinitely suspend the Clipper's compensation.
  5. Clips still awaiting approval when a Campaign closes are accepted automatically.
  6. Campaigns funded by the Platform itself (contests and internal operations) are not subject to this approval: the Platform is the Advertiser there, and the compliance finding amounts to acceptance.
• Ownership and license. The Clipper retains ownership of their clips. They grant the Platform and the Advertiser a non-exclusive, non-transferable license over the reproduction and communication rights in their clips, for the sole purposes of running, reviewing and promoting the Campaign, worldwide, on the social platforms targeted by the Campaign and on the Platform's showcase and reference materials, for a term of three (3) years from publication of the clip. Any use beyond that scope, in particular paid advertising distribution, requires a separate written agreement and gives rise to additional compensation.
• Third-party rights. The Clipper warrants that they hold the necessary permissions for any identifiable person appearing in their clips (image rights) and for anything they add to the source content (music, images, excerpts, voice). They use the Advertiser's source content only within the limits of the license granted under Article 4. Using a required audio track does not amount to permission to exploit a musical work beyond what the publishing platform's own terms allow. Any rights holder may report a clip infringing their rights to abuse@streamclipping.ai: the clip is taken down and its views stop being paid.
• Payout of earnings requires a verified (KYC) payment account via Stripe. Until verification is complete, earnings due remain on hold.
• The Clipper provides and keeps up to date their tax profile: status, identity, address, tax identification number (TIN) and, for natural persons, date of birth. This information is required by Directive (EU) 2021/514 "DAC7" (articles 1649 ter A et seq. of the French Tax Code), which requires the Platform to report the amounts paid each year. Because clipping services qualify as "personal services", this reporting is due from the very first euro, with no threshold. Without complete information, payouts are suspended until the situation is regularised.
• The Clipper mandates the Platform to issue their invoices in their name and on their behalf (article 289, I-2 of the French Tax Code). Those invoices are addressed to the Platform, which is the customer for their service.
• The "individual" status is reserved for occasional income. As soon as the amounts received through the Platform become habitual, the activity qualifies as professional: the Clipper must then register with the competent authorities and update their tax status in their profile. The Platform may make further payouts conditional on that update.
• The Clipper's own tax and social security obligations. Amounts received through the Platform are income the Clipper must declare themselves. Depending on their amount and how regular they are, they may also give rise to social security contributions. The Platform withholds neither tax nor contributions at source, and retains no fee or commission on the amounts it pays out: the sum transferred is the sum due. Official information: impots.gouv.fr for tax, urssaf.fr for social security. In accordance with article 1649 ter D, III of the French Tax Code, the Platform also sends each paid Clipper, by 31 January at the latest, a summary of the information reported about them to the tax authorities for the previous year — net amounts and number of transactions, broken down by quarter.
• Social security compliance certificate. Where the amounts paid to a single Clipper reach €5,000 net of tax over a year, the Platform is required, as the contracting party, to verify that they are up to date with their social security obligations (articles L.8222-1 and D.8222-5 of the French Labour Code). The Clipper concerned undertakes to provide, on request, a valid URSSAF compliance certificate, to be renewed every six months. Failing that, the Platform suspends payouts until it is received: it cannot keep paying without meeting its own verification obligation.
• Minute credits. Approval of a clip on a Campaign may give rise, in addition to the payment in euros, to a credit of processing minutes depending on the plan (see Article 4 of the Terms of Use). That credit can only be used within the Service; it has no cash value and cannot be converted into money.
• Tracking link and promo code. In a Campaign that provides for it, you receive a tracking link and, where applicable, a promotional code assigned to you. You undertake to use them as provided, in the places indicated by the Campaign (bio, pinned comment, description), and not to misuse them. The clicks and sales they help measure are used for the Campaign report. They do not change the compensation rules of Article 6, unless the Campaign states otherwise.The Advertiser sees, for each code and each link of the Campaign, the number of clicks and sales attributed to it, under an anonymous publishing account. You see the clicks on your link and the number of sales attributed to your code or your link; their amount is shown to you only if the Advertiser agrees. You do not publish your code on coupon sites.
• "Link in bio" page. A Clipper who has connected at least one verified social account may publish a page at streamclipping.ai/@handle. The Clipper chooses the handle, which must neither use the name of a third party, a brand or the Platform, nor be misleading; the Platform may refuse it or reassign it to its rightful holder. The page gathers the links the Clipper adds and the Campaigns the Clipper has joined: a joined Campaign is added automatically, the Clipper can hide it, and it is removed when the Campaign closes. Every link on the page goes through a tracking link.Every paid link carries the commercial collaboration label ("Collaboration commerciale" in French), whether it comes from a Platform Campaign, a campaign from another platform or a personal partnership. The Platform adds it automatically to Campaign links; for other paid links, the Clipper ticks "paid link". For a campaign from another platform, the Clipper follows that campaign's terms and enters the destination link it requires, and remains solely responsible for it.The Clipper is solely responsible for the links they publish. The following are prohibited: misleading or fraudulent links (phishing, malware), unlawful content, and any link that infringes a third party's rights. The Platform reviews links and may remove or hide a link, in particular depending on the visitor's country, or suspend a page, on its own initiative or following a report; it tells the Clipper why.The Clipper sees the page statistics as totals, for all of the Clipper's links, Campaigns included: views, clicks per link, by country, by region, by city, by platform of origin and by device. For links of a Platform Campaign, the Advertiser sees the number of clicks per anonymous publishing account, by country, by city, by app of origin and by device; it never sees the Clipper's identity or handle, nor visitors' IP addresses.

