Author Revenue Share: Program Terms

No guarantee of earnings

The program is discretionary. GameTale does not guarantee any amount, any minimum income, or that a story will earn at all: what you receive depends on what paying readers read and on the rules below.

We may change, suspend or end the program, in whole or in part, at any time. Where we can, we will give at least 30 days' notice of a change that reduces what you earn. Money already available in your balance is still paid under the rules in force when it was earned.

Who can take part

To monetize a story and receive money from it, you need a verified email, to be 18 or older, to be a human author rather than an AI-generated account, a payout profile with your legal name and payment details, and to have accepted the current version of these terms. The story's text must be written by a person (see “AI-generated content” below). No paid plan is required.

Only original works take part in the program. Fanfiction, and stories that use characters, worlds or brands from other works, cannot be monetized or earn from the program: they are published and read for free, as the Copyright Policy describes. When you switch monetization on for a story, you declare that it is original; a story marked as fanfiction has monetization switched off, and earnings tied to unmarked fanfiction are not paid.

AI-generated content

The program pays for text written by people. Only AI-generated text takes a story out of the program: a story whose text (the narrative, the dialogue, the branching) is generated by AI must be declared as such, carries the AI label and cannot earn from the program, and the same goes for an AI-generated account. Art and audio generated by AI are allowed in a monetized story, provided you hold the rights to them and the story carries the “AI art/audio” label. That label is information for the reader only: it never blocks the revenue share and does not reduce your earnings. Fanfiction stays outside the program, with or without AI, as explained above.

Declaring AI-generated text as your own, or not declaring it, is a violation of these terms. When we conclude that it happened, the story's earnings that have not been paid yet are held and reversed, the story is labelled as AI-generated and its monetization is turned off. In repeated or serious cases we may also exclude you from the program: you can no longer monetize stories or accept revenue splits, and money already available to you remains payable. Earnings already paid out are not recovered automatically, without prejudice to our rights under the law.

To enforce this, we may review signals of production pattern, such as how many new words an account publishes over a few days or a very large amount of text added to a chapter at once, and reports from readers that a story's text was generated by AI without the label. These signals never decide anything alone: they can hold a story's unpaid earnings while a person reviews the case. We may ask you for evidence of your writing process, such as drafts, notes or earlier versions.

Every decision is taken by human review. We email you the reasons for it, and you have 30 days from that email to appeal by writing to support@gametale.app.

What counts as reading

We measure engaged reading, not the furthest page reached. Each time a reader on a paid plan advances through a published, monetized chapter, our server credits the seconds between that step and the previous one, up to 90 seconds per step; a gap under one second or over thirty minutes credits nothing. Credit is capped per story per day and across all your stories per day. A reader's own claim about how long they spent is never used for money, only what our server measured. Your own reading, a collaborator's, and reading from AI-generated accounts is never credited.

How your share is calculated

Only the reading portion of each paid plan enters the authors' pool. The reading portion is an amount equal to the price of the Wanderer plan; whatever a subscriber pays above it, for the creator features of a higher plan, is not shared.

Each month, 50% of that portion, after payment processing fees and taxes, is set aside for the stories that subscriber read, split in proportion to the reading time credited to each. A story earns from a month's reading only once it has been read that month by a minimum number of distinct paying readers. We do not publish that number, so that it cannot be gamed.

When earnings settle and become available

A month's earnings are calculated (settled) on day 10 of the following month, once the refund window has passed. Settled earnings then wait 30 days before they become available, so that refunds and fraud reviews can happen first.

Current phase: balance with no withdrawal

Today GameTale is operated by a natural person. In this phase there is no withdrawal: the balance credited to you is recorded and accumulates, with no interest or adjustment, and is not paid out in money, whether you are in Brazil or abroad. The balance does not expire. Withdrawal will open only once a legal entity is responsible for GameTale, and we will tell you by email.

The operator may assign and transfer this agreement and the recorded balances to the legal entity that succeeds it, with prior notice by email and without worsening your rights; the assignment does not change your balance. Refunds and reversals keep reducing amounts as described below.

Payouts and currencies

Each currency is a separate balance, and we never convert between them. Once payouts are opened (see “Current phase”), you can request a payout once your available balance in a currency reaches R$50.00 (reais) or $10.00 (dollars).

Payouts are made by PIX or bank transfer to the details in your payout profile. They are currently reviewed and paid manually and may take up to 15 business days after approval. Keeping your payout details correct is your responsibility; a payment sent to the details you gave us counts as paid.

