Seller Policies
By becoming a Speech Paradise Seller, you are entering a legal Agreement with Speech Paradise, Inc. This Agreement is legally binding between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and Speech Paradise Inc (“Speech Paradise Inc”, “we”, “us” or “our”). As a seller, you expressly agree to the following:
- Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Copyright & Trademark policy.
- Speak and act in ways that are professional, ethical, legal, respectful, and honest.
- Respect the privacy of others: do not include personal or private content of someone else without their explicit written consent.
- Refrain from attempts to interfere with or undermine Speech Paradise services, user accounts or content, and seller accounts or content.
- Participate in the Speech Paradise community in an encouraging, inclusive, and collaborative way, elevating the public perception of the Speech Pathology profession as a whole.
Setting up your store on Speech Paradise:
First you will register a Seller account, which will include a profile image, a store name, and some information about yourself (for example, years of experience, work setting(s), area of expertise).
Your seller account will also require you to set up a PayPal account to receive automatic PayPal payments.
Once you register a Seller account, you can start uploading products that were created by you and include the content for the Product Listing. This will include a description of the product, price, recommended age, and product format. The content of your Product Listing can be edited by you at any time.
Content Policies:
The Seller retains intellectual property rights that they hold in their Content. Speech Paradise does not take or claim any ownership (copyright, trademark, or otherwise) over your Content.
Sellers grant to Speech Paradise limited rights to store, use, display, and provide access to the Content you post as necessary to provide our Services, such as to display your Resource in your store and in search results, to make your Resources available for download, and to display and promote your Resources through our Services, through email, and ads on other sites or search engines, and through other marketing campaigns. For these purposes, you grant to us a nonexclusive, irrevocable, perpetual (except as otherwise provided herein), worldwide, sublicensable license to exercise any copyright, trademark rights, or other rights in and to your Content necessary to provide our Services to you and our other Users.
Speech Paradise has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor any Speech Paradise marketplace activity and Content. We may investigate any complaints or reported violations of our policies and take any action that we deem appropriate. Such action may include, but is not limited to, issuing warnings, suspension or termination of your Membership, denying access, and/or removal of any Content on the site, including Resource Listings.
Speech Paradise may, at our discretion, remove or ban content that is inappropriate, obscene, insensitive, or disrespectful.
We may modify or add to these rules at our discretion. If you violate any of these rules, we may take action against your Account, including but not limited to removing Content you’ve posted, removing Resources from your Account, and/or suspending or terminating your Account.
Allowed Product Content:
- Printable resources (planners, therapy activities, worksheets, crafts, organizational materials, and educational handouts)
- Interactive digital materials (google slides, Boom cards, Interactive PDFs)
- Books, notebooks
- miscellaneous office resources (clip art, fonts, graphics, décor)
Speech Paradise may, at our discretion, discontinue support for, or limit the availability of, any product type.
Prohibited Product Content:
- Content that infringes on another person’s copyright, trademark and/or intellectual property
- Inappropriate or offensive content
- Content that is already posted in another seller’s store
- ? Resources that require a third party hosting site to be downloaded
- Resources that link to other commercial site (online retailer, e-commerce site)
Product Pricing Policy:
Sellers set prices independently for each of their resources posted. Speech Paradise does not set or manage the prices of products listed on the marketplace.
Sellers can choose to put selected products on sale and/or offer buyers promo codes to use in their stores at their discretion. They may revoke these discounts at any time.
Product Guarantee:
Seller agrees to maintain access to and working condition of any listed products.
Seller warrants that they have the necessary rights to use all of the content included in their resource and the buyer/user with not infringe on anyone’s rights by using the purchased product.
Featuring Products in your Store:
Your store will allow you to feature up to 4 products at the top of your store page. You can change your featured products at any time; you can add, revise, and delete your products at any time. There is no fee to feature products in your store. Featuring products in other places on Speech Paradise is optional and will incur fees.
Seller Fees:
Becoming a Seller, setting up your store, and uploading products is free.
Speech Paradise marketplace provides a standard payout rate of 88% for every sale.
Speech Paradise may at times offer a higher payout rate to Sellers who are assisting in the development of the Speech Paradise marketplace and to top sellers within the marketplace, at our discretion. Higher payout rates are not guaranteed and can be revoked at any time.
Speech Paradise reserves the right to change the payout rate at any time at our discretion. Members will be notified of these changes (change in rate and effective date of change) via email. Continued selling of products past the noticed effective date of payout rate changes indicates Seller acceptance and agreement with the payout rate changes.
Seller may opt to feature products on the Home page, Category pages, and/or Speech Paradise automated emails. Fees will be charged to feature products. Payment of these fees will be collected through a deduction from the Seller’s next Payout, or by credit or debit card if your current unpaid Payout amount is not enough to cover the purchase price.
Sellers are required to collect sales tax on applicable orders in states where they have designated an obligation. Speech Paradise is not responsible for the information provided by our Sellers and does not guarantee the accuracy of sales tax calculations.
Seller payment:
Speech Paradise uses a third-party payment provider, PayPal. In order to get paid for your product sales, you will need to create an account with PayPal and ensure it is set up to receive payments from Speech Paradise marketplace.
The Third-party Payment Services may assess transaction fees when transferring Payouts to you. These will be automatically deducted from your Payout amount. These transaction fees are subject to change at the discretion of the Payment Services and are not fees that are charged or received by Speech Paradise. We are not responsible for any additional fees or taxes you may incur from other third parties related to receiving or accessing your Payouts.
Payments will be automatically deposited to your PayPal account once per month. Be sure to follow the instructions from PayPal on how to accept the first payment. After 30 days, payments that have not been accepted will be returned to Speech Paradise marketplace and you will need to contact us to resend the payment to you.
Any fees that you owe to Speech Paradise will be automatically deducted from your payout.
Speech Paradise may, at our sole discretion, withhold or delay a Payout due to any Seller who we believe to be in violation of any of these Terms. After the matter is resolved, we will either refund the associated sale(s) or complete the Payout.
Relationship:
These Seller Policies, including the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Copyright & Trademark Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Speech Paradise and they govern your relationship with Speech Paradise. Becoming a Member of our Services or Seller does not create an agency, employment, or partnership relationship between you and Speech Paradise. Speech Paradise is not the employer of and does not act as an agent for any Member or Seller.
Closing your Seller Store:
You have the right to close your store at any time without notice to us. You can close your store from your Account page or by contacting us for assistance. Speech Paradise can, in our discretion, suspend or close your account at any time for any reason, with or without notice. Once your account is closed, you will no longer have access to your account information or features of our services that require an account. Any resources that you have posted will no longer be available through our marketplace. Speech Paradise is not liable to you for any impact a change, suspension, or discontinuation of our Services may have, including loss of income from your temporary or permanent inability to sell your Resources.