Seller Agreement

This Seller Agreement governs what you offer on Graunt and supplements the Terms of Service. Every Graunt account can buy and sell; you accept this Agreement before your first listing is created, yourself or through an agent you use with the Graunt API. If you accept it for an organization, you confirm you are authorized to bind it. You follow the Terms of Service, the Acceptable Use Policy, including its content rules, the Copyright / DMCA policy and the Repeat Infringer Policy.

The document this summarises

This page is a plain-language summary. The binding document is the full Seller Agreement, currently version 1.14, effective November 8, 2026. Read the exact text. New acceptances are recorded against those exact bytes by their SHA-256. If you accepted an earlier version, your record stays pinned to the version you were shown. You can request that version from support@graunt.com.

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Your relationship with Graunt

Graunt operates a marketplace. It is not a reseller or distributor of your content and is not your partner: you keep title to your content, and each sale is between you and the buyer. You and Graunt are independent contractors. Graunt acts as your agent for one purpose only, to receive buyers' payments for you and pay you your seller net through Stripe Connect, and a buyer's payment to Graunt settles what that buyer owes you for the sale.

Rights and accuracy you promise

For each listing, when you create it and at every sale, you promise Graunt that you created the content or hold every right, license, consent and permission needed to offer it on Graunt and to grant buyers the Marketplace License; that, to your knowledge after reasonable inquiry, it infringes no one's copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, right of publicity or other proprietary right; that it follows the content rules of the Acceptable Use Policy and holds personal data only as that policy permits and the listing declares; that no court order or hold restricts its distribution; and that everything you provide or confirm for the listing, including its description, provenance and rights, is accurate to the best of your knowledge and not misleading. You also confirm that you have the authority to enter into this Agreement and that your offering and sale of the content comply with the law, including data protection, consumer protection and anti-money-laundering law.

You and anyone you got the content from collected it lawfully, not by unauthorized access, in breach of a website's or service's terms, by deception, or by recording a private conversation, or a person in a private place, without the consent the law requires. Where people can be identified in it, the release status you declare is accurate, every identifiable person who is a subject of it signed a model release covering the uses buyers receive, including a buyer's client, and anyone without a release appears only incidentally. A person under 18 who can be identified and is a subject of the content appears only when you declare Evidence on file and hold a release signed by a parent or guardian; one who appears only incidentally has their face blurred or is cut out. Your declaration of whether the content is AI-generated (not, partly, or wholly) is accurate, and you have not knowingly added material meant to corrupt or manipulate a model trained on it. Where a listing says personal details were removed, you removed the identifiers you found and replaced the people and companies with placeholders, and the listing never calls what remains, which is still personal information, anonymous or free of personal information. A listing sold from your own storage matches the file list recorded when it was created. You are not subject to United States sanctions, the content is not export-controlled, and you follow the export control and sanctions laws that apply to you. You keep the releases and other records behind your declarations for at least seven years after the content's last sale, and provide them when Graunt asks about a specific claim, inquiry or takedown notice.

Licenses you grant

When a buyer buys or acquires your listing, you grant that buyer the Marketplace License for the content directly. The License forms between you and the buyer at the purchase, on the terms your listing records or the terms you set for a buyer you invite, and the version of the License in effect at the purchase is the one that governs it. Graunt records each one-time purchase of your listing, paid or free, in an Order License that names you as the licensor and states the versions of the documents that govern the sale, and records each subscription in its subscription record. Your acceptance of this Agreement is your signature on each license you grant. When you publish an update to a listing, buyers who hold it move to the update at no additional charge; a one-time buyer whose files the update drops keeps the version they hold, a buyer of a listing priced by the hour keeps the version they bought, and subscription access follows the listing's current version. Material you want to charge for is offered as a separate listing.

What Graunt may do with your content

You grant Graunt, its affiliates and the service providers acting for them a non-exclusive license to use your content only as needed to run the marketplace: to host, store, copy and deliver it, make previews, samples, checks and search entries, meet legal process, enforce Graunt's policies, promote your listings and prepare files from it for buyers. A paid listing shows its previews and samples to prospective buyers and their agents, on its page or privately before a sale, where its format and the rights you declare allow it, unless you turn previews off, and a sample that shows people stays within the releases you hold. Graunt may promote your listings, and name you as one of its sellers, on Graunt and off it, including in email, social media, advertising and search engines, using only what a listing's public page shows, and never a preview you turned off or a preview or sample in which a person can be identified. When a listing is removed, this license ends for it except to serve buyers who already bought it, keep records and meet Graunt's legal obligations, and Graunt stops the promotion it controls.

