Terms of Use

Trialent (trialent.in) is operated by Aryan Manav, an individual based in India (“we”, “us”). By creating an account or using Trialent you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Notice. If you use Trialent for a company, you confirm you may accept these terms on its behalf.

• You must be at least 18 years old.
• Trialent is intended for users in India.
• Give accurate information, keep your password private and tell us if you think your account has been misused. You're responsible for what happens under your account.

Trialent is a platform where companies post build projects, hiring roles and freelance contracts, and candidates apply and submit work. We are not the employer of any candidate, not a recruitment agency, and not a party to any hiring decision, contract or payment between a company and a candidate. We don't guarantee that any project leads to a hire, that any candidate is suitable, or that any company will pay.

• Whether a build project is paid is the company's choice. The company states on the brief, before anyone applies, whether it is paid and the fee, the scope and the deadlines, and must not lower the fee or change the scope once a candidate has been selected.
• An unpaid build project must be estimated honestly at no more than 8 hours, the same limit as a trial. Larger work must be paid.
• For a paid project, the company pays the stated fee directly to the candidate after it accepts the work — within the time stated in the brief, or within 15 days of acceptance if the brief doesn't say.
• Trialent never receives, holds or transfers project fees. Any tax deduction at source, invoicing or other tax obligation on the fee is between the company and the candidate.
• A company that rejects work must give the candidate its reason in writing through Trialent.

• The company states the pay (a fixed price per milestone, or an hourly rate with a weekly hour cap), the scope and the timeline on the brief before anyone applies, and must not lower them once a freelancer has been selected.
• The company pays each approved milestone, or each approved week of logged hours, directly to the freelancer within the time stated in the brief, or within 15 days of approval if the brief doesn't say. The freelancer confirms receipt on Trialent.
• Trialent never receives, holds or transfers contract payments, and is not a party to the contract. Tax obligations are between the company and the freelancer.
• A company that asks for changes or declines a delivery must say why in writing through Trialent.

• A hiring role may ask candidates to complete a trial, paid or unpaid as the company chooses. The company must estimate it honestly at no more than 8 hours, and Trialent shows on every listing whether it is paid.
• For a paid trial, the company pays the stated fee directly to every invited candidate who submits by the deadline, within 15 days of the trial deadline.
• Applying never requires work. A company invites only the candidates it shortlists, up to a limit Trialent sets for each role, and every invitation counts toward that limit even if the candidate is later rejected.
• An unpaid trial exists only to evaluate candidates. It must not be a way to get real work done for free.

• When you submit a trial, Trialent reads your public repository at the last commit before you submitted. It reads files; it never runs your code. Pushes after you submit don't count.
• It checks your work against the role's trial, points the company to where each requirement appears in your code, and, when the company compares submissions or the trial deadline passes, compares submissions on the same trial for shared code.
• What is checked and what the report says are shown to the company that posted the role, not to candidates, so the checks can't be gamed. Results are facts and signals, never a verdict or a score, and the company decides. If something needs explaining, the company asks you. Trialent never accuses anyone of cheating or of using AI.
• A company must not reject a candidate on a flag alone without looking at the work.

• Candidates own everything they create on Trialent until it is paid for.
• Paid build projects and paid trials: once the company has paid the full fee, the candidate assigns to the company the copyright in the deliverables made for that project or trial, worldwide and for the full term of copyright. The candidate may still show the project's title, description, technologies and screenshots in their portfolio, unless the brief said the project is confidential.
• Freelance contracts: once the company has paid a milestone, or a week of logged hours, in full, the freelancer assigns to the company the copyright in the work delivered for it, on the same terms as a paid build project. Each payment covers only the work it pays for. The same portfolio and confidentiality rule applies.
• Unpaid build projects, unpaid trials, and work that is rejected or not paid for: the candidate keeps all rights. The company may use the work only to evaluate the candidate, must not use it in its products or business, and must delete its copies within 30 days of deciding not to hire, rejecting the work or ending the contract.
• Candidates confirm that the work is their own, and that any third-party or open-source code they include is used under its licence and identified in the submission.

• Project briefs are public. Companies must not put confidential information in them.
• Anything shared privately in a project's thread is confidential to that company and candidate, and may only be used for that project.

Companies must base decisions on the work and the criteria they published, and must not discriminate on grounds such as gender, religion, caste, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. Decision notes and feedback must be honest and respectful.

You must not use Trialent to:

• post false, misleading or fraudulent projects, roles, profiles or work;
• impersonate a person or company, or post on behalf of a company you don't represent;
• post content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or that infringes someone else's rights;
• harass other users, or contact them for purposes unrelated to the project or role;
• upload malware, probe or attack the service, or access data you're not entitled to;
• scrape the service or collect other users' personal data.

You keep ownership of what you post. You give us a non-exclusive licence to host, store and display it only as needed to run Trialent, for as long as it stays on the service.

• Report anything that breaks these terms to hello@trialent.in. We will act on valid reports and on lawful orders from courts or government authorities.
• We may remove content or suspend or close accounts that break these terms or the law.
• You can delete your account at any time in Settings. You can't delete it while a project you're part of is still in progress.

Trialent is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, and may sometimes be unavailable. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for anything a company or candidate does or fails to do, including payment, hiring decisions and use of work. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to ₹5,000. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll update the date above and tell you before it takes effect. Continuing to use Trialent after that means you accept the new terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at New Delhi have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute about them or about Trialent.

Questions and grievances: hello@trialent.in. See Grievances for how complaints are handled.