These Terms govern participation in the BioSkepsis creator partnership programme. They apply in addition to the BioSkepsis Terms of Service, Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy.
How a partnership is entered into. Submitting a media kit does not create a partnership and does not entitle you to a fee, to free access, or to feedback. If we accept you, we send you a Content & Referral Partnership Agreement with a completed Schedule setting out your deliverables, your fee and your access. These Terms describe the programme and form part of that agreement; the signed agreement is what binds us both, and where the two differ the signed agreement prevails.
Honest, not hateful
We want your real opinion of BioSkepsis — including what it does badly. All we ask is that it stays respectful. Section 5.3 sets out what that means in practice.
Applying: media kit and audience insights
01To be considered, send us:
- Who you are: a short description of who you are and what you currently do, and, if you work through a company, agency or management, the legal entity and the person authorised to sign.
- Your channels: every channel you would want to publish on and where you think BioSkepsis genuinely belongs, judged by who that channel’s audience actually is. Tell us why you think it fits.
- Your insights: subscriber and/or follower count per channel, average and median views over the last 15–30 days, and engagement or reach over the same period.
- Your audience insights: who your audience actually is. What we are mainly interested in is geographic location, age and gender. If you also have insights on job position, career, or anything else that indicates what your audience would be interested to see, we would appreciate you sharing those too — for us that is the most useful part.
- How to send them: exported from the platform’s own analytics. Screenshots or CSV are both fine. Where a figure comes from your own survey or estimate rather than the platform, say so.
- Previous sponsored work: plus any current or recent partnership with a competing research, literature-search, reference-management or AI research product.
- Any conflicts: any agreement, employment, funding condition or institutional policy that would restrict what you can say about BioSkepsis, stop you publishing the content we agree, or that you would want us to know before we are publicly associated with each other. We do not need a list of who funds you — only whatever affects this partnership. If something comes up later, tell us then.
Your figures must be true, complete, current and taken from the platform’s own analytics, and your audience must be organically acquired: no purchased followers, views, engagement or subscribers, no engagement pods, bots or reciprocal-engagement schemes. Submitting inflated or fabricated metrics is a material breach — we can end the partnership immediately and reclaim what we have paid for the work affected.
We may verify, including by read-only analytics access, a screen-share, or third-party audience-quality analysis, and you agree to co-operate reasonably. Verification is run so as not to expose individual-level data about your audience, and any third-party analyst acts as our processor under Article 28 GDPR.
We review every application. We weigh relevance to a life-science and biomedical research audience, audience authenticity and composition, the quality and accuracy of your existing scientific content, how you have disclosed past sponsorships, brand fit, and whether we have budget.
There is no minimum audience size
There is no follower count or engagement rate you have to reach. No single figure decides it. The verdict comes from the combination of everything above — including the quality and the type of the content you create, which often matters more to us than the numbers.
Acceptance is at our sole discretion, and we are not obliged to give reasons.
We will decline or end a partnership where a channel publishes pseudoscientific health claims; promotes unproven treatments, supplements carrying therapeutic claims, or content discouraging evidence-based medical care; sells academic-misconduct services; carries hateful, harassing, discriminatory or unlawful content; or runs undisclosed sponsored content.
You must be 18 or over, or a registered legal entity, and not resident in or acting for anyone in a comprehensively sanctioned country.
Your own permissions are your own responsibility. Whether your employer, university, lab, funder, institution or any other agreement allows you to take part in a paid partnership, promote an AI tool, or publish the content we agree, is for you to check before you sign — not for us. By entering into a partnership you confirm you are free to do so. We are not responsible for, and accept no liability for, any conflict, breach, dispute, disciplinary matter or loss arising between you and your employer, institution, funder, client or any other third party as a result of your participation. If anything of that kind is in play, tell us before you sign, and tell us if it changes during the partnership.
Final acceptance is personal to you. You may not subcontract the creation or on-screen presentation of the content, or share your referral link or promo code, without our consent. If an agency represents you, it contracts as your disclosed agent and you remain principally responsible.
How partners are compensated
03Your Schedule states which of these apply. They can be combined.
