Terms of use — SideBySide pilot

1. Operator and scope

The service operator is Alessandro Guardascione, Apt 203, Block F, Core 1, Hamilton Gardens, D07 WK2H, Ireland. Contact yalexein@gmail.com for support, privacy, complaints and legal notices. These terms cover the manually admitted pilot on sidebyside.social, including Creator, Brand and authorized platform-operator functions. It does not extend a promise to every feature of the wider Dalvan project or the separate invited-test database.

2. Eligibility and account access

The pilot is limited to adults aged 18 or over. A Brand representative must have authority to act for that organization. Supply accurate details, use a unique password and secure access to the mailbox. Do not share accounts, impersonate another person, try another workspace's credentials or collect another participant's password or recovery link.

Applications require manual review by an authorized operator. Creator and Brand registration has no separate email-verification step; approval does not certify mailbox ownership. Creators must supply at least one direct Instagram or TikTok profile link, or a YouTube channel link. The first authorized platform operator uses a separate activation procedure; Creator or Brand membership does not confer global administrative authority. The operator may limit pilot capacity or pause new applications. Access restrictions should be proportionate and their reason and any available review route communicated, unless doing so is legally restricted or would compromise an active security investigation.

3. What the pilot provides

The pilot tests profiles, Brand briefs, Creator discovery, invitations and applications, selection, recorded agreement versions, delivery, review and completion. Use clearly marked pilot briefs and material you are permitted to share. For the acceptance exercise, agree explicitly that financial fields and deliverables are simulated and create no obligation to perform paid work. Do not submit real financial, health, identity-document or children's information for testing.

Shopify order reconciliation, social-provider OAuth metrics, payment processing, payouts, retail booking services and other roadmap items are outside the promises of this pilot unless separately and expressly qualified. No charge, subscription or payment authorization is created by these pilot terms. New fees or commercial services would need separate notice and agreement.

4. Agreements between Creators and Brands

Creators and Brands are responsible for clarifying scope, deadlines, revisions, content permissions and any intended payment before accepting a collaboration. An offer and acceptance recorded by the platform may have legal consequences between those parties; do not assume that pressing an agreement button is legally meaningless. The acceptance pilot must use expressly simulated terms. SideBySide does not settle a payment merely because an amount or completion status appears in the interface, and does not act as a participant's employer, agent or guarantor of the other participant's performance.

Keep your own copy of any genuinely intended business agreement. These terms do not replace it.

5. Content and intellectual property

You retain your rights in material you submit. The licence to the operator is non-exclusive and limited to hosting, displaying, transmitting and making necessary security/recovery copies to operate the pilot for the audiences you authorize. It is not a sale of your work or an unrestricted advertising, resale or AI-training licence. Any licence from a Creator to a Brand must be agreed between them; selecting a Creator or approving a delivery alone does not define unlimited usage rights.

Only upload or link to content you own or are entitled to use. Obtain any necessary permissions for people, brands, music and other third-party material. Respect intellectual property, privacy and applicable advertising disclosure requirements. External links may be accessible independently of SideBySide; do not use a public link for confidential material. Ending discoverability or closing an account does not recall copies another participant has already lawfully obtained, and necessary dispute/security records may be retained under the approved privacy schedule.

6. Prohibited use, reporting and review

Do not use the pilot for fraud, unlawful discrimination, harassment, threats, sexual exploitation, infringement, spam, malware, unauthorized scraping or attempts to bypass authentication, admission or tenant boundaries. Do not disclose another person's private information without authority or use the pilot for unlawful activity.

Report suspected illegal content, infringement or serious misuse to yalexein@gmail.com. Include the relevant record or URL, a clear explanation, an appropriate contact and any evidence you can lawfully provide. Do not send passwords, session tokens or unrelated sensitive material. The process logs the report, checks immediate risk, considers the affected parties and records the reason for a restriction or other action. Where appropriate, you can ask the operator to review a decision with new information. Available staff and conflicts of interest must be disclosed; no independent appeal body or automatic resolution is promised.

7. Availability, ending access and responsibility

This is a limited pilot subject to defects, interruption and changes. The operator aims to investigate reported access, privacy or data-loss problems and may pause the pilot for safety. No continuous uptime or independent disaster-recovery service level is represented as already proven. Keep your own original content. A backup must not be treated as a substitute for the participants' own copies or a guarantee against every loss.

You may stop participating and request account closure by email. The operator should explain material restrictions or termination, provide an appropriate opportunity to retrieve information where lawful and feasible, and apply the approved retention and rights process. Urgent action may be needed to protect participants or comply with law. Nothing in these terms excludes liability or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded, including applicable mandatory consumer rights.

8. Support, changes and disputes

The support owner is Alessandro Guardascione at the contact above. The internal target is acknowledgement within two working days; this is an operational target, not a guaranteed response time. Security or privacy reports receive priority. Material changes to approved terms should be notified before they apply, with a fair option to stop using the pilot where relevant.

The governing law is Irish law, subject to mandatory rights and any jurisdiction a participant is legally entitled to use. Contact the operator first to seek a practical resolution; this does not prevent a complaint to a competent authority or access to courts. There is no compulsory arbitration or blanket waiver of consumer remedies under these terms.