Terms of Service & Creator Regulations

To deliver verified campaign tracking, real-time analytics, and automated wallet disbursements, SoundReach.me connects directly with social media platform APIs (including TikTok and Spotify Open API).

• Granted API Permissions: By authorizing your third-party creator or curator account on SoundReach.me, you explicitly grant the platform continuous permission to extract video metrics (views, shares, comments, audio identity matches, sound usage length) and account verification metadata.
• Latency & Synchronization: In the event of API rate limits, network latency, or reporting delays between social platforms and SoundReach.me, payout amounts strictly correlate to the verified metric count recorded within SoundReach.me's database logs upon completion of the tracking window.

SoundReach.me enforces strict performance standards on all multi-studio sound challenges and creator promotions to protect artist intellectual property, guarantee platform operations, and safeguard sponsor campaign budgets.

• 5 Calendar Day Active Performance Qualification Window: Live video metric tracking commences immediately upon submission verification in-app and continues for exactly five (5) consecutive calendar days (120 hours) to qualify the post and confirm final creator payout tiers. Submissions move directly to the Active stage upon link upload, securing platform operational fees as view milestones are achieved.
• 5 to 7 Business Day Pending Clearing & Review Buffer: Following the 5 calendar day Active monitoring window, campaigns transition automatically to the Pending stage for five to seven (5–7) business days. During this clearing buffer, funds are processed from campaign budgets. This buffer accounts for early campaign closures, remaining budget refunds to campaign sponsors, or post rejections resulting from TOS violations, deleted videos, or inauthentic engagement.
• Audio Layering & Audibility Thresholds: The campaign sound prompt must remain clearly audible throughout the video presentation. If a creator lowers the promotional audio asset volume to zero percent (0%), overlays a conflicting trending track that mutes the campaign audio, or alters pitch/speed beyond natural recognition, the video is flagged as "Incomplete / Audio Muted" and all creator campaign earnings are forfeited.

To foster sustained long-term creator engagement, protect artist promotional investments, and safeguard against one-off account abandonment, SoundReach.me mandates minimum withdrawal thresholds, content retention requirements, and transparent cashout settlement schedules.

• Mandatory 45-Day Content Retention Requirement: All promotional TikTok videos and playlist placements must remain publicly accessible on creator profiles for a mandatory retention period of at least forty-five (45) consecutive calendar days following campaign submission.
• Right to Clawback & Balance Reversal: If a creator deletes a campaign video, switches video privacy settings to "Private" or "Friends Only," or receives a copyright mute strike within the 45-day retention window, SoundReach.me retains the explicit legal right to:
  • Instantly forfeit unwithdrawn earnings associated with the campaign.
  • Deduct the full campaign value (up to $200.00) from your current wallet balance or future campaign accruals.
  • Pause cashout operations and terminate platform marketplace access pending compliance review.

SoundReach.me enforces a zero-tolerance policy against artificial view inflation, engagement pods, automated script manipulation, and inorganic traffic generation.

• Automated Milestone Auditing: Submissions reaching high payout tiers or requesting maximum withdrawal thresholds ($200+) automatically trigger forensic audit scripts that analyze audience retention curves, traffic origins, comment entropy, and bot signatures.
• Prohibited Actions: Purchasing views/likes, utilizing click farms, participating in mutual-engagement pods ("like-for-like"), or employing automated web drivers constitutes a material breach of contract.

Creators and playlist curators participate on SoundReach.me strictly as independent contractors and are solely responsible for local, state, and federal tax reporting.

• Independent Contractor Classification: Nothing in these Terms establishes an employment, partnership, or joint venture relationship between SoundReach.me and any creator or curator.
• The $600.00 IRS Threshold & Form W-9: In accordance with United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations, when cumulative disbursements across all campaigns reach or exceed $600.00 USD within a single calendar year, cashout functionality will automatically freeze until the user submits a valid Form W-9 (or Form W-8BEN for international non-US residents). SoundReach.me issues annual Form 1099-NEC tax statements accordingly.

SoundReach.me reserves the right to update or modify these Terms of Service at any time. Continued use of the platform constitutes full acceptance of modified terms.

If you have questions regarding these terms, payout thresholds, or tax compliance, please contact our legal team at [email protected].