Participant Terms

Why Qualvey exists

If you hold a senior role at your organization, you already know how much vendor outreach lands on you: cold calls, cold emails, LinkedIn messages, and follow-ups to the follow-ups.

Most of it comes from sellers who looked at your title and thought you might be a fit, and some from guesses about what you might be shopping for. Each one may be well meant, but together it adds up to more than anyone can keep up with, and very little of it lets you decide what happens next.

Qualvey turns that around. You decide whether to look at something. You are paid for your time, or you can give the full amount to charity instead. You decide whether the vendor learns who you are - and if you would rather they did not, they get your feedback without your name attached.

The trade is simple. A vendor gets an honest reaction from someone in the kind of role they believe their product is built for, and a way to start a conversation that was agreed to rather than assumed.

You get paid or donate, you see a product or a point of view you would otherwise have to sit through a sales process to reach, and you keep control of what happens next.

That is the whole model. Everything below is the detail of how it works.

1. Who we are

Qualvey, Inc. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. You can reach us by email at legal@qualvey.com, or by mail at 8911 N. Capital of Texas Hwy, Suite 4200 #450, Austin, TX 78759.

Qualvey connects verified professionals with content from software vendors, most often a look at their product. Vendors pay us to put their content in front of the right people and to receive feedback on it. We pay you for your time.

We are telling you that plainly because it matters: the content you watch is paid vendor marketing. It is not independent research and we do not present it as neutral.

2. Who can participate

To take part you must:

• Be 18 years of age or older
• Be based in the United States
• Hold a role that qualifies for the campaign
• Verify a corporate email address - personal addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com and similar) are not accepted
• Be invited by us
• Fit the campaign. A campaign is for people who are not yet customers of the vendor, unless the invitation says it is for current customers. If you tell us you are a current customer on a campaign that is not for current customers, the campaign ends there for you and no reward is due.

You confirm that you are 18 or older and based in the United States when you accept these terms.

The corporate address is how we confirm who you are. If you earn a gift card you can have it sent wherever you like, including a personal address (see section 7).

Taking part is by invitation. Qualvey decides who is invited to each campaign, and meeting the requirements above does not guarantee an invitation. We may also close an account at any time. We do not always explain these decisions. They are not a judgment about you - they usually reflect which vendors we are working with and who each campaign is aimed at.

When you complete a participation we create a My Qualvey account for you, tied to the email you verified. It is your record of your participations, rewards and preferences; it is not a sign-up to anything else.

One account per person. Your account is yours alone. Do not share it, transfer it, or let someone else complete a participation using it.

3. Which campaigns you are invited to

Each campaign is aimed at a specific group of leaders a vendor wants to hear from. The vendor defines who the campaign is for, and we decide who to invite within those limits, based on your role, your employer, and what you have told us about the campaigns you want to hear about. You may be invited to one campaign and never another, and we do not promise any future invitation.

When you finish a participation, you can tell us what kinds of campaigns you want to hear about, and whether and when you want future invitations. If you tell us you do not want future invitations, we will stop sending them. If you tell us you would rather not hear from us for a while, we take that into account before inviting you again. You can also unsubscribe from any invitation email at any time, whether or not you have taken part.

You are never obliged to take part. If you ignore or decline an invitation, nothing happens, and it does not count against you if we invite you to something later.

If you have taken part before, we may take into account whether your earlier answers responded to the questions asked. We never take into account the opinions you expressed or how favorable your feedback was.

4. What a participation involves

The invitation shows the estimated time for that campaign before you start. Most run 10 to 30 minutes, though some are shorter or longer. Every campaign has the same shape:

1. Invitation - you see the type of video, how long the video runs, the estimated time for the whole campaign, and the reward amount before you start anything
2. Verify - confirm your work email, and we then show you which vendor the campaign is from
3. Watch - watch the video through
4. Knowledge check - two questions about what you just watched; you must answer both correctly to continue
5. Feedback survey - your honest reaction to what you saw, and whether you would like to learn more
6. Complete - choose what happens to your reward, and tell us what kinds of campaigns you would like to hear about in future

A completed participation means all of the following: you watched the video through, you passed the knowledge check, and you submitted the feedback survey with all required questions answered.

