App Expert Terms

1. Who These Terms Apply To

These App Expert Terms & Conditions (the "App Expert Terms") form a separate agreement between MARKETRONIX LTD, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17331464, whose registered office is at Dept 6916, 196 High Road, Wood Green, London, N22 8HH, United Kingdom, and any person who applies to join Cobalt as an App Expert (an "App Expert" or "you"). They are additional to, and distinct from, the general Terms of Service that apply to all users of Cobalt. Where a conflict arises for App Expert activity, these App Expert Terms prevail. You must accept these App Expert Terms before your application can be submitted.

2. Independent Professional Relationship

You provide professional iOS and macOS engineering services as an independent contractor. Nothing in these App Expert Terms creates an employment, partnership, or agency relationship. You control how and when you work, decide which tasks you accept, and are responsible for your own equipment beyond the Cobalt Mac workstation, and for complying with the laws that apply to your own earnings in your jurisdiction.

3. Eligibility & Vetting

Acceptance as an App Expert is not automatic. Every application is reviewed. To be approved you must:

• Be at least 18 years old and legally able to provide services in your jurisdiction.
• Have demonstrable experience shipping iOS or macOS apps (App Store or TestFlight).
• Be fluent in Swift and the Xcode toolchain, and able to communicate clearly in English.
• Provide a valid government-issued identity document for verification.
• Pass our identity and background review before your profile goes live.

We may decline or revoke App Expert status at our discretion where eligibility or conduct standards are not met. Staff review every application by hand, so there is no fixed review time; once your ID is approved, signing in with the same email opens the App Expert console.

4. How You Get Paid

You set your own rate for a task. For every task you deliver you earn the task price less a 15% platform fee. There are no other deductions.

• An earning is pending from delivery until the client accepts the task. If the client neither accepts it nor raises a problem within 7 days of delivery, it becomes payable automatically.
• Payouts are not automatic: you request one from your earnings page for any amount from €50 to €10,000 per request.
• Payouts are made only by manual bank transfer to an account in your name. You give the IBAN, BIC, account holder and bank country; staff verify the account before the first payout.
• Staff review each request and pay it by bank transfer, and record the transfer reference on your earnings page.
• You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to your own earnings.

5. Service Standards & Conduct

As a verified App Expert you agree to:

• Deliver work to a professional standard and only accept tasks within your competence.
• Respond to clients within the response window shown on your profile and keep your availability accurate.
• Protect client code and data, and treat everything you access on a Cobalt Mac as confidential.
• Never move client work, credentials, or signing assets off the Cobalt platform except as a task requires.
• Keep a record of delivered tasks consistent with continued marketplace access.

6. Intellectual Property & Confidentiality

Unless otherwise agreed in writing with a client, work product you create for a client task is assigned to that client on payment. You retain no licence to reuse client-specific code. Confidential information you access in the course of a task must not be disclosed or used for any purpose other than performing that task, during or after your time as an App Expert.

7. Prohibited Activities

8. Suspension & Termination

You may stop taking tasks at any time by marking yourself offline, and may close your App Expert account after any in-flight task is resolved. We may suspend or remove App Expert access for breach of these App Expert Terms, repeated poor outcomes, fraud, or conduct that harms clients or the platform. Credits already earned and cleared remain payable to you on termination, subject to any good-faith investigation of a dispute.

9. Liability

You are responsible for the work you deliver and for keeping to these App Expert Terms. Our liability to you under them is limited to the earnings that are due to you and not yet paid. Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited, such as for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

10. Governing Framework

These App Expert Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute about them. They are read together with our Privacy Policy and the general Terms of Service. By accepting them in the application flow you confirm you have read and agree to be bound by them.