DOP Team — Terms of Service

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1. Introduction and acceptance

Welcome to DOP Team (the "Platform" or "Service"), operated by >>> FILL IN: full legal entity name <<< ("Company", "we", "us" or "our"), a company being incorporated in >>> FILL IN: country of incorporation (currently stated as Bulgaria — confirm) <<<.

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a binding agreement between you and the Company and govern your access to and use of:

By creating an account, clicking to accept, or otherwise accessing or using the Platform, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which are incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, you must not use the Platform.

These Terms record the version you accepted and the date of acceptance. We may ask you to re-accept updated Terms from time to time.

2. What DOP Team is — and what it is not

DOP Team is a technology platform that helps users connect and collaborate. Its features include professional profiles and networking, projects and team-building, job postings and applications, mentorship, user-to-user communication (chat), investment-interest matching, and — where available — additional and AI-assisted tools.

The Company only provides the technology that connects users. We are an intermediary. We are not a party to any agreement, project, job, collaboration or transaction that users enter into with each other.

2.1 No employment relationship

DOP Team is not an employer, staffing agency or employment agency. We do not hire users, do not pay users, do not supervise or control how users perform work, and do not guarantee any job, internship, engagement or income. Any working relationship is solely between the users involved.

Users are solely responsible for correctly classifying their relationships (for example employee, contractor, intern or volunteer) and for complying with all applicable labour, tax, social-security and immigration laws in their jurisdiction. Misclassification can create legal and financial liability for the users involved, not for the Company. We strongly recommend that users put in place a written agreement and obtain independent legal advice.

2.2 Unpaid and experience-based collaboration

The Platform may be used to arrange unpaid, experience-based or volunteer collaboration. The Company does not endorse, verify, monitor or enforce such arrangements and makes no representation that they are lawful in any particular jurisdiction. Unpaid work may be regulated differently from country to country. Users participate at their own risk and are responsible for ensuring their arrangement complies with local law. We recommend a clear written agreement defining scope, duration, compensation (if any) and intellectual-property terms.

2.3 No partnership, agency or financial/investment advice

Nothing on the Platform creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or fiduciary relationship between you and the Company, or between you and other users.

DOP Team is not a broker, dealer, investment adviser, crowdfunding platform or financial intermediary, and does not provide investment, legal, tax or financial advice. Features that help startups and investors discover each other are for introductions only. Any investment, equity, co-founder or funding arrangement is made solely between the users involved, at their own risk, and must comply with all applicable securities, financial-promotion and consumer-protection laws. Obtain independent professional advice before entering into any such arrangement.

3. Eligibility, age and capacity

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Platform. By creating an account and continuing to use the Platform, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old. We apply measures to prevent registration by anyone under 18 — including an age-confirmation notice shown during sign-up and validation that does not allow a date of birth indicating an age under 18 — but we do not otherwise verify identity and we rely on the information you provide.

Minimum ages and the age of valid consent differ between countries (for example, the age of consent for online services ranges from 13 to 16 across the EEA, and the age of majority is 18 in many countries). You are responsible for ensuring that you meet the minimum age and have the legal capacity required to use the Platform and to enter into these Terms under the laws that apply to you.

  • You must meet the minimum age and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under the laws applicable to you

  • You must comply with all laws applicable to you

  • You must not be barred from using the Platform under any applicable law or sanctions regime

If, despite these measures, a person under 18 accesses the Platform by providing false information, that use is unauthorised and a breach of these Terms. That person and, where applicable, their parent or legal guardian are responsible for it, and the parent or guardian is bound by these Terms in respect of that use.

By accessing or using the Platform, you represent and warrant that you meet the applicable minimum age and have the necessary legal capacity and, where required, the necessary parental or guardian consent. You are responsible for the accuracy of the age and date-of-birth information you provide.

We may suspend, restrict or close any account where we reasonably believe a user does not meet these requirements. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any use of the Platform by a person who does not meet the age or capacity requirements, or who has misrepresented their age, and you (and, where applicable, your parent or guardian) agree to indemnify us against claims arising from such use. Nothing in these Terms removes or limits protections that the law grants to minors and that cannot be waived.

4. Your account

4.1 Registration and verification

You agree to provide accurate, complete and up-to-date information when you register, including verifying your e-mail address. You may also register using a third-party login (Google, GitHub or LinkedIn) subject to that provider's terms.

4.2 Account security

You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately of any unauthorised use. We are not liable for losses arising from your failure to keep your credentials secure.

4.3 Deleting and restoring your account

You may delete your account at any time from your settings. On deletion, your live profile is anonymised; for a short grace period you may restore the account, after which it and associated files are permanently removed, as described in our Privacy Policy. Some records may be retained where required by law or to resolve disputes.

