Effective October 9, 2026. Pending legal review.

CreatorStead Terms of Service

CreatorStead by Noetic
Effective date: October 9, 2026

1. About these Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Noetic Talent Agency LLC, a Utah limited liability company ("Noetic," "we," "us"), which operates CreatorStead at creatorstead.com (the "Service").

By signing in or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. These Terms apply to both creators and brands. Brands do not sign a separate agreement; by using the Service on behalf of a brand or company, you accept these Terms for that brand and confirm you have authority to bind it.

Please read Section 18 carefully. It includes a binding arbitration agreement and class action waiver that affect how disputes are resolved, and explains how to opt out within 30 days.

2. Eligibility

• You must be at least 16 years old to use CreatorStead. The Service is not directed at children under 16. If we learn that a user is under 16, we will close the account and delete their personal information.
• If you are 16 or 17, you may use the Service only with the permission of your parent or legal guardian.
• Paid campaigns for users under 18. Before you take part in a paid campaign, your parent or legal guardian must agree to these Terms and to the payment arrangements on your behalf. Payouts, invoices, and tax forms will be issued in your parent or guardian's legal name or your legal name, as required. A parent or guardian who agrees on a minor's behalf is responsible for the minor's use of paid features under these Terms.
• By using the Service, you confirm that you meet these requirements.

3. Your account

• You sign in only with Google or Discord. We do not use passwords.
• Keep your Google or Discord account secure. You are responsible for activity on your CreatorStead account.
• Give us accurate information and keep it up to date.
• Tell us right away at nate.s@noetictalentagency.com if you think your account has been misused.

4. Free tools

Anyone eligible under Section 2 can sign up and use two free tools:

• Creator profile and media kit. Build a profile and a shareable media kit. It stays private until you publish it. Once published, it is public. You can unpublish it at any time.
• Content experiment tracker. A private tool to record content experiments, post URLs, dates, metrics you enter, and notes. Your tracker is private to you. Brands never see it, and Noetic does not view it except as needed to provide support at your request, to keep the Service secure, or to comply with the law.

Any audience statistics you enter are self-reported. You are responsible for making them accurate and for keeping their "as of" date current. We do not verify them unless stated otherwise.

5. Pre-created profiles

Noetic may create a creator profile from publicly available information and invite the creator to claim it. Unclaimed pre-created profiles are never public. Noetic shares claim links directly with the creator (for example, by email or direct message); claim links are not published. If you claim a profile, it becomes your account under these Terms. If you do not want the profile, you can ask us to remove it at nate.s@noetictalentagency.com.

Noetic may also create brand profiles. A brand claims its profile through a one-time link sent by email. Only people authorized by the brand may claim or manage it.

6. Paid campaigns: access and eligibility

• Paid access application. To take part in paid campaigns, you must submit a separate application. Noetic reviews it and may ask for more information, such as platform links or analytics screenshots. Your status will show as under review, info needed, approved, or declined.
• Noetic decides. Approval is at Noetic's discretion. We may decline or revoke paid access, for example if information is inaccurate or these Terms are broken.
• Campaign-by-campaign approval. Each campaign has its own eligibility rules and participation approval. Paid access does not guarantee a place in any campaign.

7. How CPM campaigns work

1. Brands fund campaigns. A brand funds a campaign with set CPM (cost per thousand views) rules and caps (see Section 10).
2. You accept an offer. The offer shows the campaign's rules, including its CPM rate, caps, content requirements, and deadlines.
3. You post and submit. You publish the content on your platform and submit the post link in the app.
4. Noetic verifies. We verify posts and measure views. Our measurement is the basis for earnings.
5. Earnings are calculated under the campaign's CPM rules, up to any caps.
6. The campaign closes and settles. After settlement, final earnings are set.
7. Payout is due Net 15 — within 15 days after settlement, as long as you have submitted a complete invoice (Section 8).

If a specific campaign's rules conflict with these Terms, the campaign rules control for that campaign.

8. Invoices and payment

• Invoice required. Before we pay you, you must submit an invoice in the app with your legal name (or, for a creator under 18, your parent or guardian's legal name where required), optional address, and payment method (ACH or Other). For ACH, you provide the account holder name, bank, routing number, account number, and account type.
• Payment outside the app. Noetic pays you directly, outside the app. If your invoice is incomplete or wrong, payment may be delayed. We are not responsible for losses caused by inaccurate payment details you give us.
• Details are not kept. Your bank details are deleted once the payout is marked paid or cancelled. You will need to enter them again for future payouts. We keep a record of the payout (payee legal name, amount, and date) for accounting and tax purposes.
• Taxes. You are responsible for your own taxes. When asked, you must provide a W-9 (or similar form). We will issue a Form 1099 where required. We may hold payment until we receive a required tax form.
• Withholding for invalid activity. We may withhold, reduce, or reverse earnings tied to fraudulent or invalid views (for example, bots, purchased views, or artificial engagement), content that breaks campaign rules or these Terms, or content removed earlier than the campaign rules allow. Where reasonable, we will tell you why.

9. Independent contractors

Creators are independent contractors, not employees, agents, or partners of Noetic or any brand. You control how you create your content and are responsible for your own expenses, insurance, and taxes. You are not entitled to employee benefits.

