Promoter Agreement

1What this is

1.1. Promoting on Groovity means this: you take a shareable link for an event an organizer has opened, you promote it through your own channels on your own time, and when a sale is attributed to you the organizer’s stated commission moves from them to you at the moment it happens. Groovity provides the attribution, the rails and the rules — and takes no share of your commission.

1.2. You are an independent business. You are not an employee, agent, partner or representative of Groovity or of any organizer, and nothing here makes you one. You have no authority to bind anyone. There are no required hours, no quotas, no territory and no exclusivity in either direction — you may promote for anyone, and organizers and Groovity may work with other promoters or sell directly. You use your own equipment and your own channels and you decide how you work.

1.3. Who actually pays you. Commission is set, funded and owed by the organizer of each event. Groovity’s part is mechanical: executing the transfer at the sale under the organizer’s standing authorisation, and holding your payout until it vests. We do not guarantee any organizer’s solvency and we owe you no commission of our own — but because the money leaves them at the sale itself, "the organizer decided not to pay" is not a state that can exist for a sale that was attributed to you.

2Your handle, and what you may use ours for

2.1. Your handle is permanent. It goes on flyers and inside printed QR codes, so it cannot be changed or transferred once you take it — there is no procedure for it and there is not going to be one. Choose accordingly. Handles that impersonate somebody, or that use reserved or infringing words, are refused or withdrawn.

2.2. The brand licence. Groovity grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable licence to use our name and the share kits we give you only to promote listed events, following our brand guidelines. Do not register domains, usernames or apps containing our marks; do not bid on "Groovity", an organizer’s name or an event’s name as paid-search keywords; and do not present yourself as Groovity staff or an official spokesperson. Goodwill from using our marks belongs to us, and the licence ends when this agreement does.

2.3. Your content is yours. You grant Groovity and the event’s organizer a royalty-free licence to repost what you make in connection with that event and the Services. You confirm what you post is yours or cleared — including any music in your videos.

3How a sale becomes yours

3.1. Every medium you share — a link, a QR code, your handle said out loud or typed — resolves to one canonical token for you on that event. A sale is attributed to you when your code or handle is typed at checkout, which always beats a cookie, or when the purchase follows your link within the attribution window, currently 7 days, where the last touch wins among untyped touches. The attribution and the rate in force are frozen at the moment of purchase and are never restated afterwards.

3.2. The platform’s records are the system of record and are conclusive unless they are obviously wrong. If a statement looks wrong, tell us in writing within 30 days of it, with enough detail to check, and we will investigate in good faith. We will not hand over other people’s personal information to settle an attribution question.

3.3. Shorteners are at your own risk. If you wrap our link in something that drops the token, the sale is not attributed and there is nothing to recover afterwards.

4The commission, and the rules that protect it

4.1. The commission percentage belongs to the event. It is public to the event’s promoters and it is the same for everybody selling it — there are no privately negotiated rates on this platform, and there is no field in which one could be written.

4.2. The five rules. These are enforced by the platform against organizers, on your behalf:

• The rate can go up at any time, and the new number applies to everything you sell from that moment.
• It can only go down with warning. A drop is announced with a date, and the wait runs as long as the rate had been up — never less than 24 hours, never more than 14 days. Until that date everything you sell still pays the old rate, including sales from anything you shared before the announcement.
• What you have already sold keeps the rate it earned. Nothing reaches backwards.
• Nothing can go down in the last 72 hours before doors.
• An organizer closing an event to new promoters does not reach you. Your link keeps working and keeps paying. Ending that means the rate dropping to zero, and that waits like any other drop.

4.3. Commission accrues only on paid, settled, non-refunded passes attributed to you. Free passes, comps and cancelled orders earn nothing.

5Vesting and getting paid

5.1. Your commission transfers at the sale and vests three days after the event. Until it vests your payout is held, and a refund or chargeback in that window reverses the commission on that sale. Once it has vested and been released, it is not clawed back for ordinary refunds or chargebacks — that loss falls on the organizer. (Reversal for your own fraud is a different thing: see §7.)

5.2. Getting paid requires onboarding with our payment provider, including identity verification, and a verified phone number. Payouts are available to promoters based in the United States at launch, and we say so at signup rather than at payout. Balances under $10 roll into the next release. Tax details and any information returns are handled through the payment provider; you are responsible for your own income and self-employment taxes and nothing is withheld for you.

5.3. If your account is closed while you hold a balance: vested commission is paid on the normal schedule, and unvested commission is held pending review and resolved within 90 days — paid where the underlying sales stand, forfeited where they were fraudulent or in breach. This is written down here rather than decided during the first argument about it.

6How you promote

6.1. Say that you are paid. Earning commission is a material connection, and United States law (the FTC Endorsement Guides, 16 CFR Part 255) requires you to disclose it whenever you promote. It has to be clear, hard to miss, and in the same medium as the promotion: on the image or in the video itself — spoken and on screen for video — before the "more" fold in a caption, in plain words such as "#ad", "sponsored", or "I earn commission on passes sold through my link". A platform’s built-in "paid partnership" tag is not enough on its own. Our share kits carry the tag for you. Do not strip it.

6.2. Tell the truth. Promote using what is actually on the event page or what the organizer gave you. No invented lineups, prices or perks, no fake scarcity, and no fake reviews, bought followers or artificial engagement on campaign posts.

6.3. No spam. Your own outreach is your own legal responsibility: no bulk email that does not comply with CAN-SPAM and is not to your own list, and no marketing texts without prior express written consent that you personally hold — TCPA penalties are counted per message and they will be yours. Do not post where posting is not allowed, and do not flypost in breach of local ordinances.

6.4. Respect the age floor. Do not aim promotion for an 18+ or 21+ event at people below it.

6.5. We may ask you to correct or remove a non-compliant post within 24 hours, review campaign posts, and give you disclosure wording you have to use. Repeatedly ignoring that ends the agreement.

7What forfeits everything

Attribution exists to pay for real promotion. Each of the following forfeits all unpaid commission — not only the tainted sales — ends this agreement, and may be reported to the authorities:

• earning or trying to earn commission on your own purchase, or through accounts, cards or households you control;
• promoting events run by an organizer you are a member of;
• cookie stuffing, forced redirects, or any other manipulation of attribution;
• undisclosed rebates, or paying people to buy;
• card testing, or transacting with stolen payment credentials;
• buying passes in order to resell them;
• traffic sourced from spam;
• misrepresenting your relationship with Groovity or with any organizer.

8What you see about buyers

You get counts and amounts — how many passes moved and what you earned. You do not get buyer identities, and you may not try to obtain, harvest or infer them from the Services. Anything a guest gives you directly is yours to look after and to use lawfully.

9Ending it

9.1. Either of us can end this at any time, and Groovity may suspend or end it immediately for breach, fraud, or conduct that brings the platform into disrepute. An organizer choosing to ignore you affects only that organizer’s events and never touches what you have already earned.

9.2. On an ordinary ending your links stop attributing, §5.3 governs your balance, the brand licence stops, and §3.2, §5, §7, §8 and §10 survive.

10Liability and indemnity

10.1. You indemnify the Groovity Parties, on the terms of Terms of Service §16, for claims arising out of how you promote — failures to disclose, false statements, spam and TCPA claims, intellectual-property claims in your content, and breaches of this agreement.

10.2. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE COMMISSION THAT MOVED TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICES IN THE SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. TERMS OF SERVICE §13 TO §15 APPLY. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE ANY VOLUME OF SALES, THAT ANY EVENT WILL HAPPEN, HOW ANY ORGANIZER WILL BEHAVE, OR THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE AVAILABLE.