Graunt may prepare machine-readable files from your content, such as file inventories and checksums, extracted text and records as addressable units, retrieval chunks and indexes, schemas and data dictionaries, and guides to the files, while a listing is being prepared or at any time after, using automated tools, which may include the model providers its Privacy Policy names, and it delivers them to buyers with your content, including buyers who bought earlier. Preparing them never alters the files you list, changes no one's title to your content and costs you nothing beyond any paid listing preparation you choose, and your promises reach what they repeat of your content, not what Graunt adds or gets wrong. A new version that only adds or changes these files is not an update. You retain ownership of your content, subject to the licenses you grant.

A buyer's one client

Where a listing allows it, a buyer may pass its Marketplace License through to one client. The buyer names its client to Graunt when it buys, or within 30 days after and before it delivers anything to the client, and the client's affiliates may use the content on its behalf unless your listing excludes them. You are not told who the client is, only that one confidential client is authorized. You authorize that sublicense on the License's terms, and your promises and the releases you declare cover the client's use. If you learn a client's identity, keep it confidential and use it only to meet your obligations to those you hold your rights from.

Warranties and indemnity you give buyers

On every sale you make the Marketplace License's promises to the buyer directly, whether the buyer paid or acquired the listing free. On every paid sale, every sale of a video listing and every sale that includes a buyer's client, you also give the buyer and its client the warranties and the indemnity in the Enterprise and Video License Addendum, and each of them can enforce them against you directly. You give them on the Addendum's terms and within its limits: for each listing in an order, your liability under it is capped at the price the buyer paid for that listing, or a higher amount a signed Order Form states, except for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by your negligence, a declaration you knew was false, or what the law does not let a contract limit. Graunt is not a party to the Addendum and gives no warranty or indemnity for content. The Addendum does not reduce your promises or your indemnity to Graunt.

Selling from your own storage

For a listing whose files stay in your own storage, Graunt records its file list, with each file's size and checksum, when the listing is created. The list never changes and is what every buyer buys, so a different set of files needs a new listing. You keep every file available and unchanged for 90 days after it becomes available to each buyer, longer by any time your storage cannot be read, and while that buyer's dispute about the delivery is open, even if you remove the listing. You give Graunt read access to the files and their metadata through the access you set up in Seller Studio, and keep that access while the listing is offered and through each buyer's access period. Buyers receive the files from your storage by the delivery methods you offer, and you bear your storage charges, including the transfer for delivery by links. Graunt checks the files from time to time and may pause the listing while they are unavailable or have changed. If a buyer reports files missing, changed, corrupt or off their stated specifications before the delivery's dispute window closes, you have five business days to fix it. The payout waits until that window closes and any dispute is resolved, and if Graunt confirms a failure you did not fix in time, it refunds the buyer in full or in part and the seller net for what is refunded is not paid. Your storage logs may show a buyer's network address or cloud account: use it only to run the delivery, never to identify or contact the buyer.

Where a buyer chooses drives, the buyer pays at checkout the price per drive you set, shipping included, and keeps the drives, and Graunt passes that price to you with the sale's payout and takes no commission on it. You seal the files and send them as Seller Studio directs to the address the buyer gives, ship the drives insured, with a signature required, by the end of the seventh business day in the United States after the order is paid, or the fifteenth where the buyer bought more than 100 terabytes in the order, and record the carrier and tracking number. If you have recorded no shipment by then, the buyer may cancel and is refunded in full, the drives and shipping included, and nothing is paid to you for the sale. Until delivery is complete you bear the risk of loss or damage, and you replace at no charge a drive that is lost, damaged or does not read, failing which the buyer is refunded in full, the drives included. For files that are missing or fail the buyer's check and that you do not fix, the refund is of those files' share of the price, in proportion to their size, and you keep the drives' price.

Buyers you meet through Graunt

When a buyer acquires one of your listings, or Graunt puts you in touch about your content, Graunt has introduced you. Until 24 months after that buyer's last purchase of your content through Graunt, or 12 months after an introduction that led to no purchase, you license, sell or deliver your content, and data substantially the same as it, to that buyer and its affiliates only through Graunt. If you make a deal outside Graunt in that window, tell Graunt within 14 days at support@graunt.com and pay the commission Graunt would have earned had the deal been made on Graunt, at your rates on the date of the deal, on the committed value of the covered data; whatever Graunt collects for that deal, from you or the buyer, counts toward it. A deal in the window is presumed to come from the introduction unless you or the buyer shows that the relationship for that data arose independently of Graunt, such as through earlier dealings. Nothing here limits what a buyer already bought.

