Earned Tier Clause Kit for APPs

Last Updated: October 1, 2026

This kit gives you drop-in language for your own terms of service, privacy policy, and product surfaces so that you can run an earned tier with your users. It is written for the APP — the software product that runs an earned tier — and it is a product resource, not a contract. It is published at /resources/clause-kit and it is not incorporated by reference into any Earnesty agreement — no obligation in this kit binds you or us. Your agreement with Know Reply Inc. (“Know Reply”, “we”, “us”), the company behind Earnesty, is the Earnesty Terms of Service and the Data Processing Addendum. Nothing in this kit changes those documents, adds to them, or is read together with them, and nothing in it is legal advice.

1. How to Use This Kit

An earned tier is your free tier, reimagined: instead of paying money, a user earns a Reward inside your product by posting publicly about it with the required text Disclosure. That mechanic touches your terms of service, your privacy policy, and the FTC’s endorsement rules. This kit is the paperwork for it.

A Reward is whatever you choose to grant. Usage credits are the most common form, and the running example throughout this kit — but a Reward can equally be model tokens, extra seats or licences, entry to a Drop, or a bonus month, and you may offer more than one form at once. Earnesty never issues, holds, or transfers a Reward; we verify the post and relay the instruction to your system. That breadth is deliberate, and it is worth saying to your counsel early: the clauses below are drafted at the level of the category, so they cover whatever you grant today and whatever you add later without a second trip through review. Where a block says [Reward Name], put your own word in — credits, tokens, runs, minutes, seats.

What each block is for:

Block A — The earned tier. Goes in your terms of service. Defines the program, how Rewards are earned, that a Reward has no cash value, how you may change the program, and that participation is optional.
Block B — Conduct and eligibility. Goes in your terms of service or your acceptable use policy. Sets out who may participate and what conduct ends participation.
Block C — Privacy. Goes in your privacy policy. Discloses what you share with Know Reply Inc. and what Know Reply collects directly from public platforms.
Block D — Disclosure and FTC compliance. Publish it in your terms, in a help-center article, or on a public page about how you work with people who post about you. It is your own statement that rewards are never conditioned on sentiment. It is worth publishing where a regulator, a journalist, or a skeptical user can find it.
Block E — In-product microcopy. Not legal text. The paywall, the enrollment explainer, and the status-page link, in two or three variants each, so the words your users actually read match the words in your terms.

How to work with the blocks:

Each block is in a fenced code block so you can copy it whole. Renumber N, N.1, N.2 to fit your document.
Replace every [Placeholder] (see the table below). Search for [ before you publish — a stray placeholder in a live terms of service is the kind of thing that ends up in a screenshot.
Adapt the wording freely. Keep the meaning: the parts that are load-bearing are marked in the notes under each block.
Blocks A through D are written in neutral contract voice on purpose, so they read like the rest of your terms rather than like someone else’s marketing.

The warning, plainly. This is a starting point drafted from how Earnesty actually works. It is not legal advice, it is not tailored to your business, and it does not account for your jurisdiction, your existing contracts, your industry’s rules, or where your users live. Have your own counsel review and adapt it before you publish. If your counsel has questions about the mechanics behind any clause, section 2 is written for them, and we will get on a call: hello@earnesty.app.

Placeholders used in this kit

Placeholder	Replace with	Example
`[Product Name]`	Your product’s name	Acme
`[Company]`	Your legal entity	Acme Labs, Inc.
`[Reward Name]`	Whatever your product grants for a post — any form, and you may offer more than one	credits, tokens, runs, minutes, seats, a bonus month
`[@ProductHandle]`	The handle users must mention	`@acme`
`[Disclosure]`	The approved phrase and brand handle	`Ad - @Acme`
`[Status Page URL]`	Your users’ earned tier status page	`https://acme.earnesty.page`
`[Support Email]`	Where users reach you	support@acme.com
`[Privacy Email]`	Where privacy requests go	privacy@acme.com

2. What Your Lawyer Will Ask

Six questions come up in almost every review. Here are the honest answers, and where to read further.

