Creator Terms

These Creator Terms apply to creators who create, register, publish, or manage characters and related content on Backstage Chat. If you participate in the Creator Program separately operated by Backstage Chat, the operating conditions of the Creator Program may also apply in addition to these Creator Terms.

At a glance

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1. Definitions

The following terms are used throughout these Creator Terms. “Creator” means a user who creates, registers, publishes, or manages characters or related content on Backstage Chat. “Creator Content” means characters and related content that a Creator creates, enters, uploads, registers, or publishes through Backstage Chat. This may include:

• Character name and profile
• Character description, personality, and other settings
• World and background settings
• Story and relationship settings
• First messages and example dialogues
• Character images and other media
• Creator comments and tags
• Any other content entered during the character creation process

Creator Content may include not only information that is visible to users, but also private settings entered to shape how the character behaves and how conversations unfold. “Creator Program” means a program operated by Backstage Chat to provide participating Creators with Premium access, placement in featured promotional areas within the service, promotion through official channels, and other opportunities and benefits for creators.

2. Ownership and Licensing

Ownership of the characters, character descriptions, images, and other original content that you create yourself remains with you. Publishing a character on Backstage Chat or participating in the Creator Program does not transfer ownership of that IP or content to Backstage Chat. However, Backstage Chat is granted a non-exclusive right to host, store, display, operate, and provide your Creator Content to the extent necessary to provide the service and to display and promote your content. You must hold all necessary rights to the characters, images, and other content you upload.

3. AI Training and Content Use

However, Creator Content may be processed for the operation and improvement of the Backstage Chat service, including to provide character features, operate AI conversation features, manage safety, review and moderate content, and improve service quality and stability.

4. Content Rules and Creator Responsibilities

Backstage Chat is an 18+ service intended for adult users. It allows romance, mature themes, and relationships and stories between adult characters for adult users. However, not all content is permitted.

• Non-consensual sexual content (non-con): Not allowed.
• Dubious consent (dub-con): Generally not allowed, especially where consent is affected by force, threats, intoxication, drugs, unconsciousness, manipulation, abuse of authority or power, or an inability to freely refuse.
• Violence: Allowed in fictional stories, including fights, crime, injuries, and darker themes. However, excessively graphic gore, prolonged torture, or sadistic violence should be avoided.
• Strong language: Allowed, including profanity and mature language, as long as it does not cross into hate speech, targeted harassment, or credible threats toward real people or protected groups.
• Spicy / adult scenes: Allowed when all characters involved are clearly adults and the interaction is clearly and voluntarily consensual. Romantic tension, suggestive dialogue, intimacy, and implied sexual activity are fine, but highly explicit or pornographic descriptions of sexual acts, genitals, or sexual anatomy are not allowed.

As a general rule, mature and dark storytelling is welcome, but content involving sexual coercion, exploitation, minors or age-ambiguous characters, or extremely graphic sexual or violent material is outside the allowed range. Rights. You must hold all necessary rights to any content you upload. Content that infringes the copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights of third parties may be switched from public to private, have its visibility limited, or be removed.

5. Promotion and External Use

Backstage Chat may promote creators and characters both inside and outside the service to introduce them to more users. Inside the service, characters participating in the Creator Program may be considered for placement in featured promotional areas. Outside the service, after prior discussion, some characters and creators may be introduced on Backstage Chat’s official social media, Discord, and other official communities. When external promotion takes place, content publicly available on Backstage Chat may be used, such as your creator name, public profile, character name, public character images, and public character information. However, not every Creator Program participant is automatically promoted on every external channel. Characters and content may be selected separately.

6. Character Management and Program Exit

You can manage, edit, or delete the characters you create at any time. You may also request to stop participating in the Creator Program at any time, and your published characters and related content can be removed from display on Backstage Chat. However, conversation data with existing users that was created during the operation of the service is stored encrypted and may be retained until those users delete it themselves. After a character is deleted, existing users can no longer start new conversations or continue existing conversations with that character. Promotional materials already published outside the service, such as on Backstage Chat’s Discord or social media, may remain in place. You may request the removal of such materials if needed.

7. Program Benefits and Compensation

The Creator Program currently does not include a Revenue Sharing or Creator Payout program that pays creators directly. The main benefits of the Creator Program are:

• Premium access
• Placement in featured promotional areas within the service
• Promotion of creators and characters through official channels
• Other opportunities for creators

Participating in the Creator Program or publishing characters does not, by itself, create any right to monetary compensation or revenue sharing. Specific benefits, their duration, eligibility, and operating methods may vary depending on how the Creator Program is operated. Backstage Chat may continue to explore additional opportunities and benefits for creators as the service grows.

8. Content Review and Enforcement

Backstage Chat may review Creator Content to ensure it complies with these Creator Terms, the Terms of Service, the Content Policy, and applicable laws. For violating content, Backstage Chat may switch it from public to private, limit its visibility, or remove it, and, where necessary, restrict or terminate publishing permissions or Creator Program participation. Regardless of any such action, ownership of the original content you created remains with you.

9. Changes and Contact

Backstage Chat may modify these Creator Terms in response to changes in the service or in how the Creator Program operates. In the case of significant changes, we may notify you through the service or by other appropriate means.