Terms of Use

Draft for pre-launch. Last updated 2 October 2026.

1. Who we are

ClipMissions is a service operated by [Registered legal name], registration number [CIN / registration number], with its registered address at [Registered address] and GSTIN [GSTIN]. We are based in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

In these terms, "ClipMissions", "we", "us" and "our" mean that operator. "You" means the person reading or using the ClipMissions website or services. If you use ClipMissions for a business, "you" also includes that business, and you confirm that you are authorised to accept these terms for it.

You can reach us at [contact email]. Our Grievance Officer is listed on the Grievance Redressal and Contact page.

2. Where ClipMissions stands today

ClipMissions has not launched. At the date shown above:

• the ClipMissions website shows information about the service we plan to run, and an interest form;
• there are no user accounts, no live missions and no payments of any kind, in either direction;
• the missions shown on the website are samples that illustrate the idea. They are not live offers, and you cannot accept them;
• anything in these terms or our other policies about accounts, missions, reviews, payouts, invoices or refunds describes how the service is intended to work once it goes live. Those parts apply only from the time the relevant feature is actually available to you.

Sending the interest form does not create a contract to supply or buy any service, does not reserve a place in any mission and does not promise you work or income. It simply lets us contact you about ClipMissions, as described in the Privacy Notice.

Before we accept any money or engage any clipper, we will publish updated terms and tell people who registered interest. If anything in the live service differs from what this draft describes, the terms in force at that time will apply.

3. These terms and our other policies

These Terms of Use are the master terms for the ClipMissions website and services. The following documents form part of them and apply to you to the extent they are relevant to how you use ClipMissions:

• Brand Terms (Mission Services Terms), for businesses and creators who buy missions;
• Clipper Terms (Independent Clipper Terms), for clippers;
• Privacy Notice, which explains how we handle personal data;
• Content and Disclosure Guidelines, which set out how clips must be disclosed and what content and missions we do not allow;
• Copyright and Trademark Policy, including our takedown process;
• Fair Play and Anti-Fraud Policy;
• Refund and Cancellation Policy;
• Grievance Redressal and Contact; and
• Cookie Notice.

If these Terms of Use and a more specific document conflict, the more specific document applies to the matter it deals with. For example, the Clipper Terms govern payouts to clippers, and a written Mission Order governs the commercial terms of a particular mission. No Mission Order or private arrangement can permit content or a mission that our Content and Disclosure Guidelines prohibit, or remove anyone's disclosure duties.

4. Definitions

These words have the following meanings across all ClipMissions documents.

• Brand: a business, creator or other person who buys a Mission from us. Examples include podcasts, music labels, film and OTT marketers, gaming channels, YouTubers, apps and other businesses.
• Clipper: an independent short-form video editor, aged 18 or over, who takes part in Missions under the Clipper Terms.
• Mission: a clipping campaign we run for a Brand. It is defined by a Mission Order and a Mission Brief.
• Mission Order: the written order agreed between a Brand and us before a Mission goes live. It records the commercial terms, including the Mission Budget, the Mission Rate and the Service Fee. "Written" includes email and electronic acceptance.
• Mission Brief: the rules for a Mission that Clippers see, including the footage, permitted platforms, disclosure steps, approved claims, audio rules, dates, caps and the Minimum Live Period.
• Mission Budget: the prepaid service fee a Brand pays us for campaign delivery under a Mission. It is applied against Verified Views at the Mission Rate.
• Mission Rate: the rate per 1,000 Verified Views stated for a Mission.
• Service Fee: our fee for running a Mission, agreed in writing in the Mission Order before the Mission goes live.
• Submission: a link to a public post that a Clipper submits for review under a Mission.
• Verified Views: views of a Submission that we count after review, under the rules in the Clipper Terms and the Fair Play and Anti-Fraud Policy.
• Clipper Fee: the amount we pay a Clipper for Verified Views of an approved Submission.
• Supported Platforms: Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and X, or any other platform we add later by updating these terms. TikTok is not supported.
• Services: the ClipMissions website, and once launched, any accounts, dashboards, tools, reviews, reports and payouts we provide.