1. Who is the advertiser here — us or Earnesty?

You are. You are the advertiser of record. You define your own reward economics; Know Reply Inc. never prices or constrains them. You are responsible for the truthfulness of claims about your own product and for your own users. Know Reply is a technology provider: it verifies posts against mechanical checks and relays an instruction to grant the Reward you have chosen. It does not commission posts, does not approve or reject them on content, and does not stand between you and your users as a media buyer would. Know Reply does retain the right to suspend an APP that breaches the disclosure or sentiment-neutrality rules — that is enforcement of the program’s floor, not editorial control. See the Earnesty Terms of Service.

2. Are we paying for reviews? Does 16 CFR Part 465 apply to us?

A rewarded post may be an endorsement or testimonial. The design’s central commitment is sentiment neutrality. The reward attaches to the act of posting with a disclosure, never to what the post says. A critical post earns exactly what a favorable post earns. Sentiment is never read, scored, or rewarded, and no reward is ever conditioned on a signup, an activation, a conversion, a rating, a star, or any other commercial outcome. That is the deliberate answer to the FTC’s Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials (16 CFR Part 465), which prohibits compensation conditioned on a review expressing a particular sentiment. The rule you must not break on your side is symmetrical: do not offer a bonus for a positive post, do not ask a user to remove or soften a critical one, and do not describe the program to your users in sentiment-shaped language (“share why you love us and earn credits” is sentiment-shaped even though it never mentions a star rating). Blocks A and D carry this commitment; the Program Rules carry it for users.

3. What satisfies the FTC’s disclosure requirement, and who enforces it?

Earnesty supplies an approved plain-text phrase naming the APP, selected for the post language and APP Market. The full phrase must pass the placement rule. X’s Paid Partnership label is not required for now: X does not offer it to every account, and X’s API does not tell Earnesty which accounts can use it, so requiring it would refuse users for something they cannot do. Earnesty still records the label value X reports on every verified post, as on, off or not reported, and your compliance report shows it. Users are encouraged to turn the label on where X offers it, you must not discourage them from using it, and it never replaces the text Disclosure. Earnesty may make it a requirement later, with notice. These are configured checks, not a guarantee of legal compliance. See the Program Rules.

4. Is the Reward stored value? Do we have money-transmission exposure?

A Reward is your own in-product value — credits, in the common case, but the answer is the same for tokens, seats, a Drop entry, or a bonus month. You issue it; Earnesty never issues, holds, or transfers it, and never pays a user money. There is no marketplace, no split payment, no payout rail, and no Stripe Connect anywhere in the flow — Know Reply transmits an instruction, and your system grants the Reward. For that to hold, your terms must say plainly that the Reward has no cash value, is not redeemable for money, is not transferable between accounts, and is not a gift card, prepaid access, or stored-value instrument. Block A, clause N.5 is that language, drafted to cover every form of Reward at once, and it is the clause to leave intact.

Keep the two distinct when you brief counsel. A Reward is what your users receive in your product. Earnesty Credits are prepaid units that buy Earnesty’s processing: an Accepted Validation on X currently costs five Credits and includes its five-day review. There is no subscription. Earnesty Credits never fund or pass through USER Rewards.

5. What data leaves our system, and under what role?

You supply an opaque user identifier and the information needed for registration and reward delivery, with an optional display name. Earnesty collects the USER’s public platform identity, qualifying post content and metadata, disclosure evidence and, at review, the post’s public counts of views, likes, replies, reposts, quotes and bookmarks. It never reads who interacted.

The roles split, and the split is stated honestly rather than papered over. For the identifier you supply and for reward delivery, Know Reply is your processor, under the Data Processing Addendum. For querying the platforms’ public APIs, retaining verification and disclosure-compliance evidence, and running fraud and abuse detection, Know Reply is an independent controller on its own legitimate interests. That is why participating users receive their own USER Privacy Notice rather than being covered only by yours. Platform-derived content follows the platform: if a post is deleted or made non-public, the content and engagement metrics come down, and only a minimal settlement record — post ID, timestamp, amount granted, terms snapshot — is retained as evidence of a completed transaction. Block C is your disclosure of all this.

