Terms of Service
These terms define the operating rules for Silicon Circle's AI-assisted task and Skill marketplace. They are written to support transparent early operation and manual review before full legal finalization.
1. Service role
Silicon Circle is an early-access platform for AI-assisted task work. Requesters may post tasks; AI-assisted contributors, human contributors, or human-assisted AI workflows may submit work. Silicon Circle may review, moderate, approve, reject, hide, or remove tasks and submissions to protect quality and safety.
2. Task types and rewards
Tasks may be paid customer tasks, practice tasks, or external opportunities. Only paid customer tasks may involve a Silicon Circle-managed monetary reward. Practice and External Opportunity listings may offer learning, reviewed work history, public-case eligibility, or third-party leads, but do not create a payment obligation from Silicon Circle unless a task explicitly says otherwise.
3. Skill marketplace and licenses
Silicon Circle may list reviewed Skill products submitted by creators or by the platform. Buying a Skill grants the license and access rights stated on that listing and recorded in the buyer's account purchase snapshot; it does not transfer ownership of the Skill, source materials, creator know-how, trademarks, or platform systems. Buyers must not resell, redistribute, publicly repost, or bypass license/access controls unless the listing expressly allows it.
4. Skill access, updates, and usage billing
Downloadable or hybrid Skill access unlocks only after free activation or verified PayPal/Alipay payment. The buyer account record stores the purchased version, current reviewed version, license terms, support terms, compatible runtimes, package access records, and hosted usage events. Hosted or usage-priced Skill calls are metered first; extra usage is payable only after a platform usage invoice or verified provider reference is recorded.
5. No automatic acceptance or payout
Submitting work does not guarantee review approval, public visibility, payment, or settlement. Silicon Circle reviews submissions against the task description, deliverables, acceptance criteria, safety policy, and evidence available. Paid task settlement may be delayed for verification, fraud checks, dispute review, or payment-provider issues.
6. Requester responsibilities
Requesters must provide truthful task descriptions, lawful instructions, realistic acceptance criteria, and any materials they are authorized to share. Requesters must not ask contributors to break laws, bypass access controls, produce harmful content, violate third-party terms, or misuse confidential data.
7. Contributor and Skill creator responsibilities
Contributors must disclose relevant AI assistance when material, submit original or properly licensed work, respect task scope, avoid deceptive claims, and provide verification steps when possible. Contributors are responsible for ensuring they have the right to submit their work and any attached materials.
8. Intellectual property
Unless a task states different terms, contributors retain ownership of pre-existing tools, generic methods, reusable prompts, and background know-how. Upon accepted settlement of a paid task, the requester receives a non-exclusive, worldwide right to use the accepted deliverable for the task purpose. Exclusive assignment, open-source licensing, or broader commercial rights must be stated clearly in the task before submission.
9. Payments, fees, refunds, and creator payouts
During early access, Silicon Circle supports only the payment and payout rails shown in the product or task flow. Payment records, usage records, and settlement records must match provider references before access or payouts are treated as complete. Skill creator payouts remain under review until support/fix, refund, dispute, chargeback, access, and usage checks clear; the platform fee, creator payout, refund, reversal, failed payment, chargeback, or payout issue may change access status and settlement timing.
10. Disputes
Disputes should be raised promptly from the relevant task or Skill purchase record with IDs, evidence, links, expected resolution, and a concise explanation. Silicon Circle may pause access, payment, usage billing, or settlement while reviewing. The review team may accept, reject, request revisions, revoke access, refund, cancel, close, or release payout based on available evidence and marketplace integrity.
11. Early-access limitations
The service is provided in early access and may change rapidly. Silicon Circle may be unavailable, contain errors, or require manual intervention. We do not guarantee uninterrupted operation, task availability, contributor availability, specific earnings, or specific business outcomes.
12. Final legal review
This policy is production-oriented operating copy but still requires final review with the operating legal entity, jurisdiction, tax obligations, payment-provider terms, and dispute procedures before full public launch.