Terms of Service
Last updated Aug 29, 2026
These terms govern your use of CompeteHub. By creating an account you agree to them.
Two other documents form part of these terms: the Privacy Notice, and the Interview Nomination Policy. Read all three.
What CompeteHub is
CompeteHub is a marketplace where organizations publish challenges and participants compete in them. Rewards may be cash, an interview nomination, or both.
We provide the platform. We are not a party to the relationship between an organizer and a participant, we do not employ anyone through it, and we are not a recruitment agency.
Your account
You must be old enough to enter a binding contract where you live. One account per person. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your password safe.
Give us accurate information. Impersonating somebody else, or an organization you do not represent, will get the account closed.
Your work stays yours
You keep ownership of everything you submit. Entering a challenge does not transfer copyright or any other right in your work.
An entry that does not win is judged and nothing more. No rights in it pass to the organizer — not on any challenge, not under any terms, and there is no setting that would let one ask. This is the rule that stops a brief being used to collect two hundred pieces of work for the price of one.
You grant the organizer a limited, non-exclusive licence to view, store and evaluate your submission for the purpose of judging that challenge, and you grant us the same for the purpose of operating the platform.
When a challenge asks for more
A challenge may ask for rights over winning entries. Where it does, it says so on the challenge page and on the entry screen, before you spend any time on it. One of three things applies, and you always know which:
- Judging only — the default, and what applies unless the challenge says otherwise. The organizer may view, store and evaluate your entry, and nothing else.
- A licence to winning entries — you keep ownership. The organizer may use your winning entry commercially under a non-exclusive licence, and you may still use it, show it and license it to anybody else.
- Ownership of winning entries — ownership passes to the organizer when the prize is paid, and not before. If the prize is not paid, nothing moves.
Two limits on what a challenge may ask
A challenge may only ask for rights beyond judging if every prize in it is paid in cash. Rights are bought, never awarded: an organizer cannot acquire a licence to your work while paying you in an interview nomination. The platform refuses to publish that combination.
And the claim is part of the reward terms, so it locks when the first entrant submits. After that it can only be narrowed, never widened. An organizer who reads the entries and then decides to own them is making the same kind of change as one who halves the prize, and it is refused the same way.
For organizers
If you publish a challenge, you commit to the following.
- The brief, rules and judging method are accurate, and the challenge is real.
- Cash rewards are placed in escrow before the challenge goes live. This is enforced: a challenge with an unfunded cash reward cannot be published.
- Reward terms become fixed once the first entrant finalizes a submission. You may improve them afterwards, never reduce them.
- You judge fairly and by the criteria you published.
- You announce results, and you release the prizes you promised.
- You do not use a challenge to obtain work you have no intention of paying for.
Interview nominations
A nomination is a guaranteed place in a hiring process, not a job. It is governed by the Interview Nomination Policy, which forms part of these terms.
Only organizations that have passed verification may offer one. Declining a nomination never affects any cash reward from the same challenge.
What we charge
Entering a challenge is free. We never charge a participant to compete, to submit, to receive a prize, or to accept an interview nomination.
Any platform fee is charged to the organizer, on top of the prize, and is never taken out of a prize. A prize of 10,000 SAR is a prize of 10,000 SAR: the amount held in escrow is the full amount announced, and the full amount is what reaches the winner.
At launch that fee is zero — we are not charging one. If that changes we will publish the rate here and tell organizers before it takes effect, and it will never apply to a challenge that is already funded.
Banks and payment providers may charge their own fees on a transfer. Those are theirs, not ours, and we do not receive any part of them.
Prizes and escrow
Cash rewards are held in escrow from the moment a challenge is published until results are announced, at which point they are released to the winners.
You are owed your prize from the moment results are announced, whether or not you have told us where to send it. Payment is made once you supply valid payout details.
Prizes are stated in a specific currency and paid in that currency. Any tax on a prize is yours to account for, and we may withhold tax where the law requires it.
Disputing a result
If you believe a score, a ranking, a disqualification or a payout is wrong, you can raise a dispute within 14 days of the results being announced. A complaint about an unhonoured nomination has a longer window, because the breach may not have happened yet.
While a dispute you raised is open, any prize money still owed to you is held rather than paid, and released as soon as the dispute ends — whichever way it ends. A dispute never freezes anybody else’s money.
A person reviews every dispute and the outcome is recorded with a written reason, which you are shown.
What you may not do
- Submit work that is not yours, or that infringes somebody else’s rights.
- Submit the same work to multiple challenges where the rules forbid it. We detect duplicates automatically.
- Create multiple accounts to enter a challenge more than once, or to influence community voting.
- Harass, threaten or abuse anybody on the platform.
- Upload malware, or attempt to attack, probe or overload the platform.
- Scrape the platform or extract other people’s data.
Suspension and closure
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. Where we do, you are told what the decision was and on what basis, and that record cannot be edited afterwards.
An organization that repeatedly fails to honour the nominations it offers will be restricted from offering new ones. This is measured automatically and shown publicly.
You can close your own account at any time. What that does is set out in the Privacy Notice.
Availability
We work to keep CompeteHub available but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. We may change or discontinue features. Where a change affects a challenge already running, we will not apply it in a way that reduces what an entrant was promised.
Liability
We provide the platform as it is. We are not responsible for an organizer’s hiring decisions, for the quality of a challenge, or for the outcome of any interview.
To the extent the law allows, our liability to you is limited to the amount of any prize we are holding for you at the time, or the fees you paid us in the preceding twelve months, whichever is greater. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of its courts.
Changes
We may update these terms. If a change is material we will tell you through the platform before it takes effect. Terms recorded against a challenge you have already entered do not change: what you were shown when you entered is what applies.