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Terms of Service

Last updated: October 18, 2026Effective September 22, 2026 for new accounts, and October 22, 2026 for accounts created before that date. Until then, existing accounts remain under the July 22, 2026 version, except that any change in your favor applies right away.Connected agents, in Section 3, was added October 13, 2026. It explains how the account and conduct rules in these Terms apply to AI agents you connect.Refunds of unused budget, in Sections 4 and 5, changed October 18, 2026. For campaigns and competitions paid for on or after that date, Stripe's processing fee on the refunded amount is not returned.

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

Bounty Board is operated by Bounty Board Company, a Delaware corporation ("Bounty Board," "we," "us"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a contract between you and Bounty Board. They cover bountyboard.gg, the Arcade, the Arcade SDK, our APIs, AI agent connections, and every other service we offer under the Bounty Board name (together, the "Platform").

By creating an account, playing in the Arcade, or otherwise using the Platform, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.

Some features have their own terms, which apply alongside these: a campaign's brief, the official rules of a competition or prize program, the Arcade ad revenue share below, and our Copyright and DMCA policy. If they conflict, the more specific document wins for that feature, except that nothing in a brief or set of rules can reduce a creator's portfolio right in Section 7 or the rights you have under law.

Section 15 contains an arbitration agreement and a class action waiver. It affects how disputes are resolved. You can opt out as described there.

2. Definitions

  • Studio: a business, or a person acting for one, with a studio account that posts campaigns, competitions, or Arcade games.
  • Creator: a person or business with a creator account that applies to campaigns and delivers work.
  • Player: anyone who plays in the Arcade, with a gamer account or as a guest.
  • Campaign: a studio's posted request for creator work on a game, with a brief, a reward, and an end date.
  • Competition: a campaign where prizes are awarded by final ranking under official rules.
  • Work: anything a creator submits for a campaign or competition, such as a video, stream, post, or playtest report.
  • Arcade game: a browser game a studio publishes to the Arcade.
  • Content: anything you upload, post, link, or send on the Platform, including work, Arcade games, profiles, and messages.

3. Eligibility and accounts

Age

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Platform, including the Arcade. If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms for you.

You must be at least 18 years old, and an adult where you live, to create a creator or studio account, enter a competition, receive a payout or prize, connect a payout account, or buy anything on the Platform.

Accounts

Give accurate information and keep it current. Keep your password safe, and tell us right away at admin@bountyboard.gg if you think your account was compromised. You are responsible for activity under your account. A studio account must be opened by someone authorized to bind that business, and the business is bound by these Terms. Each account holds one role.

Connected agents

You can connect an AI agent or other software, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, or another Model Context Protocol (MCP) client, to your account through our MCP server, our APIs, or the Arcade publishing tools. You choose the permissions each connection has when you approve it, and you can revoke any connection at any time on the Connected agents page. Access tokens are credentials: keep them secret, as you would a password.

A connected agent acts on your behalf. Everything it does with the permissions you gave it, such as creating or editing a game or campaign, uploading a build, requesting Arcade review, applying to a campaign, handing in work, or entering a competition, is treated under these Terms as done by you, and the campaign briefs and competition rules that apply to you apply the same way. Section 7 applies to content an agent submits for you as if you had submitted it yourself. Check an agent's work as you would your own.

An agent cannot pay or move money for you. Campaigns are paid for in your browser on the Platform, and payouts follow the same approvals as any other work.

AI agents are products of their own providers and run under those providers' terms and privacy policies. We do not control them and do not see your conversations with them, and we are not responsible for what an agent says or does outside the Platform. Data an agent receives from us at your request is handled by its provider, as our Privacy Policy explains.

We may rate limit, change, or turn off agent access, individual tools, or a connection, including to protect the Platform or other users, and the tools available to agents may change over time.

Where you can use payments

You may not use the Platform to send or receive money if you are located in, or ordinarily resident in, a country under comprehensive U.S. sanctions, or if you are on a U.S. government sanctions list. Payouts are available only in countries our payment providers support.

4. Campaigns and competitions

Posting a campaign

A studio's brief must describe the game, the work wanted, the reward, and the end date accurately, and must comply with the law and Section 9. The studio must have the rights to everything it posts, including game keys and media.

Funding

Every cash campaign is funded up front through Stripe when it is published. The funds are held by Bounty Board, creators are paid from that budget as work is accepted, and anything unused is refunded to the studio when the campaign closes, less Stripe's processing fee on the refund for campaigns paid for on or after October 18, 2026. Key only campaigns and free playtests hold no money. Campaigns published before September 21, 2026 that were not funded up front charge the studio's saved payment method when work is accepted, until they close. Bounty Board is not a bank or escrow agent, and campaign budgets earn no interest.

