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PLAYCAMP CREATOR TERMS OF USE

Last Updated: Jan 16, 2026.
  1. INTRODUCTION AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
1.1. Contractual Relationship. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement between you (the “Creator” or “you”) and Smart Play Inc., (doing business as “Smart Play”, “we,” “us,” or “our”), a company organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea. These Terms govern your access to and use of the Playcamp website, mobile application, and related services (collectively, the “Platform” or “Services”), which serve as among others, a matchmaking ecosystem connecting content creators with game developers and publishers (“Game Companies”). 1.2. Acceptance. By creating an Account, accessing the Platform, or participating in any Campaign, Quest, or Game Key distribution provided through Playcamp, you expressly agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must strictly refrain from using the Platform. 1.3. Modifications. We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will provide notice of material changes by posting the updated Terms on the Platform or via email. Your continued use of the Platform after such changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
  1. ELIGIBILITY AND ACCOUNT REGISTRATION
2.1. Eligibility. To use the Platform, you represent and warrant that:
  • You are at least 18 years of age (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country of residence), and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms of Use;
  • You are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the Unites States, EU, Republic of Korea, or other applicable jurisdiction (e.g., you are not on the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals List); and
  • You have full power and authority to enter into this agreement and doing so does not violate any other agreement to which you are a party. 
2.2. Verification of Age and Consent. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage. If we discover that you are under the age of majority and have not provided verifiable parental consent, we may delete your account immediately to comply with relevant laws or suspend your Account and withhold any pending payments. We may require you to sign up through a third-party Verified Parental Consent (“VPC”) partner to validate your eligibility before you can participate in specific Campaigns or receive Payouts. 2.3. Account Creation and Accuracy. You must register for an account (“Account”) to access certain features. You warrant that the information provided during registration (including your name, contact details, payment information, login information) is yours, accurate, complete, and current. You agree to update this information immediately if it changes. 2.4. Account Security. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activities that occur under your Account. You agree to notify Smart Play immediately of any unauthorized use or suspected breach of security. Smart Play will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this section.
  1. LICENSE TO USE THE PLATFORM
3.1. Limited License. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Smart Play grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to access and use the Platform solely for your internal business purposes as a content creator to collaborate with Game Companies. 3.2. Restrictions. The rights granted to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions. You shall not:
  • Commercial Exploitation: License, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, or otherwise commercially exploit the Platform or its content separate from your authorized participation in Campaigns.
  • Reverse Engineering: Modify, disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer any part of the Platform.
  • Competitive Use: Access the Platform in order to build a similar or competitive website, product, or service.
  • AI Training & Scraping: Use the Platform, or any content, data, or materials accessible through the Platform, to train, develop, test, or enhance any artificial intelligence system, large language model (LLM), or machine learning algorithm. You specifically agree not to scrape, ingest, or use outputs from the Platform to create datasets for AI training.
3.3. Ownership. You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, in the Platform and its content (excluding your User Content) are owned by Smart Play, it’s partners or suppliers Neither these Terms nor your access to the Platform transfers to you any rights, title, or interest in such intellectual property rights, except for the limited access rights expressly set forth in Section 3.1.  
  1. CREATOR CODE OF CONDUCT AND PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
4.1. General Conduct. You agree to use the Platform in a professional, ethical, and lawful manner. You shall not harass, abuse, defame Game Companies or Campaigns. 4.2. Prohibited Activities. To maintain the integrity of the Playcamp ecosystem, you are strictly prohibited from:
  • Key Reselling: Selling, trading, or exchanging Game Keys received through the Platform on third-party marketplaces (e.g., G2A, Kinguin) or otherwise transferring them to third parties.
  • Metric Manipulation: Using bots, click-farms, “view-botting,” or any other means to alter or artificially inflate viewership, engagement metrics, or follower counts.
  • Spamming: Mass-applying to Campaigns without a genuine intent or ability to create relevant content.
  • Misrepresentation: Falsifying your audience demographics, location, or channel statistics.
  • Implied Endorsement: Using the Game Studio’s or Platform’s logos/trademarks in a way that suggests You are an official partner or employee.
  • Ghosting: Failing to submit content coverage after accepting a key or campaign
  • Hostile Communication: Acting in an obnoxious, threatening, abusive, or harassing manner towards Game Companies, Platform, or other Creators.
  • Hate Speech & Offensive Content: Publishing content that is malicious defamation or promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, illegal activities, doxing, or physical harm against any group or individual.
  • Objectionable Content: Content that is sexual, pornographic, vulgar, or harmful to minors.
4.3. Monitoring and Enforcement. Smart Play reserves the right to monitor your activity on the Platform. We may take disciplinary action, including warnings, temporary suspensions, or permanent bans, for violations of this Code of Conduct, in our sole discretion.
