This policy explains who owns what on Diemeco and what confidentiality duties apply. It forms part of the Terms of Service, the Workshop Agreement and the Client Agreement.
1. Designs and files belong to the Client
A Client owns the designs, drawings, models, specifications and other material they upload or write. Posting a requirement does not transfer any ownership to us or to any Workshop. The Client gives us a limited licence to store, process and show the material to the Workshops the Client allows, only to run the platform for the Client.
2. What a Workshop may do with a Client's material
- Use it only to decide whether to quote and, if the Client chooses the Workshop, to do that job.
- Keep it confidential, and protect it as carefully as the Workshop protects its own confidential information, and at least with reasonable care.
- Share it only with employees and sub-contractors who need it for that job and who are bound to the same duties, and be responsible for them.
- Download it only where the Client allowed download.
- Delete it when the Workshop is not chosen or the job is over, unless the law requires it to be kept.
3. What a Workshop must not do
- Copy, publish, sell, or pass on the material, or use it to make parts or tools for anyone else, or for its own products.
- Reverse-engineer, adapt or derive a competing design from it, or claim any right in it.
- Capture, photograph or otherwise extract watermarked views to get round the protection, or attempt to remove a watermark.
- Use a Client's contact details, if the Client shares them, for anything other than the job.
4. Exceptions
The duties above do not apply to information that is already public (other than through a breach of these rules), that the Workshop already lawfully knew, that it independently created without using the Client's material, or that it must disclose by law or court order (in which case it should tell the Client first, where the law allows).
5. How long the duties last
They continue after the job, after the account is closed, and for as long as the material stays confidential.
6. Limits of the protection, and other steps for sensitive work
Watermarks, view-only settings and access controls reduce risk but cannot physically prevent copying. For valuable or sensitive designs, share only what is needed to quote, use a Confidential requirement, and consider a separate written non-disclosure agreement with the Workshop you choose. We are not a party to any such agreement.
7. Our own intellectual property
- The platform, its software, the matching method and its settings, the design, texts, guides and the name and mark DIEMECO belong to Diemeco or its licensors. You may use the platform as it is offered, but you may not copy, scrape, reverse-engineer, resell or make a competing service from it, or use our name or mark without written permission.
- The way requirements are matched and ranked is our confidential business information. You may not try to work it out by automated or repeated testing.
- If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without payment or restriction.
8. Reporting misuse
If you think a Workshop has misused your material, write to support@diemeco.com straight away, with the requirement, the Workshop's ID and what you saw. We will look into it, and may restrict or close the Workshop's account and preserve the records. We cannot promise a legal outcome, and you may also have your own legal remedies.