Some survey questions have a minimum length, shown to you as you type. This is a mechanical requirement, not a judgment about what you wrote - it exists so that a vendor is receiving a real answer rather than a keystroke.

You can stop at any point. A participation that is not completed does not earn a reward, and stopping has no effect on your account or on what you are offered later.

No employment relationship

You take part as an independent research participant. Your feedback reflects your own independent judgment, no one at Qualvey or any sponsoring vendor controls what you say, and you are free to decline any invitation without penalty of any kind. Nothing in these terms creates an employment, partnership, joint venture, agency, or other employment relationship between you and Qualvey or between you and a sponsoring vendor.

5. The knowledge check

The knowledge check exists so that vendors are paying for genuine attention rather than a video left playing in a background tab. It is two questions about the content you just watched, and you must answer both correctly to continue.

You must pass it to receive a reward. We are stating that here, and it also appears on the invitation before you begin, so that it is never a surprise.

You can retry as many times as you like. There is no limit and no point at which you are locked out. What changes is the wait between attempts: after the first failure, 60 seconds; after the second, the length of the video you just watched; after the third, one hour; after the fourth and any later failure, 24 hours.

You can rewatch the video while you wait. The questions are reordered on each attempt.

If a campaign closes while you have a retry pending, you can still complete it and still be paid. We absorb that cost. You will not lose a reward because a campaign filled up while you were waiting.

6. Giving your honest view

The most useful thing you can give a vendor is your candid opinion, shared as openly as you are comfortable sharing it.

A vendor is not paying to be flattered. They want to know whether what they showed you lands, whether their explanation makes sense, and whether someone in your position would ever buy it. A polite non-answer tells them little, and a blunt "this solves a problem I do not have" is worth a great deal.

Candid does not mean sharing everything. Leave out anything confidential or non-public about your employer or anyone else, and stay within your company's policies. Section 13 covers this in more detail.

Your reward does not depend on what you say. It does not go up for positive feedback and it does not go down for negative feedback. Nobody at Qualvey reads your survey and decides whether you have earned it.

7. Rewards

The reward amount is shown on the invitation before you begin, and it does not change partway through.

When you finish, you choose one of three things:

Earn - you will be asked where you would like your digital gift card sent, and we send it there through our payments provider, Tremendous. It does not have to be your work address; a personal address such as Gmail or Yahoo is fine.

Donate - we donate the full reward amount to one of four national charities:

• Affordable housing
• Children's health
• Clean water access
• Hunger relief

We make these donations quarterly as a single payment to each organization, and we will email you to confirm the amount and the charity your reward is going to.

Qualvey makes the donation directly. The money never passes through you, so it is not a donation you can deduct on your own taxes.

We are describing how we handle it, not giving you tax advice. If your own situation is unusual, ask your accountant.

If one of these organizations ceases to operate or loses its charitable status, we will replace it with another working in the same area.

Decline - no reward is issued and no donation is made. We keep the amount that would otherwise have funded your reward. This is shown to you plainly on the reward screen when you make the choice, so it is never a surprise.

Some people choose this because their employer restricts what they can accept from vendors, and some because the reason they came was the content. Either way you keep what you learned: a look at a product you would otherwise have had to sit through a sales process to see, and the knowledge of what is emerging in your market. The vendor's fee for your participation is unchanged. We would rather tell you that than let you assume otherwise.

Timing

• Gift cards are issued within 10 business days of your participation being confirmed. We process these weekly.
• Donations are made quarterly, within 45 days of the end of the calendar quarter in which you participated. A donation you choose in July may not be sent until October.

If your gift card cannot be delivered - a bad email address, a bounced message - we will try to reach you at your registered address. If we cannot deliver an earned reward after reasonable attempts to reach you, we will handle the amount as the law requires.

Gift cards may carry their own expiry and country restrictions set by the card issuer, not by us. Redeem yours promptly.

