Talent Terms

These terms apply to you if you sell on VibeBay: if you list a Vibe, send a proposal, deliver an order, or receive a payout. They sit on top of the Terms of Service, which apply to everyone, and the Payment Terms, which govern the money. Where this document and the Terms of Service disagree about something specific to selling, this document governs.

You accept these terms when you create a talent account. If we change them in a way that matters to how you work or get paid, you will be asked to accept the new version before you continue, and you will get at least 15 days notice of the change unless a legal obligation or a safety risk forces us to move faster.

You are an independent contractor running your own business. Nothing on VibeBay creates an employment relationship, worker status, agency, partnership, or joint venture between you and DREAMEC STUDIOS LTD. This is a description of the arrangement, not a label applied to it.

In practice that means all of the following, and we hold ourselves to them:

• You decide which tasks to bid on and which to ignore. Declining work carries no penalty and does not affect your ranking.
• You set your own prices and delivery times, within the Platform's published limits.
• You decide how the work gets done, in what order, and at what hours. We do not set a schedule or require availability.
• You supply your own equipment, software, and AI tool subscriptions.
• You may work for anyone else, including our competitors, at the same time.
• You may subcontract, provided you remain responsible to the Client for the delivery and the subcontractor is bound by rules at least as strict as these.

You must not describe yourself as an employee, member of staff, or representative of VibeBay or DREAMEC STUDIOS LTD, or hold yourself out as able to bind us.

If the law of your country classifies your relationship with a Client differently from what this section describes, that classification is between you and that Client. We are not a party to the contract for the work.

You are solely responsible for your own income tax, self-employment or social security contributions, national insurance, VAT or GST where it applies to you, business registration, licences, and insurance. We do not deduct or withhold anything from your earnings unless a law or a tax authority requires us to, and if that ever happens we will tell you before it takes effect.

We are an online platform for tax reporting purposes. Under the rules the United Kingdom adopted from the OECD model, we have to collect certain details about every seller who earns here and report them, once a year, to HM Revenue and Customs, who share them with the tax authority of your country of residence. You get a copy of what we report about you.

That is why we ask for the following before your first payout, and why a payout is held until we have them:

• Your full legal name, or your registered business name.
• Your primary address, or your registered office.
• Your country of tax residence.
• Your tax identification number in that country.
• Your date of birth if you are an individual, or your business registration number if you are a company.

None of this blocks you from joining, listing, or working. It blocks money leaving the platform, which is the only point at which it matters. Keep the details current: an out of date address or tax number is your responsibility to correct, and a report we file from stale information is not something we can withdraw on your behalf.

You confirm the details you give us are accurate. Giving false tax information is a material breach of these terms and, separately, a matter for the tax authority concerned.

Clients browse talent in Explore and in search. The default order is called Recommended. This section sets out the main parameters that determine that order and why they carry the weight they do. It describes what the Platform actually does today; when we change the ranking in a way that matters, we will update this section and give notice under the Platform-to-Business rules.

Recommended orders talent by these parameters, in this order of importance:

• Whether the profile is a real, approved talent account rather than an example profile. Real talent always rank above example profiles. Nothing you can buy changes this.
• Whether the profile holds a featured placement. Featured is a paid or editorially granted slot. It is disclosed on the card itself and it is the only paid factor in ranking.
• The VibeBay Score. This is calculated from your own activity: completed orders, client ratings, delivery on time, response time, and revision rate.

A client can also sort by top rated, most orders, or price, and can filter by category, country, level, and whether you are online. Those change the order directly and ignore the parameters above, which is what the client asked for.

VibeBay Pro, the paid talent subscription, does not currently affect your position in Explore or search. Pro lowers your commission and unlocks analytics. If we ever change that, we will say so here and on the Pro page before it takes effect, and it will be disclosed to clients as a paid factor. We would rather say this plainly than let a subscription page imply something the ranking code does not do.

Levels (Rising, Pro, Expert, Elite) are earned from your activity and are not the same thing as the Pro subscription. They affect your commission rate and are shown to clients as a signal, and they feed the VibeBay Score rather than overriding it.

We do not accept payment to change the order of results other than through featured placement, and we do not rank our own VibeBay Agents inside the talent results.

You can close your talent account at any time from your settings, or by writing to support@vibebay.ai. Closing it does not affect orders already in progress, amounts you owe, or amounts owed to you.

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate your ability to sell where you have breached these terms, the Terms of Service, the Acceptable Use Policy, or the Community Guidelines, where a law or a payment provider requires it, or where continuing would put clients or other talent at risk.

When we do, you get a statement of reasons. It is sent to the email on your account, and it says what we decided, the specific facts and circumstances we relied on, whether the decision came from a report by another person or from our own checks, whether an automated system was involved, and which rule you are said to have breached.

For anything other than a serious breach, the statement of reasons comes at least 30 days before the restriction takes effect, and you can put the problem right in that window. If you do, nothing happens.

We may act immediately, with the statement of reasons following, where the breach is serious: fraud, an off-platform payment scheme, review manipulation, illegal content, a threat to someone's safety, a repeated breach after a warning, or a legal obligation that leaves us no notice period.

You can dispute any decision by replying to the statement of reasons. A person who was not involved in the original decision reviews it, and we answer within 10 business days. If we got it wrong, we reinstate you and say so. This costs nothing and does not affect any other right you have, including going to court.

Where we terminate, completed orders pay out normally, orders in progress are resolved under the Refunds and Cancellations Policy, and we may hold back amounts reasonably connected to the breach, to chargebacks, or to legal claims, for up to 180 days while they are resolved. We do not keep money that turns out not to be connected to anything.

Deliver what you said you would deliver, in the time you said, or tell the client early when you cannot. Most disputes are a late message, not a bad delivery.

Keep the work and the money on the Platform. Asking a client to pay you directly for work sourced here is a material breach, and it removes the escrow protection the client relied on when they hired you.

Do not misrepresent who you are, what you have built, or how much of a delivery was generated by an AI tool. Clients hiring on VibeBay expect AI to be used; they are entitled to know when a delivery is unmodified tool output.

You warrant that the work you deliver is yours to deliver, that you hold the rights to anything you include in it, and that it does not infringe anyone else's intellectual property. Ownership of the delivered work is covered by the Intellectual Property Policy.

Reviews are the client's. Do not offer anything in exchange for a review, do not pressure a client to change one, and do not create accounts to review yourself.

You can export your order history, earnings, and profile at any time from your settings, and we will provide anything else we hold about you within 30 days of a request to randy@dreamec.com. What we collect and why is set out in the Privacy Policy.

Client contact details you receive to do a job are for that job. Using them to solicit work off the Platform, or for marketing, is a breach of these terms and, depending on where you and the client are, may be a breach of data protection law that we cannot defend on your behalf.

We do not sell your data. We do not give another talent your rates, your clients, or your earnings.

We may update these terms as the Platform, the law, or our business changes. Each version carries a version identifier and the date it took effect.

For changes that affect how you work, what you are paid, or how you rank, you get at least 15 days notice before they take effect, and you can close your account within that window without penalty. We may move faster only where a legal obligation or a safety risk requires it, and we will say which.

Orders already in progress complete under the version in force when they started.