Terms of Use.

1About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Limited Liability Company “First Byte” (ООО «Первый Байт»), which runs DevTender. First Byte is registered in the Republic of Tajikistan and is a resident of IT Park. In these terms “First Byte”, “we” and “us” mean the company.

You accept these terms when you create an account or accept an invitation to join a firm. If you use DevTender for a firm, you accept them on that firm’s behalf too, and you confirm that you are allowed to. If you don’t agree to these terms, don’t use DevTender. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle data and is part of these terms.

2Words used here

• DevTender: the devtender.ai website and app, the DevTender browser extension, the Send to DevTender bookmarklet, and the emails we send about DevTender.
• Your firm: the company whose DevTender account you use.
• Your content: everything you or your firm put into DevTender, such as files, CVs, facts, tender documents, pages you send, drafts and packages.
• Tender: a buyer’s request for expressions of interest, proposals or bids. The buyer may be a development bank, a UN agency, a government or a project it funds.

3Who may use DevTender

DevTender is currently open by invitation only. You must be 18 or older and use DevTender for your work. Your firm’s administrator invites its people and decides what each of them can do.

4Your account

Each person has their own account. Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done with your account. If you think someone else has used it, tell us straight away at [email protected]. Give true details and keep them up to date.

5Free use and pilots

We may offer DevTender, or some of its features, free of charge or as a pilot. While your firm uses DevTender this way:

• nothing is charged;
• we may add, change or remove features, and some may not work perfectly yet;
• we may end free use or a pilot with 30 days’ notice, or sooner if these terms are broken.

If we introduce paid plans, we will tell you the price and terms in advance. Nothing is charged unless your firm agrees.

6What DevTender does, and what stays yours to do

DevTender helps you find tenders and read them, and check them against your firm’s record. It helps you put your team together, draft parts of your proposal and build the package.

You stay in charge of your bid. DevTender never signs, prices or submits a bid, and never contacts a buyer for you. Before you submit, you are responsible for:

• checking everything in the bid against the buyer’s own documents, which always come first;
• the truth of every statement, CV and document you submit;
• meeting the deadline, and sending the bid the way the buyer asks.

DevTender uses AI, and AI can be wrong or miss things. Tender details come from public sources and the pages you send, and may be out of date. DevTender does not promise that you will be eligible, shortlisted or awarded a contract.

7Your content

Your content stays yours. You allow us to store, copy, read and process it only to run DevTender for your firm. That includes sending the text a task needs to our AI provider, as the Privacy Policy explains. We don’t use your content to train AI models, and we never show it to other firms.

You confirm that you have the right to put your content into DevTender, including your experts’ CVs and personal details. You also confirm that doing so breaks no law, contract or duty of confidentiality, such as the confidentiality terms of a tender.

8Fair use

Don’t use DevTender to:

• break the law or a buyer’s procurement rules, including through fraud, corruption, collusion or coercion in a tender;
• put false or misleading statements, qualifications or CVs into a bid;
• try to see another firm’s data, break or test our security, or overload the service;
• copy, resell or reverse-engineer DevTender, or collect data from it with automated tools;
• upload malware, or content you have no right to share;
• let anyone outside your firm use your account.

9Other services

DevTender works with other services: tender sites such as ADB, the World Bank, UNGM and UNDP; Google Drive, if you connect it; and the companies listed in the Privacy Policy. Their own terms apply to them. We are not responsible for what they publish, or for whether they are available. When you use the extension or the bookmarklet, you are responsible for following the terms of the site you send from.

10Availability and your copies

We work to keep DevTender available and your data safe, and we back it up every night. But the service can be interrupted, and new features may not work perfectly at first. Always keep your own copy of every bid you submit.

11What is ours

DevTender’s software, design, name and logo belong to First Byte. We give you a personal right to use DevTender for your firm’s bids, under these terms. You cannot transfer that right to anyone else. If you send us suggestions, we may use them freely and owe you nothing for them.

12Confidentiality

We keep your content confidential. The DevTender team sees what is inside a bid only when your firm allows support access to it, as the Privacy Policy explains, or when the law requires it.

13Suspending and closing

You can stop using DevTender at any time. Your firm’s administrator can ask us to close the firm’s account and delete its data. Ask for a copy first if you want one. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or that puts DevTender or its users at risk. Where we can, we will warn you first and let you take a copy of your content.

14No warranties

DevTender is provided “as is” and “as available”. As far as the law allows, we do not promise that it will be free of errors or interruptions, or suit any particular purpose. Nor do we promise that its AI output is accurate.

15Limits of liability

As far as the law allows:

• we are not liable for indirect losses, lost profits or contracts, a lost or rejected bid, or a missed deadline;
• for anything to do with DevTender, the most we will pay in total is what your firm paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or USD 100 if that is more.

Nothing in these terms limits any liability that the law does not allow us to limit, such as for fraud or for harm done on purpose.

16Claims about your content

Someone may make a claim against us because of your content, or because you broke these terms. One example is a CV that you had no right to upload. In that case, your firm will cover our reasonable losses and costs.

17Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will post the new version on this page with its date. If a change is important, we will also tell you by email or in the app, at least 14 days before it applies. If you keep using DevTender after that, the new terms apply to you. If you don’t agree to them, you can close your account.

18Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Tajikistan. If there is a dispute, write to us first, and we will try to settle it within 30 days. If we can’t, it goes to the competent courts of Dushanbe.

19Everything else

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about DevTender. If your firm signs a separate agreement with us, that agreement comes first where the two differ.

We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as outages at the companies that run DevTender for us, power or internet failures, or actions by authorities.

We send notices to the email address on your account. Send yours to [email protected].

If a part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don’t use one of our rights straight away, we have not given it up. You may not transfer these terms to anyone else without our agreement. We may transfer them to whoever takes over DevTender, and we will tell you if we do. These terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, the English version prevails.

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