Community Rules

1. Purpose

BridgeThis is built to help founders and developers work together with clearer scope, safer payment workflows, better records, and more professional communication. These Community Rules apply to all users, listings, messages, proposals, files, orders, and activity on BridgeThis.

We may remove content, restrict features, suspend accounts, terminate accounts, or take other action if we believe a user has violated these rules or created risk for other users or the platform.

2. Be honest about identity, skills, and intent

You may not:

• Impersonate another person or company.
• Create fake, misleading, or duplicate accounts.
• Misrepresent your experience, skills, portfolio, work history, or availability.
• Use fake project listings, fake developer profiles, or fake payment activity.
• Mislead users about who will perform the work or who owns a project.

3. No scams, fraud, or payment abuse

You may not use BridgeThis to:

• Request payment for work you do not intend to perform.
• Accept work while intentionally hiding your inability to deliver.
• Submit fake delivery, fake files, or misleading progress updates.
• Use stolen payment methods, stolen accounts, or unauthorized payment information.
• Manipulate refunds, chargebacks, payouts, or payment records.
• Pressure users to move paid work or payment conversations off BridgeThis.

4. No malware, credential theft, or harmful technical work

You may not request, offer, upload, send, build, or deliver:

• Malware, spyware, ransomware, credential stealers, keyloggers, or phishing tools.
• Code or instructions designed to break into accounts, systems, devices, or networks.
• Tools for bypassing security, stealing secrets, scraping private data, or abusing APIs.
• Work that hides malicious behavior, evades detection, or enables unauthorized access.
• Files, links, or instructions that create security risks for other users.

5. Respect private project information

Founders may share private technical ideas, code, product plans, business details, files, links, and project information. Developers and other users must treat non-public project information responsibly.

You may not:

• Steal, copy, sell, or reuse another user's private project information without permission.
• Share private messages, files, code, credentials, or project details outside the project without permission.
• Use confidential project information to compete against, harm, or exploit another user.
• Upload another user's private information to public repositories, AI tools, or third-party services without permission.

6. Respect intellectual property

You may not:

• Upload or share content you do not have the right to use.
• Copy another user's portfolio, project, code, designs, or written materials without permission.
• Sell work that infringes copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, privacy rights, or publicity rights.
• Misrepresent open-source, third-party, AI-generated, or licensed materials as fully original work.

7. Keep important work records on BridgeThis

To help protect both sides, users should keep important proposal, payment, scope, delivery, and file records inside BridgeThis whenever possible.

You may not:

• Use BridgeThis to find users and then pressure them to pay off-platform.
• Use off-platform payment requests to avoid BridgeThis fees or records.
• Mislead users about whether payment, delivery, or approval happened on BridgeThis.

8. No harassment, abuse, or discrimination

You may not:

• Harass, threaten, bully, stalk, or intimidate another user.
• Use hateful, discriminatory, or degrading language.
• Send repeated unwanted messages or pressure users after they decline.
• Share another person's private information without permission.

9. No illegal or regulated work

You may not use BridgeThis to request, offer, facilitate, or deliver illegal work or work involving regulated goods or services that require licenses, approvals, or compliance controls that are not in place.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Illegal hacking or unauthorized access.
• Fraud, scams, identity theft, phishing, or payment abuse.
• Illegal surveillance, spyware, or privacy violations.
• Illegal financial, medical, legal, or regulated professional services.
• Work that violates sanctions, export controls, or applicable law.

10. Files, links, and external tools

Users are responsible for files, links, code, repositories, credentials, and third-party tools they share. Do not send harmful files, suspicious links, exposed secrets, passwords, private keys, tokens, or credentials.

BridgeThis may restrict, remove, or review content if we believe it creates safety, security, legal, or platform risk.

11. Reporting concerns

If you believe another user is scamming, stealing information, abusing payments, violating intellectual property, sending harmful files, or breaking these rules, contact BridgeThis through the Contact page.

We may review account details, marketplace listings, messages, files, payment records, delivery records, and other relevant information when responding to reports.

12. Enforcement

BridgeThis may take action at its discretion, including warning users, removing content, restricting features, suspending accounts, terminating accounts, preserving records, reporting illegal activity, or cooperating with payment processors, law enforcement, or legal requests where appropriate.