Legal notice and terms

They apply to the public site, initial conversations and any preliminary work before a formal agreement is in place, and they continue to apply to every Statement of Work, which references them. From the moment a Statement of Work is signed, the SOW governs delivery, deliverables and change control, and prevails over these terms where they conflict. Each SOW is governed by the version of these terms in force when it is signed.

• Discovery call. 30 minutes, free, no commitment either way.
• Written proposal. A fixed scope with a fixed price, or a time-and-materials rate card with a soft cap.
• Statement of Work. Signed by both parties, references these terms and the DPA.
• Kickoff. Within 10 working days of signature unless otherwise agreed.

Who owns what is set in the Statement of Work for each engagement. Unless the SOW says otherwise:

• Build and hand over. Once the relevant invoices are paid in full, we assign to you, exclusively, worldwide and for the full term of protection, the exploitation rights in the deliverables set out in the SOW (for example the source code written for you, documentation and runbooks), including the rights to reproduce, modify, distribute and publicly communicate them and to license or transfer them to others. Until then, you may use the deliverables for the purposes of the engagement.
• Build and run. We host and operate the system for you as a subscription or under a licence. Hirefel keeps ownership of the system, and you receive the right to use it for the term of the subscription or licence.
• Dedicated engineers. Our engineers work inside your team, on your project, and remain part of Hirefel’s team. Once the relevant invoices are paid in full, the work they produce for you is assigned to you on the same terms as in Build and hand over.

Unless the SOW says otherwise, Hirefel keeps ownership of its own components: those that existed before the engagement or that we develop independently of it, such as shared connectors, authentication modules, evaluation tooling, internal libraries and Hirefel OS, and general improvements to them that contain none of your data or confidential information. Code written specifically for you is not one of them. Where our components form part of work that is yours under this clause, Hirefel grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide licence, for the full term of protection, to use, copy, modify and maintain them as part of that work, including through your staff and contractors. The licence continues after the engagement ends and can only be transferred together with that work.

Open-source and third-party components, including third-party AI models and services, remain under their own licences and terms, which we identify in the SOW or the handover documentation.

Your data, the materials you provide to us and the outputs the system produces from them remain yours. We use them only to carry out the engagement. We may use general know-how and anonymous, aggregated learnings to improve how we work; these never include your data or your confidential information. We do not open-source work done for our clients without their written permission.

Everything exchanged during an engagement is confidential by default — no NDA required. We can reference your name and a one-paragraph case description publicly only with written approval. The confidentiality obligation survives termination for five years.

We warrant that work is delivered with the care and skill expected of senior engineers, that deliverables do not knowingly infringe third-party rights, and that code passes the eval suites specified in the SOW. There are no other warranties, express or implied.

Hirefel’s aggregate liability under any engagement is capped at the fees paid for the three months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Neither party is liable for indirect, consequential, or incidental losses. This cap does not apply to death or personal injury, gross negligence, or willful misconduct — as required by Spanish law.

Within 10 working days of termination we return your data and the materials you provided, hand over the access credentials to your own accounts and systems and, once the fees due for it are paid, deliver the work in progress that is yours under clause 04. We then delete our copies of your data, unless the law requires us to keep them. For systems we run for you, the SOW sets out how the service ends or transitions. If it does not, the service continues until the end of the notice period and we give you an export of your data in a standard, machine-readable format.

These terms are governed by Spanish law. Any disputes that cannot be resolved through good-faith discussion are submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Barcelona.