Coddy Creator Program
Version 2026-08-27
This is the agreement between you (the "Creator") and Coddy, Inc., 651 N Broad Street, Suite 201, Middletown, DE 19709, USA (the "Client") for paid work in the Coddy creator program. It holds everything that is true of every deal we do, so that each individual deal only has to say what it is actually about.
It applies alongside Coddy's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Coddy affiliate program is a separate thing with its own program terms, and being a creator here does not enrol you in it.
You need to be at least 18. If you are younger we can still work with you, but a parent or guardian has to agree to this on your behalf, so tell us and we will arrange that instead of having you accept an offer here.
The account has to be yours, and so do the channels listed on it. If you are accepting on behalf of a company or with a manager involved, that is fine, and we need to know who they are.
One boring one we have no way around: we cannot pay people in countries that US sanctions law puts off limits, or anyone named on a US restricted-parties list. Accepting a deal is you confirming that neither applies to you.
Work is agreed one deal at a time. A deal names the pieces you are making, the platform each one goes on, the fee, when that fee is paid, and any special terms on top of this page. You read all of it before you decide, and nothing is agreed until you accept it.
Accepting a deal creates a binding agreement for that deal on these terms. Nothing on this page obliges you to accept any future deal, and nothing obliges us to offer one.
Signing here counts. Where a deal asks you to sign, the name you type is your signature, and both of us are agreeing that we can do all of this electronically: no paper, no ink, no scanner. We record which version of this page you signed against, and the deal keeps a copy of what you signed that you can read back or print at any time. Ask us and we will send it to you.
A deal's deliverables, fee and payment rule are frozen the moment you accept. Neither side can change them afterwards. If the work needs to change, we cancel the deal and send you a new offer you can read the same way.
You work for yourself. This agreement does not make you an employee, a partner or an agent of Coddy, and it does not make Coddy any of those things for you. Concretely:
You own what you make. The video, the post, the footage, the edit: it stays yours, and you stay credited as its creator. Getting paid for it does not transfer it to us, and none of this is work made for hire.
What we can do without asking. Link to it, and share it the way anyone shares a public post: a repost, a quote, an embed that points back at your channel.
Reusing it as our own marketing is a separate permission, and you grant it per deal, in the usage-rights term on that deal, in the words shown to you on the offer. Where a deal carries no such term, we have no reuse rights beyond ordinary sharing. Where it does, here is what that permission means in practice. It runs worldwide, for the window the term states, and it lets us trim or reformat the work to fit a placement so long as we do not change what it says or make it look like you said something you did not. Running it as an ad means handing it to the platform's own ad system, so the permission reaches those platforms for that purpose and no other. When the window closes we stop putting it into new placements. You own the work throughout, and you can ask us at any time for a list of where we have used it.
Your name and your face. We may use your name, your handle and your profile picture to say that you work with us: on our site, in a list of the creators we work with, in a deck. That is us identifying you, never us putting words in your mouth, and it stops when you ask us to stop.
Our name and logo. For the deal itself, we grant you permission to use the Coddy name, logo and designs as needed to make and post the work. That permission is for the deal and it ends with it. It does not extend to registering domains, handles or apps that use our name.
You agree to keep the work up for at least 90 days after it goes live, unless a deal asks for longer and says so. After that it is entirely up to you.
Things happen: a channel-wide cleanup, a platform takedown, a piece that has to come down for a reason that has nothing to do with us. Tell us, and we will agree a way through it rather than treat it as a breach. We will not withhold or reclaim a fee over a post you genuinely had to remove, and we will not unreasonably refuse a request to take one down early.
Paid work has to be disclosed as paid work. Turn on the platform's own label (YouTube's paid-promotion checkbox, Instagram's paid partnership tag, TikTok's branded content toggle), and put it in the piece itself as well, since a viewer will not read the description. Where you talk to camera, say it.
Keep it accurate too. Do not claim Coddy does something it does not do, invent a discount, or present yourself as Coddy. Ask us if you are unsure whether a claim holds up. Whatever advertising law applies where your audience is applies to the piece, and so do the platform's own rules.
Where it sits. Keep the piece away from content nobody wants a brand next to: anything illegal, hateful, or sexually explicit. If something ends up in that kind of context, we may ask you to move it or take it down. You still get paid.
Some deals ask to see the work along the way: a concept or script before you film it, a draft before it goes live, or both. Whether yours asks for either is stated on the offer, so you know before you accept.
When you send one in we come back to you in the portal, and we will be specific about what we are asking for. The point of each step is to get to yes: we can ask for changes, you can push back, and approval is about whether the piece does what the deal describes rather than a veto over how you make things.
Two things keep that from turning into a loop with no exit. If we have asked for changes twice on the same piece and we still cannot agree, either of us can stop the deal there, and anything already paid to you stays yours. And if we go quiet for 14 days on a concept or a draft you have sent us, treat it as approved and move on to the next step.
