Trust, at this club, is not a badge — it is a stack of standing documents kept on one shelf. Identity, data, payouts, conduct, disputes, disclosure, access. Each is read by the desk before it is asked of a member or a brand. Each is published, dated, and revised in the open. The list below is the shelf; click any spine to read the page.
Identity · Data · Payouts · Conduct · Disputes · Disclosure · Access. Every chapter on this page links to the document that runs it. Nothing here is summary; everything here is the source.
The agency is on Meta's Authorized Partners Register for the Instagram Graph API program. The credential is published in long form, with named scopes, named exclusions, and two revocation paths — because a checkmark badge would tell you nothing.
We collect what the platform needs to do its work and nothing more. Tokens are encrypted at rest, sessions are HTTP-only, no third-party analytics or advertising cookies are set. The pages below are the accounting.
What we collect, what we deliberately do not collect, how Instagram and Gmail access work, and the rights you have in your data.
The vendors that touch member or brand data on our behalf — purpose, scope, region, and a link to each one's own privacy policy.
GDPR Article 28 processor terms for brands. Subject matter, instructions, security, subprocessors, transfers, breach notification, and audit.
Six things that are already true about how we protect data, the in-scope/out-of-scope research scope, and the responsible-disclosure inbox.
Payouts are flat, stated upfront, paid through Stripe Connect, and — when a brand is late — fronted from the agency's treasury on day fifteen. The standard is one creators do not have to chase.
What the brand pays, what the creator receives, and what stays with the desk to keep the lights on. No performance clauses, no clawbacks.
The standing operating commitment: if a brand has not paid on day fifteen, the agency pays the member directly and pursues collection separately.
A members' club lives or dies by what its members do. Three documents — declarative, procedural, and adjudicative — describe how members, brands, and the desk hold themselves and each other to account.
The standing rules of the house — on the desk, on the work, on other members, on brands, on standing. Read once, kept on the back of every other page.
The lines that, crossed, end membership. Each named in writing, paired with the consequence — warning, suspension, or termination.
The procedure when a line is reported crossed: receipt, triage, notice, answer, decision, appeal. Every step in writing, every record shared.
Disputes happen. The path below is the standing way the desk reads them — in writing, on the file, with mediation and arbitration as the further steps when direct exchange does not resolve.
The category is defined by sponsored work and sponsored work is governed by law. The Editorial Standards are the desk's standing rules on disclosure — by jurisdiction, in writing, before a brief opens.
Five principles of honest labelling, the rule by jurisdiction (FTC · ASCI · ASA · UCPD · others), and how a brief is read before kickoff.
Procedure for filing a §512 copyright notice, counter-notice, and the treatment of repeat infringers. Designated agent named.
A members' club is only a club if its door opens. We hold ourselves to WCAG 2.1 AA, and we publish the gaps we have not yet closed alongside the gaps we have.
What we already do, where we currently fall short, and the route to write to us when something blocks you.
Standing description of the door — what the editor reads in an application, what is read for, and what is not read for.
— a closing reading —
Most of the category does not. Direct competitors keep their terms one level deeper than they need to be, their data practices on the back of a sales call, and their dispute path on a quiet line of an AGB. The pattern is not new; the pattern is what made the category feel like a bidding war in the first place.
We took the opposite line because the small club we want to run is the one a member can read in advance. The desk does not have a private policy that says something different than the public one. There is no tier of member with a different DPA. There is no campaign clause that the brief contradicts. Everything that runs the club is on this shelf. If a document is not here, it is not running anything.
If something on the shelf reads opaquely, write to us — we will rewrite the page or the line, and re-issue with the new revision date. Trust is a writing problem before it is a security problem; we want to be the desk that holds the writing to a high standard.