TODL Intelligence OÜ
BRIDGE platform (bridges.company)
Effective date: 3 October 2026
1. General provisions
1.1. Platform operator: TODL Intelligence OÜ, registry code 17518468, registered address: Harju County, Tallinn, Kesklinna District, Tuukri St 19-202, 10120, Estonia ("TODL Intelligence", "we"). Contact: info@todl-int.com.
1.2. The BRIDGE platform means the bridges.company website and web application, including company, talent and mentor workspaces, and related services that refer to these Terms.
1.3. By registering, accessing or using the platform you enter into a contract with TODL Intelligence OÜ on the terms of this document (the "Terms") and confirm that you have read them.
1.4. The Terms apply together with the Privacy Policy. As regards the processing of personal data, the Privacy Policy prevails.
1.5. The Terms do not limit mandatory consumer rights under applicable law. If a provision of the Terms conflicts with a mandatory rule, that rule applies and the remaining provisions remain in force.
1.6. The Terms are published in English, Romanian and Russian. In the event of divergence, the Romanian version prevails for users in the Republic of Moldova and the English version prevails for other users.
2. Definitions
2.1. Company — a legal entity or sole trader that publishes challenges and uses the platform to identify and evaluate talent.
2.2. Talent — a natural person who takes part in challenges and uploads submissions.
2.3. Mentor — an invited independent expert who takes part in reviewing submissions.
2.4. User — any person using the platform, including a company, talent and mentor.
2.5. Challenge — a task published by a company, with a description, success criteria and participation conditions.
2.6. Submission — materials uploaded by a talent in response to a challenge.
2.7. Content — any text, file, link, image, comment, score or other material posted by a user.
2.8. AI features — platform features that use artificial intelligence: structuring briefs and criteria, matching, preliminary technical checks, producing aggregated statistics.
2.9. Account — a user account on the platform.
3. Applicable law and platform status
3.1. The contract between you and TODL Intelligence is governed by the law of the Republic of Estonia, including the Law of Obligations Act (võlaõigusseadus), without prejudice to mandatory rules of your country of habitual residence where you are a consumer.
3.2. For users in the Republic of Moldova, Law No. 284/2004 on information society services and Law No. 105/2003 on consumer protection additionally apply, and as regards personal data, Law No. 195/2024.
3.3. TODL Intelligence acts as an intermediary providing a hosting service, within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (DSA). We do not carry out general monitoring of content or review it before publication, but we act on notices of illegal content and breaches of the Terms at info@todl-int.com.
3.4. If you use the platform on behalf of a company, you confirm that you are authorised to enter into the contract and accept the Terms on its behalf, and that the company is responsible for the acts of persons using its account.
3.5. The platform is not intended for use in countries where its use is prohibited by law; you must comply with export and sanctions restrictions applicable to you.
4. Registration and account
4.1. The platform is intended for persons aged 18 or over. By registering you confirm that you are of legal age.
4.2. You undertake to provide truthful, accurate and current data and to keep it up to date.
4.3. One account is intended for one person or one company. Transferring an account to third parties is not permitted without our written consent.
4.4. You are responsible for keeping your credentials safe and for all actions taken under your account. Any unauthorised access must be reported to info@todl-int.com without delay.
4.5. When signing in through an external authentication service (for example Google), you authorise us to obtain your profile data from that service to the extent necessary to create the account and authenticate you.
4.6. We may request verification of information where necessary for platform security or legal compliance.
5. Roles of the parties
5.1. TODL Intelligence is the platform operator. We are not an employer, an employment agency or a party to any employment relationship, and we do not guarantee employment, internships, contracts or any other outcome of participation in challenges.
5.2. A company independently decides on hiring, collaboration and evaluation of talent and is responsible for compliance with applicable employment, anti-discrimination and migration law, as well as data protection law in respect of its decisions.
5.3. A talent independently decides whether to take part in a challenge and independently assesses the risks of disclosing information in a submission.
5.4. Mentors act as independent experts. Their assessments reflect personal professional opinion and are not the position of TODL Intelligence.
5.5. We do not verify the accuracy of information users provide in profiles, submissions and challenges, and we do not confirm users' qualifications, experience or reputation.
6. Challenges and submissions
6.1. A company is responsible for the lawfulness and accuracy of the challenge it publishes, including the task description, success criteria, participation conditions, deadlines and any rewards. A company must not:
- set criteria that discriminate on grounds of sex, age, nationality, race, religion, belief, disability, marital status or any other protected characteristic;
- require talents to perform work that is in substance paid employment without clear, pre-announced reward conditions;
- require disclosure of third parties' confidential information, including information about a talent's former employers.
6.2. A talent is responsible for the originality and lawfulness of the submission, for not infringing intellectual property rights, trade secrets or third-party rights, and for the accuracy of information about their qualifications.
