Agency Provider Agreement

This Agency Provider Agreement (the “Agency Agreement”) supplements the 7BE Terms of Service and applies to every Agency that lists services, submits proposals, or performs Projects through 7BE.

1. Business Status and Authority

The Agency represents that it is a legitimate business or independent professional, has authority to enter this Agency Agreement, and will keep its legal name, ownership, address, tax, banking, sanctions, insurance, and licensing information accurate.

The Agency performs as an independent contractor. It controls its personnel and work methods, subject to the outcome, security, data, and Verification requirements in each Project Order. The Agency is not an employee, agent, franchisee, partner, or representative of 7BE or any Buyer.

2. Profile and Claims

Profile, portfolio, credential, pricing, capacity, client, performance, and location information must be accurate, current, supportable, and not misleading. The Agency may use client names, logos, results, or case studies only with required permission and substantiation.

Any 7BE badge or label has only the meaning shown with it. The Agency must not describe a listing review, identity check, or project Pass as a broad certification, endorsement, security audit, legal approval, or guarantee.

3. Proposals and Connects

The Agency must submit tailored, truthful proposals only for work it is qualified and available to perform. Proposals must disclose material assumptions, subcontractors, third-party tools, model providers, recurring third-party costs, exclusions, and conflicts.

Submitting a proposal may require Connects. Connects are platform credits with no cash value and are governed by the issuance or purchase terms and the Terms of Service. Unless expressly stated otherwise, use of Connects does not guarantee selection, a response, a Project, revenue, ranking, or a refund.

The Agency must not coordinate bids, submit placeholder proposals, misrepresent personnel, move a 7BE-introduced opportunity off-platform to evade disclosed fees, or use Buyer information for unrelated solicitation.

4. Project Performance

For every accepted Project, the Agency will:

• perform professionally, diligently, lawfully, and on schedule;
• deliver the agreed outcome and evidence in the specified format;
• follow the Verification Criteria, security instructions, and approved architecture;
• use appropriately skilled and supervised personnel;
• obtain and maintain required licenses, permissions, and insurance;
• promptly disclose risk, delay, error, conflict, or inability to perform;
• maintain reasonable development, testing, backup, and change-control records; and
• cooperate with Verification, Cure, Re-test, disputes, and lawful audits.

The Agency may not substitute a materially different model, provider, dataset, workflow, or subcontractor without the approvals required by the Project Order.

5. Subcontractors and Personnel

The Agency remains fully responsible for subcontractors and personnel. It will conduct reasonable screening, grant least-privilege access, impose written confidentiality and data-protection duties, and remove access promptly when no longer needed.

If a Project Order requires named personnel, Buyer consent, residency, or background checks, the Agency will not make a material substitution without prior written approval. The Agency will not classify or compensate personnel unlawfully.

6. Data Protection and AI Use

The Agency will process Buyer and Project data only for the Project, according to documented instructions, the Project Order, and applicable law. It will minimize collection, segregate Projects where appropriate, protect credentials, maintain access records, and securely return or delete data on completion.

The Agency must not:

• use Customer Data to train or improve a general-purpose or shared model;
• submit Customer Data to a consumer AI account or unapproved model provider;
• sell, share for cross-context behavioral advertising, or combine Customer Data with unrelated data;
• re-identify de-identified data or circumvent Buyer privacy choices;
• retain production data for portfolio, benchmarking, or future development; or
• process regulated or highly sensitive data without express written authorization and required safeguards.

The Agency must notify Buyer and 7BE without undue delay, and no later than 24 hours after discovery, of a suspected security incident involving Project data and must preserve evidence, mitigate harm, and cooperate with response obligations.

7. Security

The Agency will maintain safeguards appropriate to risk, including access control, multi-factor authentication for privileged systems, encryption in transit, secure secret management, vulnerability and dependency management, logging, tested backups, change review, incident response, and timely access revocation.

The Agency will provide reasonable evidence of safeguards on request. It must not represent that it holds a certification unless current and applicable to the services performed.

8. Intellectual Property

The Agency owns its pre-existing tools, methods, templates, models, and other Background Materials. It must identify material Background Materials and third-party components in the Project Order or submission.