Complimentary access and credits. We gift you with free, full complimentary access to the BioSkepsis Pro plan (or another plan if the Schedule says so) and any research credits stated, for the first month of the partnership, so that you can genuinely use the product and film, edit and produce the agreed content. Access is personal to you, cannot be resold, shared or transferred, and ends when the partnership does.
A content fee. A fixed fee stated in your Schedule, negotiated against your media kit, the deliverables, the platforms and the rights granted. We do not publish rates — we expect you to quote your own, from your media kit, and we take that as the starting point. The fee is a single fee for the agreed deliverables, and it does not depend on views, engagement, conversions or any revenue threshold. It stays fixed for the term unless we both agree otherwise in writing.
Referral commission. A referral link and exclusive promo code, on the same basis as our affiliate programme. This is not offered to every partner — we include it only where we consider it a good fit for you and your audience, and your Schedule will say whether it applies to you. Where it does:
| Plan | Standard price | Your audience gets | You earn |
|---|
| Pro |
€75/month or €750/year |
20% off |
€2.50 per active referred subscriber, per month |
| Plus |
€18/month or €180/year |
25% off |
€1.00 per active referred subscriber, per month |
The code works on monthly and annual subscriptions, on both plans, and the discount applies to the price of whichever plan and billing period the customer chooses. It runs for the customer’s first 12 months.
Commission accrues for each month a referred customer is active, for up to 12 consecutive months from the date of their first paid subscription attributed to you.
Either signal is enough
A referred customer is anyone who takes out and pays for a Plus or Pro subscription having reached us either by clicking your referral link or by applying your promo code — either signal is enough, and there is no time limit on the link. On video and audio, where a link often cannot be clicked inside the content, the code is usually the only signal we get, so publish both.
There are no restrictions on who may use your code. Past customers may use it, it may be used more than once by the same person, and someone already on the free Basic plan who moves to a paid plan through your code counts in the normal way.
You are paid for every paid plan a customer takes through you. If the same person uses your Plus code one month and your Pro code the next, you earn the Plus rate for the first and the Pro rate for the second, whichever plan they started on.
No commission is payable where the payment does not go through and we do not receive the money, where the customer cancels before the first paid period, where the subscription is refunded, reversed or charged back, or where the plan is Basic, Team, Organization, custom-priced, or a credit or add-on purchase. Team and Organization referrals sit outside these rates — tell us in advance if you have an institutional buyer and we will agree terms for that referral.
Full mechanics, exclusions and the promo-code integrity rules are in the Affiliate Programme Terms, which apply to the referral element.
How we choose. We pick the model per collaboration, based on audience size, composition and authenticity, and on prior campaign performance where you have worked with us before. We are not obliged to offer a fee to anyone, and offering complimentary access alone is not a downgrade or a breach.
Tax. Free access and credits may be taxable where you live. We state their fair market value in your Schedule so you can declare them. You are responsible for your own taxes and social contributions. Fees are exclusive of VAT; if you are VAT-registered in an EU member state other than Cyprus, give us your number and the reverse charge applies.
Deliverables, review and editorial control
04Your Schedule sets out the platforms, the number of items and the cadence, the format and rough length, supporting placements (stories, link in bio), and the publication deadline.
Timing. Produce and publish the content within 7 to 10 days of us both agreeing and signing. We keep this window short on purpose: the product and the platforms both move quickly, and content made promptly reflects BioSkepsis as it actually is.
Genuine use. Use BioSkepsis before you publish anything describing your experience of it. What you say it did for you must be true of your actual use.
The content is yours to decide. You choose the angle, the format and the story — a walkthrough, a demo, a step-by-step, a day-in-the-life, or simply “this is a tool I use”. It does not have to be a scientific piece or produce any research result. If you have worked with comparable products before and have a view on what does and does not land with an audience like yours, tell us — we would rather hear it than have you follow a brief that works less well.
Send us the draft before you publish. We review it to check that what you say about BioSkepsis is accurate — features, pricing, what it can and cannot do — and to flag anything that falls foul of section 5. That is what the review is for.
We will not ask you to change your opinion
Not your conclusions, your rating or your framing. We are after authenticity: your real view, in your own voice, is the whole point of working with you and it is what your audience responds to. The only things we will ask you to change are factual errors, prohibited claims, and anything abusive or hateful under section 5.3.
