Creator Terms

These terms apply in addition to the Terms of Service if you offer work on lalalust. Where the two differ for creators, this document wins.

1. You are independent

You are a self-employed contractor, not an employee, agent or partner of lalalust. You decide what you offer, at what price, for whom, and when. Nothing here creates an employment relationship, and no work is ever assigned to you — you send an offer only if you want the job.

You are responsible for your own taxes and social contributions and for any registration your country requires of you. We report and withhold only where the law obliges us to.

2. Verification

Before your profile is visible you pass an identity and liveness check with our independent verification partner, and the partner confirms to us that you are a real person and 18 or older. Only a passed check switches a profile live; without it there is no public profile and no payout. Portfolio items and catalogue entries are also looked at by a person at lalalust before they become visible, and vault files before they can be sold in a chat.

Your identity documents are handled by the partner, not by us: no passport photo or scan reaches our servers. What we do store is the decision the partner sends back, including the machine-readable result data that comes with it (status, the age read from the document, any warnings or review comments). It is kept with your account so we can show why a profile was cleared or refused.

2a. One person, one verified account

The partner also compares the selfie against the earlier checks it has run for us, so that the same person cannot hold two verified accounts or come back after being suspended. That matters more here than on an ordinary site: an account closed for a safety reason has to stay closed.

What comes back to us from that comparison is not a name and not a document. It is the account number we ourselves handed the partner at the earlier check. So we learn that account A and account B are the same person; we still do not learn who that person is. Nothing in this stores a name, a date of birth from the document, a document number or an image — the sentence above stays exactly true.

If a match turns up, a person at lalalust looks at it before anything happens. Twins exist, so do measurement errors, and so does someone who genuinely lost access to an old account.

2b. What you type, and what the document says

You give us your date of birth before the check. The document is the fact; what you typed is a statement. We keep both and change neither — we will not quietly correct your entry to match the document, because the difference between the two is itself something we may have to explain later.

A gap of a year or less is treated as what it almost always is: a typo, or a birthday that fell between the two moments. A larger gap is not waved through; a person looks at it, and you are told that we are looking. If the document says you are under 18, the account closes immediately and nobody gets to weigh that up.

Failing or refusing the check means no public profile and no payouts. Providing someone else's identity is fraud and ends the account permanently.

3. What you may upload

• Only material you made yourself and in which only you appear — or, in a collab, only you and your verified partner. Material showing anyone else is not accepted.
• Every portfolio item, catalogue sample, delivery, vault file and project file you upload carries a dated declaration of age, consent and rights, which is stored with the file and cannot be edited afterwards. That declaration is what makes our 2257 record-keeping real, so a false one is a serious matter.
• The Acceptable use policy applies to everything you upload, offer, describe or say.

4. Rights you keep and rights you grant

You keep copyright and all rights in your own likeness. You grant lalalust a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, thumbnail, watermark and display your material for the purpose of running the platform: showing your profile, delivering an order, checking a delivery, and handling a case.

We do not licence your work to third parties. We do not use it to train models and do not permit others to. If you delete an item, the licence ends for future use; copies already delivered to a customer under an agreed brief are not affected, and records we must keep by law remain.

What a customer receives is defined by the brief. Unless you agree otherwise there, it is for their private use only.

4a. We go after people who steal it — in our name, at our cost

Copyright stays yours. Read the next paragraph anyway, because it is the part that has teeth.

For material you create for lalalust, you grant lalalust an exclusive licence to distribute it commercially online, for as long as it is listed with us and for twelve months after, together with a standing mandate to enforce that licence in our own name. In plain words: if your work turns up on a tube site, a forum or a leak board, we send the takedown notice, and we send it as the exclusive licence holder rather than as a middleman passing on someone else's complaint.

That distinction is the whole point. A platform reporting on behalf of a third party gets a slow queue and a request for proof of authority. A platform reporting its own exclusive rights gets acted on. You should not have to sign your own name to a legal notice, publish your address on it, or pay a lawyer, in order to get your own photographs taken down.

