Adult Job Poster Risk Allocation Agreement

A. Parties and protected claims

A.1 Parties and adult capacity

"TaskTeens" means [Legal operator to be confirmed], doing business as TaskTeens. "Protected Parties" means TaskTeens and its officers, directors, employees and authorized agents, only for conduct within their authorized roles in providing the platform. No outside Job Poster is a Protected Party just because they use TaskTeens.

"Job Poster" means the adult individual, business or other organization that posts an opportunity or hires through the platform. An individual hiring for a household contracts in their own name; a household label does not bind other residents. A representative accepting only for an identified organization binds that organization only if authorized, and does not give a personal guarantee just by accepting. No unnamed spouse, family member or unrelated organization is bound without its own agreement.

Sections B and C apply only to a Job Poster's own rights and obligations in that role. They do not apply to a teen account, or to an adult only because that adult is a guardian, employee, worker, witness or reporter.

A.2 Protected Matters (these override every exclusion)

"Protected Matters" means:

1. Claims belonging to a person under 18, including claims brought through a guardian, representative or successor, and rights to disaffirm a contract where applicable.
2. Claims for bodily injury, death, sexual abuse or exploitation, harassment, discrimination or related personal injury, including an adult's legally recognized derivative claim from that harm.
3. Earned pay, minimum wages, overtime, tips, required premiums, reimbursements, benefits, statutory wage remedies, workplace retaliation, workers' compensation rights and employment rights that cannot lawfully be limited.
4. Fraud, intentional misrepresentation, gross negligence, reckless or willful misconduct, willful injury or unlawful conduct, to the extent responsibility cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
5. Statutory privacy, data-security, consumer, civil-rights, safeguarding or other duties and remedies to the extent they cannot lawfully be waived, capped or transferred; public enforcement; nontransferable penalties; and legally protected reporting or cooperation.
6. Any other claim, remedy, liability or duty that applicable law prohibits limiting, releasing or shifting in the circumstances.

Nothing below caps, excludes damages for, releases, or requires indemnification of a Protected Party for its own responsibility for a Protected Matter. Listing a matter here does not create a claim or remedy that the law doesn't otherwise provide. A third party's injury or wage claim is not waived by a poster's indemnity: Section C allocates to the Job Poster only liability and defense costs caused by the Job Poster's own covered conduct.

B. Adult limitation of liability

B.1 Covered economic claims and aggregate cap

SUBJECT TO SECTION A.2, THE PROTECTED PARTIES' COMBINED TOTAL LIABILITY TO A JOB POSTER FOR THAT JOB POSTER'S OWN CLAIMS SOLELY FOR ECONOMIC LOSS ARISING OUT OF THE ONLINE PLATFORM OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100) IN THE AGGREGATE.

This is one combined cap across all Protected Parties for all covered claims — not $100 per defendant, theory, listing, transaction or incident. It applies to covered breach-of-contract and ordinary-negligence claims, including alleged ordinary negligence in operating the platform, but only where that limitation is lawful. A Protected Matter stays excluded whatever the claim is called. This cap does not decide whether a duty, breach or liability exists.

B.2 Excluded economic damages

For the covered claims in B.1, and only to the extent lawful, the Protected Parties are not liable to the Job Poster for lost profits, lost business or revenue, lost business opportunities, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, or indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages — even if called direct damages and even if their possibility was disclosed. Section A.2 overrides every exclusion in this paragraph, and it does not restrict a regulator or a non-party.

B.3 Matters unaffected

These limits do not cap the Job Poster's wages or other payment obligations to a worker, reduce a third party's claim, cap indemnity or defense costs lawfully owed under Section C, or prevent legally available injunctive or declaratory relief. Statutory fee awards and other remedies remain where they cannot lawfully be limited.

B.4 Construction and severability

Apply the scope exclusions before applying a cap or damages exclusion. If a limitation is unenforceable for a claim, it does not apply to that claim; other independently lawful provisions may remain. This does not authorize a court to create a new waiver, expand a waiver against a minor, or replace an invalid $100 cap with an unspecified "maximum lawful" cap.