Tag us when you publish. Tag the BioSkepsis account on each platform you post to, so that we can find the content, reshare it on our own channels, and give it a second audience.
Language and subtitles. Make the content in whatever language suits your audience. Where it carries a voice-over or spoken presentation in a language other than English, it must also carry English subtitles, so that it stays accessible to the whole of our audience and so that we can review what is being said about the product.
Originality. The content must be your own work. You may use AI tools in production, but not to publish AI-generated content presented as your own first-hand testing, and not to synthesise anyone’s voice or likeness without their consent. Follow the platform’s synthetic-media rules and Article 50 of the EU AI Act where it applies.
Keeping it live. Keep each item public, as published and with its disclosure intact, for 12 months (or whatever period your Schedule states). If you remove it, make it private, or edit out the BioSkepsis segment or the disclosure early for a reason within your control, we can ask for a pro-rata refund of that item’s share of the fee. If we ask you to remove it, or the law, a platform or a regulator requires removal, no refund arises and the fee stays payable in full.
If you cannot deliver on time. Tell us in writing before the deadline in your Schedule passes. The fee for that set is not payable until it is delivered, but you can deliver the deferred set in the next period, and both fees then fall due on delivery. Maximum two deferrals per term, and only one outstanding at a time.
Claims, adjacency and disclosure
055.1 What you must not claim
Because BioSkepsis sits in a scientific and health-adjacent field, these are material terms. Do not state or imply that:
- BioSkepsis gives medical, clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic or treatment advice, or that its output can be relied on for patient care or clinical decision-making;
- its output is peer-reviewed, is equivalent to or a substitute for reading the primary literature, or has been validated, certified or approved by any regulator, journal, publisher or institution;
- it is guaranteed to be accurate, complete, error-free, or free of omission or hallucination;
- it is endorsed by, affiliated with or officially adopted by any named university, hospital, funder, journal, publisher or company, unless we confirm that specific statement in writing;
- any specific outcome will follow from using it — a publication, grant, degree, approval, job, result, time saving or financial return;
- it can be used to produce work someone submits as their own unaided work against academic-integrity rules, or to bypass publisher access controls; or
- it is a regulatory-approved diagnostic product.
Where you show output on screen, note that it should be checked against the cited sources rather than presenting it as a verified finding. Do not record or publish another user’s data, or show unreleased features unless your Schedule allows it.
Statements about features, allowances, pricing and plan contents must be accurate when published. Where a claim needs it, acknowledge the product’s limitations. Comparative claims about competitors must be accurate, fair, based on a like-for-like comparison you actually ran, and compliant with Directive 2006/114/EC.
Keeping yourself current is your responsibility. The product, its features, its plans and its pricing change. Before you publish, visit bioskepsis.ai and check the product itself, so that every claim you make is true of BioSkepsis as it stands on the day you publish. We will tell you about material changes where we reasonably can, but we do not undertake to notify you before every change, and the duty to verify before posting sits with you.
Any false or fabricated claim is a breach of these Terms, whether it is made deliberately, from an out-of-date understanding of the product, or from not checking. We may require immediate correction or removal, and a false claim is a ground for termination under section 10.
Adjacency. Do not place the content next to, or publish it on channels primarily featuring, unproven treatments, supplements bearing therapeutic claims, predatory journals, paper mills, academic-misconduct services, or unauthorised access to paywalled literature.
5.2 Disclosure
We do not impose disclosure rules of our own. What you have to disclose, and how, is set by the platform you are posting on and by the law that applies where you and your audience are. Checking what applies to you is your responsibility — the rules differ by platform and by country, they change often, and we cannot check them for you.
Where a platform or the law requires disclosure, comply with it. In practice that usually means some combination of:
- a label at the start of the content, visible without expanding a description, bio or “more” control;
- a spoken mention at the start of the BioSkepsis segment in video and audio;
- plain wording such as “paid partnership with BioSkepsis” or “#ad”, or for gifted-only, “BioSkepsis gave me free access — this review is my own”; and
- the platform’s own disclosure tool, such as Instagram’s “Paid partnership” label or TikTok’s branded content disclosure.
Do each of these only to the extent the applicable rules call for it. Anything beyond what is required is your call, not ours.
