Private Problem Bounty Terms

Plain-English summary

When you help fund a fix, you are making a private payment toward work on a problem. Payments for the same problem may be pooled privately. If Solveworthy approves a solution team through its review process, pooled funds may be released to help that team begin solution work. Your payment amount is not publicly displayed.

This is not a donation, investment, loan, pre-order, equity purchase, purchase of securities, purchase of tokens, ownership interest, repayment right, profit share, revenue share, or guarantee that the problem will be solved.

1. No donation or charity treatment

Payments made through Solveworthy are not charitable donations. Solveworthy does not represent that payments are tax-deductible, charitable, or made to a qualified nonprofit organization.

2. No investment or financial return

Payments do not give you equity, ownership, voting rights, profit rights, revenue share, repayment rights, tokens, securities, or any financial return. You are not investing in Solveworthy, a team, a founder, a company, or a project.

3. No guarantee of outcome

A payment does not guarantee that a problem will be solved, that a solution will be completed, that a team will be approved, or that any product, service, feature, deliverable, or business will be created.

4. Private payment amounts

Solveworthy does not show public goals, public totals, public progress bars, contribution leaderboards, or public payment amounts for problem bounties. Payment amounts are used internally to understand demand and evaluate whether a problem may be suitable for approved solution work.

5. Manual review

Solveworthy may manually review problems, payments, solution proposals, builders, teams, milestones, and payout requests. Solveworthy may accept, reject, delay, pause, cancel, or refund payments where appropriate.

6. Approved solution work

Payments for the same problem may be pooled privately and may be used to fund an approved person or team to work on the problem. Solveworthy may require proposals, milestones, identity checks, experience review, budget review, conflict checks, or other review steps before releasing funds.

7. Fees and reserves

Solveworthy may retain platform fees, payment processing fees, administrative fees, refund reserves, chargeback reserves, dispute reserves, tax/accounting reserves, or other operational reserves before any funds are made available for approved solution work.

8. Refunds

Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy. Refund availability may depend on timing, payment processor rules, whether funds have been committed to approved solution work, whether a payout has occurred, and whether a dispute, chargeback, fraud concern, or cancellation has occurred.

9. Platform discretion

Solveworthy may decline to fund, promote, approve, or publish a problem, solution, team, or payout request at its discretion. Solveworthy may remove content, pause payments, or refund payments if a problem, solution, or user creates legal, safety, trust, fraud, abuse, reputational, or operational concerns.

10. Platform development terms

Solveworthy is an early MVP. Processes may be manual. Payments, reviews, approvals, refunds, team selection, and payout handling may change as the platform develops. These terms should be reviewed by legal counsel before full public launch or scaled payment activity.