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            <h1 class="page-title">Worker Agreement</h1>
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              This agreement applies to workers who install the Ambient daemon and contribute compute capacity from
              their own Apple Silicon Macs. It is a beta draft and should be reviewed by counsel before general release.
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              <span class="tag">Effective April 7, 2026</span>
              <span class="tag">Independent contractor model</span>
              <span class="tag">Lawyer review pending</span>
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              <strong>You choose</strong>
              <span>Whether to install the software, when it runs, and whether your machine stays enrolled.</span>
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              <strong>You earn</strong>
              <span>Payouts are based on accepted work and may include validation holdbacks while reputation builds.</span>
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              <strong>You are independent</strong>
              <span>This beta does not create employment, agency, or an exclusive relationship.</span>
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              <h3>1. Relationship</h3>
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                You participate as an independent contractor or independent service provider, not as an employee, agent,
                joint venturer, or representative of Ambient. You control your hardware, schedule, and operating
                environment.
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              <h3>2. Worker obligations</h3>
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                You agree to run the worker only on hardware you control or are authorized to use, keep your operating
                system reasonably current, protect local credentials, and avoid tampering with jobs, transcripts, or
                validation checks.
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              <h3>3. Quality and abuse controls</h3>
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                Ambient may validate output with canaries, duplicate reviews, and reputation scoring. Workers that
                submit low-quality, manipulated, or abusive results may receive less work, have payouts withheld, or be
                removed from the network.
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              <h3>4. Payouts</h3>
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                Payout terms, holdback windows, and release timing may change during beta. Ambient may withhold or
                reverse payouts tied to fraud, policy violations, duplicate claims, or incorrect job accounting.
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              <h3>5. Privacy and security</h3>
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                Workers receive limited shard data and should process it only through the Ambient software. You may
                not store, reuse, disclose, or attempt to reconstruct source recordings outside the service flow.
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              <h3>6. No guarantees</h3>
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                Ambient does not guarantee a minimum amount of available work, any specific payout level, or that the
                beta will continue uninterrupted. Access may be paused for maintenance, quality issues, or policy review.
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              <h3>7. Ending participation</h3>
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                You may uninstall the worker and leave the network at any time. Ambient may suspend or terminate
                access if your worker becomes unreliable, insecure, abusive, or inconsistent with this agreement.
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              <h3>8. Taxes and legal compliance</h3>
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                You are responsible for your own taxes, reporting, and any local laws that apply to the income you earn
                from the beta program.
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