Sour Client — Creator Program Agreement

Effective date: 27 October 2026 Agreement version: 2026-10-27.2 Operator: sourama (an individual, operating as "Sour Client") Contact: [email protected] Official site: https://sourclient.com

This Creator Program Agreement ("Agreement") is between the operator ("we", "us") and the person who accepts it on sourclient.com ("you", the "Creator"). It sits on top of the Terms of Use, which still apply to your use of the Service. Where the two disagree about the Creator Program, this Agreement wins.

You accept this Agreement on sourclient.com while signed in. We record that you did, the date, and the Agreement version above, against your Sour Client account.

1. The two tiers

1.1 Sour Partner is the entry tier. You may apply for it if, when you apply, you meet all of the following:

• Audience — any one of: 250 or more YouTube subscribers, or an average of 1,000 or more views across your last 10 YouTube videos (5,000 or more if they are Shorts); 150 or more Twitch followers, or an average of 10 or more concurrent viewers across your last 10 Twitch streams; or 1,000 or more TikTok followers, or an average of 5,000 or more views across your last 10 TikTok videos.
• Real viewers: an average of about 800 views across your last 10 videos, or about 8 average concurrent viewers across your last 10 streams. We look at engagement as well as numbers; a channel whose views or followers look bought is not eligible.
• Regular posting: at least 2 uploads or streams a month for the last 2 months.
• Fit: your content is mainly Minecraft — PvP, Hypixel, Bedwars, or close to it.
• Age: you meet the age rules in the Terms of Use (13 or over, with a parent or guardian's permission if you are under 18).

1.2 Sour Creator is the full tier. You cannot apply for it; we invite Sour Partners to it, usually once their code has shown real results (as a guide, about 25 redemptions in 90 days). Inviting you is our choice and is never owed.

1.3 These numbers are guides for deciding who joins. Once you are in, you are not removed only for dropping below them; see Section 7 for how tiers are reviewed.

2. What you get

2.1 Sour Partners get:

• A creator code (for example FINN) and a link, sourclient.com/c/FINN.
• 3 days of Sour Gold for your viewers. A player who has never had Sour Gold can redeem your code once; their 3 days start the first time they launch the game through SourClient. The player-side rules are set by us and may change (Section 4).
• One month of Sour Gold for you when you join, and further months earned by results under Section 2.4.

2.2 Sour Creators get everything in 2.1, plus:

• Your own cloak in the Sour Client store, designed by us with your input, sold with your name and code on its store page (Section 5).
• 40% of the Net Revenue from sales of your cloak (Section 6).

2.3 Nothing else is promised. In particular there is no fixed fee, no guaranteed income, and no payment for redemptions of your code.

2.4 Earning Sour Gold. Your own Sour Gold is earned, not permanent. In any calendar month in which 10 or more players start their Sour Gold trial with your code (a trial starts at that player's first game launch, Section 2.1) and the month is in good standing (Section 3.6), you get Sour Gold for the whole of the next calendar month. This applies to both tiers.

• It is granted one month at a time and never banked ahead: a strong month earns the next month only, not several.
• If a month falls short, your Sour Gold ends with the month already granted, and comes back as soon as a later month earns it.
• Trials we reasonably believe were farmed (Section 3.5) do not count.

3. What you do

3.1 Content. In each calendar month you publish at least two qualifying segments. A qualifying segment is a video, stream, or short in which Sour Client is shown in use for at least about 30 seconds, and your code is said out loud and written in the description (or the stream's panel or pinned chat).

3.2 Preview. For pre-recorded content, you email an unlisted link (for example an unlisted YouTube video) to [email protected] at least 48 hours before it is published, from the email address you gave us, with your creator code in the subject. We reply to that email with anything that needs fixing, or to say it is fine to publish. We review only the part about Sour Client. We may ask you to fix something that is factually wrong about Sour Client, or that breaks Section 3.4 or 3.5; we do not direct the rest of your video. Live streams cannot be previewed, so 3.4 and 3.5 apply to them as they happen.

3.3 Disclosure. Because you receive Sour Gold and (as a Sour Creator) money, your Sour Client content is paid promotion. You must disclose it clearly every time — for example YouTube's "includes paid promotion" setting, or "#ad" / "sponsored by Sour Client" at the start of the segment and in the description — in the way the advertising rules where you and your audience live require. This is not optional and is a breach if left out.

3.4 Honesty. You do not claim Sour Client does something it does not; in particular you do not claim Sour Gold or anything else we sell gives a gameplay advantage. It does not — it is cosmetic.

3.5 Conduct. You must not, in content connected with Sour Client or while you are in the program:

• show, promote, or link to cheats, hacked clients, or anything that breaks a server's rules — this ends the Agreement immediately (Section 8.3);
• harass, or encourage your audience to harass, anyone;
• promote your code with spam, bots, fake accounts, or coupon-farm sites, or redeem it yourself through other accounts;
• present yourself as Sour Client staff or say you speak for us.

