Freelancers Friend
Freelancer’s Friend™ Terms and Conditions
The terms and conditions of this system are as brief as possible and in Plain English. Terms and conditions may be updated from time to time.
1.1 These terms and conditions apply to any company or individual with a Freelancer’s Friend account (“you”).
1.2 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website www.Freelancersfriend.io (Freelancer’s Friend™) and any microsite, mobile application or other site we might offer from time to time.
1.3 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website, applications and/or services.
1.4 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy policy.
2.1 We reserve the right to update these terms and conditions at any time without prior notice, however we will make reasonable efforts to notify our registered users of any changes as they may occur.
2.2 Any new features Freelancer’s Friend™ may introduce to improve the service, including all tools and resources, shall be bound by these terms and conditions. Continued use of the service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of and consent to those changes.
3.1 Copyright (c) BlacK Chili Limited, trading as Freelancer’s Friend™
3.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
a. We, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website, including but not limited to the name of the service, artwork and end-user interface elements contained within the service, many of the individual features, and the related documentation. You may not copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any aspect of the service.
b. All the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
4.1 By signing up, you agree to our storing any data you upload to our platform. Your data is, and will always be, your property only.
4.2 You agree to use a valid email address, as any requests to change password will be processed via email. Obviously, you agree to the rest of these terms.
5. 1 If you no longer wish this app to hold your data, you may delete your profile from within the profile section. All your data will be removed instantly. This process is not reversible, so please make sure you have taken a copy of any data you require.
5.2 We will not use your data for anything, aside from contacting you via the email address you provide, in matters related to this service only.
5.3 In the event of a transfer of ownership, you agree that any succeeding organisation may hold your data, for your use only and inline with the rest of the terms and conditions listed here.
6.1 You agree that this application may be unavailable either temporarily or permanently. It is offered at no cost, but does incur costs.
6.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website and/pr application services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
7.1 It is our intention to operate this platform entirely free, always.
7.2 Should hosting charges increase to the point where offering the service for free is no longer viable, ads may be introduced. Those Ads may use cookies to better serve relevant content.
8.1 We use cookies to provide a satisfactory user experience, to identify you to grant access to your account, as well as offering the facility to save your password for your own convenience.
8.2 Google may track you, but we’re not really interested – we do what is necessary to operate this service. You agree to accept any cookies offered, or accept any turbulence to your user experience should you choose to block them.
9.1 You can report bugs to us via www.freelancersfriend.io. As this service is offered at no cost, we may or may not elect to address any matters raised.
9.2 This service may be periodically updated, with notifications of those updates posted on www.freelancersfriend.io
10.1 This application is designed to provide storage and organisation for your documents, it does not provide any guarantee your documents and working practices are compliant with current or future legislation.
10.2 This application is not a substitute for professional legal advice or guidance.
10.3 ‘100%’ denotes completeness of record, not compliance of contract.
10.4 Any opinion offered is either in this application, or on the broader website, is based on the experience of the author. Provided for information and/or entertainment, but without warranty.
11.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
11.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.
11.3 If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.
12.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
12.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
13.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
13.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
14.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
14.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
Much of this information is already present throughout this policy, but is included here for convenience given the prominence of GDPR legislation. Your sign up to Freelancer’s Friend™ requires acceptance of our terms and conditions and privacy policy, which includes our adherence to the principles laid out in the GDPR. The GDPR requirements as of 25th May 2018 require explicit clarification of the following:
15.1 The Name and Contact Details of or organisation, which can be found in section 19 of these terms and conditions.
15.2 The purposes of our data processing – which is the use of data provided by you for the purposes of providing our service to you, and our facilitating access to the data you upload via the Freelancer’s Friend™ service. We will also communicate with registered users, newsletter subscribers and any other party who has consented to our contacting them, notifying them of offers, changes and news related to our products and services, including Freelancer’s Friend™.
15.3 We process subscriber personal data for the lawful purpose of conducting our business, on the basis that any user signing up to our services has stated a legitimate interest and has confirmed their agreement to our terms and conditions and privacy policy at the point of sign up. Signing up having accepted Freelancer’s Friend™ terms and conditions will also constitute a contract.
15.4 We do not require any sensitive personal data. Sensitive personal data could be divulged by you in a document upload or other free-text field. You are considered the controller of any such data.
15.5 We will keep subscriber data for as long as a Freelancer’s Friend™ account is active. Should an account be deleted, all data associated with that account will also be removed.
15.6 Freelancer’s Friend™ uses industry-standard cloud-hosting technologies to deliver highly available services. All data is encrypted at rest as well as in transit, and appropriate security provisions are in place to prevent compromise as far as is practicable and to the best of our ability. No provision can render a breach impossible, but we take reasonable measures to prevent any such breach. We will not provide specific detail out of a sincere and enduring respect for our customer data, and the integrity of our systems.
15.7 Freelancer’s Friend™ is a data processor in GDPR terms, with the user or customer remaining a data controller. All data provided is controlled by the user, and can be amended or removed by the user.
16.1 These terms and conditions shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
17.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
17.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
18.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
18.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
19.1 This website is owned and operated by Black Chili Limited, trading as Freelancer’s Friend™
19.2 We are registered in England and Wales, and our registered office is at 26 The Green, Birmingham, B38 8SD
19.3 Our principal place of business is at 26 The Green, Birmingham, B38 8SD
19.4 You can contact us:
a. By post, using the postal address given above;
b. By email via hello@freelancersfriend.io, or using the contact form available on our website.