Working policy

Terms of use and participation

Structure covers

The decisions this working policy must make clear.

Website visitors
The boundaries for public content, acceptable use, and third-party services.
Professional members
Eligibility, profiles, invitations, screening, participation, and compensation.
Research clients
Service descriptions, responsibilities, approved terms, and contracting relationships.

1. Scope and agreement

Final terms must distinguish public website use, professional membership, research participation, client services, transition activity, and any authenticated portal. The correct contracting entity and acceptance mechanism must be named.

2. Professional eligibility and accounts

Define eligibility, truthful profile information, account security, communication preferences, screening, selection limits, suspension, closure, and the fact that membership does not guarantee invitations or paid participation.

3. Research participation

Define project-specific instructions, attendance, cancellations, recording, confidentiality, intellectual property, conflicts, employer and third-party obligations, prohibited conduct, and consequences for false information or misuse.

4. Compensation

State how incentives are set, when eligibility for payment arises, expected processing timing, payment vendors, tax responsibility, disputes, cancellations, partial completion, and circumstances in which payment may be delayed or denied.

5. Client and website use

Define acceptable use, intellectual property, service descriptions, no reliance on unapproved website claims, links to third-party services, feedback, and restrictions on automated access or misuse.

6. Disclaimers and liability

Counsel must approve warranties, liability limits, indemnity, governing law, dispute process, changes, severability, and notices. The final language must reflect the actual legal entity and jurisdictions served.

7. Privacy and website measurement

Final terms should direct visitors to the privacy and cookie notices for information about Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity, managed through Google Tag Manager, and the separate choices for website analytics and session replay. Those notices must describe the approved configuration before either service is enabled.

The notices also describe the planned use of Cloudflare Web Analytics for traffic and performance measurement without cookies. When enabled through Cloudflare, it operates separately from the Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity consent controls. These terms do not replace the required disclosures or establish a legal basis for that processing.

Using the website, submitting a form, accepting participation terms, or continuing to browse must not be presented as permission for either optional service. Visitors make and withdraw each choice separately through the site's cookie controls. Counsel must approve the final cross-references and any third-party-service wording without creating additional data-use rights through these terms.

Read the privacy notice and cookie notice for the proposed data practices and independent privacy choices.