These Terms govern your Datafolks account and participation in tasks offered through the Datafolks application. They are an agreement between you and Datafolks, the operator of the service. Contact us at support@datafolks.space.
1. Accepting these Terms
By creating an account, you agree to these Terms. You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into this agreement. The Privacy Notice is provided separately and is not a general consent to every use of personal data.
2. Your account
Provide accurate information about your identity, eligibility, location, equipment, and ability to complete tasks. Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us promptly at support@datafolks.space if you believe your account has been accessed without permission. Do not create or use multiple accounts to obtain duplicate assignments or avoid a restriction.
You may stop using the service at any time. Datafolks may restrict, suspend, or close an account if you breach these Terms, provide false information, commit fraud, submit material you have no right to provide, or create a safety or security risk. We will communicate the reason where reasonably possible and provide a way to ask for review by emailing support@datafolks.space. Any rights to notice or review required by applicable law remain available.
3. Choosing and accepting tasks
Tasks are optional. You decide whether to accept each task. Before you accept one, Datafolks will present its specific terms, including the requested result, instructions, eligibility, submission deadline, review and correction rules, acceptance criteria, data-use notice, applicable content license, reward amount and currency, and the payout conditions that apply to that task. By accepting a task, you agree to those specific terms in addition to these general Terms. The terms presented for that task at acceptance govern its task-specific details.
Accept a task only if you can complete it lawfully, safely, and in good faith. Follow its instructions, submit your own genuine work, meet its stated deadline, and promptly tell us if you cannot complete it or discover a problem with the instructions. A task may expire or be withdrawn before you accept it. These Terms do not promise that any task will be available.
4. Review and task credits
Datafolks will review a submission against the acceptance criteria presented when you accepted the task. We may accept it, ask for changes, reject it with a reason, or investigate suspected fraud. We do not promise to complete review by a particular date. The task-specific terms state whether corrections are available and any conditions for them. You may question a review decision at support@datafolks.space.
After Datafolks completes review and accepts a submission, it records the task's stated amount as a credit in your account. A displayed credit or balance is an internal record, not cash held on deposit, electronic money, or a completed payment. Subject to any non-waivable rights under applicable law, a credit is provisional, is not salary or an unconditional debt owed to you, and does not become earned or payable until Datafolks completes the payout under the accepted task's conditions. The task-specific terms state the currency and applicable payout conditions. Datafolks may reverse a credit recorded in error or obtained through a breach of these Terms, subject to applicable law.
5. Independent participation and responsibilities
You choose whether to accept a task and normally use your own equipment. You must act honestly, use reasonable care, comply with the task instructions, protect other people's rights and confidential information, and not misrepresent a submission or your eligibility. You may not bind Datafolks or a customer to an agreement.
Datafolks will present task-specific terms before acceptance, review submissions against the stated criteria, communicate review decisions, and handle payout requests under the applicable task conditions and mandatory law. The parties intend independent participation, but actual employment, worker, tax, and social-insurance status depends on the facts and applicable law. Nothing in these Terms excludes a status or right that the law makes mandatory.
6. Submitted material and licenses
You keep ownership of material you create unless a task-specific document clearly states otherwise. Before you accept and start a task, Datafolks will present its applicable content license and data-use notice. The license controls the rights granted in submitted material and the permitted use of that material.
You grant the applicable license when you accept that license and submit the material, as its terms provide. The license grant is separate from review, acceptance of the submitted work, recording a credit, and payout. Rejection of a submission or non-payment does not by itself revoke a license already granted. Any mandatory privacy, publicity, moral, or other rights remain unaffected.
7. Content and conduct rules
Unless a task and its license expressly permit it, do not submit another person's face, voice, name, private communications, documents, personal information, or protected performance; material you do not own or have permission to license; passwords, financial-account details, government identifiers, health records, precise private addresses, or intimate content; or unlawful, deceptive, discriminatory, harassing, dangerous, malicious, or fabricated material. Do not submit duplicate work or use generated or manipulated content contrary to the task instructions.
Datafolks does not currently provide a process to obtain releases from other people or private-property owners. Do not include material that requires such a release unless the task provides an approved process before collection.
8. Privacy
The Privacy Notice explains how personal data is handled. A task's data-use notice adds information about that task before collection. Where a separate consent is legally required, Datafolks will request it separately.
9. Changes to the service and these Terms
We may change the service and publish a new version of these Terms. New participants accept the current version when registering. We will present material changes to existing participants when renewed agreement is required. Changes do not retroactively replace the task-specific terms or license already accepted for a task.
10. Deletion, termination, and unpaid balances
You may request permanent account deletion in Settings. Deletion removes your sign-in account and personal profile. Completed task data, submitted material, and necessary transaction and legal records may be retained as described in the Privacy Notice.
If you delete your account, any unpaid task credits and pending payout requests are cancelled, and you give up those amounts, except where applicable law requires payment. If Datafolks closes your account because you breached these Terms, any unpaid task credits and pending payout requests are likewise cancelled and will not be paid, except where applicable law requires payment. We may withhold a payout while reasonably investigating fraud or a breach, subject to applicable law. You may ask for the reason and request review at support@datafolks.space.
11. Availability and liability
The service is provided as available. Datafolks does not guarantee uninterrupted access, a particular number of tasks, acceptance of non-conforming work, or a particular level of payouts. Neither party excludes liability or rights that applicable law does not allow to be excluded.
12. Questions and disputes
Contact support@datafolks.space about account access, task review, payout requests, or these Terms. Datafolks will review a dispute and respond through the contact method available for your account. Mandatory complaint, appeal, and dispute-resolution rights remain available.