Welcome to Zimbuddy. This is a website that connects Zimbuddy independent contractors with clients for the provision of freelance services in business and admin, marketing, legal and finance, web and programming, multimedia, design and creative, writing and translation, and more
We ask that you take the time to carefully read these terms of service, as your use of our website in whatever way (including without limitation accessing, logging on to or using our services), its information and services means that you fully agree to being legally bound by the terms hereafter explained, and our privacy policy, incorporated herein by reference.
You will hitherto be bound by the terms as set out, and you must immediately exit the website if you are not in total agreement with these provisions.
We have the exclusive right to at any time adjust, modify, add to or delete from these terms of use without prior notice to users. We therefore ask that you occasionally check back on this page for changes to these terms of use. Your use of the Zimbuddy website after any modification represents and shall be deemed as your acceptance of the changes.
This website is provided exclusively for the use of persons who have reached the legal age of 18 and are able to form a legally binding contract. If you are not 18, you must at least be up to the legal age of reasoning and be able to form a legally binding contract, as determined by your jurisdiction, in order to qualify to use our services. While this website is operated from the United States of America these terms of use are construed under the basic cyber laws of African nations, our services are open to international users, provided that they comply with all local applicable laws regarding internet usage. We grant all eligible users a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, non-assignable, and non-sub licensable license to use Zimbuddy in compliance with these terms.
All materials available and provided through this website (without limitation including all data, text, sounds, graphics, articles, representations, reports, or any other information or software programs) are either copyrighted and trademarked by or licensed to Zimbuddy.
All of these materials are fully and duly protected by country specific intellectual property laws as well all other relevant laws. All rights fully reserved.
You may not remove any trademark, copyright, or other proprietary notices from the website and content in your use of the website.
Except you have our prior written permission, you may not modify the website’s content; remove or modify any copyright, trademark or any other proprietary right notices placed in the website content; and/or engage in any modification, republication, reproduction, redistribution, posting, uploading, transmitting, distributing or any misuse of the services and the website content (whether in part or in full).
Any presentations or print outs of the Zimbuddy website content must be stamped © Zimbuddy, 2022. All rights reserved.
No right, interest or title in or to the services or the website content is to be deemed transferred to you by your use of our website, and all rights not specifically granted are reserved by Zimbuddy.
Any use of the services not expressly permitted by these terms is a breach of this agreement and shall be deemed to have violated copyright, trademark and other laws.
If you are found to be in the violation any of the above mentioned conditions concerning our copyright, we will immediately withdraw the license granted you to use the website and our services. We may also file a criminal and/or civil case against you in such an event.
So as to be able to gain access to and use specific sections of our website, we will ask you to complete an online registration process, which will require you to supply personal information like your name, contact details, and bank/credit card information.
You hereby confirm that all information you provide to Zimbuddy, both during the registration process and in your subsequent use of the website, are honest, complete and accurate. We may terminate your account and/or refuse your use of our services if any information you provide is discovered to be false, incorrect or deliberately misleading.
It is your sole duty to maintain the security of your log in details including your username and password, and you will be held liable for any unauthorized use of your account or password. Please note that you are allowed to have and operate only one Zimbuddy account, except otherwise permitted by us in writing.
As a user, you are not to abuse any part of the Zimbuddy website for illegal purposes including but not limited to the propagation of unlawful, harassing, hostile, defamatory, harmful, offensive, or otherwise obnoxious material.
To be able to do business (whether as a client or as a freelancer) on Zimbuddy, you must first register as a Zimbuddy user. Visitors are not allowed to do business on the website.
The base starting price of provided services on the website is $5. Freelancers however have the power and the choice (at their discretion) of offering their services at more than $5.
To create a job request, clients are required to pay in advance. Such job requests can be created by clicking on the job request button found on the freelancer’s personal page.
Freelancers have an obligation to fulfill clients’ job requests, and cannot cancel job requests indiscriminately or without cause. Canceling job requests repeatedly will adversely affect freelancers’ reputation, status and their ability to secure future job requests.
Zimbuddy users are strictly prohibited from offering or receiving payments using other methods or through other means different from placing a job request on the website.
All rights to delivered job requests are transferred to the client, except otherwise specified by the freelancer on their Zimbuddy page.
Zimbuddy reserves the right to use all published delivered works on the website for its marketing and promotion purposes.
Once registered, freelancers have the power to job offers/services on the website that allows them to advertise their services and allows clients to purchase such services.