C. Job Poster indemnification and defense

C.1 Covered third-party claims

To the extent permitted by law, the Job Poster will indemnify and hold harmless the Protected Parties from third-party claims, demands, suits and proceedings, and resulting reasonable losses, judgments, approved settlements and reasonable legal expenses, to the extent caused by:

• the Job Poster's negligent, reckless, intentional or unlawful acts or omissions in creating a listing, selecting or hiring a worker, managing the worksite, supervising work, providing equipment or conducting the work arrangement;
• the Job Poster's material breach of its poster commitments, including materially false statements about duties, hazards, authority, pay or permits;
• the Job Poster's failure to meet its own obligations concerning lawful youth work, classification, wages, payroll and taxes, work permits, workers' compensation, workplace safety, supervision, discrimination, harassment or retaliation;
• content supplied by the Job Poster that infringes someone's intellectual property or unlawfully discloses their confidential or personal information; and
• acts or omissions of the Job Poster's personnel or others for whom the Job Poster is legally responsible, in connection with the posted work.

"Third-party claim" excludes a claim by the Job Poster itself and a dispute about enforcing this indemnity. It can include a claim by a worker, guardian, customer, property owner or government body, but only to the extent the liability is lawfully transferable and caused by the Job Poster's covered conduct. A claim isn't covered just because it mentions a job found on TaskTeens, and a teen's independent conduct alone does not automatically create an indemnity obligation.

C.2 TaskTeens' own conduct and mandatory protections

No Job Poster must indemnify a Protected Party for the part of a loss caused by that Protected Party's own negligence, wrongful act, breach or independent legal duty. Nothing shifts a Protected Party's fraud, gross negligence, reckless or willful misconduct, nontransferable statutory liability or other prohibited responsibility to the Job Poster. Mixed responsibility is allocated comparatively.

This agreement does not transfer a statutory duty the law places on TaskTeens or change any claimant's rights. It creates no obligation for a teen, a guardian acting only as guardian, or a household member who did not sign. A Job Poster must not deduct indemnity costs from wages, seek repayment from a minor, condition earned pay on a release, or retaliate for a claim or report.

C.3 Duty to defend, mixed claims and reconciliation

When TaskTeens gives written notice of a claim identifying the covered allegations, the Job Poster must promptly provide a competent defense, at its own expense, for the parts of the claim that fall within C.1. This duty starts at notice and does not require a prior finding of the Job Poster's fault.

There is no duty to defend allegations aimed only at a Protected Party's own excluded conduct. For mixed claims, the parties will promptly agree a reasonable provisional split of defense costs; the poster funds only the covered share, and common costs are shared reasonably. If the split is disputed, the parties will seek prompt agreement or a decision by a court with jurisdiction — no mandatory arbitration applies. Meanwhile the poster pays undisputed covered defense costs. After final resolution, payments are reconciled against actual responsibility, and TaskTeens returns amounts paid beyond the poster's proper share.

C.4 Notice, counsel, settlement and failure to defend

TaskTeens will give reasonably prompt written notice and reasonably available non-privileged information. Late notice reduces an obligation only to the extent it materially harms the poster's defense. The poster may control a covered defense with competent counsel reasonably acceptable to TaskTeens; TaskTeens may take part through its own counsel at its own expense, except where a genuine conflict of interest requires independent counsel for covered matters.

Neither party may settle in a way that imposes payment, an admission, a non-monetary obligation or a restriction on the other without written consent, which won't be unreasonably withheld for a fully poster-funded monetary settlement that completely releases the Protected Parties with no admission. Nothing settles a minor's claim without any legally required separate approval. If the poster fails to take on a properly tendered covered defense, TaskTeens may arrange a reasonable defense and seek covered costs, and the poster may still contest coverage, allocation and reasonableness.

C.5 Covered amounts, survival and limits

Covered amounts include reasonable attorney fees, expert costs, court costs, judgments and approved settlements attributable to a covered claim. Taxes, fines, penalties and punitive awards are included only where indemnifying them is legally permitted and they result from the poster's covered conduct. The indemnity has no dollar cap but is limited by causation, allocation, reasonableness and the legal exclusions above. It survives account closure for conduct during participation. It does not make TaskTeens an employer, insurer or party to the work arrangement.

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