8. What the sponsoring vendor sees

This is the part most people want to understand, so here it is in full.

A vendor only ever sees your participations in their own campaigns. Nothing you do anywhere else on Qualvey reaches them.

You tell us whether you are open to being contacted in the last question of the feedback survey. Your answer has no effect on your reward.

If you say yes to being contacted

The vendor receives:

• Your name
• Your role or title, as we have it on record, which you can correct
• Your function, being the function the campaign was aimed at, shown as something like Marketing Leader, Cybersecurity Leader, or Finance & Accounting Leader
• Your employer
• Your work email address (the one you verified)
• How you would prefer to be reached, and your phone number if you choose to give one
• Anything you chose to write for the vendor before you connect
• How familiar you were with them before you started, on a range from "never heard of them" to "previously evaluated" or "current customer," which we ask just before the video plays
• Your answers to the feedback survey, including whether you requested additional content from the vendor and what type, and how soon you would want to talk
• A signal score (see below)
• How you engaged with their campaign: whether you clicked a link we showed you to visit their website and whether that was before or after the video, and how many colleagues you shared the video with
• The date and time you finished

Saying yes to contact means a salesperson may get in touch. That is the point of it.

If you say no to being contacted

The vendor receives only:

• Your function, shown as described above
• Your employer
• How familiar you were with them before you started
• Your answers to the feedback survey
• A signal score (see below)
• How you engaged with their campaign, as described above
• The date and time you finished

They do not receive your name, your work email, your phone number, or your role or title. We only ask how you would like to be reached, or whether you want to leave a message for the vendor, if you say yes to being contacted.

About the signal score

The signal score is a number we calculate from your participation. It is shared whether or not you agree to be contacted, and the vendor may see it labeled a lead score or similar. Your answer to the relevance question is one of its inputs, but the score itself is a different number, and you do not see it.

The score also takes into account how you engaged with the campaign, including, for example, how many attempts it took you to pass the knowledge check and whether you used the note feature, though never what you wrote in it. It also takes into account what you have told us about the kinds of campaigns you want to see in future. The vendor is not told any of that, and is not told how the score is calculated.

Campaign totals

A vendor also sees totals for the campaign as a whole, including how many people took part. Where the vendor gave us a list of companies to reach, they see which of those companies produced a participation and which did not, and nothing further about a company where nobody took part. They also see counts drawn from what participants told us, such as the seniority levels reached, what people said about following up, and the reasons given for saying no.

These are counts, not rows, and none of them names you or says which one was you. A vendor is never told how many people we contacted, or what anyone did with an invitation they did not act on.

What a vendor never sees

• The amount of your reward, or which reward option you chose

• How the signal score is calculated, or what it takes into account

• Any notes you write

• How many attempts it took you to pass the knowledge check

• Your name, work email, phone number, or role or title, if you asked not to be contacted
• Your seniority level, if you asked not to be contacted, except as part of a campaign total

• Anything you do outside their campaign - including other vendors' campaigns and any evaluations or notes you create on your own

• The identity of anyone you shared their video with (see section 9)

• What you asked us to send you next

An honest caveat

Your written answers go to the vendor in full, alongside your employer, whether or not you agreed to be contacted. If you asked not to be contacted, we do not share your name, work email, phone number, or role or title, but what you write can still point at you, at a small company especially. Our contract with the vendor bars them from working out who you are and from repeating your answers in a way that points back to you, and if you asked not to be contacted, any reason you give reaches them marked confidential.

That does not stop them marketing to your company in the ordinary way, and we cannot police every individual at a vendor. If you think someone has crossed that line, tell us at legal@qualvey.com and we will look into it. If that concerns you, keep your written answers general, or do not take part in that campaign.

When Qualvey runs its own campaign

Qualvey also runs campaigns about its own product, using the same platform. On those campaigns Qualvey is the sponsoring vendor, and we tell you that before you agree to take part.

Because we are both the platform and the vendor on our own campaigns, we see every answer you give, including whether you are open to connecting and any notes you write while watching. We hold your details for those campaigns the same way we hold them for any other.