Every deal states its fee in US dollars and its payment rule: on delivery, on acceptance, half up front and half on delivery, on a fixed date, or in parts released at the moments the deal lists (for example, half once we approve your concept and half once the piece is live). When a rule, or a part of it, is met and we have confirmed the work, that money goes out, and in practice that is usually the same day. There is no monthly cycle, no minimum, and nothing for you to invoice.
You tell us where to send it in your own portal, and you can change it any time before a payment goes out. We cannot send anything until a destination is on file. Some countries need documents before money can move, so we may also need a W-9 or a W-8BEN from you, and where we do we will ask before the payment is due rather than after.
We cover the cost of sending your payment by our standard method. If you ask for a different method, any fees that method adds are yours. Currency conversion on your side, and anything your own bank charges to receive money, is yours too.
Tax. Where the law requires us to withhold tax from a payment, we will, and we will tell you what was withheld and why. Getting your form to us on time is usually what avoids it.
Getting money back. If we pay you something in error, or a deal is undone after it was paid, we take the difference off your next payment. If there is not going to be a next payment we may ask you to send it back, and we will only do that where the money was genuinely not earned: an overpayment, a duplicate, or a fee paid up front for work that never arrived. We will never reclaim a fee for work you actually delivered.
Working with us means you sometimes see things before anyone else: unreleased features, pricing plans, user numbers, what we are trying next. Keep that to yourself while it is still unreleased, during the deal and for two years after it ends. Anything that is a trade secret stays confidential for as long as it is one.
This does not cover anything already public, anything you already knew, anything you work out on your own, or anything a third party gave you without strings. If a court or a regulator makes you hand something over, hand it over, and tell us first if you are allowed to.
None of it stops you saying you worked with us, showing the deal in your own portfolio, or telling anyone what we paid you. Your rate is your business.
This agreement runs for as long as you are in the program. Either side can end it at any time by writing to the other. Ending it does not touch a deal already under way, and it does not touch money you are already owed.
Work you have done is paid for. If we close your account or you leave, anything already approved goes out on the normal terms. Offers still sitting on the table are withdrawn.
Either side may end a specific deal immediately for a serious breach of this agreement, or for anything that exposes the other to real legal trouble. Where we end a deal for that reason before the work is published, no further fee is due and any fee already paid for work that never arrived is repayable under section 9. Where you end one for that reason, we pay for what you have actually made.
Sections 5, 9, 10, 12 and 13 keep working after a deal or this agreement ends.
You promise that:
We promise that:
If a claim arrives. Where a third party brings a claim against one of us because the other broke one of those promises, the side that broke it covers it: the damages, any settlement it agrees to, and reasonable legal costs. Whoever is on the receiving end has to tell the other promptly, let them run the defence if they want to, help where it is needed, and not settle without asking first. Being slow to tell the other side only reduces this by however much the delay actually cost.
Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or knock-on losses, or for lost profits, lost audience or lost opportunity, however they come about. Apart from the promises in section 12, each side's total liability for a deal is capped at that deal's fee.
Two things that cap does not touch: our obligation to pay you for work you delivered, and anything the law says cannot be limited, including fraud.
Things outside anyone's control. Neither side is in breach for a delay caused by something it genuinely could not control, as long as it says so and gets going again as soon as it reasonably can.
Talk first. Before either of us starts anything formal, write to the other and give it 30 days. Almost everything that comes up here is a misunderstanding about a date or a number, and those get fixed in an email.
Law and where. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, leaving aside its rules about which other law might apply. Anything that does end up in court goes to the state or federal courts sitting in Delaware, and both of us agree to that. If you are somewhere whose law gives you rights you cannot sign away, you keep them.
Handing it on. You cannot hand your side of a deal to somebody else without asking us first. We can hand ours to a company that buys or merges with Coddy, and nothing about your deal changes if we do.
Notices. Anything formal goes by email: to the address on your account for you, and to marketing@coddy.tech for us. It counts as delivered the next working day. Keep your address current, since it is where we send things.
Letting something slide. If either of us lets something go once, that is not either of us giving up the right to raise it another time. And if a court decides one part of this does not hold, the rest of it still does.
The whole of it. A deal plus this page is the entire agreement about that deal, and it replaces anything discussed beforehand. If the two ever disagree, the deal wins on the commercial side (what you are making, what it pays, when it pays, and its special terms) and this page wins on everything else. Changing an accepted deal takes both of us agreeing in writing.
We may update this agreement as the program grows. When the obligations change we publish a new version, and the version is stamped at the top. A deal you have already accepted keeps the version you accepted it under, and your signature records which one that was. New wording applies to deals you accept afterwards.
Anything about a deal goes to whoever sent it to you. Their name and address are on the deal itself. Anything about this page, or about the program in general, goes to marketing@coddy.tech.
If a clause here worries you, say so before you accept anything. We would much rather talk about it now than have you sign something you are unsure about.