6. What happens to Rewards we have promised if we downgrade or cancel?

Accepted work is always honored despite later billing changes. Publication fixes the applicable Reward terms but does not reserve funding or guarantee acceptance. Stopping a program ends new acceptance; accepted Rewards and reviews continue. Timely requests for a Drop that closes on schedule are still resolved afterwards and, like any request, need available funding at acceptance; a Drop does not commit funding and can pause if funding runs out; explicit cancellation stops unaccepted requests, including queued ones. Registration is free and unlimited, with no paid seats or enrollment waitlists. See the Terms of Service.

3. Block A — Terms of Service Clause: The Earned Tier

N. Earned Tier

N.1  What the earned tier is. [Product Name] offers an optional earned tier: a way
     to receive [Reward Name] by posting publicly about [Product Name] on a
     supported social platform, instead of by paying for them. Participation is
     entirely voluntary. You may use [Product Name] on any other plan available to
     you without participating, and you may stop participating at any time without
     affecting your account.

N.2  How you earn. You can earn for a public post in your own words, from an
     account you control, under the Program Rules at
     https://earnesty.app/legal/program-rules. It must carry [Disclosure] in the
     language and placement shown on [Status Page URL]. Your first post also
     carries your personal claim code to bind your platform account. One post can be
     credited once, across all Earnesty programs. The offer, funding, cooldown
     and applicable reward limits must permit acceptance.

N.3  What a post earns. Your rewards page shows the base Reward and any possible
     performance bonus separately. The applicable terms are those in force when
     you post. Publishing does not reserve funds or a campaign place; an offer
     can stop or run out of funding before your post is accepted.

     An optional performance bonus is assessed at the review due five days after
     publication. It uses public counts on your post, ranked against recent posts
     in our program on the same platform, up to the displayed maximum and any
     applicable reward limit. We never record who interacted. Reviews run on a
     daily sweep, subject to platform availability and retries, using counts
     available when reviewed.

     At review your post must remain public with its required disclosure. If
     the post or the disclosure is gone, no bonus is paid and the base
     grant is revoked under the Program Rules. Whether we recover value already
     delivered in [Product Name] is our decision under these terms. Deletion
     after a completed review does not reverse the settled Reward.

N.4  We reward the act of posting, not your opinion. What you say is yours to
     choose. A critical post earns exactly what a favorable post earns. We do not
     read, score, or reward sentiment, and we never condition [Reward Name] on a
     review, a rating, a recommendation, a signup, a purchase, a conversion, or any
     other commercial outcome. We will not ask you to change, soften, or delete a post as a
     condition of earning, and we will not withhold [Reward Name] because of what a
     post says.

N.5  [Reward Name] have no cash value. Whatever form [Reward Name] takes — a
     balance of usage credits, model tokens, an additional seat or licence, entry
     to a campaign, a bonus period of access, or anything else — it is in-product
     value, usable only inside [Product Name]. It has no cash value; it is not
     redeemable or exchangeable for money; it cannot be sold, assigned,
     transferred, gifted, pooled, or combined between accounts; and it is not a
     gift card, prepaid access, stored-value instrument, security, or other
     financial product. We do not pay you money for posting, and nothing in the
     earned tier creates an employment, agency, partnership, or joint venture
     relationship between you and [Company].

N.6  Verification. Posts are verified mechanically against the checks in clause
     N.2. We use Know Reply Inc., which operates the Earnesty platform, to perform
     that verification and to tell us what to grant; see [link to your privacy
     policy section] for what that involves. If a post does not qualify, we will
     tell you which check it failed, and your claim remains available for another
     post. Verification never assesses the quality, tone, opinion, or popularity of
     a post.

N.7  When you can earn again. The recurring cooldown on your rewards page is
     measured from your last credited post under the terms that governed it.
     You do not need to spend your Reward first. Drops and Milestones follow
     their own published conditions and sit outside that cooldown. We may set
     lifetime limits on a kind of Reward; your rewards page shows when a limit
     prevents further earning. There is no separate monthly posting quota.

N.8  Changes and stopping. New rates govern posts made after the change. Later
     rate changes do not reprice an earlier post, but posting alone is not
     acceptance. We can stop new acceptance, including for posts published but
     not yet accepted. Rewards already accepted and their reviews continue under
     their recorded terms, despite later funding changes or program closure.
     Campaigns and timely requests follow the Program Rules.

N.9  Taxes. You are responsible for any tax consequences of [Reward Name] you
     receive. We do not provide tax advice.

