Terms & Conditions

1. About these terms

These terms govern access to and use of Clapperboard Network's website, application and related services, operated by Clapperboard Media Private Limited in India. "We", "us" and "our" refer to that company; "you" refers to the person using the service and, where authorised, the account or organisation they represent.

By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms to the extent a valid agreement can be formed under applicable law. If you do not agree, do not use the service. A person accepting on behalf of an organisation must have authority to bind it. Children cannot independently accept a contract by clicking a button.

Our Privacy Policy explains personal-information handling. These terms do not replace separate, clearly disclosed feature terms or a production's lawful agreement with its cast and crew. Mandatory legal rights prevail over conflicting wording.

2. Eligibility & guardian involvement

You must be legally capable of entering into an agreement, provide accurate age information and comply with applicable law. Under-18 participation, where permitted, requires a parent or lawful guardian to act with appropriate authority, provide required consent and supervise the activity.

Applications involving minors remain unavailable until the dedicated guardian and safeguarding workflow is enabled. Guardian involvement does not itself unlock restricted features. Do not bypass age checks, use an adult profile to apply for a child or treat ordinary team access as verified guardianship.

Banners are responsible for complying with child-protection, child-performer, labour and safeguarding requirements. Availability of a profile or field is not permission to recruit a child. Contact support@clapperboard.network about guardian participation or a child's safety before proceeding.

3. Accounts, teams & authority

Performers and creative/technical crew use Artist accounts. Production organisations use Banner accounts. You may belong to multiple accounts, but must act in the correct account context and within your assigned permissions.

• Provide accurate identity, contact, professional and organisation details. Keep information current and complete required verification honestly.
• Keep passwords and verification codes confidential. Use team invitations rather than sharing a login, and promptly report suspected misuse.
• Invite or manage others only with authority. Account owners must maintain appropriate team access and remove access when it is no longer needed.
• Do not impersonate an Artist, crew member, Banner, representative or guardian. A team role does not establish legal representation or ownership of another person's work.

Approval, profile completeness, contact verification, trust verification, public visibility and search indexing are distinct. A badge or approval is not a background check, endorsement, suitability assessment or guarantee of safety.

4. What Clapperboard does

Clapperboard provides tools for professional profiles and portfolios, public discovery, casting and crew calls, applications, invitations, role-specific auditions/self-tapes, offer responses and authorised production workspaces.

We are not the employer, casting agent, talent representative or party to a production engagement merely because it uses the platform. People and organisations make their own recruitment and working decisions. We do not promise work, applications, responses, selection, compensation or a project's completion.

The current service does not provide contract execution, e-signatures, escrow, payroll or payment/payout processing. An in-app offer response records a workflow decision; it is not a Clapperboard-issued employment contract or payment guarantee. Its legal effect between participants depends on the actual terms and applicable law.

5. Recruitment & working terms

• Banners: publish genuine, authorised briefs. Accurately describe the role, profession, location, dates, eligibility, audition requirements and compensation classification. Disclose material changes; do not disguise unpaid work as paid or promise benefits you cannot provide.
• Artists & crew: apply with accurate experience, availability, credits and work samples you may share. Review requirements before submitting and communicate changes affecting an agreed commitment.
• Everyone: confirm scope, compensation and currency, payment timing, travel, expenses, hours, safety, cancellation, credit and media-usage rights before committing. Obtain appropriate written agreements outside the platform where needed.
• Comply with applicable labour, tax, health and safety, anti-discrimination, intellectual-property and child-protection law. Role-specific requirements must be lawful and relevant.

Clapperboard does not collect audition deposits or recruitment payments through its current features. Do not present an off-platform request for money as a payment required or guaranteed by Clapperboard. Treat selection fees, requests for credentials and pressure to act without clear terms as warning signs.

6. Your content & the permissions you give

You retain the rights you hold in your photographs, showreels, sound samples, credits, writing and other uploads. Uploading does not transfer ownership to Clapperboard or give another member unrestricted rights to use your work.

You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to host, store, reproduce, technically adapt and display your content only as needed to operate the service, deliver the features you choose, and meet safety or legal obligations. This can include generating previews, processing media for playback and showing material to audiences allowed by the relevant workflow and visibility settings. Service providers may carry out these tasks on our behalf.

This permission lasts while needed for those purposes, subject to removal requests, lawful retention and existing authorised copies described in the Privacy Policy. It is not a licence for unrelated advertising, commercial reuse of a self-tape or training an unrelated AI model.

You must have the necessary copyright, performer, likeness and confidentiality permissions before sharing. Respect production restrictions and other people's privacy. Do not misrepresent credits or submit someone else's work as your own.

