Terms planning for readers, creators, audiobook access, royalties, payouts, refunds, and rights.

Use of the platform

Users may access Sapphyre Dominion to browse, buy, stream, manage, review, and discover audiobooks. The final terms should explain account requirements, acceptable use, restrictions, and consequences for misuse.

Reader accounts

Readers may purchase or access audiobooks through their library, listening tools, bookmarks, reviews, and membership features. The final terms should define whether purchases are licenses, downloads, streams, subscriptions, or another access model.

Author accounts

Authors may create public profiles, submit title metadata, manage author credits, participate in royalty splits, and receive payout reporting. The final terms should define ownership promises, upload rights, and author responsibilities.

Narrator accounts

Narrators may create public profiles, upload voice samples, claim narration credits, participate in royalty-share agreements, and receive payout reporting. The final terms should define permissions for samples, narration rights, and project approval rules.

Publisher accounts

Publishers may manage catalog titles, coordinate authors and narrators, participate in royalty splits, use referral links, and receive payout reporting. The final terms should define publisher authority and rights-holder responsibility.

Rights holders and royalty participants

Some titles may include additional rights holders or participants. The final terms should explain how royalty participants are added, approved, paid, held, removed, or disputed.

Audiobook uploads and rights

Creators and publishers should only upload or submit titles, audio, covers, metadata, samples, and promotional material they have the right to use. The final terms should include takedown rules, rights warranties, and dispute handling.

Payments and purchases

The final terms should define checkout rules, prices, taxes, currencies, payment provider handling, failed payments, fraud checks, order records, and reader access after purchase.

Refunds and reversals

Refunds may affect reader library access and creator royalty lines. The final terms should define refund windows, refund eligibility, abuse prevention, payout reversals, and dispute resolution.

Royalty splitting

Royalty splits may divide creator pools between authors, narrators, publishers, rights holders, and the platform. The final terms should define approval, payout timing, holds, reporting, minimum payout thresholds, and adjustments.

Payouts

Creators may need identity, tax, payout provider, and admin review before money can be released. The final terms should define payout eligibility, failed payouts, holds, minimum payout amounts, tax responsibility, and provider requirements.

Reviews and community content

Readers may eventually post reviews or other public content. The final terms should define moderation rights, prohibited content, review manipulation rules, and removal policies.

Admin review and moderation

Admins may review accounts, titles, reports, refunds, rights issues, payout holds, royalty disputes, and platform safety issues. The final terms should define platform discretion and appeal or support processes.

Service availability

The final terms should explain that features may change, break, be removed, be delayed, or be unavailable during maintenance, testing, or early development.

Limitation of liability

The production terms should include appropriate limitation of liability language, warranty disclaimers, indemnity language, governing law, and dispute resolution terms suited to the operating business.

Readers

Need clear rules for purchases, streaming access, library availability, refunds, reviews, account security, and membership features.

Authors

Need rules for title ownership, metadata accuracy, royalty participation, public profile content, and payout setup.

Narrators

Need rules for voice samples, narration credits, royalty-share approvals, project permissions, and payout setup.

Publishers

Need rules for catalog authority, rights-holder coordination, referral links, title administration, and payout reporting.

Admins

Need rules and permissions for review actions, account moderation, title approval, refund handling, payout holds, and audit logs.