The rules for using ClockIN during beta. Effective 27 September 2026. These Terms are the core of the ClockIN User Agreement.
Paid Proof access, Recruiting billing, bounties and mentorship can have feature-specific payment, cancellation and dispute rules. Marketplace transactions can also record the policy version accepted for that transaction.
You may use ClockIN only if you can lawfully enter into these Terms. Keep your account information accurate, protect your login credentials, and use only accounts, organizations and projects you are authorized to control. You are responsible for activity performed through your account.
ClockIN provides public career tools that can be used without an account. Their scores, parsed fields, match results, interview-preparation prompts and readiness signals are informational guidance. They do not reproduce every proprietary applicant-tracking system, guarantee that an employer will parse or rank a resume in the same way, provide legal or employment advice, or promise an interview or job offer. Public access does not permit abusive automation, attempts to bypass rate limits or service degradation.
ClockIN supports builder and hiring-side workflows. Recruiter features are for genuine hiring or team-building activity. Do not impersonate an employer, misrepresent a role, collect candidate information for unrelated purposes, post ghost jobs, or use candidate information for spam or unlawful discrimination.
You keep ownership of content you submit. You give ClockIN a limited, non-exclusive permission to host, process, display and distribute that content as needed to operate, secure and improve the service. Do not upload material you do not have the right to use or represent another person's work as your own. When a project includes team, client, employer, coursework, open-source, template or AI-assisted work, describe your own contribution accurately.
You can add a project without GitHub and attach supported evidence that fits the work, including links, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, designs, images, datasets, repositories and other permitted artifacts. An attached artifact is evidence on the record; it is not automatically proof of authorship. Optional source-control verification may use a ClockIN challenge for a public repository or deployed site. Passing that challenge shows control of that public source at that time. It does not prove authorship, sole contribution or intellectual-property ownership.
A project can be eligible for Project Defence without completing source-control verification first. ClockIN can ask project-specific questions grounded in the project description, stated contribution and available evidence. Public repository evidence may be sampled down to bounded files and recent changes; non-code projects can be assessed using their own professional context and attached evidence. ClockIN can require human review before marking a defence approved. An approved Project Defence means the member demonstrated project-specific understanding to the review standard used at that time. It does not certify that the member authored every artifact, was the sole creator, or owns all intellectual property in the project.
A skill listed in the ClockIN skill catalog is not automatically a verified Skill Proof assessment. Only skills with an active ClockIN assessment can produce a Skill Proof result. Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond and Platinum are assessment-backed capability levels, not academic awards, accredited qualifications, professional licences, regulated professional certifications, guarantees of competence or promises of employment. Eligible awarded badges can have a ClockIN-issued downloadable Skill Proof certificate and a public verification link. Recruiters should not use a medal level as the sole hiring rule.
Where ClockIN offers a paid Skill Proof attempt or Project Defence access, payment buys eligible access only. It does not improve a score, medal, verification outcome, cooldown or hiring result. An attempt or Defence that has begun can consume the relevant access even if the user later abandons it, subject to confirmed platform failures, the Refund & Cancellation Policy and rights that cannot legally be excluded. Clock Coins are participation credits used for eligible product access. They are not cash, deposits or a withdrawable stored-value balance, and ClockIN does not sell generic Coin packs unless the product and policies are explicitly updated to do so.
ClockIN may rank jobs for candidates and opted-in candidates for recruiters using role skills, Skill Proof, profile and work evidence, stated preferences, location or work-mode fit, and other job-relevant signals. Match percentages and explanations are recommendations, not hiring decisions. ClockIN does not intentionally use protected traits to rank candidates and recruiters remain responsible for lawful, fair hiring decisions.
Applications can include resumes, answers, work samples, Skill Proof and interview evidence. ClockIN can surface response goals and decision deadlines and may remind hiring teams about overdue applications. A status, score or recommendation does not create an employment relationship and does not by itself accept or reject a candidate.
When a role uses a ClockIN interview, the current candidate runner may capture webcam video, answer audio, answers, transcripts where available, timestamps and session-integrity events such as focus loss or device changes. The current runner does not record the candidate's screen. Model-assisted interviewing may be used when configured; deterministic fallback questions can be used when model processing is unavailable. Competence evidence and integrity evidence are kept conceptually separate. ClockIN does not claim that browser telemetry proves cheating and does not use gaze direction, emotion analysis or protected-trait inference as competence scoring.
