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The agreement is the whole point of an NDA, and it is the one part you cannot change after publishing. This is how to get it right the first time. For what the editor can do, see The agreement.
Userplay records clickwrap consent. It is not an e-signature product: there is no countersigning, no signed PDF, and no per-player negotiation. If your situation needs those, use a contract tool and use Userplay for distribution.

Take the guided tour

Open the Agreement tab in the studio and walk it together.

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Start from a posture, not a blank page

The editor ships several starter agreements, each written for a different situation. Pick the one closest to yours and edit down from there. Starting from a posture keeps you from writing something legal-sounding that says less than the template already did.

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Keep it short enough to be read

An agreement nobody reads is weak evidence. Three things make it readable:
  • Say when it ends. “Until the studio makes the work public” beats an open-ended obligation nobody believes.
  • Say what they may do, not only what they may not. Creators in particular need to know what is allowed.
  • Cut anything you would not enforce. A clause you will never act on costs you attention on the clauses you would.
Headings, bold, links, and images all work. Images are useful for showing exactly which screens are covered, and they are stored with the agreement so an old signature still resolves them.

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Choose checkboxes that carry weight

The built-in “I have read and agree” checkbox is always shown. You can add up to five of your own, at 280 characters each. Add one when you need a specific point confirmed separately, so a signer cannot later say it was buried:
  • “I will not publish footage before the embargo date.”
  • “I will delete the build when the test ends.”
Do not add one that restates the agreement. Every box has to be ticked before the person can continue, so an extra box is friction you should be able to justify.

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Read it once more before publishing

Publishing freezes the agreement and the checkboxes together. They are hashed as one snapshot into every signature, so neither can be edited afterwards and unpublishing does not reopen them. Changing the terms means a new NDA.
If you do publish a revision later as a separate NDA, the Signatures tab shows which revision each person holds, so you can see who is still on the old one.

The agreement

What you can write, and what freezes when.

Send out an NDA

The full walkthrough, start to finish.

Signatures

What each signature records against the wording.

Track who signed

Read the ledger and spot older revisions.