Creator Agreement

This Creator Agreement ("Agreement") is between Growbase LLC, operating Tinglebay ("Tinglebay," "we," "us"), and each creator approved to publish on Tinglebay ("Creator," "you"). Every creator accepts this Agreement during account setup, before they can publish; acceptance is recorded with a timestamp and the agreement version, and is retained in the creator's verification package together with their identity-verification record.

This Agreement incorporates the Terms of Service ("Terms") and the Payout Terms. If this Agreement conflicts with the Terms on a matter specific to creators, this Agreement controls. Fee rates, hold periods, and the payout schedule are governed by the Payout Terms and by your individual rates as shown in your creator dashboard.

1. Eligibility & identity

You represent and warrant that:

• You are at least 18 years of age and have completed Tinglebay's identity verification (government ID + liveness check).
• The identity you verified is your true identity; the account is not operated on behalf of an undisclosed third party, and you will not transfer or share control of it.
• You have the legal capacity to enter into this Agreement.
• You are not located in, and will not receive payouts in, a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive United States sanctions, and you are not a person with whom Tinglebay is prohibited from transacting under applicable law.

2. Content warranties

For every piece of content you upload, you represent and warrant that:

• Every person depicted is 18 or older at the time of recording, and you hold government-issued proof of age for each.
• Every person depicted has given informed, written consent to be recorded and to have the content distributed on Tinglebay (see the Model Release), and that consent has not been withdrawn.
• The content was not produced through coercion, force, fraud, trafficking, or exploitation of any person.
• You own or control all rights necessary to upload and monetize the content and it does not infringe any third party's copyright, trademark, or likeness rights.
• The content does not depict minors, non-consensual acts, or anything prohibited by the content standards in the Terms or by applicable law.

3. Records you must keep and provide

You agree to retain, and to provide to Tinglebay or authorities on request:

• Government-issued proof of age/identity for every performer in your content.
• A signed Model Release / Content Consent Form for every performer, which may be a single release covering multiple pieces of content produced under your account over time, subject to Tinglebay's release requirements.

You must produce these records within 5 business days of a request. Content for which records cannot be produced may be unpublished until they are.

4. Moderation, takedown & cooperation

• Tinglebay may remove or restrict any content and suspend or terminate your account for any violation of this Agreement, the Terms, or the law, and may decline to publish any content at its discretion, including content that complies with this Agreement in every other respect.
• Content reported as CSAM or non-consensual is placed under a legal preservation hold; you consent to such preservation and to reporting to NCMEC and/or law enforcement as required.
• You will cooperate with investigations and provide records promptly.

5. Platform-exclusive transactions

Transactions with Tinglebay users must happen on Tinglebay. You agree that:

• All transactions with Tinglebay users — subscriptions, custom video requests, tips, and shop purchases — must be solicited, conducted, and paid for exclusively through the platform's payment flows.
• You will not request, direct, or accept payment from Tinglebay users outside the platform, and will not attempt to circumvent or avoid platform fees.
• You will not include personal contact information (such as email addresses, phone numbers, or messaging handles) or off-platform payment details (such as PayPal, Cash App, Venmo, or cryptocurrency addresses) in your content or in its titles, descriptions, thumbnails, comments, or messages to users. Links to your public social-media profiles in the profile fields Tinglebay provides for that purpose are permitted.
• You will not fund, or arrange for others to fund, purchases of your own content in order to generate earnings, referral credit, or ranking.
• You will not use Tinglebay, including messages, comments, content, or your profile, to solicit or direct Tinglebay users to subscribe to, purchase from, or tip you on another platform or service, or to move your Tinglebay subscribers elsewhere. Linking your public social-media profiles in the profile fields provided is permitted; asking Tinglebay users to buy from you elsewhere is not.
• You will not collect, export, or use outside the platform the contact details or personal information of Tinglebay users.
• You acknowledge that messages, comments, and custom order requests on Tinglebay may be reviewed as described in the Privacy Policy.
• Tinglebay may remove or edit contact or payment details from content and metadata without notice; violations are otherwise handled under Sections 4, 6, and 8.

6. Earnings, payouts & forfeiture

6.1 What you earn

For each payment a fan makes for your content, your earnings are the amount the fan paid less the payment processing fee and the platform fee, calculated as set out in the Payout Terms. Your platform fee rates, processing fee treatment, and hold period are shown in your creator dashboard and may differ from other creators'. Revenue from platform-wide all-access subscriptions is not shared with creators. Where a separate written arrangement pays you fixed rates for content in place of a share of subscription revenue, that arrangement sets out the amounts and is otherwise subject to this Agreement.

6.2 Our obligation to pay

Tinglebay will pay your eligible earnings on the payout schedule shown in your dashboard, initiating each payout within 5 business days after the scheduled date, to the payout method on file, provided that at the time of the payout:

• your identity verification is complete and has not been revoked;
• valid payout details and any tax documentation we have requested (such as an IRS Form W-9 or W-8) are on file;
• your account is not suspended and the earnings are not under an investigation hold under Section 6.3;
• the applicable hold period has elapsed; and
• the payout is not prohibited by law, sanctions, a court order, or a lawful request from a regulator or payment partner.

