Creator terms
Draft for legal review — not yet in force.
Last updated 28 July 2026. These terms apply on top of the Terms of use, which still cover everything else.
The short version — the same one you saw at publish time
When you published, you saw one screen and one diagram. This document is the long form of that diagram and it does not add anything to it. If this document and the publish screen ever disagree, the publish screen is right and we have a bug — tell us at [email protected].
- 70% to you when the person who booked came through your link, your
/@handlepage, or a referrer attributed to you within 30 days. You did the acquisition. - 30% to you when they found the trip through Voyade’s feed, search or in-product suggestions. We did the acquisition. You still earn for supplying the trip.
- Both are shares of Voyade’s net received commission — what actually lands in our account.
- Which rate applies is decided once, when the traveller clones the trip, and it does not change afterwards. Never re-argued per booking.
- Your trip, your story, your photos, your notes, your name and your attribution are yours. The published template — the Voyade-formatted artifact in the feed — is ours, so that it keeps working for travellers whatever happens to you or to us.
- Rates can change. Changes never apply to clones that already exist.
- Payouts monthly, from €25, via Stripe Connect — or PayPal or Wise where Connect does not reach you — once partners confirm.
- You can unpublish at any time.
1. Who these terms are for
They apply from the moment you publish a trip as a template, or publish a guide, or
create a creator profile at /@handle. Publishing is optional and always will be —
the whole of Voyade works without ever publishing a thing.
You need to be 16 to publish and 18 to take a payout, because our payout provider requires it.
If you publish on behalf of a company, say so when you set up your creator profile. It changes your tax position and possibly your consumer protections.
2. What happens when you publish
The publish flow is deliberately slow at one point, and here is why.
The scrub. Before a trip goes public we strip out the parts that were only ever for your group. You see exactly what will happen before you confirm:
| Photos | Every member approves their own. Publishing is blocked until they all have. You cannot publish a photo of someone who has not said yes, and no amount of being the organizer changes that. |
| Names | Reduced to first names. No handles are exposed. |
| Costs | Converted to honest bands by default — “€1,180–1,420 pp” rather than “€1,264 pp”. You can toggle exact figures on if you want to. |
| Private notes and chat | Never published. Not banded, not summarised. They do not leave the trip. |
| Photo location data | EXIF GPS is stripped from published images. |
Edits are re-scrubbed. If you update the template later, the same rules run again.
Your group’s consent, not just yours. A trip belongs to everyone who was on it. The photo gate is the mechanism, and it is not negotiable.
3. What you keep
Unambiguously yours, now and after:
- Your trip. The actual trip in your shelf, with everything in it.
- Your story, your notes, your writing, your photos. Copyright stays with you. We never claim it.
- Your name and your attribution. Every published template and guide carries its creator, visibly, in the feed and on the page.
- Your audience. Your followers, your
/@handlepage, your clone counts. - Your earnings terms as they stood when each clone was made — see §5.4.
- Export, always. Full-resolution photos, full trip data, machine-readable, on demand, self-serve. Not a leaving-process. A button.
4. What we own, and why — the honest version
We are going to state this plainly rather than hide it in a licence grant, because creators have been burned by platforms that did not.
A published TripTemplate is a platform-owned artifact.
That means: once you publish, the template — the Voyade-formatted, scrubbed, cloneable object that sits in the feed — belongs to us. Not your trip. The template made from it.
Why we do it this way. A template is not a post; it is infrastructure. Someone clones it and plans a real holiday from it. Someone else adds a traveller take. It gets refreshed when a museum changes its opening hours. If templates could evaporate because a creator had a bad week, the feed would be a graveyard of half-working itineraries, and the travellers who cloned them would be the ones stranded. So the artifact stays and keeps working.
What that does and does not let us do. We may display, index, cache, refresh, translate, re-render, and let travellers clone the template. We may correct stale facts in it — an opening time, a closed restaurant — and we log those edits. We may not sell it as a standalone product, license it to another company as content, or strip your name off it while you still have an account.
