Acceptable Use

STAGE ZERO - Acceptable Use Policy

Effective Date: 9 June 2025
Company: STAGE ZERO CREATIVE LTD
Registered Office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
Company Reg. No.: 16515106

1. Purpose of This Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy outlines the rules for using the STAGE ZERO platform “the Platform”. By accessing or using the Platform, you agree to comply with this Policy.

This Policy applies to all users, including Project Posters, Supporters, crew, collaborators, and general users.

2. Definition of Projects

A “Project” means a film, television, or media idea, concept, pitch, or proposal posted by a user on STAGE ZERO to seek help bringing that concept closer to production.

A Project may be posted to seek financial support through non-investment crowdfunding, collaboration from other users, crew members, production help, feedback, audience interest, or a combination of these.

A Project is not a published film, completed media work, streaming upload, distribution listing, content sale, pay-per-view product, or monetised media item.

Users may not use Projects to publish, distribute, sell, license, stream, broadcast, monetise, or commercially exploit their own completed media content or third-party media content through STAGE ZERO.

3. Prohibited Activities

a. Breaking the Law

  • Violate any applicable local, national, or international laws or regulations.
  • Promote, facilitate, or engage in illegal activity, terrorism, fraud, sanctions evasion, money laundering, or financial crime.
  • Use the Platform to mislead users, payment providers, regulators, or law enforcement.

b. Harming Others or the Platform

  • Harass, abuse, bully, defame, threaten, or intimidate others.
  • Share private or sensitive information about another person without consent.
  • Distribute malware, viruses, spyware, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to accounts, systems, or data.
  • Interfere with the operation, security, integrity, or availability of the Platform.

c. Posting or Sharing Harmful Content

You may not upload, post, share, promote, or fund content that is:

  • Hateful, discriminatory, extremist, or incites violence.
  • Sexually explicit, pornographic, exploitative, or abusive.
  • False, misleading, deceptive, or impersonating another person.
  • Fraudulent, fake, or misrepresenting a Project, team, budget, production status, role, or credentials.
  • Infringing on another person’s intellectual property rights.
  • Defamatory, harassing, threatening, or invasive of privacy.
  • Used to publish, distribute, sell, license, stream, broadcast, monetise, or commercially exploit completed media content, whether owned by the user or by a third party.

d. Circumventing Platform Policies

  • Solicit or conduct transactions outside the Platform to avoid fees, review, payment controls, or compliance checks.
  • Create multiple accounts to manipulate discovery rankings, voting, engagement, crowdfunding activity, or Platform systems.
  • Impersonate others or falsely claim affiliation with a person, company, Project, production team, or organisation.
  • Attempt to bypass identity verification, payment-provider checks, Project review, fraud monitoring, or payout controls.

4. Project, Crowdfunding, and Collaboration Rules

  • Project Posters must describe Projects truthfully, including the concept, production status, team, intended use of funds, risks, collaboration needs, and any non-financial supporter perks.
  • Users must represent their skills, availability, experience, role, and project involvement honestly.
  • Project Posters must provide accurate information about the intended use of crowdfunding contributions.
  • Users must not offer equity, repayment rights, profit share, revenue share, royalties, securities, or any other financial return to Supporters.
  • Supporters must not harass, threaten, abuse, or pressure Project Posters, crew, collaborators, or other users.
  • Users must not use STAGE ZERO to facilitate fake Projects, fake backers, fake engagement, misleading credentials, or fraudulent fundraising.

5. Prohibited Crowdfunding Uses

Users may not use STAGE ZERO to raise funds for:

  • Investment, equity, securities, profit share, revenue share, royalties, loans, repayment schemes, or financial-return products.
  • Illegal, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive Projects.
  • Projects that infringe third-party intellectual property rights.
  • Adult sexual content, pornography, escort services, sexually exploitative material, or sexual services.
  • Hate, harassment, extremist, violent, discriminatory, or terrorist content.
  • Weapons, regulated goods, illegal substances, controlled substances, gambling, or other restricted activities.
  • Projects involving financial services, lending, debt collection, credit repair, money transmission, or regulated investment activity.
  • Projects where the user cannot provide reasonable information about the intended use of funds.
  • Projects designed to avoid payment-provider rules, sanctions, compliance checks, or legal obligations.
  • Crowdfunding for the sale, streaming, licensing, distribution, or monetisation of completed media content.
  • Projects whose main purpose is to monetise, resell, distribute, or commercially exploit third-party media content.

6. Project Review and Payment Controls

  • STAGE ZERO may review users, Projects, budgets, Project descriptions, team details, collaboration needs, and intended use of funds before enabling crowdfunding.
  • STAGE ZERO may request additional information from users at any time.
  • STAGE ZERO may reject, suspend, or remove Projects that appear fraudulent, misleading, unlawful, high-risk, infringing, or inconsistent with our policies.
  • STAGE ZERO may pause, delay, or cancel payouts where required to investigate fraud, disputes, chargebacks, policy violations, legal concerns, or payment-provider requirements.
  • During our launch phase, crowdfunding may be limited to manually reviewed users and Projects.

7. Platform Scope

STAGE ZERO is a creative networking, Project discovery, team-building, audience engagement, and Project-support platform.

  • STAGE ZERO is not an investment platform, securities platform, lending platform, or regulated financial investment service.
  • STAGE ZERO is not a film distributor, publisher, broadcaster, or streaming service.
  • STAGE ZERO does not sell, license, monetise, or commercially exploit completed films, television programmes, or third-party media content on behalf of users.
  • Project materials uploaded by users are used for Project discovery, promotion, collaboration, crowdfunding information, and Platform functionality only.

8. Enforcement and Consequences

Violation of this Policy may result in actions including:

  • Content removal.
  • Project rejection, suspension, or removal.
  • Temporary account suspension.
  • Permanent account termination.
  • Delayed, paused, or cancelled payouts where appropriate.
  • Reporting to payment providers, regulators, or legal authorities.

We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action at our discretion.

9. Reporting Violations

To report abuse, fraud, infringement, or suspected violations of this Policy, please contact us at:
Email: hello@stagezerocreative.com

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time. Continued use of the Platform indicates acceptance of the updated Policy.