Service Provider

These Terms of Use are between you and Paronify Ltd, Novare Central, Wuse, FCT Abuja, Nigeria.

Age

In order to use Paronify Service and access any content, you need; To be 13 years of age or older, Have parents or guardian consent if you are a minor in your country. Have the power to enter into a binding contract with us and not be barred from doing so under any applicable laws. You will ensure that every registration information you submit to Paronify is complete and accurate.

A. The Paronify Services

Paronify is a membership platform where creators and artists in Africa can monetize their contents by offering exclusive content to their fans.

Paronify Ltd builds technologies and services that enable creators to monetize their contents and connect with their fans. Creators on Paronify do not pay to use the platform, however, a commission rate of 12% is charged on their earnings on the platform. The subscribers (members) pay a given subscription fee as determined by the individual creator they wish to subscribe to.

Service Limitations and Modifications

B. Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. We don't sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don't share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data to determine.

C. Your Use of Paronify Services

Account

You will need to create a Paronify account to have access to the platform. In order to open an account, you will be asked to provide us with certain information such as an account name and password. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account, your password and for restricting access to your computer. Kindly notify our customer service team immediately if your user name or password is lost or stolen, or if you believe there has been unauthorized access to your account. Paronify may reclaim, require you change your username for any reason. If you permit others to use your account credentials, you agree to these Terms of Service on behalf of all other persons who use the Services under your account or password, and you are responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password.
Please ensure that the information you provide to Paronify upon registration and at all other times is true, accurate, current, and complete to the best of your knowledge.
Unless expressly permitted in writing by Paronify, you may not sell, rent, lease, share, or provide access to your account to anyone else, including without limitation charging anyone for access to administrative rights on your account.

Use of Devices and Services

Modification of these Terms of Use

Paronify may amend any of the terms of use by posting the amended terms. Your continued use of the Paronify Services after the effective date of the revised Terms of USe constitutes your acceptance of the terms.

Creations and Intellectual Property Rights

1. Creations
   Creators will keep full ownership of their creations and members will keep full ownership of what they publish on Paronify. But, both creators and members give us permission to use them as part of Paronify’s services (especially for marketing purposes).

   Creators keep full ownership of their creations and members keep full ownership of what they post on Paronify, but we need licenses from you for this material in order to operate Paronify’s services effectively. By making creations available on Paronify or posting on Paronify, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable, worldwide license covering your creation or what you post in all formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world to use, copy, reproduce, store, translate, transmit, distribute, perform, prepare derivative works, publicly display, and display in connection with any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with it. If your creations contain any personal data, you also recognize Paronify’s “legitimate interest” in it in accordance with the scope of this license.

   This may sound like a handful of access, however, it is imperative for us to operate our services, including hosting creations, providing and promoting memberships to your patrons,and enabling community features. For clarity, you keep full ownership over your creations and what you post on Paronify; we are not buying your intellectual property rights or leasing them from you for our gain. We will never try to steal your creations, use them in an exploitative way, or seek to profit off of them by any means other than facilitating memberships and offerings you’ve configured on Paronify.

2. Intellectual Property Rights
   

   You may not make available creations or otherwise make posts on Paronify that infringe others’ intellectual property or proprietary rights. We respond to complaint notifications of claimed copyright infringement and have adopted and reasonably implemented a policy for terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of creators and patrons who are the subject of repeated compliant notifications of claimed copyright infringement or other evidence that suggests a pattern of repeat infringement.

Disputes and Customer Support

We encourage you to contact if you have any concerns, If a dispute does not spring out of these terms or in or relates to your use of Paronify, then the case will be resolved in Federal Capital Territory - Abuja under Nigeria Law.

TERMS OF USE FOR CREATORS

BY USING PARONIFY AS A CREATOR YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS

Introduction: These Terms of Use for Creators are additional terms which apply if you use Paronify as a Creator (also referred to as "you" and "your" in these Terms of Use for Creators). These Terms of Use for Creators form part of your agreement with us.

A. Charges:

We charge a fee to you of ten (10%) of all Member Payments made to you (exclusive of any VAT and payment processing fees element of the Fan Payment) The remaining ninety percent (90%) of the Member Payment (exclusive of any VAT element of the Fan Payment) is payable to you (called "Creator Earnings") after the transactions fees are deducted (1.5% and 3.5% for local and international payments respectively). Our Fee includes the costs of providing, maintaining and operating Paronify and storing your Content. Our Fee is deducted from the Fan Payment, and Creator Earnings are paid to you.