If you were not already talking with us and you tell us in the survey that you would rather not be contacted, we will not contact you about buying our product unless you tell us we may check back later. Either way, we will not attach your name to your feedback when we use it.

We may also invite people we are already talking with, so they can see the end-to-end experience for themselves. If that is you, your answers are feedback on the product, not a decision about our conversation. That conversation carries on as it was, even if you say in the survey that you would rather not be contacted. We may follow up with you after you take part, and you can always ask us to stop.

If we invite you with a demo link, there is no reward, and section 18 applies instead.

Our Privacy Policy sets out the full list of what we collect during a campaign and why.

9. Sharing a video with a colleague

At the end of a participation you may be able to send the video to someone on your team. Some vendors turn this option off, so it is not available on every campaign. If you do share:

• You are not paid for it, and there is no reward attached to sharing
• The vendor is told how many people you shared with, never who
• The person you share with is not enrolled, contacted about participating, or added to any list, unless they ask us to invite them to future campaigns

Only share with people you have a working relationship with and who would reasonably expect to hear from you.

When you share a video, the email your colleague receives will say that you sent it, name Qualvey and the vendor, include our mailing address, and give them a one-click way to stop hearing from us. If they opt out, we suppress their address. Unless they ask us to invite them to future campaigns, we do not enroll your colleague, add them to a campaign, or use their address for anything beyond delivering the video you sent and honoring that opt-out.

Before watching, your colleague confirms their work email, confirms they are 18 or older and based in the United States, and agrees to these terms and our Privacy Policy. After watching, they can send you a short note. We deliver it by email and do not keep its text. We keep only that a note was sent, when, and how many.

10. Participating genuinely

Answer as yourself, in your own words, based on what you actually watched.

Do not:

• Have someone else complete a participation for you
• Use automated tools, scripts or generated text to complete a participation
• Register more than one account, or use a false identity or employer
• Take part in a campaign from a vendor you work for
• Take part in the same campaign twice

11. When we will and will not pay

We pay for every completed participation, as defined in section 4.

The single exception is authenticity. We may decline to pay where we determine that a participation was not genuine - for example, that it was completed by someone other than you, completed using automated means, or submitted through a duplicate or false account.

Answers that do not respond to the questions asked may affect whether we invite you again. Rewards you have already earned for completed participations are still paid.

We may use automated tools to flag participations for review, but a person at Qualvey makes every decision about payment. Nothing is decided by software alone.

If we decline payment or question whether a participation was genuine, you can email legal@qualvey.com and a person will look at it again.

12. Vendor content is confidential

The videos you watch may be unreleased, pre-launch or otherwise not public.

You may share a video internally using the sharing feature in the flow, and you may of course discuss what you learned with colleagues. Do not publish the content, post it publicly, or pass it to a competitor of the vendor. Do not record, screen-capture or download it, or otherwise make a copy of it. These limits apply only to content that is not already public. They do not cover anything the vendor has made public, anything you already knew, or anything you are legally required to disclose. If the vendor withdraws a video, stop sharing it. This obligation lasts for two years after you see the content.

13. Confidential information and your employer's rules

Many companies restrict what employees may accept from vendors. Some finance and procurement teams prohibit it outright. Checking your employer's policy is on you, not on us. We have no visibility into it.

You must not share confidential information, trade secrets, or material non-public information about your employer or any other company or person, including your customers, suppliers, partners, or a former employer. You confirm that taking part does not breach any obligation you owe to your employer or anyone else.

If your employer restricts gifts, the Donate and Decline options exist for exactly this. You can take part fully, give a vendor real feedback, and never personally receive anything.

Some campaigns may not be offered to people in particular sectors or roles. Where a vendor or we decide a campaign is not right for a given group, we will not invite you to it.

14. Taxes

Rewards may be taxable income, and how they are taxed depends on your own situation and where you live. That is your responsibility, not ours.

We do not withhold tax. If your rewards from Qualvey in a calendar year, including any you direct to charity, approach the IRS reporting threshold - $2,000 for 2026, adjusted for inflation in later years - we will let you know. At that point we may ask you for a Form W-9 and issue any tax form the law requires, and we may hold payment until we receive a completed W-9. Most participants do not come close.

