Program Terms & Content Guidelines

These CandyJar Creators Program Terms & Content Guidelines (the “Program Terms”) govern participation in the CandyJar Creators program (the “Program”), operated by Inkitt GmbH (“CandyJar,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By registering, submitting a post, or otherwise participating in the Program, you agree to these Program Terms and the existing CandyJar Terms of Use. If these Program Terms conflict with the CandyJar Terms of Use on a Program-specific issue, these Program Terms control.

1. Eligibility and registration

You may participate only if you:

• are at least 18 years old;
• have a valid CandyJar account and allow us to connect the CandyJar userID shown in the app;
• provide accurate registration and contact information;
• publish eligible content on a supported public social platform; and
• live in a country where CandyJar chooses to offer the Program and where participation is permitted by law.

There is no separate application or acceptance process. You may complete a short creator signup before your first post is ready. When you enter through the Rewards tab in the CandyJar app, CandyJar may securely pass your CandyJar userID only to the Program site, so rewards can be connected to the correct account; your email address is not passed, and we ask you for it on the Program signup form. If a userID is not available, we may ask you to provide it after a post submission. CandyJar may determine that a creator or post is ineligible based on authenticity, brand fit, legal or platform requirements, Program capacity, or other reasonable Program considerations.

2. Coin rewards and weekly review

You may submit your first post before it reaches any view threshold. Submission does not guarantee a reward. Your first eligible post earns a one-time 100-coin starter bonus after CandyJar verifies at least 100 organic views. Each participant may earn only one starter bonus, regardless of the number of CandyJar accounts, social accounts, or posts used.

The starter bonus is in addition to the standard reward: every eligible post, including your first, earns 50 CandyJar coins for each complete 1,000 verified organic views measured by CandyJar. Partial 1,000-view increments are rounded down.

Welcome bonus from the CandyJar app. The CandyJar app grants a one-time welcome bonus of 50 CandyJar coins the moment you tap the reward in the app, before and independently of joining the Program; joining is not a condition of the bonus, and no post is required. The coins go to the CandyJar account signed in on that device, once per CandyJar account, and each person may receive only one welcome bonus regardless of the number of email addresses, social accounts, or CandyJar accounts used. The welcome bonus is separate from, and does not replace, the starter bonus and standard rewards described above. CandyJar may withhold or reverse a welcome bonus obtained through false information, duplicate accounts, or other prohibited activity, and may modify or discontinue the welcome bonus prospectively as described in Section 7.

CandyJar reviews submitted posts weekly. Submit by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time for Thursday review. Submissions received later roll into the following week's review. Qualifying coins are expected to be added to the CandyJar account associated with the submitted userID on Friday. Operational delays may occur.

If a first post has fewer than 100 verified organic views at one review, it may qualify for the starter bonus at a later review while it remains eligible and public. CandyJar may also measure a qualifying post again and reward only new complete 1,000-view milestones that were not previously rewarded. CandyJar determines the view count, participant identity, eligibility period, supported platforms, and whether a starter bonus or views were previously rewarded. We may publish prospective campaign or creator reward limits on the Program site.

Each qualifying post must tag the official CandyJar account and remain public for at least 30 days. CandyJar determines eligibility using public information and may request platform analytics when necessary.

Each post must also be submitted within 14 days of the date it was published on the platform. Posts published more than 14 days before submission are not eligible and do not earn coins. CandyJar determines the publication date using the information the platform makes public. This requirement applies to posts submitted on or after September 7, 2026.

Coins are promotional in-app currency. They have no cash value, are not transferable, and cannot be redeemed for cash, refunds, or other compensation. Their use is subject to the CandyJar Terms of Use and applicable in-app rules. Additional opportunities, including paid partnerships or post promotion, are discretionary and require separate terms.

2A. Comment rewards

You can also earn coins by commenting on public posts about CandyJar shows (“Comment Rewards”). To take part, sign up on the Program site with your email and the TikTok or Instagram username you comment from. You must meet the eligibility requirements in Section 1.

A comment qualifies only if it:

• is posted from a username registered to you on the Program site;
• is left on a public TikTok or Instagram post about a CandyJar show, other than a post from an official CandyJar account;
• is written by you, contains at least three words, and is not copied or substantially repeated from another comment;
• complies with each platform's rules and Section 4 of these Program Terms; and
• remains public until CandyJar has verified it.

Each approved comment earns 10 CandyJar coins, for up to 20 approved comments per week. If you have 10 approved comments in the same week, you also earn a one-time bonus of 50 coins for that week. A week runs from Monday 00:00 UTC to Sunday 23:59 UTC, and a comment counts toward the week in which you submitted it. Each post can earn a reward for only one comment per participant, and each comment can be rewarded only once.

CandyJar verifies comments automatically, checking up to three times a day for up to three days after submission. Coins for approved comments are added to the CandyJar account linked to your Program email with the weekly payout, usually on Friday. Operational delays may occur. Coins are subject to the rules in Section 2, including that they have no cash value.