Your commission is your own business. Where you use a referral link or promo code, mention that you earn a commission only if the platform’s rules or the law require it. If they do not, whether to say so is personal to you and you may leave it out.
Do not present the content as spontaneous or unpaid when it is not. Failing to comply with a disclosure requirement that applies to you is a material breach.
5.3 What you say about us
What we ask is that you stay honest. Nothing here requires you to pretend the product is perfect. If you hit a limitation, say so — section 5.1 positively requires you to acknowledge limitations where they bear on a claim, and honest, specific, fair criticism is not a breach of these Terms.
What we ask in return is that it stays respectful: no hateful speech, no abuse, no personal attacks. You are a partner, not a random reviewer, and we expect the relationship to run both ways. So:
- Raise problems with us first where you reasonably can. If something is broken or misleading, tell us before you publish. Often we can fix it, and you end up with a more accurate piece.
- Keep criticism factual and constructive. Say what did not work and why.
- Do not publish anything abusive, hateful, or gratuitously disparaging about BioSkepsis, our team or our users, and do not say things about us you know or believe to be untrue. That is not criticism, and it is a ground for termination.
We report to you within 15 days of each quarter end: referred customers, their plans, active months, commission payable, and your link and code activity.
You report to us in the same window: for each item published that quarter, views, reach, average watch time, likes, comments, shares, saves, link clicks, profile visits and new followers, to the extent the platform exposes them. Analytics exports or screenshots are fine. We exchange both reports at the same time so each of us sees referral and content performance together. What you send us is treated as confidential.
Payment
Nothing is paid before the content is published.
- Content fee: you invoice us in arrears, once the agreed deliverables are live, on the cadence set out in your Schedule. Send the invoice together with links to the published content as evidence — we cannot process a payment without them. We pay within 15 days of receiving a compliant invoice and the links.
- Referral commission (where it applies to you): we invoice alongside the quarterly statement and pay within 15 days. There is no payout threshold — whatever is due is paid.
Payment is by bank transfer to the account you verify with us; keep those details current. All amounts are exclusive of VAT. If you are registered for VAT, give us your number and show it on your invoice; where you are VAT-registered in an EU member state other than Cyprus the reverse charge applies. For the referral commission, which we invoice on your behalf, you agree to us issuing that document for you.
You own what you make.
You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, distribute, display, adapt for format and length, and share the content, with your name, handle, likeness and channel name — organic use only, for 24 months from publication. That covers our site, blog, social channels, newsletters, sales materials and in-product materials.
Paid media is not included. Running your content as advertising we pay to distribute, or allowlisting it from your handle, needs your separate written agreement and separate payment.
Adaptation must not distort your meaning or turn a negative statement into a positive one — object and we will withdraw or amend it.
You warrant that the content, including music, footage, images, fonts and third-party material, is yours or properly licensed for these uses, and that you have releases from anyone identifiable in it.
We grant you a licence to use our name, marks, screenshots and brand assets to make and present the content, and give standing consent for original content in your own voice and format. That licence continues after the partnership ends for as long as you are required to keep published content live.
Neither of us is exclusive to the other
08You are free to work with other brands. Nothing here is exclusive to us. You may take on other partnerships, sponsorships and affiliate arrangements while you work with BioSkepsis, provided they are not with a directly competing product — an AI research assistant, or a literature-search or evidence-synthesis tool aimed at the same audience.
We are equally non-exclusive. We may appoint other creators, affiliates, partners and agents, run our own campaigns, and promote BioSkepsis directly, in any territory and at any time, without that affecting your fee, your commission or your standing.
Formal exclusivity applies only where your Schedule says so. Where it does, it is limited to a defined competitor category, for a defined period, with additional payment, and it will not stop you covering the category editorially. Tell us before signing if you are already exclusive to someone in a way that would conflict.
Confidentiality and data
09Unreleased features, roadmap, unpublished pricing, internal metrics, your Schedule terms and the performance data we exchange are confidential — for three years after the partnership ends, indefinitely for trade secrets. Where we give early access to something unreleased, we state an embargo date and you do not publish before it.