Refunds and disputes

If a subscriber is refunded or wins a card dispute before their month settles, that payment leaves the pool. After settlement, the earnings it generated are reversed proportionally. A disputed charge holds the related earnings until the dispute closes. If a reversal takes your balance below zero, the negative amount is offset against future earnings; we will not invoice you for it.

Fraud determination and appeal

If a story or account shows signs of fraud or abuse, such as artificial reading, fake or coordinated accounts, or many readers sharing one connection, we may hold its earnings while we review it. Amounts we determine to come from fraud or abuse are withheld or reversed and are not paid.

We will tell you by email when we hold or reverse earnings for this reason. You have 30 days from that email to appeal by writing to support@gametale.app with any information you want us to consider. Every appeal is decided by human review. The outcome of the appeal is final within the program, without prejudice to any right the law gives you.

Sharing a story with collaborators

You can invite another author to share a story's earnings. They must accept before any share moves to them; until then, their share stays with you. A collaborator receives revenue only, never editing rights.

Either side can end a split. Ending it takes effect on the 1st of the following month: a month that has already started keeps the split that was in force when it started. Disagreements between collaborators are settled between them. GameTale is not an arbiter and pays according to the split recorded on the platform.

Your content

You declare that you own, or are licensed to use, everything in the stories you monetize (text, images, music and other material), and that they comply with the GameTale Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. You agree to indemnify GameTale and hold it harmless against third-party claims arising from your content, including reasonable legal costs, to the extent the law allows.

Taxes

Any tax on money you receive through the program is solely your responsibility. GameTale may withhold amounts where the law requires, may ask you for tax documents or information, and may delay a payout until you provide them. The amounts shown to you may be reduced by withholdings the law requires.

GameTale also accounts for its own taxes on the revenue it collects before calculating the pool. That is separate from, and does not replace, what you owe on what we pay you.

Independent relationship

Taking part creates no employment, partnership, joint venture, agency or exclusivity between you and GameTale. You remain free to publish your work anywhere else.

Leaving or being removed from the program

You can leave at any time by turning monetization off on your stories. New earnings stop from then on; earnings already credited go on through settlement and the hold and remain payable under these terms.

GameTale may suspend or end your participation for a breach of these terms or of the Terms of Service, for fraud or abuse, or where the law requires. Legitimate earnings already available remain payable unless the law requires otherwise; amounts attributable to fraud or abuse are withheld or reversed.

Deleting your account with a balance

You cannot delete your account at once while a payout is in progress. Wait until it has been paid or rejected, or ask for a deferred deletion: the account is hidden and locked at once and erased only after the payout has been paid and the month of the deletion has been settled.

If your available balance is above zero, you can first request a closing payout of the whole available amount, even below the minimum payout. This is allowed only to close your account, once per currency, and the account can be deleted once that payout has been paid.

Pending and held amounts, and any available balance you choose not to withdraw, can only be left behind by an express waiver: the deletion screen lists each amount by currency and state, and you must confirm that you give them up. A waiver cannot be undone. A negative balance is forgiven when the account is deleted.

Limitation of liability

GameTale's total liability to you under the program is limited to the amounts owed to you under the program in the 12 months before the event that gave rise to the claim, and GameTale is not liable for indirect or consequential damages, such as lost profits or lost opportunities, except where mandatory law provides otherwise.

Your personal data

To run the program we process your legal name, your CPF or other tax identifier, your PIX key or bank details and your country, in addition to your account data. We use them to pay you, to prevent fraud and to meet legal, tax and accounting obligations, on the legal bases of contract performance, legal obligation and legitimate interest under the LGPD (Brazilian Law 13,709/2018).

We keep your payout profile while your account exists. Records of payments made, and any waiver described above, are kept after deletion for as long as tax and accounting law requires. You can access, correct, export or delete your data and exercise your other rights from your account settings or by writing to support@gametale.app. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Changes to these terms

We will give at least 30 days' notice before changes to these terms take effect. To keep taking part under the new version, you will need to accept the terms again. Where a new acceptance is not technically required, continuing to take part after the notice period counts as acceptance.

Governing law and forum

These terms are governed by the laws of Brazil. Where consumer protection law gives you that right, disputes are heard in the courts of your domicile; otherwise, in the courts of the domicile of GameTale's operator.