Creator Terms

These Creator Terms govern the relationship between Moonstack SAS and any user who activates creator status on Grimio (the "Service") to publish recipes and content, free or paid.

They supplement the Terms of Service and the Sales Terms, which remain applicable. They are drafted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 (the "Platform-to-Business Regulation"), which protects professional creators using an intermediation platform.

They are accepted when activating creator status, through a dedicated checkbox. This acceptance is timestamped and stored.

Article 1 — Definitions

• Grimio: Moonstack SAS, a French simplified joint-stock company registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 105 262 687, with its registered office at 21 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris. "Moonstack SAS" is its corporate name, "Grimio" its trade name; these terms are entered into with it.
• Service: the Grimio platform, available at grimio.app and through its applications.
• Creator: a user who has activated creator status to publish content on the Service. No professional status is required to publish (see Article 2.2).
• Content: any element published by the Creator (recipes, texts, photographs, videos, tips, descriptions, profile elements.
• Offer: paid access to Content, either a one-off purchase or a subscription to the Creator's exclusive content.
• Reader: a user who views, purchases, or subscribes to a Creator's Content.
• Plan: the tier chosen by the Creator (Discovery, Enthusiast, or Pro), which determines available features and the applicable commission.

Article 2 — Becoming a creator

2.1 On request

During the beta phase, creator status is not self-service. It is requested from the user account, stating at least one social media account so the Grimio team can discover the applicant's work.

Requests are reviewed one by one, and access opens in small waves. The decision belongs to Grimio; a refusal is not final and a new request may be submitted later.

The applicant declares that they hold the social media account they state. To prevent impersonation, Grimio may reach out through that channel to confirm it is the same person; the applicant consents to this by submitting their request. No answer or no confirmation may justify a refusal, and stating an account the applicant does not hold justifies refusing the request or later withdrawing creator status (Article 10).

An accepted request opens access, it does not activate the account: the applicant then accepts these Creator Terms, and it is that acceptance which activates their status. Activation is free, the Discovery plan being the one granted during the beta, with no commitment and no payment card.

Choosing between Plans (Article 7) will only occur when paid Offers open, under the conditions of Article 7.0.

2.2 Information and identification

The Creator commits to:

• provide accurate and up-to-date information;
• have the legal capacity to enter into a contract;
• comply with the Terms of Use and these Terms in their publications.

Publishing on the Service requires no commercial status. A Reader may become a Creator to write and share recipes without being registered as a business: as long as they sell nothing, they carry on no commercial activity.

Additional obligations will only arise before the first paid Offer, on the day these open. They will be specified with the 30-day notice provided for in Article 7.0 and will include, to the extent regulation requires it, the status suited to a selling activity, the payment provider's identification process (identity verification and bank details) and the tax identification number (SIRET or European equivalent) required of platforms (see Article 8).

Article 3 — Your content remains yours

3.1 Principle

The Creator retains full ownership of their Content. Nothing in these terms transfers any intellectual property rights to Grimio. Grimio does not buy, lease, or appropriate Creators' Content.

3.2 Scope of protection

Under French law, the Creator's original texts, photographs, and videos are automatically protected by copyright. However, a recipe as a method (ingredient list, sequence of steps) is know-how and is not, in itself, protectable by copyright under settled French case law. It is the expression of the recipe, your texts, images, and videos, that is protected.

3.3 Protection against copying

The Terms of Service prohibit all users from mass extraction (scraping), reproduction, and republication of Content without the Creator's authorization. Any Creator can report a violation to hello@grimio.app: Grimio processes reports promptly and may remove infringing content and suspend the responsible account.

Article 4 — License granted to Grimio

To operate the Service, the Creator grants Grimio a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide (the Service being available online), and limited license covering only the rights enumerated below, in accordance with Article L131-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code:

4.1 Rights granted

• Hosting and storage: keeping digital copies of the Content on the servers of Grimio and its technical providers (database, video storage and streaming, CDN).
• Technical reproduction: creating the technical copies required for delivery (video transcoding into various formats and resolutions, thumbnail and preview generation, caching), without altering the creative substance.
• Display: showing the Content to Service users (recipe pages, feeds, carousels, search results), respecting the access rules set by the Creator (free, paid, subscriber-exclusive).
• In-Service promotion: using short excerpts, thumbnails, and visuals to recommend and feature the Content within the Service (recommendations, discovery pages, notifications), always attributed to the Creator.
• Display translation: translating the Content into the languages offered by the Service, solely for multilingual display and without altering its substance.
• Statistics: measuring the Content's audience (views, completions, ratings) to power the statistics made available to the Creator and improve the Service.

