Creator agreement

This agreement is between Saftladen GmbH (operating Sceniq, the platform) and you, the creator publishing guides on the platform. You accept it when you redeem your creator invite; if we change it in a way that affects your rights, we will ask you to accept the new version before you publish new work. Version: 2026-07.

A buyer who purchased your guide keeps access to it unconditionally, including after you leave the platform. The guide they bought stays yours to author and theirs to keep. Refunds are the one exception: a refunded purchase loses access.

You grant Saftladen GmbH a non-exclusive license to host, reproduce, display, translate and excerpt your guide content in order to run the platform: serving the guide to buyers, rendering your sales page, showing teasers on store and search surfaces, and marketing your guide. This license survives your departure only to the extent needed to keep serving buyers who already purchased.

You own, or hold a license for, everything in your guide, including every photo. Photo credits are preserved on the platform; you promise they are accurate. Counts and claims in your sales copy are honest: no fabricated buyer numbers, review counts or credentials.

On the mobile apps, guide content is protected against screenshots and screen recording on both platforms. We do not promise that protection is impossible to circumvent; someone can always photograph a screen with a second device. We take protection seriously and state its limits honestly, and so should you.

If we receive a notice that content in your guide infringes rights or breaks the law, you respond to our questions within seven days. We may remove the affected content or unpublish the guide while a notice is investigated, without liability to you. Repeated justified infringement notices end this agreement.

You keep 85 percent of every sale. The platform fee of 15 percent absorbs the payment processor fee; there are no further charges. Payouts run through Stripe Connect Express and require completed Stripe onboarding. Refunds and chargebacks reverse your share of the affected sale; if that leaves a negative balance, it nets against your future payouts. Affiliate commissions, where you enable them, come out of your share after a 30 day holdback.

When you leave, new sales stop and your listings come off the store. Buyers keep access per clause 1, and the clause 2 license survives for them. Your final payout follows the standard holdback window. Specific offboarding mechanics may be refined; we will not change the buyers-keep-guides principle.

Saftladen GmbH is the merchant of record and handles VAT on sales through our payment provider. Your payout is business income; your income tax is your responsibility. Where the law requires us to report creator income to tax authorities, we will.

You are an independent contractor, not an employee, agent or partner. No exclusivity: you may publish elsewhere. The buyer relationship belongs to the platform; you see your sales and stats, not buyer email addresses.

This agreement is versioned. For changes that affect your rights, publishing new work and changing prices require accepting the current version first; your already published guides keep selling during a reasonable transition window.