Bengaluru · Expert Terms of Service (v1.0)
Effective 23 September 2026 · Bengaluru · Version 1.0 · Draft pending counsel.
Parties
These Expert Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are between Talent Hunt Edge (the “Firm,” “we,” or “us”), a Bengaluru expert network operated from Karnataka, India, and the person who accepts these Terms by clicking accept, signing, or performing work (the “Expert,” “you”).
Until a company is incorporated, the contracting party is the founder operating the Firm from Bengaluru. When the legal entity exists, these Terms continue against that entity without a fresh signature.
Clients of the Firm may enforce the confidentiality, conflict, and conduct clauses that protect them. A Client may also ask you to sign a separate confidentiality or project letter. That letter stands on its own.
A code of conduct is part of these Terms. A breach of it is a material breach.
1. Purpose
The Firm runs a private desk that introduces consultations, scoped projects, and related research work (“Engagements”) between Clients and subject-matter Experts.
You say, and we rely on the statement, that you have the experience you describe and that you will speak only about work you are free to discuss.
Joining the bench gives you access to invitations, Client materials we share for an Engagement, and payment through the Firm. It does not promise work.
You confirm that you have read these Terms and that you had the chance to take independent legal advice before accepting.
2. Registration and who may join
You must give complete and current information: name, personal email, present or last role, employer or affiliation, at least two years of work history, and any board seats. Update the profile when those facts change.
You confirm that no employment contract, consulting agreement, professional rule, or employer policy stops you from taking part. If a restriction exists, tell us before you accept an invitation and obtain any waiver you need.
Sitting government officials, political-party officials, and candidates for public office may not join unless we say so in writing after you have disclosed the role.
You confirm that you are not convicted of an offence of dishonesty or an offence punishable by six months or more in prison; not the subject of a securities disciplinary order (including SEBI or an equivalent); and not listed on a sanctions or excluded-parties list. Tell the desk if that picture changes. We may check the record.
3. The work
Engagements may include scheduled consultation calls arranged by the Firm, longer advisory projects (the Firm must be a party), written notes, workshops, and structured surveys. You take part only in conversations the Firm has scheduled.
Registration is not a promise of invitations. You decide which invitations to accept.
You must not sign a side contract with a Client for work that began on this desk unless the Firm is a party.
4. Dealing only through the desk
For twelve months after your first introduction to a Client through the Firm, or twelve months after your last Engagement with that Client through the Firm, whichever is later, you must not solicit or accept paid work from that Client outside the Firm.
In that period, talk to the Client through the Firm and take payment only as these Terms allow. A private fee from the Client for the same work is a material breach.
If a Client approaches you directly, tell us at once. Do not share personal contact details unless we have written consent.
5. Conduct, conflicts, and prohibited talk
Do the work with care. Decline or stop any Engagement that creates a conflict, breaks the law, or breaks a duty you already owe.
You must not disclose material non-public information; trade secrets of a present or former employer; confidential official information; or anything you have agreed, or reasonably believe, to be confidential.
You must not use information from an Engagement to trade a security, or pass it to anyone who may trade. You confirm that you understand the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015. A breach is material.
If you work for or sit on the board of a company, do not discuss that company, take work about it, or advise its direct competitors without that company’s written consent. If you audited an organisation in the last three years, do not consult about it. If you worked in its finance function in the last year, do not discuss its accounts.
Do not give legal advice, investment advice, or medical advice. Declare any financial interest that bears on the brief, or decline. Do not record a call or bring a third party onto it unless we have agreed.
You will comply with the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
6. Fees
We pay the fee agreed in writing for that Engagement. Email is enough. Unless we say otherwise, you invoice after the Client confirms the work was completed. A valid invoice is paid within thirty days. We may deduct tax at source.
Unless agreed in advance, we pay only for time spent with the Client. Keep bank, IFSC, and UPI details current. You bear your own bank charges and taxes.
7. Confidentiality
Confidential Information is non-public information of the Firm or a Client that you receive on an Engagement. Treat everything you receive on an Engagement as confidential unless we say otherwise.
Do not put a Client’s name on a public profile or CV. Do not share the existence of a brief, a shortlist, or Client materials.
These duties survive the end of the Terms.
8. Intellectual property
Work you create for a Client on an Engagement belongs to that Client. Work you already owned and merely reuse stays yours.
You consent to recording or transcription where the brief says so. You warrant that what you submit is yours to give.
9. Non-solicitation
For twelve months after your last Engagement or introduction through the Firm, you will not solicit that Client for paid advisory, employment, or a board seat without our written consent.
For twelve months after you leave the bench, you will not solicit the Firm’s people or other Experts you met only through the desk.
10. Indemnity and limits
You will indemnify the Firm and its people against claims, costs, and losses that arise from your work, your misconduct, a breach of these Terms, a breach of a duty to an employer, or an intellectual-property infringement.
The Firm’s liability to you is capped at undisputed fees for the Engagement in question. We are not liable for indirect loss.
11. Term and ending
These Terms run for one year from acceptance and renew unless either party ends them.
We may end the relationship for convenience on seven days’ written notice, or immediately for a confidentiality breach. You may leave on thirty days’ written notice. Except for serious illness, you will finish Engagements already accepted.
12. Law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of India.
Disputes other than intellectual-property infringement or unauthorised access go to binding arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. One arbitrator. English. Seat: Bengaluru.
13. Other terms
We process personal data as described in the Privacy Policy and under Indian law, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 where it applies.
The work is personal. You may not assign it without our written consent. Sections on confidentiality, intellectual property, non-solicitation, indemnity, and disputes survive ending.
14. After each Engagement
When you invoice, you confirm that you did not disclose confidential information or MNPI, that you did not break a duty to a third party, that you kept these Terms, and that you will not pass on what the Client told you.
Accepting these Terms is the condition of joining the bench and of receiving a fee.
Talent Hunt Edge · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India