This Editor Agreement ("Agreement") is between Banger Edits ("Company", "we", "us") and you, the freelance editor ("Editor", "you"). By ticking the boxes and typing your full legal name as an electronic signature, you agree to be legally bound by this Agreement.
1. Independent contractor
You are an independent contractor, not an employee, partner or agent of the Company. You are responsible for your own taxes, insurance and equipment. Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment relationship or an obligation on either party to offer or accept any particular volume of work.
2. No direct contact with clients
All communication with clients must take place inside the Banger Edits portal.
You must not, at any time:
- share your personal email address, phone number, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, social handles, website, payment details, or any other off-platform contact detail with a client;
- request or accept a client's off-platform contact details;
- contact a client (or anyone connected to them) outside the platform about work, payment, pricing, availability or any other matter;
- attempt to move a project, invoice or conversation off the platform.
Client identities and contact details are Company confidential information. Sharing or soliciting off-platform contact is a material breach of this Agreement and may result in immediate removal, forfeiture of unpaid amounts for the affected job, and legal action.
3. Non-circumvention and 12-month non-solicit
For a period of twelve (12) months from the last date you performed any work on a project involving a client introduced to you by the Company, you must not, directly or indirectly, and whether on your own account or through any agency, company, partner or third party:
- provide editing, design, advertising, AI-video or any related creative services to that client;
- solicit, canvass, approach or accept work from that client;
- induce or attempt to induce that client to reduce, terminate or move any business away from the Company.
This restriction applies to the client, their business, their brand, their employees and any entity they own or control. You agree this restriction is reasonable and necessary to protect the Company's legitimate business interests, including its client relationships and confidential information.
If you breach this clause, you agree the Company may recover as a genuine pre-estimate of loss an amount equal to the greater of (a) all fees you received from the client concerned, or (b) the total amounts paid to you by the Company for that client's projects, in addition to any other remedy available at law.
4. Intellectual property
All footage, source material, brand assets, briefs and finished deliverables are and remain the property of the Company or its client. You assign to the Company, with full title guarantee and by way of present assignment of future rights, all intellectual property rights in every deliverable you produce for the Company, effective on creation. You waive all moral rights in those deliverables to the fullest extent permitted by law.
5. No publishing, portfolio or promotional use without written consent
You must not publish, post, upload, screenshot, stream, screen-record, share or otherwise display any client footage, work in progress, finished deliverable, brief, brand asset or client name — in whole or in part, and on any medium including your showreel, portfolio site, social media, group chats, Discord servers, case studies or advertising — unless you first obtain express written permission from the Company.
Written permission means an explicit written approval from a Company admin naming the specific asset and the specific use. Verbal or implied permission is not sufficient. Permission may be limited, conditional or withdrawn.
6. Confidentiality
You will keep confidential all non-public information you learn through the Company, including client identities, briefs, unreleased content, pricing, payout rates, processes and platform features. This obligation continues indefinitely after you stop working with the Company.
7. Standards, deadlines and quality control
You will deliver work that meets the brief, the agreed specification and the deadline shown in the portal. All deliverables pass through Company quality control before the client sees them. You will action reasonable change requests within the agreed revision allowance. Persistent lateness, poor quality or non-response may result in removal from the roster.
8. Original work and rights clearance
You warrant that your work is original, that you have the right to use any stock, music, plugin, template, font or AI-generated element you include, and that your work does not infringe any third party's rights. You will not deliver content that is unlawful, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit or otherwise in breach of Company policy.
9. Payment
You are paid the payout amount shown for each job, released after final approval, via the payout method connected to your account. You are not entitled to any payment for work not accepted, work delivered in breach of this Agreement, or work on a job you did not complete.
10. Data protection
You will handle any personal data you encounter only as necessary to perform the work, will not copy or retain it beyond project delivery, and will delete local copies of client material on request.
11. Termination
Either party may end the working relationship at any time on written notice. Clauses 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 survive termination.
12. General
This Agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If any clause is found unenforceable, the remainder continues in force. This Agreement, together with any policies referenced in the portal, is the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes any earlier understanding.
13. Electronic signature
By ticking the acknowledgement boxes and typing your full legal name, you confirm that you have read and understood this Agreement, that you intend your typed name to be your legal electronic signature, and that a record of your acceptance (including date, time, IP address and this exact version of the Agreement) may be stored by the Company as evidence.