O1KEarn

Terms of use, version 1

What you agree to when you install O1K Earn.

O1K Earn terms of use

Version 1 · [TO DECIDE: date it takes effect]

In short

  • Organizations that use O1K send web requests through your internet to public websites. Those websites see your internet address (IP address) and roughly where you are.
  • They can't get into your computer: no control of it, and no access to your files, screen, typing, passwords, browsing or other devices at home.
  • O1K Earn runs in the background. It uses some internet data, power and processor time, and keeps your computer awake while it's plugged in.
  • You earn points for each hour your connection is counted. Points aren't guaranteed. We check them and pay them out by hand.
  • To stop, uninstall O1K Earn.

The rest of this page explains these points in full. To install O1K Earn, you tick two boxes: one accepts these terms, the other authorizes network contribution as described in section 2.

1. Who we are

O1K Earn is run by [TO DECIDE: company name, address and country]. "We" and "us" mean that company. "You" means the person who installs O1K Earn, and whoever owns the email address it was installed with.

2. What O1K Earn does on your computer

  • What O1K is: a distributed web access and network measurement platform. In plain words: organizations use O1K to reach public websites through internet connections in many places, to see those websites the way people there see them. [TO DECIDE: name only the purposes O1K's customers really have and are allowed, for example search results, prices, ads, or whether a website works in a country.]
  • Network contribution: while O1K Earn runs, O1K may send your computer web requests from these organizations. Your computer sends each request to the website over your internet connection and passes the answer back to O1K.
  • Who sends the requests: organizations that use O1K, who are our customers. Not you, and not your computer on its own.
  • What websites see: your public internet address (IP address), and from it roughly where you are and which internet provider you use. Websites may record it, as they do for any visit, under their own terms and privacy rules.
  • Only public addresses: O1K Earn lets requests reach only public internet addresses, on the ports used for websites (80 and 443) and for looking up website names (53). It refuses addresses inside home and private networks, including your own network and your router. These rules are built into the app we sign, so our servers can't widen them.
  • What customers can't do: they get no control of your computer and no connection into it. O1K Earn does not read your files, see your screen, record what you type, collect your passwords or look at your own browsing.
  • Encryption: the connection between O1K Earn and our servers is encrypted. A request from your computer to a website is encrypted when the website uses HTTPS.
  • What it uses: some of your internet data, power, memory and processor time. O1K Earn has no setting to limit this. If your internet plan has a data cap, this data counts toward it.
  • When it runs: O1K Earn starts when your computer starts or you log in, and runs in the background. While your computer is plugged in, it keeps it from going to sleep on its own. On battery, it lets it sleep as usual.
  • Updates: O1K Earn updates itself with versions signed by us. It never installs anything else.
  • Stopping: you can stop at any time by uninstalling O1K Earn. Your computer then takes no more requests.

3. How websites may treat your address

  • Because the requests come from your internet address, a website may show a CAPTCHA, slow down or briefly block requests from your address, or classify your connection by its own rules. This can also affect your own visits to that website for a while.
  • We can't promise that taking part never changes how websites treat your address.
  • [TO DECIDE: what we do when someone asks about requests from your address, and how you can reach us about it.]

4. How we control use of O1K

  • The rule: O1K may be used only for purposes that are lawful, allowed and within our rules. Using O1K gives no one permission to break the law, someone else's rights, a website's own rules or its access controls.
  • Not allowed, among other things:
    • breaking into systems or accounts, or trying passwords;
    • fraud, fake accounts, or fake clicks, views, reviews or rankings;
    • spreading malware, or attacks that overload a service;
    • spam, harassment or threats;
    • spying on or tracking people unlawfully;
    • getting around access controls or sanctions;
    • copyright infringement;
    • reaching private or local networks;
    • reselling access to O1K.
  • How we enforce it:
    • limits built into O1K Earn itself (public addresses, website and name-lookup ports only), which customers can't change;
    • rules our customers must follow [TO DECIDE: the acceptable use rules customers accept, and how a customer gets access];
    • we may refuse requests, and limit, suspend or remove customers who break the rules. We cooperate with authorities where the law requires it.
  • We can't see or check every request, and no network can rule out all misuse. We don't promise that misuse is impossible.
  • [TO DECIDE: a contact for reports of abuse.]