5. CAMPAIGNS, ASSETS, KEYS, AND PERFORMANCE METRICS 5.1. Campaign Participation. Your eligibility to participate in Campaigns, which are specific marketing, operation or service initiatives available for participation on the Platform, and receive Game Keys or Game Assets is contingent upon your “Creator Score,” which is an internal metric tracking your reliability, Campaign completion rate, and compliance with these Terms. 5.2. Game Keys, Game Assets, and Deliverables. If you accept a Game Key, Game Asset or join a Campaign, you agree to:
  • Create and publish the required User Content (the “Deliverables”) within thirty (30) days, unless a different timeframe is strictly specified in the Campaign details;
  • Ensure the Deliverables remain publicly accessible for the duration required by the Campaign; and
  • Adhere to all specific instructions provided by the Game Company (e.g., embargo dates, specific hashtags).
5.3. Three-Strike Policy (Non-Compliance). Failure to stream, upload or submit Deliverables on time, publishing Deliverables that materially fail to meet the Campaign requirements (e.g., wrong game, broken link), or not abiding by the Creator Code of Conduct, will result in a negative impact on your Creator Score and the issuance of a non-compliance “Strike.”
  • First and Second Strike: Warning and potential temporary restriction from applying to new Campaigns.
  • Third Strike: Smart Play reserves the right to permanently ban or suspend your Account upon the accumulation of three (3) Strikes. However, for severe violations, we may at our own discretion permanently ban or suspend your Account on the first or second strike.
5.4. Return of Value. You acknowledge that Game Keys or Game Assets provided to you have commercial value. If you accept a Game Key or Game Assets but fail to publish the required Deliverables without a valid reason (as determined by Smart Play), we reserve the right to suspend or ban Your account or deduct such value from any future Payouts owed to you. 5.5 Nothing in these Terms shall be construed to create an employer-employee relationship. You retain sole discretion over the manner and means of creating content, subject only to the Deliverable requirements.
6. CONTENT OWNERSHIP AND LICENSES 6.1. User Content Ownership. As between you and Smart Play, you retain all ownership rights, title, and interest in the videos, streams, images, and other content you create and submit via the Platform (“User Content”). 6.2. License to Game Companies. By participating in a Campaign, you hereby grant the applicable Game Company a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, embed, and display your User Content solely for the purpose of marketing the specific game title associated with the Campaign, for the duration specified in the Campaign details, but no less than 12 months after the Campaign. 6.3. Perpetual Platform Marketing License. Notwithstanding Section 6.2, you hereby grant Smart Play a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and transferable license to use, reproduce, display, distribute, and modify your User Content solely for the purpose of marketing, promoting, and advertising the Playcamp Platform and Smart Play services in any media formats now known or hereafter developed (e.g., introducing your video in a “Success Stories” reel on our website). 6.4. Game IP. You acknowledge that all intellectual property related to the games (e.g., characters, art, music, logos) (“Game IP”) is owned by the respective Game Companies. You are granted a limited, revocable license to use Game IP solely for the purpose of creating Deliverables for accepted Campaigns in accordance with these Terms.  
  1. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND DISCLOSURES
7.1. Mandatory Disclosures. You acknowledge that your participation in Campaigns constitutes a “material connection” between you and the Game Company under applicable laws. You strictly agree to disclose this connection in all User Content you publish.
  • FTC & Local Laws: You must comply with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, as well as any applicable local laws (e.g., EU’s UCPD, Korea Fair Trade Commission guidelines).
  • Clear Labeling: If applicable, all User Content must include clear, conspicuous, and audible disclosures (e.g., #ad, #sponsored, or “Sponsored by [Game Name]”) in the first sentence of the description, on-screen during the video, or as required by the specific platform (e.g., YouTube’s “Paid Promotion” feature).
7.2. Liability. You are solely responsible for ensuring your disclosures are compliant. Smart Play reserves the right to withhold payment or suspend your Account if you fail to properly disclose paid or sponsored content.
  1. FINANCIAL TERMS AND PAYMENT
8.1. Merchant of Record. Smart Play (or its Affiliates or Partners) acts as the Merchant of Record for all Campaigns on the Platform. Game Companies pay Smart Play directly, and Smart Play is responsible for remitting the applicable Net Payout to you. Unless there is non-payment by Game Companies, you agree that your sole claim for payment is against Smart Play, subject to our receipt of funds from the Game Company. 8.2. Fees and Net Payout Calculation. Your compensation (“Net Payout”) is calculated as below:
  • A. Service Commission: Smart Play retains a commission equal to twenty percent (20%) of the amount that the You receive from participating in Campaigns (“Creator Share”)
  • B. Net Payout: You will receive the remaining eighty percent (80%) of the Creator Share.
8.3. Payment Schedule and Thresholds.
  • Processing: Payments are processed via third-party providers (e.g., Stripe, Tipalti). You must provide valid payment details and tax forms (e.g., W-9, W-8BEN, VAT Number).
  • Minimum Threshold: Smart Play will remit payment once a month, only when your accrued Net Payout balance exceeds $100 USD. Balances below this amount will roll over to the next payment cycle.
  • Timing: Payments are typically processed within 40~50 days following the end of the month.