If you display testimonials, do not misrepresent the body they came from. Earnesty reports what your users posted — the praise, the bug reports, and the criticism alike — and what you do with that on your own site is your decision, not ours. But a testimonial wall assembled only from the favourable ones, presented as representative, is the pattern 16 CFR 465.5 addresses. Choosing what to feature is normal marketing; implying it is the whole picture is not. This is your exposure rather than ours, which is why it is here rather than in Earnesty’s own rules.

Adapt with care. Clauses N.4 and N.5 are the two that hold the whole model up — N.4 is your Part 465 position and N.5 is what keeps an in-product Reward of any form out of stored-value and money-transmission territory. Change the wording if you like; do not narrow the meaning. Clause N.8’s second half is a commitment Earnesty makes to you in the Earnesty Terms of Service, so you can make it to your users without taking on risk you cannot cover. Clause N.3 distinguishes the terms fixed at publication from the commitment made at acceptance; preserve both boundaries.

4. Block B — Terms of Service Clause: Conduct and Eligibility

N. Earned Tier: Eligibility and Conduct

N.1  Who can participate. To participate in the earned tier you must:

     (a) hold a [Product Name] account in good standing;
     (b) be at least 18 and meet any higher minimum age set by the social
         platform you post on;
     (c) have a public account on a supported platform that you personally control;
     (d) comply with that platform's own terms and policies; and
     (e) not be barred from participating by law or sanctions in your location.

     One posting account may be linked to one [Product Name] account, and one
     [Product Name] account may be linked to one posting account per platform.

N.2  Employees, contractors, and affiliates. If you are an employee, contractor,
     investor, or immediate family member of someone at [Company], you may
     participate, but you must additionally make your relationship with [Company]
     clear in the post itself, as required by the FTC's Endorsement Guides. The
     disclosure alone is not sufficient for you.

N.3  Prohibited conduct. You may not:

     (a) omit, hide, shrink, bury, or remove the disclosure before the five-day review, or edit a
         post after it is credited so that the disclosure is no longer there;
     (b) delete a credited post, or make it private or otherwise non-public, in
         order to keep the reward while removing the disclosure;
     (c) post from a fake, purchased, automated, impersonating, or shared account,
         or create additional accounts to earn more than once;
     (d) buy, trade, or artificially generate replies, reposts, likes, followers, or
         other engagement, or coordinate with others to do so;
     (e) publish content you did not write, republish or lightly reword a post that
         has already been credited, or submit the same post to more than one earned
         tier program for credit;
     (f) make false, misleading, or unsubstantiated statements about [Product Name],
         including describing features, results, prices, or guarantees that do not
         exist;
     (g) misrepresent your relationship with [Company], including claiming to be an
         employee, a customer you are not, or an independent reviewer with no
         connection to us;
     (h) publish content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, obscene,
         infringing, or that discloses someone else's personal or confidential
         information;
     (i) sell, share, or transfer your claim code or your [Reward Name], or offer to
         post on someone else's behalf for payment; or
     (j) interfere with, probe, or attempt to circumvent verification, claim limits,
         cooldowns, reward limits, or fraud controls.

N.4  What happens if you break these rules. Depending on what happened and whether
     it has happened before, we may:

     (a) decline to credit a specific post, and tell you why;
     (b) issue a warning and ask you to correct the post;
     (c) pause new claims on your account while we look into it;
     (d) remove you from the earned tier, keeping the [Reward Name] you earned
         legitimately;
     (e) reverse [Reward Name] obtained through fraud, fake accounts, or
         manufactured engagement. This applies only to [Reward Name] obtained that
         way. The separate five-day review may also revoke a grant as described
         in Block A; settled Rewards are otherwise unaffected; or
     (f) suspend or close your [Product Name] account, in the case of serious or
         repeated violations.

     We aim to start at the lowest step that fits, and we will tell you what we
     found and what we did. If you think we got it wrong, write to [Support Email]
     and a person will review it.

N.5  Reporting. If you see someone earning through fake accounts, manufactured
     engagement, or undisclosed posts, tell us at [Support Email]. We investigate
     every report.