4.1 The licence you give us over your own content in the template
For the parts of a template that are still your expression — your story, your photos, your notes, your captions — you keep the copyright and you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display and reproduce them as part of that template, its share previews and its feed card, and to sublicense that strictly to the service providers listed in the subprocessor list so they can serve it.
That licence ends when you unpublish, or when your account is deleted. It has no survival clause dressed up as a technicality.
4.2 If you unpublish
- The template comes out of the feed, out of search, and out of the recommendation set.
- No new clones can be made from it.
- The public page stops resolving.
- Trips that people already cloned are their trips and stay with them, untouched. We are not going to reach into a stranger’s holiday plan and delete it.
- Attributed earnings already accrued are still paid to you.
4.3 If you delete your account
This is different from unpublishing, and the difference matters, so read both.
- Everything of yours comes off: your story, your photos, your notes, your name, your handle, your avatar, your attribution, your lineage links, the “by @you” on the card. Every link between you and the template is severed in our database, not hidden behind a flag.
- The itinerary skeleton may remain, as an unattributed platform template: the places, the routing, the day structure, the sequence. Facts about a journey rather than your expression of it.
- Your earnings ledger is closed and any confirmed balance is paid out, subject to §9 and §10.
If you want the trip gone from Voyade entirely, unpublish first, then delete. Unpublishing is the button that removes the template. Deleting the account removes you. We will say this to you, in these words, in the deletion flow, before you confirm anything.
Under review, and we would rather say so. Whether the skeleton is genuinely non-personal, non-copyrightable fact is exactly the kind of question a lawyer has to answer, and it is the single most consequential clause in this document. If counsel says the construction does not hold, this section changes and the change will be announced, not slipped in.
5. Earnings
5.1 The two rates
The split follows who brought the traveller.
70% to you — creator-brought traffic. The session that led to the clone arrived through:
- your share link (
voyade.com/@you/trip-slug), or - your
/@handlepage, or - an external referrer attributed to you within a 30-day window — your Instagram bio link, your newsletter, your YouTube description.
You did the acquisition. You keep the lion’s share.
One condition, and we would rather you heard it from us than found it in a report. Remembering for 30 days that you brought a particular browser means storing something on that person’s device, and under EU law that needs their consent — asked plainly, before anything is stored, and as easy to refuse as to accept. We ask everyone, once, on their first visit. Our cookie policy §3 explains it to them in the same words we are using here.
If they decline, or have not answered, or their browser is set to refuse: the link
still works, the trip still clones, and you still earn — the clone is stamped
voyade-brought and pays at 30%. Nothing is lost except the higher rate on that
particular trip.
Two things follow, and both are worth knowing:
- A signed-in visitor is unaffected. Once somebody has an account, attribution is stamped on the clone server-side, at the moment they create it. No cookie is involved and no consent is needed for it.
- We will not lean on the ask to protect your rate. No pre-ticked box, no “accept to continue”, no second prompt for people who said no, no wording that makes refusing feel like refusing to pay you. A consent obtained that way is not valid, and a rate built on an invalid consent is not a rate — it is a liability with your name on the invoice. We would rather tell you the honest number.
30% to you — Voyade-brought traffic. The traveller found your template through our feed, our search, our SEO, or an in-product suggestion. We did the acquisition. You still earn, because it was your trip.
Your dashboard shows the two buckets separately, always, with the reason each euro landed where it did. You should never have to guess.
5.2 What the percentage is a share of
Both rates apply to Voyade’s net received commission, which we define as:
The commission actually received by Voyade from the affiliate network or partner for the attributed booking, after the network’s own deductions and fees, and after any reversal, cancellation, refund, chargeback or partner adjustment applied to that booking.
And to remove doubt, net received is not reduced by any of these before your share is calculated:
- our hosting, AI, staffing or any other operating cost;
- our own taxes;
- the Stripe Connect fees for paying you — we absorb those, so €25 owed is €25 paid.
