Terms of Service

1. What Provenly is (and is not)

Provenly is a technology platform for evidencing skills. We are not an employment agency or recruiter, we are not a party to any employment relationship formed through the platform, and we make no guarantee of interviews, offers, or hires to candidates, nor of candidate quality or availability to employers. Scores are structured evidence, not promises.

2. Accounts and honesty

You must be at least 16 to use Provenly. Everything the product asserts about a person traces back to something they did here — so the one thing that gets an account terminated fastest is manufacturing evidence: submitting someone else’s work as your own, or manipulating evaluations. AI assistance on challenges is allowed and disclosed by design; misrepresenting authorship is not.

3. Who owns what

• You own your submissions. Challenge answers and work samples remain your intellectual property. You grant us a limited licence to store them, evaluate them (including by AI as described in the Privacy Policy), and display them to employers where you have applied or made your profile public.
• Employers get view-only access. They may assess submissions for hiring and nothing else. Using challenge submissions commercially — “spec work” extraction — is prohibited and actionable.
• We own the platform: the skills taxonomy, rubrics, scoring system, and aggregated anonymised statistics.

4. Employer obligations

By creating a role, an employer warrants that it will:

• comply with all applicable anti-discrimination and equal-opportunity law (including Title VII, the ADA and ADEA in the US, and the EU equal treatment directives), and post no requirement that unlawfully discriminates;
• treat Provenly scores as one input among others and remain the human decision-maker for every hiring decision — including any notice, bias-audit, or disclosure duties that apply to it as an employer (for example NYC Local Law 144 or the Illinois Human Rights Act as amended);
• keep candidate data confidential, use it solely for the specific opening, and delete it when the opening closes (once shared, the employer is an independent controller of that data);
• not scrape, resell, or build databases from candidate profiles.

We may remove roles or terminate accounts that violate the above.

5. Free for candidates

Taking challenges, building a profile, and being found is free for candidates, always. If we ever charge anyone, it will be employers.

6. AI evaluation

Evaluations are produced by AI against published rubrics, or by a deterministic offline engine, and are labelled with which. They can be wrong. You can request human review of any evaluation (how, here). We warrant the process — a public rubric, an audit trail, a contest path — not the infallibility of any score.

7. Liability

The service is provided “as is”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages, and our total liability is capped at the greater of $100 or the amounts you paid us in the last 12 months. Employers indemnify us against claims arising from their hiring decisions. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, or the statutory rights of consumers in the EU/EEA and UK.

8. Termination and departure

You can leave any time; deleting your account erases your data on the schedule in the Privacy Policy, and you can export everything first. We may suspend accounts that break §2 or §4, with notice and a stated reason except where the abuse is ongoing.

9. Changes and law

We will give 14 days’ notice of material changes to these terms. Questions: legal@provenly.dev.