Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern your use of scenepaper.com, our mobile applications, and our APIs (together, the "Platform"). Our Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms.

ScenePaper is an independent project

ScenePaper is built and operated by Geenesh S, an individual based in India, working independently. It is not operated by a company, and it is provided to you free of charge.

We tell you this plainly because it should inform your expectations. There is no support organisation behind the Platform, no service-level commitment, and no guarantee that any feature will continue to exist or that the Platform will remain available. It is offered in good faith and maintained as time allows. Clauses 18 and 19 set out the disclaimers and liability limits that follow, and you should read them before relying on the Platform for anything that matters commercially.

Keep your own records. Do not use the Platform as the only copy of anything you cannot afford to lose — contracts, schedules, scripts or messages. Export what matters to you.

If the operator's legal structure changes — for example if ScenePaper is incorporated — these Terms will be updated and the new entity will assume them under clause 24.

If you use the Platform on behalf of a company or production, you confirm you have authority to bind that organisation, and "you" means that organisation.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Platform.

You must be at least 18 years old to use ScenePaper. The Platform is a professional hiring marketplace, and we do not offer accounts to minors.

You must also not be barred from using the Platform under the laws of your country or under any applicable sanctions or export control regime. You confirm you are not on any restricted-party list.

We may refuse, suspend or remove any account at our discretion where these requirements are not met.

You are responsible for your account credentials and for everything that happens under your account. Keep your password confidential and tell us immediately at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorised access.

You agree to provide accurate information and keep it current. Accounts are personal to you — do not share, sell or transfer your account.

One person or organisation should hold one account. Creating multiple accounts to evade suspension, inflate ratings, or misrepresent availability is a breach of these Terms.

ScenePaper provides tools for discovery, communication, scheduling and production management. We are not a party to any engagement, booking, contract or transaction between members.

Specifically:

• We are not an employer, employment agency, staffing agency, or labour contractor. We do not employ crew, and nothing here creates an employment relationship between you and us.
• We do not guarantee that you will be hired, that a role will be filled, that a member is suitable, or that anyone will perform, pay, or turn up.
• We do not set, negotiate or guarantee rates, working conditions, or hours.
• We are not responsible for the conduct of any member, on or off the Platform.
• We do not provide legal, tax, insurance, employment or financial advice. Templates and documents on the Platform are starting points, not advice.

You are solely responsible for your own compliance with the laws that apply to you — including employment law, tax, immigration, health and safety, union and guild agreements, and any permits required where you work. If you engage crew, you are responsible for correct classification and for the terms you agree.

Verify independently. Conduct your own due diligence before hiring, being hired, travelling, or paying anyone.

Your Crew Card or Production House profile is public once cleared, and may be indexed by search engines. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly which fields are public and which are not. You control your visibility from The Booth.

You are responsible for the accuracy of everything on your profile, including credits, roles, rates and availability. Claiming credits you did not work on, misrepresenting your role on a project, or impersonating another person is a serious breach and will result in removal.

Production Houses are responsible for the accuracy of company information and for the conduct of team members they invite.

Gate Check, filmography verification, guild verification and peer vouching are trust signals. They are not guarantees.

A verified badge means we or another member checked something at a point in time. It does not mean we endorse a member, warrant their skill, confirm their current availability, or accept responsibility for their conduct.

We may grant, withhold, suspend or revoke verification at our discretion. We may request supporting documents, and we may decline to explain a decision where doing so would compromise the integrity of the process.

You keep ownership of everything you upload — showreels, headshots, scripts, storyboards, schedules, breakdowns, contracts, messages and posts ("Your Content").

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display, and transmit Your Content solely to the extent necessary to operate and provide the Platform to you and to the members you share it with. For content you deliberately make public — your profile, portfolio microsite, or a post on The Lot — that licence extends to displaying it publicly and to search engines indexing it.

That licence is limited and purposive. It ends when you delete the content or your account, except where the content has already been shared with another member who retains a copy, or where we must retain it under section 9 of the Privacy Policy.

We do not use Your Content to train generative AI models, and we do not license it to third parties for that purpose.

You confirm that you own or have the rights to Your Content, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights. You are responsible for having the necessary releases and permissions for any person who appears in material you upload.

You agree not to:

• Create fake profiles, impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your identity, credits or affiliation
• Harass, threaten, bully, stalk or abuse any member
• Send spam, chain messages, or unsolicited commercial messages
• Discriminate against members on the basis of any protected characteristic, or post crew calls that do so unlawfully
• Post content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or that sexualises any person without consent
• Post sexually explicit material, or any material depicting a minor inappropriately
• Solicit money by deception, run advance-fee schemes, or request payment for auditions or job placement
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-download Platform data except through our documented API under clause 13
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code
• Probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Platform, or circumvent authentication, rate limits or access controls
• Upload malware, or anything designed to disrupt the Platform
• Use the Platform to violate any applicable law, sanctions regime, or third-party right

Reporting

If you see something that breaches these rules, report it in-product or write to [email protected]. We operate a notice-and-action process: we review reports, and we may remove content, restrict features, or suspend accounts. Where we remove your content or restrict your account, we will tell you the reason and how to contest it, unless doing so is legally prohibited or would compromise an investigation.

Wrap Reports are first-hand accounts written by members about people they have actually worked with. They are opinions of their authors, not statements by ScenePaper, and we do not endorse them.

When you write one, it must be honest, based on a real working relationship, and free of abuse, discriminatory language, or personal information about third parties. Do not write reviews in exchange for payment, and do not write about yourself or your own company.

