Gridma Talent

Terms of use

The rules for applying to and using talent.gridma.ai. Last updated .

The short version

  • You are 13 or older, with one account and true information.
  • Under 18, a parent or guardian agrees for you, signs the Talent agreement with you and receives your payments.
  • We run the checks and decide who is verified.
  • You keep ownership of your work. We host it and show it to clients to run Gridma.
  • Clients know you by your first name and surname initial, never your full name or contact details. Work and payments with Gridma clients stay on Gridma.
  • Paid projects follow a separate Talent agreement that you sign first.
  • Being verified is not a promise of work or income.

This summary helps you read the terms. The full text below is what applies.

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and [Gridma legal entity name], registered at [registered address], [company registration number] ("Gridma", "we", "us"). They apply when you use talent.gridma.ai: the application and its checks, your account, your profile, the project feed and the community.

By creating an account, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not create an account.

How we collect and use your personal data is explained in the Privacy Policy.

2. Who may apply

  • You are 13 or older.
  • If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian must agree to your application. They must be 18 or older. They sign the Talent agreement with you, and your payments go to them.
  • You have only one account. It is yours alone: do not share it, sell it or apply for someone else.
  • You apply under your real name, as it appears on your ID.
  • Everything you give us is true, current and your own: your details, your portfolio, your quiz answers and your documents.

If any of this stops being true, tell us. We can reject an application or close an account that breaks these rules.

3. The checks

There are four checks:

  1. Application and portfolio. Our team reviews your profile and the work you show.
  2. Field quiz. Questions in your field. A quiz is open for a limited time, with a limited number of attempts.
  3. Interview. A live video call with a field expert. We may ask you to show your ID on the call.
  4. Documents. After the interview: your ID, your diploma and a recent proof of residence. If you are under 18, also your parent or guardian's details and ID. This check is not open yet. We tell you by email before it opens.

Take the quiz yourself, and do not share or publish its questions. When the documents check opens, send only documents that are yours and unchanged.

Gridma decides who is approved at every check. We do not have to approve an application or give a reason, though we may share feedback by email. We may change the checks, pause them for a field, or move an application on without a check. If we learn that information you gave us was false, we can withdraw your verification.

4. Your account

  • Keep your password secret, and do not use it anywhere else.
  • You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has used it, tell us at once and choose a new password. Signed out, you can do that with Forgot password.
  • Keep your email current and confirmed. Your quiz, your interview link and every update go there.
  • Your name and field are checked. After you submit your application, they change only through Support.
  • Do not use bots, scripts or other automated tools to create accounts, post, or collect data from talent.gridma.ai.

5. Community rules

Verified Talents can post, comment and appreciate work in the community. Anyone can read it, so treat every post as public.

When you take part:

  • Be respectful. No harassment, hate, threats or personal attacks.
  • Share only your own work. Post work you made or had a real part in, say what your part was, and post only what you have the right to show. Work under a client's confidentiality terms stays private.
  • No contact details, no poaching. Do not post email addresses, phone numbers, messaging handles or links meant to move a conversation off Gridma. Do not use the community to draw Talents or clients away from Gridma.
  • No spam. No ads, repeated posts, unrelated links or chain messages.
  • Nothing harmful or illegal. Nothing that breaks the law or someone else's rights, no sexual or violent content, and no malware.

Moderation

We may hide a post, or delete a post or comment, that breaks these rules or that we believe harms the community. A hidden post leaves the feed and stays visible only to its author, who cannot delete it: write to us through Support to have it removed. For serious or repeated breaks, we may limit your access, suspend your account or close it.

Posts appear without review in advance, and what members post is their own. If you see something that breaks these rules, report it or tell us through Support.

6. Your work and what you post

Your content is everything you add to talent.gridma.ai: your profile, photos, portfolio projects, files, posts and comments.

  • You keep ownership. Posting on Gridma does not transfer your rights to us.
  • You give us a licence. You give Gridma a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, resize, re-encode and display your content for two purposes: to run talent.gridma.ai, and to show your profile and work to clients, as the Privacy Policy describes. Re-encoding is how we remove camera and location data from photos.
  • When it ends. The licence ends when the content is deleted, by you or by us, or when your account is deleted, apart from copies kept in backups for a limited time and anything the law requires us to keep.
  • Your promise. You have the rights to everything you post, and posting it does not break anyone's copyright, a confidentiality agreement or the law.

