Creator Terms

1. Scope and relationship to the General Terms and Conditions

These Creator Terms apply in addition to the General Terms and Conditions to all users who submit, upload, manage, publish, provide free of charge or sell digital content as creators on bspmarket.de, or who use creator functions such as BSP Protection, leak protection, statistics or the BSP Vault.

In the event of conflicts, these Creator Terms take precedence over the General Terms and Conditions with regard to creator functions. Consumer rights and mandatory statutory provisions remain unaffected.

2. Application, approval and creator account

Participation as a creator requires a user account, a linked Steam account, an email address that has been provided and verified via a confirmation link, and approval by bspmarket.de. We use this email address in particular to inform you about approvals, payouts and leak findings; it must remain reachable for the entire duration of your participation as a creator.

There is no entitlement to approval as a creator. We may reject applications or request additional evidence, in particular where rights, quality, security, identity, tax details, abuse risks or platform fit have not been sufficiently clarified.

Creators must keep their account, contact, payout and tax details up to date. A creator account must not be sold, shared or transferred without our consent.

3. Role of bspmarket.de and contract model

The operator of bspmarket.de is Nexthosting – Friedl & Friedl GbR, Vetschauer Straße 19, 01237 Dresden.

bspmarket.de operates the technical sales, review, protection, download and payment infrastructure. Towards buyers, the operator acts as seller and contracting party; it sets the terms of purchase, processes the payment and provides the downloads. The creator makes their digital content available to the operator for marketing and in return receives the revenue share under Section 12.

4. Permitted content and minimum requirements

Creators may only upload content in which they hold the required rights or for which they are demonstrably sufficiently licensed. Permitted in particular are own BSP/map files, own assets, own preview images, panorama shots and videos, own descriptions and lawfully licensed third-party components.

Impermissible in particular are:

• stolen, leaked, unlawfully copied or decompiled-without-permission maps, assets or content,
• content that infringes copyright, trademark, personality, data protection, competition or other third-party rights,
• malware, backdoors, exploits, spyware, malicious scripts, Lua code that executes third-party code (for example via RunPassedCode), unauthorised telemetry or other security-endangering components,
• content that is criminal, harmful to minors, extremist, discriminatory, glorifying violence, fraudulent or otherwise unlawful,
• misleading product descriptions, faked screenshots, false compatibility information or manipulated reviews,
• content that removes or circumvents third-party protection, fingerprint, watermark, licence or evidence systems without authorisation.

Creators must disclose all external dependencies, required addons, Workshop content, licences, credits and known limitations in the product description or in accompanying documentation.

5. Grant of rights to bspmarket.de

Creators retain their copyright and ownership rights in their content. By uploading, the creator grants the operator a non-exclusive (einfaches) right, unlimited in territory, for the duration of publication and continuing in effect for existing buyer licences, to store, review, technically analyse, provide with protection functions, reproduce, make publicly available, distribute and deliver to buyers the content to the extent required.

This right includes necessary technical processing, in particular compression, renaming, hashing, virus and security scans, BSP analysis, fingerprinting, buyer fingerprinting, the insertion of a protection notice into the server console (Section 9), obfuscation, the removal of metadata from images, and the generation of download packages, preview images, technical metrics, product pages, evidence files, licence evidence and security and review logs. Files may be stored in encrypted form with our hosting provider in Germany.

For marketing purposes, the operator may use product names, creator names, profile banners, preview images, short excerpts, screenshots and product descriptions in connection with the platform and the respective product for as long as the product is published or buyer licences continue to exist.

6. Warranties and indemnification

The creator warrants that they hold all required rights, that their content does not infringe any third-party rights, that all required licences and credits are stated and that the content contains no impermissible or harmful components.

If third parties assert claims against the operator on account of content for which the creator is responsible, the creator shall indemnify the operator against justified claims, necessary costs of legal action and damages. This does not apply insofar as the creator is not responsible for the infringement.

The creator shall inform us without undue delay if they become aware of legal defects, licence problems, security problems, suspected malware, unauthorised third-party publications or other significant problems with a product.

