Creator Terms

Version 2026-10-17 · Last updated: October 22, 2026

These terms apply when you sell a map in WhereWe. They are an agreement between you and WhereWe LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company (“WhereWe,” “we,” “us”). You accept them in the app before you put a map up for sale. They add to our Terms of Use, which apply to everyone; where the two say something different about selling, these terms win. Publishing a free map doesn’t need them: our Community Guidelines, including their terms for public maps, apply to every public map, free or paid.

1. Who can sell

You can sell a map when all of these are true:

• Your WhereWe account has a username, and you’ve shown it’s really yours: a confirmed email address or phone number, or Sign in with Apple or Google.
• Your account is at least 7 days old, and it isn’t suspended or banned.
• You’re at least 18, or the age of adulthood where you live if that’s older.
• We can legally pay you where you live (see section 6).
• The map is published, has at least 10 places, and passes our review (see section 3).

2. What you promise

For every map you sell, and everything else you publish, you promise that:

• It’s yours. The recommendations, descriptions, and notes are your own, and you took the photos or have permission to use them.
• Nothing is copied. You didn’t copy places, notes, or photos from another guide, blog, book, website, map, or creator.
• The places are real and pinned where they actually are, and the title and description honestly say what a buyer gets.
• There’s no one else’s personal information — no private home addresses, no phone numbers, and nothing that shows where a private person lives.
• Nothing is illegal, hateful, or offensive, and nothing else our Community Guidelines don’t allow.
• You say when you were paid. If a business paid you or gave you something to include it, that place’s note says so.
• The payout email you give us is correct and yours.

3. Review

• Every public map, free or paid, is read by an automated AI check when it’s published and whenever it changes, and nothing new on it is public before the check has read it: until then, people see the version that was last checked. The check reads the map’s words — its title and description, the places’ names, cities, and countries, and any notes and links you chose to show — and its photos: the cover and any place photos you chose to show. It looks for problems such as sexual or hateful content, spam, personal information, or illegal goods.
• When you ask to sell a map, and for as long as it’s on sale, the check reads the whole map and also looks for nonsense, places in the wrong spot, and too little in it to be worth paying for. Then a person at WhereWe looks at the map and decides. The AI only advises; it never approves a sale by itself.
• If the check flags a map, when you publish it or after an edit, the map is taken down at once and stays down until we’ve looked at it; while it’s down, nobody can buy it. If the check can’t run, or a map changes more often than it can be checked in a day, the new content waits, unpublished, until it can be checked.
• You can publish up to 10 times in any 24 hours. Publishing a map again, for example to change its title or what it includes, counts.
• We may decline a map, or later hide it, stop its sale, or remove it, if it breaks these terms or the Community Guidelines, or if we receive a valid complaint about it. Where we can, we tell you why: the reason appears in the app.
• If several people report a map, it’s hidden until we’ve reviewed it.
• If you think we got something wrong, email us and we’ll take another look.

4. Prices

• You choose one of five prices: $0.99, $1.99, $4.99, $9.99, or $19.99. These are US prices. In other countries, Apple sets the matching local price.
• Maps are sold through Apple’s in-app purchase. Apple takes the payment and handles sales tax and VAT. Buyers pay Apple, never you or us directly.
• You can change the price. A new price needs our OK first; until then, the map keeps selling at the old one.
• You can’t set your own custom price yet.

5. What you earn

Every sale is split in two steps:

1. Apple keeps its commission — 15% for developers in Apple’s App Store Small Business Program, 30% otherwise. Apple decides which rate applies.
2. You get 80% of what Apple pays us for the sale, and WhereWe keeps 20%.

Purchases made in test versions of the app (TestFlight) aren’t real sales: Apple charges nothing for them, and they earn nothing.

These amounts are estimates. In many countries the price includes VAT or other taxes that Apple takes out before paying us, and Apple converts other currencies into US dollars at its own rates, so what Apple pays us for a sale can be less than in the example. The earnings the app shows you are estimates too. Your share is always 80% of what Apple actually pays us for your map’s sales.