Who owns the work you make in a paid project is set in the Talent agreement, not here.

If you believe something on Gridma infringes your rights, write to us and we will look into it.

7. Anonymity and working through Gridma

Clients see you by your first name and surname initial, for example "Leyla N.". They do not see your full name, your contact details or your documents. This keeps every project and every payment on Gridma.

With any client you meet through Gridma:

  • Do not share your contact details or ask for theirs.
  • Do not agree on work or payment with them directly. Every project goes through Gridma.
  • Take payment only through Gridma, never from the client directly.
  • If a client asks you to work outside Gridma, tell us.

These rules apply while you have an account and for [non-solicitation period] after it closes. Breaking them can lead to your account being closed, and the Talent agreement may set further consequences.

There is no fee to apply, to take the checks or to use the community.

Paid projects are covered by a separate Talent agreement. Before your first paid project, you read it and sign it in a new tab with an outside e-signature service, [e-signature service, not chosen yet]. Signing is not open yet. We tell you by email before it opens.

The Talent agreement sets your share of each project and when it is paid, confidentiality, the rule against direct deals with Gridma's clients, and who owns the finished work.

If you are under 18, your parent or guardian signs the Talent agreement with you, and we pay your share to them, not to you.

If the Talent agreement and these terms differ on paid work, the Talent agreement applies.

You work with Gridma as an independent professional, not as an employee of Gridma or of any client. Unless the Talent agreement says otherwise, you are responsible for your own taxes.

9. No promise of work or income

Being verified means you passed our checks. It does not promise you a brief, a project or any income. When projects come, we offer each one by the client's needs, your field and skills, your availability and your working hours. Gridma decides who is offered each project.

The briefs in the project feed today are examples of how the feed will work. They, and any prices, bonuses or numbers shown with them, are not offers of work or pay.

10. Suspension and closing your account

When you close it

You can ask to close your account at any time on your Account page, or write to us through Support. We then delete your application and quiz results, your profile and portfolio, your posts, comments and appreciations, and the files you uploaded. Records the law requires us to keep stay for as long as it requires, as the Privacy Policy explains. If you are in a paid project, the Talent agreement sets how it is finished first.

When we suspend or close it

We may suspend or close your account, or withdraw your verification, if you break these terms or the Talent agreement, give us false information or documents, put clients, other Talents or Gridma at risk, or if the law requires it. When we can, we tell you why and give you a chance to reply.

We may also change, pause or stop talent.gridma.ai, or part of it. If we stop the service, we tell you by email in advance when we can.

After your account closes, sections 7, 12 and 14 still apply, and so does section 6 for copies kept in backups.

11. The service as is

We work to keep talent.gridma.ai secure and running, but we provide it as is and as available. We do not promise that it will always be available, free of errors or right for your needs. Features can change over time.

Content from other members, and sites we link to, are not ours, and we are not responsible for them.

12. Limits of liability

To the extent the law allows:

  • Gridma is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, such as lost profit, lost work, lost opportunities or lost data.
  • Our total liability to you for all claims about talent.gridma.ai is limited to [liability cap].

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow us to limit, such as liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

If you break these terms and that causes a claim against Gridma, you are responsible for that loss, to the extent the law allows.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change matters to you, we email you before it takes effect. If you keep using talent.gridma.ai after that, the new terms apply. If you do not agree, you can close your account.

14. Governing law

These terms, and any dispute about them, are governed by [governing law and courts].

Before you start a legal claim, please write to us so we can try to solve it together. This does not take away any rights that the law of your country gives you and that a contract cannot remove.

15. General

  • These terms, the Privacy Policy and, once you sign it, the Talent agreement are the whole agreement between you and Gridma about talent.gridma.ai.
  • If a court finds part of these terms invalid, the rest still applies.
  • If we do not enforce a rule straight away, we can still enforce it later.
  • You may not transfer these terms to anyone else. We may transfer them to a company that takes over Gridma or the service, and we tell you if that happens.

16. Contact

[Gridma legal entity name]
[registered address]

Email support@gridma.ai, or use the Support page.

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