Creator Partner Terms

Section 1

Accepting these terms

1.1. We send you an email setting out your commission rate, your link and the effective date, with a link to this page. You accept by replying with your full legal name and the words “I agree”. That reply is your signature, and the agreement between us is that email together with this page.

1.2. We keep the email thread as the record of what you agreed to and when. You should keep it too — the money terms are quoted in the email itself, not only linked, so you always hold a copy that cannot change after the fact.

1.3. This is version 1.0. If we change these terms we publish a new version at a new address; the version you accepted continues to apply to you until you accept a newer one. See §9.2.

1.4. You must be 18 or older (or the age of majority where you live, if higher) and legally able to enter this arrangement.

Section 2

What you earn

2.1. Your commission rate is the one stated in your acceptance email. It is locked for as long as this agreement runs and does not change if we alter the Programme for new creators.

2.2. Every plan counts. Weekly, monthly or yearly — if someone you refer subscribes, you earn on it. Your commission is a percentage of what they actually paid, so a yearly subscription is worth considerably more to you than a weekly one.

2.3. Once per subscriber. You earn on their first payment. When that same person renews, it does not pay again.

2.4. A free trial pays nothing until it converts into a real charge.

2.5. Your commission is a percentage of gross subscription revenue — the price the app store charged, before the store’s own cut and before taxes. Amounts are normalised to US dollars and paid in US dollars.

2.6. A refund or chargeback reverses the commission. If it has already been paid to you, it comes off your next payment. We never invoice you for it, and any negative balance left when this agreement ends is written off.

Clicks and views earn nothing on their own. Only a subscription actually purchased through your link pays. It is entirely possible to send thousands of clicks and be owed nothing, and we would rather you hear that from us now than discover it later.

Section 3

How a sale is credited to you

3.1. You get a personal link. Anyone who installs Kaught through it and then subscribes — on any plan — is credited to you, as far as our tracking and the app stores’ tracking can establish it.

3.2. Attribution depends on the app stores, on the device, and on the person’s own privacy settings. Where those prevent a sale from being tracked, it cannot be credited, and we are not liable for tracking failures outside our control. We do not withhold anything we can see.

3.3. Our conversion records, kept in good faith, determine what is owed. You can ask us at any time what we are showing for you, and we will tell you.

Section 4

Getting paid

4.1. A sale is confirmed once 30 days have passed since the payment — that is the window a refund normally arrives in.

4.2. Confirmed earnings are paid monthly, within 15 days of the month’s statement, once your balance reaches USD 100. Below that it carries over to the following month and keeps accumulating. It is never lost.

4.3. Whatever your balance, we pay it in full 12 months after your first commission, or when this agreement ends, threshold or not. You will not be left holding a balance you can never collect.

4.4. Payment is by PayPal, or by bank transfer via Wise if you prefer. You choose. Any currency conversion uses our provider’s rate at the moment the transfer is sent, and you bear any fee your own provider charges you.

4.5. You do not have to invoice us. We draw up a self-billed invoice in your name for each payment and send you a copy; by accepting these terms you agree to that. You have 15 days to object to a statement. If you would rather issue your own invoice, just tell us and we will pay against it instead.

Section 5

Tax, and what we ask you for

5.1. We ask you for nothing up front. To join, we need your name and your agreement — that is all.

5.2. When you actually reach a payout, we ask for the one thing needed to send the money: a PayPal address, or bank details if you chose Wise. Nothing more.

5.3. Kaught is a French business. We do not file tax forms on your behalf anywhere, and we do not need your national insurance, social security or equivalent personal identification number. Please do not send it. If you run a registered business and have a company or VAT number, it is useful for the invoice, but it is optional.

5.4. You are responsible for declaring and paying your own taxes and social contributions on what you earn here, under the rules where you live. We do not withhold anything unless the law requires us to, and we give no tax or accounting advice.

Section 6

How you promote

6.1. Make it feel like your own content. What works is Kaught turning up naturally in something you would have posted anyway — you outdoors, you finding something, the app on screen because you genuinely used it. Film your screen the way you would show it to a friend.

6.2. What doesn’t work is an ad. Please don’t make a dedicated promo: no full-screen app demo, no feature walkthrough, no voiceover that sounds like our marketing. Your audience follows you, not us, and a piece of content that stops being yours stops working for both of us.

