Last Updated 4th July 2026
These Creator Terms govern participation as a creator on Straits & Canton.
They apply in addition to the Terms of Membership, Community Rules, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Disclaimer.
By applying for creator access, publishing creator content or receiving creator earnings, you agree to these Creator Terms.
Straits & Canton is a private, member-only media house providing access to creator videos, posts, comments, chat and related membership features.
The platform is operated by:
Straits Canton Helliwell Limited
Trading as Straits & Canton
Email: [creators@straitsandcanton.com]
In these terms, “Straits & Canton”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the organisation above.
These Creator Terms should be read together with:
If these Creator Terms conflict with the ordinary Terms of Membership in relation to creator activity, these Creator Terms will apply to that activity.
Creators remain members and must continue complying with all membership rules.
Every creator begins as a member.
Under the current platform model, a member normally becomes eligible to apply for creator access after maintaining an active membership for at least three months.
Eligibility to apply does not guarantee approval.
When reviewing an application, we may consider:
We may invite established creators to join under a separate onboarding arrangement. Any different arrangement must be confirmed in writing.
Creator access is granted at our discretion.
We may:
We are not required to provide detailed reasons for every unsuccessful application.
Creator approval is personal and cannot be transferred to another person or business without written permission.
Creators participate independently.
Nothing in these terms creates:
Creators decide whether and when to produce content, subject to platform standards and any separate written commitments.
Creators are responsible for their own:
Creators must not claim to be an employee, authorised representative or official spokesperson for Straits & Canton.
Approved creators may receive a creator profile or channel within the platform.
A creator profile may include:
Creators must keep their profile information accurate and must not use deceptive names, credentials, affiliations or images.
Approved creators may be permitted to publish:
Publishing access may vary according to the creator’s status, technical capacity, platform stage and compliance history.
We do not guarantee that every format or feature will remain available permanently.
Creators are responsible for everything they publish.
Creators must ensure that their content:
Creators must make reasonable efforts to distinguish:
Strong opinions and controversial discussion are permitted. Threats, fraud, harassment, unlawful content and deliberate deception are not.
Straits & Canton is not an open-upload platform.
Creators are expected to publish content that provides genuine value to members.
Creators must not repeatedly publish:
We may review creator status where content is consistently inactive, repetitive, deceptive or of insufficient value.
Creators retain ownership of the original content they create, subject to any rights belonging to third parties.
Straits & Canton does not acquire ownership merely because content is uploaded to the platform.
The creator remains responsible for proving ownership or permission where a dispute arises.
By uploading creator content, you grant Straits & Canton a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to:
This licence is granted for as long as the content remains available through Straits & Canton.
After removal, limited copies may remain temporarily in backups, records, payment evidence, moderation files or legal records where reasonably necessary.
We will not sell ownership of a creator’s content to another party merely because of this licence.
We may use:
to promote Straits & Canton, the creator’s channel or the membership service.
Promotional use may occur on:
We will not normally publish complete member-only videos publicly without the creator’s permission.
Creators must have the rights required to use all third-party material included in their content.
This may include:
Crediting a source does not necessarily create permission to use it.
Where a licence, release or consent is required, the creator is responsible for obtaining and retaining evidence of it.
Creators are responsible for obtaining appropriate permission from identifiable guests or contributors appearing in their content.
Where appropriate, creators should obtain written permission covering:
Creators must take particular care when discussing private individuals or publishing sensitive personal information.
An approved creator may receive a share of membership revenue from members who join through that creator’s authorised referral link, code or signup route.
The intended creator referral share is:
50% of the qualifying membership revenue attributable to that creator.
For these terms, qualifying membership revenue means the amount defined in the creator dashboard or payment schedule and may exclude:
Before creator payments begin, the creator dashboard or payment schedule must clearly state whether the 50% share is calculated from the gross membership price or from net revenue after specified deductions.
A member will normally be attributed to a creator only where the member joins through the creator’s valid referral mechanism.
Creator status is available only to members with an active paid Straits & Canton membership.
To retain creator status, publishing access and eligibility for creator earnings, a creator must:
If a creator’s membership expires, is cancelled or remains unpaid, we may suspend:
Valid earnings accrued before the membership ended will remain subject to the normal payment, refund, chargeback and verification process.
Creator access may be restored if the membership is reactivated, but restoration is not guaranteed where the creator has also breached platform rules or remained inactive for a prolonged period.
Referral attribution may be based on:
Creators must not:
Where attribution is unclear, our reasonable determination will apply.
We may correct attribution errors where reliable evidence is available.
Where a member joins without attribution to a particular creator, part of that membership revenue may be allocated to a shared Creator Pool.
The intended allocation is:
50% of qualifying revenue from non-referred memberships.
The Creator Pool may be distributed according to factors including:
Raw views alone may not determine payments.
We may exclude:
The detailed Creator Pool formula may be published separately and may be updated as the platform develops.
The Creator Pool formula may need to change as:
We will provide reasonable notice of material changes where practical.
Changes will not normally alter creator earnings already finalised for a completed payment period.
