Glossary of Terms Used by Hotmart

Version updated on March 4, 2024.

This Glossary is part of the Hotmart Terms of Use. It lists the meanings of the expressions that start with capital letters in the Hotmart Terms or in other Policies. We suggest that you read the following definitions carefully and attentively.
 

Affiliate: User registered in the Affiliate Program who, while using Hotmart Services, sells Products in exchange for a remuneration equivalent to a percentage of the amount of each sale they promote.

Affiliate Program: A Hotmart Service where Creators allow Affiliates to sell Products for a remuneration equivalent to a percentage of the amount of each sale that they make.

Buyer: User who purchases any Product registered on the Platform.

Collaborator: User registered by a Creator to manage the Creator's account, without the need to share the Creator's access credentials.

Contract: The binding contract signed between you, as the User, and Hotmart, which governs your access and use of the Platform and its Services. 

Creator: User who registers a Product on their behalf and is the exclusive holder of all intellectual property rights relating to the Product, or who is regularly authorized by the holders of these rights to create, disclose, and market the Product on the Platform.

Display: Area through which Creators make their Products available to be disclosed on the Hotmart website.

Hotmart: It can be any of and/or any combination of the following companies: Hotmart BR, Hotmart B.V., Hotmart USA, Hotmart SCD and/or other companies in their economic group.

Hotmart BR: Launch Pad Tecnologia, Serviços e Pagamentos Ltda., a private legal company, registered with the CNPJ/ME under no. 13.427.325/0001-05, headquartered in the city of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, at Avenida Assis Chateaubriand, no. 499, Bairro Floresta, CEP 30.150-101.

Hotmart B.V.: Dutch company, headquartered at Spuistraat 168 C, 1012 VT, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KVK CCI registration nº 60335777.

Hotmart USA: Launch Pad Payment Services Corp, a North American company, headquartered at 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE, Zip code 19808. and registration no. 6840958.

Hotmart SCD: LaunchPad Sociedade de Crédito S.A, enrolled with Brazilian's taxpayers registry under the no. 45.220.646/0001-12.

Hotmart Platform or Platform: The website www.hotmart.com and its subdomains, as well as any other websites, interfaces, or applications in which Hotmart makes its resources available.

Hotmart Policies: The collection of all Hotmart Policies can be found in this link.

Hotmart Services or Services: Collectively, the resources made available by Hotmart that allow Users to consume, create, promote, or sell Products on the Platform.

HotPay: Hotmart's payment system that processes the payment instructions made by Buyers and settles them for Creators, Co-producers and Affiliates, according to the rules and procedures determined in the Payment Policy and Hotmart Terms.

HotPay Services: Collectively, the HotPay resources that process the payment instructions made by Buyers and settle them for Creators, Co-producers, and Affiliates. 

License Fee: A Fee Hotmart charges Creators for the use of the Hotpay and Platform features, in a fixed amount, applicable according to the currency used by Buyers to make the purchase. 

Marketplace: The platform's shopping area, available as a virtual showcase to present Products to Users. The term Marketplace is not to be confused with, nor should it be interpreted as, the term defined in the EU Resolution 2019/1150.

Product: in the case of digital Products, it means the content in various digital formats (video, audio, text, software, etc.) produced by the Creator or licensed to the Creator by third parties and made available on the Platform, such as, but not limited to courses, e-books, podcasts, communities, among others. In the case of physical Products, it means the merchandise sold by the Creator on the Platform.

Registration Information: Consists of information, such as parents’ names, address (including email address), full name, first name, marital status, and profession of the User.

Related Third Parties: Any persons, natural or legal, who are directly or indirectly related to a Product, such as experts, actors, characters or endorsers.

Service Fee: Fee that Hotmart charges Creators to use Hotpay and the Platform resources, the fee varies according to the Product’s sale price. 

Terms: Hotmart’s Terms of Use.

Third-Party Services: Third-party websites, applications, or resources made available to Users through the Platform.

Free Trial Feature: Feature that allows a period of free use by the Buyer, which can vary from one to 30 days, as decided by the Creator, and that has the purpose of allowing new Buyers to try out the Product.

User: Any person who accesses or uses the Platform, regardless of whether they have signed up as a Creator, Co-producer, Affiliate, or Buyer.

User-generated Content: content that is created and made available by Users in text, audio, image, video, document, among other formats, for purposes of evaluating Products and/or inserting comment(s) in the Services and/or on the Platform.