UGC contract template

This content agreement is made on 2026-09-17 between Mara Quint, trading as Quint Studio LLC (the Creator) and Northlight Skincare, Northlight Skincare Inc. (the Brand). It covers the content described below and nothing else. It replaces any earlier discussion of these terms, and it can only be changed in writing signed by both sides.

Names who is agreeing to what, and makes this document the version that counts if a call or an email said something different.

The Creator is an independent contractor. Nothing in this agreement makes the Creator an employee, partner, agent or joint venturer of the Brand. The Creator decides how the work is carried out and is responsible for their own taxes and insurance.

You are not an employee. You control how the work gets done, and you handle your own tax.

The Creator will produce 3 vertical UGC videos, 20 to 30 seconds each for use on the Brand's TikTok and Instagram accounts. Specification: Shot vertically at 1080 by 1920, delivered as unbranded MP4 files with captions supplied separately as text. Anything not described here is outside this agreement, and additional content is a new agreement or a written amendment with its own fee.

Fixes exactly what you owe. Anything the brand asks for on top of this is new work at a new price.

The Brand will pay the Creator $2,400 for the content and the rights granted in this agreement. Payment terms are net 30 from the date of the Creator's invoice. The fee is not conditional on the performance of the content.

Sets the money and when it is due, and stops the fee being tied to how the content performs.

Invoices not paid by the due date carry a late fee of 2% per month on the outstanding amount, applied from the day after the due date until payment is received.

Gives you something concrete to point at when an invoice runs late.

The Creator will deliver the content by 2026-10-08. The Brand will review and either approve the content or request revisions within 5 business days of delivery. Content the Brand has not responded to within that window is treated as approved.

Sets your deadline and the brand's. Silence past the approval window counts as approval, so your invoice is not held hostage.

The fee includes 2 round(s) of revisions, where a round means one consolidated set of change requests. Further rounds, and any change to the brief after the content has been produced, are chargeable at a rate agreed in writing before the work is carried out.

Puts a number on revisions. Past that number, more changes are paid work, not goodwill.

The Creator grants the Brand a licence to use the content for 12 months from the delivery date in the United States and Canada on the following channels: the Brand's own social accounts, website and email. The Creator keeps ownership of the content and of all underlying material, including raw footage, which is not included unless a separate fee is agreed in writing.

You are licensing the content, not selling it. You still own it, and raw files are separate.

The Brand may edit, cut, caption and re-version the content for the permitted channels, provided the edit does not change the meaning of what the Creator said or imply an endorsement the Creator did not give.

The brand can recut the content, but not in a way that puts words in your mouth.

At the end of the licence term the Brand will stop using the content across all channels and will remove it from any channel the Brand controls. Renewing the licence is a new written agreement with its own fee.

The rights actually end. If the brand wants to keep running it, that is a new payment.

The Brand may not run the content as paid media from the Creator's handle, and the Creator is not required to grant advertising access to any account. Paid amplification from the Creator's handle is a separate written agreement with its own fee.

No ads run from your handle under this deal unless you agree to it separately.

For 60 days from the delivery date, the Creator will not create sponsored content for a directly competing product in the facial skincare category. This restriction does not extend to any other category, does not apply to content created before this agreement, and does not survive the period stated here.

You are off limits to direct competitors in one category, for a set time, and only that.

This agreement covers content production only. The Creator is not required to post the content on their own channels. Posting on the Creator's channels is a separate written agreement with its own fee.

You are making content, not posting it. If the brand wants a post, that is priced separately.

The Brand will supply three full-size skincare products for use in the content at no cost to the Creator. The product does not need to be returned. Product supplied is not part of the fee and does not reduce it.

You keep the product, and it is not treated as part of your payment. Note that gifted product can still be taxable.

The Creator confirms that the content is their own original work, that they have the rights to grant the licence in this agreement, and that the content does not knowingly infringe anyone else's rights. The Creator is responsible for clearing any music, footage or likeness they choose to include.

You promise the work is yours and that you cleared anything you borrowed.

The Brand confirms that it has the right to the product, claims and materials it asks the Creator to feature, and that any claim about the product the Creator is asked to make is accurate and can be substantiated. The Brand is responsible for the accuracy of its own claims.

The brand is on the hook for its own product claims, not you. This one matters.

Each side is responsible for its own breach of this agreement. Neither side is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, and the Creator's total liability under this agreement is limited to the fee paid.

Caps what you could ever owe at the fee you were paid, instead of leaving it open ended.

Either side may end this agreement in writing before the content is delivered. If the Brand ends it after the Creator has begun production, the Brand will pay for the work completed, and in any case not less than 50% of the fee. If the Brand ends it after delivery, the full fee is payable.

If the brand walks away mid-shoot, you are still paid for the work you did. Delivered work is paid in full.

If this agreement ends before the fee is paid in full, no licence is granted and the Brand may not use the content. Sections covering usage rights, exclusivity and what each side promises survive the end of this agreement for as long as they state.

No payment, no rights. The brand cannot end the deal and keep running the content.

This agreement is governed by the laws of California. Notices under this agreement are given by email to the addresses the parties use for this engagement. If any part of this agreement is found unenforceable, the rest of it stands.

Sets which state's law applies and keeps the rest valid if one part fails.

Agreed by: Creator: Mara Quint Signature: ______________________ Date: ____________ Brand: Northlight Skincare Signature: ______________________ Date: ____________

Where both sides sign. An unsigned agreement is a draft.