10. Brands

Brands use the Service under these Terms; there is no separate brand agreement. If you use the Service on behalf of a brand, the brand agrees to the following:

• Campaign funding and budgets. The brand sets each campaign's budget, CPM rate, and caps when it creates the campaign, and is responsible for funding that budget. Creator earnings are calculated under the campaign's rules up to its caps.
• Payment of campaign funds to Noetic. The brand pays campaign funds to Noetic, not to creators directly, in the amounts and on the schedule shown in the campaign setup or in Noetic's invoice. Noetic uses those funds to pay creators and settle the campaign. Noetic may pause or decline to launch a campaign that is not funded as agreed.
• Approval of content. Where a campaign's rules include a brand review step, the brand reviews and approves or requests changes to creator content within the time the campaign rules set, and is responsible for its approval decisions. Content the brand approves may not later be rejected for earnings purposes, except for invalid activity or breaches described in Section 8 or these Terms.
• Use of creator content. The brand may use creator content only as allowed by the campaign content license in Section 14 — for that campaign and related promotion, for 12 months after the campaign closes. Any other use, or use after that period, requires the creator's separate written permission.
• Creator information. The brand may use creator information only to run its campaigns on CreatorStead. Brands do not have access to creator message threads, experiment trackers, or invoice and bank details.
• No off-platform circumvention. The brand will not contact creators it found or worked with through CreatorStead to move campaigns off the platform or otherwise avoid Noetic.
• Brand responsibility. The brand is responsible for the accuracy of its campaign briefs and product claims, and for its own compliance with advertising and endorsement laws, including the FTC Endorsement Guides.

11. Content rules and FTC disclosures

When you post campaign content you must:

• Disclose the partnership clearly, such as with #ad or the platform's paid-partnership label, as required by the FTC Endorsement Guides and similar laws where you post.
• follow the campaign's rules and each platform's terms
• only post honest content that reflects your real opinions
• have all rights to what you post (music, images, footage, and so on)

You may not post content that is illegal, deceptive, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, or that infringes someone else's rights.

12. Messaging

The Service includes campaign threads, a "Message Noetic" thread, and in-app notifications. Message threads are only between creators and Noetic; brands cannot read them. Noetic admins read and respond to message threads to run campaigns, give support, and enforce these Terms. Do not use messaging to send spam, harass anyone, or share sensitive personal information you do not need to share.

13. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use personal information, including how long we keep it.

14. Ownership and licenses

• You keep ownership of your content.
• Campaign content license. For content you submit in a campaign, you grant Noetic and that campaign's brand a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, and share it for that campaign and related promotion, for 12 months after the campaign closes.
• Media kit license. You grant Noetic a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host and display your published media kit, including showing it to brands. This ends when you unpublish it or delete your account.
• Service ownership. Noetic owns the Service, including its software, design, and the CreatorStead and Noetic names and logos. You may not copy or reuse them without permission.
• Feedback. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without owing you anything.

15. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• give false information, including in applications, audience stats, invoices, or about your age or parent or guardian permission
• inflate views or engagement by any artificial means
• access other people's accounts or data without permission
• scrape, reverse engineer, overload, or interfere with the Service
• use the Service for anything illegal

16. Ending your use

• You may stop using the Service and request account deletion at any time. We delete account data within 30 days of a deletion request, except records we must keep by law.
• We may suspend or end your access at any time, including if you break these Terms, commit fraud, or create risk for others.
• Pending earnings. If your account ends for any reason, earnings that are already earned and verified will still be paid under these Terms after the campaign settles, once you submit a valid invoice — unless they are tied to fraud or a serious breach of these Terms.
• Sections that by their nature should continue (such as licenses already granted for campaign content, payment obligations, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and dispute terms) survive termination.

17. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Disclaimers. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that you will be approved for paid access, receive campaign offers, or earn any amount. We are not responsible for third-party platforms (such as Google, Discord, or social media sites).

Limitation of liability. To the fullest extent the law allows:

• Noetic will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill.
• Noetic's total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount Noetic paid you or you paid Noetic in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) US $100.

This does not limit our obligation to pay earned and verified earnings due under these Terms, or any liability that cannot be limited by law.

Indemnity. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Noetic and its owners, staff, and partners from claims, losses, and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your campaigns (for brands), your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right, including FTC disclosure rules.

18. Disputes, arbitration, and class action waiver

Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Talk to us first. Before filing any claim, please contact nate.s@noetictalentagency.com and give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally.

Arbitration. Except as described below, any dispute relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its applicable rules (the Consumer Arbitration Rules for individuals, and the Commercial Arbitration Rules for brands and other businesses). The arbitration will take place in Salt Lake County, Utah, or, if you prefer, by video or phone or in the county where you live.

Small-claims carve-out. Either you or Noetic may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. Either side may also go to court to seek an injunction for misuse of intellectual property.

Class action waiver. You and Noetic agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative action. The arbitrator may not combine claims of more than one person.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement and class action waiver by emailing nate.s@noetictalentagency.com within 30 days after you first accept these Terms. Your email must include your name, the email on your account, and a clear statement that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

Venue. Any dispute that is not arbitrated (including if you opt out, for small-claims matters, or if this arbitration section does not apply) must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah, and you and Noetic consent to their jurisdiction.

If the class action waiver is found unenforceable, this arbitration section does not apply, and the dispute will be heard in court as described above.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we will notify you in the app or by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after changes take effect, you accept them. Changes will not apply retroactively to campaigns you already accepted.

20. General

• These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the rules of any campaign you join are the full agreement between you and Noetic about the Service.
• If any part is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• If we do not enforce a right, we do not waive it.
• You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• We may send notices to you in the app or to the email on your account.

21. Contact

Noetic Talent Agency LLC
Support, privacy, and legal notices: nate.s@noetictalentagency.com