You may not use bots or automation, leave comments from accounts you don't control, register multiple identities, post repetitive or spam comments, or coordinate with others to generate comments for rewards. Section 3 applies to Comment Rewards. CandyJar may reject comments, withhold or reverse coins, or remove a participant under Section 7.

Transition from the CandyJar Striper Program: the Striper program ends on October 18, 2026. Free weeks earned for the week of October 12 to 18, 2026 will still be granted under its previous rules. From October 19, 2026, comments earn coins only as described in this section.

3. Organic views and prohibited activity

Organic views are genuine views generated without payment or artificial coordination. Views generated through paid promotion, purchased engagement, engagement exchanges or pods, bots, creator-funded boosting, CandyJar-funded boosting, or other manipulation do not count.

You may not provide false information, impersonate another person, submit content you did not create or control, submit the same post under multiple identities, or interfere with Program review. CandyJar may disregard suspicious activity, request supporting information, withhold or reverse coins, remove a creator from the Program, or require corrective action.

4. Content standards

Your posts must reflect your honest opinions and actual experience. They must comply with applicable law and each platform's rules and must not contain false or misleading claims, unlawful material, hate or harassment, unauthorized personal information, infringing content, or material that could reasonably harm CandyJar, its cast, partners, or community.

You are responsible for obtaining all rights and permissions needed for material you add, including music, footage, artwork, and the name, image, voice, or performance of any other person. Do not include minors or other identifiable people unless you have legally sufficient permission.

5. CandyJar Creator Media Library

CandyJar grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to download, edit, and publish approved clips, logos, artwork, and other assets from the CandyJar Creator Media Library (“CandyJar Materials”) solely to create eligible Program content. You may grant a social platform only the limited sublicense technically necessary to publish that content on a supported platform.

You must follow any asset-specific platform, territory, music, spoiler, credit, expiration, and editing instructions. You may not sell CandyJar Materials, redistribute raw files, make them available as a separate library, use them to reconstruct a film or episode, remove required notices, imply an unauthorized endorsement, or use them unlawfully or misleadingly. CandyJar retains all ownership of CandyJar Materials and trademarks. Upon request, you must stop using or remove specified CandyJar Materials.

6. Rights in creator posts

You retain ownership of original material you create, subject to CandyJar's ownership of CandyJar Materials.

For every post you submit, you grant CandyJar the limited right to access, review, verify, store a record of, and link to the post for Program administration, compliance, and measurement.

If a submitted post contains video or audiovisual footage from a CandyJar film or footage supplied by CandyJar (“CandyJar Footage Content”), you grant CandyJar and its affiliates a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable to the extent permitted by law, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, and sublicensable license to use the complete post and all content embodied in it. This license includes the right to host, store, reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, repost, publish, translate, caption, crop, edit, adapt, combine with other material, create derivative works from, advertise, promote, and monetize the post in any media or channel, including paid advertising, without further approval or compensation. The license survives removal of the post and the end of your participation in the Program.

That license also covers your social handle and any name, image, likeness, voice, and performance embodied in the CandyJar Footage Content. To the extent permitted by law, you waive or agree not to assert moral rights in connection with CandyJar's authorized uses. CandyJar will not edit a post to materially misrepresent your opinion. CandyJar is not required to use any submitted post or provide attribution.

The broad license above does not apply merely because a post mentions CandyJar or displays only a CandyJar name or logo without CandyJar video or audiovisual footage. CandyJar must obtain separate permission before using that kind of post outside the limited Program-administration rights described above.

You represent that you have authority to grant these rights. If you add music or other third-party material, the license above covers that material only to the extent you have the right to authorize CandyJar's intended use. CandyJar may remove, stop using, or request changes to content if a rights or compliance concern arises. Nothing in these Program Terms waives any remuneration, moral right, or other right that applicable law does not allow you to waive.

7. Review, suspension, and changes

CandyJar may monitor submitted public posts for Program compliance. CandyJar may reject a post, withhold or reverse coins, suspend a creator, or end participation for failure to meet these Program Terms. CandyJar's Program decisions are final to the extent permitted by law.

The Program is a limited test. CandyJar may modify, pause, or end it, change requirements or rewards, restrict eligible countries or platforms, or stop accepting submissions. We will post material changes with an updated effective date and, when practical, communicate changes to active creators. Changes apply prospectively unless immediate action is reasonably necessary for legal, safety, fraud, rights, or platform-policy reasons.

8. Independent participation and general terms

Participation does not make you an employee, agent, partner, or representative of CandyJar, and you may not make commitments on CandyJar's behalf. You are responsible for taxes or reporting obligations associated with rewards you receive.

The Program is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with TikTok, Meta, YouTube, X, Apple, Google, or any other social or distribution platform. The warranty, liability, dispute-resolution, governing-law, and other general provisions of the CandyJar Terms of Use apply to the Program, except that nothing in these Program Terms limits rights or remedies that cannot be limited under the mandatory law of your country of residence.

9. Contact

For questions about the Program, contact Leah at leah@candyjar.com.