Community Standards

Introduction

We're cultivating a space for a community that wants to play a part in changing how the world works together. We've built a global network of animators, designers, creative thinkers, illustrators, producers, videographers, business owners, and independent professionals across hundreds of industries, who use Recrutability every day to create something they believe in. We're inspired by each and every one of our community members. We value their perspectives, beliefs, and views—they are what makes Recrutability so dynamic.

In order to maintain a respectful, inclusive, and safe environment for everyone, we've created a set of COMMUNITY STANDARDS to serve as a moral compass for behavior on our platform. These standards help define what is acceptable in the Recrutability community and marketplace and explain how violations are enforced. They aren't tied to any law but are used to govern our platform policies. They reflect our attitudes, expectations, and social norms. Our community standards are rooted in our core values — respect, safety, acceptance, support, and open-mindedness.

Just like our community, these standards will continue to grow, evolve, and change. We have embedded examples in the community standards for unacceptable activities on Recrutability. Please note that these are intended to be examples only and not a complete list.

We encourage our community to use our reporting tools when encountering anything that is unacceptable. We want to create the best experience for all community members and ask that you respect and follow these guidelines.

Integrity and Authenticity

Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation is defined as fraudulent, negligent, or innocent misstatements or an incomplete statement of a material fact.

Misleading profile information

Do not:

  • Post a fake name, location, gender, or photo in your user profile.
  • Present a fake document(s) if asked to verify your identity.
  • Write misleading content in your profile description, skills, work history, or education.
  • Provide Licensed services without the right license.

Misrepresenting Portfolio elements

Do not:

  • Copy portfolio descriptions, packages, and other portfolio elements from other users.
  • Have someone else present you in your portfolio.
  • Post non-original images, creative works, illustrations, or materials you do not have the right to use in your portfolio.
  • Do not post non-original videos or videos that you do not have the right to use in your portfolio website.

Spam

We define spam on Recrutability as a messaging activity that is unwanted, repeatedly occurring, and disruptive to the experience of recipients. Spam can take many forms ranging from unwanted offers to commercially motivated solicitations that aim to drive traffic or attention to websites, products, and services outside of Recrutability.

Please respect our members' privacy by not contacting them with offers, questions, suggestions, or anything which is not directly related to their portfolio or services.

Do not:

  • Contact our users with offers, questions, suggestions, or anything unrelated to their portfolios or services.
  • Send multiple unsolicited or deceptive messages.
  • Abuse our communication tools to distribute mass messages.

Prohibited Services

Recrutability is an open platform where users can share their digital portfolios or request a great variety of services from the users on the platform as per their skills. However, for a number of reasons, we prohibit certain types of services on Recrutability. Some services can pose unwanted risks for our users like legal or financial risks; others are simply not in line with our values and policies.

Here is the type of services prohibited on Recrutability:

Services that can pose legal risks for our users

Do not offer or ask for:

  • Illegal services.
  • Services that are meant to support any illegal activity.
  • Fake documents — the creation, changing, or editing of official documents such as IDs, passports, driver's license, bank statements, or death and birth certificates.

Services that can pose financial risks for our users

Do not offer or ask for using Recrutability messages:

  • Services that require getting access to the Recruiter's sensitive financial information.
  • Opening, managing, or implementing changes in a financial account.
  • Providing loans.
  • Trading signals or indicators.

Services that have a high risk of piracy or hacking

Do not offer or ask for using Recrutability messages:

  • Verification services.
  • Hacking or cracking services.
  • Services involving hacked or cracked software products (themes, templates, etc).
  • Setup pirate accounts.

Services that Infringe third parties' Terms Of Service

We do not allow the infringement of the third party's terms of service on Recrutability. As a valued member of the Recrutability community, we ask you to respect the broader Internet community and refrain from such violations in your PORTFOLIO offerings. Portfolios that will be flagged for violations of third parties terms of service will be removed from the marketplace.

Do not post, offer, or ask for services that infringe third parties' terms of service.

Misleading Services

Do not post, offer, or ask for:

Fake engagement and traffic

Followers, traffic, visitors, fans, views on social media platforms, or any other fake engagement on any platform.

Deepfakes

Deepfakes are created using artificial intelligence technology that superimposes the movements and words of one person onto another.

Services that promise outcomes that are not in your control

In certain instances, freelancers may be tempted to promise outcomes of their service which is not in their control. For example, guaranteed to restore your Amazon account or promising an exact amount of viewers for a Youtube video by its digital promotion. Please refrain from promising outcomes that are not in your control because it misleads Recruiters, these categories are just examples, you can follow the guidelines and trends of your own respective field.

Services That involve sharing personal information of third parties

We do not allow services that breach 3rd-party rights and lead to spamming individuals. In order to ensure this policy, we ask that the data provided in these services will be unique to each party and will only contain business data.

Do not post, offer, or ask for:

  • Lists with data (such as email addresses or phone numbers) of individuals, using platform messaging services, only business data.
  • Premade lists containing personal data.
  • Scraping social media platforms to obtain information about others.

Medical-related services

We do not allow services that are meant to provide any medical treatment, advice, or supply.

