This agreement applies to workers who install the HiveCompute 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.
You participate as an independent contractor or independent service provider, not as an employee, agent, joint venturer, or representative of HiveCompute. You control your hardware, schedule, and operating environment.
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.
HiveCompute 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.
Payout terms, holdback windows, and release timing may change during beta. HiveCompute may withhold or reverse payouts tied to fraud, policy violations, duplicate claims, or incorrect job accounting.
Workers receive limited shard data and should process it only through the HiveCompute software. You may not store, reuse, disclose, or attempt to reconstruct source recordings outside the service flow.
HiveCompute 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.
You may uninstall the worker and leave the network at any time. HiveCompute may suspend or terminate access if your worker becomes unreliable, insecure, abusive, or inconsistent with this agreement.
You are responsible for your own taxes, reporting, and any local laws that apply to the income you earn from the beta program.