Code of Conduct

Work Ethics

All participants of www.krowse.com are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct, both online and during in-person events that are hosted and/or associated with www.krowse.com.

The Pledge

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

The Standards

Examples of behaviour that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Referring to people by their preferred pronouns and using gender-neutral pronouns when uncertain

Examples of unacceptable personal behaviour by participants include:

• Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, public or private harassment
• Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
• Not being respectful to reasonable communication boundaries, such as 'leave me alone,' 'go away,' or 'I’m not discussing this with you.'
• The usage of sexualised language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
• Swearing, usage of strong or disturbing language
• Demonstrating graphics or other content you know may be considered disturbing
• Starting and/or participating in arguments related to politics
• Assuming or promoting any kind of inequality including but not limited to: age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, nationality and race, personal appearance, religion, or sexual identity and orientation
• Drug promotion of any kind
• Attacking personal tastes
• Other conduct which you know could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting.

Examples of unacceptable user and financial behaviour by participants include:

• Engaging in fraud or illegitimate transfer of funds
• Deliberately underbidding to win a project
• Deliberately posting fake ratings, reviews or feedback for other users or the website
• Creating accounts with 2 user profiles, one as freelancer and the other as project owner, and using the former to place fake bids on self-posted projects for intimidating other freelancers or forcing negotiable behaviour on them indirectly or directly to lower their bid amounts.

• Attempting to close the deal outside the site by including contact information of any kind in any attached documents or any input fields on the webpages, to enable freelancers/project owners to directly contact each other.

Enforcement

Violations of the Code of Conduct may be reported by sending an email to support@www.krowse.com. All reports will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately. We hold the right and responsibility to remove comments or other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any members for behaviours that are deemed inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.