5. Who can use ClipMissions

Age

You must be at least 18 years old to send the interest form, create an account, take part in a Mission or buy a Mission. Under the Indian Contract Act 1872, a person below the age of majority cannot enter into a binding contract, and we do not knowingly collect personal data of anyone under 18. If we learn that a person under 18 has used the Services, we will close their access and delete their data as described in the Privacy Notice.

Capacity and authority

You must be legally able to enter into a contract under the law that applies to you, and you must not be barred from receiving our Services under any law. If you act for a business, you confirm that you have authority to bind it.

India first

ClipMissions is designed for India. We plan to engage Clippers who are resident in India and who can receive payment by UPI to a bank account in India in their own name. If you use the website from outside India, you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for following your local law. We do not claim that the Services are suitable or lawful in any other country.

Accounts and access we refuse or remove

We may refuse access to anyone who has previously been suspended for a serious breach of our terms, anyone we reasonably believe is using a false identity, and anyone we cannot lawfully deal with. Where practical, we will tell you why.

6. Roles: Brands and Clippers

ClipMissions has two kinds of users once it launches.

• Brands buy a clipping campaign service from us. We are the Brand's service provider. The Brand Terms and the Mission Order govern that relationship.
• Clippers are engaged by us, separately, as independent contractors. We pay Clipper Fees ourselves. The Clipper Terms govern that relationship.

There is no contract between a Brand and a Clipper under ClipMissions unless they choose to make one outside the Services. A Clipper does not act as agent for the Brand or for us, and a Brand does not employ or engage a Clipper through ClipMissions. Each Brand is the advertiser for its Missions and remains responsible for its own products, claims and materials.

The same person may be a Brand and a Clipper, but must keep the two roles separate and must never take part as a Clipper in their own Mission.

7. How missions will work

This is a plain description of the intended process. The Brand Terms and Clipper Terms contain the binding detail.

1. Mission Order. A Brand agrees a Mission Order with us in writing. It sets the Mission Budget, the Mission Rate, the Service Fee, the platforms, the dates and any special terms. The Brand pays the Mission Budget and Service Fee before the Mission goes live, as prepaid fees for the campaign service.
2. Mission Brief. The Brand supplies long-form footage and a brief with rules and approved claims. We review the brief and may ask for changes or refuse it.
3. Clipping. Clippers choose Missions they want to work on, make an original short edit, and post it on their own account on a Supported Platform with the platform's paid-partnership or paid-promotion disclosure and the other disclosures our guidelines require.
4. Submission and review. The Clipper submits the public link. We review it for originality, disclosure, compliance with the brief and the authenticity of its views.
5. Verified Views and payment. For approved Submissions, we count Verified Views and pay the Clipper Fee by UPI. Payments continue only up to the Mission Budget and only while it lasts.
6. Mission end. When the budget is used up or the Mission ends, the Mission closes. Any unspent Mission Budget is dealt with under the Refund and Cancellation Policy.

The Mission Budget is a prepaid fee for a campaign service that we deliver to the Brand. Clipper Fees are our own expense in delivering that service. Unspent Mission Budget is refunded or credited under the refund rules we publish.

8. Accounts

This section applies once accounts are available.

• You must give accurate, current and complete information and keep it updated.
• You may hold one ClipMissions account per role. Clippers may link more than one social media account they genuinely own and run, if they declare them and we verify them.
• Keep your login details secret. You are responsible for activity on your account unless it happened because of our failure or after you told us your account was compromised.
• Tell us promptly at [contact email] if you think someone else has accessed your account.
• You may not sell, transfer, rent or share your account.
• We may ask you to verify your identity, your control of a social media account, or your payout details before you can use certain features. The Privacy Notice explains what we will collect for this.

You may close your account at any time. Closing an account does not cancel obligations that have already arisen, such as a Brand's payment for a live Mission, a Clipper's duty to keep an approved post live for its Minimum Live Period, or our duty to pay approved Clipper Fees.

