Terms of Service.

These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of RocketDevs, operated by RocketDevs, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company with its registered address at 8 The Green, Suite R, Dover, DE 19901, USA. By creating an account, hiring through the platform, or accepting an engagement as Talent, you agree to these terms.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. If you use RocketDevs on behalf of a company, you confirm that you are authorized to bind that company.

RocketDevs is a marketplace that matches clients with select independent-contractor developers (Talent, also called developers in these policies) on a time-and-materials, staff-augmentation basis. We source and match Talent, facilitate payments, and assist with onboarding.

RocketDevs does not build your product for you. You direct the work, and the Talent you engage performs it under your supervision.

RocketDevs acts as an independent contractor and staffing intermediary. Talent are independent contractors, not employees or agents of RocketDevs. We do not oversee, control, or direct Talent or the work, and we do not warrant the quantity, quality, or timeliness of any work. RocketDevs is not building your product under a development contract. You own your product and you direct the work on it.

You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure. You agree not to misuse the platform, including accessing it through unauthorized means, scraping data, interfering with its operation, or using it to violate any law.

Fees are billed in U.S. Dollars. Prices may be displayed on the site in your local currency for convenience, but charges and invoices are made in U.S. Dollars, and any conversion rate or foreign-transaction fee is set by your bank or card issuer.

Self-serve plans. Self-serve pricing is paid upfront through Stripe at the published rates: Associate $9.99/hr, Mid-senior $21.99/hr, and Senior $30.99/hr, billed hourly or by subscription.

Negotiated engagements. Clients on a signed Sourced Talent Matching Agreement are invoiced every two weeks on Net 10 terms. Amounts more than 30 days past due accrue interest at 1.5% per month, and the client is responsible for collection costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees.

Payment methods. We accept credit card (Visa, Mastercard, and American Express), bank wire, and ACH. For negotiated engagements, US-based clients paying by ACH or bank wire receive a 3% discount.

How your trial works depends on how you engaged us.

Self-serve plans. Your first engagement with RocketDevs is covered by our 14-day money-back guarantee: tell us at support@mail.rocketdevs.com within 14 days of the engagement start that you are not satisfied, and we refund 100% of what you paid for that engagement.

Negotiated engagements. Clients on a signed Sourced Talent Matching Agreement instead receive the contract's trial remedy: a 14-day trial period on the first engagement of each Talent. If you are not satisfied and tell us so in writing before the trial period ends, the trial work is not invoiced and we use commercially reasonable efforts to provide a replacement developer, which is the sole remedy for the trial period under the agreement. If we do not receive written notice during the trial, the Talent is deemed accepted and trial work is invoiced normally.

Cancellation (self-serve plans). You may cancel anytime through your account or by contacting support@mail.rocketdevs.com. The first remedy we offer is a replacement developer, using commercially reasonable efforts. If you decline a replacement, the cancellation takes effect and you receive a prorated refund of the unused portion of the current billing cycle, to your original payment method. You keep access until the cancellation takes effect. Negotiated engagements end as set out in the signed agreement and section 14.

Full mechanics, eligibility, and processing times live in one place so they stay consistent: see the Fulfilment and Refund Policy.

Talent assigns to the client, on payment of undisputed fees, all right, title, and interest in the deliverables created for the client (Work Output), including patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and waivable moral rights. RocketDevs retains its own platform intellectual property and grants you any background-IP license needed to use the Work Output, solely for use of the Work Output. RocketDevs and Talent may continue to use general skills, know-how, and unaided memory that do not include your confidential information.

To protect the matches we make, you agree not to engage a developer we introduce to you, on or off platform, while any engagement is active and for 12 months after the engagement ends (or, if you never engaged the developer, for 12 months after the introduction). If you want to hire an introduced developer directly, you may buy out the engagement by paying the $5,000 buyout fee per developer within 30 days of the hire; we then provide a 30-day wind-down. This is narrowly limited to developers we introduce, and is not a general non-solicitation across our network. You are responsible for ensuring that your own clients and affiliates who receive access to an introduced developer honour this section, and a hire by them is treated as a hire by you.

This section is addressed to Talent.

Developers are engaged as independent contractors. Payments may be facilitated through a payment agent such as Deel.

RocketDevs provides clients an optional productivity-monitoring tool. If your client chooses to use it, you will be informed before monitoring begins, and nothing runs covertly. How the tool works, who controls the data, and how long it is kept are described in the Privacy Policy, section 4.

Talent are independent contractors and are not entitled to paid time off from RocketDevs. Time off is agreed between Talent and the client; the client is not billed for agreed time off and should notify us in writing of any agreed extended absence so invoicing reflects actual time worked.

Each party protects the other party's confidential information and uses it only to perform under these terms. Work Output is the client's confidential information. RocketDevs' confidential information includes Talent identities and contact details, our screening criteria and assessments, and our rates.

Talent are screened under RocketDevs' proprietary vetting system. Except as expressly stated, the service is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind. Each party represents that it complies with applicable OFAC and sanctions rules, and with anti-bribery laws including the FCPA.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, RocketDevs' aggregate liability is capped at the fees you paid in the 6 months preceding the claim. Neither party is liable for incidental, consequential, indirect, special, or punitive damages. Nothing in this section limits your payment obligations (including the buyout fee), your indemnification obligations, or liability for breach of section 8 (non-circumvention) or section 10 (confidentiality).

Each party will defend and indemnify the other against third-party claims arising from its own breach of these terms, its content, or its violation of law, subject to standard notice, cooperation, and control conditions. If you provide Talent's work to your own clients, you will additionally defend and indemnify RocketDevs against claims brought by or relating to those end clients, and this obligation is not subject to the liability cap.

We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you materially breach these terms, create legal risk, or fail to pay. Otherwise, for negotiated engagements, either party may terminate for material breach that remains uncured 10 business days after notice, or for convenience on 10 business days' notice, as set out in the signed agreement. Self-serve cancellation works as described in section 6. Provisions on payment, intellectual property, confidentiality, non-circumvention, and liability survive termination.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, USA. Disputes are resolved by binding arbitration before JAMS in New York, NY, by a single arbitrator under the Federal Arbitration Act, applying the JAMS Comprehensive or Expedited rules as applicable, conducted in English. If the client is outside the USA, the JAMS International rules apply. New York state and federal courts have jurisdiction over any non-arbitrable matter. Disputes must be brought on an individual basis only; class, collective, and representative actions are waived to the fullest extent permitted by law. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court. Both parties waive trial by jury in any court proceeding.

You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, reorganization, or sale. There are no third-party beneficiaries. Where we process personal data on your behalf, the Data Processing Agreement at /legal/dpa is incorporated into these terms. These terms are the entire agreement between you and RocketDevs regarding the platform, except that if you have a signed Sourced Talent Matching Agreement with us, that agreement governs your engagement and controls over these terms wherever the two conflict. We may identify you as a customer in our marketing after your first successful engagement; you can opt out anytime at support@mail.rocketdevs.com. Notices go to support@mail.rocketdevs.com. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. We may update these terms; material changes will be posted with a revised date and notified to account holders by email, and continued use of the platform after the revised date constitutes acceptance.