ClockIN can summarize Skill Proof, interview evidence, work samples, recommendations and integrity review context into a candidate report for authorized hiring use. Reports support human evaluation and should not be treated as an autonomous final employment decision or as a guarantee that the underlying evidence is complete or error-free.
Recruiting access is a product entitlement, not a profile label. Where ClockIN enables a paid Recruiter subscription or trial, the checkout or sales flow will show the applicable commercial terms before activation. A free trial may end immediately when cancelled; a paid recurring plan may be scheduled to stop at the end of the current billing period where the provider supports that flow. Refunds, duplicate charges, provider failures and other billing issues are handled under the Refund & Cancellation Policy and applicable law. Enterprise or negotiated access can have separate written commercial terms.
Community posts and supported discussions can contain threaded replies. The official ClockIN community is automatically joined for new members, may be left and rejoined at any time, and reserves top-level product updates for ClockIN staff while members can reply with questions, suggestions and bug reports. Feed posts may tag ClockIN usernames when both the author and tagged person have tagging enabled. Community use is also subject to the Community Guidelines.
ClockIN may help users arrange paid bounties and mentorship. The poster and worker, or mentor and mentee, are the parties to the underlying work or service arrangement; ClockIN provides the platform, transaction records, payment-status workflow and dispute process. Where supported payment protection is enabled, payment can be secured before delivery and released under the applicable completion, refund and dispute rules. Users remain responsible for their scope, representations, taxes, intellectual-property rights and other legal obligations. Marketplace checkout or payout availability may differ by country and provider onboarding status.
Personal referral attribution is available only to members with an approved college, work or government identity verification and is limited by the current product policy. A personal referral Coin reward is issued only after the referred person completes the required verification. Genuine employer introductions are governed by the referral agreement shown for that program. Qualifying revenue excludes taxes and amounts refunded, credited or charged back, and payout may require reasonable identity, tax or payout-destination verification.
Do not use ClockIN for harassment, discrimination, fraud, spam, malware, unlawful surveillance, credential theft, deceptive recruiting, intellectual-property abuse, abusive scraping, attempts to bypass security controls, or intentionally misleading opportunities or proof. The Community Guidelines provide additional content and safety rules. Automated access must not degrade the service or collect user data in ways that violate these Terms or applicable law.
ClockIN may use automated rules, language and image moderation, report signals and human review to reduce abusive or unsafe content. Automated systems can be imperfect. ClockIN may review reports, remove or temporarily hide content, limit reach or features, suspend accounts, preserve relevant records, or take other proportionate action when reasonably necessary for safety, security, legal compliance or service integrity.
ClockIN can link to or inspect public material hosted by services such as GitHub, meeting tools, document platforms and deployment providers and may use infrastructure, email, payments or model providers to operate specific features. Those services have their own terms and privacy practices. ClockIN does not receive ownership of a third-party account or artifact merely because it is linked or verified and is not responsible for third-party availability, policies or unrelated transactions.
ClockIN is evolving. Features can change, break, move or be removed. We aim to keep the service useful and reliable, but provide it on an as-available basis and do not promise uninterrupted access, a specific score, an interview outcome, employment, revenue, project success or recruiter response.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, ClockIN is not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from user conduct, third-party services, missed opportunities, hiring decisions, marketplace work quality, mentorship advice, non-performance, infringement or arrangements made between users merely because they met or transacted through ClockIN. An internal marketplace dispute decision concerns supported payment handling; it is not a court judgment on every possible claim between users. Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or liabilities that cannot legally be excluded.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you are responsible for claims, losses or costs caused by your unlawful conduct, fraud, material misrepresentation, infringement, breach of an agreement with another user, tax obligations or content/work you did not have the right to provide. ClockIN may seek reimbursement or indemnification where a third-party claim is caused by those acts and the law permits it.
You may stop using ClockIN at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for serious or repeated violations, security risks or legal requirements. Account deletion and service termination do not automatically erase transaction, security, dispute, hiring-accountability or other records that must reasonably be separated or retained for another person, a legal obligation or service integrity.
We may update these Terms as ClockIN develops. Material changes will be reflected on this page and, where appropriate, surfaced in the product. Continued use after an updated version takes effect may constitute acceptance where permitted by law. Funded marketplace transactions can remain tied to the policy version accepted for that transaction unless applicable law requires otherwise.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to info@goclockin.com.