Article 6 — Compensation and payouts

• A Clipper's compensation equals their confirmed views divided by 1000, multiplied by the Campaign CPM, provided the Threshold is reached.
• Compensation is capped by the Pool. If the sum of compensation due exceeds the Pool, it is distributed pro rata to confirmed views (or, where applicable, by performance ranking), within the limit of the Pool.
• Payouts occur at the end of the Campaign, after the view settling period (14 days per publication), by Stripe transfer to the Clipper's account.
• Only views confirmed via the platforms' official APIs are paid. In the event of disagreement over the count, the Clipper may dispute it in writing within 30 days of the Campaign closing; the Platform then re-examines the API records and gives a reasoned answer.
• The CPM and the amounts paid are stated inclusive of all taxes: they are the gross amount transferred to the Clipper. A VAT-registered Clipper remits to the tax authorities the VAT included in that amount; a Clipper under the small-business exemption or not subject to VAT keeps the full sum. For the same number of views, the net amount actually received therefore varies with the tax status declared.
• In the event of a payment dispute raised by the Advertiser, established fraud, or an erroneous payment occurring after a payout, the Platform may withhold the corresponding amounts from subsequent payouts or request their repayment.

International sanctions. No payout may be made to a person or entity targeted by restrictive measures of the European Union, the United Nations, the United States or the United Kingdom, nor to a country or territory under an embargo, nor on behalf of such a person. By requesting a payout, the Clipper declares that none of these situations applies to them. The Platform and its payment provider check this before any payout and immediately suspend payment in case of doubt. Where the law requires it, the amounts are frozen and the competent authority is informed, and the Platform cannot be held liable for that.

Article 7 — Fraud prevention

Any manipulation (artificial views, bots, view purchases, fake accounts, re-uploads, misuse of the required audio or instructions) results in the rejection of the clips concerned, non-payment of the corresponding views, and may lead to exclusion from the program. The Platform runs automated checks (required-audio fingerprint, audibility, logo detection, view-velocity analysis) and human checks.

Article 8 — Liability

The Platform guarantees neither a volume of views, nor revenue, nor the uninterrupted availability of third-party APIs. It cannot be held liable for the moderation decisions of third-party platforms, audience variations, or any indirect damage. Each participant indemnifies the Platform against third-party claims arising from a breach of their own warranties (rights, instructions, legal obligations).

By way of derogation from the liability cap set out in the Terms of Sale, which is calibrated for subscriptions, the Platform's liability in respect of a Campaign is capped at the net-of-tax amount of that Campaign's budget. This cap does not apply in cases of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, nor where the law prohibits limiting liability.

Article 9 — Personal data

The data processing related to the program (account, social connections, view measurements, payment information processed by Stripe) is described in the Privacy Policy.

Article 10 — Termination, amendments, governing law

The Platform may close a Campaign and then calculates the compensation due. It may amend these terms; the applicable version is the one in force at the time of participation. These terms are governed by French law. Failing an amicable resolution, the competent courts are those of the jurisdiction of the Platform's registered office, subject to the mandatory rules applicable to consumers.

Consumer mediation. A participant who qualifies as a consumer — which may be the case for a Clipper receiving occasional income as well as for an Advertiser who is an individual creator — may refer the matter free of charge to a consumer ombudsman after a written complaint has gone unanswered or unsatisfied for two months (article L.612-1 of the French Consumer Code). The competent ombudsman is SAS Médiation Solution, whose contact details appear in the legal notice.

