Effective September 1, 2022
The purpose of this document is to explain what keeps our platform running.
These rules are called our Terms of Use. The rules apply to cedijob.com and all other websites and apps we own and manage. (By we, we mean Cedijob, which we may also refer to as us.)
These terms and conditions outline how you are expected to behave or conduct yourself whilst using Cedijob – whether you’re a registered user or unregistered site visitor on our site.
1. About licenses and third party content
You can’t use Cedijob's intellectual property, but you can post your own content to Cedijob. You’re responsible for this content, and equally, we’re not responsible for content you see from users on our platform. If you think someone is using something you’ve copyrighted, send us an email via support@cedijob.com.
1.1 We let you use our site and services
We are extremely happy for you to access our platform. As long as you follow these terms and conditions, you are free to use our site and access all services.
We shall do our outmost best to make sure our site is secure and that you're using these services as there are designed to work, but we can’t promise you’ll have access all times. Honestly, we can git rid of certain features and services without giving you a prior notice.
1.2 We can stop letting you use our services
We can block you from accessing our platform at any time
If you violate our terms and conditions, we will instantly block you from accessing any of our services. This means we are terminating your licence to make use of our services. Once, you are blocked, you must stop using our platform immediately.
1.3 We keep the rights to our intellectual property
The fact that you have access to our platform and its related services does not mean you can use our intellectual property. We hold full rights to our intellectual properties. Make sure that you are not using any of our copyrights and patents.
Our logos and names are our trademarks and registered in certain jurisdictions. Any other product or company names, logos or similar marks and symbols you see on Cedijob may be trademarked by our partners or other users like you.
1.4 Cedijob can be used to share your content with others
When you post any content on our site or platform, you hereby agree that you are fully responsible for the content and that we are not: You will be held responsible for violation of someone's content. Below are the criteria the content must meet:
- you have the right to share and post content
- is legal
- doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, including intellectual property rights.
You acknowledge and agree that whoever posts content is responsible for any harm caused to anyone by that content – not Cedijob – and that you’ll compensate and defend us, our partners, employees and representatives against any costs or legal or government action we have because of your content.
1.5 You can make a copyright complaint
We're are committed and respectful to all copyright laws and we do entreat our users to follow them as well. Failure to abide the these laws can reap huge consequences.
If you own copyrighted work and think your rights have been breached on this platform, you can easily send us a report for us to take it down.
2. What you’re allowed to do on Cedijob
Our platform was built to be used for business, not for personal or consumer use. We run our marketplace to help users find each other, build working relationships, and make and receive payments for that work.
Also, we have a blog that can serve as a source of information for you concerning new updates and features we have introduced or are yet to introduce.
3. What you’re not allowed to do on Cedijob
- posting unacceptable content
- acting in a misleading or fraudulent way
- treating others unfairly
- abusing our feedback system
- other uses that aren’t allowed
In short, you’re not allowed to use our services to do (or encourage others to do) anything that is illegal, fraudulent or harmful. If you don’t see something on one of the lists below, you shouldn’t assume it’s allowed. When in doubt, contact us to check.
3.1 Posting unacceptable content
You can’t offer, share, support or try to find anything that:
- is illegal or defamatory
- is violent, discriminatory or harassing, either generally or towards a specific person or group (or encourages others to be), including anyone who is part of a legally protected group
- is sexually explicit or related to sex work or escort services
- is in any way related to child exploitation
- would infringe on any intellectual property rights, including copyrights
- would violate our Terms of Service, another website’s terms of service, or any similar contract
- would go against professional or academic standards or policies – including improperly submitting someone else’s work as your own, or by ghost-writing essays, tests, or certifications
- involves purchasing or requesting a fake review or is connected in any way to making or sharing misleading content (like ‘deep fakes’ or ‘fake news’) which is intended to deceive others.
3.2 Acting in a misleading or fraudulent way
On Cedijob, you can’t do anything that’s dishonest or meant to fool others.
You can’t misrepresent yourself, your experience, skills or professional qualifications, or that of others. This includes:
- lying about your experience, skills or professional qualifications
- passing off any part of someone else’s profile or identity as your own
- using a profile picture that isn’t you, misrepresents your identity or is someone else
- impersonating or falsely attributing statements to any person or entity, including an Cedijob representative or forum leader
- falsely claiming or implying you’re connected to a person or organization (including Cedijob) – for example, you can’t say you work for a particular company when you don’t, and agencies can’t use a freelancer’s profile if they’ve stopped working together.
Similarly, you must always be honest about who’s doing the work. That means you can’t:
- allow someone else to use your account, which misleads other users or
- falsely claim one freelancer will do a job when another will actually do it – including submitting a proposal on behalf of a freelancer who can’t or won’t do the work.