We are describing how we handle it, not giving you tax advice. If you are unsure how a reward or a donation affects your taxes, ask your accountant.

15. Your data

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why. In summary: we collect what you give us during registration and participation, we share the fields described in section 8 with the relevant vendor, and we do not sell your personal information.

Deleting your data

Email legal@qualvey.com and we will act within 45 days. We will:

• Remove your identifying information - name, email, LinkedIn - and any free-text answers that identify you
• Keep a minimal record that a participation happened, in a form no longer reasonably linked to you except where it is needed to prevent duplicate accounts and to support billing already done
• Keep payment records for as long as tax law requires

One thing we cannot undo. If a vendor has already received your details because you said you were open to contact, they hold that information independently. We will pass your deletion request on to them, and we do not release your details to a vendor except under an agreement that requires them to honor it - but their use of your data is governed by their privacy policy, not ours. On campaigns Qualvey runs about its own product, we are both the platform and the vendor, so there is no separate vendor holding your details, and we handle your deletion request ourselves, keeping only the records described above.

Closing your account does not automatically delete your data. Ask us if that is what you want.

If Qualvey is acquired

If Qualvey is bought, merges with another company, or sells the part of the business that runs campaigns, your information may transfer as part of the business, including, under confidentiality obligations, during diligence. Any company that receives it stays bound by the commitments in these terms and in our Privacy Policy for participations already completed, including what a vendor never receives and section 16's limits on how your responses may be used. We will require any company that receives it to agree to that in writing.

16. Your responses

You keep ownership of what you write.

What the sponsoring vendor may do. The vendor can read, act on, and analyze your responses, alongside its own business records, and can keep doing so after the campaign ends. If you take part in more than one of the same vendor's campaigns, the vendor may combine and analyze your responses across them. You give them permission to use your responses this way, anywhere and without further payment. What the vendor receives is limited to its own campaigns and to the fields in section 8, and it never receives anything from another vendor's campaigns. If you agreed to be contacted, the vendor may keep and use your details under its own privacy policy, and its agreement with us bars reselling your data, combining it with another vendor's campaign data, re-identifying you, and using your responses to train AI models.

What a vendor may share publicly. Some vendors use Qualvey to learn how a group of buyers sees a problem or a category, for example how finance leaders at mid-sized companies think about their tools. They may share what they learn publicly, in a report, a presentation, or their marketing, but only as findings about the group, such as "7 in 10 finance leaders said...". They may not quote you, name you, or present you as endorsing them without your separate written permission, whether or not you agreed to be contacted.

What Qualvey may do. You give us permission to use your responses, anywhere and without further payment, to operate and improve Qualvey and to produce aggregate analysis and benchmarks - for example, "34% of participants asked for a follow-up." This permission continues after your participation ends. Analysis of this kind never identifies you and never reveals your employer.

How we handle your written answers. Your answers are free text and may name people, employers or vendors, so we do not call them anonymous or de-identified. We hold them under access controls, and we only ever publish or share findings drawn from them in aggregate form that describes a group and does not identify you or reveal your employer. Aggregate findings and benchmarks may draw on more than one campaign. None of this covers the private notes you write while watching, which we do not use in any aggregate output or data product.

We will not quote you by name publicly, in marketing, or in a case study without asking you first. We do not use your responses to train AI models, or license them to anyone who does. If that ever changes, we will ask you explicitly when you participate. Your answer would apply only to participations you complete after you say yes, never to earlier ones, and saying no would not affect your rewards or whether we invite you again.

17. Referrals

We may from time to time offer rewards for referring other qualified members to Qualvey.

No referral program is running today. If we launch one, the amount, the conditions and who qualifies will be stated in the offer itself, and those conditions apply alongside these terms. Referred people still have to meet section 2 and still have to be invited.

