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Corporation’s (“Medium”) partner program (“Partner Program”). If you apply, meet the eligibility criteria, and are accepted into Medium’s Partner Program, you can (i) put a story from your user account behind Medium’s paywall (“locking” a story) and receive revenue based on its performance among Medium members, and (ii) subject to your further evaluation and acceptance by Medium, to participate in the Nominator Program, as more specifically defined and described below. Medium reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Partner Program, or any portion thereof, at any time and without advance notice to you. Medium will not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, suspension, or termination.</p><p id="b239" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">By participating in the Partner Program, you agree to these Partner Program Terms, as well as Medium’s <a class="af nu" href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e0f" rel="noopener">Terms of Service</a>, <a class="af nu" href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9" rel="noopener">Privacy Policy</a>, <a class="af nu" href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4" rel="noopener">Rules</a>, and all other terms and conditions that apply to the Medium website, mobile applications, and any other Medium service or product (collectively, the “Terms”). Please read the Partner Program Terms carefully. If you don’t understand them, or don’t accept any part of them, then you can’t participate in the Partner Program. Your acceptance of Medium’s Partner Program Terms forms a binding agreement between you and Medium and shows your intent to be bound by them.</p><h1 id="79bf" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Eligibility & Application</h1><p id="7496" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">To participate in the Partner Program, you must meet the <a class="af nu" href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187" rel="noopener">Eligibility Requirements</a>, apply, and be accepted into the Partner Program. Medium reserves the right to admit writers to the Partner Program at Medium’s sole discretion. Eligibility requirements are subject to change.</p><p id="7328" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk"><strong class="my gv"><em class="oy">Existing Partner Program Participants</em>:</strong> If you are a participant in the Partner Program as of August 1, 2024, you will remain in the program. However, to continue to participate in the Partner Program, you’ll need to meet the <a class="af nu" href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187" rel="noopener">Eligibility Requirements</a> by December 31, 2024. Medium will use reasonable efforts to contact you before removing you from the Partner Program if you no longer meet the Eligibility Requirements. If you are removed from the Partner Program, your locked stories will be removed from behind the paywall.</p><p id="1737" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk"><strong class="my gv"><em class="oy">Ongoing Eligibility for all Partner Program participants</em>:</strong> To remain in the Partner Program, you must continue to meet the <a class="af nu" href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187" rel="noopener">Eligibility Requirements</a>. In the event that we disable your ability to receive any revenue under the Partner Program and we subsequently determine that you meet the requirements to remain in the Partner Program, we may re-enable your ability to receive revenue under the Partner Program without requiring a reapplication from you for the Partner Program.</p><h1 id="f2bc" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Earning on Locked Stories</h1><p id="e200" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk"><strong class="my gv"><em class="oy">User Stories<br/></em></strong>For each locked story associated with your account, you have the opportunity to receive revenue based on various performance factors, including reader engagement. Based on the performance and assessed quality of a story, Medium will pay you a portion of revenues received by Medium from membership fees, as determined by Medium. Medium will send you payment for any revenues accrued as described in the Payment section below. Medium reserves the right to adjust at any time the factors by which story performance and revenue are determined.</p><p id="5734" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk"><strong class="my gv"><em class="oy">User Stories & Medium Publications<br/></em></strong>A locked story may be included in a Medium publication. The writer chooses whether to lock a story and will receive the same amount of funds through the Partner Program regardless of whether the story is included in a publication. As with any story, either the writer or the publication owner or editors may choose to remove a locked story from a publication at any time.</p><p id="ab39" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">The above arrangement may be modified on a case-by-case basis, such as for publications operating on Medium that commission or own their content. For any such publication planning to receive proceeds from a story’s performance, this arrangement must be made clear to any writer potentially affected and agreed upon in advance with a given story’s writer.</p><h1 id="23ba" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Earning on Nominator Activities.</h1><p id="82d3" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">As a participant in the Partner Program, you will be eligible to <a class="af nu" href="https://form.typeform.com/to/HgdSAbmg?typeform-source=blog.medium.com" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">apply to participate in Medium’s Boost Nomination Program</a> (the “Nominator Program”). Medium reserves the right to admit or reject any applicant to the Nominator Program at Medium’s sole discretion. If Medium accepts your application to participate in the Nominator Program, you will be permitted to nominate stories published on the Medium Site that you consider to be of high quality and that you believe should be considered by Medium’s team for boosting (each, a “Suggested Story”). You will be assigned a weekly and monthly nomination quota and may nominate up to that quota. You may be assigned a new quota at any time. All Suggested Stories must be posted to the Medium Site at the time you submit your nomination. For each Suggested Story that you nominate and that is also selected by Medium’s team for boosting, Medium will pay you a set amount (the “Nomination Fee”). Nomination Fees will be paid on up to your assigned quota of Suggested Stories in any calendar month, and in no event will total Nomination Fees payable to you with respect to any calendar month exceed $900 USD. Although Medium will consider those criteria outlined in the Checklist for Selecting High-Quality Stories (the “Checklist”) when reviewing Suggested Stories, Medium and its team shall determine, in its sole discretion, whether to select any Suggested Stories for boosting, and Medium shall not owe any Nomination Fee with respect to any Suggested Story that is not selected by Medium for boosting. Medium may modify or update the Checklist at any time in its sole discretion and without notice to you.