Inspector Agreement

1. Independent contractor

You are an independent contractor, not an employee. You decide when and how much you work and which orders you claim. You are responsible for your own taxes, social contributions, insurance and business registration where required. Nothing in this agreement creates an employment relationship, partnership or agency.

2. The work

When you claim a seat on an order, you agree to complete the tier's checklist for that seat to our quality standard and submit your findings in our tools before the deadline shown. If you can no longer meet the deadline, release the seat immediately so another inspector can take it.

You test on your own Apple devices. You never ask a client for a device and never accept one.

Every finding must be reproducible and include steps, device, OS version and evidence. Severities follow our published rubric. Never inflate or invent findings.

3. Pay

We pay a fixed amount per approved seat, shown on the claim button and in your payouts, in euros. Current rates: QA inspector €60 / €130 / €260 (S/M/L), paywall specialist add-on €40 / €60 / €90, product reviewer €130 / €230 / €400, design reviewer €110 / €200 / €340, lead review €12 / €25 / €50. We may change rates for future orders with 14 days' notice.

A payout is created when the lead approves the report. We pay monthly by bank transfer for the previous month, against a self-billing statement or your invoice if you are VAT-registered.

If a report is returned by the lead, you fix it within the deadline at no extra pay. If your work is rejected as substantially below standard, we may withhold the payout for that seat, after telling you why.

4. Confidentiality and security

• Everything about client apps (builds, features, credentials, findings, even the fact that a client uses us) is confidential, during and after this agreement.
• Use client data only inside our tools and only for the order you claimed. Do not copy builds, screenshots or credentials to personal devices or cloud storage beyond what is technically needed to capture evidence, and delete local copies after upload.
• Leave TestFlight groups and delete builds as soon as the report is delivered.
• Never contact a client outside our tools, never solicit their work directly, and never mention them publicly.
• Report any suspected security incident to security@appqc.center immediately.

5. Data protection

You process personal data in client apps on our behalf and under our instructions. You must follow our security rules, process only what is necessary for the inspection, and assist us with any data subject request or breach. These obligations reflect our Data Processing Agreement with clients.

6. Intellectual property

Findings, evidence and report content you create for an order belong to us on creation (and pass to the client on payment). You assign to us any rights needed for that. You keep your general skills and know-how.

7. Quality and ratings

We rate your work through lead reviews, client ratings, valid-finding rate and on-time rate. Your first orders are on probation and fully lead-reviewed. We may pause or end your access to the bench if quality or reliability falls below our standards, after telling you why.

8. Non-solicitation

For 12 months after you last worked on a client's order, you will not offer that client app testing or review services outside App QC Center.

9. Term and termination

Either party may end this agreement at any time with notice in writing (email is enough). Confidentiality, data protection, IP and non-solicitation survive termination. We pay all approved seats up to termination.

10. Liability

Each party's liability is limited to the payouts made under this agreement in the 12 months before the claim, except for breach of confidentiality, data protection or intent or gross negligence.

11. Law

Dutch law applies. Disputes go to the competent court in Amsterdam.