Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of CollabCircle at collabcircle.in (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Eligibility and accounts

• You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding contract.
• You sign in with a one-time passcode sent to your email. You are responsible for keeping access to that inbox secure and for all activity under your account.
• You must provide accurate information. Creating accounts with false identity, or operating an account on behalf of someone else without authority, is prohibited.
• Accounts are either creator or brand. Only brand accounts may create campaigns and change campaign status; creator accounts may apply to campaigns and withdraw applications.

2. The Service

CollabCircle lets brands publish campaign briefs and lets creators apply to them. We calculate engagement and influence scores from data you authorise us to read from your connected social platforms. Scores are indicative analytics, not guarantees of performance, earnings, selection or business outcomes.

3. Connected platforms

• Connecting Google/YouTube or Facebook is optional but may be required for certain campaigns. You grant CollabCircle permission to read the data described in our Privacy Policy.
• By connecting YouTube you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service and acknowledge the Google Privacy Policy. CollabCircle uses YouTube API Services.
• You may revoke access at any time from your CollabCircle profile or, for Google, at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Revoking access may reduce or remove your scores.
• You must comply with the terms of each connected platform. You may only connect accounts you own or are authorised to manage.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Buy, sell or otherwise obtain artificial followers, views, likes, comments or other inauthentic engagement, or take any action intended to inflate your scores.
• Misrepresent your audience, results, identity, brand affiliation or credentials.
• Scrape, reverse engineer, resell or systematically extract data or scores from the Service.
• Upload unlawful, infringing, deceptive, harassing or malicious content, or attempt to circumvent security, rate limits or access controls.
• Use the Service to spam other users or to solicit outside the campaign context.

We may suspend or terminate accounts, remove content, and recalculate or void scores where we detect fraud or a breach of these Terms.

5. Campaigns and contracts between users

• Campaign agreements are directly between the brand and the creator. CollabCircle is a platform and is not a party to, agent for, or guarantor of those agreements.
• Brands are responsible for the accuracy and legality of their briefs, budgets and deliverable requirements. Creators are responsible for delivering agreed content on time and to spec.
• Both parties must comply with applicable advertising and disclosure rules, including ASCI influencer advertising guidelines in India and equivalent local rules, and clearly label paid partnerships.
• Unless stated otherwise in-app, CollabCircle does not process payments between brands and creators; budgets shown are indicative and settled between the parties.

6. Content and licence

You retain ownership of the content and information you submit. You grant CollabCircle a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, display and process it solely to operate and improve the Service — for example, showing your profile and scores to brands whose campaigns you apply to. We may use aggregated, anonymised statistics that do not identify you.

7. Intellectual property

The Service, its software, design, scoring methodology and branding are owned by CollabCircle and protected by law. These Terms grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose.

8. Third-party services

The Service depends on third parties including Google/YouTube, Meta, Supabase and Cloudflare. Their availability, API changes or policy changes may affect features, data freshness or scores. We are not responsible for third-party services.

9. Suspension and termination

You may delete your account at any time by emailing support@collabcircle.in. We may suspend or terminate access immediately for breach of these Terms, suspected fraud, or legal requirement. On termination, data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that scores, metrics or matches will be accurate, uninterrupted or error-free.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, CollabCircle is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or INR 5,000.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold CollabCircle harmless from claims, damages and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your use of the Service, your campaign agreements, or your breach of these Terms or of any third-party platform's terms.

13. Changes to the Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the revised version here with a new date and, for material changes, notify you in-app or by email. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept them.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence.

15. Contact

support@collabcircle.in