6.3. The platform performs preliminary technical checks on submissions. Such checks are auxiliary and do not confirm the quality, originality or lawfulness of a submission.
6.4. Scores and rankings are produced by the company and mentors. We do not guarantee any score, ranking position, portfolio publication or other consequence of participation.
6.5. A company must review submissions in good faith and within a reasonable time. If a challenge is cancelled or materially changed, the company must inform participants through the platform.
6.6. For 12 months after a challenge closes, a company must not offer a participating talent paid collaboration bypassing the platform in order to avoid applicable fees, where such fees are provided for by the applicable plan. This restriction applies to the extent permitted by applicable law.
7. Intellectual property
7.1. The platform, its software, interface, structure, database and the BRIDGE and TODL Intelligence marks belong to TODL Intelligence or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property law.
7.2. You must not copy, modify, decompile, reverse engineer, extract data from, scrape, circumvent technical restrictions of the platform, or use platform content to train machine learning models without our written consent. These restrictions do not apply to the extent expressly permitted by mandatory rules of applicable law.
7.3. Rights in a submission belong to the talent who created it. Publishing a submission in a public portfolio is at the talent's choice.
7.4. We may display a company's name and logo as a platform participant only with its consent.
8. User content and licences
8.1. You retain rights in your content. By posting content you grant TODL Intelligence a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence for the duration of your use of the platform to store, reproduce, display, technically process, transmit to processors and give access to those users for whom the content is intended under the platform's functionality. Use of your content in platform marketing materials is permitted only in anonymised or aggregated form or with your separate consent.
8.2. A talent grants the company that published the challenge a non-exclusive licence to review, reproduce and evaluate the submission within that challenge. Commercial use of a submission, its implementation or disclosure to third parties requires a separate written agreement between the company and the talent.
8.3. Mentors receive access to a submission solely for review purposes and must not use it otherwise.
8.4. You warrant that you hold the rights to the content you post and that posting it does not infringe law or third-party rights.
8.5. We may remove or restrict access to content that breaches the Terms or the law, and suspend access of a user who repeatedly breaches the Terms.
9. Confidentiality and personal data
9.1. The processing of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of the contract.
9.2. A company uploading materials containing third parties' personal data must have a lawful basis for that disclosure, must not upload special categories of personal data or criminal conviction data, and must enter into a data processing agreement with TODL Intelligence under Article 28 GDPR and Article 28 of Law No. 195/2024. In that process the company is the controller and TODL Intelligence is the processor acting on the company's documented instructions.
9.3. A talent must not upload third parties' personal data without a lawful basis and must comply with the Privacy Policy.
9.4. TODL Intelligence processes data in the roles described in the Privacy Policy and is not responsible for processing a company carries out independently as controller.
10. AI features and automated decisions
10.1. AI features of the platform are auxiliary. They generate preliminary signals, statistics and recommendations but do not take decisions that produce legal effects for a user.
10.2. Decisions on hiring, internships, contracts or selection are taken by a human — the company's representative. A company must not use AI output as the sole basis for a decision about a person.
10.3. A company using the platform's AI features to evaluate people must ensure human oversight of decisions, non-discriminatory treatment, information to candidates on their request, and compliance with applicable artificial intelligence law, including Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, to the extent it applies to that company.
10.4. AI features must not be used for manipulation, misleading conduct, creating untrue information about persons, circumventing checks, or generating material that infringes third-party rights.
10.5. TODL Intelligence is not responsible for decisions taken by a company or for consequences of using AI feature outputs outside the platform.
11. Prohibited actions
You must not:
- breach the law, third-party rights or the Terms;
- upload malicious code, viruses or material that disrupts the platform;
- attempt unauthorised access to accounts, data or infrastructure, or carry out load testing or scanning without our written consent;
- scrape user data, send spam or unsolicited messages;
- impersonate another person, company or a TODL Intelligence representative;
- publish discriminatory, offensive, defamatory or unlawful material;
- post third parties' personal data without a lawful basis;
- use the platform for hiring or selection in breach of employment and anti-discrimination law;
- infringe intellectual property rights or use platform content to train models without consent;
- use AI features to create false evidence of qualifications or experience.
12. Confidential information
12.1. Challenge materials, business processes, data and other non-public information of a company that becomes known to a talent or mentor in connection with a challenge constitutes confidential information.
12.2. Talents and mentors must not disclose confidential information to third parties or use it for any purpose other than participating in the relevant challenge, for 3 years after it closes.
12.3. This restriction does not apply to information that is public without fault of the recipient, was lawfully known to the recipient beforehand, or must be disclosed by law or a competent authority (with notice to the company where permitted).
