Submission and IP Policy

This Submission and IP Policy explains what rights you receive, as a hiring company, over the work candidates submit through Wooble — challenge submissions, project uploads, and related materials ("Submissions") — and what obligations come with reviewing them.

This policy supplements, and is incorporated into, the Wooble Terms of Service. Where this policy addresses Submissions specifically, it controls; the Terms of Service govern everything else.

Candidates retain full ownership of, and all intellectual property rights in, the Submissions they create. Hosting a challenge or receiving a Submission does not transfer ownership to you or to Wooble.

When a candidate submits to a challenge or role you host, they grant you a limited, non-exclusive license to review, evaluate, and internally discuss that Submission as part of your hiring process.

This license does not give you any right to use, publish, sell, or otherwise commercially exploit a candidate's Submission beyond evaluating them as a candidate. If you want broader rights — for example, to use a candidate's work in a shipped product — you must agree separate terms directly with that candidate; Wooble does not grant that on your behalf.

You retain ownership of the challenge briefs, review notes, and hiring decisions you create ("Customer Content", as defined in the Terms of Service). Where you mark a brief confidential, candidates are bound to use it only to complete that challenge.

You are responsible for not including sensitive or proprietary information in a brief beyond what is necessary for candidates to complete it.

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Questions about this Submission and IP Policy can be sent to legal@wooble.org or connect@wooble.org.