Currency. Partners pay us in several currencies. We convert to euro at the rate applied to our account on the day of receipt, and we show that rate and that date on the line in your ledger.
Tax. Amounts shown are what we owe you before any tax you may owe on it. What you owe, and to whom, is yours to handle. If you are VAT-registered, tell us in your creator settings and we will handle invoicing accordingly.
5.3 How attribution is decided — once
The attribution source is stamped on the clone at the moment the traveller creates it, and it sticks for that trip’s entire lifetime.
So: someone arrives through your link, clones your Azores template, and over the next
five months books a hotel, two tours, a car and a ferry. All five bookings pay at
70%, because the clone was stamped creator-brought on day one.
And the reverse: someone finds your template in our feed, clones it, and then two
weeks later happens to click one of your Instagram posts. That clone stays
voyade-brought at 30%. The stamp was set at creation.
We do this because the alternative — recomputing attribution per booking — produces a dashboard nobody can predict and arguments nobody can win. One stamp, one rate, for the life of that trip.
Ties. If a session carries more than one attribution signal, the most recent qualifying creator touch inside the 30-day window wins.
No signal is not a tie. If the visitor never consented to the 30-day memory (§5.1),
there is no signal to weigh, and the clone is stamped voyade-brought at the moment it
is made — permanently, like every other stamp. It does not become creator-brought later
if they change their mind, for the same reason the reverse does not happen: one stamp,
one rate, for the life of that trip.
5.4 Rates can change. Never backwards.
We will experiment with these rates. The 70/30 and 30/70 numbers are a starting point we believe in, not a constant of nature, and we may test different splits with different cohorts.
But a rate change never applies to a clone that already exists. Every clone carries the rate that was in force when it was stamped, for as long as that trip lives and keeps producing bookings. A change we make in March cannot reach a clone made in February.
That is not a policy somebody has to remember. A new rate can only be published with a date in the future — the code refuses to accept one that starts today or earlier — and every earning resolves its rate from the moment its clone was created, not from the moment the booking landed. Once an earning exists, its rate and its bucket cannot be edited at all.
If we change the rates for new clones, you get 30 days’ notice by email and in the dashboard before it takes effect, and the dashboard shows both rates side by side during the transition so you can see which of your clones is on which.
5.5 Pending and confirmed
Earnings appear in your dashboard in real time when a click-out converts — that is the good bit. But they show as pending until the partner network confirms, which typically takes 30 to 90 days after travel, because that is when the partners themselves settle. Some are faster; car hire, with its 365-day window, can be slower.
Pending is not a promise. A pending amount can go to zero if the traveller cancels, does not show, or the partner rejects the attribution. Confirmed is a promise, and confirmed money gets paid.
6. One template per trip — the canonical rule, and how to appeal it
The feed does not carry duplicates. Fifty near-identical “10 days in Portugal” cards would ruin it for travellers and dilute it for the creators who wrote the good one.
So when you publish, we compare your trip to what is already there.
If it is substantially the same as an existing template, it is published as a traveller take on that canonical template rather than a new feed entry: “Anna’s version: we did it in 14 days, skipped Cork — worth it.” Your take carries your name, sits on the canonical template’s page, and can be found and read.
If it has meaningfully diverged — a different route, different season logic, a substantially different set of items — it publishes as its own template, with visible lineage: “adapted from @maya’s UK & Ireland Grand Tour.” Lineage is a credit, not a demotion.
How the assessment works, and how to argue with it.
- It is AI-assisted, using itinerary overlap, route similarity, day structure and content divergence. It is not a black box you cannot question.
- You are told the outcome and the reason, in specific terms — not “too similar”, but which template, and where the overlap is.
- You can appeal to a human. One tap from the outcome screen, or [email protected]. You have 30 days. We answer within 14 days. The person who reviews it is not the system that decided it.
- Appealing costs nothing and never counts against you.