18. Demo experiences

We may invite people to try the participant experience as a demo, to see how Qualvey works. A demo can look almost exactly like a real campaign, but it is not one, and no reward is paid or donated. A demo is open to people inside or outside the United States. When you go through a demo:

• We tell you it is a demo before you start, and you confirm you understand.
• No reward is paid or donated. Reward amounts are blurred and shown as an example only. Section 7 does not apply.
• Qualvey is the sponsoring vendor. We see every answer you give, and we may follow up with you about them unless you tell us not to.
• A demo is not a completed participation under section 4. It earns nothing and is not billed to anyone.
• A demo may use fictional sample companies, people and figures, or it may run a campaign about Qualvey's own product, with realistic questions about how Qualvey works.
• We may reset demo data at any time. We keep what you entered so we can follow up with you about it, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.
• Your demo answers are never shared with any vendor other than Qualvey.
• Everything else in these terms and in our Privacy Policy applies to a demo in the same way.

19. If how campaigns reach you changes

Today, you take part in campaigns we invite you to. That may change.

If we ever match you with several vendors and let you choose among them:

• Everything above still applies to each individual participation
• You choose which campaigns to accept; declining costs you nothing
• You can set a standing preference - earn, donate, or turn incentives off entirely. Turning incentives off does not reduce your access to content
• We will still decide which campaigns you are eligible to see

20. Changing these terms

We may update these terms. If we make a material change we will tell you by email and show the new version before your next participation.

Every version is numbered and dated. The version you accepted at the time of a participation is the one that governs it - a later change does not apply retroactively to something you have already completed.

If we ever want to use your responses for something these terms do not already permit, we will ask you separately and explicitly. Continuing to use Qualvey is not agreement to that, and any permission you give applies only to participations you complete after you give it. We will not reach backwards.

21. Ending things

You can stop at any time. Stop taking part, ask us to stop sending you invitations, or ask us to close your account.

We may stop inviting you to future campaigns, even ones you would qualify for. We may also suspend or close your account for a breach of these terms, or if we stop offering the service. Either way, any reward you have already earned for a completed participation is still paid, unless section 11's authenticity exception applies.

22. The legal necessities

No guarantee of opportunities. We do not promise any particular number of campaigns, any particular reward amount, or that any campaign will be available to you.

Service provided as is. We provide Qualvey as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Limit on our liability. To the maximum extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything arising out of these terms is limited to the greater of (a) the total rewards paid to you in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

Other vendors are separate from us. When another company sponsors a campaign, we do not control what it does after receiving your details. If it contacts you in a way you object to, tell us at legal@qualvey.com and tell them directly. On campaigns Qualvey runs about its own product, we are both the platform and the vendor, so we are responsible for how your details are used, as section 8 describes, and you only need to tell us.

Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Except for a dispute subject to arbitration under this section, any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas. If the law of the state where you live gives you a protection that cannot be waived, that protection still applies to you.

Disputes and arbitration. If we have a dispute we cannot resolve informally, you and Qualvey agree to settle it through binding arbitration before a single arbitrator administered by the American Arbitration Association under the AAA rules that the AAA determines apply to the dispute, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this agreement to arbitrate. Qualvey pays the fees those rules assign to a business. If those rules would require you to pay more than the fee to file the same claim in court, Qualvey pays the difference. The seat of the arbitration is Travis County, Texas, and you may attend any hearing by phone or video, or elect a decision on written submissions alone, so you never have to travel. Three things stay out of arbitration: a claim small enough for small-claims court, a request for an injunction to protect confidential content or intellectual property, and any claim that cannot lawfully be arbitrated.

No class actions. Where legally permitted, you and Qualvey may each bring claims only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or member of a class or representative proceeding. Nothing here waives a right that cannot be waived under applicable law.

Opting out. You can opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@qualvey.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Opting out does not affect any other part of these terms and has no effect on your participation or your rewards.

Severability. If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest still applies.

Entire agreement. These terms are the whole agreement between you and Qualvey about your participation. The promises in sections 2, 6, and 9 of our Privacy Policy are part of that agreement. The rest of the Privacy Policy describes how we handle information, and it is a disclosure rather than a set of contract terms.