7. Upload, review, versions and emergency functions

New products and every new product version go through a review process with automated and manual steps, in particular file type check, virus scan, hashing, BSP analysis, protection check, plausibility check and approval by the team. Buyers only receive approved versions; until a new version has been approved, the previous version remains authoritative.

There is no entitlement to publication within a specific period. We may reject or postpone publication or require improvements where legal, technical, quality-related, security-related or organisational reasons exist.

The creator may at any time make an earlier, already approved version the current purchase file again (rollback) and temporarily pause new downloads of their product. Both actions are logged together with a reason and displayed to the team. A pause prevents new downloads for all buyers; it is intended for emergencies and should not last longer than necessary. Existing buyer licences remain unaffected by a pause.

If a problem is identified after publication, we may temporarily deactivate the product, block downloads, inform buyers, require updates, review refunds or permanently remove the product.

8. Protection options at upload

At upload or for a new product version, bspmarket.de checks whether a map is already protected. If the check finds no recognisable platform protection, the creator may, depending on availability, choose:

• Fingerprint only: The file is provided with a platform-side fingerprint or licence evidence, without additional obfuscation.
• Obfuscate: The file is processed with the obfuscation measures offered; a fingerprint is included.
• Upload without bspmarket.de protection: The creator uploads the file without platform protection or uses their own protection. Before publication, the creator must separately confirm that they have been informed of the risks, in particular reduced provability in the event of unauthorised redistribution and an increased reupload risk.

bspmarket.de does not owe insurmountable copy protection. Protection functions increase the evidentiary and deterrent effect but cannot guarantee that digital content is never copied, manipulated, extracted or passed on.

9. Buyer fingerprint and protection notice in the server console

The creator decides for each product whether a buyer-specific fingerprint is activated. If it is activated, each delivered copy is provided with a secret licence or buyer fingerprint that may allow later assignment to an order or delivery. The public protection seal on the product page requires the buyer fingerprint to be activated.

If the buyer fingerprint is activated, each newly generated buyer copy contains by default a notice in the server console (“Geschützt & lizenziert durch bspmarket.de”, i.e. “Protected & licensed by bspmarket.de”), which is displayed when the map starts. The notice does not contain any buyer data. The creator may switch it off for each product; the change applies to newly generated copies.

The buyer fingerprint serves licence assignment, fraud prevention, the investigation of abuse and the securing of evidence in the event of unauthorised redistribution, not the surveillance of buyers. The processing of personal data is governed by the privacy policy.

10. Leak protection, monitoring and leak cases

For published products, bspmarket.de regularly compares the product’s map names against the public Steam server list and the Steam Workshop. When creating a product, the creator states whether the map is already publicly distributed; this determines whether monitoring is active by default. The creator may switch monitoring on and off, define their own map names and approve their own servers and their own Workshop entries so that these do not appear as suspected cases. Standard maps of the game and very common map names are not monitored. Findings are indications, not proof.

The creator may report a leak and submit a link and/or the file found. Uploaded files are automatically checked for the buyer fingerprint and deleted after the check. If a buyer copy is identified, the creator receives a pseudonymous reference and the degree of certainty of the assignment, but not the identity of the buyer. Measures against buyers, in particular blocking further downloads, are taken exclusively by the bspmarket team after its own review; there is no entitlement to specific measures.

The creator shall report leaks only if, after careful examination, they assume unauthorised distribution. Knowingly false or abusive reports are prohibited and may lead to creator functions being blocked. The creator may close their own leak cases; measures already taken by the team remain unaffected. The takedown templates provided are drafting aids and do not constitute legal advice; the creator is solely responsible for their use.

11. Product page, prices, promotions, bundles and vouchers

Creators are responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of the product title, description, screenshots, videos, panorama shots, price, categories, compatibility information, installation notes, changelog, licence notes and support information.

The creator sets the price of their products. bspmarket.de may specify minimum and maximum prices, currencies, payment methods and product categories. A former price stated by the creator is only displayed if it meets the requirements of the German Price Indication Ordinance (Preisangabenverordnung) (lowest price in the 30 days before the price reduction).

