General
This applies to everyone.
The agreement
These terms are an agreement between you and FaZe Media, Inc. d/b/a HardScope ("HardScope", "we", "us"), which operates ClipScope. You accept them by ticking the box to agree when you sign up, or when ClipScope asks you to agree to an updated version. Ticking it is your electronic signature, and you also acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you use ClipScope for an organization, you agree for it and confirm you’re allowed to. Each campaign’s own terms decide how its clips earn, but they can’t override these terms.
These terms include binding individual arbitration and a waiver of class actions and jury trials, described under Disputes and arbitration.
Updated terms
We may change ClipScope and these terms. When we change these terms or the Privacy Policy, we post the new version with a new date, and the next time you use ClipScope we ask you to agree to the updated terms and acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy. The version you last agreed to keeps applying until you agree or stop using ClipScope. Until then you can sign in and out, delete your creator account in Settings, remove ClipScope at the platform or email us about your data, but you can’t use the rest of ClipScope. If you decline, you’re signed out and your account is kept.
Your account
You must be at least 18 to use ClipScope. Give accurate information, keep your sign-in secure and tell us at platform@hardscope.com if someone else has used your login, since you’re responsible for what happens on it. Only connect accounts you own or are allowed to manage.
YouTube and other platforms
ClipScope uses YouTube API Services. By connecting YouTube you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. TikTok’s and Instagram’s terms keep applying to your accounts there. Each platform decides what it shares with apps, and if one stops sharing something, ClipScope may not be able to confirm or count clips there.
Acceptable use
Don’t:
- connect an account that isn’t yours, or have more than one creator account
- inflate a clip’s results artificially, for example with bots or bought views
- submit a clip you didn’t make or post
- post anything unlawful, misleading, hateful or infringing
- reach for data that isn’t yours, or scrape, overload or reverse engineer ClipScope
- use ClipScope from a sanctioned country or as a party the US restricts.
Your content and ours
ClipScope, its software and its brand belong to HardScope. You keep the rights in what you upload or post, and you let us host and show it as needed to run ClipScope. Rights in approved clips are set out under Creators. If you send us feedback, we may use it freely.
Copyright
If you believe something on ClipScope infringes your copyright, email a notice with what the law requires to platform@hardscope.com with "DMCA notice" in the subject. We remove or disable access to the material and tell the person who provided it, who can send a counter-notice to the same address. Clips are posted on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, so send your notice to that platform too. We end the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.
Suspension and ending
You can stop using ClipScope at any time. We may suspend or end an account, a campaign or ClipScope itself for security, fraud or legal reasons, when a platform requires it or when you break these terms. Sections that should by their nature last, such as content rights, liability and disputes, keep applying.
Disclaimers and liability
ClipScope is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise that ClipScope will be uninterrupted or error-free, that platform counts or AI drafts are accurate, or that any clip, campaign or creator will reach any result.
To the extent the law allows, HardScope isn’t liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages or lost profits, and our total liability is limited to the greater of what you paid us for ClipScope in the 12 months before the claim and US$100. This limit doesn’t reduce any amount payable to a creator under these terms.
Disputes and arbitration
Delaware law governs these terms, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Before starting a dispute, email platform@hardscope.com with "Dispute Notice" in the subject, and we’ll both try to resolve it for 60 days. If we can’t, it goes to binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, and the Federal Arbitration Act applies. Organizations follow the rules under Businesses. You can use small claims court instead if your claim qualifies, and either of us can go to court over intellectual property.
You and HardScope each give up the right to a jury trial and to a class action, class arbitration or other representative proceeding.
You can opt out of arbitration by emailing platform@hardscope.com within 30 days of first agreeing to these terms, with your name, address and request. If the class waiver can’t be enforced, the arbitration terms don’t apply, and disputes go to the courts where HardScope has its principal place of business.
General terms
These terms, the Privacy Policy, each campaign’s terms and any written agreement with your organization are the whole agreement about ClipScope. You can’t transfer these terms without our written consent, but HardScope can, for example in a merger or sale. If part of them can’t be enforced, the rest still applies, and not enforcing a term isn’t a waiver of it. We can send you notices by email or in ClipScope.
