Gizycko

Legal

Draft. A starting point, not advice, and not reviewed by a lawyer. It is written against the GDPR because that is the strictest regime this service is likely to meet, but a site open worldwide also answers to local law. Have a lawyer review it.

Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of gizycko.online (“the service”), a board where clients post work and freelancers offer to do it, operated by Gizycko. The service is open worldwide. By creating an account you accept these terms.

1. What this service is, and is not

We provide a place to meet and to talk. We are not a party to any agreement you make with another member, we are not an employer, an agency, or an escrow service, and we do not hold or transfer payments.

Whatever you agree with another member - price, scope, deadlines, invoices, taxes, and who owns the finished work - is between the two of you. We do not verify anybody’s skills, qualifications, right to work, or ability to pay.

2. Who may use the service

  • You must be at least 18 years old.
  • You must not be barred from using the service under any applicable law.
  • You may hold one account. Accounts are personal and must not be sold, shared, or transferred.
  • Your email address must be confirmed before you can post a job or send an offer.

3. Posting work

A job you post must be work you actually want done, described honestly, with a budget you intend to pay. You must not post:

  • anything unlawful, or work whose purpose is to deceive somebody;
  • schemes, recruitment for other platforms, chain letters, or advertisements dressed as work;
  • work that requires the freelancer to pay you, or to pay a third party, in order to start;
  • another person’s job listing, or contact details belonging to somebody else.

4. Sending offers

An offer is a serious proposal at a price you are willing to work for. One offer per job. Do not copy another freelancer’s text, claim experience you do not have, or present other people’s work as your own.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of what you upload - job descriptions, offers, messages, portfolio files and pictures. You grant us a license to store and display it for the purpose of operating the service. That license ends when you delete the content or your account.

You must not upload content that:

  • infringes somebody else’s copyright or trade marks;
  • is sexually explicit, violent, or hateful;
  • contains malware, or code intended to damage a system;
  • reveals another person’s private information.

6. Behavior

Harassment, threats, hate speech, scams, and impersonation are prohibited. So is using the service to collect contact details for marketing, or to recruit members onto another platform. We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that break these rules, with or without notice where the risk to others is immediate.

7. Payment between members

Payment happens directly between you and the other member, by whatever means you both agree. We never ask for your card details, and we will never ask you to send money to us for a job. Treat any such request as a fraud and report it.

Because no money passes through this service, we cannot refund, reverse or recover a payment, and we cannot force anybody to pay you. Read our safety advice before agreeing terms with somebody you do not know.

8. What the service costs

Posting jobs, sending offers, messaging and reviews are free at present. If that changes, we will say so on the site before any charge applies, and nothing you have already posted will become chargeable.

9. Reviews

A review must describe work that actually happened, and only the two people who did that work may review each other. Buying, selling, or trading reviews is prohibited, as is threatening a bad review to obtain something.

10. Ending your account

You may stop using the service at any time and ask us to delete your account from your settings. We may close an account that breaks these rules. Jobs, offers, messages and reviews are removed with the account, subject to any records we must keep by law.

11. Liability

The service is provided as is. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death, personal injury, or intentional harm. Subject to that, we are not liable for the conduct of members, for work that is late, poor, or never delivered, for money you are not paid, or for any agreement made through the service.

12. Law and disputes

The law of the country where the operator is registered applies. Wherever you live, this does not take away rights you have as a consumer in your own country: if you are a consumer in the EU you may bring a claim in the courts of their own country, and consumers in the EU and UK may also use their national online dispute resolution scheme.

13. Changes

We will give notice of material changes at least 14 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept them.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: use the contact page.