DeftBenchTerms of Service
Last updated [DATE]
These terms govern use of the DeftBench platform. By creating an account or running an assessment, the customer organization agrees to them.
1. The service
DeftBench provides a hosted technical-assessment platform. Candidates work on an engineering problem in a browser-based IDE with an AI coding agent, and the platform produces an evidence-linked evaluation of the session for the customer.
2. Accounts
- You must provide accurate account information and keep credentials secure.
- You are responsible for activity under your organization's account.
- Accounts are for organizational use, not for resale, unless separately agreed.
3. Customer responsibilities
Because this platform is used in hiring, the customer carries obligations we cannot discharge on their behalf:
- Lawful use. You are responsible for using assessments in compliance with the employment, anti-discrimination, privacy, and automated-decision laws that apply to you and your candidates.
- Candidate notice and consent. Where the law requires you to notify candidates about automated evaluation, AI use, recording, or data processing, that obligation is yours.
- Human decision-making. Assessment output is decision support. You agree not to use it as the sole automated basis for rejecting a candidate.
- Bias auditing. Where an applicable regime requires an independent bias audit of automated employment decision tools, you are responsible for meeting that obligation for your use of the platform.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Attempt to break out of, attack, or misuse the assessment sandbox.
- Use the platform to access systems or data you are not authorized to access.
- Reverse engineer the service, or use it to build a competing product.
- Upload malware, or content you have no right to share.
- Exceed or circumvent usage, token, or rate limits.
5. Candidate data
For candidate personal data, the customer is the controller and DeftBench is the processor. Our handling is described in the Privacy Policy. [BRACKETED: reference the executed DPA, and attach it as an addendum to these terms.]
6. Intellectual property
We retain all rights in the platform. You retain rights in your content and assessment definitions. Candidates retain rights in code they write, and grant the customer and DeftBench the license needed to evaluate and store it.
[BRACKETED: counsel to confirm the candidate-facing IP grant, and where candidates are asked to accept it.]
7. Availability
The service is provided as-is during the pilot period, without an uptime commitment. [BRACKETED: replace with the contracted SLA at general availability.]
8. Warranties and liability
[BRACKETED: warranty disclaimer, liability cap, exclusion of indirect damages, and indemnities to be drafted by counsel. Nothing here is a placeholder you can ship — these clauses allocate real financial risk.]
9. Term and termination
Either party may terminate per the applicable order form or, absent one, with reasonable notice. On termination we delete or return customer data according to the Privacy Policy and any agreed retention terms.
10. Changes
We may update these terms and will revise the date above. Material changes will be communicated to customers before they take effect.
11. Governing law
[BRACKETED: governing law, venue, and dispute-resolution mechanism — depends on the entity of incorporation, which is not yet reflected in these documents.]