Terms of Service

Welcome to RiftStream. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of riftstream.tv, app.riftstream.tv, and the RiftStream platform and services (the "Services"), operated by RiftStream Inc. ("RiftStream," "we," "us," or "our").

Acceptance. By creating an account and clicking "I Agree" (or a similarly labeled acceptance button), or by accessing, browsing, or using the Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and our Community Guidelines. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the Services.

1. Eligibility, Accounts, and Users Under 18

1.1 Minimum age

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services.

1.2 Users aged 13–17

If you are between 13 and 17, you may use the Services only with the permission and involvement of a parent or legal guardian. Users under 18 may watch, follow, like, and comment, but may not start a channel, upload content, or participate in monetization.

1.3 Age assurance

We currently rely on self-declared age at account creation. We may introduce additional age assurance measures where required by applicable law.

1.4 Users under 18 — advertising and data

We do not serve personalized or targeted advertising to accounts we know are used by individuals under 18.

1.5 Account responsibilities

• You are responsible for your account and for keeping your login credentials secure.
• You agree to provide accurate information and to keep it current.
• You may not impersonate others or create an account on someone's behalf without authorization.
• You may browse and watch content without an account. An account is required to interact or upload.
• We may refuse, suspend, or terminate accounts at our discretion, including where we believe an account is being used in violation of these Terms.

2. How RiftStream Works and AI Labeling

RiftStream is a platform for content created in whole or in part using artificial intelligence. Anyone may sign up to watch, follow, like, and comment. Eligible users may start a channel to upload and share their own AI content.

2.1 AI content label

Every upload is automatically marked as AI-created. You do not need to label your content yourself — the platform applies the label for you. All content on the Services should be understood as AI-generated in whole or in part.

3. Your Content, Ownership, and Our License to Host It

3.1 Your rights in your content

You retain all rights you hold in the content you upload ("Your Content"). Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of Your Content to RiftStream, and we claim no ownership interest in it.

You acknowledge that the legal status of rights in AI-generated material is unsettled and varies by jurisdiction, and that some AI-generated material may not be eligible for copyright protection. These Terms do not, and cannot, create rights the law does not provide. Our commitment is that RiftStream takes nothing: we do not claim ownership of Your Content and assert no rights in it beyond the limited operational license in Section 3.2 and the promotional license in Section 3.3.

3.2 The license you grant us to host your work

To operate the platform, you grant RiftStream a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, encode, transcode, reformat and resize for technical delivery across devices, generate thumbnails and preview clips from, publicly display, publicly perform, and stream Your Content in connection with providing and operating the Services.

This license is sublicensable only to our service providers — our video hosting, transcoding, content delivery, and storage partners — and solely to the extent necessary for them to deliver the Services on our behalf.

You also grant other users the non-exclusive right to access and view Your Content through the Services as the Services permit.

3.3 Promotional use

Separately, you grant us a limited right to use Your Content, your channel name, and a thumbnail or short excerpt of Your Content to promote the Services, specifically:

• featured or homepage placement within the Services;
• excerpts of no more than thirty (30) seconds in RiftStream promotional materials, including social media posts, trailers, and email newsletters;
• screenshots and excerpts in investor, partner, and press materials.

We will not use Your Content in paid third-party advertising without your prior consent. You may opt out of promotional use by contacting us at hello@riftstream.tv, and we will cease new promotional uses within thirty (30) days. If you delete a piece of Your Content or close your account, we will make no new promotional use of that content. Material already published or distributed before deletion may remain where it is, but will not be re-published or re-used.

3.4 We do not use your content to train AI models

RiftStream does not use Your Content to train, fine-tune, or develop artificial intelligence or machine learning models of any kind, including moderation, classification, and recommendation models. We do not use Your Content to build, compile, or contribute to training datasets. We do not sell, license, or otherwise make Your Content available to any third party for those purposes.