9. Acceptable use

You must use ClipMissions lawfully, honestly and in line with these terms. In particular, you must not:

• upload, post, submit or share any content listed as prohibited in our Content and Disclosure Guidelines, or propose a Mission in a category we do not accept;
• break any rule in our Fair Play and Anti-Fraud Policy, including buying views, using bots or farming a Mission with multiple accounts;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trade mark, performer's right, privacy, personality or other rights;
• impersonate any person or organisation, or misrepresent your identity, age, location or connection with anyone;
• post an advertisement without the disclosure our guidelines require, or present paid content as independent opinion;
• interfere with the security or working of the Services, probe or test them for weaknesses without our written permission, or introduce malware;
• scrape, harvest or copy data from the Services by automated means, except as allowed by a published interface we provide;
• use the Services to send spam, chain messages or unsolicited promotions;
• harass, threaten or abuse our team, Brands or Clippers;
• try to circumvent any limit, cap, review or verification step; or
• help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things.

We will remind users of these rules periodically, and at least as often as the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 require.

10. Our content and intellectual property

The ClipMissions name, logo, website design, text, software, page layouts and other materials we create are owned by us or licensed to us. They are protected by the Copyright Act 1957, the Trade Marks Act 1999 and other laws.

We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable permission to view and use the website and Services for their intended purpose under these terms. You may not copy, adapt, publish or commercially exploit our materials except as these terms allow or as we agree in writing. You may share links to our public pages.

The name ClipMissions and our logo are brand identifiers we use. Our use of them does not mean they are registered trade marks, and we do not claim any registration we do not hold.

If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback about ClipMissions, we may use them without obligation to you. We will not publicly name you as the source without your permission.

11. Content you give us

"Your content" means anything you give us or post through the Services, such as the text in the interest form, footage and briefs from Brands, Submissions and insights screenshots from Clippers, and support messages.

• You keep any ownership you have in your content. These terms do not transfer it to us.
• You give us a licence to host, store, copy, process, review and display your content as needed to run the Services, keep records, meet legal duties and protect the Services. This licence is non-exclusive, royalty-free and lasts as long as we need it for those purposes.
• Brands and Clippers grant the further, specific licences set out in the Brand Terms and the Clipper Terms. Those licences are limited to what each document describes.
• You confirm that you have all rights needed to give us your content and to grant these licences, and that your content does not break the law or our policies.

We may remove or disable access to any content on the Services that we reasonably believe breaks the law or our policies, or when the law requires us to. We will act on court orders and lawful government directions within the time the IT Rules set. Where appropriate and lawful, we will tell you what we removed and why, and how to ask us to review the decision.

12. Illustrations, samples and AI-generated imagery

Please read this section carefully. It explains what the content on our website is, and what it is not.

• Sample missions are not offers. Mission cards, sample figures, sample payouts and example calculations shown on the website, now or before launch, illustrate how the service is meant to work. They are not live Missions, not offers of work, not quotes and not promises of any rate, budget, number of views or earnings.
• AI-generated imagery. Some editorial images on the website are generated with artificial intelligence tools for illustration. The people shown in those AI-generated images are not real people, are not Clippers, Brands or customers, and are not endorsing ClipMissions.
• Licensed stock footage. Video loops and some still images on the website are licensed stock footage used for illustration. No clients, creators or endorsements are implied.
• No clients or endorsements implied. Category names on the website (for example podcasts, music, film and OTT, or gaming) describe the kinds of Missions we plan to run. They do not mean that any particular podcast, label, studio, channel or business is a customer of ours or has endorsed us.

If any page on our website could be read as stating a client relationship, a testimonial, a statistic or a result that is not true, please tell us at [contact email] and we will correct it.

13. No guarantee of views, reach, earnings or results

Social media performance depends on platform algorithms, audience behaviour, timing, content quality and many other things that nobody controls. For that reason:

• we do not guarantee that any Mission will receive a particular number of Submissions, views, Verified Views, followers, sales, streams, downloads or any other result;
• we do not guarantee that any Clipper will earn any particular amount, or anything at all. A Clipper is paid only for Verified Views of approved Submissions, only up to the Mission Budget and only while it lasts;
• we do not guarantee that a Supported Platform will show, recommend, keep up or monetise any clip; and
• our review reduces risk but cannot catch every problem. We do not promise that every Submission will be free of fault, or that every invalid view will be detected.