4.2 Rights explicitly not granted

Without a separate written agreement from the Creator, Grimio may not:

• modify the Content or create derivative works (editing, remixing) beyond the technical adaptations described above;
• publish the Content outside the Service, in particular on social media or in advertising campaigns (each external marketing use requires dedicated, revocable consent);
• sell, lease, or sublicense the Content to third parties;
• exploit the Content on third-party media or services (VOD, publishing, merchandise).

These prohibitions cover the Creator's Content, that is, its expression within the meaning of Article 3.2.

Grimio cooking the recipes. Since a recipe published on the Service may be reproduced by anyone as a method (Article 3.2), Grimio may cook it and film or photograph its own execution, for the sole purpose of promoting the Service and its Creator on its social media and communication materials. Such content is a separate work, created and owned by Grimio: it is neither a reproduction nor an exploitation of the Creator's Content.

This does not allow Grimio to publish on the Service a recipe competing with the Creator's, nor to derive a paid Offer from it, nor to assign its exploitation to a third party.

In that case, Grimio credits the Creator and links to their profile, unless they object by writing to hello@grimio.app. Reusing the Creator's own texts, photographs or videos remains subject to the dedicated consent set out above.

4.3 Mention of the Creator in Grimio's communication

Grimio may cite the Creator's public pseudonym, their profile picture and a link to their profile in its communication, in order to present the Service and those who publish on it. The Creator may object at any time by writing to hello@grimio.app; Grimio then stops any new use within 30 days at most.

Any use going beyond that factual mention, in particular a testimonial, a quote, a portrait or presenting the Creator as a reference for Grimio, requires their prior, specific and revocable consent.

4.4 Duration and revocation

The license lasts as long as the Content is published on the Service. It ends, for each Content item, when the Creator unpublishes or deletes it, and for all Content upon account closure. Grimio then stops any public display without delay; residual technical copies (backups) are deleted within a maximum of 90 days. As an exception, Content already acquired by Readers (one-off purchases) may remain accessible to them, as the sale granted them a right of access.

Article 5 — Moral rights

The Creator's moral rights (Articles L121-1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code) are inalienable, perpetual, and imprescriptible. No clause herein may limit them. Grimio commits in particular to:

• Attribution: displaying the Creator's name (or pseudonym) visibly on every representation of their Content;
• Integrity: never distorting the Content; technical adaptations (transcoding, thumbnails) never alter the creative substance;
• Disclosure and withdrawal: only the Creator decides on publication. They may unpublish their Content at any time, without justification, from their creator space.

Article 6 — Creator obligations and warranties

The Creator warrants that:

• they authored their Content or hold all necessary rights and authorizations (including for any third-party music, images, or trademarks included);
• their Content does not breach any law or third-party right (copyright, trademarks, image rights, privacy);
• their recipes present no obvious danger (risky preservation techniques, prohibited ingredients) and mention useful precautions;
• they conduct their activity in compliance with their professional, tax, and social obligations (Article 8).

The Creator is solely responsible for their Content and Offers. They indemnify Grimio against any third-party claim based on their Content.

Article 7 — Financial terms

7.1 The Creator is the seller

For their Offers, the Creator is the seller within the meaning of the Sales Terms.

Grimio does not collect Reader payments. Settlement takes place directly between the Reader and the Creator, through the payment provider; the funds never pass through a Grimio account, which neither holds them nor has any control over them.

Grimio acts neither as a collection agent nor as a payment service provider. It supplies a technical service allowing the Creator to present their Offers and manage access to them.

7.2 Single commission

On each sale, the payment provider splits the Reader's settlement: it pays the Creator the displayed price less their Plan's commission, and remits that commission to Grimio. Grimio therefore deducts nothing itself and never holds the funds (Article 7.1).

On the Discovery and Enthusiast plans, this commission is all-inclusive: it covers payment provider fees and all taxes, and no other charge applies. On the Pro plan, Grimio takes no margin; only the payment provider's fees remain payable by the Creator, and they will be specified once that provider is selected (Article 7.0).

As of the last update of these terms, the rates are:

On low-priced sales (outside the Pro plan), a minimum applies to cover fixed payment costs: the price simulator in the creator space then shows the exact net amount before the Offer is published. The breakdown of each sale (price, payment fees, platform share, net amount) is visible in the Creator's dashboard.

Any change to the rate schedule is notified at least 30 days before taking effect and never applies retroactively to completed sales.

