Purposes
- Running your account: authentication, sessions, showing you your projects.
- Matching: comparing a brief against expert profiles. A ranking aid; a human always chooses.
- Delivering projects: messaging, files, milestone tracking.
- Moving money: funding, releasing, paying out, and keeping records.
- Safety: fraud, abuse and academic-integrity breaches.
- Support: answering what you ask us.
- Improvement: finding which flows fail.
- Legal compliance: tax and financial records, lawful requests.
Lawful bases we rely on
- Contract: your account, project delivery, payments.
- Legal obligation: financial records, lawful requests.
- Legitimate interests: security, fraud prevention, product improvement.
- Consent: optional cookies and marketing email, withdrawable at any time.
Automated decisions
Matching ranks and explains. It does not make a decision producing a legal or similarly significant effect, and it does not decide who is hired.