A structured starting point for a lawyer, not an agreement anyone is bound by. It captures how Numal is intended to work so the commercial logic is clear before the legal language is written. Items in [brackets] are open decisions. Do not publish this as your terms of service.
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1. Who these terms are between
These terms are between [registered entity] and the person or business using Numal. Employees and businesses each accept them, and some sections apply only to one or the other.
Numal is not a party to the employment relationship between a business and its staff, and does not employ anyone who joins as an employee user.
2. Accounts and eligibility
- You must be at least 18 to use Numal. [Confirm — a lower age with guardian consent may be viable but raises wage and content-law complications. 18+ is the simpler position.]
- You must have the right to use the social account you link, and to enter these terms.
- A business must have authority to bind the business it registers.
- You're responsible for what happens under your login.
3. Terms for employees
Posting is voluntary
Nothing here obliges you to post. You choose which videos are submitted, and you can unlink your account at any time. Videos already paid stay paid.
Your account stays yours
Linking an account gives Numal permission to read the data described in the privacy policy. It does not transfer ownership, licence your content to your employer, or give anyone else the ability to post as you.
Getting paid
- Payouts run monthly, covering milestones passed in the previous month.
- Each milestone pays once per video, for the lifetime of the video.
- Where several people are credited on one video, the amount is divided equally between them unless they agree otherwise.
- Payment is made from the business's balance. [Define what happens if a business's balance is short: does Numal advance it, chase it, or does the employee wait?]
4. Terms for businesses
- You fund a payout balance separate from your subscription, and set a monthly cap. You will not be billed for payouts above that cap.
- You set the ladder and the rules a video must meet. You cannot require an employee to post, or require removal of a post from a personal account.
- You may exclude a video from a campaign, in which case it earns nothing beyond the posting reward. [Decide whether exclusion can be applied retroactively after a milestone has been credited. Recommendation: no.]
- Milestones already credited and paid are not refundable.
- You're responsible for the employment, wage and tax consequences of paying your own staff. See section 7.
5. How milestones are calculated
- Views come from platform-reported figures, with traffic we judge to be bought or automated excluded before a milestone counts.
- A video showing an unusual growth curve may be held for review. A held video costs the business nothing until released.
- The same video posted to more than one platform, or to both a personal and a business account, is grouped and paid once on the combined count.
- We record the highest milestone a video has reached. If a platform later revises view counts downward, previously paid milestones are not clawed back and do not pay again.
- Payment stops at the per-video ceiling in the applicable ladder.
[Numal's determination of qualifying views needs a defined dispute route. Section 9 of the contact page promises one working day — make sure the terms match the promise.]
6. Fees
| Plan | Subscription | Fee on payouts |
|---|---|---|
| Counter | Free, one location | 5% |
| Floor | $49 per location, monthly | 2% |
| Premium | $149 per location, monthly | None |
Fees are charged to the business. No fee is deducted from an employee's payout. Subscriptions may be cancelled at any time and run to the end of the paid month.
[Set notice for price changes — 30 days to existing customers is the conventional position.]
7. Tax
Numal does not give tax advice. How these payments should be treated depends on where you are and how your team is engaged, and it may differ between two businesses using the identical setup.
We keep a complete record of what was earned and when, available to both sides. [Decide which reporting Numal issues and in which jurisdictions — for example whether US contractor forms are generated, and at what threshold.]
8. What isn't allowed
- Buying views, engagement or followers on any video submitted to Numal.
- Claiming credit for a video you didn't make, or crediting someone who didn't.
- Misrepresenting who you are or where you work.
- Posting content that is unlawful, or that breaks the rules of the platform it's posted on.
- Attempting to interfere with how views are measured.
9. Suspension and ending
Either side may stop at any time. An employee can unlink; a business can cancel. We may suspend an account where we reasonably believe section 8 has been breached, and will say why.
[Define what happens to pending payouts on suspension — held pending investigation, or forfeited? Forfeiture is aggressive and invites disputes; holding pending review is the fairer default.]
10. Liability, changes and law
[Standard limitation of liability, warranty disclaimers and indemnities to be drafted. Note that limiting liability for payments owed to employees may not be enforceable and should be looked at carefully.]
We'll give notice of material changes to these terms by email before they take effect.
[Governing law and dispute forum. Given a Los Angeles base, California is the likely answer — confirm, and decide on arbitration and any class-action waiver.]