</p><h1 id="75b2" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Necessary Rights</h1><p id="e66c" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">You may only lock a story (i.e. place it behind Medium’s paywall) if you have sufficient rights to make commercial use of the content in it, including text, video, and audio elements. Medium may require you to provide documentation proving you own sufficient rights to lock a story.</p><p id="30da" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">The consequences of locking stories when you lack the rights to do so or failing to provide adequate documentation upon request include unlocking stories, withholding revenue, suspension, or termination from the Partner Program, and suspension or termination of your Medium account.</p><p id="9659" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">You are not entitled to earn or receive any revenue in connection with your content if one or more third parties claim rights to any element(s) of your content.</p><p id="82f2" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">These Partner Terms are not legal advice. If you plan to lock and earn revenue on a story containing any content you did not create, you may want to talk to a lawyer first to ensure you own all rights required to do so.</p><h1 id="c2eb" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Termination</h1><p id="8ff6" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">Medium reserves the right to unlock a story at any time, which will end that story’s ability to generate revenue. Medium reserves the right in its sole discretion to disable your ability to receive any revenue under the Partner Program, suspend your participation in the Partner Program, or terminate your participation in the Partner Program at any time for any reason, including but not limited to the failure to meet the Eligibility Requirements, sustained inactivity in the Partner Program, or violation of any terms contained herein.</p><p id="d2d4" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">If your participation in the Partner Program is terminated for any reason, your locked stories will be unlocked and can no longer generate revenue, and you will no longer be eligible to earn from Medium’s deprecated Referral Earnings program.</p><h1 id="37f3" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Payment</h1><p id="9a15" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">To accrue or receive payment of any revenues under the Partner Program, you must be a Partner Program participant in good standing (meaning for example, your monetization is not currently disabled, you are not currently suspended, you are not violating Terms or have not violated the Terms, or have not been terminated), have at all times an active Medium account, and have at all times an active payout method associated with your Medium account. Medium does not owe you any revenue that may be associated with your content or Referral Earnings during any period when you are not in good standing in the Partner Program, do not have a valid Medium account, or do not have an active payout method. You will not receive any revenue if you do not have a payout account in a geographic region where the Partner Program is available. The list of available geographic regions is available <a class="af nu" href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p><p id="d0fd" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">Medium reserves the right to require that your revenue meet a $10 minimum payout threshold before Medium disburses payment. In the event that you quit or are removed from the Partner Program and have not met the minimum payout threshold OR have not completed your payout settings, Medium reserves the right to forfeit the payment.</p><h1 id="852e" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Changes or Discontinuation of Partner Program</h1><p id="08a4" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">Medium reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Partner Program. Medium will not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, suspension, or termination. 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Such taxes may include duties, customs fees, or other taxes (other than income tax), along with any related penalties or interest.</p><h1 id="276f" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Governing Law & Forum</h1><p id="f258" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">The governing law, mandatory forum, and dispute resolution provisions of Medium’s Terms of Service also apply to these Partner Program Terms and any dispute arising under them.</p><h1 id="c794" class="nv nw gu bf nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os bk">Miscellaneous</h1><p id="410c" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz ot nb nc nd ou nf ng nh ov nj nk nl ow nn no np ox nr ns nt gn bk">You participate in the Partner Program at your own risk. You agree that you are solely responsible for your actions in connection with the Partner Program, any breach of your obligations under the Partner Program Terms, and for the consequences of any such breach.</p><p id="de27" class="pw-post-body-paragraph mw mx gu my b mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt gn bk">Any capitalized terms used but not defined in these Partner Program Terms have the meanings given to them in Medium’s Terms of Service. Except as modified by these Partner Program Terms, Medium’s Terms of Service remain in effect. 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