Standard Agreement Between User and Creator
Last Updated: 31/07/2025
This standard agreement between the User and the Creator sets out the terms that govern each
transaction between a User and a Creator on AlbumSelectioin.
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Definitions
In this agreement, the following definitions apply:
“
Content
” means any material uploaded to AlbumSelection by any person (whether a Creator or a User),
including any photos, videos, audio (for example, music and other sounds), livestream material,
data, text (including comments and hashtags), metadata, images, interactive features, emojis,
GIFs, memes, and any other material.
Creator
” means a content creator who has set up their AlbumSelection account as a Creator account to post
Content on AlbumSelection to be viewed by Users.
“
Platform Fee
” means the fee charged by Upperstage Eng to Creators in accordance with the
Creator Supplement
[a]
.
“
Relevant Content
” has the meaning set out in section 5.
“
Subscription
” means a User’s subscription to a Creator’s account.
“
User
” means an end user who follows a Creator and can view the Creator’s Content.
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User/Creator Transaction
” means any transaction between a User and a Creator on AlbumSelection by which access is
granted to the Creator’s Content, including in any of the following ways: (1) a Subscription,
(2) payments made by a User to view a Creator’s pay-per-view Content (pay-per-view media and
pay-per-view live stream), and (3) use by the User of the user interaction function on a Creator’s account.
“
User Payment
” means (1) any payments made by a User regarding any User/Creator Transaction, and (2) any tips.
“
You
” or “
your
” means a Creator or a User or both.
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Applicability
Each time a User/Creator Transaction is initiated on AlbumSelection, this agreement will
apply to the exclusion of any other terms that the User or Creator may propose,
and this agreement legally binds the User and Creator participating in the User/Creator Transaction.
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Parties
The only parties to this agreement are the User and Creator participating in the User/Creator Transaction.
Upperstage Eng. is not a party to this agreement, and neither grants any rights for, nor participates in,
any User/Creator Transaction, except for acting as a payment intermediary in accordance with the Creator’s and
User’s instructions set out in section 4 of this agreement.
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Pricing and Payment
By entering into a User/Creator Transaction, the User shall pay the User Payment applicable to the
relevant User/Creator Transaction in accordance with the pricing published in the Creator’s account.
The User and Creator participating in the User/Creator Transaction hereby authorize Upperstage Eng or
any of its subsidiaries to act as a payment intermediary and to collect, hold, and process the User Payment,
to deduct the Platform Fee, and to pay out the sums due to Creators, as described in the
Creator Supplement
[b]
.
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Content License
Once the User has made the User Payment for a User/Creator Transaction, the Creator hereby grants
the User a limited license to access the applicable Content of that Creator to which the User/Creator
Transaction relates (“
Relevant Content
”). This license is nontransferable, nonsublicensable, and nonexclusive, and allows the User to
access and view the Relevant Content on the User’s personal device and through a normal web browser
(and to make a temporary copy of that Content only to the extent that this is an incidental and
technical process forming part of the User’s accessing the Content (i.e., caching)), in accordance with the AlbumSelection
Acceptable Use Policy
[c]
.
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Content Ownership
The User participating in the User/Creator Transaction acknowledges that the Relevant Content license provided in section 5 of this agreement does not result in the User acquiring any rights in the Relevant Content, which rights will be retained by the Creator of the Relevant Content.
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License Termination
The license granted to a User for the Relevant Content will terminate automatically without
notice in the following circumstances:
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if the User Payment related to the User/Creator Transaction was unsuccessful or is charged
back or reversed for any reason;
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as to pay-per-view Content, once the User has finished viewing the Content;
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as to Subscriptions, at the end of the subscription period, unless the Subscription
is configured to automatically renew as described in the
Terms-of-Service Agreement
[d]
;
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if the User’s account is suspended or terminated for any reason;
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if the User breaches the AlbumSelection
Acceptable Use Policy
[e]
(whether as to the Relevant Content or at all);
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if the Content is removed from the Creator’s account; or
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if the User closes their AlbumSelection account.
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Cancellation and Refunds
As to every User/Creator Transaction:
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The User acknowledges that the User/Creator Transaction will result in a supply of the Relevant
Content to the User before the end of 14 days from the date when the User/Creator Transaction is
entered into, and the User gives their express consent to this and confirms to the Creator that they
are aware that any statutory right to cancel the User/Creator Transaction that the User has under
law will be lost.
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This agreement does not affect any statutory right to receive a refund from the Creator that a
User may have under law.
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Creator and User Obligations
As to every User/Creator Transaction:
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The User and the Creator participating in the User/Creator Transaction shall comply at all times with the AlbumSelection
Acceptable Use Policy
[f]
for the Relevant Content, including when accessing, viewing, and interacting with it.
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The User participating in the User/Creator Transaction shall make the User Payment required to access, view, or interact with the Relevant Content, and shall not initiate a chargeback other than if the User disputes the User/Creator Transaction in good faith.
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The Creator participating in the User/Creator Transaction shall make the Relevant Content available to the User once the User has made the User Payment applicable to the Relevant Content, including by producing any custom Content in accordance with the terms agreed to by the parties at checkout.
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The Creator states that it possesses all necessary rights in the Relevant Content sufficient
to license it to the User in the territory in which the User will be accessing or viewing the
Relevant Content and has obtained all permissions and consents needed to grant the license in
section 5 of this agreement.
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The Creator is solely responsible for creating and uploading the Relevant Content.
The Creator provides no guarantees that it will continue to create and upload Relevant Content
on an ongoing basis.
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Unless there has been negligence or other breach of duty by the Creator, the User’s accessing of the Creator’s Content is entirely at the User’s own risk.
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No Guarantees
The User participating in the User/Creator Transaction acknowledges that Creators may add and remove Content at any time from their Creator account, and that Creators have the discretion to decide what sort of Content to make available on their account. In addition, the User participating in the User/Creator Transaction acknowledges that there might be circumstances where it is not possible for the User to access Relevant Content to be provided under the User/Creator Transaction, including:
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if the Creator’s account is suspended or deleted;
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if the User’s account is suspended or deleted;
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if the availability of any part of the AlbumSelection website is suspended or inaccessible; or
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if the Creator cannot create or upload Relevant Content in the future.
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Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
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Cypriot law governs all adversarial proceedings arising out of the subject matter of this agreement.
The User may also rely on mandatory rules of the law of the jurisdiction where the User lives.
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As the exclusive means of initiating adversarial proceedings to resolve any dispute arising out
of the subject matter of this agreement, a party may demand that the dispute be resolved by arbitration
administered by Arbitration Resolution Services, Inc. (ARS) (or a similar online dispute resolution
provider if ARS is not available) in accordance with its arbitration rules available at
www.arbresolutions.com
, and each party hereby consents to any such dispute being so resolved. Judgment on any award
rendered in any such arbitration may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.
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Any disputes not subject to arbitration must be brought in the courts of competent jurisdiction
where the User resides.