Unless the Project Order states otherwise, after all amounts due are received, the Agency assigns to the Buyer all rights it can assign in Deliverables created specifically for the Project and grants the license to embedded Background Materials stated in the Terms of Service. The Agency will execute reasonable confirmatory documents.

The Agency represents that it has the rights necessary to provide each Deliverable and license each component. It will provide required open-source and third-party notices and will not include code or content with obligations inconsistent with the Project Order without approval.

9. Confidentiality

The Agency will protect Buyer, 7BE, and Project Confidential Information with at least reasonable care and use it only for the relevant proposal or Project. Confidentiality applies to briefs, proposals, pricing, data, credentials, systems, test evidence, Deliverables, and non-public communications.

The Agency may publish a case study or identify a Buyer only with the Buyer’s prior written permission and subject to any approved wording.

10. Verification and Payment

The Agency acknowledges that Project Funds are released only as stated in the Project Order and Verified Project Terms. Unless an objective partial-payment provision expressly applies, the Agency receives no Project Funds until the Deliverable passes final Verification.

The Agency is entitled to the default one Cure and one Re-test unless the Project Order states otherwise. The Agency will not manipulate evidence, conceal limitations, interfere with tests, or pressure a Buyer or 7BE reviewer.

The Agency is responsible for payout-account accuracy, taxes, bank charges, foreign exchange, personnel compensation, and payment-provider compliance. Payment-provider settlement time may apply after release.

11. Fees and Subscriptions

The Agency will pay subscription, Connects, transaction, or other fees disclosed before purchase or in a Project Order. Paid plans automatically renew as disclosed at checkout until canceled.

Paid placement may increase visibility only where labeled. It never purchases a positive review, false badge, favorable Verification result, or suppression of legitimate negative information.

12. Reviews and Marketplace Integrity

The Agency may request honest reviews but must not require positive sentiment, draft a misleading review, review itself, coordinate fake reviews, threaten reviewers, or offer an undisclosed incentive. Any permitted incentive must be available regardless of sentiment and disclosed.

The Agency must not scrape, spam, manipulate rankings, create duplicate identities, misuse Buyer contact information, or circumvent marketplace safety or fee controls.

13. Compliance

The Agency will comply with applicable privacy, intellectual-property, export, sanctions, anti-bribery, anti-spam, employment, accessibility, and industry laws. It will not offer or perform prohibited activities under the Acceptable Use Policy.

The Agency is solely responsible for professional advice or regulated services it provides. A Project involving health, financial, employment, legal, biometric, critical-infrastructure, or other high-impact decisions requires express 7BE approval and additional written controls.

14. Insurance and Records

Where commercially appropriate or required by a Project Order, the Agency will maintain professional liability, cyber liability, general liability, workers’ compensation, and other insurance appropriate to the Project and will provide evidence on request.

The Agency will retain contract, licensing, consent, testing, security, tax, and payment records for the period required by law and at least three years after a Project, without retaining raw Customer Data beyond approved periods.

15. Audit and Cooperation

On reasonable notice, the Agency will provide information necessary to investigate a Project, verify compliance, respond to a privacy request, assess security, or comply with law. An audit will be proportionate, protect other clients’ information, and avoid unreasonable interference.

7BE may suspend proposals, Projects, payment instructions, or access while investigating credible fraud, security, sanctions, data misuse, or material breach.

16. Indemnification and Liability

The Agency’s indemnification and liability obligations are governed by the Terms of Service and any Project Order. Without limiting them, the Agency is responsible for claims arising from its personnel, services, Deliverables, unlawful data processing, tax or employment obligations, infringement, or breach.

17. Term and Termination

This Agency Agreement continues while the Agency uses the Services. The Agency may close its account subject to pending Projects, disputes, payment obligations, and retention requirements.

7BE may suspend or terminate for breach, fraud, unsafe conduct, repeated Project failure, sanctions, unlawful activity, data misuse, or material marketplace risk. When practicable and safe, 7BE will provide notice and an opportunity to cure.

Termination does not affect accepted Project Orders or provisions that by nature survive, including confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property, payment, records, indemnification, liability, and disputes.

18. Contact

Agency support: agencies@7be.io
Legal notices: legal@7be.io

7BE Inc.
2055 Limestone Road, Suite 200-C
Wilmington, Delaware 19808, USA