8.4. Taxes. You are responsible for determining, collecting, reporting, and paying all applicable taxes (including VAT, GST, income tax, or similar levies) related to your Net Payout.
  • Withholding: If Smart Play is required by the laws of the Republic of Korea or any other jurisdiction to withhold taxes from your payment (e.g., withholding tax for non-resident freelancers), we will deduct such amounts from your Net Payout and remit them to the appropriate tax authority.
8.5. Currency Conversion and Transaction Fees: You acknowledge that due to currency conversion and various transaction fees, the actual amount You receive may differ from the Net Payout. 8.6. Receipt of Funds: You explicitly acknowledge and agree that Our obligation to remit the Net Payout to you is strictly conditional upon the Platform’s actual receipt of the corresponding funds from the applicable Game Company. Receipt of such funds is a condition precedent to your right to receive payment and under no circumstances will Smart Play be liable for Game Companies’ non-payment. 8.7 Change of Fees: Smart Play reserves the right to modify the Service Commission at any time in its sole discretion; provided, however, that any such change shall be communicated to You via a posting on the Platform or direct notification at least one week in advance, and will become effective on the first day of the calendar month following such communication. 8.8 Inactive Accounts. If You fail to log in, transact, or update Payment Details for twelve (12) consecutive months (“Inactive Account”), Platform reserves the right to deduct a monthly administrative maintenance fee equal to the lesser of $10.00 USD or Your remaining Account balance. These deductions shall continue until You reactivate Your Account or the balance reaches $0.00. Once the Account balance is depleted, Platform may immediately terminate this Agreement, close Your Account, and permanently delete all associated data without further notice. 8.9 Sanctions and Fraud. We cannot process payments to individuals or entities on sanctions lists (e.g., OFAC SDN List) or located in sanctioned jurisdictions. We reserve the right to freeze or forfeit funds if we suspect fraud, botting, or a violation of the Three-Strike Policy (Article 5.3).  
  1. DATA RIGHTS AND PRIVACY
9.1. Platform Data. Smart Play owns all rights, title, and interest in the data generated by the Platform, including but not limited to performance metrics, Campaign analytics, matchmaking logic, and aggregated creator statistics (“Platform Data”). You grant Smart Play the right to use your Account data to generate anonymous, aggregated insights for Game Companies (e.g., “Average Views for Strategy Games”). 9.2. Privacy Policy. Your use of the Platform is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information. By using the Platform, you consent to the data practices described therein.
  1. TERM AND TERMINATION
10.1. Term. These Terms commence on the date you first accept them (by creating an Account or using the Services) and remain in full force and effect while you use the Platform, unless terminated earlier in accordance with this Article. 10.2. Termination by You. You may terminate these Terms at any time by closing your Account and discontinuing all use of the Platform, provided that you have completed all active Campaigns and delivered all pending Deliverables. 10.3. Termination by Smart Play. We may suspend or terminate your Account and your access to the Platform if you breach these Terms and fail to cure such breach within seven(7) days after written notice.
  • Termination for Cause: We may immediately terminate your Account without notice if: (a) you violate the Code of Conduct (Article 4); (b) you accumulate three (3) Strikes under the Three-Strike Policy (Article 5.3); (c) you engage in fraud or illegal activity; or (d) we are required to do so by law.
10.4. Effect of Termination. Upon termination:
  • All licenses granted by Smart Play to you will immediately cease.
  • You remain obligated to complete any accepted Campaigns or return the value of any Game Keys or Game Assets received.
  • Smart Play will pay out any remaining Net Payout balance owed to you, provided your termination was not due to fraud or a violation of these Terms resulting in damages to Smart Play.
  • The licenses granted by you to Smart Play (Section 6.3) and Game Companies (Section 6.2) shall survive termination.
  1. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
11.1. “As Is” Basis. THE PLATFORM AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. SMART PLAY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY GAME KEYS OR CAMPAIGN OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE AVAILABLE. 11.2. Limitation of Liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SMART PLAY, ITS AFFILIATES, OR THEIR OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS OR DATA) ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM.
  • Liability Cap: OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF NET PAYOUTS PAID TO YOU BY SMART PLAY DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS ($50 USD), WHICHEVER IS GREATER.
  1. INDEMNIFICATION
12.1. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Smart Play, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with:
  • Your access to or use of the Platform;
  • Your User Content (including claims that your content infringes a third party’s intellectual property rights);
  • Your violation of these Terms or the Code of Conduct;
  • Your failure to comply with applicable laws (including FTC disclosure guidelines and tax regulations); or
  • Any dispute between you and Game Company.
  1. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
13.1. Governing Law. These Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. 13.2. Dispute Resolution. You and Smart Play agree to first attempt to resolve any dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days. If the dispute is not resolved:
  • Exclusive Jurisdiction: Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms or the Platform shall be instituted exclusively in the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, Republic of Korea. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.
13.3. Class Action Waiver. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AND SMART PLAY AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. 13.4. Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be deemed severed from these Terms and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. 13.5. Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Smart Play regarding the Platform and supersede all prior agreements or understandings.