A campaign that pays creators no cash (game keys only, or a free playtest) posts for a $29 listing fee, charged once at publish and not refunded. Cash campaigns have no listing fee. A free playtest can't ask testers to buy the game.

Applications and approval

Creators can apply to as many campaigns as they like. When a studio approves an application, the studio and the creator have an agreement to do the campaign as the brief describes, under these Terms. Bounty Board is not a party to that agreement. Applications the studio does not answer within 7 days expire, and you can apply again. Some campaigns let creators claim a task directly. Claims that are not used expire after 7 days, or 72 hours for playtests.

Game keys offered by a campaign are delivered automatically to the creator's campaign chat when their application is approved. The studio supplies the keys and is responsible for them working.

Review and payment

The studio reviews each submitted task. It can accept it, ask for changes once, or decline it. One round of changes is allowed per task.

On a cash campaign funded up front, work the studio has not reviewed 14 days after it was submitted is accepted and paid automatically, unless the studio flagged it for Bounty Board to review. On campaigns published before up front funding, and on results based campaigns, work that is still unreviewed when the review window closes expires without payment, and its reserved budget returns to the campaign.

View based bonuses and results based payouts are measured automatically for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok. Instagram and TikTok views are read through the creator's connected account (an Instagram professional account, or their TikTok account). If a creator's Instagram or TikTok connection stops working while a post is earning, we keep trying for 7 days after the post's counting ends. After that, the post is paid on the last views we measured. Other platforms (X, websites) cannot be measured automatically; work there is reviewed and approved manually. Views or engagement from bots, purchased traffic, or other manipulation do not count, and payments made on them can be reversed.

On a campaign paid from a shared pool, each creator may post once while the pool has money and submissions are open. The studio may require its approval before a creator joins. Views count until the date the campaign states, and each post is paid on its final count, up to what it earned from the pool while views were counting. While views are counting, the studio can reject a post only for one of these reasons: fake or bought views, a post not published from the creator's own connected account, a post that does not cover what the brief asked, missing paid disclosure, or content that breaks these Terms. The creator can dispute a rejection within 3 days, and Bounty Board reviews the post and decides. A rejection that stands is not paid. A rejection we overturn is paid on its final count like any other post, up to what the pool has left.

Competitions

Competitions are funded up front and run under official rules published with them. Entrants must be 18 or older. Winners must connect a payout account within 30 days of the result or the prize is forfeited, and forfeited or unawarded prizes are refunded to the studio.

Disclosure and store reviews

Creators must clearly disclose paid campaign work and free product (including game keys) in the content itself, per the FTC's endorsement guidance and each platform's branded content rules. Studios must not pay for a positive opinion, and Bounty Board campaigns must not request, compensate, or reward storefront reviews (Steam or any store). Review solicitation in exchange for money, keys, or rewards violates store policies and is prohibited.

A campaign may ask creators to paste a sponsor line in their post's description or caption. It names the studio and links to the game on Bounty Board. It does not replace disclosure in the content itself, and a missing sponsor line or link is never a reason to decline or reject work or to hold a payment.

5. Fees, payments, and refunds

Platform fee

Bounty Board charges a standard 10% platform fee on each side of completed work, and only on completed work: the studio pays the reward total plus 10%, and the creator receives the reward minus 10%. Bounty Board runs promotions that lower the fee for limited periods; the rate shown to your account when the transaction happens applies. When unused budget is refunded, the studio's fee on that unused amount is refunded with it. For campaigns and competitions paid for on or after October 18, 2026, Stripe's processing fee on the refunded amount is not returned.

Payment processing

Payment processing services for creators, studios, and players on Bounty Board are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which includes the Stripe Terms of Service (together, the "Stripe Services Agreement"). By agreeing to these Terms or continuing to receive payments through Bounty Board, you agree to be bound by the Stripe Services Agreement, as Stripe may modify it from time to time. As a condition of Bounty Board enabling payment processing services through Stripe, you agree to provide Bounty Board accurate and complete information about you and your business, and you authorize Bounty Board to share it and transaction information related to your use of the payment processing services provided by Stripe.

Creators can choose to receive campaign and competition payouts through PayPal instead, under the PayPal User Agreement. PayPal's payout fee is taken out of the payout and is shown before you choose PayPal.

