Scope
Applies to everyone. Incorporated into the Terms.
This Acceptable Use Policy governs everyone's use of Rbundle — Buyers, Providers and visitors alike — and is incorporated into the Terms of Service. We may change it at any time. If you violate it, we may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice.
If you find a Request, a Proposal or an organisation on the Marketplace that violates this policy, tell us at info@rbundle.com. Give us as much detail as you can — what you saw, where, and when, including the code on the Request or engagement if you have it.
Illegal, harmful or offensive use
The obvious ones, stated plainly.
You may not use the Marketplace, or encourage or help anyone else to use it, for any illegal, harmful, fraudulent, infringing or offensive purpose, or to transmit, store or make available content of that kind. This includes:
- Illegal, harmful or fraudulent activity, including fraudulent goods, services or schemes, get-rich-quick schemes, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, phishing and pharming.
- Content that infringes anyone's intellectual property rights.
- Content that is defamatory, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy or otherwise objectionable.
- Malware and anything else designed to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate a system, program or data — viruses, worms, trojans, time bombs and the like.
- Content that sexualises or endangers a child, which we report to the authorities rather than merely remove.
Anonymity and the integrity of the marketplace
The rules specific to how this marketplace works.
Because the marketplace depends on anonymity and on honest credentials, the following are prohibited:
- Attempting to identify a Buyer outside the selection flow, or to combine information across Requests to do so.
- Using the anonymity of the Marketplace to obtain services from a Provider that you know, or reasonably should know, would decline on conflict or independence grounds if it knew who you were.
- Using information from a Request for any purpose other than preparing a Proposal for that Request, or disclosing a Request's contents to anyone who does not need them for that purpose.
- Misrepresenting your identity, your firm, your licences, your insurance or your qualifications, or proposing on work you are not licensed or permitted to perform.
- Scraping the Marketplace, or accessing it other than through the interfaces we provide.
- Circumventing routing, Verification or the fee terms — including soliciting a Buyer to take an engagement off the Marketplace in order to avoid them.
- Submitting a Request you do not intend to engage on, or a Proposal you do not intend to honour.
- Contacting a Buyer through any channel other than the one the Marketplace provides.
Businesses we will not work with
Short, and about what a business is rather than what it sells.
Section 2 covers what you may not do here. This section is narrower and different: it is about businesses we will not help find a Provider at all, whatever the work is.
You may not use Rbundle on behalf of a business that:
- is unlawful under the federal law of the United States, or under the law of any place where it operates. A business licensed by a state to grow, process, distribute or sell cannabis may use the Marketplace despite its position under federal law;
- is owned or controlled by, or acting for, a person or entity subject to United States economic sanctions, or is located in or principally operating from a jurisdiction subject to a comprehensive United States embargo;
- exists principally to conceal who owns or controls it, or to obscure where money comes from or goes;
- engages in human trafficking, forced labour, or the sexual exploitation of any person.
We may decline or end any engagement on this basis without explaining which of these applies.
Security
Do not probe, break or borrow the Marketplace.
You may not interfere with the normal operation of the Marketplace or attempt to access it other than through the interfaces and instructions we provide. You may not probe, scan or test its vulnerability, or breach or attempt to breach any security or authentication measure, except as expressly permitted by our Vulnerability Disclosure Policy and strictly within its terms.
If you find a security vulnerability, report it as our Vulnerability Disclosure Policy describes. Do not exploit the vulnerability, and do not disclose it publicly except as that policy permits.
Email and messaging
Do not use Rbundle to send spam.
You may not use Rbundle to send unsolicited bulk email or anything that violates the CAN-SPAM Act. You may not use harvested, purchased or rented mailing lists in connection with the Marketplace, and you may not use contact information obtained through the Marketplace — including a Buyer's details received at selection — for marketing unrelated to that engagement.
Enforcement
We may act on a suspected violation, not only a proven one.
We may take whatever lawful action we consider appropriate in response to an actual or suspected violation, including removing content, suspending or terminating access, withdrawing Proposals, cancelling Requests, and reporting the matter to the authorities.