1. About licenses and third partycontent

You can’t use our intellectual property (1.3), but you can post your owncontent to Celoris India. You’re responsible for this content (1.4), andequally, we’re not responsible for content you come across from other users(1.5). If you think someone is using something you’ve copyrighted, just let usknow (1.6).

1.1 We let you useour site and services

Technically, we’re giving you a ‘limited license’ to the site. Here’swhat that means.

We’rehappy for you to access our website and services (known as the services).You’re free to have this access (or limited license) as long as youfollow these terms of use and all of our other Terms of Service as they apply to you.

We’lldo our best to make sure our services are safe and working asthey should, but we can’t guarantee you’ll have access continuously. In fact,we might even stop providing certain features or the services completely, anddon’t have to give notice if we do.

1.2 We can stopletting you use our services

Wecan take away your right to use our services at any time.

Ifyou violate our Terms of Use or other parts of our Terms of Service, we can take away your access to Celoris India. Officially,this is called terminating your license, and if it happens, we’lltell you and you must stop using our services immediately.

1.3 We keep therights to our intellectual property

Using our services doesn’t mean you can use any of our trademarks orother intellectual property, like copyrights and patents. We keep all of ourrights to our intellectual property, even though we let you use our services.

Ourlogos and names are our trademarks and registered in certain jurisdictions. Anyother product or company names, logos or similar marks and symbols you see on CelorisIndia  may be trademarked by our partnersor other users like you.

1.4 You can use CelorisIndia to share your content with the world

1.4.1 You’re responsible for what youpost

You’re responsible for how you use our site and anything you post on it.If someone makes a claim against us because of anything you put on the site,you agree to compensate us for our legal fees and expenses (the lawyers callthis, ‘indemnification’).

Whenyou post content on (or through) our site or give us contentfor posting, you agree that you’re completely responsible for that content andwe’re not. You also agree to only post or give us content that:

• you have the right to post
• is legal
• doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, including intellectual property rights.

Youacknowledge and agree that whoever posts content is responsible for any harmcaused to anyone by that content – not Celoris India – and that you’llcompensate and defend us, our partners, employees and representatives againstany costs or legal or government action we have because of your content.

1.4.2 Other peoplehave some rights to what you post

By posting content on the site, you give other people some rights tothat content.

Wheneveryou post content on our site, you give us and our affiliates a permanent right(called an ‘irrevocable and non-exclusive worldwide license’) to use, edit andshare that content – across the world and without paying royalties. If yourname, voice and image appear in content you post, we also might use those onthe site or in our day-to-day business. For example, if you’re a freelancer, wemight share your profile with clients we think could be a good match.

Youalso give each user and site visitor the right to access and use your contentthrough the site. They also have the right to use, copy and share your content– as long as they do it through the site, and follow both our Terms of Service and the law.

Wemight show ads near your content and information, without compensating you.Depending on choices you make in your profile, we might also include your nameor photo when promoting one of our features.

1.4.3 We’re open toyour ideas

We’d love to hear your thoughts on improving Celoris India. Here’s whathappens when you share them.

Youcan send us comments and suggestions about our services and ways to improvethem. If you do, you’re agreeing your ideas are free and unsolicited, and youdon’t expect or ask anything in return, unless we’ve specifically asked you foryour ideas and offered something in return (we like to keep our word).

Youagree we’re free to use, change and share the idea as we like, without beingobligated to to give you anything for it. And if you do send us an idea, youalso agree that this doesn’t affect our right to use similar or related ideas – includingthose we already have or get from others.

1.5 Third partiespost on Celoris India, too

Anyone else who uses our site is responsible for what they post or linkon Celoris India.

We’renot responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any content shared by otherpeople on our site, unless they’re officially working for us when they share orpost the content. Any content represents the views of the person sharing it,not Celoris India.

Oursite might also contain links or other access to third-party websites andapplications. These sites and applications are owned and run by other parties,not Celoris India. If we use a link or application that goes to a third-partywebsite, it doesn’t mean that we endorse it and you agree that you use itwithout our endorsement.

1.6 You can make acopyright complaint

If you think content on our site infringes your rights, you can ask tohave it removed.

We’recommitted to following Indian copyright and related laws and need site visitorsand users to follow them as well. That means you can’t use our site to store orshare anything that infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, includingtheir rights under Indian. copyright law.

2. What you’reallowed to do on Celoris India

Oursite and services were made to be used for business, not for personal orconsumer use. We run our marketplace to help users find each other, buildworking relationships, and make and receive payments for that work.

Youcan also use some of our services to get information we think might beinteresting and useful for our site visitors and users – like our Celoris Indiablog. While we do our best to make sure that this information is timely andaccurate, there might sometimes be mistakes. We don’t make any guarantees aboutinformation posted on our site, so never use it as tax or legal advice. And youshould always double-check the information for yourself.

3. What you’re not allowed to do on CelorisIndia

• posting unacceptable content (3.1)
• acting in a misleading or fraudulent way (3.2)
• treating others unfairly (3.3)
• abusing our feedback system (3.4)
• other uses that aren’t allowed (3.5)

In short, you’re not allowed to use our services to do (or encourageothers to do) anything that is illegal, fraudulent or harmful. If you don’t seesomething on one of the lists below, you shouldn’t assume it’s allowed. When indoubt, contact us to check.

3.1 Postingunacceptable content

Youcan’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 amisleading or fraudulent way

On Celoris India, you can’t do anything that’s dishonest or meant tofool others.

Youcan’t misrepresent yourself, your experience, skills or professionalqualifications, or that of others. This includes:

• lying about your experience, skills or professional qualifications
• using generative AI or other tools to substantially bolster your job proposals or work product if such use is restricted by your client or violates any third-party's rights
• 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 Celoris India representative or forum leader
• falsely claiming or implying you’re connected to a person or organization (including Celoris India) – 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’reparticularly invested in avoiding fraud and misrepresentations when it comes topayments. This means:

Freelancerscan’t fraudulently charge a client in any way, including by:

• falsifying the hours, keystrokes or clicks recorded in the Celoris India 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.

Clientscan’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
• hiring themselves as freelancers and paying themselves
• demanding services without the intention of or without actually providing payment in exchange for the services.

3.3 Treating othersunfairly

Everyone should be treated fairly and legally on Celoris India.

Youcan’t use Celoris 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 Celoris outside of celoris without their permission
• make or demand bribes or payments for anything other than the work
• 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 ourfeedback system

You must use our feedback system honestly and fairly.

Thatmeans 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
• hire and rate yourself.

3.5 Other uses thataren’t allowed

Celoris relies on technology and trust – here’s how we maintain thosethings.

• 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 celoris 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 celoris, 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
  • access our services through any technology other than our interface
  • 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 these rules, we can suspend your account and stopyou from using celoris (4.1). If you see someone else breaking these rules,please let us know (4.2).

4.1 We enforce theserules

Wehave the right to look into any potential violations of these terms of use, andmight decide to pause, change or take away any content on our site when we do.

Wecan’t guarantee that we’ll take action against every potential violation, butjust because we don’t take action against one breach doesn’t waive our right totake action against any future breaches, whether they’re related to the firstbreach or not.

Ifwe do suspect rule-breaking, we can stop you using our site at any time. If wedisable 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 yousee someone breaking these rules

What to do if you become aware of a violation of our Terms of Use.

Ifyou believe anyone is breaking any of our terms of use, please let our customerservice team know or report it wherever you see this flag: 

Ifwe follow up on the breach, you agree to help with our investigation and takereasonable steps to help us fix the problem