We’re particularly invested in avoiding fraud and misrepresentations when it comes to payments. This means:
Freelancers can’t fraudulently charge a client in any way, including by:
- falsifying the hours, keystrokes or clicks recorded in the Cedijob app
- reporting or billing time you haven’t actually worked
- reporting time worked by someone else and claiming you did the work
- demanding bribes or other payments without the intention of or without actually providing services in exchange for the payment.
Clients can’t engage in fraud related to payments, including by:
- posting jobs with payment terms that are objectively unreasonable or disproportionate to the scope of services requested
- demanding services without the intention of or without actually providing payment in exchange for the services.
3.3 Treating others unfairly
Everyone should be treated fairly and legally on Cedijob.
You can’t use Cedijob to:
- express an unlawful preference in a job post or proposal
- unlawfully discriminate against someone
- incite or encourage violence
- post personal identifying information or other sensitive, private data about another person
- spam other users with proposals or invites. This includes posting the same job several times at once and contacting people you connected with on Cedijob outside of Cedijob without their permission
- spam other users with proposals or invites. This includes posting the same job several times at once and contacting people you connected with on Cedijob outside of Cedijob without their permission
- ask for or demand free work – you can’t ask freelancers to submit work for little or no payment as part of a proposal bid or competition
- request a fee in order to submit a proposal
- request or provide services that primarily concern making purchases on behalf of another, including the purchase of cryptocurrency or NFTs.
3.4 Abusing our feedback system
You must use our feedback system honestly and fairly.
That means you can’t:
- withhold payment or work until you’ve been given positive feedback
- swap payment (or anything of value) for feedback, including with third parties
- coerce another user by threatening negative feedback
- use the system to share unrelated views (like about politics or religion)
- offer or accept fake services to improve your feedback or rating score, which is called feedback building
3.5 Other uses that aren’t allowed
Cedijob relies on technology and trust – here’s how we maintain those things.
- You can’t copy, share or give away your account. You can’t have multiple accounts and you can’t sell, trade or give your account to anyone else without our permission.
- You can’t go around us. In particular, you can’t talk to another user or ask for or share a way to get in touch - a means of direct contact - outside of Cedijob before you’ve agreed to a service contract. This means you can’t add your contact details to a job post, your profile, communications or other content. (There are exceptions to this for Enterprise clients.)
- You can’t promote other organizations – including advertising any other websites, products or services. You also can’t use our site to recruit freelancers or clients to join another agency, website or company, unless you pay us a fee to do so. For more information, take a look at Section 7 of our User Agreement.
- You can’t interfere with our technology or tamper with our site or services. That means you can’t:
- bypass any security features we’ve put in place to restrict how you use the site – you’re not allowed to try and get around restrictions on copying content
- interfere with or compromise our systems, server security, or transmissions
- use a robot, spider, scraper, or similar mechanisms on our site without written permission
- copy, distribute, or otherwise use any information you found on Cedijob, if whether directly or through third parties (like search engines), without our consent (no scraping allowed)
- collect or use identifiable information, including account names)
- overwhelm the site with an unreasonable or large amount of information
- introduce any malware or any other code or viruses that could harm us, our customers, or our services
- introduce any malware or any other code or viruses that could harm us, our customers, or our services
- frame or link to the services without our written permission
- use our services to build a similar service, identify or poach our users or publish any performance or benchmark analysis relating to the site
- reverse engineer, decipher, modify, or take source code from our site that is not open source without our written permission.
4. Enforcing our terms of use
If you break any of the rules, your user account will be blocked immediately until further notice.
4.1 We enforce these rules
We have the right to look into any potential violations of these terms of use, and might decide to pause, change or take away any content on our site when we do.
We can’t guarantee that we’ll take action against every potential violation, but just because we don’t take action against one breach doesn’t waive our right to take action against any future breaches, whether they’re related to the first breach or not.
If we do suspect rule-breaking, we can stop you using our site at any time. If we disable or close your account, you won’t be able to use any of our services, but these things will stay in place:
- our rights to use and share your feedback
- our users’ and visitors' rights to share your content (1.4.2)
- your agreement to all the rules laid out in section 3 on this page.
4.2 Tell us if you see someone breaking these rules
What to do if you become aware of a violation of our Terms of Use.
If you believe anyone is breaking any of our terms of use, please let our customer service team know or report it wherever you see this flag: [flag icon]
If we follow up on the breach, you agree to help with our investigation and take reasonable steps to help us fix the problem.
5. Definitions
Here, we explain some of the terms we’ve used in our Terms of Use. Any other terms in italics should be defined when they’re mentioned, in the User Agreement or Terms of Service.
An artisan a worker who practices a trade or handicraft.
A client is someone using our site to find freelancer services from another user.
A freelancer is an individual or agency using our site to offer their services to clients.
Services refer to the work freelancers do on Cedijob.
Content is what users post to Cedijob themselves, like comments, profiles, feedback, images, or other information. It includes anything posted as a response to questions asked by other users or Cedijob.