Payouts are also subject to the minimum payout amount in the Payout Terms; an eligible balance below it rolls forward to the next scheduled payout on which it is met. If a condition is not met, the payout is deferred until it is. Deferral is not forfeiture: deferred earnings remain credited to your balance and are paid on the next scheduled payout after the condition is satisfied, except where Section 6.5 applies.

6.3 Investigation holds

We may place all or part of your balance on hold where we reasonably suspect fraud, chargeback abuse, self-funded purchases, a violation of this Agreement or the Terms, or where we receive a complaint from a person depicted in your content or a request from law enforcement, a regulator, or a payment partner. A hold may last as long as is reasonably necessary to complete our investigation or to comply with the request. We will notify you that a hold is in place and, unless law or a lawful request prevents it, give you a status update at least every 30 days until the hold is released or the earnings are forfeited under Section 6.5.

6.4 Reversals and set-off

If a payment is refunded, voided, or charged back, the earnings credited from it are reversed. We may refund a fan under the refund policy in the Terms without your consent and are not required to consult you before doing so; the reversal appears on your payout receipt. Where those earnings have already been paid to you, the reversal is deducted from future earnings. We may also set off against your balance any other amount you owe us under this Agreement. If your balance is negative after a set-off and no further earnings are expected, we may invoice you for the shortfall.

6.5 Forfeiture

Earnings are forfeited, and will not be paid, only in the following cases:

• earnings from a payment that we reasonably determine was fraudulent, unauthorized, or self-funded in breach of Section 5;
• earnings tied to content or conduct that materially breaches this Agreement or the Terms, including a breach of Section 2 or of the prohibited content rules in the Terms, to the extent of the earnings tied to that content or conduct; and
• your entire balance, where your account is terminated for content or conduct involving minors, non-consensual content, trafficking or exploitation, or fraud against Tinglebay or its users.

Forfeiture is an addition to, not a substitute for, any other remedy. Earnings are never forfeited merely because a payout condition in Section 6.2 was unmet, because your account was closed, or because we changed a fee or policy.

6.6 Statements, errors, and disputes

Each payout is accompanied by a receipt itemizing the payments behind it. If you believe a payout or your balance is wrong, tell us at compliance@tinglebay.com within 60 days of the payout date. We may correct errors in either direction, including by adjusting a later payout. A payout not disputed within 60 days is treated as accepted, except in cases of fraud or an error we caused and later discover.

6.7 Currency, interest, and third-party fees

Earnings are calculated and paid in United States dollars. No interest accrues on any balance. Fees charged by your bank or payout provider, and any currency conversion, are your responsibility and are not restored by Tinglebay.

7. Independent contractor & taxes

You are an independent contractor, not an employee, partner, or agent of Tinglebay. You have no authority to bind Tinglebay, and nothing in this Agreement creates an employment or joint-venture relationship.

You are responsible for all taxes on your earnings. You will provide accurate tax information and documentation on request, and you authorize Tinglebay to issue any tax reporting form and to withhold from payouts where the law requires it.

8. Term, suspension & termination

This Agreement starts when you accept it and continues until it is terminated. You may end it at any time by closing your account. We may suspend or terminate it as set out in Section 4 and in the Terms.

On termination for any reason:

• your content is unpublished and your ability to earn ends, except that fans who already paid for content may keep the access they paid for through the end of their billing period;
• earnings that are not forfeited under Section 6.5 remain payable. We may hold your final balance for up to 120 days after termination to cover refunds and chargebacks, then pay the remainder on the next scheduled payout, subject to Section 6.2;
• we retain the records described in Section 3 and any acceptance and verification records as required by law, for as long as the law requires; and
• Sections 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 survive.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Growbase LLC, its officers, and its service providers against claims, losses, and costs, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your content or your breach of this Agreement, including third-party rights and consent/age claims.

10. Limitation of liability

The disclaimers and limitation of liability in the Terms apply to this Agreement. Nothing in the Terms or this Agreement limits Tinglebay's obligation to pay earnings that are properly due to you under Section 6, or any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

11. Changes to this Agreement

We may update this Agreement and the Payout Terms. For a material change, we will notify you by email to the address on your account, or by a notice in your creator dashboard, at least 14 days before it takes effect. Changes required by law, by a payment partner, or to address safety or fraud may take effect immediately on notice.

Changes to fee rates apply only to payments received after the change takes effect. If you do not agree to a change, you may end this Agreement under Section 8 before it takes effect; continuing to publish or to earn after the effective date is acceptance.

12. General

• This Agreement is governed by the law stated in the Terms, and disputes are resolved as the Terms provide.
• You may not assign this Agreement or your account. We may assign it to a successor of the Tinglebay business on notice to you.
• Notices to you are sent to the email address on your account. Notices to us go to compliance@tinglebay.com.
• If any part of this Agreement is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a term is not a waiver of it.
• This Agreement, the Terms, the Payout Terms, and any written pay arrangement with you are the entire agreement between us about your activity as a creator, and replace any earlier understanding.

13. Execution

Each creator accepts this Agreement individually during account setup: acceptance is an express, affirmative act (checking a consent box), and the date, time, and agreement version of that acceptance are recorded against the creator's verified account. Tinglebay may additionally require an individually executed (signed) copy of this Agreement, recording the creator's legal name, signature, date, and verified identity reference, countersigned by Growbase LLC. Acceptance records and executed agreements are retained in the creator's verification package and available to regulators and payment partners on request.