5. User content and licence

5.1 Ownership

You retain ownership of the content you submit to the Platform (your profile, CV, project information, messages and uploads — "User Content"). You confirm that you own or have the necessary rights to your User Content and that it does not infringe any third-party rights.

5.2 Licence you grant us

You grant the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, adapt (for formatting/technical purposes) and distribute your User Content solely to operate, provide, secure and improve the Platform and to make it available to the users and audiences you choose. This licence ends when you delete the relevant User Content or your account, except for content already shared with other users, content retained in backups for a limited period, or content we must keep by law.

5.3 Prohibited content and conduct

You must not upload, post, send or otherwise make available content, or engage in conduct, that:

  • is unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, defamatory, obscene or harmful

  • impersonates any person or misrepresents your identity, qualifications or affiliation

  • posts fake, misleading or discriminatory job offers, or harasses, threatens or discriminates against others

  • infringes intellectual-property, privacy or other rights of others

  • contains malware, or attempts to scrape, harvest, reverse-engineer, overload, or bypass the security of the Platform

  • sends spam or unsolicited bulk communications, or manipulates rankings, visibility or reviews

6. Acceptable use

You agree to use the Platform only for its intended, lawful purposes, to respect other users, and not to interfere with the operation, integrity or security of the Platform. We may set reasonable technical limits and may take action against misuse.

7. Projects, collaboration and investment matching

All projects, collaborations, jobs, mentorships and investment introductions are arranged and carried out independently by users. The Company is not a party to them, does not verify users, qualifications, job offers, projects or investment opportunities, and does not guarantee any outcome. You are responsible for your own due diligence and for putting in place appropriate written agreements (for example confidentiality, partnership, equity or collaboration agreements). Any templates the Platform may provide are samples only and are not legal advice.

8. Intellectual property of the Platform

The Platform itself, including its software, design, trademarks, logos and content provided by the Company, is owned by the Company or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted to you to use the Platform, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease or create derivative works from any part of the Platform without our prior written permission.

9. Communications and AI features

The Platform provides messaging and project-communication tools. We do not monitor all communications, but we may review content where necessary for security, legal compliance, support or moderation.

Where AI-assisted features are made available, their outputs are informational only, may be inaccurate or incomplete, and must not be relied upon as professional, legal, financial or career advice. You are responsible for decisions you make based on them, and the Company is not liable for such decisions.

10. Content moderation, reporting and notice-and-action

We may remove or restrict access to content, and suspend or limit accounts, where content or conduct breaches these Terms or the law, or in response to valid complaints.

If you believe content on the Platform is illegal or infringes your rights, you may notify us at >>> FILL IN: abuse/legal contact e-mail <<< with enough detail to identify the content and the reason. We will assess valid notices and, where the law (including the EU Digital Services Act, the "DSA") requires, inform affected users of our decision and the reasons for it, and of available redress options. We are not obliged to pre-screen all content.

11. Paid services (where offered)

Some features may be offered for a fee (for example subscriptions, promotions or paid events). Prices and terms will be shown before purchase. Payments do not guarantee any hiring, project success, funding or visibility outcome.

Consumers in the EEA may have a statutory right to withdraw from certain online purchases within 14 days; where that right applies and you have not waived it for immediately supplied digital services, we will honour it. Except where the law requires otherwise, fees are non-refundable. >>> FILL IN: detailed billing, renewal, cancellation and refund terms before launching paid features <<<

12. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or where reasonably necessary to protect the Platform, other users or the public. You may stop using the Platform and delete your account at any time. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (for example licences already granted to other users, liability, indemnity and governing law) will survive.

13. Disclaimers

Except as expressly stated and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Platform is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, availability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Platform will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that any connection, project or opportunity will be successful.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or for disputes between users, employment- or labour-related claims, or investment losses.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Platform is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us (if any) in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the liability, or >>> FILL IN: a fixed cap, e.g. EUR 100 <<<.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or any statutory rights of consumers that cannot be waived.

15. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from claims, damages, losses and reasonable expenses arising from your use of the Platform, your User Content, your breach of these Terms or the law, or your dealings or disputes with other users. This does not apply to the extent a claim results from the Company's own unlawful conduct.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of >>> FILL IN: governing-law country (currently stated as Bulgaria — confirm) <<<, without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where an EEA consumer is resident. Disputes will be subject to the courts of >>> FILL IN: competent courts/city <<<; EEA consumers may also bring proceedings in their country of residence.

If you are a consumer in the EEA, you may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

17. Changes, language and final provisions

We may update these Terms. We will post the updated version with a new "Last Updated" date and, where material, notify you. Your continued use after changes take effect means you accept them; where required, we will ask you to re-accept.

These Terms are provided in several languages; the English version is the controlling version and translations are for convenience only.

If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it.

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