This commitment does not prevent us from applying automated systems to Your Content for trust and safety, legal compliance, technical delivery, and platform operation — including scanning content against known hash databases to detect child sexual abuse material, running classifiers to detect prohibited content, generating technical metadata, and encoding for playback.

Applying an existing model to your content is permitted. Using your content to build, train, or improve a model is not.

We do not participate in any service provider's optional AI training program. Where a provider offers such a program with an opt-out, we opt out. These commitments bind any successor or assignee of RiftStream under Section 15.3.

3.5 Your representations about what you upload

By uploading, you confirm that:

• AI is a core element of Your Content, consistent with the platform's purpose.
• You hold or have licensed all rights necessary to upload and share it, including rights in any source material, music, footage, likenesses, or assets you used.
• You have complied with the terms of service of any AI tool used to create it, including any restriction on commercial use, and you have the right to publish the output on a platform that may display advertising.
• It does not infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.
• It complies with Section 4 and our Community Guidelines.

You are solely responsible for Your Content and the consequences of posting it.

3.6 Removal, deletion, and retention

When you delete content or your account:

• Public access is removed promptly, ordinarily within twenty-four (24) hours.
• Cached copies may persist in content delivery networks for a limited period thereafter.
• Backup copies are overwritten in the ordinary course within thirty (30) days.

We may retain copies of Your Content and associated records after removal where required to comply with legal obligations, to preserve material in connection with a report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children or law enforcement, to resolve disputes, or to enforce these Terms. Material preserved for legal purposes is access-restricted, is not displayed on the Services, and is destroyed when the preservation obligation ends. Preservation for legal purposes is not a general right to retain removed content.

3.7 Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback about the Services, you grant us an unrestricted, irrevocable right to use it without obligation or compensation to you.

4. Prohibited Content and Conduct

The following are prohibited. Violations may result in content removal, account suspension, permanent bans, preservation of material, and reports to law enforcement or other authorities.

4.1 Child safety

• Nothing that sexualizes or endangers minors, in any form, including synthetic or AI-generated depictions. Such content is removed immediately, the account permanently banned, the material preserved as required by law, and the matter reported to NCMEC through the CyberTipline and to any other authority required by applicable law.
• No content depicting minors in a sexualized manner, regardless of whether any real child was involved in its creation.

4.2 Adult and non-consensual intimate content

• No pornography or sexually explicit content.
• No intimate imagery of a real, identifiable person published without that person's consent, including synthetic or AI-generated imagery. See Section 6 for our dedicated reporting and removal process.
• No content that sexualizes a real, identifiable person without their consent.

4.3 Synthetic media depicting real people

You may not publish synthetic media depicting a real, identifiable person where it:

• states or implies the person said or did something they did not, in a manner a reasonable viewer could take as genuine;
• depicts them endorsing a product, service, candidate, or cause without authorization;
• places them in a sexual, criminal, or degrading context;
• is used to impersonate them, including for fraud or solicitation;
• depicts a public figure in a political context in a manner likely to deceive.

Clearly labeled satire, commentary, and parody that no reasonable viewer would mistake for genuine are permitted, subject to the other rules in this Section.

4.4 Hate and harassment

• No content promoting hatred or violence against people based on protected characteristics including race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, age, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• No hate symbols, slurs, or extremist propaganda.
• No harassment, bullying, stalking, doxxing, or threats.

4.5 Violence, danger, and illegality

• No gratuitous gore, or content promoting or glorifying terrorism, violent extremism, or mass harm.
• No content promoting self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, or dangerous activities.
• No illegal content, intellectual property infringement, malware, phishing, scams, or spam.
• No content facilitating the sale of regulated goods or illegal services.

4.6 Honesty about AI

• Do not use AI-generated content to deceive people about real individuals or real events.

4.7 Platform integrity

• No artificially inflating views, likes, follows, or other metrics.
• No operating multiple accounts to evade enforcement.
• No scraping, automated access, or reverse engineering except as expressly permitted.