3.6 Good standing. A month in which you met 3.1 to 3.5 is a month in good standing. It is what tier reviews look at (Section 7), and a month must be in good standing to earn Sour Gold under Section 2.4.

4. Your code

4.1 Your code is ours to issue and run. We may pause, cap, or retire it — for example if it is being farmed — and we will tell you why.

4.2 The rules for players who redeem it (who may redeem, how long the Sour Gold lasts, one code per Minecraft account) are set by us, may change, and are shown on the redeem page.

4.3 You can see how many times your code has been redeemed and started from your account.

5. Your cloak

5.1 We design and make your cloak, with your input, to our quality standard. You approve the final design before it goes on sale, and we will not sell it without that approval.

5.2 We own the cloak — its design, files, and the right to sell it. You give us a non-exclusive licence to use your name, channel name, logo, and likeness on the cloak and its store page, and to promote it, for as long as it is on sale.

5.3 When this Agreement ends, we take the cloak off sale within 14 days and stop using your name for new sales. Players who already bought it keep it, with your name still shown where it appears on the item; that licence continues for those copies.

5.4 Prices, discounts (including the Sour Gold store discount), and whether the cloak is in a bundle are decided by us. Section 6 already takes discounts into account.

6. Revenue share (Sour Creators only)

6.1 You earn 40% of Net Revenue from every sale of your cloak made while you are a Sour Creator.

6.2 Net Revenue for a sale is what the buyer actually paid, minus: payment processing fees; sales tax, GST, or VAT we have to pay on it; and any amount later refunded, reversed, or charged back. Sales made with a 100% discount, or granted free by us, have no Net Revenue.

6.3 Hold. A sale becomes payable 30 days after it was made, so refunds and chargebacks can settle first. If a sale is refunded or charged back after we have paid you for it, we take your share of it out of your next payment.

6.4 Payouts are made through Stripe Connect. To be paid you complete Stripe's own onboarding (identity, bank details, and any tax forms Stripe asks for); we never see or store your bank details. Around the 5th of each month we pay everything that became payable in the month before, in US dollars (Stripe converts to your currency). If that is under US$20 it carries over to the next month.

6.5 Age. Stripe pays only account holders aged 18 or over. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian may hold the Stripe account and accept this Agreement for you; otherwise your share is kept for you until one does, or until you turn 18.

6.6 Statements. Your account shows each sale, its Net Revenue, your share, and when it was or will be paid.

6.7 Tax on what you earn is yours to report and pay. We do not withhold it unless the law requires us to.

6.8 Fraud. We do not pay for sales we reasonably believe were fraudulent or made to farm the program, and we may hold a payment while we look into it. We will tell you if we do.

7. Tier reviews

7.1 We review each Sour Partner and Sour Creator about every 90 days, looking at months in good standing and how your code is doing.

7.2 A Sour Partner may be invited to Sour Creator (Section 1.2). A Sour Creator with three months in a row not in good standing may be moved back to Sour Partner; the cloak then comes off sale under Section 5.3, and you keep any share already earned.

8. How it ends

8.1 This Agreement starts when you accept it and continues month to month.

8.2 Either of us may end it for any reason with 14 days' notice by email or from your account.

8.3 We may end it at once if you break Section 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5, or the Terms of Use, in a serious way.

8.4 When it ends: your code stops working for new redemptions (players already in their 3 days keep them); your own Sour Gold runs to the end of the month already granted; your cloak follows Section 5.3; and we pay every share earned before the end on the normal schedule, except where 6.8 or a serious breach under 8.3 applies to that sale.

9. The relationship

9.1 You are an independent creator, not our employee, agent, or partner in the legal sense.

9.2 There is no exclusivity. You may work with other clients and brands, as long as you meet Section 3 for your Sour Client content.

9.3 You are responsible for your own content and for having the rights to what is in it.

10. Liability

10.1 Nothing in this Agreement limits any right you have that cannot be excluded under New Zealand law.

10.2 Otherwise, neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability to you under this Agreement is limited to the revenue share we owe you.

11. Changes

11.1 We may change this Agreement. A change that reduces your revenue share or what you get under Section 2 gets a new Agreement version and 30 days' notice, and applies to you only once you accept it; if you do not, you may leave under 8.2 and everything earned before is paid as normal.

11.2 Other changes (wording, clarity, new options) take effect when we publish them here.

12. Governing law and contact

12.1 This Agreement is governed by the laws of New Zealand, and the courts of New Zealand have jurisdiction, without taking away any right you have to bring a claim where you live.

12.2 sourama — [email protected] — https://sourclient.com

12.3 Help. For questions about the program, reply to any email from us, or message us on the Sour Client Discord. Previews (Section 3.2) and notices (Section 8.2) go by email, so there is a record of them.