Creator Agreement

1. The Parties

This agreement is between you ("Creator") and Woobox LLC, doing business as Hatchable ("Hatchable"). It governs the listing of apps you author or have rights to license on the Hatchable marketplace at /apps.

2. Your Representations

You represent and warrant that, for each app you list:

• You own the copyright in the app's code, or you have the necessary rights to license it under the terms of the marketplace.
• The app does not infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights of any third party.
• Any third-party libraries, fonts, images, or other components included with the app are used in compliance with their respective licenses, and those licenses are compatible with the buyer-facing license you've selected.
• The app does not contain malware, backdoors, surveillance tools, or other code designed to harm or surveil end users.
• You are authorized to enter into this agreement and, if listing on behalf of an organization, to bind that organization.

3. License Grant to Hatchable

You grant Hatchable a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to:

• Display the app's marketplace listing (name, tagline, description, screenshots, pricing, license terms) on the marketplace and in marketing materials about the marketplace.
• Distribute the app's source code or instances of the app to buyers under the license you've selected, on the terms of that license.
• Process payments from buyers on your behalf, acting as merchant of record.
• Make minor technical modifications to the app's source as required to host it on the platform (e.g., environment variable substitutions, deployment-pipeline annotations). Functional changes to the app are not permitted without your consent.
• Cache, mirror, and serve the app from Hatchable's infrastructure, including content-delivery edges.

This license is in effect for as long as the app is listed and survives delisting only to the extent necessary to honor licenses already issued to buyers.

4. License Selection

For each app, you select one of the following licenses for buyers:

• Open — source-available, redistributable. Available for free-tier listings.
• Standard — source-available, modify for own use, no redistribution. Default for Own purchases.
• Managed — no source delivered, technical lock applied to buyer's instance. Used for Subscribe tiers.

The license you choose is binding on your buyers and on you. You may not retroactively narrow a license against existing buyers.

5. Pricing and Payouts

You set the price for each paid tier (Own, Subscribe). Hatchable retains a platform fee of 20% of the gross sale price. The remaining 80% is your earnings, before applicable taxes and payment-processor fees, which are passed through.

Payouts are made monthly to a payout method you configure (typically Stripe Connect). Payouts below a $25 minimum threshold roll over to the next month. Hatchable provides a sales statement for each payout period.

Refunds, chargebacks, and successful disputes are deducted from your earnings. Where a chargeback or dispute is unambiguously fraudulent (e.g., the buyer used a stolen card), Hatchable absorbs the loss; otherwise it is yours.

Hatchable may change the platform fee with 60 days' written notice to listed creators. Existing payouts and active Subscribe payments at the time of the change are honored at the prior rate for one full billing period.

6. Tax and Reporting

Hatchable acts as merchant of record and collects, remits, and reports applicable sales taxes (VAT, GST, U.S. state taxes) on your behalf. You are responsible for income tax on your earnings. Hatchable may issue a 1099-K (U.S.) or equivalent reporting document where required by law and may request tax-identification information before issuing payouts.

7. Updates and Maintenance

You may publish updates to your app at any time through the platform's deploy mechanism. The behavior of updates depends on the license:

• Open and Standard buyers receive your update on their copy when they choose to re-fork or update; you don't control their version pin.
• Managed buyers receive updates per the platform's update mechanism (currently version-pinned at purchase; future versions of the platform may auto-sync — see the Managed License).

You are responsible for the quality and security of your updates. Updates that break the app, introduce vulnerabilities, or violate this agreement are grounds for delisting.

8. Customer Support

You are responsible for supporting your app's buyers — bug reports, feature questions, integration help. Hatchable handles platform-level support (billing, account, infrastructure) and will route app-specific questions to you.

You agree to respond to support requests in a reasonable time. Failure to respond may be cause for delisting.

9. Delisting

You may delist your app at any time through the platform. Delisting:

• Removes the listing from the marketplace going forward.
• Does not revoke licenses already issued to buyers — those buyers continue to have the rights they purchased.
• For Subscribe tiers, gives existing subscribers a transition period as described in the Managed License.

Hatchable may delist your app, with or without notice, if:

• The app violates this agreement, the Hatchable Terms of Service, or the Acceptable Use Policy.
• The app is found to infringe third-party rights.
• The app is broken, insecure, or harmful in a way that endangers buyers or the platform.
• You are persistently unresponsive to platform or buyer communications.
• A government or legal order requires takedown.

Hatchable will use reasonable efforts to give notice and an opportunity to remediate before delisting, except where the issue is urgent (security, infringement under DMCA, government order).

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Hatchable, its affiliates, and its agents from any claim arising out of: (a) your breach of this agreement; (b) infringement of any third-party intellectual property right by your app or your representations about it; (c) any claim by a buyer that your app caused them harm, except where the harm was caused by Hatchable's platform-level failure.

11. Disclaimers and Limits

The marketplace platform is provided "as is". Hatchable does not guarantee any specific level of sales, traffic, or buyer activity. Hatchable's aggregate liability to you under this agreement is limited to the platform fees actually retained by Hatchable in the 12 months preceding the claim, except where applicable law requires a higher limit.

12. Term and Termination

This agreement is in effect from the time you list your first app and continues until terminated by either party. Either party may terminate with 30 days' written notice. On termination:

• Existing buyers' licenses remain valid per their terms.
• Active Subscribe subscriptions are wound down per the Managed License's transition rules.
• Final payouts are processed at the next normal payout date.

13. Changes to This Agreement

Hatchable may update this agreement from time to time. Material changes will be communicated to active creators with at least 30 days' notice. Continued listing of apps after the notice period constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

14. Governing Law

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Washington, U.S.A., without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in King County, Washington.

15. Relationship to Other Agreements

Your use of the Hatchable platform itself remains subject to the Hatchable Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. Where this agreement and those documents conflict on a marketplace-specific matter, this agreement controls; on platform-wide matters, those documents control.

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