Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and Keenly Media, LLC, a New York limited liability company, at 66 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 ("Stumpline", "we", "us"). They cover stumpline.org, the dashboards, the public Disclosure Checker and everything else we run.

If you fund campaigns, the Payer Terms also apply. If you post campaigns, the Creator Terms also apply. The Privacy Policy explains what we do with your information. If these terms and the payer or creator terms disagree, the more specific terms win: [TO BE CONFIRMED BY COUNSEL].

• Stumpline is a marketplace. Verified payers post paid distribution campaigns; identity-verified US creators claim them and post on their own social accounts; we handle verification, disclosure checks, view tracking, escrow accounting and payouts.
• We don't write campaign messages, and we don't endorse any payer, candidate, party or cause. Payers across the political spectrum use Stumpline under the same rules.
• We aren't a law firm. The disclosure text we generate and the checks we run are tools, not legal advice (see Disclosures, below).
• We don't guarantee views, reach, engagement, earnings or any outcome from a campaign.

• You must be 18 or older.
• Creators must live in the United States and pass identity verification through Stripe before they can claim campaigns or be paid.
• Payers must give accurate details about their organization and be verified by us before a campaign can be funded or go live.
• Each account picks one role, payer or creator, at first sign-in. It can't be changed later from the app.
• You can't use Stumpline if we've suspended or removed you, or if the law bars you from doing so.

• Keep your details accurate and up to date, especially legal names, residency and organization details.
• Keep access to your email and sign-in secure. You're responsible for what happens under your account.
• Payer organizations can have several team members. Owners manage the team, managers edit campaigns and approve posts, viewers can only look. The organization is responsible for what its members do.
• Tell us right away at hello@stumpline.org if you think someone else has used your account.

These rules apply to campaign briefs and source material from payers, and to every post creators make for a campaign.

Not allowed

• Deceptive content: fabricated quotes, edits that change what someone actually said, fake news presented as real, or false claims about when, where or how to vote.
• AI-altered likeness: using AI or editing to put words in a real person's mouth or change how they look.
• Impersonation of any person, candidate, official, organization or of Stumpline, including hiding who is actually paying.
• Harassment, threats, or content that targets people for who they are.
• Content that breaks the law or infringes someone else's rights, including copyright.
• Posting without the required disclosure, or removing or burying it after the check.
• Fake engagement: bought views, bots, engagement pods, or anything else that inflates numbers.
• Getting around our controls: using someone else's account, creating accounts to avoid a suspension, scraping, probing or attacking the service.

Required

• Creators follow the payer's brief and content rules for each campaign.
• Everyone follows each platform's own rules for paid and branded content. Platforms set their own policies and can enforce them against your account.

We may remove content, reject campaigns or posts, hold payments or suspend accounts that break these rules.

Every campaign post must carry a paid-content disclosure. Stumpline generates the disclosure text for each campaign from its payer type, target states and platforms, and checks every caption against it before a payer can approve the post. A post that fails the disclosure check can't be approved or paid.

Our disclosure rules and platform rules are engineering drafts that haven't been reviewed by counsel. They may be incomplete or out of date. They're provided to help, not as legal advice, and using them doesn't mean a post meets any legal requirement. Payers are responsible for their own legal obligations, including what their disclosures must say.

A summary. The payer and creator terms have the details.

• Payers pay the campaign budget plus a platform fee set by payer type, charged on top of the budget when the campaign is funded.
• The budget is held and accounted for per campaign in an append-only ledger. Creators are paid from it.
• Creators earn a flat fee per approved post plus a per-platform rate per 1,000 views, counted over a 7-day window and capped by the campaign's limits and remaining budget.
• Posts with open high-severity fraud flags are held, and earnings paid on fraudulent views can be reversed.
• Unspent budget can be refunded to the payer.
• Card, bank and payout processing is done by Stripe under Stripe's own terms.

Stumpline keeps an append-only audit log of actions on campaigns, posts, payouts, the money ledger, verification and rules. Nobody can edit or delete it, including us. Payers can export their campaign's records. We also publish a public transparency ledger of funded campaigns and an opt-in creator leaderboard. The Privacy Policy lists exactly what's public.

Stumpline depends on Stripe for payments, identity checks and payouts, and on the social platforms' APIs to connect accounts and read views. Their terms apply to your use of them. If a platform changes its rules or its API, or a provider is unavailable, parts of Stumpline may stop working or campaigns may change.

TikTok's own policy restricts paid political content. A political campaign on Stumpline may include TikTok, but every political TikTok surface shows a warning, and posting there is the creator's choice and risk under TikTok's rules. [TO BE CONFIRMED BY COUNSEL]

You keep ownership of what you create. You give Stumpline permission to store, display and process your content and posts as needed to run the service, keep records and publish the public ledger: [TO BE COMPLETED BY COUNSEL].

• We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, puts others at risk, or that we're required to act on. A suspended creator keeps read access to their own data but can't claim campaigns, submit posts or receive payouts. A payer whose verification is revoked has its live campaigns paused.
• We'll tell you the reason unless we can't: [TO BE CONFIRMED BY COUNSEL]. To appeal, email hello@stumpline.org.
• You can stop using Stumpline at any time. Money and compliance records stay as described in the Privacy Policy.
• What happens to money in flight when an account ends: [TO BE COMPLETED BY COUNSEL].

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We'll post changes here and update the date at the top. How and when we notify you of material changes, and when they take effect: [TO BE COMPLETED BY COUNSEL].

hello@stumpline.org. Mail: Keenly Media, LLC, 66 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222.