The following guidelines are intended to help creators and users understand, for whom Steady is made for and what it's not intended for. They supplement our Community Guidelines, which define which content is acceptable to Steady and which is not.
The guidelines guide the Steady team when deciding whether a publication may use Steady or when and why a creator is sanctioned.
What Steady is for
Steady is made for people and companies who want to:
publish digital editorial content on a regular basis and
offer memberships
For example:
Online magazines
Blogs
Podcasts
Newsletters
Videos
Cartoons, drawings
Books / texts in the broadest sense
Photos, collages
Those who publish regularly on social media, such as YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok or Facebook,
Let's Plays, for example via platforms like Twitch or YouTube
Open source code, for example via GitHub
Communities, for example gaming communities
Education, online courses, including supplementary individual mentoring
What Steady is not for
Steady is not intended for:
Financing of projects not related to the publication of regular digital content
Collection of donations or scholarships
Sale of physical goods
Advice, or advice subject to approval (e.g. tax advice, legal advice)
Games of chance, betting, auctions, lotteries
SEO scams, or the use of Steady to enhance search engine optimization
Financial transactions of any kind
Procurement of equity or debt capital
Sale, trading or management of stocks, shares, etc
Eroticism, pornography and any content harmful to minors (the use of Steady is not intended even if such content is published on another platform outside of Steady).
Promotional purposes, advertising of goods or services, product newsletters, publications of a promotional nature
Sale of goods or services (except memberships)
Corporate Communication, Corporate Media, PR
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list.
Of course no illegal activities may be carried out on Steady. Illegal activities include, among others:
Money laundering
Fraud, e.g. credit card fraud
Identity theft, e.g. impersonating someone else
Non-profit organizations
Steady welcomes non-profit organizations that want to fund regularly-published digital content by offering memberships. The sale of memberships through Steady is always an economic business that requires a tax number. That means that Steady must also collect and pay value-added tax on memberships sold by non-profit organizations through Steady. This means that Steady cannot issue donation receipts.
Prerequisite for our cooperation
Every Steady Creator must
be of legal age, i.e. over 18 years old before registering and publishing with Steady
operate its publication either commercially or as a freelancer and have a tax number, for example a VAT ID
Got a question we haven’t answered in our Help Centre? You can contact us at support@steadyhq.com.