6.3. You choose what to post, when, and how. There is no schedule, no quota, no script and no approval process, and no exclusivity — you can promote anything else you like, including competitors.

6.4. Include your link where it can be found, or a sale cannot be credited to you.

6.5. Mention that it’s a paid partnership — #ad, your platform’s own label, or whatever is normal where you post. Most platforms expect it and so do the advertising rules in most countries.

6.6. Please do not: use spam, bots, incentivised installs, fake engagement or self-referral; bid on “Kaught” in paid search; imply you work for or speak for Kaught; or make claims about the app beyond what our own materials say.

6.7. Kaught identifies animals from photographs and is sometimes wrong. Never present it as authoritative for anything that matters — in particular whether a plant, mushroom or animal is safe to touch or eat.

6.8. Commissions from traffic that breaks these rules are not payable.

Section 7

Your content and our brand

7.1. Your content stays yours. We claim no ownership of it. We may reshare something you published about Kaught on our own channels, with credit. For any paid use — advertising, whitelisting or boosting your content — we ask your permission first and agree terms separately. If you leave and want something taken down, tell us and we remove it within 30 days.

7.2. You may use the Kaught name, logo and app screenshots to promote the app. Don’t alter or distort the logo, don’t imply employment or exclusivity, and stop using them once this agreement ends.

7.3. You confirm you own or are allowed to use everything in your content.

7.4. We may ask you in writing to remove or correct a specific piece of content that is unlawful, materially inaccurate about the app, or breaks §6, and you agree to do so within 72 hours. That is the only editorial right we have — it gives us no general approval or control over your work.

Section 8

Relationship of the parties

You are an independent party running your own activity — not an employee, agent or partner of Kaught. You set your own hours, methods, tools and platforms; you are not required to accept any minimum volume or exclusivity; you are not part of our organisation; and you are paid entirely by result, with no cap, minimum, retainer or salary. Our only rights over what you do are to set the commission (§2), require lawful promotion (§6) and ask for removal on the narrow grounds in §7.4. You may not make commitments on our behalf.

Section 9

Term, changes and ending it

9.1. This agreement runs for 12 months from the effective date in your acceptance email, then renews automatically for further 12-month periods unless either of us gives written notice not to renew at least 30 days before the end of the current period.

9.2. We may change the Programme’s terms for future creators or future sales. Your rate stays locked for everything referred before the change takes effect. If you do not want to accept a change, end the agreement under §9.4 and you are paid out as normal.

9.3. The first 30 days are a mutual trial: either of us can walk away for any reason, on written notice. Commissions earned during it are still paid when they confirm.

9.4. After that, either of us can end this at any time, without cause, on written notice: 14 days if it has been running less than 12 months, 30 days after that.

9.5. If you break §6, we tell you and give you 7 days to fix it before ending the agreement over it — except for fraud, bots, incentivised installs or self-referral, which can end it immediately. Earnings are only forfeited where they are connected to that conduct.

9.6. Ending this never cancels what you have already earned. Commissions on sales referred before it ends remain payable, and are paid under §4 as and when they confirm.

Section 10

Liability, data and law

10.1. Our liability to you is limited to the confirmed, unpaid commissions owed to you. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, except where the law does not allow that to be limited.

10.2. You cover us against third-party claims arising from your content or from a breach of §6 or §7.3.

10.3. We process your personal data (contact, payout and performance details) to run this agreement, as described in our Privacy Policy, and keep it for the duration plus the statutory French accounting retention period. Where you are outside the European Economic Area, transfers rely on an appropriate safeguard under Article 46 GDPR or on an adequacy decision.

10.4. Please keep non-public information we share with you — including your own rate and unreleased features — confidential. This does not stop you making the advertising disclosures §6.1 requires, or talking to your accountant, lawyer or bank.

10.5. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something beyond reasonable control, including app store outages, changes to store rules and payment-network failures. Payments already confirmed are only delayed, never cancelled.

10.6. These terms are governed by French law, without prejudice to the protective rules of your home country that cannot be excluded by contract. If something goes wrong, email us first at hello@kaught.app and we will try to sort it out within 30 days. Failing that, the competent courts of Paris, France have jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory rule giving you the right to sue or be sued where you live.