Terms of use

These terms are an agreement between you and plancks.in (“plancks”, “we”, “us”), based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. By creating an account, submitting a form or taking part in a campaign you accept these terms, our privacy policy, our clipper rules and our refund policy. If you do not agree, do not use plancks.

• You must be 18 or older and able to make a binding contract under Indian law.
• One plancks account per person. Keep your Google account secure; you are responsible for what happens in your plancks account.
• We may refuse, suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, the law or the rules of YouTube or Instagram.

A creator funds a campaign. Clippers cut short clips from the creator's footage, post them on their own Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts pages and submit the links. We check each clip, read its views and pay clippers for verified views. We run every campaign with the creator: we agree the brief, budget and our fee before anything starts.

A clip earns: views ÷ 1,000 × the campaign's rate, up to the campaign's cap per clip. A clip below the campaign's minimum earns nothing. Only views within the campaign's tracking window count.

• Budget and fee. You pay the clipper budget and our fee upfront by UPI or bank transfer, as agreed with us in writing (email or WhatsApp is enough). The minimum budget is ₹15,000 and the lowest rate is ₹15 per 1,000 views. We do not give credit.
• How the budget is spent. Only on approved clips with verified views, at the agreed rate, minimum and cap. Unspent budget is refunded or carried into your next campaign, as set out in our refund policy.
• Your footage. You share a link to footage you own or have the right to use. You confirm it does not break anyone's copyright, trademark or privacy, and that any music in it may be used in clips.
• Your brief. You tell us what to clip, what to avoid and how clips must be labelled. We review every clip against it.
• No guarantee of views. Views depend on Instagram and YouTube. Any view numbers we discuss are targets, never promises.

• Independent. You take part as an independent person, not as our employee or agent. You choose which campaigns to join.
• Your pages. You post only on pages you own and have verified with us, and you follow our clipper rules and the rules of each platform.
• Payouts. Views on approved clips become payable 10 days after we read them. We pay by UPI every Friday once you have at least ₹250 cleared; smaller amounts roll over. We pay only to a UPI ID we have verified in your name, and only from money the creator has paid us.
• Free to join. We never charge clippers to join, to get campaigns or for training.
• Taxes. You are responsible for tax on your earnings. If the law requires us to deduct tax at source, we will deduct it and give you the certificate.

• The creator gives clippers who join a campaign a limited, non exclusive, revocable licence to use the footage only to make and post clips for that campaign.
• The clipper keeps the clips on their own page, and gives the creator and plancks a non exclusive, royalty free licence to share, repost and show approved clips to promote the creator and to report on the campaign.
• Footage may not be used for anything else, sold or shared outside the campaign. When a campaign ends or a creator asks, clippers must stop using the footage and delete it.
• If you believe a clip uses your work without permission, write to contact@plancks.in and we will act on it quickly, including asking for it to be taken down.

YouTube views are read from YouTube's official API on the clipper's verified channel. Instagram views are taken from the clipper's own insights, which we check. The view count we record is the one used for earnings and billing. If a platform changes how it counts views, we follow the platform's new count.

• Bought views, bots, view exchanges, fake or borrowed accounts and reposting other people's clips are not allowed.
• We check clips for signs of fraud. A flagged clip is held until a person reviews it, and cannot be paid while it is held.
• If we find fraud, even after a clip was approved or paid, we may reject the clip, take back what was paid from future earnings, suspend the account and keep held payouts.
• A creator's budget is never spent on views we find to be fraudulent.

We do not run campaigns for betting or real money gaming, illegal products or services, misleading financial claims, or political campaigns. We may refuse any campaign or clip we think is harmful, misleading or unlawful.

Every paid clip must carry a clear #Ad, #Sponsored or #Collab label, as the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) requires, plus anything else the brief asks for.

We provide plancks with reasonable care and skill, but as it is, without promises about views, reach or results, and without promising it will always be available. We are not responsible for what Instagram, YouTube, banks or UPI apps do, or for losses we could not reasonably foresee.

As far as the law allows, our total responsibility to you for any claim is limited to the fees you paid us, or the payouts due to you, in the 3 months before the claim. Nothing here limits responsibility that cannot be limited by law.

You can stop using plancks and ask us to close your account at any time by writing to us. We pay cleared earnings that are due, minus any amounts held for suspected fraud. We may close an account that breaks these terms; where we can, we will tell you why.

Tell us first: most problems are solved quickly by email or through our grievance officer. These terms are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute that cannot be settled will be decided by the courts in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

We may update these terms as plancks grows. We change the date at the top and, for important changes, tell you by email or in your account before they apply. Using plancks after that means you accept the new terms.