7.3 Payouts

Amounts due to the Creator are paid to their bank account according to the payment provider's payout schedule. They remain vested in the Creator, including upon termination of these terms: no amount due is withheld beyond the payment provider's technical timelines and any pending payment disputes (chargebacks).

7.4 Refunds

Reader refunds are governed by the Sales Terms. When a sale is refunded, the corresponding share is recovered from the Creator's connected account according to the payment provider's rules.

7.5 Monetisation outside the Service

The Creator may reserve access to all or part of their content to Readers they designate, and enter into any contract of their choosing with them outside the Service. The Service then handles delivery of the content, never the transaction.

Grimio is not a party to such a transaction: neither seller, nor agent, nor intermediary. It collects no money, issues no invoice and receives no commission. The contract between the Creator and their Reader is foreign to it.

The Creator is solely responsible for it, towards their Readers as towards third parties: compliance of their offer and information given to buyers; performance of their obligations, in particular actually making the announced content available; complaints, refunds, withdrawals and unpaid amounts; and the related tax and social obligations.

The Creator indemnifies Grimio against any claim by a Reader or a third party relating to a transaction concluded outside the Service, including defence costs.

What Grimio still owes: its obligations as host and provider of the Service, namely availability (Article 15), export and portability (Article 12), and application of the Terms of Use to published content. Reserved content remains subject to the same lawfulness and moderation rules as any other.

Access granted by the Creator to a Reader is revocable by them at any time. Grimio does not arbitrate disputes over granting or withdrawing it.

7.6 Plan subscription

The Discovery plan is free. The Enthusiast and Pro plans give access to additional features and are subject to a subscription paid by the Creator to Grimio, distinct from the commission set out in Article 7.2: one pays for access to the Plan's features, the other for sales made.

Like the rest of this Article, that subscription is not in force as of the last update of these terms (Article 7.0). Its amount, its billing period and the details of each Plan's features will be communicated to the Creator before any subscription, and no paid Plan may be applied to them without their having subscribed to it.

The Creator may cancel their subscription at any time; they then keep their account and move to the Discovery plan, without losing their Content, their subscribers or their data (Articles 3 and 12).

Article 8 — Tax obligations

The Creator is solely responsible for declaring their income and paying their taxes and social contributions, whatever the way they receive that income. Grimio gives no tax advice.

Grimio does not collect Reader payments (Article 7.1) and therefore never receives the Creator's income. The income the Creator earns from their activity, on the Service as outside it (Article 7.5), falls under their own reporting obligations alone.

The EU "DAC7" directive and Article 242 bis of the French Tax Code require certain platform operators to report to the tax authority the income earned by their sellers. Those obligations cover a closed list of activities: sale of goods, provision of personal services, rental of immovable property, rental of means of transport.

If and to the extent Grimio were to become subject to them, which depends on the nature of the Offers proposed and on the payment arrangements retained (Article 7.0), it would inform the Creators concerned, collect their tax identification (SIRET or equivalent) and send them an annual summary of the reported amounts. In that case only, and without a valid tax identification, the Creator's paid Offers could be suspended until the situation is resolved.

Article 9 — Content ranking and visibility

In accordance with Article 5 of the P2B Regulation, the main parameters determining the display order of content on the Service are, in decreasing order of importance:

• relevance to the search or browsed category (title, ingredients, technique);
• Reader engagement (ratings, completions, favorites);
• publication recency;
• possible editorial selection, whether thematic (e.g., seasonal features) or based on the Creator's participation in the Ambassador Program, under the terms of that program.

Grimio applies the same ranking rules to content it publishes itself, where applicable, as to Creators' content.

9.1 Paid promotion

As of the last update of these terms, no paid placement is offered: visibility cannot be bought and ranking follows the criteria above alone.

Grimio reserves the possibility of introducing a paid promotion allowing a Creator to increase the visibility of their Content for a fee. In accordance with Article 5 of the P2B Regulation, how it works is described in advance:

• it will be open to any Creator, on the same pricing terms, with no exclusivity and no individual negotiation;
• any content promoted this way will be identified as such to Readers;
• its effect is to place the Content ahead of content the criteria above would have ranked before it; content that is not promoted keeps the same order between itself, resulting from those criteria, but its displayed position shifts accordingly;
• it has no effect on the ratings, reviews, statistics and personalised recommendations attached to any Content, none of which can be bought;
• it does not condition access to the Service or its features, and not using it entails no disadvantage.

Its opening and its pricing will be communicated to Creators before it goes live.

Article 10 — Suspension, restriction, and termination

10.1 By the Creator

The Creator may stop using the Service and close their account at any time, without notice, fees, or justification. Amounts due to them remain vested (Article 7.3) and they may export their data beforehand (Article 12).

