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Don't post any contact information anywhere on BidThisProject.com.
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updating this posting. Your use of the BidThisProject.com web site constitutes
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ELIGIBILITY FOR REQUIREMENTS
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any of BidThisProject.com's services including, but not limited to, those that
require the User's ability to form legally binding contracts.
REMOVAL
FROM NETWORK
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DESCRIPTION
OF SERVICES
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benefits, and other resources on its BidThisProject.com web site of particular
interest to freelancers and to enable freelancers to efficiently and cost
effectively manage their careers, professions, and businesses. These services
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copy, sell, or otherwise exploit for any commercial purpose the services or
content (in whole or in part), access to this service or use of this service.
Some of the services offered at
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and/or articles with original content and opinions. Use of this content or
links to this content is at the User's own risk. User understands and agree to
the following:
Some of the content provided at
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matters for which the content of is provided in an advisory nature. This
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professional, medical, legal, technical, or any other discipline-specific
advice.
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purposefully by a third-party, regardless of whether such third parties are
with or without a legitimate business purpose.
BidThisProject.com provides
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a venue and/or portal, and has no liability based on, or related to, the
third-party content on this Site, whether arising under the laws of copyright
or other intellectual property, defamation, libel, privacy, obscenity, or any
other legal discipline. This web site may contain links to third-party web
sites. BidThisProject.com does not control nor always review the web sites to
which we link from BidThisProject.com. We, therefore, cannot endorse the
content, products, services, practices, policies, or performance of the web
sites we link to from BidThisProject.com, and Users should not treat any link
as such an endorsement or acceptance of veracity or value.
BidThisProject.com does not
have the resources to nor does it undertake any obligation to, control,
research, verify, validate, or approve the content that is received or viewed
on its web site. We expect that the User will undertake necessary activities
and practices and will use caution and common sense when using
BidThisProject.com for User's account.
REFERRAL
COMMISSIONS
The referral commission paid out will be the one listed on
the Referrals page. If the commission rate is changed, it will only
affect referrals made after the new commission was announced. You may not refer
yourself, nor sign up for multiple accounts to collect referral fees. You may
also not partner with any other BidThisProject.com user to share/transfer the
commission made from your own account, or else both parties will be kicked from
the service without payment. BidThisProject.com reserves the right to delay or
cancel sending affiliate earnings if we believe the referred user will not pay
the fees they were charged, since affiliate commissions are based on those
fees.
PAYMENTS
BidThisProject.com will typically print and mail cheques if the member requests
it AND their account balance is equal to or greater than $30. This also applies
to payments made through the PayPal service.
All amounts are stated in and all payments will be made in US funds.
BidThisProject.com reserves the right to suspend a withdrawal if the source of
the funds is suspected to be fraudulent. Any funds received from an account
having made a fraudulent deposit (e.g. stolen creditcard) will be reversed
immediately. If in a fraudulent payment situation a withdrawal has already been
processed, you will be expected to return the funds to your BidThisProject.com
account or face account termination.
As previously stated, any member site that BidThisProject.com removes from the
service due to violation of the Terms and Conditions will receive no credit or
payment.
E-MAIL ADDRESSES
Members agree not to post their e-mail address on the site, except in the
"e-mail" field of the signup form, or when asked by BidThisProject.com at any
other time. There should be no need to give anyone your e-mail address. It is
automatically provided if you choose a Service Provider (or you are the Service
Provider chosen for) a project, and before that time you can use the message
board to communicate. This does not only apply to e-mail addresses, but to all
methods of communication, including phone, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc... See
"Avoiding Commissions" below for the reason.
PROVIDING CONTACT
INFORMATION
You are prohibited from making direct contact with another member, unless it's
for a project you (a Service Provider) have been picked for, or you (a Service
Buyer) have picked a Service Provider for. This includes giving out your e-mail
address, ICQ number, phone number, or any other method of contact outside of
this site. BidThisProject.com provides you with message boards, which should be
sufficient for pre-project planning. The only exception to this is on
"Featured" projects. If a project has the "Featured" graphic on it, that means
the Service Buyer has paid a flat fee in advance, and you ARE allowed to
provide contact information in the message board. Note that the
BidThisProject.com system does not distinguish between featured and
non-featured message board posts, so you will still get a warning when
submitting an e-mail address, even if the project is featured.
AVOIDING COMMISSIONS
You are strictly prohibited from attempting to negotiate the fee for a project
with another member directly (outside of BidThisProject.com) after that project
has been created/opened and before that project has been closed (basically,
during an ongoing project). But this also applies to any project that was
closed without a Service Provider being chosen, and then contacting them about
the project anyway. Both parties are responsible for notifying
BidThisProject.com if the payment amount increases (above the bid amount) after
the project is closed. Receiving a larger amount than the original project bid,
without notifying us, will be considered an attempt to avoid the commissions.
When a Service Provider requests a withdrawal, we always review all payments
received for each project to verify that they match the bid. If at the time of
a withdrawal request the Service Provider has failed to notify
BidThisProject.com staff of a payment received above the amount of his bid (a
total payment above US$100), BidThisProject.com reserves the right to deduct
double the fee for the amount that should have been reported. We believe our
commissions are very fair and justified for the service we provide, therefore
we will absolutely not tolerate any of this activity on BidThisProject.com.
