Eligibility and creator account
Creators must be legally able to contract, provide accurate identity and tax information, accept these terms, and maintain a verified connected payout account. Codex Panels may review identity, ownership, sanctions, fraud, and marketplace risk before activating payouts.
A creator is an independent marketplace participant, not an employee, partner, fiduciary, or agent of Codex Panels.
Ownership and marketplace license
Creators retain ownership of original panel manifests, assets, documentation, brands, and updates. The creator grants Codex Panels a worldwide, nonexclusive license to review, test, reproduce, host, market, demonstrate, deliver, secure, license to buyers, and maintain marketplace backups of each submitted version.
The creator represents that they possess all rights needed for submission and that the panel does not infringe rights, conceal malware, misrepresent capabilities, or transmit user data beyond declared permissions.
Founding creator economics
Sales: the creator receives 80% of the displayed panel checkout price; Codex Panels retains 20% and pays ordinary payment-processing costs from its share.
Tips: the creator receives 90% of completed tips; Codex Panels retains 10% and pays ordinary processing costs. A tip is voluntary support and does not buy equity, control, or additional license rights.
Usage pool: 10% of eligible Pro net subscription revenue is allocated monthly among qualifying community panels using verified active-license days, fraud controls, and published pool rules. This is variable compensation, not guaranteed income.
Ledger, refunds, disputes, and payouts
Every sale, tip, usage allocation, refund, dispute, reserve, adjustment, and payout must create an inspectable ledger receipt. Refunds, chargebacks, taxes, fraud losses, and corrections may reduce pending or future earnings as disclosed in the ledger.
Payouts route only to the creator’s verified connected account. Browser-submitted destination IDs or payout amounts are never authoritative. Timing, minimums, reserves, currency conversion, and country availability depend on the payment provider and published payout policy.
Review, permissions, and usage integrity
Codex Panels may automate and manually review quality, accessibility, permissions, external calls, data handling, licensing, security, and listing claims. Approval is not a certification or assumption of the creator’s legal obligations.
Creators may not fabricate entitlement events, induce meaningless opens, bundle undisclosed trackers, pay for fake use, or manipulate pool allocation. Suspected manipulation may pause rewards while receipts are reviewed.
Tax and legal responsibilities
Creators are responsible for their own income, business, registration, licensing, and tax obligations except where the platform is legally required to collect, withhold, report, or remit. The production flow must collect required tax forms and disclose the platform’s marketplace-tax posture by jurisdiction.
These terms are not tax or legal advice. Cross-border creator availability must remain gated until payment, sanctions, reporting, and marketplace rules are reviewed.
Removal, termination, and surviving buyers
A creator may unpublish future sales subject to notice and existing buyer obligations. Codex Panels may remove or quarantine a panel for infringement, security risk, fraud, misleading claims, provider violations, legal process, or material breach.
Existing lawful buyers should retain continuity for the purchased major version where technically and legally possible. Accrued, undisputed earnings remain payable subject to refunds, reserves, legal holds, and required verification.