5. What you agree to

  • The computer and the internet connection are yours, or you have the owner's permission to run O1K Earn on them.
  • Your internet plan allows it. Some plans and some workplaces don't; check yours.
  • You are at least 18, or the age of adulthood where you live.
  • You won't fake, copy or tamper with O1K Earn, or run it in a way meant to earn more than the rules below allow (for example, many copies on one machine, or hiding where a device really is).
  • You give a real email address that you can read. Points belong to whoever proves they own that email.

6. How points work

  • Counting: points are worked out once a day from the hours each device was online and could be used.
  • One connection earns once: for each hour, only one device per internet connection earns, whoever it belongs to.
  • When a device earns nothing:
    • its connection looks like a data center, VPN or proxy;
    • it is past the 10th device on one email;
    • another device on the same connection earned that hour.

    Your dashboard shows the reason for every hour that didn't earn.

  • Quality: steadier devices earn more. The points for an hour depend on how reliably the device stayed online, without outages or address changes, over the last 7 days.
  • Rate: the number of points per hour is set by us, and we may change it. A change applies to hours after we announce it, never to points you already have.
  • Pending, then available: new points are pending for 14 days, then become available.
  • Fraud: we may cancel points we believe were earned by breaking these terms. If we do, we say so on your dashboard.
  • No cash value: points are not money and can't be sold or transferred. They only have value when we pay them out under section 7.
  • Unclaimed points: points earned on an email nobody has proven yet are kept for whoever proves it later.

7. Cashing out

  • To cash out, you need to prove your email and set a password.
  • You can ask for a payout once your available points reach the minimum shown on your dashboard.
  • The value of a point, the payout methods (money or vouchers) and the minimum are shown on your dashboard before you ask. [TO DECIDE: value, methods, minimum.]
  • We check every payout by hand before we pay it, and we may ask you for details we need to pay you.
  • You are responsible for any taxes on what you receive.

8. Your information

  • What we keep:
    • your email address and password (stored only as a protected hash);
    • your devices' names and systems;
    • when each device was online;
    • the internet address it used and what kind of connection that address is;
    • simple events from the app, such as asleep, woken, plugged in or on battery;
    • your points and payouts.
  • Requests through your computer: [TO DECIDE: what O1K keeps about the requests sent through your computer, for example time, amount of data or website, and for how long.]
  • Why: we use it to run the network, work out your points, stop fraud and pay you.
  • Who sees it: your dashboard shows only your own devices and points, never your internet address. We don't sell your information.
  • How long: device online history is kept for 90 days. Points and payout records are kept as long as the law requires.
  • [TO DECIDE: privacy contact, and the rights you have where you live, such as access and deletion.]

9. Ending

  • You can stop at any time by uninstalling O1K Earn from each device.
  • We may stop your participation, remove devices, or close the program, for example if these terms are broken.
  • [TO DECIDE: what happens to available points when either side ends participation.]

10. No guarantees

  • We don't promise any amount of points, or that your devices will be used.
  • O1K Earn is provided as it is. As far as the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect losses, such as a slower connection, extra charges from your internet provider, or a website blocking your address.
  • [TO DECIDE: limit of liability and the law that applies.]

11. Changes

  • When we change these terms, we give them a new version number.
  • New installers show the new version, and your dashboard asks you to accept it once.
  • Your devices keep running in the meantime under the version you accepted.
  • Before O1K Earn does more on your computer than these terms describe, such as new kinds of requests, more of your resources or new information about you, we tell you first and ask you to accept again.

12. Contact

[TO DECIDE: support email address]

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