Standard Engagement Agreement

This Standard Engagement Agreement (the "Agreement") is an optional default contract between a Buyer and a Maker who connect through getsven.com. It applies only if both parties click-accept it (for example, when the Buyer subscribes and the Maker accepts the engagement) or otherwise agree in writing to adopt it. Getsven is not a party to this Agreement.

If you do not click-accept this Agreement or sign your own written engagement agreement, your engagement is still governed by the getsven.com Terms of Service and the Maker Agreement, which apply as the default contract between Buyer and Maker by reference. You are free to replace any of these default terms with your own signed agreement.

1. The engagement

The Maker agrees to perform software development work for the Buyer on a monthly subscription basis, at the price tier shown on the Maker's getsven profile. The Buyer pays getsven upfront. Scope, deliverables, cadence, and communication channels are agreed between the parties directly (typically via the task board at task.getsven.com).

2. Independent contractor

The Maker is an independent contractor. Nothing in this Agreement creates employment, partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship between the parties. The Maker is responsible for their own taxes, benefits, and insurance.

3. Work product & intellectual property

All deliverables the Maker creates for the Buyer — including source code, designs, scripts, configuration, documentation, and any derivative works (the "Work Product") — are works made for hire owned by the Buyer from the moment of delivery, conditional on the Buyer's payment being received by getsven.

To the extent any Work Product is not considered a work made for hire under applicable law, the Maker hereby irrevocably assigns to the Buyer all right, title, and interest in and to the Work Product, including all copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights — free of any claim or retention by the Maker. The Maker agrees to execute any documents reasonably required to perfect this assignment.

The Maker waives all moral rights in the Work Product, to the extent permitted by applicable law. This allows the Buyer to modify, combine, sublicence, distribute, display, and otherwise use the Work Product in any form, without attribution and without the Maker's further consent.

Assignment is conditional on payment. If the Buyer's payment is refunded, reversed, chargeback'd, or fails for any reason, all rights to the Work Product produced during the unpaid period revert to the Maker. The Buyer must cease using, distributing, or deploying the Work Product unless the parties agree otherwise in writing. Refunds are governed by getsven's Refund Policy.

4. Warranties

The Maker warrants that all Work Product:

• is the Maker's original work or properly licenses any third-party code included;
• does not infringe any third party's intellectual property rights;
• is free of malicious code, backdoors, and undisclosed remote-access mechanisms;
• discloses all third-party dependencies and the licences that apply to them;
• materially meets the scope and quality the parties agreed for the engagement.

The Buyer warrants that any materials, ideas, or requirements provided to the Maker do not infringe third-party rights and are legal to build.

5. No outcome guarantee

The Maker warrants that Work Product will materially meet the scope and quality the parties agreed (§4), but does not guarantee any specific business outcome, revenue, growth, user adoption, or result. "Software that works as agreed" is the standard; "software that achieves the Buyer's business goals" is not promised.

The Buyer acknowledges that software development is an iterative process and that the Buyer's active participation in scoping, reviewing, and giving feedback (per the engagement's agreed communication channel) is essential to a satisfactory outcome.

6. Indemnification

The Maker agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold the Buyer harmless from any third-party claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees arising out of:

• alleged infringement of any third-party intellectual property right in the Work Product;
• the Maker's breach of any warranty in §4;
• malicious, fraudulent, or negligent conduct in the Work Product delivered.

This indemnity cannot be capped by §7 below.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues.

Each party's aggregate liability to the other for work delivered under this Agreement is limited to the greater of $5,000 USD or the total fees the Buyer paid the Maker (via getsven) in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Carve-outs. The cap above does not apply to:

• the Maker's indemnification obligations under §6 (IP infringement);
• breaches of confidentiality under §8;
• fraud, willful misconduct, or violations of applicable law;
• death or personal injury caused by negligence (to the extent required by law).

8. Confidentiality

Any non-public information either party shares with the other — codebase access, credentials, business plans, customer data, roadmaps — is confidential. Neither party may use it outside the engagement, share it with third parties, or retain access after the engagement ends. Confidential materials must be deleted or returned when the engagement ends, unless the parties agree otherwise in writing.

This does not cover information that is public knowledge, already known, independently developed, or required to be disclosed by law (in which case the receiving party notifies the other first where permitted).

9. Term & termination

This Agreement begins when the Buyer's subscription to the Maker is active and continues until the engagement ends — by cancellation, end of the final paid monthly cycle, or mutual agreement. Sections 3 (IP, conditional on payment), 6 (indemnity), 7 (liability), 8 (confidentiality), and 10 (governing law) survive termination.

10. Governing law & disputes

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Estonia, unless the parties agree otherwise in writing. Disputes are resolved in the courts of Tallinn, Estonia — except that either party may bring small-claims actions in their local jurisdiction for amounts under €5,000.

11. Relationship to getsven's terms

If the parties have click-accepted this Agreement, it controls over the default terms in getsven.com Terms of Service and the Maker Agreement. Where this Agreement is silent, the getsven terms continue to apply by reference. Getsven is not a party to this Agreement and has no obligation to enforce it; the parties enforce it directly against each other.

12. Changes

Once accepted for a specific engagement, this Agreement does not change for that engagement unless both parties agree in writing. Getsven may publish a new version of this template for future engagements; the version in effect at the moment of acceptance governs each engagement.