Notary Agreement

This Notary Agreement (“Agreement”) is between Nyza Creations LLC, doing business as SaffronSeal (“we,” “us,” “SaffronSeal”), and you, a commissioned notary public who creates a Notary profile on the Platform (“you,” “Notary”). It supplements our Terms of Service, including the arbitration agreement in Section 13 of those Terms. By completing Notary onboarding, you agree to this Agreement.

1. Independent contractor, not an employee

You provide notarial services through SaffronSeal as an independent contractor, not as an employee, agent, partner or joint venturer of Nyza Creations LLC. You decide which bookings to accept, and you control the manner, means and timing of the notarial acts you perform. You are not entitled to employee benefits, unemployment insurance or workers' compensation through Nyza Creations LLC, and nothing here creates an employment relationship. You are free to offer notary services to others outside the Platform.

2. Eligibility and verification

To activate and keep a Notary profile, you must:

• Hold a valid, current notary public commission in every state you list, and provide the commission number and expiration exactly as issued. We check every commission against the state's public registry before a profile goes live, and again when it is renewed.
• Maintain any bond and errors-and-omissions insurance your commissioning state requires.
• Keep your commission expiration, insurance and certifications accurate in your profile, and tell us promptly if your commission is suspended, revoked or lapses.

A background screening is optional and earns a visible “Background checked” badge when a current screening is on file. SaffronSeal does not arrange loan-document signings or real-estate closings, so no signing-agent certification is required to join. We may place your profile on hold or remove it from search if your credentials lapse or we reasonably believe you are not currently authorized in a state you have listed.

3. Compliance with notary law

You are solely responsible for performing every notarial act in full compliance with the notary law and handbook of your commissioning state and, where different, the law governing the signer's location, including its fee limits, identification rules, journal requirements and identification standards. You must decline any request you are not legally authorized or currently qualified to perform. SaffronSeal does not direct, supervise or take responsibility for how you perform a notarial act; that judgment, and that liability, is yours.

4. Remote online notarization

If you offer remote online notarization (RON) through SaffronSeal, you confirm that you hold the authorization your state requires, that you perform every session on a state-approved RON platform that you subscribe to, and that you retain recordings and journals for the period your state mandates. You send the customer the session link through the Platform. Any fee your RON platform charges you is your cost; SaffronSeal is not the technology provider and does not host or record the session.

5. No legal advice, no unauthorized practice of law

Performing a notarial act is not practicing law. You agree not to give legal advice, draft legal documents, or recommend which legal document a signer should use through the Platform unless you are independently licensed to do so, and you agree not to advertise yourself as a “notario” or “notario público” in any state that prohibits it.

6. Fees and payouts

• Every booking is itemized as a notarial act fee, a service fee and any priority charge. The notarial act fee is set at or below your state's statutory maximum for the signing and is paid 100% to you.
• SaffronSeal retains a 20% platform fee on the service and priority lines and pays you the remaining 80%. The platform fee is never taken from the notarial act fee. The exact payout is shown on every booking before you accept it, and we will never change the split retroactively on a job you have already accepted.
• You may raise your service fee within the bounds shown in your profile; the platform floor applies to open dispatch requests.
• Payouts run through Stripe Connect. You connect your own bank account through a Stripe Express account, subject to Stripe's identity verification and its Connected Account Agreement. After you mark a booking complete, we transfer your share from our Stripe balance to your connected account, normally within one business day; your bank then receives it on Stripe's standard schedule. SaffronSeal is not a bank.
• You are responsible for your own taxes. We do not withhold, and Stripe will issue any Form 1099 required by law based on the payments processed for you.

7. Cancellations, no-shows and refunds

Refunds follow our Refund Policy. If a customer cancels, you are paid your share of whatever the customer was charged under that policy. If you cancel a confirmed booking or fail to appear, the customer is refunded in full, any payout already made to you for that booking is reversed, and repeated cancellations or no-shows may result in your profile being placed on hold or removed. If you cannot make a booking, release it through the Platform as early as possible so we can reassign it.

8. Non-circumvention

For twelve months after any booking, you agree not to solicit or accept payment outside the Platform from a Customer or Company you were introduced to through SaffronSeal for notarial services. Customers you already served before joining are yours.

9. Insurance and liability

You are responsible for maintaining the bond and insurance your state requires and for any liability arising from your acts or omissions in performing notarial services. You agree to indemnify Nyza Creations LLC against claims arising from your performance (or failure to perform) a notarial act, except to the extent caused by our own gross negligence or willful misconduct.

10. Ratings and account standing

Customers and Companies can rate completed bookings. We may place a profile on hold, restrict which jobs it can see, or remove it from the Platform for a pattern of low ratings, credential lapses, no-shows, or conduct that violates this Agreement or our Terms.

11. Termination

Either of us may end this Agreement at any time. We will give notice where practical, except where immediate action is needed to protect users of the Platform. Bookings you have already completed are still paid out under Section 6.

12. Governing law and disputes

This Agreement is governed by Washington law. Disputes are resolved under the arbitration agreement, class action waiver and opt-out in Section 13 of the Terms of Service, which is incorporated here.

13. Changes to this Agreement

We may update this Agreement. We will post changes here and update the “Last updated” date; changes that affect your fee split or payout terms will never apply retroactively to a job you have already accepted.

14. Contact

Questions about this Agreement, your payouts or your credential status? Email support@saffronseal.com. Legal notices: legal@saffronseal.com.