- If we got it wrong, we republish it as its own template and backdate your earnings to the original publish date.
Earnings on a traveller take. A take that produces click-outs earns at the same two rates as any template, attributed to you as the take’s author.
7. Guides
You can publish guides under the same programme: the same splits, the same disclosure handled by us, the same appeal routes.
Two extra rules, because guides are editorial:
- A guide must be true. We fact-check before publishing and we will ask you to fix things. That is an editorial standard, not censorship.
- A guide must not exist to sell something. If a guide’s recommendation would be different without the affiliate link, it does not go up. The house guide tells people not to buy excess insurance at the rental desk; that is the standard.
8. Payouts
| How often | Monthly. We run payouts in the first week of each month for everything confirmed by the end of the previous month. |
| Minimum | €25 by default. Below that, your balance rolls forward until it clears the threshold. Nothing expires. If €25 is awkward for where you are — a bank that charges more than that to receive a transfer, say — tell us and we will set a different threshold on your account. |
| How | Stripe Connect by default: you set up a connected account and Stripe collects your identity and tax details directly, so we never see your bank details or your identity document. Where Stripe Connect does not reach your country, we pay by PayPal or Wise instead, and we will tell you which applies before your first payout. |
| Fees | We pay them. Your €25 arrives as €25. |
| Currency | Euro by default. Your payout provider can pay you in your local currency; its conversion, its rate. |
| If you never set up payouts | Your balance accrues and waits. We will remind you. We will not quietly expire it. |
Tax information. We may be required to collect tax details and, in some cases, to report what we pay you to a tax authority. We will ask for what we need before your first payout and tell you what it is for.
This is us paying our own bill. Creator earnings are Voyade paying a payable out of revenue we already received. It is not us holding or transmitting anyone else’s money, and it does not touch the rule in the Terms of use §9.
9. Abuse, and clawback
The programme pays real money for real travel, so it attracts people who would rather have the money without the travel. This section is what we do about that, stated in advance.
Not allowed:
- Self-clicking — clicking your own booking links, from any device or account.
- Self-cloning — cloning your own templates from accounts, devices or households you control to manufacture attribution.
- Bought or incentivised traffic — paying for clicks, offering rewards for clicks or clones, click farms, bots.
- Cookie stuffing — dropping attribution on people who never chose to follow your link.
- Coupon and deal-site behaviour — intercepting travellers who were already going to book, at the last click, adding nothing.
- Fake takes — manufacturing traveller takes to inflate a template.
- Passing off — publishing someone else’s itinerary, photos or writing as yours.
- Multiple creator accounts for the same person, without telling us.
What happens.
- Pending earnings that are not confirmed can be reversed, for any reason a partner reverses them, and for abuse. That is what “pending” means.
- Money already paid out is not clawed back, except where the earning was fraudulent. We are not going to invoice you months later because a partner changed its mind.
- We tell you before we hold a payout, with what we saw, unless telling you would defeat an active fraud investigation — in which case we tell you as soon as it closes.
- A human decides. Automated detection flags; it never suspends on its own.
- You can appeal, free, to someone who was not part of the original decision, within 30 days, answered within 14. Same route as §6.
- Serious or repeated abuse ends the creator account and, if it is fraud, the Voyade account too.
10. If we suspend or end your creator account
- We tell you why, specifically, in writing, including whether automated tools were involved and what rule you are said to have broken.
- For anything other than serious or ongoing harm, you get 30 days’ notice before termination takes effect, and your templates keep earning during it.
- Confirmed earnings are paid. Suspension does not cancel money you have already earned, unless it was fraudulent.
- You can appeal to a human, free, within 30 days. See §14.
- If we were wrong, we reinstate you, restore your templates and their clone counts, and pay what was withheld.
11. Disclosure — we handle it, so you cannot get it wrong
EU law requires that commercial content is identifiable as commercial. On Voyade, we do that for you, automatically:
- Every template and guide that can earn a commission carries the label — “Maya earns a commission if you book through this trip” — applied by the platform, not by you. You cannot switch it off and you cannot forget it.