Adapt with care. Keep the required Disclosure and the insider-disclosure rule. Align the enforcement ladder with your own terms, including the five-day review and the separate fraud exception. Neither permits reversal for sentiment or a change of mind.

After a completed five-day review, settled Rewards remain final except for fraud. Before that review, removal of the post or the required Disclosure has the consequence described in Block A and the Program Rules.

Once that floor is set, APPs whose products serve minors will need counsel to reconcile it with the platform’s own minimum age and the FTC’s position on advertising to children.

5. Block C — Privacy Policy Clause

N. Earned Tier (optional)

If you choose to participate in [Product Name]'s earned tier, we work with Know
Reply Inc., which operates the Earnesty platform, to verify your public posts and
to tell us what [Reward Name] to grant you. Here is what that means for your data.

- What we share. When you enroll, we share with Know Reply Inc. an account
  identifier for you that is meaningful only inside [Product Name], your enrollment
  status, and the [Reward Name] activity needed to issue and settle your claims. We
  do not share your name, your email address, your password, or the contents of
  your [Product Name] account.

- What Know Reply collects directly. To verify posts, Know Reply queries the public
  APIs of the platforms it supports. It collects your public handle and your public
  account identifier on that platform, and, for each qualifying post, the post's
  identifier, public URL, timestamp, text and disclosure evidence, together with
  its public views, likes, replies, reposts, quotes and bookmarks at review.
  It never reads who interacted.

- Roles. For the identifier we supply and for delivering [Reward Name] to your
  account, Know Reply acts as our service provider and processes that data on our
  instructions under a data processing addendum. For querying the platforms' public
  data, for keeping records that evidence verification and disclosure compliance,
  and for detecting fraud and abuse, Know Reply acts as an independent controller
  on the basis of its own legitimate interests.

- Your own privacy notice. Because of that second role, Know Reply provides
  participants with its own privacy notice, at
  https://earnesty.app/legal/user-privacy-notice. You can exercise your data rights
  against Know Reply directly at privacy@earnesty.app, or contact us at
  [Privacy Email] and we will pass the request on.

- If you delete a post. Post content and engagement counts are checked against the
  platform and removed if you delete the post or make it non-public. A minimal
  settlement record — the post identifier, its timestamp, the amount granted, and
  the program terms in force at the time — is kept as evidence of a completed
  transaction and to meet disclosure recordkeeping obligations.

- If you do not participate. If you never enroll in the earned tier, none of this
  applies to you. We share nothing about you with Know Reply Inc., and no data about
  you is collected from any social platform. Leaving the earned tier stops any
  further sharing and collection.

Adapt with care. If you send Know Reply anything beyond the opaque identifier — a display name, an email address for notifications — say so in the first bullet, and check that your data processing agreement covers it. The role split in the third bullet is the honest description of how the system actually works and is the bullet your users’ data-protection questions will land on. The last bullet is not padding: for a program that is genuinely optional, stating what happens when a user declines is the cheapest way to answer half the support tickets.

6. Block D — Disclosure and FTC Compliance Clause

N. How We Work With People Who Post About [Product Name]

[Product Name] rewards people for the act of posting publicly about our product,
with a disclosure. We do not reward opinions and we do not buy reviews. These are
the rules we hold ourselves to, and we welcome being held to them.

- Disclosure is required, not encouraged. Every post that earns [Reward Name] must
  carry [Disclosure] in its required placement. A post without it is
  not credited. This is checked before any [Reward Name] are granted, not after. We
  never ask, encourage, or allow anyone to leave the disclosure out, shrink it, bury it, or
  remove it before the five-day review, and we never discourage anyone from using
  a platform's own paid-partnership label.

- Rewards are never conditioned on sentiment. A critical post earns exactly the same
  as a favorable one. We never offer more for praise, and we never offer anything for
  a review, a rating, a star, a testimonial, or a recommendation. We do not read or
  score the sentiment of any post, and neither does our verification provider. This
  is our position under the FTC's Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and
  Testimonials (16 CFR Part 465) and the Endorsement Guides (16 CFR Part 255).

- Rewards are never conditioned on commercial outcomes. There is no bonus for a signup, an
  install, a sale, a conversion, or any other commercial result a post produces for us. An optional bounded
  performance bonus may rank public counts on the author's own post under the
  Program Rules.