12.4. For breach of confidentiality, a user compensates documented losses to the extent permitted by applicable law.
13. Payments and fees
13.1. During the MVP period the platform is provided free of charge. Paid features and plans may be introduced with prior notice to users.
13.2. Payment terms, plan scope, settlement, taxes and refunds are set out in the plan description and in the contract with the payment provider. Payment card data is not shared with us.
13.3. Consumers retain their rights under applicable consumer protection law, including the right to withdraw from the contract in the cases provided by law, subject to the exceptions applicable to digital content and services supplied with the consumer's prior express consent.
13.4. Where paid features are not paid for, we may suspend access to those features until the outstanding amount is settled.
14. Service availability and changes
14.1. The platform is at MVP stage and is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free or flawless operation, or that features will remain unchanged.
14.2. We may carry out planned and unplanned maintenance and modify, add or discontinue features, including beta features, without prior notice, provided this does not materially worsen the position of a consumer.
14.3. Support is provided at info@todl-int.com. We do not commit to a guaranteed response time unless separately agreed.
15. Suspension and termination
15.1. We may suspend or terminate account access for breach of the Terms, risk to other users or the platform, at the request of law or a competent authority, or after prolonged account inactivity, with prior notice.
15.2. You may stop using the platform and request deletion of your account at any time.
15.3. On termination, the licences you granted TODL Intelligence under clause 8.1 end, except where further retention is required by law or necessary to defend legal claims. Processing and retention of data after termination is governed by the Privacy Policy.
15.4. Provisions on intellectual property, confidentiality, limitation of liability, indemnity and dispute resolution survive termination.
16. Warranties and disclaimers
16.1. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the platform is provided without warranties, including implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, expected results and non-infringement of third-party rights.
16.2. We do not guarantee employment, internships, contracts, scores, ranking positions, portfolio publication, the quality of challenges and submissions, or the conduct of platform users.
16.3. Nothing in this section excludes consumer warranties and rights that cannot be excluded or limited by law.
17. Limitation of liability
17.1. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, TODL Intelligence is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or punitive damages, lost profits, loss of business reputation, loss of data, or losses arising from acts or omissions of platform users.
17.2. TODL Intelligence's aggregate liability under the contract is limited to the greater of: (i) the amount actually paid by you to TODL Intelligence in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (ii) EUR 100. Where free features are used, the limit is EUR 100.
17.3. These limitations do not apply to liability for intent and gross negligence, or where limitation of liability is prohibited by mandatory rules of applicable law.
17.4. A company is independently responsible for its hiring and collaboration decisions, for compliance with employment and anti-discrimination law, for personal data processing it carries out as controller, and for claims by talents and third parties relating to its challenge.
17.5. We are not responsible for the content of third-party sites and services linked by users.
18. Indemnity
18.1. You indemnify TODL Intelligence against documented losses arising from third-party claims relating to your content, your breach of the Terms or the law, or your posting of personal data without a lawful basis.
18.2. For consumers, this section applies to the extent permitted by applicable law and does not limit their statutory rights.
18.3. TODL Intelligence will notify you of a claim and give you an opportunity to participate in its resolution.
19. Dispute resolution
19.1. The parties seek to resolve disputes through negotiation. Requests should be sent to info@todl-int.com; we respond within 15 business days.
19.2. If you are not a consumer, the law of the Republic of Estonia applies and disputes are heard by Harju County Court (Harju Maakohus, Tallinn, Estonia), while TODL Intelligence retains the right to bring proceedings in the competent court at your location.
19.3. If you are a consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your place of residence and may use alternative dispute resolution bodies: in Estonia, the Consumer Disputes Committee of the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA); in the Republic of Moldova, the Agency for Consumer Protection and Market Surveillance (APCSP) and the courts of Moldova. Mandatory consumer protection rules apply in full.
20. Changes to the terms and miscellaneous
20.1. We may amend the Terms. The current version is published at bridges.company/terms with the date of the last update.
20.2. We notify users of material changes through the platform interface or by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If you do not agree with the changes, you may stop using the platform and delete your account before they take effect.
20.3. If any provision of the Terms is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in force and the invalid provision applies to the maximum extent permitted.
20.4. Our failure to exercise a right is not a waiver of that right.
20.5. We may assign our rights and obligations under the contract to a successor, including on reorganisation or transfer of the business. You may not assign your rights without our written consent.
20.6. Notices are sent to the email address recorded in the account and are deemed received within 24 hours of sending.
20.7. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the applicable plan description, constitute the entire agreement between you and TODL Intelligence regarding the platform.
21. Contact
TODL Intelligence OÜRegistry code: 17518468
Registered address: Harju County, Tallinn, Kesklinna District, Tuukri St 19-202, 10120, Estonia
Email:info@todl-int.com