Creators may create time-limited promotions (discounts between 5% and 90%, maximum duration 30 days) and bundles of at least two of their own products with a discount between 5% and 80%. Promotion and bundle discounts are not combined with each other; the buyer always receives the lower price. A discount is only advertised if the reference price complies with the statutory requirements; the buyer pays the reduced price even if it is not advertised for this reason. Promotions or bundles whose price would fall below the minimum payment of €0.50 are not possible.

bspmarket.de may issue platform-wide vouchers. A redeemed voucher reduces the price actually paid and is allocated proportionally to the products in the shopping cart; the revenue share is calculated from the amount so reduced. Whether vouchers can also be applied to products already reduced by promotions or bundles is determined by us in the platform settings.

Creators must remedy or report known errors, significant compatibility problems and security problems without undue delay and provide reasonable improvements where a product does not correspond to the product description. Buyers only have a claim to unlimited individual support from the creator if this is expressly promised on the product page.

12. Platform fee and revenue share

For each paid product sold, the creator receives the amount actually paid for that product less the platform fee. The platform fee is 10% of the amount paid, but at least €0.99; the minimum fee takes effect where the amount paid is less than €9.90. The platform fee is never higher than the amount paid. Different fees may be agreed individually and are displayed in the creator dashboard; the minimum fee of €0.99 also applies in that case unless expressly agreed otherwise.

Verified Creators. Creators with active Verified status pay a reduced platform fee, currently 8% of the amount paid; the rate in force is displayed in the creator dashboard. The minimum fee of €0.99 applies unchanged. An individually agreed fee takes precedence over the reduced rate. If the Verified status ends, for example through revocation, the standard fee applies again from the next sale; fees already fixed remain unchanged.

Changes to the fee. A reduction of the platform fee, including the reduced rate for Verified Creators, may take effect immediately for future sales. We will announce any increase, including an increase of the reduced rate for Verified Creators, by e-mail at least four weeks in advance; it only applies to purchases from the date it takes effect, and the creator may end their participation until then.

The amount paid is the price actually paid by the buyer for the respective product after promotion, bundle and voucher discounts. The costs of payment processing are borne by the operator; they are not additionally deducted from the creator share. The platform fee and the creator share are fixed at the time of purchase. The price calculator in the creator dashboard shows the calculation for the price currently set.

The operator is currently a small business (Kleinunternehmer) within the meaning of Section 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG) and does not charge VAT. If the operator becomes liable for VAT, the platform fee and the creator share for purchases from that date onwards are calculated from the sales price less the VAT contained therein that is payable by the operator. We will inform creators of this by email at least four weeks in advance; creators may end their participation until the change takes effect.

No payout claim arises for free products. For cancelled, fraud-suspected or fully refunded purchases, no claim or only a correspondingly reduced claim arises.

12a. Server-Exclusive: licence sales and upgrade

Voluntary offer. Creators may voluntarily offer Server-Exclusive licences for their own published products: as a one-time licence, optionally with true exclusivity, and/or as a monthly rental licence. There is no obligation to offer them. An offer requires an approved product version that has been scanned without findings. Towards buyers, section 9a of the Terms applies. We are enabling licence sales gradually; until they are enabled, creators can set up offers and see the preview, but buyers cannot yet purchase. There is no claim to enablement at a particular time.

Prices and settings. The price of a one-time licence must be at least the price of the standard download and between €5.00 and €10,000; the rental price must be between €1.99 and €999 per month. For each offer, the creator also sets the protection mode, the protected functions and the grace period (1 to 168 hours). Price and settings are fixed per licence at the time of purchase; changes only apply to future sales. For running rentals, the monthly price agreed at conclusion remains in place. If an offer is deactivated, existing licences and rentals continue. Promotions, bundles and vouchers do not apply to licences.