No creator is guaranteed a fixed percentage of the shared Creator Pool.
Creators may receive statements showing information such as:
Dashboard figures may be provisional until:
Creator payouts will be made according to the payment schedule shown in the creator dashboard.
The initial intended schedule is:
[25th of the month after the earnings were accrued]
We may hold earnings for a reasonable period to allow for:
A payout is not due until the relevant earnings have become payable under the published payment schedule.
A minimum payout threshold may apply.
The initial threshold will be: $50
Amounts below the threshold may roll forward to the next payment period.
If a creator account is closed, any valid remaining balance may be paid after deductions and verification, even where it is below the normal threshold, subject to any minimum payment-provider limits.
Creator payments may be made through Stripe Connect or another payment provider.
Creators may be required to provide:
Failure to complete required verification may delay or prevent payouts.
The payment provider may apply its own terms, verification rules and restrictions.
The treatment of payment-processing and payout fees will be stated in the payment schedule or creator dashboard.
Depending on the payment structure, deductions may include:
We will not intentionally deduct fees that have not been described in the applicable payment information.
Creator earnings may be reduced or reversed where a related membership payment is:
If a creator has already received money connected to a later reversal, we may:
Where a dispute fee or financial loss resulted from the creator’s fraud, misleading conduct or serious rule breach, we may allocate the related cost to that creator to the extent permitted by law.
Creators are responsible for determining and paying their own taxes.
Creator earnings may need to be reported to tax authorities depending on:
Straits & Canton does not provide personal tax advice.
We may:
Creators should obtain advice from a qualified tax professional where necessary.
Creator approval does not guarantee:
Earnings depend on paying members, valid attribution, creator eligibility, member engagement and compliance with these terms.
Creators should not incur costs on the assumption that a particular level of income is guaranteed.
Unless separately agreed in writing, creator participation is non-exclusive.
Creators may continue publishing or operating memberships elsewhere.
However, creators must not:
Creators must clearly disclose relevant commercial relationships connected to their content.
This may include:
Disclosures must be clear enough for members to understand before relying on the recommendation.
Creators must comply with applicable advertising and consumer-protection rules.
Creators must treat member information responsibly.
Creators must not:
Access to member information should be limited to what the platform deliberately makes available.
Creators may moderate or participate in discussion beneath their content where platform tools permit.
Creator moderation must not be used to:
Straits & Canton retains final authority over platform moderation.
Members may be able to:
Member feedback is one factor in creator review but does not automatically determine the outcome.
We may periodically review creators based on:
We may classify a creator as inactive where they have not published or participated for a prolonged period.
Before changing creator status, we may consider:
Possible outcomes include:
We do not guarantee permanent creator status solely because a creator was previously approved.
We may review, restrict, label or remove creator content where we reasonably believe it:
Where appropriate, we may first ask the creator to edit or clarify content.
Serious cases may require immediate removal.
We may temporarily suspend creator privileges while investigating:
During suspension, we may:
Suspension does not necessarily mean a final decision has been made.
Creator status may be removed where a creator:
Removal of creator status does not automatically cancel ordinary membership unless the conduct also justifies membership termination.
A creator may ask to stop participating as a creator.
Unless otherwise agreed:
Creators should provide reasonable notice where possible.
Referral earnings continue only while the creator remains an approved and active creator.
When a creator leaves, the parties may agree that:
Where no separate agreement exists, a creator may request removal of their original content, subject to:
Where creator status is terminated for breach, valid earnings accrued before termination will not automatically be forfeited.
However, we may deduct or withhold amounts reasonably connected to:
We will not impose arbitrary financial penalties unrelated to a genuine loss or contractual adjustment.
A creator may request review of a significant moderation or termination decision where an appeal route is available.
An appeal should:
We may uphold, change or reverse the original decision.
Creators may receive non-public information about:
Creators must not disclose confidential information unless:
Creator earnings relating only to the creator may be disclosed by that creator, but private information belonging to other creators or members must not be disclosed.
We may change creator tools, publishing formats and payment systems as the platform develops.
Where a change materially affects creator earnings or obligations, we will provide reasonable notice where practical.
Changes will not normally apply retrospectively to earnings already finalised.
We may update these Creator Terms to reflect:
Material changes will be communicated through the platform or by email.
A creator who does not agree to a material change may stop participating before the change takes effect.
Nothing in these terms excludes liability where doing so would be unlawful.
Creators remain responsible for:
We are not responsible for losses that arise solely because:
Any limitation of liability will remain subject to applicable law.
To the extent permitted by law, a creator may be required to reimburse Straits & Canton for reasonable losses, claims or costs directly caused by the creator’s:
This section does not apply where the loss was caused by Straits & Canton’s own negligence or wrongdoing.
These Creator Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Mandatory rights and protections that apply in the creator’s country may still apply where they cannot lawfully be excluded.
Questions about these Creator Terms should be sent to:
Straits Canton Helliwell Limited
Trading as Straits & Canton
Email: [creators@straitsandcanton.com]