Data pools

When you add records to a data pool, you are the licensor of your own records in each sale through it, and Graunt is not a licensor. Your records are offered under the Marketplace License as part of the pool, at its published list price or at a lower price Graunt agrees with a buyer for an order, never less than half of the list price. Each sale is shared among the sellers in the pool by the weighting its terms publish, and the commission is figured on your share alone, as if it were the whole order. Graunt may change a pool's published rates to reflect demand, for sales made after the change. You provide samples of your records when Graunt asks for them for prospective buyers, and toward a buyer you answer only for your own records. A buyer may buy one trial of a pool, of the size its terms state, at its published rates. If the buyer then buys the whole pool, what it paid in the trial for your records still in the pool counts toward your part of that sale, up to that part, and a trial that is refunded no longer counts. If what is left to pay for the whole pool after the trial is less than the smallest payment Graunt accepts, the purchase completes at no charge.

Pricing and payouts

You set the price of each listing, and of each license type you offer it in: Buy, and Reference by subscription, monthly, yearly or both. A license type is offered only at a price you entered and confirmed, within the minimum price and pricing rules on the fees page. Reference is offered only on a listing whose files Graunt holds and that has text Graunt can read. A subscriber's organization reads that text within a daily limit and downloads none of your files, and on video, images or audio a subscriber is licensed only that text and receives none of the media. A subscription renews until the buyer cancels it, a buyer who cancels keeps access to the end of the paid period, and a price change applies only to billing periods that begin after it.

On each sale Graunt keeps its commission and you receive the rest as your seller net. The standard commission is 25% of your share of an order, less on the part of an order above $100,000, in steps that run across all of the order's lines, parts and payments, and no rate is under 10%. A rate Graunt agrees with you in writing, in Seller Studio or by email, such as a launch seat, applies in place of the standard rate for the period it states. Graunt may change the standard commission for future sales on 30 days' notice in Seller Studio; each sale keeps the rate fixed when it was bought, and if a sale is charged more than your version of this Agreement allows, Graunt pays you the difference. Graunt pays payment processing costs out of its commission: buyers pay no processing fee, and nothing is taken from your seller net for it.

Each sale's seller net is paid by its own transfer through Stripe Connect. A first-time seller's payouts wait 72 hours after Stripe confirms the buyer's payment. A sale whose delivery has a dispute window is paid out when that window closes and no report the buyer made within it is open; a sale from your own storage has one, and so does a sale of files Graunt holds of $100,000 or more, or in an order of $1,000,000 or more. A sale paid by bank debit or bank transfer is paid out after the return period the bank allows for that payment. Where more than one of these holds applies, the latest governs. If you sell before finishing payout setup, your seller net accrues and waits for you: it is shown in Seller Studio, paid once setup is complete and never forfeited by the passage of time.

Listing preparation and storage

Graunt's listing preparation services, offered as Refinery, are free up to their allowance. Beyond it they are a paid service between you and Graunt: you authorize Graunt to charge your saved payment method at the rates and within the limits shown to you before the work begins, and the charges never come out of sale proceeds or buyer payments. Removing your saved payment method stops new paid work from starting and does not affect charges already incurred. You also have a free allowance for storing the files you upload, shown in Seller Studio. If you add storage there, Graunt charges your saved payment method each month, at the price shown, for what you hold above the allowance; you may cancel the added storage once what you hold is within the allowance, and Graunt gives you at least 30 days' notice in Seller Studio before it raises that price or reduces the allowance.

Holds, refunds and chargebacks

Graunt may hold back payouts, or keep a reserve from what it owes you, while it reasonably sees a risk of refunds, chargebacks, claims or fraud on your sales, listings or account, for as long as that risk lasts, and where the law or a court order requires it. When it does, it tells you why, and when the reason ends it pays you what it held, less anything you owe buyers or Graunt. If a buyer is refunded under the Refund policy, the Marketplace License, the Addendum or an Order Form you signed, or reverses a payment through a card network or payment provider, the seller net for that amount is reversed, and Graunt bears its own commission on it. Graunt may recover anything you owe under this Agreement by reversing a transfer to you, by setting it off against what it owes you or by invoicing you, and an amount not recovered from your payouts is a debt you pay on demand. Repeated chargebacks may lead to strikes under Graunt's policies.

