Creator Terms · Modhold

These terms apply when you upload to Modhold, set up supporter tiers, sell a mod or tool, take tips or bids, or receive payouts. They add to the Terms of Service.

1. What you promise about what you upload

Every time you upload, you confirm that:

it's your own work, or you have permission for every part of it (other authors' assets, models, textures, sounds, code), and you can show that permission if asked; credit is not permission;
it follows the licence of the game it's for, and the licence of any tool you made it with;
it has no malware, hidden code, data collection or anything that harms players' computers;
it isn't a copy of a game's own files or of a paid mod;
if you mark it as made without a game's official editor (for example Bethesda's Creation Kit), that's true.

If any of that turns out wrong, we can remove the file, hold your earnings from it, and close your account. You cover claims that come from it (Terms, section 10).

2. Permissions

You set what others may do with your work on each mod's page. A permission you gave and someone used can't be taken back later, unless they broke your terms. Translations and add-ons of someone else's mod must list the original as required and only include what its author allowed.

3. Selling and paid features

Where selling is allowed: only where the game's maker allows it. Some game licences forbid charging for mods made with their tools (Bethesda's Creation Kit licence, for example), and we block paid mods for those games. Tools (programs that aren't game mods) may be sold. Supporters-first mods turn free on the date you set.
Adult (18+) mods: can't be sold. They can be free or supporters first, and they're only shown to people who confirmed they're 18 or older and turned adult content on.
Never sell: anything built on other people's work without a commercial permission, game currency or items, or anything a game's licence forbids.
Bids (paid requests): before you accept, agree the scope and delivery with the player in writing on the bid. [Escrow and ownership of the finished work: to be decided.] A mod made from a bid follows the game's selling rules, and for games that forbid selling mods, it's released free to everyone.
Supporter tiers: describe what each tier gets and deliver it. You can change or end a tier; supporters keep what they paid for until the end of their month.

4. Fees and payouts

Our share: we keep [9%] of supporter tiers, paid mods, tools and bids. Tips go to you in full.
With Stripe connected: card payments for your tiers, paid mods, tools, bids and tips are made to your own Stripe account, and you're the seller. Stripe takes its card fee from each payment, and our share is taken as a fee on it. Stripe's own terms for your account apply too.
Without Stripe, and PayPal payments: we take the payment, pay its fee, and pay you your share with the monthly payout through [PayPal / Venmo]. [Payout schedule and minimum, for example monthly, minimum $10.]
Taxes: you're responsible for your own income taxes. We may need tax details (a W-9 for US authors, a W-8BEN for others) before paying you, and we may have to report payments to tax authorities or hold payments until we get them.
Refunds: Modhold doesn't give refunds. Whether to refund a buyer is your call; you do it with the Refund button on your Payouts page.
Chargebacks: a buyer's bank can reverse a card payment whatever our policy says. On your Stripe account, we ask you for proof of the sale and answer the dispute with it, and a lost one comes from your account. On a payment we took for you, it's taken from your balance or future payouts.
Holding money: we may hold payouts while we look into fraud, a copyright claim, or a break of these terms.
Ad and Pass share: a share of the site's ad and Pass money goes to authors as described on the Payouts page. It's a reward we may change or end with notice, not a wage.

5. Being an author here

You must be 18 or older to sell or get paid. You're an independent creator, not our employee or partner. We can change these terms with notice; continuing to sell or take payouts after that means you accept them.