What we do commit to is set out in the Brand Terms and Clipper Terms: for example, that a Brand is charged only for Verified Views up to its Mission Budget, and that we pay Clippers the Clipper Fee for approved Submissions as those terms describe.

14. Third-party platforms and services

Clips are posted on Instagram, YouTube and X, which are run by other companies under their own terms. Payouts will use UPI and the services of banks or regulated payment service providers. Our website uses hosting and content delivery from Cloudflare and loads fonts from Google Fonts.

• Each of these services has its own terms, policies and privacy practices. We do not control them and are not responsible for their acts, outages, policy changes, decisions to remove content, or changes to how they count views.
• Clippers and Brands must follow the terms and branded content policies of each platform they use, as well as our policies. If a platform's rules are stricter than ours, the platform's rules also apply.
• If a platform changes its features or rules in a way that affects a Mission, we will adjust the Mission fairly and tell the people affected. We will not charge a Brand for views that we cannot verify because of such a change.

15. Trademark notice

ClipMissions is independent. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by or partnered with Meta Platforms, Inc., Instagram, Google LLC, YouTube, X Corp., National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Cloudflare, Inc., or the Advertising Standards Council of India.

Instagram and Reels are trade marks of Meta Platforms, Inc. or its affiliates. YouTube, YouTube Shorts and Google Fonts are trade marks of Google LLC. X is a trade mark of X Corp. or its affiliates. UPI is a trade mark of National Payments Corporation of India. Cloudflare is a trade mark of Cloudflare, Inc. TikTok is a trade mark of its owner. All other names and marks belong to their respective owners.

We use these names only to describe the platforms and services our users work with, as honest descriptive use. More detail is in the Copyright and Trademark Policy.

16. Fees and taxes

Using the website and sending the interest form is free. Clippers will never pay a fee to join ClipMissions or to take part in a Mission.

Brands pay the Mission Budget and a Service Fee agreed in writing before each Mission goes live, under the Brand Terms. Unless a Mission Order says otherwise, all fees are exclusive of GST, which is added where it applies.

Clippers receive Clipper Fees under the Clipper Terms. We deduct tax at source where applicable Indian income-tax law requires it.

We will never display a price, fee or charge in a way designed to mislead, and we will not add charges that were not shown before you agreed to pay. We aim to keep our pages free of the practices described in the Guidelines for Prevention and Regulation of Dark Patterns 2023, such as false urgency, hidden costs or tricky consent boxes.

17. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or end your access to all or part of the Services if:

• you seriously or repeatedly break these terms or any policy that forms part of them;
• we reasonably suspect fraud, view manipulation, identity misuse or unlawful activity;
• a court, regulator or government authority requires it; or
• we stop providing the Services, in which case we will give reasonable notice where we can.

Our response will be proportionate. For minor or first-time problems we will usually warn you first or reject a single Submission rather than suspend your account. Unless the law or an investigation prevents it, we will tell you the reason for a suspension and how to ask for a review through our grievance process.

If we end a relationship without fault on your part, we will pay or refund what is due under the Brand Terms, Clipper Terms and Refund and Cancellation Policy. Sections of these terms that by their nature should continue, such as those on intellectual property, liability, indemnity and disputes, continue after termination.

18. Disclaimers

We work hard to keep the website and Services accurate, available and secure. However, to the extent the law allows, the website and Services are provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that they will always be uninterrupted, error-free or free from harmful components, or that information on the website is always complete or current.

Information on the website, including our guidelines, explains our rules and our understanding of public guidance. It is not legal, tax or financial advice. Brands and Clippers should take their own advice where they need it.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any warranty, condition or right that cannot be excluded or limited under Indian law, including rights under the Consumer Protection Act 2019 where they apply to you.