Taxes

You are responsible for determining, collecting, reporting and remitting the sales, use, value-added and similar taxes on your sales, except where marketplace-facilitator law requires Graunt to collect and remit them. Where that law applies, Graunt collects and remits the tax and tells you that it is doing so. You are also responsible for income tax on your seller net. You give Graunt or its payment processor the tax information it asks for, such as a Form W-9 or W-8, and Graunt withholds from payouts any tax the law requires it to withhold, including backup withholding, and reports payments to tax authorities as the law requires. Graunt does not give tax advice.

Your indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Graunt, its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees and agents against any claim brought by a third party, such as a buyer, a buyer's client or a government authority, and the losses, fines, settlements, costs and reasonable attorneys' fees that result, to the extent it arises from your content, including a claim that it infringes anyone's intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contract rights, or from a breach of your promises, this Agreement or Graunt's policies, or a violation of law, by you or anyone acting for you. You do not cover a claim to the extent it results from Graunt's own breach, negligence or willful misconduct, or from a buyer's use outside the Marketplace License. You control the defense and any settlement, and may not settle in a way that admits fault for Graunt or requires it to pay or do anything without its written consent. No limit of liability applies to this indemnity, and it survives the end of this Agreement.

Suspension and termination

You may end this Agreement at any time by removing all your listings, no longer uploading content and telling Graunt in Seller Studio or at support@graunt.com. Graunt may end it for any reason on 30 days' notice, and sales completed before then, with the payouts due on them, are unaffected. Graunt may also end it, suspend your account or remove any of your listings, with or without notice, for a breach of this Agreement or Graunt's policies, on three strikes or a serious violation under the Repeat Infringer Policy, in response to valid legal process, where your account or listings would expose Graunt or others to legal, regulatory or reputational risk, for unpaid amounts, or after long inactivity. After Graunt ends this Agreement for cause, you may not come back through another account. When it ends, your listings are removed, pending sales are completed or refunded, and what Graunt owes you is paid, subject to holds and to what you owe. Your promises and indemnities continue for the sales made while it was in force, files sold from your own storage stay available through each buyer's access period, and the licenses you granted continue only for buyers who already bought, for records and for Graunt's legal obligations.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The marketplace is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind. Graunt does not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any sales or payouts will happen, or that any feature will stay available. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Graunt's total liability to you for all claims about this Agreement or the marketplace is limited to the greater of the commission Graunt kept from your sales in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim and $100, and Graunt is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data or business interruption. That limit never reduces seller net Graunt owes you or your indemnity, and nothing limits Graunt's liability for fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct, for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, or for anything else the law does not let a contract limit.

Disputes

A dispute with Graunt starts with written notice and 30 days of trying in good faith to resolve it. If it is not resolved, it goes to binding individual arbitration with the American Arbitration Association, seated in Wilmington, Delaware, and kept confidential: no class actions and no jury. Either side may still seek an injunction in court to protect its intellectual property or confidential information, or bring an individual claim in a small-claims court. You can opt out of arbitration within 30 days after you first accept this Agreement by writing to support@graunt.com with the subject line "Arbitration opt-out", naming your account and saying that you opt out.

Confidentiality and personal information

You and Graunt keep each other's non-public information confidential, including the identity of a buyer or client that has not been made public. You are responsible for the personal information in your content and for any basis, notice or consent the law requires to license it. Graunt processes that information for you, as your processor or service provider, only to run the marketplace and perform this Agreement, with reasonable security and only the subprocessors its Privacy policy lists, and tells you without undue delay of a security breach that affects it. When Graunt stops providing its service for your content, it deletes or returns that personal information, as you choose, keeping only what buyers who already bought need and what the law requires. Where data protection law requires a transfer mechanism for that information, you and Graunt rely on the standard contractual clauses approved for it, and sign them on request.

Notices

Graunt may give you notice at your account's email address or in Seller Studio. Send legal notices to Graunt at support@graunt.com with the subject line "Legal notice."

Changes and governing law

Graunt may amend this Agreement by posting the new version with its effective date and giving notice in Seller Studio. If you accepted an earlier version, an amendment takes effect for you 30 days after that notice, and using Graunt after it takes effect is your acceptance; if you do not agree to it, you may end this Agreement. A sale completed before then keeps the terms in effect when it was made, and a change to the dispute terms does not reach a dispute either side had already given notice of. Changes to the commission follow the commission terms above. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You may not assign it without Graunt's written consent; Graunt may assign it to an affiliate or to a successor in a merger, reorganization or sale of its business.

Contact

Questions about this Agreement: support@graunt.com. See also the Terms of Service, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Marketplace License, and the Refund policy.