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1. Who this agreement is with
This agreement is between you and The Sailscasts Company LTD, doing business as TemboAI ("TemboAI", "we", "us"). Contact [email protected]. Read this agreement, the Privacy Notice and the mission's task, reward and quality requirements before joining. Your acceptance applies to the version shown when you join; we keep a record of that version and your choice.
2. What you contribute
TemboAI collects African-language examples to build language datasets and improve African-language AI. A contribution may include your voice recording, typed native spelling or transcript, translation, and an explanation of meaning or usage. We also record the language or variety, mission and account references, timestamps, recording duration, quality checks and review results.
You must be at least 18. Participation is voluntary. Use your own voice and material you may lawfully provide, and follow the mission's instructions. Your explanation of meaning or usage need not be in English unless the mission requires it. You may submit multiple distinct contributions while capacity remains.
Do not include another person's voice, private names or contact details, bank or identity information, confidential material, or restricted community knowledge you are not entitled to share. Do not submit material you cannot license, synthetic speech, replayed recordings, or duplicate work presented as new. TemboAI does not acquire ownership of a language or a community's knowledge. You may stop before submitting; any data already uploaded remains subject to the retention and deletion rules below.
3. Review and rewards
A submission receipt confirms receipt, not acceptance. Automated checks may flag file problems, duplication or abuse. Qualified human reviewers decide language quality against the mission requirements. We may accept, request correction, or reject with a reason. You cannot review your own work. A mission creator cannot earn contribution rewards on their own mission or decide its appeals.
Points missions: the mission shows the Points earned for each independently accepted contribution and the available capacity before you join. Capacity is shared across the languages offered by that mission, unless its rules say otherwise. Points are not money, Cowries or a withdrawable balance. There is no promise of cash conversion, future payment or royalties. Recording or uploading alone earns no Points. Your device and internet costs remain yours. Only the TemboAI owner creates Points missions; ordinary mission creation is for Paid missions.
Paid missions: the mission must show your eligibility, gross reward and currency, acceptance conditions, any hold, payout threshold, supported destinations and applicable fees or their calculation before you confirm participation. Final cash-out charges must be shown before payout confirmation. Only those disclosed terms apply; support for every country, bank or currency is not promised. There is no guaranteed volume of work or minimum income. Changes to future missions do not retrospectively reduce an accepted contribution's recorded reward.
4. Ownership and permission
You keep the rights you have in your contribution. You grant TemboAI a non-exclusive licence to receive, privately store, reproduce as necessary, transcribe, correct, translate, annotate and review it, and to use accepted contributions in controlled datasets to develop, train, fine-tune, validate and evaluate African-language speech-recognition, translation and language-assistance AI for TemboAI. This is not an ownership assignment. You remain free to use or license your own material elsewhere.
These language-AI purposes are part of this mission, not an optional feature hidden behind the agreement. By giving the explicit consent below, you allow the described processing. You may decline and not join, or withdraw later as explained below. Your participation does not guarantee that any particular model will be trained on your contribution or learn it correctly. No royalty or revenue share is promised beyond the mission's stated reward.
This agreement does not permit voice cloning, impersonation, using your contribution in advertising, identifying or authenticating you through your voice, or selling or licensing your recording or transcript as a dataset to another organisation. It also does not permit another organisation to train its own models on your contribution, publicly release your recording/transcript, or distribute downloadable model weights trained using your contribution. Any proposed additional use needs a separate, specific explanation and your affirmative consent. Funding or sponsoring a mission grants no automatic rights to contributor data.
5. Your data and who can access it
Your voice can identify you even if your name is removed. We do not promise that a voice recording is anonymous. Language and cultural information may also reveal sensitive information; provide only what the mission requests. This agreement does not authorise creating or using voiceprints for unique identification.
Authorised reviewers and operators may access the contribution to review it, handle an appeal and maintain the service. TemboAI staff and service providers acting on our instructions may access only the information needed for the permitted work. A provider receives no independent model-training or dataset-licensing rights under this agreement. Sponsors receive aggregate progress, not your contact, account or payout details. We may disclose information where legally required, limited to what the requirement permits.
TemboAI uses Cloudflare R2 for uploaded files, and hosting, database, caching and email-delivery services to operate the platform. Authorised staff, reviewers and service providers may access the information needed for their roles. This agreement gives providers no independent right to train their own models on your contributions or sell or license them as datasets. Processing may take place outside Nigeria; this does not expand the purposes or rights you grant. See our Privacy Notice for how we handle personal data and requests.
We rely on your consent for the contribution's collection, review and language-AI uses described here. Account administration, reward handling, security and legally required records must have their separately stated lawful bases in the Privacy Notice; accepting this licence does not waive your privacy rights.
6. Retention, withdrawal and deletion
We will keep original recordings and their associated submitted text for no more than three years from submission, and delete them earlier when they are no longer needed for the permitted purposes or a valid deletion request requires it. Rejected or abandoned material is not available for training or evaluation and must be deleted when it is no longer needed for review, an appeal or a justified security investigation. It is not retained merely because it might become useful.
You may withdraw consent or ask to access, correct, obtain a portable copy of, restrict, object to or delete your personal data, as applicable, by emailing support@temboai.com with your mission or submission reference. You may also use any withdrawal control provided in your account. Withdrawal must be as easy as giving consent. We may proportionately verify that a request is yours; do not email identity documents or bank details without a necessary, secure process.
Withdrawal stops new uses of the affected contribution under that consent, including new dataset preparation, training and evaluation. We will remove or suppress affected source data and notify relevant providers to act as required. A backup restoration must not return deleted data to active use. Minimal consent, security, payment or dispute records may be retained only where justified by a separate lawful basis, for a disclosed period and with restricted access. We will explain any lawful exception to deletion and when it ends or is reviewed.
Withdrawal does not make earlier lawful processing unlawful. Deleting a recording or transcript does not automatically remove its statistical influence from an already-trained model. We do not promise automatic machine unlearning or guaranteed reversal of completed training. These practical limits do not cancel your legal rights or permit new training or evaluation on a withdrawn contribution. The licence ends for those withdrawn future uses.
7. Appeals, complaints and changes
To challenge a rejected contribution, use its appeal action or email support@temboai.com with the reference and what the review missed. An operator who did not create the mission considers the appeal. You may request human review of an automated restriction affecting you. We will explain the outcome and handle privacy requests within applicable legal deadlines.
You may complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission at ndpc.gov.ng, or another competent regulator. Using our support process does not waive that right. Nigerian law governs this agreement without removing mandatory protections that apply to you. Competent courts in Lagos, Nigeria hear disputes unless mandatory law provides otherwise. Nothing excludes liability or remedies that cannot legally be excluded.
Changes apply to future participation. We will not use a terms update to silently expand a prior permission. A new purpose outside this agreement requires a new specific choice.
Your confirmation
Before joining, open the full terms linked from the mission. The confirmation starts unchecked and records your choice for that version: I am 18 or older. I have read and agree to the Contributor Agreement and this mission’s reward rules. I consent to collection and review of my contributions and use of accepted contributions to train and evaluate TemboAI’s African-language AI, as described. I understand how to withdraw.
Submitting also confirms that the recording is your own voice, you may lawfully provide the material, and you have not included prohibited private information.