Payout timing

Payment is sent to your Stripe account when the studio approves your work. Stripe then holds the payout for 7 days so any disputes can be resolved before funds reach your account. If you have not finished payout setup, your payment waits for you, and a payment still unclaimed after 30 days returns to the campaign budget.

Taxes

You are responsible for taxes on what you earn or buy on the Platform. We or our payment providers may collect tax information and issue tax forms such as Form 1099 where the law requires, and may hold payouts until the required information is complete.

Refunds

Studios are refunded if a creator breaks the campaign terms within the 7 day payout window. Completed work is otherwise not refundable. Cash campaigns and competitions automatically refund unused budget when they close (see Platform fee above). All other payment issues, including a studio not paying for completed work, are reviewed case by case; contact admin@bountyboard.gg. A studio that reverses a card payment for work it accepted may have its account suspended, and we may recover the amount.

6. Subscriptions

If we offer a paid subscription, its price and billing period are shown before you subscribe. It renews automatically each period, and Stripe charges your payment method at the start of each period until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from your account, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period; you keep the subscription until then. We do not refund partial periods unless the law requires it. We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before a price change takes effect.

7. Content ownership and licenses

Your content stays yours

You keep ownership of the content you put on the Platform. You give Bounty Board a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, display, run, format (for example thumbnails, previews, and short clips), and distribute your content to operate and promote the Platform, including showing public profiles, campaign results, and Arcade games on our site and in our marketing. The license lasts while your content is on the Platform and for a reasonable time after it is removed. Marketing already published does not have to be withdrawn. We may let our service providers use content to help us do these things.

Creator work

By default, the creator keeps ownership of their work, including after payment. When the creator is paid for a piece of work, or when it is accepted on a key only campaign, the studio receives a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, copy, embed, share, display, and distribute that work and excerpts of it to promote the game, including on its store pages, websites, social accounts, trailers, newsletters, and press kits. The studio may resize, caption, and trim the work for those uses, but not edit it in a way that changes what the creator said. Using the work in paid advertising, or presenting it as an endorsement in ads, needs the creator's permission unless the brief included it.

A campaign brief can state different rights terms, such as exclusivity, paid advertising use, or a full ownership transfer. By applying, the creator agrees to the terms in the brief. Terms cannot change after the application is approved.

Whatever the brief says, the creator can always show the work in their portfolio and on their own channels, and that right cannot be waived. Before payment, the studio may view and review the work only to decide whether to accept it.

Work paid for before October 22, 2026 under the earlier default, where ownership transferred to the studio on payment, stays under the terms that applied when it was paid.

Your promises about content

You promise that you have the rights to everything you post, that any third party material (such as music, footage, fonts, or code) is licensed for how it will be used, and that your content does not infringe anyone's rights or break the law. If you connect a YouTube account, you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service.

Arcade games

Studios keep ownership of their Arcade games and can delist them anytime. By publishing a game, the studio lets Bounty Board host and run it, show it to players, make thumbnails, previews, and short gameplay clips, feature it in our marketing, and show ads around it (and, if the studio turns them on, rewarded ads inside it). The studio promises the game is theirs to publish, contains no malware, does not collect personal data from players except through the Arcade SDK, and is appropriate for an audience that includes teens. A game made for children under 13 may not be published. We review games before they go live and may decline or remove any game.

Feedback and the Platform

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without paying you. Bounty Board owns the Platform, including its software, design, and brand, except for content that users own.

8. The Arcade

Playing

Arcade games are free to play, with or without an account. Saving scores and progress needs an account. We check scores on our servers and may reject or remove scores that fail those checks or come from cheating. Multiplayer rooms and build rooms follow the conduct rules in Section 9.

Prizes

Competitions open to players are governed by their official rules and require entrants to be 18 or older. Any other Arcade prize program runs only under official rules published for it. No purchase is ever necessary to enter.

Ads

The Arcade shows ads, which is how it stays free. Rewarded ads are always optional. See the Privacy Policy for how ads use data and how to limit it.

Studio ad revenue share: opt in

A Studio may affirmatively enable page-level advertising for an eligible Arcade Game. Participation is optional and is recorded per game. When disabled, the game earns no page-ad share. Bounty Board may block ads for policy, safety, legal, or provider compliance reasons.

Share rate and monthly lock

Unless a different rate is displayed before opt-in, the Studio share is ninety percent (90%) of finalized advertising revenue attributed to that game. Each earning month uses the rate effective for that UTC calendar month. A later rate change takes effect no earlier than the first day of the following UTC month and does not retroactively change an earlier earning month. The Bounty Board displays the current rate and any scheduled next-month rate.