What this does not mean, so that nobody can read it as more than it is:

• You remain the author and the owner. We acquire no copyright, ever.
• The exclusive part covers commercial online distribution of the specific pieces you create for lalalust. Your own channels, your own printing, your own archive, your own use of your likeness — untouched.
• You can end it: delist the piece, and twelve months later the exclusivity lapses. Ask us in writing and we will release it sooner in any case where nothing is pending.
• Whatever we recover in an enforcement action beyond our own costs belongs to you, not to us.
• We will not enforce against you, and we will not use this clause as leverage in a dispute with you.

The buyer acquires no ownership of anything, in any case. They buy a licence to a private copy, defined by the brief. Selling it on, uploading it, or passing it around is not something they bought, and we treat it as what it is.

4b. Every copy is marked

Each file we hand to a buyer is its own copy and carries a random identifier, written into the part of the file format meant for notes. Nothing about the picture or the sound changes, and we do not put a visible watermark on work somebody paid for.

The identifier answers one question: whose copy is this. If your work surfaces somewhere it should not be, that is the difference between a notice we can act on and a suspicion we cannot.

We will tell you plainly what it cannot do: re-encoding a file removes the marker. Most sharing is lazy — the file goes up exactly as it arrived — and those cases it settles at once. Someone who strips it did so deliberately, which does not help their side of the argument.

5. Orders and delivery

• You may decline any order, at any time, without giving a reason.
• Once you accept, the brief binds you: deliver what is written, by the agreed deadline.
• 2 revisions are included in every order — one more (3) where the customer holds a Velvet pass. A revision request must point at the brief; you do not owe rework for a change of taste.
• A person at lalalust checks the delivery against the brief before it reaches the customer. A clear mismatch comes back to you before the customer ever sees it.
• Miss the deadline without agreement and the financier can report the order as not delivered. Our support then decides case by case under the Refund policy, and no commission is due for an order that is refunded. If you need more time, ask in the order chat before the deadline — that is what it is for.

6. Money

Who sells, and who pays you. Lalalust GmbH sells every product on lalalust to the financier in its own name and collects the full price at the time of purchase, through its payment provider. You do not sell to the financier and you do not receive money from the financier. For each order you deliver, we owe you a commission under this agreement.

How much. Your commission is 80 % of your price, the same for every creator. Our share covers verification, review, support, payment handling and the handling of problem reports. There is no listing fee, no monthly charge and no paid placement. VAT and payment costs are part of the financier's price; they are not taken from your commission.

When it is earned. Your commission is earned once you have delivered the order, the delivery has passed our check, and the financier has confirmed it — or 72 hours have passed after we released the checked delivery to the financier without a problem report. The clock starts at that release, not at your upload. Once earned, the commission is credited to your earnings account.

Payout schedule. You request a payout from your wallet whenever you like, to the payout method you entered in Settings; a person at lalalust then releases it, normally within seven days. The smallest payout is $10.00. Your first payout is possible 14 days after your first earning; after you change your payout details, payouts pause for 72 hours; payouts from $1,000.00 are approved separately before they are sent. The payout method is the one you gave us — give an account you actually control.

No custody of customer money. The price paid by the financier is our revenue from the sale. Nothing in these terms creates a trust, a trust account, a fiduciary or custodial relationship, a deposit, or a money-transmission or stored-value relationship between you, the financier and lalalust. Your earnings account is a record of what we owe you under this agreement.

Refunds and chargebacks. If we refund a purchase under our refund policy, or a payment is reversed by the financier's bank, no commission is due for it. A commission already credited is reversed; if it has already been paid out, it is set off against your future commissions or, where that is not possible, invoiced back. We tell you why and show you the decision.

7. Single files (vault)

Vault files — the single files you offer in a chat — are looked at by a person before they can be bought, usually within two hours. Until then they sit in your vault marked as waiting; files that were in your vault before this check was introduced count as checked. Each sale of a vault file is a sale by Lalalust GmbH to the financier, and section 6 applies to your commission.

8. Conduct

• No off-platform payment or delivery to avoid our fee or our protections. This is the one breach that reliably ends accounts on both sides.
• No contact details in public text.
• No pressure on a customer to withdraw a case or a review.
• No fake reviews, fake accounts, or buying your own work.

9. Suspension and ending

You may close your account once active orders are finished and your open commissions are paid out. We may suspend or end an account for a breach of these terms, with notice and a reason, or immediately for a safety breach. You may appeal once, in writing, to a different person.

10. Contact

creators@lalalust.com for anything about offering work here; legal@lalalust.com for these terms.