5. Moderation, Enforcement, and Trust & Safety

5.1 How we moderate

• We do not pre-screen content before publication, and we are not obligated to monitor all content.
• We may review, remove, restrict, or limit the distribution of content at our discretion.
• We use automated detection systems and human review.
• Registered users may report content, comments, and accounts. We review reports and take action where we determine these Terms have been violated.

5.2 Enforcement

Depending on severity and history we may: remove or restrict content; issue warnings; limit account features; suspend accounts; or permanently ban accounts. Severe violations result in immediate action without prior warning.

Deliberately false reports — including impersonating another person to obtain removal — are prohibited and may result in account action.

5.3 Child safety operations

Where we become aware of apparent child sexual abuse material on the Services we will remove it, restrict access, preserve the material and related records as required by law, permanently terminate the responsible account, and report to NCMEC through the CyberTipline and to any other authority required by applicable law.

We use automated scanning against known-material hash databases where those systems are available to us, and we are onboarding additional detection services. Our automated detection coverage is currently partial and does not extend to every content format on the Services. Automated systems identify only previously classified material. They do not identify all prohibited content, and no detection system substitutes for your obligation not to upload it. Reports we receive are reviewed by a person.

6. Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery — Reporting and Removal

If intimate imagery depicting you has been published on RiftStream without your consent, including imagery that was digitally created or altered, you may request its removal. You do not need a RiftStream account to make a request.

How to request removal. Email safety@riftstream.tv with: a link to the content; a statement that you are the person depicted or their authorized representative; a statement that the imagery was published without your consent; and contact information for our response.

Clear notice. We will provide clear and conspicuous notice of this removal process in the Services' help center and site footer, including a description of our removal responsibilities and how to submit a request.

What we do. We review valid requests and remove covered content, and make reasonable efforts to identify and remove known identical copies, within 48 hours of receiving a valid request. We will confirm the outcome to you.

We do not require identification documents unless necessary to validate a request, and any documents provided are used only for that purpose and then deleted. We will not require more information than is reasonably necessary to locate and validate the request.

7. Copyright and DMCA

7.1 Reporting infringement

We respect intellectual property and expect you to as well. If you believe content on RiftStream infringes your copyright, send a notice containing the information required under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated agent:

Designated Copyright Agent
Travis Bea
RiftStream Inc.
8 The Green, STE 23510, Dover, DE 19901
hello@riftstream.tv · 5135703141

Your notice must include: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it; your contact information; a statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right claimed to be infringed.

7.2 Counter-notification

If your content was removed following a notice under Section 7.1 and you believe it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification containing the information required under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) to the same designated agent. Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, we will forward it to the original complainant and restore the material within 10 to 14 business days unless the complainant notifies us that it has filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement.

7.3 Repeat infringer policy

RiftStream has adopted and reasonably implements a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers.

• A copyright notice is recorded against an account only after we determine it is facially valid and complete. Receipt of a notice is not by itself a determination that infringement occurred.
• A recorded notice is withdrawn from an account's record if the uploader submits a valid counter-notification and the claimant does not file suit within the statutory period, or if the notice is withdrawn or found invalid.
• An account that accumulates three (3) recorded notices within any twelve (12) month period is subject to termination.
• Recorded notices expire twenty-four (24) months after recording.
• We may terminate immediately in cases of egregious or willful infringement, and we may decline to reinstate terminated accounts.
• We maintain internal records of recorded notices sufficient to administer this policy.

8. Monetization and Creator Revenue

• Monetization features are not currently available. They may be introduced, changed, suspended, or discontinued at our discretion. Creators will be notified before monetization begins.
• Where revenue sharing is offered, the applicable rates, eligibility, payment thresholds, calculation basis, and payout terms are set out in this Section and in a separate Creator Agreement, which will form part of these Terms for participating creators.

8.1 Definitions

• "Net Revenue" means gross amounts actually received by RiftStream from advertising served on the watch page for Your Content, less (a) payment processing fees, (b) refunds and chargebacks, and (c) taxes RiftStream is required by law to withhold.