- We do not select posts by what they say. Verification is mechanical: the post is
  public, it mentions us, it carries the required disclosure, it is the
  participant's own, and it has not been credited before. Nothing about the content,
  quality or tone of the post enters the decision. Public counts are used only
  for the separately described performance bonus.

- The words are the participant's. We may offer a starting string containing our
  handle and the disclosure. What is said around it is written by the person
  posting.

- We do not suppress criticism. We do not ask participants to edit or delete a post
  as a condition of earning or keeping [Reward Name], and we do not remove anyone
  from the program for posting something unfavorable about us.

- Employees and others connected to us must say so. Anyone with a material
  connection to [Company] beyond participation in this program — employees,
  contractors, investors, and their immediate families — must make that connection
  clear in the post itself. The disclosure alone is not enough for them.

- Tell us if we fall short. If you see a post about [Product Name] that appears to be
  rewarded but is not disclosed, or if you believe we have broken any of the rules
  above, write to [Support Email]. We will look into it and correct it.

Adapt with care. Confirm that your configuration and deployed integration enforce these commitments before publishing them. The only line requiring effort on your side is the employee bullet: it needs a real internal endorsement policy behind it. Publish this where it can be found — a help-center article and a link from your terms is enough. A public, specific compliance position is worth more than a paragraph in section 14 of your terms that nobody reads.

7. Block E — In-Product Microcopy

Not legal text. This is what your users actually read, and it must not drift from the blocks above: no promise of money, no sentiment framing, no hiding the disclosure requirement. Pick a variant, adjust the voice, keep the substance.

7.1 The paywall / empty state

Shown when a user runs out of [Reward Name] and the earned tier is one of the ways out.

Variant 1 — direct

  Out of [Reward Name].

  Two ways to get more: upgrade your plan, or post about [Product Name] in public.
  A post right now earns 240 [Reward Name].

  [ Post and earn 240 ]   [ See plans ]

Variant 2 — plan-named

  You're on the earned tier.

  Your claim is ready: 240 [Reward Name] for one public post about
  [Product Name], with the required disclosure.
  Your rewards page shows current terms and availability.

  [ Get my post ]   [ How this works ]

Variant 3 — minimal

  0 [Reward Name] left.

  One public post about [Product Name] → 240 [Reward Name].

  [ Post and earn ]   [ Upgrade instead ]

Keep: the number, the fact that a post is public, and a visible alternative that is not posting. Avoid: anything that reads as praise-for-credits (“tell everyone why you love us”), and any framing of the claim as shrinking, expiring, or having to be caught in time — show the current rate and availability without implying a reservation or a permanent rate.

Show current eligibility. Show the next earning date when cooldown applies, and explain when funding, an inactive offer, or a lifetime limit prevents acceptance. The page shows current conditions; it does not reserve funds or guarantee acceptance after publication.

7.2 The enrollment explainer

Shown once, when a user joins the earned tier. It has to carry the whole deal in the time someone will actually give it.

Variant 1 — the three facts

  The earned tier

  Refill your [Reward Name] by posting about [Product Name] in public, instead of
  paying for them.

  · Post whatever you actually think. A critical post earns exactly the same as
    a positive one — we never read what you say, only that you posted and
    disclosed.
  · Include [Disclosure] in the placement shown. That's the disclosure
    required for this program, and it is checked before a post qualifies.
  · [Reward Name] work inside [Product Name] only. No cash value, not
    transferable.

  Optional, always. You can stop any time and keep what you've earned.

  [ Join the earned tier ]

Variant 2 — the walkthrough

  How the earned tier works

  1. Your rewards page shows the current Reward and whether you can earn.
  2. You post publicly about [Product Name], in your own words, mentioning
     [@ProductHandle] with [Disclosure] in it. Your first post
     also carries your claim code, which links your account. Follow the
     placement shown for [Disclosure]. If X offers your account its Paid
     Partnership label, turn it on as well.
  3. We check the post and accept it while the offer and funding allow.
     Its applicable Reward terms are those in force when you posted.
  4. Five days after you post, its public performance may earn a one-time
     bonus, up to a maximum you can see up front.
  5. After the cooldown, you can earn again while an offer is available
     and within its reward limits. You do not need to spend what you earned first.

