Terms of Service

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a binding contract. If you are using the Service on behalf of a business, you represent that you are authorized to bind that business, and “you” refers to that business.

Creator and brand accounts are invitation-only. Accounts are created through our verification flow (creator application or brand application) and activated through an email invitation sent by our authentication provider. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure, for all activity on your account, and for notifying us promptly at support@inlookdeals.com if you suspect unauthorized access. Account sharing is prohibited.

Inlook is a marketplace that helps brands discover verified YouTube and TikTok creators and communicate with them about paid product-launch sponsorships. Inlook provides profile hosting, analytics verification, messaging, and (where applicable) payment facilitation.

Inlook is not a party to any agreement between a brand and a creator. The actual sponsorship agreement — including deliverables, deadlines, exclusivity, usage rights, and any other commercial terms — is a direct contract between the brand and the creator. Inlook does not act as an agent, talent manager, or employer of creators, and does not guarantee any outcome, traffic, conversion, or return on investment.

Administrator access. You acknowledge that Inlook administrators (authorized Inlook personnel) can view all account data, including verified engagement and analytics metrics (e.g. subscriber counts, subscriber growth, average view rate, engagement rate, view totals), profile information, pricing, contact emails, and message content, for purposes of operating and moderating the Service, verifying accounts, resolving disputes, and complying with legal obligations. Administrator access is limited to authorized personnel.

Connecting at least one supported platform account (YouTube and/or TikTok) is optional but required to publish a verified creator profile on Inlook. Creators may connect either platform, or both; the platform(s) they connect determine which verified metrics appear on the creator network.

YouTube. By connecting, you grant Inlook read-only access to your YouTube channel data and analytics through the Google OAuth flow (youtube.readonly and yt-analytics.readonly scopes). You may revoke access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Your use of YouTube data through our Service is subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

TikTok. By connecting, you grant Inlook read-only access to your TikTok account data and public video metrics through TikTok Login Kit (OAuth 2.0 with PKCE) under the user.info.basic, user.info.profile, user.info.stats, and video.list scopes. Inlook does not post on your behalf, does not access private videos, and does not request publish or write scopes. You may revoke access at any time at tiktok.com/setting/connected-apps (or, in the TikTok mobile app: Settings and privacy → Security and permissions → Apps and services permissions → choose Inlook → click “Remove access”). To also have Inlook delete the cached TikTok fields (tokens, display name, avatar URL, follower count, video aggregates, profile deep link) from our records, email support@inlookdeals.com from the address on file — see our Privacy Policy § 5 for full procedure and timelines. Your use of TikTok data through our Service is subject to the TikTok Terms of Service, the TikTok API Terms of Service, and the TikTok Privacy Policy.

Revoking access on either platform may remove you from the creator network if the revoked platform is your only connected account; reconnecting (or connecting the other platform) restores eligibility.

Creators must clearly and conspicuously disclose that any sponsored content produced through Inlook is an advertisement. This is required by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Endorsement Guides and by similar rules in other jurisdictions. At minimum, creators must include the #ad hashtag (or an equivalent clear disclosure such as #sponsored or “Paid partnership with [Brand]”) in a place where viewers are likely to see it — for example, in the first line of the video description, in on-screen text near the start of the video, and/or in the spoken introduction. “#ad” buried at the end of a long description, hidden under a “more” fold, or included only in hashtag soup does not satisfy this requirement.

Creators are solely responsible for their compliance with applicable advertising, endorsement, and consumer-protection laws in their country of residence and the country the content is aimed at. Failure to disclose may result in removal from the Inlook network, forfeiture of fees, and personal liability to regulators or affected brands. Creators agree to indemnify Inlook (see Section 13) for any claim arising from a failure to disclose a paid partnership.

Brands must provide accurate business information, own or be authorized to promote the products or services they link to, and comply with applicable laws (including advertising, consumer-protection, and intellectual-property law). Brands must not use the Service to promote illegal products, age-restricted products to minors, misleading claims, or content that violates the YouTube or TikTok Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful, deceptive, harassing, or harmful purpose.
• Impersonate another person, brand, or creator, or misrepresent your affiliation.
• Upload content that infringes intellectual-property rights, violates privacy, or contains malware.
• Scrape, reverse-engineer, or access the Service by automated means, except publicly available pages via normal search-engine crawlers.
• Use messaging to send spam, unsolicited bulk offers, or off-platform recruitment that bypasses Inlook.
• Circumvent Inlook to avoid platform fees on deals that originated through the Service.
• Interfere with the Service’s security, availability, or integrity.

