Creator Agreement & Code of Conduct

Thank you for creating with The Workaround Collective (“WC”). This Agreement supplements WC’s Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines. As a content creator you may publish content to the library and offer paid, bookable sessions to job seekers.

1. Your role & relationship

You participate as an independent creator, not an employee, contractor, partner, or agent of WC. You decide your own content and session offerings within the rules below. Nothing here creates an employment, joint-venture, or exclusivity relationship, and you are free to create elsewhere. You will indemnify WC for any taxes, penalties, or assessments arising from a determination that you are not an independent contractor, and will cooperate in any proceeding relating to your classification.

2. Minimum monthly availability

To keep the Collective dependable for job seekers who are counting on you, you agree to keep at least 4 hours of bookable session availability open each calendar month for as long as you hold the creator role. This is availability you make bookable — it is not a guarantee that job seekers will book it, and unbooked availability doesn’t roll over. If you can’t meet the minimum for a stretch (travel, illness, a busy season), close your open availability and let WC know rather than leaving stale slots up. Persistent failure to keep availability open may lead WC to pause or cancel your creator agreement.

3. Nature of content & disclaimer

Your content and sessions are your own experience, skills, and perspective. They are not professional advice — legal, financial, medical, psychological, or professional career-counseling — and create no professional, fiduciary, therapist, or attorney relationship. You make no guarantee of any outcome, including employment, and job seekers are responsible for their own decisions.

4. Payment, tokens & taxes

WC operates the marketplace but isn’t the entity that moves the money — payments run through a licensed processor (for example Stripe Connect or a merchant of record) that handles the regulated money flow, your identity verification (KYC), and payouts. WC retains a platform fee. You earn only through booked sessions; library content is contributed free (Section 5).

• Pricing. You may price sessions in tokens or cash. WC may publish recommended pricing guidelines (for example, a suggested range of up to $50 or 50 tokens per hour), but you retain sole discretion over the price of each session.
• Cash bookings. The job seeker pays by card through the processor; you receive the amount minus the platform fee.
• Token bookings. Tokens redeem to cash at $1.00 = 1 token, paid out monthly once your balance reaches $20 (balances below $20 roll over).
• On account closure, any accrued token balance of $5 or more is paid out within sixty (60) days; balances below $5 are forfeited. Token balances unredeemed for twelve (12) consecutive months of inactivity may be forfeited at WC’s discretion after notice to you.
• No circumvention. Don’t arrange bookings or accept payment off-platform to avoid platform fees. A breach lets WC immediately suspend or terminate your account and recover the platform fees that would have been owed on the circumvented transactions.
• Reversals & holds. WC may reverse, withhold, set off against future payouts, or recover amounts for refunds, chargebacks, disputed transactions, or suspected fraud, and may suspend payouts during any investigation of suspected fraud or policy violations.
• Taxes. You are solely responsible for all taxes on what you earn; WC doesn’t withhold, and you get no wages, benefits, or expense reimbursement. You must provide a completed IRS Form W-9 before any payout, and WC or its processor will issue a Form 1099-NEC if you’re paid $600 or more in a calendar year. Creators must be US-based.

5. Content you publish & license

You retain authorship and ownership of the content you contribute to the library (the Nectar Bar). You grant WC a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, display, adapt, edit, reformat, watermark, distribute, create derivative works from, and otherwise use your library content in any medium now known or later developed, in connection with the Collective, its platform, and its promotional and mission-related activities. Library content is contributed without payment — you earn only through booked sessions (Section 4).

You authorize WC to apply its logo, branding, and a copyright/ownership notice to your content and agree not to remove or circumvent them. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you waive any moral rights (including rights of attribution and integrity) in the library content and agree not to assert them against WC or its sublicensees. You warrant that your content is original (or that you hold all rights necessary to grant this license), doesn’t infringe anyone’s rights, contains no confidential, defamatory, unlawful, or sexually explicit material, complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws (including FTC endorsement and advertising guidelines), and that you’ve obtained any releases required for people featured in it. WC may remove content that violates this Agreement or the Community Guidelines.

6. Code of conduct

• Be respectful, supportive, and appropriate for a general audience at all times.
• No harassment, bullying, discrimination, hate speech, threats, or sexually explicit content.
• No romantic or sexual advances toward job seekers, and no exploitation of the creator relationship.
• Stay within your experience; don’t present yourself as a licensed professional unless you are one and disclose it.
• Deliver booked sessions you’ve accepted, show up on time, and give reasonable notice if you must reschedule.
• Follow the Community Guidelines and all applicable laws.

7. Wellness & physical-activity sessions

If your content or sessions involve movement, exercise, nutrition, or other wellness activity, you are solely responsible for their safe design, supervision, and delivery: keep them safe and appropriate for a general audience, screen participants and ask about relevant health conditions, injuries, allergies, and dietary restrictions, don’t present nutrition or health information as medical or dietetic advice unless you’re appropriately licensed and disclose it, and require each participant to accept your own participant waiver before the session (in addition to WC’s Session Booking Terms & Release). You make no health or fitness guarantees. WC has no responsibility or liability for any injury, illness, adverse reaction, or other harm arising from any wellness session — WC is only the connector and does not supervise or direct sessions.

Insurance. You’re responsible for any insurance appropriate to what you offer. If you offer wellness sessions (physical activity, movement, fitness, or nutrition guidance), you must carry general and/or professional liability insurance appropriate to those activities, name WC as an additional insured on each such policy, and provide proof of coverage and additional-insured status on WC’s request.

8. Confidentiality & off-platform conduct

Keep confidential any information a job seeker shares during or in connection with a session, and any non-public information about WC’s platform, business, users, or operations (“Confidential Information”), and don’t use or disclose it except as necessary to perform under this Agreement. Don’t misuse contact details, and don’t solicit job seekers for outside services, products, recruiting, or off-platform payment. Keep sessions and delivery on the platform’s tools.

9. Safety & reporting

Promptly report to WC any conduct, safety concern, or content that violates the Community Guidelines or the law. WC may remove or suspend a creator, or hold or reverse payouts, at its discretion for violations.

10. Liability & indemnification

The platform, content, and sessions are provided “as is,” and WC acts only as a connector. WC is not responsible for interactions between users or for the conduct, safety, advice, or content of any session. You represent that you’re competent and, where applicable, appropriately trained, certified, or licensed for each session you offer, and won’t hold yourself out as a licensed professional unless you are one and disclose it. You will indemnify, defend, and hold WC and its directors, officers, volunteers, and staff harmless from any and all claims, damages, and liabilities — including for personal injury — arising out of your content, sessions, or conduct. To the extent permitted by law, WC’s liability to you is limited.

11. Ending the relationship

Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time, for any reason or no reason, upon written notice. WC may additionally suspend or terminate your account immediately, without prior notice, for any actual or suspected violation of this Agreement, the Terms of Use, or Community Guidelines, or if WC reasonably believes continued access poses a legal, safety, or reputational risk. On termination, you’ll stop offering sessions and remove or cease distributing any WC-branded materials; sessions already booked should be honored or refunded in tokens. The license to library content already contributed survives, and the conduct, confidentiality, disclaimer, license, tax, and indemnity provisions survive.