Platform fee. A separate platform fee applies to the sale of a one-time licence and to each paid rental invoice; we set its percentage in the platform settings. If no separate rate is set, the platform fee under section 12 applies, including the reduced rate for Verified Creators and individually agreed fees. If a separate rate is set, it also applies where a fee has been agreed individually; Verified Creators without an individually agreed fee receive the same reduction in percentage points as under section 12 (currently 2 percentage points). The minimum fee of €0.99 and the other rules of section 12 apply accordingly. The rate currently in force is shown in the fee preview of the offer. The fee is fixed per sale or per rental invoice at the time of payment. We will announce any increase of the separate rate by e-mail at least four weeks in advance; it only applies to payments from the date it takes effect. Holding period, payouts, credit notes, refunds and chargebacks are governed by sections 13 to 15; if a single rental invoice is refunded, only the share of that invoice is reversed.

Move requests. If a buyer requests that their licence be moved to another server, the creator decides on this in the Server-Exclusive area without undue delay, at the latest within seven days. The creator may only reject a move for an objective reason, in particular where there are concrete indications that the licence is to be used on several servers or passed on. The bspmarket team may decide in the creator's place at any time, in particular after the deadline has passed or upon a complaint by the buyer; its decision is authoritative.

True exclusivity. If the creator offers true exclusivity, the product is automatically blocked for all further sales on bspmarket.de after the first paid sale of the exclusive licence; the standard download, further licences and rentals can then no longer be purchased. Existing buyers keep their access. True exclusivity can only be selected as long as no licence is running for the product, and it excludes rental licences. After the exclusive sale, the creator can no longer change the offer; only the bspmarket team can lift the exclusive award. The creator undertakes not to sell or license the map anew, either themselves or through third parties, after an exclusive sale.

No conflicting rights. The creator only offers licences to the extent they are entitled to do so. In particular, they may not offer a Server-Exclusive licence or exclusivity if they have already granted third parties exclusive or otherwise conflicting rights to the map. They may only offer true exclusivity if the map is not at the same time offered for sale or licensing elsewhere; they disclose usage rights already granted elsewhere in the product description. Section 6 applies accordingly, including to claims by buyers of an exclusive licence.

Buyer data. For each licence sold, the creator only sees a pseudonymous reference (SXL-…), the server name entered by the buyer, status and term, for move requests the new server name and the reason, and aggregated check statistics in the live overview. The creator does not receive the identity, account data or IP addresses of buyers. The creator uses this information only to handle the licences and makes no attempt to identify buyers through it.

Server-Exclusive upgrade. Independently of licence sales, the creator can have a Server-Exclusive package generated for one of their own products for one of their own servers. The upgrade costs €13.99 instead of €19.99 for an individually purchased Server-Exclusive pass; alternatively, the creator can redeem an unused Server-Exclusive pass. The product file and the buyers' downloads remain unchanged. Server-Exclusive is a regularly offered part of the platform; the last paragraph of section 8 and section 9a of the Terms on the limits of protection apply accordingly.

13. Payouts and credit notes

Creator shares become payable after a holding period of 14 days from receipt of payment. The creator requests payouts in the creator dashboard once their payable balance amounts to at least €10.00; only one payout request can be open at a time. Payouts are made by bank transfer or PayPal to the payment destination specified by the creator; these details are stored in encrypted form. We process requests manually in the order in which they are received.

We may withhold payouts as long as required payment, identity or tax information is missing, discrepancies exist, statutory checks are ongoing, refund or chargeback risks exist or there is a justified suspicion of abuse.

For each payout, we issue a credit note (Gutschrift) with a sequential number listing the underlying sales, amounts paid, platform fees and the payout amount. The creator can access the credit note in the creator dashboard. The creator agrees that we settle the creator’s supplies to us by way of credit note (Gutschrift, Section 14(2) sentence 2 UStG) and does not issue separate invoices to us for this purpose. If the creator does not object to a credit note within four weeks of it being made available, it is deemed accepted; we will still make justified corrections after that period.

14. Taxes

Creators are themselves responsible for the tax treatment of their income, in particular income tax, trade tax and – insofar as they are themselves liable for VAT – the VAT on their supply to the operator. The payout amount is a gross amount; if the creator is subject to standard VAT taxation (Regelbesteuerung), it includes the VAT owed by the creator.

