Terms and conditions of subscription to publish your secret for sale.


A concept of monetization on the ownership of unique information at the modern Internet de facto is based on the premise that the wanted knowledge is free for user but advertiser of something sort of relevant has to pay to be visiable. From point of view of publisher the only way to get money for his unique knowledge is to play Trojan horse delivering outside advertisements. It can reasonable good work if potential audience is huge. Practice shows that traffic is almost never big enough for one document to deliver substantial income. In case if your information has limited by numbers group of potential users to publish it for free is equivalent to perform charity service.
Here at LeoKrut you can sell your proprietary information directly. We implement a concept of paid library. Publisher deposits his or her document, user accesses it for money, author rewarded, library gets processing fee. Even several paid revealing can potentially bring much more income than thousand free displays with pay per click advertisement on the page.

We provide a service to trade secrets (information) on the 'as is' base. It means that we do not accept any responsibilities for unintentionally occurred mistakes or malfunction of service no matter who originates it.
The term 'secret' is used here in most broad sense as an information that could have monetary value. Examples of secret to sell at LeoKrut are:
  • Software codes, software executables, tips, solutions.
  • Algorithms.
  • Fiction, ideas for screenplay, anecdotes...
  • Technology, invention, result of scientific research, request for grant, math formula...
  • Cooking recopies, handy tricks.
  • Databases, list of links.
  • Political slogans, caricatures.
  • Anything else like these...

We reserve right to reject any materials and/or publishers on the base of third party complain and/or our own oversight and judgment. In general we are not inviting any indecent materials as well these are potentially could educate criminals. If such materials will nevertheless appear on our site we will cooperate in full to eliminate bad content and punish criminals.

In extraordinary case of obvious mismatch between abstract and content that reaches a fraud level we will refund buyers and close publisher account. But usually in case of complains we will be neutral observers permitting just buyers to post appropriate comment on the abstract page.

Publisher can chose from one of the predefined levels of confidentiality:

  • strictly confidential - buyer can use the information only to learn new skill without right to mention it to anybody else in any form without direct permission of publisher that has to be obtained additionally. One can consider it as an analog of high level classified document.
  • can share with friends - it is slightly more liberal level of confidentiality. Buyer of the secret can share the information with individual(s) who knows personally. He has to warn them about confidential nature of the information and to be responsible in case of uncontrolled leaks originated by his or her actions.
  • non commercial - buyer can use the information in any way with the limitation that no direct monetary profit will be obtained as the result of direct resell.
  • commercial - any usage is allowed except free redistribution of the obtained secret.
  • public domain - buyer can use information in any way including right to republish but not extract profit from direct reselling without significant modification. No plagiarism is allowed.
  • can resell - buyer has all nonexclusive rights to do with information whatever he or she wants including reselling with or without any modification.

We presume, until proved other way, that publishers are owners of published materials and fully responsible for the content.

LeoKrut is not responsible for breach of confidentiality committed by buyers of published materials. In case of obvious breaks of confidentiality or by lawful request we will provide contact information of buyers of the secret in dispute.

Publishers will be paid for sold secrets as soon due sum in the account will exceed threshold value of $100 USD. We will withhold service fee on the level $4 USD + 20%. Threshold and service fee value can be changed with or without advance notification.
To receive earned money in full publisher has to provide taxpayer identification number. If no taxpayer ID will be provided after set deadline we will extract taxes and pay it by ourselves on the level of our bracket for the report year and send rest to publisher. We will use PayPal service or send bank check depend on publisher choice and availability for given country.

 

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