We may remove a report that breaches these rules. We do not remove reports simply because their subject disagrees with them. If you believe a report is false or defamatory, contact [email protected] with specifics and we will review it.

Aggregate ratings may remain visible in anonymised form after an author deletes their account, so that other members' scores stay accurate.

Crew Calls, submissions, callbacks, bookings and contracts are arrangements between members. ScenePaper provides the tooling and the record; it is not a party, guarantor or escrow agent.

If you post a Crew Call, you are responsible for the accuracy of the role, rate, dates and conditions described, and for complying with the law wherever the work takes place.

The Contracts feature lets you upload, send, and track acceptance of a document. A contract sent through ScenePaper is an agreement between the sending and receiving members. We do not draft it, review it, advise on it, or guarantee that it is valid or enforceable in your jurisdiction. Acceptance recorded on the Platform is evidence of an action taken by a user account; whether it constitutes binding assent is a matter for the law that governs that contract.

We are not responsible for non-payment, cancellation, or any dispute arising from an engagement.

Equipment listings and rental requests are transactions between members. We do not own, inspect, insure or warrant any listed equipment.

If you list equipment you are responsible for describing it accurately and for having the right to rent it. If you rent equipment, you are responsible for inspecting it, insuring it, and returning it in the agreed condition. Any deposit, damage or loss is a matter between the parties.

ScenePaper is currently free to use, for both crew and productions, and we take zero commission on any hire arranged through the Platform.

If we introduce paid plans, we will tell you clearly before any charge applies, and you will never be charged without opting in.

Referral credits have no cash value, are not redeemable for money, are not transferable, and may expire or be varied. We may cancel credits obtained through fraud, self-referral, or abuse of the referral programme.

If we issue you API credentials, you may access the Platform programmatically subject to these Terms, our developer documentation, and any rate limits or scopes attached to your key.

You must keep your API key and secret confidential, must not share them, and are responsible for all activity under them. You may not use the API to build a competing crew directory, to bulk-export member data, or to enrich a third-party dataset.

We may change, rate-limit, suspend or revoke API access at any time, and we may deprecate endpoints with reasonable notice.

The Platform, including the ScenePaper name and logo, the software, the design, and all content we create, is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Platform for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or create derivative works from any part of it except as these Terms permit.

Feedback you send us is welcome and we may use it without restriction or obligation to you.

If you believe content on ScenePaper infringes your intellectual property, write to [email protected] with:

1. Your name, address and contact details
2. Identification of the work you say is infringed
3. The URL or location of the material you say is infringing
4. A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised
5. A statement that the information is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them
6. Your signature, electronic or physical

We will investigate and may remove the material. We will notify the member who posted it, and they may submit a counter-notice. We may suspend or terminate accounts that repeatedly infringe.

Do not send bad-faith complaints. Misrepresenting infringement may make you liable for the resulting damages.

The Platform links to and integrates with third-party services — Google sign-in, Google Calendar, video hosts for showreels, and others. Those services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for them.

Links to external sites are not endorsements.

You may stop using the Platform and delete your account at any time from The Booth.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, if your account creates a security or legal risk, or if we discontinue the Platform. Except where a breach is serious or we are legally prevented, we will give you notice and an opportunity to respond.

On termination: your licence to use the Platform ends; your public profile is removed; and your data is handled as described in section 9 of the Privacy Policy. Clauses 7, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 24 survive termination.

The Platform is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing.

We do not warrant that the Platform will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any content is accurate or complete.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or under mandatory consumer protection law where it applies to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, opportunity, or anticipated savings — whether or not we were advised such loss was possible.

We are not liable for: the conduct of any member; any engagement, booking, contract or payment between members; content posted by members; or any decision you make in reliance on the Platform.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD 100.

The alternative figure exists because the Platform is provided free of charge by an independent operator. Without it, a cap tied to fees paid would be zero, which some jurisdictions will not enforce. You are receiving the Platform at no cost, and the allocation of risk in these Terms reflects that: if the Platform is not fit for what you need, your remedy is to stop using it.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations. Where that applies to you, the limitations above apply only to the extent permitted.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Geenesh S, and any contributor, contractor or successor operating the Platform, from any claim, demand, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of: your use of the Platform; Your Content; your breach of these Terms or of any law; your infringement of a third party's rights; or any engagement or dispute between you and another member.

We will notify you of any such claim and may, at our option, assume its defence at your expense.

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control — including outages at our infrastructure providers, internet or telecommunications failures, cyber attacks, natural disasters, epidemics, war, civil unrest, strikes, or government action.

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Subject to the paragraph below, the courts at Coimbatore, India have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Platform, and you consent to that jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident in the EEA, the UK, or another jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings locally or to rely on mandatory local consumer protections, nothing in this clause removes that right.

Before you file

Please contact [email protected] first and give us 30 days to resolve the matter informally. Most disputes are resolved this way, and it is faster than litigation for both of us.

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will notify you by email or in-app notification at least 14 days before it takes effect, and update the "last updated" date above.

Continuing to use the Platform after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Platform and delete your account before the effective date.

Changes required by law or addressing a security issue may take effect immediately.

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Platform, and supersede any prior understanding.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force and the unenforceable provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

Notices. We may give notice by email to your registered address, or by in-app notification. Notices to us go to [email protected].

No third-party rights. No one other than you and us has any right to enforce these Terms.

Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is provided for convenience, and the English version governs.

In accordance with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, our Grievance Officer acknowledges complaints within 24 hours and resolves them within 15 days of receipt.