This Rater Agreement ("Agreement") is a contract between you and Woodstitch ("Woodstitch", "we", "us"). It governs your access to the Woodstitch rating platform and your eligibility to be paid for work you submit through it.
Read section 4 and section 8 carefully. They describe when we will not pay you, and when we may require you to return money we already paid.
By clicking "Continue with Google" or otherwise creating or using a Woodstitch rater account, you agree to this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not create an account.
Woodstitch pays people to listen to audio recordings and give their own honest opinion about what they hear. A task may ask you to compare two recordings, judge whether a recording was spoken by a person or generated by software, rate quality, or answer similar questions about audio.
The value of this work depends entirely on the answers coming from a real human being who actually listened. That is the whole product. An answer produced any other way is worth nothing to us and to our clients, and is not work we will pay for.
To hold a rater account you must:
We may limit eligibility further for particular tasks, and we may open the platform to other countries in future by updating this section. Until we do, an account used from outside the United States is not eligible for payment, however good the work.
You may not create or operate an account on behalf of anyone else, sell or transfer your account, or allow another person to use it.
Each time you submit an answer, you represent and warrant that:
These promises are the foundation of this Agreement. We rely on them directly when we pay you and when we sell the results of your work.
Each accepted answer earns the amount shown in the platform at the time you submit it. Earnings accumulate as a balance. A daily earning limit applies and is shown in the platform; it may change at any time.
An answer earns money only once we accept it. A balance shown in the platform is a provisional record of work submitted, not a debt we owe you, and not a guarantee of payment. We may review any answer at any time, before or after it contributes to your balance, and before or after a payout.
We may decline to pay for some or all of your work, remove earnings from your balance, withhold a pending payout, and suspend or close your account, if we determine in our reasonable judgement that:
Where we withhold payment under this section, we may withhold all earnings associated with the account, not only the specific answers we identified, because conduct of this kind puts the reliability of all of that account's work in question.
We decide whether work meets the standards of this Agreement. We will act in good faith and on a reasonable basis, and we will not withhold payment arbitrarily or to avoid paying for genuine work.
If we withhold earnings or close your account, you may contest it. Write to hello@woodstitch.com within 60 days. Tell us what happened. We will review your account and respond, and if we got it wrong we will reinstate and pay you. This is a real review, not a formality — honest raters sometimes get caught by automated signals, and we want those cases corrected.
Payouts are made through our payment processor once your balance reaches the published minimum. You must complete the processor's identity and tax requirements. Payment processing is subject to the processor's own terms, and delays caused by the processor are not a breach by us. You are responsible for any taxes on what you earn. You are an independent contractor, not an employee, and this Agreement does not create an employment, partnership, or agency relationship.
If your account is inactive for 12 months and your balance is below the payout minimum, we may close the account and forfeit the balance, after emailing the address on the account.
Tasks may include checks designed to detect inattentive or non-human answering, including items with a known correct answer, repeated items, items with deliberately obvious content, and measurement of your timing and interaction with the player. You agree not to attempt to identify, flag, publish, circumvent, or share information about these checks. Doing so is itself a breach of this Agreement.
To protect the integrity of the work and to detect fraud and automation, we collect and analyse technical information including your IP address, its network operator and approximate location, device and browser characteristics, a device fingerprint, timezone and language settings, timing and interaction patterns, and indicators of automation or remote control. We use this to verify that you are a single human being working honestly, to enforce this Agreement, and to decide questions of payment.
When you set up payouts, our payment processor, Stripe, verifies your identity and shares with us the details you give it, such as your name, date of birth, phone, address, and the bank you are paid into (never your full account number). We store these to pay you, meet tax and legal obligations, and prevent fraud.
You consent to this collection and use. Our Privacy Policy describes it in full and governs personal data generally.
You assign to Woodstitch all right, title, and interest in the answers, ratings, judgements, and other data you submit, including all intellectual property rights, worldwide and in perpetuity. We may use, reproduce, publish, license, and sell this data, including to our clients, and including in aggregated or anonymised research results. You waive any moral rights in it, to the extent permitted by law.
You retain no claim to results derived from your work. We will not publish your name or email address in connection with your individual answers without your consent.
This section survives the closure of your account.
If we pay you for work and later determine, on reasonable evidence, that the work breached section 3 — in particular that answers were produced by artificial intelligence, automation, a bot, a script, another person, or any non-human process, or that you misrepresented your identity or location to obtain the work — then the amounts we paid for that work were obtained in breach of this Agreement and you must repay them to us on demand.
This applies to amounts already withdrawn and already in your possession. It applies whether the breach is discovered a week or two years after payment. You agree that such amounts are held by you for our benefit until repaid.
Where the breach was systematic — for example, automated answering over a period, or an account created or operated under a false identity — the repayable amount is everything we paid that account, not only the specific answers we were able to identify as automated. You agree this is a reasonable measure of our loss, because such conduct makes the whole of that account's work unusable to us and to our clients, and because the practical difficulty of separating good answers from bad is a direct result of your breach.
We may, in addition to any other remedy available to us at law:
Interest accrues on unpaid amounts from the date of our written demand at the lesser of 1% per month or the maximum rate permitted by applicable law.
You acknowledge that submitting machine-generated answers while representing them as your own human judgement, in order to obtain payment, is a misrepresentation made to obtain money. Nothing in this Agreement limits any claim we may have for fraud, deceit, unjust enrichment, or any statutory claim, or any remedy available for them.
Where your breach caused us loss beyond the amounts we paid you — for example a client refund, the cost of re-running a study, or reputational harm — we may claim that loss as well. We will not seek punitive or speculative damages against an individual rater for ordinary quality shortfalls; this section is directed at deliberate fraud and automated answering.
We may suspend or close your account at any time, with or without notice, where we reasonably believe this Agreement has been breached or where required to protect the platform, our clients, or other raters. This includes automatically placing an account on hold, or refusing to create one, when the technical information described in section 6 indicates that you are outside the United States or connecting through a VPN, proxy, or datacenter. We are not required to tell you which information led to a suspension, a hold, or a refusal. You may close your account at any time by writing to us. Closure does not affect your obligation under section 8, our rights under section 4, or the assignment in section 7.
Sections 3, 4.2–4.4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12 survive termination.
The platform is provided "as is". We do not guarantee that work will be available to you, that any particular amount of work or earnings will be offered, or that the platform will be uninterrupted or error-free. Availability of tasks is not promised and may change without notice.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you arising out of or relating to this Agreement is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount we have paid you in the 12 months before the claim, and (b) US$100. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or lost opportunity.
Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, or any right you have under applicable consumer or employment law that cannot be waived.
You will indemnify us against losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs we incur arising from your breach of section 3 or section 8, or from any claim that your submissions infringed a third party's rights.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in Ohio have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there — except that we may bring proceedings to recover money under section 8, or to obtain injunctive relief, in any court having jurisdiction over you.
If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed, and the remainder will stay in force.
We may change this Agreement. We will post the new version with a new effective date and version number, and where the change materially affects your rights we will notify you by email or in the platform before it applies to you. Changes do not apply retroactively to work already submitted. Continuing to submit work after a change takes effect means you accept the new version. A change cannot retroactively create an obligation to repay money for work that complied with the version in force when you did it.
This Agreement and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the rating platform. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this Agreement; we may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
Questions, or contesting a decision: hello@woodstitch.com
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