10.2 By Grimio — reasoned notice principle

In accordance with Article 9 of the P2B Regulation, if Grimio intends to terminate the relationship with a Creator, it notifies them of its decision and reasons at least 30 days before it takes effect. During this period, the Creator may respond, contest through the complaint mechanism (Article 11), and export their data.

Restriction or suspension of a specific content item is also notified to the Creator with a statement of reasons.

10.3 Exceptions — immediate effect

Grimio may suspend an account or remove content without notice, with a reasoned notification, only in case of:

• manifestly illegal or dangerous content;
• fraud or threats to the Service's security;
• serious or repeated breach of these terms;
• legal obligation or decision of an authority.

In any event, termination does not deprive the Creator of the amounts due to them or of their right to export their Content and data.

Article 11 — Complaints and mediation

11.1 Internal complaint mechanism

In accordance with Article 11 of the P2B Regulation, any Creator may submit a free complaint (moderation decision, ranking, commission, Service operation) to: hello@grimio.app, subject "Creator complaint". Grimio acknowledges receipt within 48 business hours and provides a reasoned response within a maximum of 30 days.

11.2 Mediation

Failing an amicable resolution, and in accordance with Articles 12 and 13 of the P2B Regulation, Grimio commits to examining in good faith any mediation request from the Creator before an independent mediator chosen by mutual agreement, with Grimio bearing a reasonable share of the costs. Mediation does not deprive either party of the right to take legal action.

Article 12 — Data, export, and portability

The Creator may request at any time, including after account closure (within legal retention periods), the export of:

• their Content (texts and media in original quality);
• their audience statistics;
• their sales and payout history (also available from the payment provider).

The export is provided in a standard reusable format within a maximum of 14 days. Personal data processing (for Creators and Readers alike) is governed by the Privacy Policy.

Grimio acts as data controller for the data necessary to operate the Service. Where the Creator uses, for their own communication, the data of their subscribers obtained through the Service, they become a data controller in turn: it is then for them to comply with applicable regulation, in particular to obtain the necessary consents and inform the individuals concerned.

Article 13 — Non-exclusivity

The Article 4 license is non-exclusive: the Creator remains free to publish, distribute, and sell their Content on any other channel (social media, personal website, other platforms), during and after the relationship with Grimio. No exclusivity or non-compete clause is imposed.

Article 14 — Changes to these terms

Any change to these terms is notified to Creators on a durable medium (email) at least 15 days before taking effect, extended to 30 days when the change requires significant adaptations (including any change to the commission schedule, Article 7.2). A Creator who refuses a change may terminate the relationship free of charge before it takes effect.

Article 15 — Liability and availability

The Service is provided "as is". Grimio uses reasonable means to ensure availability and regular data backups, without guaranteeing uninterrupted operation, particularly during the beta phase. To the extent permitted by law, Grimio's liability is limited to direct and foreseeable damages.

Article 16 — Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. In case of dispute, the parties first seek an amicable solution (Article 11). Failing that, the courts of Paris have jurisdiction for Creators acting professionally, without prejudice to applicable mandatory rules.

Article 17 — Miscellaneous

17.1 Evidence agreement

The parties agree that the records kept by Grimio in its information systems are evidence between them, until proven otherwise. This covers in particular the timestamp of acceptances and the version of the document accepted, connection and activity logs, and messages sent to the Creator's email address.

These records are kept under conditions designed to preserve their integrity. The Creator may request them at any time, and in particular obtain a copy of the version of these terms they accepted.

17.2 Force majeure

Neither party may be held liable for a failure resulting from an event of force majeure within the meaning of Article 1218 of the French Civil Code. The party invoking it informs the other without delay. Should the impediment last beyond sixty days, either party may terminate these terms for the future, with no compensation on either side.

17.3 Assignment

Grimio may assign these terms, in particular as part of a merger, a sale of assets or a change of control, provided the assignee takes over all of its obligations. The Creator is informed of it; should they refuse that assignment, they may close their account free of charge and keep the rights set out in Articles 3 and 12.

Creator status being personal (Article 2), the Creator may not assign these terms without Grimio's prior written consent.

17.4 Partial invalidity

Should any clause of these terms be held void, unlawful or unenforceable, it is deemed unwritten and the remaining clauses keep their full effect. The parties then endeavour to replace it with a valid clause of equivalent effect.

17.5 No waiver

The fact that one party does not rely on a failure by the other does not amount to a waiver of the right to rely on it later.

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