You retain ownership of the content you submit (bios, messages, profile data, uploaded images). You grant Inlook a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, and transmit your content solely to operate and promote the Service. You represent that you have the rights to grant that license. We may remove content that violates these Terms or applicable law.

Applying to Inlook is free for creators and brands. Inlook charges a platform fee equal to 15% of the agreed deal value on transactions facilitated through the Service. The platform fee is deducted automatically at the time of payment via Stripe Connect: 85% of the agreed deal value is paid directly to the creator’s connected Stripe account and 15% is retained by Inlook as its platform fee. Inlook’s platform fee covers standard Stripe payment-processing fees; creators receive 85% of the agreed deal value with no additional deductions by Inlook. Payment processing itself is performed by Stripe, and your use of Stripe Connect is also governed by Stripe’s Connected Account Agreement and Services Agreement.

Refunds. Because Inlook is not a party to the underlying sponsorship agreement between the brand and the creator, refund eligibility is determined by the terms the brand and creator agree to between themselves. Once a sponsorship payment has been settled to the creator’s Stripe account, Inlook does not unilaterally reverse payments. If the parties agree to a refund, the creator may initiate the refund from their Stripe dashboard; Inlook’s 15% platform fee on the refunded portion is returned in the same transaction.

Chargebacks and disputes. If a brand files a chargeback or payment dispute with its card issuer, Stripe will debit the disputed amount (plus any dispute fees) from the creator’s Stripe balance while the dispute is under review. The creator is responsible for submitting evidence to Stripe. If the creator wins the dispute, the funds (less Stripe’s non-refundable dispute fee, which Inlook does not absorb) are returned to the creator. If the brand wins, the disputed amount stays with the brand and Inlook will return its 15% platform fee on the disputed portion.

Good-faith disputes. If a brand and creator cannot resolve a dispute between themselves, either party may email support@inlookdeals.com within 30 days of the disputed event. Inlook may, at its sole discretion, offer mediation, freeze a pending payout, or reverse its platform fee, but Inlook has no obligation to adjudicate the underlying commercial dispute and is not liable for the outcome.

The Service integrates with third-party services, including Google/YouTube, TikTok, Clerk, Supabase, and (in the future) Stripe. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party services or for content linked from the Service.

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not guarantee any particular uptime, and we may change, suspend, or discontinue features at any time. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify users of material changes.

In plain English: Inlook is a marketplace, not a guarantor. We cannot promise that any brand-creator deal will succeed, that a creator’s content will convert, or that third-party data (like YouTube or TikTok analytics) is always perfectly current or error-free. The Service is provided “as is.”

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INLOOK DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY OF DATA PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES (INCLUDING YOUTUBE AND TIKTOK), AND THE RESULT OF ANY DEAL BETWEEN A BRAND AND A CREATOR. Verified analytics reflect data reported to us by the YouTube and TikTok APIs at the time of sync and may not reflect real-time values.

In plain English: If something goes wrong with the Service, Inlook’s financial responsibility to you is capped. We are not responsible for knock-on losses like lost profits, lost deals, or lost opportunity — only for direct damages, and only up to a fixed cap. The cap is the greater of (i) what you paid Inlook in the past 12 months, or (ii) USD $100. This kind of cap is standard for software services and is a core reason Inlook can offer the Service at the price it does.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INLOOK AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS OR REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO INLOOK IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD $100.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Inlook and its owners, officers, employees, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including intellectual-property or privacy rights; (d) your failure to disclose sponsored content as required by Section 5; or (e) any agreement you enter into with a counterparty through the Service.

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request account deletion by emailing support@inlookdeals.com. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, put the Service or other users at risk, or for any reason at our reasonable discretion. Sections 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17 survive termination.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Essex County, New Jersey, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify registered users by email and/or by posting a prominent notice on the Service at least 3 days before the change takes effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Inlook about the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver of that right. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Notices to Inlook should be sent to support@inlookdeals.com.