Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

These Terms govern use of the RealDev service operated by RealDev LLC.

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Recruiters also bind themselves and their organization to the current Recruiter Data Use Agreement before accessing candidate data.

2. Definitions

“Service” means realdev.dev and its practice, code execution, AI, billing, Talent Marketplace, organization, and related services. “User Code” includes workspace code, scripts, and submitted source. A “Submission” is code submitted for challenge evaluation.

“Pro” is the personal candidate subscription currently displayed at $8.99/month. “Recruiter Organization Billing” is a separate organization subscription. A person may incur both subscriptions when using both products.

“Candidate” means a user who may affirmatively join the Talent Marketplace. “Recruiter” means an approved organization member. “Rating” means an AI-produced marketplace signal, not a credential, employment recommendation, or guarantee.

3. Eligibility and accounts

You must provide accurate account information, protect credentials, and promptly report unauthorized access. You may not share recruiter credentials or provide candidate-data access to personnel who do not need it for bona fide recruiting.

Recruiter organizations must be approved, use verified recruiter accounts, maintain live entitlement, and comply with the current Recruiter Data Use Agreement. Admin support access follows RealDev’s separate internal MFA policy.

4. Practice and code-execution service

RealDev provides coding challenges, workspaces, tests, Docker-backed execution, submissions, AI code review, script generation, and related history. Usage quotas, supported environments, and features may vary by tier.

Do not use the Service to attack systems, access another user’s data, evade limits, mine cryptocurrency, distribute malware, or execute unlawful or abusive workloads.

5. General acceptable use

You must not scrape the Service, reverse engineer access controls, interfere with operation, upload unlawful or infringing material, impersonate another person, or use automated means except as RealDev expressly permits.

RealDev may investigate abuse, preserve evidence, rate limit activity, suspend access, and cooperate with lawful process.

6. User Code, submissions, and corpus retention

You retain ownership of User Code. You grant RealDev a non-exclusive license to store, execute, test, secure, display to you, process with configured AI providers, and otherwise operate the features you request.

When an account is deleted, RealDev scrubs personal identity but retains submissions, submitted code, appropriate review history, and minimum legal evidence under its retain-and-de-identify corpus model. Live workspace material is not promised to be retained as part of that corpus. The Privacy Policy describes the deletion boundary.

7. Candidate participation and marketplace disclosure

Registration does not make a candidate visible. A candidate joins only through an explicit affirmative action under the current versioned marketplace consent. Approved and verified recruiter organizations with entitlement and current agreement acceptance may then receive the fields described in the Talent Marketplace Data Disclosure.

RealDev processes successful submitted code with a configured AI provider to create recruiter-facing ratings while a candidate is visible. Marketplace browse prioritizes résumé availability, followed by rating, meaningful profile completeness, and rating evidence volume. Pro candidates receive a highlighted star and Pro notation that visually promotes their profile to companies and recruiters. This visual treatment does not change marketplace ranking. Ratings and automated ordering are aids, not employment guarantees.

Recruiters cannot currently access source code or live workspaces. The current marketplace consent covers a future feature exposing an immutable, sanitized source snapshot captured from a challenge submission; it would not expose later workspace changes, unsaved state, secrets, dependencies, or excluded configuration.

Leaving the Talent Marketplace immediately stops future recruiter access and newly initiated automatic marketplace grading, but privately retains the candidate’s marketplace profile, résumé, ratings, interactions, and derived history for rejoining. RealDev cannot recall copies already downloaded by a recruiter.

8. Recruiter Data Use Agreement

The current Recruiter Data Use Agreement is incorporated into these Terms. It restricts candidate data to bona fide recruiting and employment purposes and prohibits scraping, bulk collection, resale, publication, enrichment, unrelated outreach or advertising, AI/ML model training, credential sharing, excessive internal access, and sole reliance on a RealDev rating for hiring or adverse decisions.

Recruiters and organizations must provide appropriate security, retention and deletion, honor contact-stop requests, use data without unlawful discrimination, provide legally required notices, report incidents, and cooperate with audits and rights requests. A new agreement version blocks candidate access until accepted.

9. AI features and ratings

RealDev may configure Anthropic, OpenAI, or another disclosed provider for AI review, script generation, follow-up, or submission grading. Relevant code and challenge context are sent to the configured provider. Provider availability and output may change.

AI output can be incomplete or wrong. Users must review generated code and advice. Recruiters must make individualized decisions and comply with laws governing employment AI, discrimination, notice, explanation, human review, and appeal.

10. Billing and subscriptions

Stripe processes payments. Personal Pro and Recruiter Organization Billing are distinct products with distinct subscriptions. Starting or cancelling one does not automatically start or cancel the other.

Current prices, billing intervals, trial or comp status, cancellation controls, and refund terms are displayed at checkout or in the applicable billing portal. Taxes and legally required records may be retained. Recruiter payment purchases controlled access; it does not purchase ownership of candidate data or expand permitted use.

11. RealDev intellectual property

RealDev and its licensors own the Service, challenge materials, software, branding, and documentation, excluding User Code. No license is granted except the limited right to use the Service under these Terms.

12. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE, AI OUTPUTS, RATINGS, AND MARKETPLACE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. REALDEV DOES NOT GUARANTEE ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, EMPLOYMENT, CANDIDATE QUALITY, INTERVIEWS, OR HIRING OUTCOMES.

Ratings are not background checks, professional credentials, or complete measures of a candidate. Recruiters remain responsible for lawful, fair, and individualized evaluation.

13. Liability limitations

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, REALDEV WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. These limitations do not apply where prohibited by applicable law or to rights that cannot lawfully be waived.

14. Suspension, termination, and account deletion

You may stop using the Service, leave the Talent Marketplace, or delete your whole account through the available controls. Leaving the marketplace does not delete the account. Account deletion scrubs PII, revokes sessions, and durably queues résumé, avatar, PostHog, and personal-subscription deletion while retaining the de-identified submission/code corpus and minimum evidence described in the Privacy Policy.

RealDev may suspend or terminate access for breach, security risk, unlawful use, nonpayment, or harm to users or the Service. Organization suspension or entitlement loss immediately blocks candidate data. Provisions concerning licenses, retained corpus data, legal evidence, payment records, restrictions, disclaimers, and dispute terms survive as applicable.

15. Disputes

Contact michael@realdev.dev so the parties can attempt to resolve a dispute informally. Nothing in these Terms limits rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be waived.

16. General and contact

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any incorporated Recruiter Data Use Agreement form the applicable agreement. Invalid provisions may be limited without invalidating the remainder. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

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