Terms of use

Version draft-2026-11-07 · 7 November 2026

Draft for review. This text is written from Local Crew's rules and is being checked by a lawyer before launch.

1. Who we are

Local Crew is an online service that connects local businesses in the United States with people who do local work for them ("crew"). It is a service of Doodle Inc. Company details are added after legal review.

2. What Local Crew is, and isn't

• Local Crew is a place to post jobs, apply, hire and keep a record of the work.
• Local Crew is not part of the work agreement or the payment. The business and the crew member agree the work and the pay between them, using the job's terms. The business pays the crew member directly.
• Local Crew does not employ crew and is not an agent of either side. Crew work as independent contractors for the business.
• Local Crew never takes, holds or sends job money and takes no commission on pay.

3. Who can use Local Crew

You must be 18 or older and able to make a binding agreement. Some jobs, such as alcohol promotion, need crew to be 21 or older. Local Crew is open in US states listed as open in the app; it is not open in California.

4. Your account

You sign in with a code sent to your email or with Google. Keep your email account secure: anyone with access to it can sign in as you. Give true information and keep it up to date. One person, one account.

5. For businesses

• Every job must show the real pay, and complete payment terms: method, timing and any deposit.
• Pay must meet the minimum for its job type and, for hourly work, the local minimum wage.
• After someone applies, you may raise the pay but not change the payment terms, place or date.
• You pay the crew you hire as the job's terms say, and you are responsible for any tax forms you must give them.
• Posts that promote your business must be labeled as ads, as US advertising rules require.
• Posting jobs is free. Local Crew charges businesses a fee per hire, processed by Stripe. The fee is held on your card when you send an offer and charged only if the person accepts; it is released if the offer is declined, withdrawn or expires, and returned if the person you hired cancels or doesn't show up. Otherwise hire fees and prepaid hires are not refundable, except where the law requires.

6. For crew

• Apply only to jobs whose payment terms you accept.
• Do the work as agreed, or cancel early with a reason. The job's cancellation rule applies.
• Answer the "paid as agreed" question honestly.
• You are responsible for your own taxes.

7. Content

You keep the rights to what you upload. You let Local Crew store and show it to run the service. Rights to work made for a business are agreed in the job (its usage rights) between you and the business. Don't upload anything you don't have the right to share.

8. Rules and enforcement

The house rules are part of these terms. We may remove jobs, reviews or messages and suspend or close accounts that break them. We tell you why, and you can ask us to look again.

9. Reviews and the paid-as-agreed record

Reviews and the paid-as-agreed record show what members answered. We don't edit them, but we hide ones that break the rules.

10. Disclaimers and liability

Local Crew is provided "as is". We don't promise any amount of work, applicants, pay or results. We are not responsible for the work, the payment, or what members do, to the extent the law allows. Limits on liability and how disputes are handled are completed in legal review.

11. Changes

When these terms change, we show the new version and date here and ask you to accept them in the app.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms: use the Contact page.

Also see: Privacy notice · Cookie notice