What happens to clips after the Campaign. Closing a Campaign does not require published clips to be taken down: the Clipper may leave them online, and the licence granted under Article 5 continues to run for its term. The Clipper may remove them from their own accounts at any time, without affecting compensation already earned on confirmed views. The Advertiser may neither require a clip to stay online, nor use it beyond the scope of the Article 5 licence — in particular paid advertising distribution, which requires a separate agreement.

Appendix: Processing of sales data

Version 1.0. Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). Accepted by the Advertiser before it first sends sales, it applies from its acceptance.

1. Subject matter and duration. This appendix governs the processing, by the Platform on behalf of the Advertiser, of the sales the Advertiser sends to it under Article 4. The Advertiser is the controller of this processing; the Platform is its processor. The sole purpose of the processing is the Campaign report: attributing each sale to a code or a tracked link, and showing the totals to the Advertiser and, within the limits of Article 5, to the Clippers. It ends 13 months after the end of the Campaign.
2. Data and data subjects. The data subjects are the Advertiser's customers. The data are, for each order attributed to a code or a link of the Campaign: order number, date, amount, currency, status (paid, refunded or cancelled), code or link used and, if the Advertiser so chooses, the country of the order; for a manual declaration: the code, the period, the number of sales and their amount; for each upload: the file name and the number of rows read, kept and set aside. No data identifying customers (name, email address, postal address, phone number) is sent to the Platform.
3. Instructions. The Platform processes this data only on the documented instructions of the Advertiser, including with regard to transfers to a third country, unless required to do so by European Union or Member State law to which it is subject; in that case, it informs the Advertiser of that legal requirement before processing, unless that law prohibits such information on important grounds of public interest. Each sending of sales (file import or declaration) and each Campaign setting (sales amount shown or not to the Clippers) counts as an instruction. The Platform informs the Advertiser if an instruction appears to it to infringe data protection law. It does not use this data for its own purposes.
4. Confidentiality. Only authorised Platform staff, bound by confidentiality, access this data, and only to run, maintain or secure the service. A Clipper only sees the number of sales attributed to their own code or link and, if the Advertiser agrees, their amount; a Clipper never sees an order number.
5. Security. The sales file is read in the Advertiser's browser: only the columns listed in point 2 are sent to the Platform; the file's other columns, including customer names and addresses, never leave the Advertiser's computer. Exchanges are encrypted (HTTPS). Access is limited to the Advertiser and the people it has authorised in its space, and to authorised Platform staff. The measures in section 5 of the Privacy Policy apply.
6. Sub-processors. The Advertiser authorises the Platform to use: Supabase Inc. (database, Paris region, France); OVH SAS (API servers, France, and encrypted copies of the backups in France and Germany, about 35 days); Cloudflare, Inc. (encrypted database backups, about 30 days); Vercel Inc. (serving the website and pages, without lasting storage). Supabase, Cloudflare and Vercel are US companies: access from the United States remains possible, covered by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses and, where applicable, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The Platform imposes on each of them data protection obligations equivalent to those of this appendix and remains fully liable to the Advertiser for the performance of their obligations. It informs the Advertiser of any change of sub-processor at least 30 days in advance; the Advertiser may object by stopping its uploads and asking for its sales to be deleted.
7. Data subject rights. The Platform helps the Advertiser respond to requests from data subjects: at its request, it finds, corrects or deletes the sales of an order number. If a person contacts the Platform directly, the Platform refers them to the Advertiser.
8. Personal data breach. The Platform notifies the Advertiser of any personal data breach affecting its sales without undue delay after becoming aware of it, with the information it has, so that the Advertiser can meet its own obligations. More broadly, it assists the Advertiser in meeting its obligations under Articles 32 to 36 of the GDPR (security of processing, notification and communication of a breach, data protection impact assessment, prior consultation of the supervisory authority), taking into account the nature of the processing and the information available to it.
9. End of processing. A Campaign's sales and upload log are deleted automatically 13 months after the end of the Campaign, then disappear from backups as these are renewed (about 35 days for our encrypted copies). On the Advertiser's written request, the Platform deletes them earlier. At the end of the processing, the Platform, at the Advertiser's choice expressed before that date, returns them to the Advertiser or deletes them.
10. Demonstrating compliance. The Platform makes available to the Advertiser the information needed to demonstrate compliance with this appendix. It allows audits, including inspections, by the Advertiser or an auditor it appoints, bound by confidentiality, with reasonable notice and at the Advertiser's expense. Contact: fondateur@streamclipping.ai.