Contributor Agreement

You provide services to OFORO LTD as an independent contractor and not as an employee, worker, partner, or agent. You are responsible for your own taxes, social contributions and any business registrations applicable to you in India. Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment relationship under English, Indian, or any other law.

We acknowledge that the legal characterisation of platform workers is contested in many jurisdictions. We commit to operating the platform in a way that respects genuine self-direction: you choose which projects to accept, when to work, and how to organise your tasks within the project scope.

You may apply for any project listed in the marketplace that matches your skills. We may also extend direct offers for specific projects. Each accepted project is governed by a project brief that forms part of this Agreement on acceptance.

You may decline any project without penalty. You may withdraw from an accepted project on 7 days' notice, save where the project brief requires shorter timelines.

For evaluation, RLHF, red-team, and compliance work, you irrevocably assign to OFORO LTD with full title guarantee all present and future rights, title and interest (including all copyright, database rights, and related rights) in any work product you create under this Agreement. The assignment is effective from creation under section 91 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

You waive all moral rights you may have in the work product to the extent permitted by law (CDPA 1988 section 87). To the extent moral rights under section 57 of the Indian Copyright Act 1957 cannot be assigned, you grant OFORO an irrevocable licence not to assert them.

If your engagement involves being filmed for Nxted Capture, you grant OFORO a perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable licence to use your image, likeness, voice, and biometric data captured during the engagement to:

• Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve artificial intelligence and robotics systems;
• License the footage and derived datasets to OFORO's clients;
• Demonstrate the platform to prospective clients in a way that does not personally identify you without your express further consent.

You may withdraw consent for future processing at any time by writing to dpo@nxted.ai. Withdrawal will not retroactively invalidate AI models or datasets that have already been trained on or shipped to clients before withdrawal. We will, however, cease further licensing of footage that personally identifies you within 90 days of withdrawal where this is technically possible without breaching client commitments.

This release operates as your explicit consent under Article 9(2)(a) UK GDPR and section 6 of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023.

You may receive Client data and OFORO confidential information during your engagement. You will keep that information confidential, use it only to perform your duties, and return or destroy it at the end of the engagement.

Confidentiality does not prevent you from making a protected disclosure under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (UK) or similar law; see the Whistleblowing Policy.

For 12 months after the end of a project, you will not directly solicit the Client of that project for services materially identical to those you performed through us, where the solicitation arises from the relationship formed via OFORO. We do not impose any general non-compete: you remain free to work for any other party or platform, consistent with section 27 of the Indian Contract Act 1872.

For Capture engagements, you must follow the on-site safety protocols in the project brief. OFORO carries appropriate insurance for the filming sessions and will document any incident.

Either party may terminate this Agreement on 14 days' written notice, or immediately for material breach. Termination does not affect accrued rights, payments due, or surviving clauses (4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11).

OFORO is the controller of your personal data under this Agreement. The Privacy Policy sets out how your data is processed, your rights, and how to exercise them. For Capture engagements, the additional consent process in section 5 above applies.

This Agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales. For disputes:

• Either party may refer disputes to online mediation through the Centre for Online Resolution of Disputes (CORD) or another recognised Indian ODR provider as a first step.
• Failing settlement, disputes are referred to arbitration in London under the LCIA Rules, in English, before a single arbitrator. You may bring small-value claims (under £5,000) in the district court of your principal residence in India.

This Agreement, together with the project brief for each engagement and our Privacy Policy, forms the whole agreement between you and us on the subject matter.

If you accept a Capture engagement, you will be asked to sign a separate consent notice in English and your regional language before any filming. The notice will set out the purpose of filming, the recipients of the footage, the retention period, your rights, and how to withdraw consent.