Content rules

The rules for what goes into a guide, as the creator agreement and the terms set them and as the studio enforces them. Photos have their own page: Photos and credits.

Your own work

A Sceniq guide sells first-hand knowledge: spots you know, in your words, with your photos. That is what buyers pay for.

• Under the creator agreement you own, or hold a licence for, everything in your guide.
• You are responsible for what you write. The terms tell buyers so, and tell them that conditions outdoors change: a guide is not a safety device.

Facts buyers rely on

Sceniq's authoring rules ask that opening hours, prices, access rules, seasons, distances and coordinates come from your own material or from a source you can name, and that a field stays empty rather than guessed. An empty field is honest; an invented one misleads someone who paid for the guide.

Facts expire, so give dated facts their dates:

• A route's Sources hold the reference links buyers can open from the route detail.
• Sources and re-check dates on spots and places can be set through the Creator API (AI agents and API keys). Buyers never see spot and place sources.
• From a spot's re-check date on, its form in the studio shows Facts due for a new check.

Honest sales pages

Under the creator agreement, the counts and claims in your sales copy are honest: no made-up buyer numbers, review counts or credentials.

• Reviews you add yourself with Import Reviews are quotes people really gave you. Sceniq's authoring rules forbid invented reviews.
• A sales page never promises updates or permanence. The editor refuses to save the phrase that pairs the word lifetime with updates.

What blocks a publish

Publish guide puts a guide on sale, and Publish changes sends a live guide's edits to buyers. Neither goes through while any item below is open; the Publish dialog lists what is open.

Archived spots are left out of these checks: buyers never see them. A new agreement version pauses publishing and price changes until you accept it; under the creator agreement, guides already on sale keep selling during a reasonable transition window.

The Sceniq Store review

Publishing puts a guide on sale and on your creator profile. The Sceniq Store is separate: after you Request a listing, a person at Sceniq reviews the guide by hand before it appears there, and may decline it. Meanwhile the guide's Sceniq Store page shows In review. A declined guide shows Not approved yet there, with the reviewer's feedback; change the guide, then send it back with Request a listing again.

Once a guide has buyers

• Buyers keep the guide they bought, also after you archive it or leave Sceniq. Only a full refund or a chargeback (a payment their bank takes back) removes their access; after a partial refund they keep the guide.
• Its spots can no longer be deleted. Archive a spot instead.
• Edits to a live guide stay drafts until you publish them with Publish changes.

Rights notices and takedowns

If Sceniq receives a notice that content in your guide infringes someone's rights or breaks the law, the creator agreement sets out what happens:

• You answer Sceniq's questions within the deadline the agreement sets.
• While the notice is looked into, Sceniq may remove the content or take the guide off sale.
• Repeated justified infringement notices end the agreement.

What Sceniq may do with your guide

Your guide stays yours. The creator agreement gives Sceniq a non-exclusive licence to host, reproduce, display, translate and excerpt it to run the platform: to serve it to buyers, render your sales pages, show teasers in the store and in search, and market it. After you leave, the licence lasts only as far as needed to keep serving people who already bought the guide. The agreement is not exclusive: you may publish your work elsewhere too.

When an AI agent helps

An AI agent you connect with an API key works as your assistant, never as the author (AI agents and API keys). Sceniq's rules for agents:

• No invented facts: coordinates, hours, prices and access rules come from your material or from a source the agent names, and you confirm them.
• No generated images. No photos from the web, stock sites or social media, unless you ask for a guide built from licensed photos: then only photos whose licence allows use in a paid guide, each with its credit, licence and source page (Photos and credits). Every photo that is not yours carries a credit.
• Reviews only from real quotes you give it.
• Nothing goes live unless you ask for it.
• No copy buyers read describes the guide as written by AI. Your name is on it, and it is yours.

What an agent leaves for you to check shows on a spot's form as Note for your review. Buyers never see it.