The creator states their tax status in the creator profile (private individual, small business, business liable for VAT in Germany, or business in another EU member state with a VAT identification number) and keeps it up to date. This information is used for the credit notes. We do not provide tax advice; notes in the creator dashboard do not replace tax advice. Where legally required, we may collect, store and report tax-relevant data to the competent authorities.

15. Refunds, chargebacks and buyer protection

If a purchase is refunded, reversed or charged back, the associated creator share is cancelled in the amount fixed at the time of purchase, offset against future shares or reclaimed. This applies in particular in the event of defects, legal violations, payment fraud, double payments, statutory withdrawals, goodwill cases or decisions by payment service providers.

Creators shall reasonably cooperate in clarifying buyer complaints, defects, rights questions and chargebacks. If they fail to cooperate, we may decide on the basis of the information available, in particular block downloads, trigger refunds or deactivate products.

16. Additional functions: statistics, profile, Discord and BSP Vault

Statistics: The creator dashboard shows views, sales, revenue and traffic source categories for the creator’s own products. The figures are aggregated, contain no personal data of visitors and are for guidance only; only payouts and credit notes are authoritative for billing purposes.

Profile: Creators may publish a profile banner and links to their Discord server, Steam profile and website. The requirements of Section 4 apply to this content. We may remove banners and links if they violate these terms; the creator will be informed of this, stating the reasons.

Discord notifications: Creators may store their own Discord webhook. Through it, we only send the events selected by the creator and never identity data of buyers or reviewers. The creator is responsible for their own Discord server and its access rights.

BSP Vault: Where offered, an encrypted private storage space is available. 2 GB are included free of charge, 25 GB for Verified Creators. A paid Vault plan (€2.99 per month or €24.99 per year) extends the quota by 50 GB. Marketplace sales files do not count towards the quota. If a plan ends, a transition period of 14 days applies; thereafter, new uploads are only possible within the free quota, and files exceeding the quota are deleted from the Vault after prior notice.

17. Blocking, removal and sanctions

We may temporarily or permanently block, restrict or remove products, files, product pages, profile content, creator profiles or creator accounts where there are concrete indications of legal violations, rights problems, malware, security risks, fraud, misleading information, repeated defects, abusive leak reports, manipulation or violations of these terms.

In the event of acute legal, security, payment or abuse risks, measures may be taken without prior hearing. Where reasonable, we inform the creator of the reason for the measure and give them an opportunity to comment or make improvements.

Existing buyer licences remain in place insofar as this is legally permissible and technically possible. In the event of serious legal or security problems, downloads already provided may also be blocked or replaced by cleaned versions.

18. Termination of creator participation

Creators may end their participation at any time and remove unpublished products. For products already sold, the rights required to fulfil existing buyer licences remain in place unless mandatory legal grounds prevent this. Payable creator shares accrued up to termination are paid out once the holding period has expired.

We may terminate creator participation ordinarily with four weeks’ notice or without notice for good cause. Good cause exists in particular in the event of serious or repeated violations, legal infringements, fraud, manipulation, malware, payment fraud or significant endangerment of the platform.

19. Confidentiality and protection systems

Information about internal protection mechanisms, fingerprint keys, ledger structures, review procedures, security logic, internal admin decisions and non-public platform functions must be treated confidentially insofar as it is not publicly known.

Creators must not take any measures that manipulate, circumvent, weaken or misuse protection, review, fingerprint, monitoring, billing or download systems.

20. Changes to these Creator Terms

We may amend these Creator Terms with effect for the future where there are objective reasons, in particular in the event of changes to platform functions, payment processes, legal requirements, protection systems or the abuse situation. We will inform creators of changes by email at least four weeks before they take effect. If the creator does not object by the time they take effect, the changes are deemed accepted; we will point out this consequence in the notification. If the creator objects, either party may end creator participation with effect from the date on which the changes take effect.

21. Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If the creator is a merchant (Kaufmann), a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Dresden, to the extent permitted by law.

Should individual provisions be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected. Invalid provisions are replaced by the statutory provisions.