19. Limitation of liability

This section sets reasonable limits on what each side can claim. It does not limit any liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

• Website use. The website and interest form are free. For any claim relating only to them, our liability is limited to direct loss that was reasonably foreseeable when the event occurred.
• Paid relationships. For Brands and Clippers, the specific limits in the Brand Terms and Clipper Terms apply. Those limits never reduce our duty to refund unspent Mission Budget under the Refund and Cancellation Policy, or our duty to pay Clipper Fees that are due.
• Indirect loss. Neither we nor you are liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data or opportunity that does not flow directly from the breach, except where the law does not allow this exclusion.
• Outside our control. We are not liable for loss caused by a Supported Platform, a payment network or bank, an internet or hosting outage, a change in law, a government order or another event outside our reasonable control, as long as we take reasonable steps to limit its effect.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for wilful misconduct, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

20. Indemnity

If a third party makes a claim against us because you broke these terms, broke the law, or supplied content that infringes someone's rights, you will compensate us for the reasonable losses, costs and legal fees we incur as a result. This applies only to the extent the claim was caused by your act or omission, and not to the extent it was caused by our own fault.

We will tell you promptly about any such claim, will not settle it in a way that admits fault on your part without your consent, and will let you take part in or, where appropriate, control the defence at your cost. The Brand Terms and Clipper Terms contain further indemnities, including indemnities we give.

21. Changes to the Services and these terms

ClipMissions is at an early stage and will change. We may update these terms and our policies to reflect changes in the Services, in the law or in our business. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date.

• For changes that materially affect people with accounts, we will give reasonable advance notice by email or in the Services before they take effect, unless the law requires a faster change.
• Changes do not apply backwards. A live Mission continues under the Mission Order and terms that applied when it went live, unless both sides agree otherwise or the law requires a change. A Submission is reviewed and paid under the terms that applied when it was submitted.
• If you do not agree with a change, you may stop using the Services and close your account before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Services after a change takes effect means you accept it.

22. Governing law and disputes

Governing law

These terms and any dispute about them or the Services are governed by the laws of India.

Talk to us first

Most problems can be solved quickly. Before starting formal proceedings, please raise the issue through our grievance process and give us a fair chance to resolve it. We will do the same with you.

Arbitration

If a dispute is not resolved within thirty days after it was raised, either side may refer it to arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996. The tribunal will be a sole arbitrator appointed by agreement, or failing agreement, under that Act. The seat and venue of arbitration will be Pune, Maharashtra. The language will be English. Hearings may be held online where the arbitrator permits, so that no party has to travel unreasonably. Each side bears its own costs, and the arbitrator's fees are shared equally, unless the arbitrator decides otherwise.

Courts

Subject to the arbitration clause, the courts at Pune, Maharashtra have exclusive jurisdiction, including for interim relief and for matters relating to the arbitration.

Your consumer rights

If you are a consumer under the Consumer Protection Act 2019, nothing in this section stops you from approaching a consumer commission or the National Consumer Helpline, or from using any other remedy that the law does not allow to be waived. Nothing in this section affects any right you have under the IT Rules or the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 to approach the bodies those laws set up.

23. Electronic record and general terms

Electronic record

These terms are an electronic record under the Information Technology Act 2000 and the rules made under it. They do not need a physical or digital signature. A contract formed electronically, for example by clicking to accept, is valid and enforceable under that Act. We publish these terms, our Privacy Notice and our rules for users in line with Rule 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, as amended.

Transfer

We may transfer our rights and duties under these terms to a company or limited liability partnership that takes over the ClipMissions business, including an entity incorporated to run it. We will tell you if this happens, and it will not reduce your rights. You may not transfer your rights or duties without our written consent.

Events outside anyone's control

Neither side is responsible for a delay or failure caused by events outside its reasonable control, such as natural disasters, epidemics, war, riots, strikes, government orders, platform outages, internet failures or payment network failures. The affected side must tell the other and take reasonable steps to limit the effect.

Other terms

• If any part of these terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest continues, and the invalid part is read in the closest valid way.
• If we do not enforce a right immediately, we have not given it up.
• These terms, together with the documents in section 3 and any Mission Order, are the whole agreement on their subject.
• These terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, the English version applies if there is a difference, unless the law requires otherwise.
• Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between you and us.
• We will send notices to the email address in your account or the one you gave us. You can send notices to [contact email].

24. Contact and grievances

For general questions, write to [contact email]. For complaints, including complaints about content, privacy or the conduct of other users, contact our Grievance Officer, [Grievance Officer name], at [grievance email], or by post at [Registered address]. The Grievance Redressal and Contact page explains the timelines and the escalation routes available to you.