Contact
FaZe Media, Inc. d/b/a HardScope. Email platform@hardscope.com. California residents can also reach the Complaint Assistance Unit of the California Department of Consumer Affairs at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or (800) 952-5210.
Businesses
This applies when you run campaigns for an organization.
Organizations
Whoever creates an organization becomes its Org Admin. Each Org Admin agrees with their own login and confirms they can bind the organization, which is responsible for what its Org Admins do. ClipScope drafts campaigns partly with AI, but you review and launch every campaign yourself and you’re responsible for what you launch.
Funding campaigns
Your organization funds campaign budgets in the way we agree with you. Funds are recorded as your balance in ClipScope and held in HardScope’s platform account. A campaign never spends more than its budget, and what it hasn’t spent stays with it when it ends. Anything else about your funds, including fees and refunds, follows your written agreement with HardScope.
Campaign terms and review
You set each campaign’s brief, rules, rates, caps, budget and dates, and creators see them before they join. A change to a live campaign applies from when it’s saved and never takes back what creators already earned. Review clips in good faith against the campaign’s published rules. With automatic review, clips are approved as they’re submitted. You confirm you have the rights to the footage and assets you provide, and you let the campaign’s creators edit them into clips and post them.
Paying creators
You pay creators what their approved clips earn under each campaign’s terms. When an Org Admin runs Pay, you authorize HardScope to send each payment from your organization’s funds, in US dollars through Stripe, to the creator’s Stripe account. Your organization can’t call back a payment once Stripe has it. If you think activity on a clip is invalid, tell us at platform@hardscope.com.
Clip rights, indemnity and disputes
When you approve a clip, your organization receives the licence described under Creators. Your campaigns are your advertising, so you’re responsible for their claims and for asking creators for the disclosures the law requires. Your organization will cover HardScope and the creators in its campaigns against claims that come from its footage, assets, briefs or advertising. Disputes with an organization go to arbitration under the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules.
Creators
This applies when you make clips for campaigns.
Who can create
You must be at least 18, and you can have one creator account. Link only accounts you own, one per platform. A campaign can limit which countries it accepts.
Independent contractor
You make clips as an independent contractor, not as an employee, partner or agent of HardScope or of any business. You decide whether and how to make clips, and you cover your own expenses.
Clips and earnings
Make each clip from the campaign’s footage, follow its brief and rules, post it from a linked account and submit its link. ClipScope checks the post before accepting it. A campaign’s terms say how an approved clip earns, which can depend on the views the platform reports, and we don’t control those counts.
People review earnings. While activity on a clip is being reviewed, the business may hold your payment on that campaign, and within 90 days of a payout HardScope may reverse a payment made because of an error or anything Acceptable use forbids. An earned amount isn’t a promise of payment, and we don’t promise when a payout arrives. You can ask for a review of a hold or a reversal at platform@hardscope.com.
Getting paid through Stripe
To receive payouts, connect a Stripe account from ClipScope. Stripe collects your identity, bank and tax details, and pays your bank on its own schedule. Payouts are sent in US dollars, only to an account Stripe marks ready. ClipScope takes no fee from what you earn. You’re responsible for your taxes, and HardScope, or Stripe for us, may issue tax forms where the law requires.
Payment processing services for creators on ClipScope are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which includes the Stripe Terms of Service (collectively, the “Stripe Services Agreement”). By agreeing to these terms or continuing to operate as a creator on ClipScope, you agree to be bound by the Stripe Services Agreement, as the same may be modified by Stripe from time to time. As a condition of ClipScope enabling payment processing services through Stripe, you agree to provide ClipScope accurate and complete information about you and your business, and you authorize ClipScope to share it and transaction information related to your use of the payment processing services provided by Stripe.
Rights in your clips
You keep what you own in your clips. When a business approves your clip, you grant that business and HardScope a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and perpetual licence to use, copy, show, share, repost and advertise with it, including your name, handle and likeness as they appear in it. HardScope uses clips only to run ClipScope. You confirm your clips don’t infringe anyone’s rights, and you’ll cover claims that they do.
Posting and leaving
Clips you post for a campaign are paid content. Disclose that clearly every time, with the platform’s paid partnership setting or words like #ad, plus anything the campaign asks for. "Delete clipper account" in Settings turns off your creator profile and disconnects your linked accounts, and your earnings stay recorded. To have your data deleted, see Delete your data.