Revenue that is not attributable to specific content — platform-level sponsorships, feed or homepage advertising, and any future platform-wide subscription — is not included in Net Revenue and is not subject to the creator share. If we introduce a monetization type whose revenue can be fairly attributed to individual content, we will define the attribution method and notify creators before it applies.

• "Standard Share" means sixty percent (60%) of Net Revenue, payable to the creator.
• "Private Beta Period" means the period beginning on the date RiftStream first opened the Services to invited users and ending on the date RiftStream first makes the Services generally available to the public without invitation. We will record that end date and publish it in our help center.
• "Founding Creator" means a creator who, during the Private Beta Period, (a) creates an account and (b) publishes at least five (5) distinct uploads on the Services, and who is among the first fifty (50) creators to complete both.

Order is determined by the publication of the fifth qualifying upload, not by the order of account creation. A creator who signs up early but does not reach five qualifying uploads during the Private Beta Period does not hold a place in the fifty.

For this purpose, a distinct upload is a separate work — video or audio — that is published and publicly visible on the Services and that is not a duplicate, re-upload, or trivial variation of another work by the same creator, as determined by RiftStream in its reasonable discretion. Duplication is assessed within the Services only: a work you have previously published elsewhere counts fully toward the five, and "re-upload" refers to uploading the same work to the Services more than once. Content removed for violating these Terms does not count toward the five.

Publishing a fifth qualifying upload during the Private Beta Period makes a creator eligible for Founding Creator status. Status vests when RiftStream confirms it in writing, following a review that the five uploads are distinct as defined above. Once vested, status is not lost by later deleting content or by the close of the Private Beta Period.

RiftStream may additionally designate a creator as a Founding Creator in writing at its discretion, including any creator to whom founding terms were offered before these Terms took effect. A creator so designated is a Founding Creator whether or not they meet the criteria above, and counts toward the fifty.

Founding Creator status is a revenue term only. It grants RiftStream no rights in Your Content beyond the licenses in Sections 3.2 and 3.3, which apply equally to all creators.

• A Founding Creator receives seventy percent (70%) of Net Revenue (the "Founding Share") for as long as their account remains open and in good standing. An account is open unless the creator has deleted it or RiftStream has terminated it. Founding Creator status does not require any minimum level of ongoing activity.

The Founding Share attaches to the account and binds any successor or assignee under Section 15.3. It is subject to a floor: the Founding Share will at all times be no less favorable than the Standard Share then in effect plus ten (10) percentage points. No amendment to these Terms under Section 13 may suspend or eliminate the Founding Share, reduce it below that floor, expand the deductions permitted in the definition of Net Revenue as applied to a Founding Creator, or add conditions to the retention of Founding Creator status.

8.2 Payouts

• Earnings are calculated monthly and paid within thirty (30) days after month-end, subject to a fifty U.S. dollar (US$50) minimum payout threshold; balances below the threshold roll forward.
• Before your first payout, you must provide accurate tax documentation (IRS Form W-9 for U.S. persons; Form W-8BEN or equivalent for non-U.S. persons) and valid payment details.
• You are responsible for all taxes on your earnings.

8.3 Adjustments

We may withhold, reverse, or reclaim earnings tied to fraud, artificially inflated metrics, invalid traffic, infringement, chargebacks, or violations of these Terms. We may place earnings on hold during a good-faith fraud or compliance investigation, and we will release or reverse the hold once the investigation concludes.

8.4 Grandfathering

Where we have offered defined terms to a defined group of creators on a grandfathered basis, we will honor those terms according to their stated conditions.

9. Advertising and Third-Party Services

• The Services may display advertising, including through third-party advertising networks. We are not responsible for the content of third-party advertisements.
• The Services rely on third-party providers for hosting, video delivery, authentication, email, and analytics. We contract with those providers directly. These Terms do not make you a party to their agreements and do not bind you to their terms.
• The Services may contain links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for their content or practices.

10. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTENT UPLOADED BY USERS, AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE ACCURACY, LEGALITY, OR SUITABILITY OF ANY USER CONTENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RIFTSTREAM IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO RIFTSTREAM IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100).

This limitation does not apply to your indemnification obligations under Section 11, to claims arising from your infringement of our intellectual property rights, or where such limitation is prohibited by law — including death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, willful misconduct, and any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless RiftStream Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from Your Content, your use of the Services, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.

This obligation does not apply to claims arising from RiftStream's own negligence or willful misconduct, and it does not apply to users under the age of 18. We will provide you with prompt notice of any claim for which we seek indemnification, and we will have the right to control the defense and settlement of such claim at our expense; you agree to cooperate reasonably in that defense.

12. Termination

• You may stop using the Services and delete your account at any time.
• We may suspend or terminate your access for violations of these Terms or for any other lawful reason, with or without notice depending on severity.
• Upon termination, your license to use the Services ends immediately.
• Sections 3 (rights, license, and retention), 8 (monetization and creator revenue, including pending earnings and adjustments), 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15 survive termination.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will provide notice by email to your account address and/or by prominent posting on the Services, and the changes will take effect thirty (30) days after such notice. Non-material changes (clarifications, formatting, contact updates) take effect when posted with a new effective date. Your continued use of the Services after changes take effect means you accept them. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, your remedy is to stop using the Services and delete your account before the changes take effect. Exception for Founding Creators. This Section does not permit any amendment that would suspend or eliminate the Founding Share, reduce it below the floor stated in Section 8.1, expand the deductions permitted in the definition of Net Revenue as applied to a Founding Creator, or add conditions to the retention of Founding Creator status. If this Section and Section 8.1 conflict, Section 8.1 controls.

14. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

14.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles.

14.2 Informal resolution

Before filing any claim against RiftStream, you agree to contact us at legal@riftstream.tv, describe the dispute in reasonable detail, and attempt to resolve it informally for at least thirty (30) days after we receive your message.

14.3 Venue

Any dispute arising from these Terms or the Services that is not resolved under Section 14.2 will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Delaware, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

15. General Provisions

15.1 Our intellectual property

RiftStream owns the Services and everything we provide within them, including the platform software, source code, design, user interface, databases, and the RiftStream name, logo, and branding. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right in them beyond the limited right to use the Services as permitted here. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or create derivative works from any part of the Services, and you may not use our name, logo, or branding without our prior written permission.

This section does not affect your rights in Your Content, which are governed by Section 3.

15.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

15.3 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms, or any rights under them, without our prior written consent, and any attempt to do so is void. We may assign these Terms in whole or in part in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or to any affiliate or successor. Any successor or assignee of RiftStream is bound by the commitments in Sections 3.1 (ownership), 3.4 (no AI training), and 8 (creator revenue, including Founding Creator terms). We will provide notice of any such assignment through the Services or by other reasonable means.

15.4 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, our Community Guidelines, and any Creator Agreement you enter into, are the entire agreement between you and RiftStream regarding the Services and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating to the Services.

This Section does not limit, waive, or supersede any specific commitment RiftStream has made to you in writing regarding creator revenue terms. Those commitments are honored under Section 8.4.

15.5 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later. A waiver is effective only if made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of RiftStream.

15.6 Notices

We may provide notices to you by email to the address associated with your account or by prominent posting on the Services; such notices are effective when sent or posted. You may provide legal notices to us at legal@riftstream.tv, other than notices and counter-notifications under Section 7, which must be sent to the Designated Copyright Agent at the address in Section 7.1.

16. Contact

• General questions: hello@riftstream.tv
• Trust & safety / intimate-imagery removal requests: safety@riftstream.tv
• DMCA notices and counter-notifications: hello@riftstream.tv, addressed to the Designated Copyright Agent (see Section 7.1)
• All other legal notices: legal@riftstream.tv

RiftStream Inc.

8 The Green, STE 23510, Dover, DE 19901