B. Setting Up Creator Account:

To set up your account as a Creator account:

1. You may also need to submit an ID and additional information depending on the country where you live.
2. Once you have set up your account as a creator account, then if you want to charge your Member a monthly or quarterly subscription fee you will need to set your subscription price for your Member.
3. You will then be able to start adding content and users will be able to join your membership to become your Member.
4. If you lose access to your account, you can reset your password, but you will need to know the email address used to set up the account to do so. If you do not recall the email address used to set up the account, we may require you to provide identification documents and photos and any additional evidence we may reasonably require to prove your identity.

C. Personal legal responsibility of Creators:

Only individuals can be Creators. We also allow organizations and brands. Every Creator is bound personally by the Terms of Use. If you have an agent, agency, management company or other third party which assists you with the operation of your Creator account (or operates it on your behalf), this does not affect your personal legal responsibility. Our relationship is with you, and not with any third party, and you will be legally responsible for ensuring that all Content posted and all use of your account complies with the Terms of Use.

D.Creator/Member Transaction:

A guideline for Member and Creator Transactions provides more information on the relationship and contracts between Fans/Patrons and Creators on Paronify. Members Payments are exclusive of VAT, which shall be added at the current rate as applicable to Member Payment.

When you receive payment from a Member on Paronify, you must ensure that you perform your part by providing Content on your Creator account paid for by the member. You agree that you will indemnify us for any breach by you of this obligation (which means you will be responsible for any loss or damage (including loss of profit) we suffer as a result of you failing to comply with this obligation).

E.Content:

In addition to the terms set out elsewhere in the Terms of Use and in the community guideline, the following terms apply to the content posted or published by you as a Creator on Paronify:

Your Content is not confidential, and you authorize your Members to access and view your Content on Paronify for their own lawful and personal use.

You warrant (which means that you make a legally enforceable promise to us) that for each item of Content which you post, display, upload or publish on Paronify:

1. you hold all rights necessary to license and deal in your content on Paronify, including in each territory where you have Members and in Nigeria;
2. you either own your Content (and all intellectual property rights in it) or have a valid license to offer and supply your Content to your Members;
3. if your Content includes or uses any third-party material, you have secured all rights, licenses, written consents and releases that are necessary for the use of such third-party property in your Content and for the subsequent use and exploitation of that Content on Paronify; and
4. the Content is of satisfactory quality, and reasonably suitable for any purpose which the Member has made known to you is the purpose for which the Fan is using the Content; and as described by you.

You will be responsible for any loss or damage (including loss of profit) we suffer as a result of any of the warranties being untrue.

We are not responsible for and do not endorse any aspect of any Content posted by you or any other User of Paronify.

You also agree to act as custodian of records for the Content that you upload to Paronify.

F. Payouts to Creators:

All Fan Payments will be received by a third-party payment provider approved by us. The third parties will collect the Fan Payment and pay the Creator Earnings to your bank account. Your Paronify payment page will be updated within reasonable time following your creator earnings.

Once the Creator earning is available on your account, you can request for withdrawal. Please allow for 48 hours for the payment to be made into your account.

To make a withdrawal of Creator Earnings from your Paronify account, you must have at least the minimum payout amount in your Paronify account. The minimum payable amount is N100 naira.

If a Member successfully seeks a refund or chargeback from their credit card provider in respect of a Fan Payment made to you, we may investigate and may decide to deduct from your account an amount equal to the Creator Earnings earned by you on the charged-back or refunded amount.

Except for Payout Options involving payment by direct bank transfer, we do not store any data disclosed by you when you register your Payout Options with a third-party payment provider.

Circumstances in which we may withhold Creator Earnings:

We may withhold all or any part of the Creator Earnings due to you but not yet paid out:

1. if we think that you have or may have seriously or repeatedly breached any part of the Terms of Service;
2. if you attempt or threat to breach any part of the Terms of Service in a way which we think has or could have serious consequences for us or another User (including actual or possible loss caused to us or another User); or
3. if we suspect that all or any part of the Creator Earnings result from unlawful or fraudulent activity, either by you or by the Fan who made the Fan Payment resulting in the Creator Earnings,for as long as is necessary to investigate the actual, threatened or suspected breach by you or the suspected unlawful activity (as applicable). If following our investigation, we conclude that (i) you have seriously or repeatedly breached any part of the Terms of Service; (ii) you have attempted or threatened to breach any part of the Terms of Service in a way which has or could have serious consequences for us or another User (including actual or possible loss caused to us or another User), and/or (iii) the Creator Earnings result from unlawful or fraudulent activity, we may notify you that you have forfeited your Creator Earnings.

Other terms/guidelines which will apply to your use of Paronify: The following terms will also apply to your use of Paronify and you agree to them:

• The Standard Contract between Member and Creator – which does not form part of your agreement with us, but which governs and sets out the terms applicable to each Creator/Member Transaction you enter into on Paronify; and
• Our Community Guidelines – which provide additional terms and guidance regarding your interactions with Paronify.