Recipients may review material only for its intended professional purpose and any separately agreed rights. Do not download, republish, commercially exploit or create synthetic likenesses/voices from another person's material without a lawful basis and required permission. Our branding and service software remain protected; ordinary use grants no ownership of them.

7. Acceptable use

Do not use Clapperboard to:

• Commit fraud, impersonation, unlawful discrimination, harassment, threats, stalking, exploitation or abuse; publish illegal content or solicit sexual material under the guise of recruitment.
• Share private contacts, identity documents, confidential scripts, production locations or other restricted information without authority.
• Post deceptive opportunities, fabricated credits, misleading verification claims, unsolicited bulk messages or malicious files.
• Scrape or bulk-harvest personal information, evade access controls or moderation, probe other people's accounts, disrupt the service or misuse automated access.
• Misuse intellectual property, evade age restrictions, manipulate reports or retaliate against someone raising a genuine safety concern.

Public availability does not authorise unrestricted collection or reuse. Normal search-engine indexing of eligible public pages must respect our published indexing controls and applicable law.

8. Privacy & professional confidentiality

Choose public sharing deliberately. Public profiles and calls may be seen by visitors and search engines according to eligibility and settings. Applications, evaluations, private evidence and workspace documents have separate access rules. Do not put private information into public free-text fields or media.

Only access information your role permits and use it for the purpose for which it was shared. Banners and other recipients are responsible for their independent data-handling obligations, necessary notices, permissions and retention practices. Do not treat access to an application as consent to unrelated marketing.

Respect confidential auditions, scripts, schedules, documents and team discussions. Workspace permissions support collaboration but do not replace a non-disclosure agreement or recall copies that a recipient already obtained.

9. Safety, reports & account restrictions

Use available reporting and appeal tools, or contact support@clapperboard.network, to raise suspected abuse, impersonation, rights violations or unsafe recruitment. For a copyright or content complaint, identify the specific URL/content, your relationship to the rights involved and enough supporting context to assess it. Do not send passwords or unnecessary identity documents.

We may review content, request information, remove or limit content, restrict publishing/outreach, or suspend access where reasonably necessary to address a suspected breach, legal requirement, security risk or risk of harm. Urgent safety or legal concerns may require action before notice. Where permitted, we will explain the restriction and available review route; reports do not guarantee removal or a particular result.

Check counterparties, locations and working terms independently. Platform verification is not a safety guarantee. Clapperboard is not an emergency service; contact local emergency services or law enforcement for immediate danger.

10. Availability, external services & charges

Features may change, be interrupted or become unavailable during maintenance, incidents or development. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, delivery of every notification or that every member-provided statement is accurate. Keep your own lawful copies of important agreements and work.

External portfolio links, websites and off-platform arrangements are provided by their respective operators. Review their terms and use appropriate care; linking does not imply endorsement.

These terms do not create a subscription, commission or payment obligation. Any future paid feature must disclose its price and applicable payment, cancellation and refund terms before you choose it. No such charge is authorised merely by accepting these terms.

11. Responsibility & limits of liability

You are responsible for your submissions, permissions, lawful use and commitments to other participants. Productions remain responsible for their hiring, payment, working conditions and independent agreements. Clapperboard remains responsible for its own obligations under applicable law.

To the extent permitted by law, the service is provided on an "as available" basis without promises of commercial success, suitability for a particular engagement or freedom from all errors. We are not responsible for independent acts or omissions of members, a production's non-payment or third-party services merely because an introduction occurred here.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for indirect or consequential loss, including lost opportunities or expected profits. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, liability for our fraud or wilful misconduct, or mandatory consumer, data-protection or other statutory rights. Any limitation applies only to the extent valid under applicable law.

12. Ending use & changes to these terms

You may stop using the service and contact support to request account closure. Leaving a team, closing a shared account and closing your personal login are different actions. Closure does not itself cancel an agreement with a production or erase records that others lawfully hold.

We may end or restrict access for material or repeated breaches, legal requirements or serious safety/security risks, subject to applicable law and available review procedures. Content permissions needed for lawful retention, confidentiality obligations and provisions necessary to resolve existing disputes continue as appropriate after access ends.

We may update these terms as features and legal requirements evolve. We will publish the revised date and use an appropriate notice for material changes; where a change requires renewed agreement, that agreement must be obtained. If you cannot accept a change, stop using the affected service and contact support about closure.

13. Indian law, disputes & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of India, subject to mandatory rights and protections that apply to you. Disputes may be brought before courts or authorities having jurisdiction under applicable law; these terms do not impose an exclusive city or compulsory arbitration.

Please first describe a concern to Clapperboard Media Private Limited at support@clapperboard.network so we can try to resolve it. This does not prevent you seeking urgent relief or using statutory complaint routes.

If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the extent legally possible. Failure to enforce a provision on one occasion is not a waiver of future enforcement.