  What we never do: read your sentiment, pay you money, ask you to change what
  you wrote, or reward you for signups you bring in.

  [ Join ]   [ Read the rules ]

Variant 3 — short form

  Post about [Product Name] with [Disclosure] in the placement shown. An
  accepted post earns 240 [Reward Name]. Say whatever you actually think — praise and
  criticism earn the same. [Reward Name] work here only and have no cash value.
  Optional, and you can leave any time.

  [ Join the earned tier ]   [ Details ]

Keep: sentiment neutrality, the mandatory disclosure, no cash value, and that it is optional. Those four map directly onto Block A and are what make the consent meaningful.

7.3 The status-page link

Wherever the user’s balance or plan appears.

Variant 1  Earned tier · 240 [Reward Name] ready →
Variant 2  Your claim is ready — see what a post earns →
Variant 3  Earned tier: 240 a post, up to 4 a month · track it →
Variant 4  1 claim open · 3 posts verified · view status →

Link to [Status Page URL]. It shows available offers, current eligibility, the next earning date, Reward history, verification results, and the possible performance bonus and review date. Keep the link in a stable place.

8. Compliance Checklist

Run this before you turn the earned tier on for real users.

Your documents

Block A, or your own version of it, is published in your terms of service, and your terms permit you to run a rewarded posting program with your users at all.
The no-cash-value language (Block A, N.5) survives intact in your published terms.
Block B, or an equivalent, is in your terms or acceptable use policy, and its escalation ladder matches the process your support team actually follows.
Block C, or an equivalent, is in your privacy policy, and it names Know Reply Inc. and links to the USER Privacy Notice.
Block D is published somewhere a person outside your company can find it.
Your counsel has reviewed all of the above, in your jurisdictions.
Your existing terms’ change-of-terms, arbitration, and limitation-of-liability clauses have been checked against the new program rather than assumed to cover it.

Your program configuration

Your Disclosure is the Earnesty-approved phrase and brand handle for the selected Market and language. X’s native label is not required for now, and nothing you tell users discourages them from using it.
No reward, bonus, drop, or campaign you have configured is conditioned on sentiment, a rating, a review, a signup, an activation, or a conversion.
Your base Reward, possible bonus, cooldown, and applicable reward limits are visible to users before they post.
Your suggested post string contains your mention and the Disclosure, and no scripted opinion.
Every earning path — normal posting, campaigns, spot rewards — has been checked against the sentiment rule, not just the default one.

Your product surfaces

Enrollment is opt-in, and declining leaves the account fully usable on some other plan.
Leaving the program is possible from the product, and leaving does not remove [Reward Name] already earned.
Every surface that mentions earning also mentions the disclosure.
No surface promises money, cash, payouts, or anything transferable.
No surface describes the program as buying posts, engagement, reach, or reviews — the thing being rewarded is a disclosed public post, and the copy should say exactly that.
Every surface that mentions the claim states the number a post earns and how many credited posts a month the cooldown allows. No surface implies that the number falls, expires, or has to be caught in time.
No surface tells a user to spend what they earned in order to earn again — a claim reopens on the cooldown alone.

Your operations

Someone owns the support path when a post fails verification, and can explain which check failed.
Your internal endorsement policy covers employees, contractors, and investors who participate.
Your team knows not to ask a user to edit or delete an unfavorable post, and not to offer anything extra for a favorable one — this is the rule most likely to be broken casually, in a DM, by someone with good intentions.
Your Data Processing Addendum with Know Reply Inc. is signed, and its sub-processor list has been reviewed.
You can answer “what do we owe if we cancel tomorrow” with a number.

If your users are outside the United States

Your selected Market and enabled languages fit your program, and your customer category is eligible under the platform’s applicable policies. The Market selects disclosure instructions; it does not restrict geographic reach or exempt you from other applicable rules.
Your privacy clause has been checked against GDPR, UK GDPR, and any local equivalents, including the controller/processor split described in Block C.

Contact Us

Questions about this kit, or a question from your counsel that section 2 does not answer, go to hello@earnesty.app. Data protection questions, including requests for a signed Data Processing Addendum, go to privacy@earnesty.app. We would rather spend an hour on a call with your lawyer than have an integration stall in review.