The platform's rules

What SelfShooty does

SelfShooty connects brands that need a video with creators who film it themselves. The platform holds the order, the money and the rights granted. It does not produce the videos.

The platform watches no video. The brand judges whether a delivery matches its brief, and that is written here so no other page can suggest otherwise.

Your account

The information you give must be accurate, and you answer for what happens from your account.

A creator who wants to be paid goes through our payment provider's identity check. We release nothing until it is done.

How an order runs

Two routes in, and the same course once the agreement is made.

• A brand posts a request with a brief, and the creators it interests answer with a proposal: a price, a turnaround, the rights requested. The brand accepts one.
• Or it orders a creator directly, and hands over its brief afterwards.
• On agreement the amount is held. It does not go to the creator: it is kept back until the video is accepted.
• The creator films, edits, and delivers the video.
• The brand has three business days to accept it or to ask for a precise correction.
• Three corrections at most on one order. Each produces a new version, and the three business days start again on every delivery.
• With no answer within three business days, the delivery is accepted. Silence counts as acceptance.
• On acceptance the payout goes to the creator, commission deducted. They can withdraw it five days later.

Nobody arbitrates, and that is deliberate

The platform does not settle anything between a brand and a creator. Once the three corrections are used, the brand is left with accepting or staying silent, and the silence concludes.

This is not abdication: an in-house arbiter would be judging taste, that is, something it cannot verify. Deadlines can be verified, and they depend on nobody's goodwill.

Usage rights

The creator keeps their rights. They grant a use, for one particular order, and nothing beyond it.

Five freedoms, each granted separately: the media the video may appear on, the territory, the duration in months, paid advertising, and alteration by artificial intelligence. A single « I accept the terms » box is worth nothing where image rights are concerned, as they are read narrowly.

Every consent is signed against a dated version of the text, and kept as it stands.

Extending the duration or adding paid advertising is not an amendment to the existing consent: it is a new consent, and a new payment. Using a video beyond what was granted is use without right.

The money

The platform takes a commission on the agreed amount. It appears on every proposal before the agreement, and the creator sees it before answering: amount, commission, net.

No subscription, no posting fee, no introduction fee.

Payments are collected and paid out by our payment provider. No bank details pass through us.

Refunds

Three rules, and they do not overlap.

• An accepted video is never refunded, including when the acceptance comes from silence. The relief valve is the reshoot, not the money.
• The money comes back in full, to the original payment method and without a fee, in two cases: nothing was delivered by the end of the mission, or a report is upheld. In the first, the brand can cancel two business days after the deadline; that margin exists so a few hours' delay does not cost the creator everything.
• On a direct order, if the brand does not hand over its brief within fourteen days, the order is cancelled and refunded in full. The creator has lost nothing: their turnaround never started.

For creators

You have twenty-four hours to refuse a brief you receive without that refusal counting against you. After that it is recorded: you read it, you kept the order, you made someone wait. Late abandonment is what is penalised, never an informed refusal.

Refusing an order whose brief has not arrived never costs anything, however long it has been.

The platform ranks nobody. There is no level, no success score, no response rate, no follower count, and there will not be.

What has no place here

And what to do when you see it.

• A video that is unlawful, or that you do not hold the rights to: music, a trademark, a clip, the image of someone who has not agreed to be filmed.
• Passing yourself off as someone else, or presenting another's work as your own.
• Taking payment off the platform. Neither the held amount nor the written consent holds outside it, and both sides end up with nothing.
• A report goes to the contact address in the legal notice. We do not watch every video; we watch the ones we are shown.