Creator Terms

You work for yourself. You're an independent contractor, not an employee, agent or partner of Stumpline or of any payer. You choose which campaigns to claim, when to post and how to make your content within the payer's brief. Nobody assigns you a message.

You're responsible for your own posts and your own accounts, including following each platform's rules. Platforms can label, limit or remove posts and accounts under their own policies, and Stumpline doesn't control that.

The agreement is with Keenly Media, LLC, a New York limited liability company, at 66 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222.

• You're 18 or older.
• You live in the United States and confirm it when you sign up.
• You pass identity verification through Stripe when you set up payouts (your legal name, date of birth, Social Security number and US address). Stripe holds those details; we keep the result.
• You post from social accounts you own and connect to Stumpline.
• To be paid, you set up a Stripe payout account and give Stripe the tax information it asks for.

You can't claim a campaign or submit a post until your residency confirmation and identity verification are done.

• Connected accounts give us your handles and follower counts from the platform. That's your verified reach.
• Your profile answers (what you post, your audience) are self-reported and used for matching. Keep them honest.
• Handles on platforms we can't connect yet are shown as unverified and never counted.
• Your political alignment preference is optional. Without it, political campaigns won't match you. The Privacy Policy explains exactly who sees what.
• Some campaigns are matched: you can claim them only if you're a current match. Campaigns can also set a minimum follower count.

• You can claim live campaigns. A campaign is one of three types: clipping the payer's source video, resharing existing content, or making an original post.
• Follow the brief, the content rules and the source material the payer provides. Post only on the platforms the campaign allows, and no more posts than the campaign allows per creator.
• Post from a connected account, then submit the post's link. We check with the platform that the post belongs to your account.
• Keep the post up, with its caption and disclosure unchanged, at least until its 7-day tracking window closes. If a caption fails the disclosure check, fix it and resubmit.

• Every campaign gives you exact disclosure text. Put it at the top of your caption, as given.
• Switch on the platform's paid-partnership or paid-promotion setting where the platform has one.
• Every caption is checked automatically when you submit it, and may also be reviewed by an AI model. A post that fails can be fixed and resubmitted. A post that failed its check can never be approved or paid.
• Our disclosure rules are engineering drafts that haven't been reviewed by counsel. Following them is required on Stumpline, but it isn't legal advice.

TikTok's own policy restricts paid political content. A political campaign may allow TikTok; if it does, you'll see a warning, and posting there is your choice. TikTok can remove the post or act against your account. For any campaign on TikTok, follow TikTok's branded-content rules. Breaking a platform's rules can cost you your account there. [TO BE CONFIRMED BY COUNSEL]

• No AI-altered likeness. Don't use AI or editing to put words in a real person's mouth or change how they look. Clip what was actually said.
• No deceptive edits or claims, including false information about when, where or how to vote.
• Don't impersonate anyone, and don't hide or misstate who paid for the post.
• No harassment, threats, or content that targets people for who they are.
• Use only material you have the right to use: your own, or what the payer provides for the campaign.
• No fake engagement: bought views, bots, engagement pods or anything like them.

The full list is in the Terms of Service.

Once your post passes the disclosure check, the payer approves or rejects it. A rejection must come with a reason, which you'll see. Rejected posts aren't paid. Approval needs a live or paused campaign, your active claim and a verified payer.

• You earn the campaign's flat fee for each approved post, plus its rate per 1,000 views for that platform.
• Views count for 7 days from when you posted. At the end of that window we use the latest view count read from the platform's API.
• If the platform won't give us the count, the post is held until our team verifies it by hand, for example from a screenshot.
• Earnings are capped by the campaign's per-creator cap and by the budget left in the campaign. We calculate in whole cents and round the per-view part down.
• Estimates in your dashboard are estimates. Only the calculated amount at the end of the window counts.

Getting paid

• Payouts run daily for posts whose window has closed and that aren't held. We transfer the amount to your Stripe account; Stripe then pays your bank on its own schedule.
• We only pay creators whose identity is verified, whose Stripe account has payouts enabled and who aren't suspended. Earnings wait until those are in place.
• Each payout has its own reference, so a retry can't pay you twice.

• We run automated checks on tracked posts, including sudden view spikes, unusual engagement, very new accounts, duplicate links and sudden follower jumps.
• A post with an open high-severity flag is held and isn't paid until our team resolves it.
• If earnings were paid on fraudulent views or a post that broke these terms, we can reverse the payment (a clawback through Stripe). The money goes back to the campaign.
• We may suspend accounts involved in fraud.
• How we recover amounts a transfer reversal can't cover: [TO BE COMPLETED BY COUNSEL].

You're responsible for your own taxes. Stripe collects your taxpayer information when it becomes due and handles tax forms for payouts. Which forms apply and when: [TO BE CONFIRMED BY COUNSEL].

• Payers see your profile card once you claim or post on their campaign: display name, tier, handles, follower counts, content categories and audience, and your posts on their campaign.
• Payers' compliance exports include your legal name next to each of your posts on their campaign, with the caption, views and earnings.
• The public leaderboard shows you only if you opt in.

The Privacy Policy has the complete list.

• If we suspend you, you keep read access to your own data but can't claim campaigns, submit posts or receive payouts. We record the reason.
• You can stop at any time. Posts already approved keep tracking and are paid as usual: [TO BE CONFIRMED BY COUNSEL].
• Appeals: hello@stumpline.org.

We don't guarantee that campaigns will be available to you, that you'll be matched, that a payer will approve your post, or any level of views or earnings.

The disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law and dispute terms in the Terms of Service apply. Creator-specific terms: [TO BE COMPLETED BY COUNSEL].

Questions: hello@stumpline.org.