Do not post, offer, or ask for:

  • Medical treatment, advice on any medical condition, or pharmaceutical advice.
  • Any kind of medical drugs or pharmaceuticals.
  • Medical equipment or pharmaceutical supply.

Objectionable Content

Hate Speech

Recrutability defines hate speech as words or ideas that are designed to incite violence or hatred against a person, or group of people, defined on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, religion, age, disability, or other similar ground. Recrutability is committed to moving swiftly and aggressively to investigate conduct that has been flagged as hate speech, and will respond in a manner that is consistent with existing laws and the values of the company. We take hate speech violations very seriously, and anyone using hate speech towards another user or towards our customer support representatives will be removed from Recrutability. We will also take action against any user asking or delivering hate speech-related content on Recrutability.

Do not:

  • Use violent or dehumanizing speech against a person or group of people defined on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, religion, age, disability, or other similar ground.

We do allow people to offer or ask for content regarding the research of hate speech or content that is related to the prevention of hate speech.

Discrimination

Under Recrutability's community standards, discrimination means unfair or unequal treatment of an individual or group based on age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, race, religion, and sexual orientation.

Recrutability will investigate claims of discrimination on a case-by-case basis, and defend protected groups whenever possible.

Do not:

  • Express your unwillingness to work with a person or a group of people based on age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other similar ground.
  • Publish, offer, or ask for any content that expresses or supports discriminatory ideas.
  • Offer or ask for the writing or editing of texts that support discriminatory ideas or practices.

Adult, Nudity, and Sexual Activity

Explicit content meant to be sexually gratifying is not allowed on Recrutability. If detected or reported, sexually explicit content will be blocked and participants could be banned from the marketplace. Portfolios portraying violent, graphic, or humiliating fetishes are also not allowed.

Sexually explicit content featuring minors and content that seeks to sexually exploit minors is prohibited on Recrutability. We immediately report content that violates this policy to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who work with global law enforcement agencies and within Pakistan as well.

Do not post, offer or ask for:

  • Nude or adult-related images, or videos.
  • Sex or sexual partners.
  • Sex chats or conversations.
  • The execution of fetish scenarios.
  • Sexually gratifying modeling.
  • Content that depicts explicit sexual activity, unless the conditions for "documentary exception," as listed above, exist.

Recrutability will act quickly to block transactions that feature child nudity and will flag the offending account for review.

Documentary Exception

Recrutability will allow nudity when the primary purpose is educational, scientific, or artistic, and it isn't gratuitous. For example, a video edit ordered by a midwife depicting proper breastfeeding technique would be appropriate, while creating a video with clips from the same film but used out of context for the purpose of sexual gratification, would not. Out-of-context nudity from indigenous communities, protests, medical procedures, childbirth, artistic performances, breastfeeding, or like, may not meet our documentary exception.

Fake News

Recrutability defines Fake News as false or intentionally misleading information or propaganda that is developed and presented as authentic news. If it is reported or flagged that Recrutability's platform is being used to create or promote the spread of fake news; we will investigate and take action accordingly.

Political and Election policies

Recrutability will not tolerate attempts to use the Recrutability marketplace to undermine elections. Election Interference is defined as any attempt to interfere with the voting process or to destabilize and undermine public faith in free and fair elections.

Political affiliation

A user's political affiliation is not a basis for rejecting an offer on Recrutability.

Do not express your unwillingness to work with a person or a group of people based on political affiliation.

Intellectual Property

Recrutability content is based on User Generated Content (UGC). If you believe any of the uploaded content violates your copyright or a related exclusive right, you should follow the process described here.

Upon receipt of a report from a rights holder or an authorized representative, we will remove or restrict content that engages in:

  • Copyright infringement
  • Trademark infringement

Violence and Criminal Behavior

Threats

While we know that people sometimes express frustration or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we can't risk the safety of our community or the general public by ignoring threats of physical harm. We will attempt to consider language and context when distinguishing casual comments from credible threats to public or personal safety, but Recrutability will also act quickly to block accounts and may notify law enforcement when threats appear to be credible.

Do not:

  • Threaten violence against another community member
  • Offer or ask for services that threaten violence against individuals, groups, or the general public.

Incitement

Incitement means encouraging or asking other people to engage in unlawful conduct. Be aware that inciting others to commit a crime may be a crime in itself, regardless of the outcome of the request.

Do not:

  • Ask for or instruct people to break the law.
  • Engage in activities of questionable legality.

Terrorism

International and domestic terror organizations sometimes use the internet to create and spread propaganda designed to radicalize vulnerable people and to develop materials designed to foster and aid terrorist attacks.

Do not offer or ask for:

  • The promotion of terrorist activities.
  • Services or products related to terror organizations or terrorists.
  • Editing Content linked to terrorist acts.
  • Recruitment to terror organizations.

We do allow people to offer or ask for content regarding the research of terror or content that is related to the prevention of terror.

Self-Harm

At Recrutability, we care deeply about the safety of our community. If someone you're communicating with expresses suicidal thoughts or is engaging in self-harm, please contact local authorities immediately and flag the content to our Trust and Safety or Customer Support teams.

If you're going through an emotionally challenging time yourself or struggling with thoughts of suicide or self-harm, we urge you to seek immediate assistance. For 24-hour free, confidential, and immediate support see: https://www.befrienders.org/