Marketplace Responsibility Statement

Version 0.2, 3 October 2026. In force from 3 October 2026. Counsel review is pending; a revised version will be put to you for acceptance when it is ready. Accepted alongside the Terms of Service. Written so a bidder reads it in two minutes.

BidCaliber works with jobs from Upwork, Freelancer.com and Contra. Those marketplaces have their own terms. This statement says who is responsible for what.

1. Your accounts are yours

Your marketplace accounts, profiles, Connects, proposals and reputation are yours. Each marketplace's terms apply to you directly. BidCaliber is not a party to them and cannot change them.

2. Connect only what you are entitled to use

When you connect an Upwork account to BidCaliber, you connect your own login, through Upwork's official connection, and you grant only what Upwork's screen shows. You do not connect someone else's account, and nobody connects yours for you. Upwork's own rules say an account is personal and must not be shared, including with an agency owner. Each person in a workspace connects separately.

BidCaliber never asks for, stores or uses a marketplace password or browser session. We do not run browser extensions, scrapers or crawlers on any marketplace, and we do not fetch marketplace pages from our servers. A job link you paste is stored as text only.

3. You start every fetch and confirm every submission

Nothing in BidCaliber runs on a timer against a marketplace. Jobs arrive when you paste a link or screenshot, when a marketplace alert email you forwarded is turned into a link, or when you press the refresh button, which makes one request and stops. Every fetch is recorded against the person who clicked.

No proposal leaves BidCaliber without a person confirming it. Where submission goes through Upwork's connection, Upwork shows you its own preview and Connects cost, and asks you to confirm. Connects are spent from your account, by you.

4. Upwork: the screenshot choice

Upwork's API terms (clause 5.2) treat screen captures and other extraction from Upwork's interface as content that may not be stored or used alongside the official connection. BidCaliber's default for Upwork jobs is the official connection. If your workspace or you choose the Screenshot path for an Upwork job, you do so having read that warning, the choice is logged with your name and the time, and any consequence on your Upwork account is yours. A job sourced one way never mixes data from the other.

Freelancer.com and Contra jobs come from screenshots you take of pages you are entitled to view. Upload only public job listings, never private messages, NDA-protected projects, attachments or other people's work.

5. What we hold, and for how long

Details read from a marketplace for one job (client figures, the job text, the screenshot) are kept only while that job's task is open: until you skip it, or until the proposal closes, and in every case no longer than 30 days. Your own record of the bid (verdict, rule names, draft, review, outcome, notes, scores) stays until you delete it. Disconnecting an Upwork account deletes what was fetched through it. Deleting your workspace deletes everything in it. Upwork may ask us to certify these deletions, and we keep a log so we can.

6. Proposals are yours

A draft is written from facts you supplied, with the help of an AI model, and is a suggestion. You read it, change it, and send it under your name. Keep to the marketplace's rules on content: no contact details in a proposal where the marketplace forbids them, no claims you cannot back, no templates sent to many clients. BidCaliber flags these; you decide.

7. Consequences

If a marketplace warns, restricts or suspends an account, withholds Connects, or changes or withdraws its API, that is between you and the marketplace. BidCaliber cannot restore an account, recover Connects or override a marketplace's decision, and is not liable for them.

8. Not affiliated

BidCaliber is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for Upwork, Freelancer.com or Contra. Their names are used only to identify where a job came from.