No COMMISSIONS.
COPYRIGHTS
No copyrighted material can be posted on BidThisProject.com. This includes
scripts which are sold by the author. Only posting sections, or excerpts of
these scripts, as examples, will be permitted. A "section" or "excerpt" being
no more than 10% of the script's contents. This is meant to protect the
author's intellectual property rights.
USER CONTENT
User is solely responsible for content or any other information User provides
to BidThisProject.com. User understands and agrees to the following:
BidThisProject.com is only
acting as a venue for the online distribution and publication of User content.
However, no warranties as to the actual distribution or publication of User
content are made or implied. BidThisProject.com has the right (but no
obligation) to take any action deemed appropriate with respect to User content
if it is believed that such content may create liability for
BidThisProject.com, harm our business operation or reputation, or cause
BidThisProject.com to lose the services of our suppliers.
User represents and warrants
that User's content: (a) will not infringe upon or misappropriate any
copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property
right or proprietary right or right of publicity or privacy; (b) will not
violate any law or regulation; (c) will not be defamatory or trade libelous;
(d) will not be obscene or contain child pornography; (e) will not include
incomplete, false or inaccurate information about User or any other individual;
and (f) will not contain any viruses or other computer programming routines
that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously
intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
By submitting User content to
BidThisProject.com (including, but not limited to creating your Account;
posting a resume, posting a profile, posting a portfolio, posting a Project;
sending messages through or to BidThisProject.com). You hereby grant to
BidThisProject.com a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to
use, copy, modify, display, and perform User content, under all User
intellectual property and proprietary rights worldwide. For the avoidance of
doubt, providing links to content hosted on servers other than that of
BidThisProject.com (such as a portfolio of sample works hosted on Your own web
site) will not be considered "submitting" such content for purposes of this
license grant.
USER RESTRICTIONS
Advertising
Users are prohibited from
advertising your website on BidThisProject.com. Any URL posted in a bid,
project description, or the message board, must relate to a project on
BidThisProject.com. An example of a permissible URL: User's portfolio or
resume' page.
Bidding
Service Providers can only
place bids that equal the total amount of money they are requesting for the
project. You cannot post an hourly bid or any other abnormal type of bid. This
applies to Service Buyers too. Service Buyers cannot create projects that
directly or indirectly require Service Providers to place hourly or other
abnormal bids. The only exception, for both Service Buyers and Service
Providers, is when the project is featured. See featured project information at
page.
Featured Projects
The following conditions are
here to prevent abuse of the "Featured project" feature on BidThisProject.com.
The maximum amount of money a Service Provider can receive for a Featured
project, through the BidThisProject.com system, without being charged a fee, is
$2,500. Any amount received above $2,500 will be subject to the regular fee of
10%. Note that this condition only applies to money received with the
BidThisProject.com system; you can receive more than $2,500 for a single
Featured project, without being charged a fee, if the payment is made outside
of BidThisProject.com. If this condition applies to a payment you received on
BidThisProject.com, you must notify us of the amount so that we can apply a 10%
fee to the amount above $2,500. Failure to notify us could result in temporary
account suspension.
Hirer agrees that:
Hirer will not redistribute any
of the content on BidThisProject.com.
Hirer will not use Hirer's
Account to post false or misleading project descriptions. Hirer will not post
project descriptions that are inappropriate to BidThisProject.com's audience,
viewers, or visitors in the judgment and discretion of BidThisProject.com.
Hirer will not falsify Hirer's
own or any other identity.
Hirer will comply with all
BidThisProject.com's policies.
Freelancer agrees that:
Freelancer will not
redistribute any of the content on BidThisProject.com.
Freelancer will not falsify
Freelancer's own or any other identity. ·
Freelancer will comply with all
BidThisProject.com policies. ·
General Restrictions
Users (Hirers and Freelancers)
will not use any automated collection mechanism or any manual process to
monitor or copy the web pages comprising the BidThisProject.com web site or the
content contained therein without the prior written permission of
BidThisProject.com . ·
Users (Hirers and Freelancers)
will not distribute unsolicited commercial messages ("spam") through User's
account.
Users (Hirers and Freelancers)
will not contact employers or freelancers through our site or through
information gained from our site with the intent of subverting them from using
our services.
Users (Hirers and Freelancers)
will not engage in personal attacks, negative or other unfair criticism or
other forms of discourteous and unprofessional online conduct or practices.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Any disputes regarding arrangements between Freelancers and Hirers remain
solely between Hirers and Freelancers. We are not involved in any transactions
between You and any other users of BidThisProject.com. You acknowledge and
agree that BidThisProject.com will not be a party to any such dispute or be
obligated to take any action or refrain from taking any action toward resolving
any such dispute. If you have a dispute with any other users of the Site, you
hereby release BidThisProject.com from any and all claims, demands, and damages
(actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, related
to such a dispute.
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