We want Crowdsourcing to be a respectful, safe, and positive place for everyone. Our Community Guidelines help us protect these values and provide guidance to taskers on how to use the Crowdsourcing platform.
We created the Community Guidelines so you can help us foster and protect this amazing community. By using Crowdsourcing, you agree to these guidelines and our Terms of Use. These guidelines apply to everyone using the platform. Not following these guidelines may result in removal from tasks, disabled accounts, or other restrictions.
Complete Tasks with Integrity
Your tasks help accelerate the development of AI applications by creating high-quality training data. We trust you with completing these tasks accurately! Crowdsourcers should:
- Complete all tasks by yourself to the best of your ability without seeking the assistance of other persons, technological automation such as bots or scripts, or third-party materials or tools – unless specifically required by a Crowdsourcing administrator.
- Only work on tasks for which you have completed the required scope of work or read the informational materials.
- Complete tasks in a diligent, timely, and honest manner to the best of their ability.
- Complete all certification and qualification tests that may be required for the given project.
- Treat everyone with respect.
- Communicate in a language that is accessible to those working on the project.
- Use the appropriate channel for raising questions or concerns.
- Only represent yourself as an independent contractor of Crowdsourcing, and not an employee of Crowdsourcing or any related entity.
To maintain trust in our platform for customers and other users, you must not:
- Share Account credentials with any other person;
- Create multiple Accounts, or falsely change Account information; or inaccurately represent who you are, where you are located, or your experience;
- Sell or purchase Accounts; or
- Manipulate or exploit the platform, tools, or instructions to gain advantage or artificially inflate pay.
Keep our Platform Safe
The following indecent, inauthentic, or fraudulent behavior is prohibited on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsourcing-related platforms (e.g., Crowdsourcing Slack community & channels):
- Falsely representing yourself as a Crowdsourcing administrator;
- Posting messages that are obscene, indecent, vulgar, pornographic, sexual, hateful, or otherwise objectionable;
- Sending spam messages or links, and/or personal referral links in an aggressive, or otherwise inappropriate fashion;
- Uploading or attempting to transmit files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, corrupted files, or data;
- Improperly using support channels to make false or frivolous reports;
- Exploiting, distributing, or publicly informing other members of any error, miscue, or bug (“Error”) that gives an unintended advantage;
- Sharing or distributing any customer’s personally identifiable information or content to others. This includes, but is not limited to: customer names, company names, physical or email addresses, tasker names, worker IDs or email addresses, phone numbers, and project content.
Respect Confidentiality
Crowdsourcing takes its confidentiality obligations to its clients seriously and asks that you do the same. To ensure respect for this confidentiality, the following is not allowed:
- Disclosing the identity of customers;
- Downloading, transmitting, copying, or distributing any Crowdsourcing Materials outside of Crowdsourcing Systems;
- Sharing any project information or data with any third-party or other taskers. This includes, but is not limited to task instructions, links, images, videos, audio, screenshots, screen recordings, and other shared documents or websites;
- Discussing Crowdsourcing projects outside of the approved project communication channels;
- Maintaining any records or logs related to Crowdsourcing Materials outside of Crowdsourcing Systems;
- Printing any Crowdsourcing Materials;
- Sending any Crowdsourcing Materials to your personal email address;
- Storing or saving Crowdsourcing Materials on personal devices or with non-Crowdsourcing managed third party cloud storage providers; or
- Sharing or disclosing confidential customer data or information
Keep Our Systems Secure
You may not violate Crowdsourcing Systems’ security or integrity or use Crowdsourcing Systems to violate the security or integrity of any network, computer, or communications system, software application, or network or computing device. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Working around any technical limitations within Crowdsourcing Systems that only allow you to use Crowdsourcing Systems in certain ways;
- Using a VPN or other technologies to mislead Crowdsourcing Systems about your location or Identity – VPN may only be used if specifically requested by a Crowdsourcing administrator;
- Inundating either Crowdsourcing Systems or other systems with communications or requests in a deliberate attempt to overload that system or otherwise disrupt its proper operation;
- Attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of Crowdsourcing System or to breach any security or authentication measures used by Crowdsourcing Systems;
- Monitoring, crawling, or scraping data or content in Crowdsourcing Systems;
- Monitoring data or traffic on Crowdsourcing Systems; or
- Damaging, interfering with, intercepting, or expropriating any system, program, audit logs, or data via User Content or other computer technology, including viruses, Trojan, worms, or other malware.
If at any time you become aware or have reason to believe that there has been any misuse, compromise, loss, unauthorized disclosure or acquisition of, or access to Crowdsourcing Systems or Crowdsourcing Materials, you agree that you will promptly notify Crowdsourcing at security@crowdsourcing.com.
Permitted Countries
You may not be located in or use the Crowdsourcing Systems in any country that is subject to U.S export restrictions, currently including, but not necessarily limited to:
- Ukraine
- Cuba
- Iran
- North Korea
- Sudan
- Syria
Crowdsourcing is not available in all regions, and some projects are geographically limited. Please review our Working Location Policy.