On data protection we are independent controllers. We do not send you customer personal data, and your reports from us are aggregated. Audience insights you send us may contain personal data about your audience: send aggregated, anonymised or pseudonymised metrics only, never identifiable individual-level data, and make sure you have a lawful basis for the disclosure. We keep application and media kit material for no more than 24 months after the partnership ends, except where accounting, tax or transparency law requires longer. Either of us tells the other within 48 hours of a data breach affecting partnership data.
Term, termination and takedown
10Two kinds of partnership, two ways the term works. Your Schedule says whether referral commission applies to you. The renewal rules below differ depending on that, so read the one that matches your Schedule.
10.1 Partnerships that include referral commission
The agreement runs 12 months.
Renewal. It renews automatically for a further 12 months where, in at least one calendar month during the term, the monthly recurring revenue attributable to your referred customers reaches €500 — that is, the combined monthly subscription revenue, at the discounted prices actually paid, of your referred customers active in that month.
The threshold does not have to be met in every month, in any particular month, or cumulatively across the year — one qualifying month at any point in the 12 months is enough. If it is not reached, we may still renew at our discretion; otherwise the agreement expires at the end of the term. Either of us may also give 30 days’ notice before the end of a term that we do not wish to renew, whether or not the threshold has been met.
To be clear about what this threshold does
It decides one thing only: whether we roll into a second year. It has no effect on what you earn. Your content fee is payable in full for every set of deliverables you publish, and your referral commission is payable in full on every active referred customer, whether or not the threshold is ever reached. Neither is conditional on hitting it, and neither is reduced or delayed by missing it.
10.2 Content-only partnerships, with no referral commission
A content-only partnership runs for whatever period your Schedule states — a single campaign, a fixed number of items, or a fixed term. It ends when the agreed deliverables have been published and paid for, or at the end of that period, whichever is later.
Renewal is by agreement, not automatic. If we both want to continue, we agree a new Schedule in writing. Neither of us has to give a reason for not continuing, and there is no notice to serve — when the Schedule is complete, the partnership is simply complete. Your content fee for work already delivered is unaffected, and so is the licence you have granted us over that content, which runs for its own 24 months under section 7.
If we later add referral commission, we will issue you a link and code and agree it in writing, and from that point 10.1 applies to the renewal of the extended partnership.
10.3 Rules that apply to both
Termination for convenience. Either of us may terminate at any time on 30 days’ written notice — deliverables already in production when notice is given are completed and paid for.
We may terminate immediately for unremedied material breach, for false media kit figures, for the claims restrictions or the disclosure obligation being breached, for materially inaccurate content you decline to correct, for unlawful conduct or serious reputational damage, for a credible allegation of research misconduct, academic fraud or harassment, and — where referral commission applies to you — for breach of the promo-code integrity rules.
If you withdraw after accepting a Schedule but before publishing, no fee is payable for the affected items and free access is returned or revoked.
Takedown. We can require removal or amendment where content breaches section 5, infringes someone’s rights, is the subject of a legal or regulatory complaint, or contains confidential material published in breach. You comply within 48 hours. Where removal is not down to your breach, the fee stays payable in full.
Where referral commission applies to you, commission on customers already inside their 12-month earning period continues after termination for the remainder of that period.
Where we terminate for your breach, only compensation attributable to the breaching activity is forfeited — properly earned commission and payment for content already delivered remain payable. The obligation to keep already-published content live survives, unless we asked for its removal.
We make no promise about how any item will perform, or about conversion rates, referred subscription volume or your earnings.
You indemnify us against losses arising from your breach, the content, your statements about BioSkepsis, third-party rights claims, and regulatory or platform action arising from a disclosure failure. We indemnify you against claims that our marks or the materials we supply, used as intended and unmodified, infringe third-party IP.
Neither of us is liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, or lost anticipated fees or commission. Our total liability, however arising, is capped at the greater of what we paid you in the preceding 12 months and €500. Nothing limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything that cannot lawfully be limited.
Cyprus law and applicable EU law, save that if you contract as a consumer you keep the mandatory protections of your home country’s law. Exclusive jurisdiction: the District Court of Larnaca, save that a consumer keeps the right to sue where they live under Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012.
Order of precedence: your signed Schedule, then the signed agreement, then these Terms, then the affiliate terms for the referral element, then the BioSkepsis Terms of Service.