- Every earning link carries the standard line: “We may earn a commission on some links. It never affects what we show or the order we show it in.”
- Your
/@handlepage carries the same disclosure.
What is still yours. When you post about your Voyade template on Instagram,
TikTok, YouTube or your newsletter, that post is on someone else’s platform, and the
disclosure rules there are yours to follow — #ad, the platform’s paid-partnership
label, whatever your country requires. We cannot label a post we do not control. We
will send you a short, practical explainer of what your country expects when you set
up your creator profile, and we keep it current.
Creator earnings never affect ranking. Your template is not ranked higher because it earns, or lower because it does not. See How we rank things. Nobody can pay for placement, including you.
12. Your data
Your creator ledger, click and clone data, and payout history are covered by the privacy policy §3.9 and §3.10. Your earnings dashboard is private to you. Your clone counts and follower counts are public, because they are part of your audience relationship.
Traveller data is not yours. You will never see who cloned your template, what they booked, where they went, or what they paid. You see counts and money. That is the deal travellers get, and it is not negotiable.
13. Changing these terms
- At least 30 days’ notice for anything material, by email and in your dashboard, with a plain-language summary of what changed. (Where the law requires a shorter minimum, we still do 30.)
- Rate changes: §5.4. Never retroactive, ever.
- Never retroactive to a stamped clone, a published template’s licence, or an earning already accrued.
- If you do not accept a change, unpublish and export before it takes effect. Earnings accrued up to that point are still paid.
- Every change is listed in the log at the bottom of this page.
14. Complaints and disputes
First: tell us. [email protected]. A person answers within 14 days, in English. We handle complaints about earnings, attribution, similarity decisions, suspensions, ranking, and anything else in this document. It is free.
Escalation. If we cannot agree, you can take the dispute to mediation with either of the two independent mediators named below, before going anywhere near a court. You choose which. We will engage in good faith and cover a reasonable share of the cost.
- The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva — which runs a mediation service for exactly this kind of online-platform dispute and works remotely and in English.
- CEDR, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, London — an independent mediation body with an established platform-to-business practice.
Naming two, rather than one, is deliberate: a single mediator we chose is not much of a choice. Neither of them is paid by us for anything else, and neither has any other relationship with Voyade.
For counsel. These two are named so the clause is complete and usable rather than a placeholder, and because the safe posture is to comply with the Platform-to-Business Regulation whether or not it applies to us. Confirm both bodies accept engagements of this shape and cost, and replace either if a better-suited or nearer body exists for the country of establishment.
Courts. Nothing above stops you going to court. If you are a consumer, you can bring a claim where you live. See Terms of use §15.
15. The rest
Terms of use applies to everything not covered here, including governing law, liability and account closure. Where the two documents genuinely conflict on something specific to publishing or earning, this one wins.
Also worth your time: How we rank things — §7 of it explains what we do and do not do differently with our own editorial templates, in the same feed as yours. And Privacy §3.9 covers your ledger and payout data.
Change log
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-29 | §5.1 now states the one condition on the 70% rate that creators are entitled to know before they sign: the 30-day attribution memory needs the visitor’s consent, and where it is refused or unanswered the clone is stamped Voyade-brought and pays 30%. Adds the two consequences — a signed-in visitor is unaffected, and we will not use a manipulative consent screen to protect the rate. §5.3 adds the tie-break case: no signal is not a tie, it is a Voyade-brought stamp, made once like every other. |
| 2026-07-28 | First draft. Not yet in force. Launch rates: 70/30 creator-brought, 30/70 Voyade-brought. §5.4 now describes the mechanism that makes non-retroactivity structural rather than a promise. §8 records that PayPal and Wise are the fallbacks where Stripe Connect does not reach a country, and that the €25 threshold is a default we will move on request. §14 names two mediators. |