6. Getting paid

• We pay you through PayPal, to the payout email you give us in the app. Keep it up to date. Only you and we can see it. A new payout email takes effect 7 days after you change it, and the app tells you when; until then we pay the one before.
• Each sale’s share waits 60 days after the sale, so that refunds come back first; then it becomes payable. About once a month, we pay you what’s payable, once it comes to at least $10. A smaller balance rolls over to the next month. (Apple pays us roughly 30 to 45 days after the end of each month.)
• We pay in US dollars, and we pay the fee for sending the payment.
• We can only pay you if PayPal can send money where you live and the law allows us to pay you (for example, sanctions laws).
• Refunds. Buyers ask Apple for refunds, and Apple decides. If Apple refunds a sale before we’ve paid you for it, its share is simply removed. If Apple refunds a sale we already paid you for, that amount becomes a balance you owe, and it comes off your next payouts.
• If a map is removed because it broke these terms — for example, it was copied from someone else — we may keep back what it earned.
• Taxes are yours. You’re responsible for reporting and paying any tax on what you earn. If the law requires it, we may ask you for tax information (such as a US Form W-9 or W-8BEN) before we pay you.
• If you want to stop selling for good, or before you delete your account, email us and we’ll pay what we owe you, even below the minimum. Deleting your account deletes your payout email, so tell us first.

7. Buyers

• A buyer can open the full map in WhereWe for as long as it’s published.
• Buyers can save the map’s places into their own maps. Those copies are theirs to keep, even if you later change the map, stop selling it, or unpublish it.
• If you unpublish the map, buyers can’t open it until you publish it again. If you delete your account, it’s gone for good. Either way, buyers may ask Apple for a refund, which would come out of your balance.
• If you stop selling a map but keep it published, it becomes a free map: anyone with the link can see all its places. Unpublish it if you’d rather it disappear.
• You see how many people bought your map, but not who.

8. Ownership and license

• You keep ownership of your map, its text, and its photos.
• Every map you publish, free or paid, is covered by the license in our terms for public maps: WhereWe may host, copy, and display it in the app and on the web, adapt it so it displays well, check it, show it in Explore and search, and let people save copies of its places into their own maps.
• For a map you sell, that license also covers selling it: WhereWe may offer it for sale through Apple; show people who haven’t bought it a preview (its title and description, how many places it has, its cities and categories, approximate dots on a map, and up to three place names); and show buyers all of it. The license lasts as long as the map is published, and continues for copies that buyers and other people have already saved into their own maps.
• Non-exclusive means you’re free to share or sell the same recommendations anywhere else.

9. Ending and changes

• You can stop selling any map at any time in the app, and unpublish it or delete your account whenever you like.
• We may change the revenue share, the prices, how payouts work, or these terms, or end selling altogether, with at least 30 days’ notice by email or in the app. A change never affects sales already made. If we end selling, we pay out every balance, even below the minimum.
• We post every new version of these terms here with a new version date, and ask you to accept it in the app the next time you set or change a price. If you don’t agree, you can stop selling before the change takes effect.
• We may stop your sales, suspend your account, or ban it straight away if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms or the Community Guidelines, as the Community Guidelines describe. While your account is suspended or banned, your maps are off sale.

10. The fine print

• WhereWe is provided as it is. We don’t promise any number of sales, that a map will be approved, or that the app will always be available.
• As far as the law allows, our total responsibility to you under these terms is limited to the earnings we owe you.
• If someone makes a claim against WhereWe because your map broke these terms — for example, it used their photos — you agree to cover our reasonable costs.
• Selling maps doesn’t make you our employee, partner, or agent.
• Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information, including your payout email and sales.
• The Terms of Use decide which law applies to these terms and where disputes are decided.

11. Contact us

Questions about selling, or about a payout? Email support@wherewe.net.