FeePod Premium Memberships
Terms of Service For Participating Sites

FeePod allows sites to offer premium features and/or content to their members for a fee. This agreement governs your use of FeePod as provided by Social Strata, Inc. ("Social Strata", "we", "us"). You must agree to the terms and conditions listed before you can use FeePod.

In order to use FeePod, you must have an active site in good standing. It is recommended that you also have a PayPal account; by default we will pay you via PayPal. Each site may have no more than one premium membership plan. You control which features you would like to reserve for the plan. You may also designate specific content as "premium" only, which means that only premium members may access such content.

You also control the fee to charge for your premium membership plan. However, your fees must meet our minimum requirements. You may choose only one term (monthly, quarterly, or annual payments). You also may not use coupons to circumvent these minimums.

You are obligated to offer specific benefits to your premium members (features or content available only to premium members). If you fail to do so or remove promised features, you are in violation of this TOS and subject to immediate cancellation of FeePod for your site, as well as a penalty. The penalty may range from complete forfeiture of the current balance due you up to the total amount ever collected by you via FeePod, at the complete discretion of Social Strata. In addition, if your cancellation results in requests for refunds by subscribers, you will be liable for making those refund payments to subscribers and Social Strata shall have no obligation to pay any portion of such refunds. Social Strata handles all transaction processing, and we are responsible for credit card processing fees. In addition, all credit card refunds and credits are handled only by Social Strata. All premium membership plans default to automatic renewal (meaning that users will need to opt out to discontinue the premium membership). You will have access to general reporting information regarding your FeePod transactions via your site control panel. You will have no access to credit card data from any of your members, however.

You are prohibited from stating or implying that you have any role in the processing of FeePod transactions or that your site has any affiliation with FeePod. When a user purchases a premium membership on your site, we will automatically and instantly grant the user access to the premium membership that you have designed. Likewise, once the user has ceased paying for the premium membership (or it expires), we will automatically remove the user from the premium membership plan.

All orders are subject to Social Strata approval. We may reject any order or any reason, without consulting you. We reserve the right to cancel and/or refund any premium membership for a subscriber on your site. There are no setup fees to get started with FeePod. Revenue from FeePod transactions will be split 75/25, with 75% going to you and 25% retained by Social Strata. Note: Certain professional customers may have an alternative configuration option whereby the merchant account is owned by Customer. Pro customers opting for that option have an alternate fee/revenue share agreement. Payments to you will be disbursed within 30 days of the end of each month, based on the available balance at the end of the previous month. This balance will reflect both purchases and refunds, chargebacks, and cancellations. In addition, we will charge a fee of $20 for each each chargeback that is applied to your account. The revenue share percentage will be based on the plan you are on at the time we make the disbursement, not the plan you were on during the previous month. You may choose to be paid via either PayPal or check; all payments will be made in U.S. dollars. Check disbursements will incur an additional fee of $5.00 each.

It is your responsibility to keep your contact and disbursement information current, so that we may pay you promptly and contact you successfully when the need arises. If we are unable to send you your disbursement because you have not provided valid disbursement information, we will attempt to contact you. After 180 days, if your disbursement is still unclaimed, your funds will be subject to applicable state laws regarding unclaimed property. You may cancel a member's premium membership on your site (and even issue refunds if you like) via your site Control Panel. Navigate to: Manage > Admin Control Panel > Premium Memberships. Then click on the "Members" tab and you will see a list of current premium memberships. You may then click on the "delete" icon to cancel the premium membership for a specific premium member. You may either cancel the auto-renewal, which will not generate a refund, or terminate the premium membership, which will generate an automatic pro-rata refund for the member. Note that we charge a Refund Fee of $7.50 for each refund processed. The refund fee is assessed to you, not the premium member.

We also reserve the right to cancel and/or refund any premium membership for a subscriber on your site. The Refund Fee referenced above will apply for refunds initiated by us, as well.

We may disable or suspend premium memberships entirely for your site, at our complete discretion.

If you terminate your site or it is terminated by us (for non payment or any other reason), FeePod services are considered canceled immediately, as well. However, you may retain your site and cancel FeePod services separately. You may cancel FeePod at any time, with written notice. To do so, please put in a request on our FeePod Support Site at https://www.socialstrata.com/support/topics/feepod. In the event that you have a dispute with a subscriber, you release Social Strata and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners and licensors from any and all claims of every kind arising out of such dispute.

This TOS is governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina. You and Social Strata agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Charleston County, South Carolina.