Accrual, finalization, and payout

Revenue shown before month close is estimated. Bounty Board calculates payment from a finalized provider report, may apply documented corrections or restatements, and carries balances forward until the Studio reaches the displayed minimum payout threshold, currently fifty U.S. dollars ($50). A Studio must complete Stripe Connect onboarding, payout readiness, identity and tax review before payment. Participation may begin before Stripe setup is complete, but no payout is sent until all payout gates pass.

9. Conduct

When you use the Platform, do not:

  • give false information, impersonate anyone, or run more than one account to deceive;
  • harass, threaten, or abuse anyone, or post hateful, sexually explicit, or violent content;
  • post anything that sexualizes minors, or contact a minor for any sexual purpose;
  • infringe anyone's intellectual property or privacy rights;
  • inflate views, scores, or engagement with bots, purchased traffic, or cheats;
  • move payment for a campaign or a creator you found on Bounty Board off the Platform to avoid fees;
  • scrape the Platform, reverse engineer it, get around its security or rate limits, or upload malware;
  • let an AI agent or automation act for you in a way these Terms would not allow you to act yourself (you are responsible for agents you connect);
  • break the law, or help anyone else do any of these things.

To report content or a user, email admin@bountyboard.gg. We may remove content and suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

10. Messages and notices

Campaign chats between studios and creators, and Arcade review threads, can be read by Bounty Board staff for support, safety, and to resolve disputes. We send account and transaction emails to the address on your account, and they count as written notice. Announcement emails can be turned off with the unsubscribe link in each one.

11. Disputes between users

If you have a problem with another user about a campaign, email admin@bountyboard.gg within 30 days and include what happened and any evidence. We will review it and may decide how campaign funds held by Bounty Board are released or refunded. That decision is final for funds on the Platform, but it does not limit any legal rights you have against the other user.

12. Suspension and closing your account

We may suspend or close an account, remove content, or limit features if we reasonably believe you broke these Terms, created risk or legal exposure for Bounty Board or others, or if the law requires it. Where it is safe and lawful, we will tell you why. You can close your account anytime by emailing admin@bountyboard.gg. Payments already owed for accepted work are still paid, and funded budgets are refunded under Section 5. Sections 5, 7, and 13 to 17 survive after an account closes.

13. Disclaimers and limits of liability

The Platform is provided "as is" and "as available." To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee the quality of any work, game, or campaign, or that the Platform will be uninterrupted or error free.

To the extent the law allows, Bounty Board is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Platform is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you paid Bounty Board in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) $100. These limits do not apply where the law does not allow them, such as for fraud or gross negligence.

14. Indemnity

If you use the Platform for business, you will defend and indemnify Bounty Board against third party claims, and the costs that come with them, arising from your content, your campaigns or games, or your breach of these Terms or the law.

15. Arbitration and class action waiver

Try to resolve it first

Before filing a claim against Bounty Board, email admin@bountyboard.gg with your name, account email, a description of the dispute, and what you want. We will do the same before filing against you. Both sides agree to try in good faith to resolve it for 60 days.

Binding individual arbitration

If it is not resolved, any dispute arising from these Terms or the Platform will be settled by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA). Its Consumer Arbitration Rules apply if you use the Platform for personal purposes, and its Commercial Arbitration Rules apply otherwise. Fees are paid as those rules provide. For consumers, the hearing takes place in the county where you live or by video; otherwise in Wilmington, Delaware or by video. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

Either side may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court, and either side may go to court to stop infringement or misuse of intellectual property.

No class actions

Claims may be brought only individually, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative action. If 25 or more similar claims are filed by the same or coordinated counsel, the AAA's mass arbitration procedures apply. If this class waiver is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim goes to court and not to arbitration.

Opting out

You can opt out of this section by emailing admin@bountyboard.gg within 30 days of first accepting it, with your name, account email, and a statement that you opt out of arbitration. Accounts created before September 22, 2026 have 30 days from October 22, 2026. Opting out does not affect the rest of these Terms.

16. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act. Claims that are not arbitrated will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and both sides consent to their jurisdiction, unless the law where you live gives you the right to sue there.

17. Changes and general terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we will email you or notify you on the Platform at least 30 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the Platform after that means you accept them; if you do not, close your account. Changes do not apply to disputes already notified to us.

These Terms, and the documents they refer to, are the whole agreement between you and Bounty Board about the Platform. If a part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer these Terms without our written consent; we may transfer them in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Neither side is responsible for delays caused by events outside its reasonable control.

18. Contact

Bounty Board Company
Email: admin@bountyboard.gg