Acceptable Use & Community Standards

MergeCrew is built on trust, professionalism and safety. We expect respectful communication and compliance with applicable laws. Discrimination, harassment, threats and hate speech are not tolerated.

• Create profiles under your own name or brand; do not impersonate others.
• Disclose conflicts of interest and affiliations when posting jobs or reviews.
• Do not create mass/fake accounts or sell/transfer accounts.

• Provide accurate descriptions, rate ranges, location/remote conditions.
• “Cash-in-hand” jobs, unpaid internships (except where legally permitted as education), MLM/pyramid schemes and data-harvesting scams are prohibited.
• Prohibited tasks include hacking, phishing, deepfake manipulation, bypassing AI detectors and doing students’ graded homework or exams.
• Discriminatory criteria that violate employment or anti-discrimination law are not allowed.

• Abuse, harassment, threats, dissemination of shocking or explicit content.
• Spam, review manipulation, fake deals and self-reviewing.
• Doxing: publishing others’ personal data without consent.
• Attempts to circumvent platform fees in an active deal or to bypass moderation measures.

• Scraping, mass extraction/resale of data, reverse engineering.
• Unauthorised bots/automation, DDoS, exploiting vulnerabilities.
• Malware, phishing schemes, harmful attachments or links.

We do not prohibit exchanging contact details after a match, but bypassing platform fees in an active deal is not allowed. Keep key artefacts (requirements, deliverables, releases) in the deal chat to protect both parties in case of disputes.

Only leave reviews based on real experience. Disclose affiliations. Quid-pro-quo reviews and pressure for positive reviews are prohibited.

Enforcement is applied progressively: warning → hiding/removal of content → feature restrictions → account suspension → holding funds in escrow during disputes. You can appeal via in-product forms. Repeat violations may lead to permanent bans.

You can notify us of illegal content or IP infringement via our Notice & Action form. We will issue a Statement of Reasons and provide information on how to contest the decision. Notices from trusted flaggers are processed with priority.