Written terms before commitment.

Relationship boundary: Professionals contract with IT Modality's U.S. entity as independent contractors. This guide is not an agreement, employment offer, payroll arrangement, or employer-of-record service.

The record has a clear hierarchy.

1. Executed independent-contractor agreement. Establishes the governing relationship, confidentiality, intellectual property, general duties, dispute structure, and other standing terms.

2. Engagement order or statement of work. Identifies the client, role, scope, duration, rate, payment, working conditions, acceptance, support, and closeout for a particular engagement.

3. Approved changes and decisions. Record material changes to scope, commercial terms, access, authority, timing, or acceptance without rewriting history.

4. Operating evidence. Includes approved time or deliverables, decision and issue records, acceptance, remittance references, access changes, and handoff.

If records conflict, the hierarchy and conflict rule in the executed agreement control. A public page, chat message, informal request, or portal display cannot silently amend the written package.

Settle the complete engagement boundary.

Before commitment, the written package identifies:

• the contracting parties, independent-contractor status, role, client, and authorized contacts;

• the intended outcome, scope, deliverables, exclusions, dependencies, assumptions, and decision rights;

• start, end, notice, renewal, service-window, location, travel, and availability conditions that actually apply;

• the rate and unit, currency, approval evidence, invoice sequence, payment event, FX treatment, transfer-fee allocation, expenses, and correction path;

• confidentiality, data, privacy, security, device, environment, minimum-access, incident, and deletion or return duties;

• intellectual-property, pre-existing-material, third-party-material, open-source, attribution, and reuse conditions;

• quality gates, reporting, acceptance evidence, client and IT Modality review, escalation, and support ownership;

• conflicts, professional duties, prohibited conduct, subcontracting or assistance limits, and client-policy acknowledgments;

• change control, suspension, deactivation, termination, payment and deliverable closeout, access removal, continuity, and handoff; and

• governing terms, notices, dispute handling, and mandatory local requirements.

The professional chooses before accepting.

The professional receives the written terms before commitment and may ask questions, request clarification, disclose a conflict, obtain independent advice, propose a change, or decline the scope.

Application, The Rigors, network readiness, client review, Academy activity, or prior engagement history creates no obligation to accept new work. Declining consideration before commitment does not change a Rigors score.

Material changes stay written and attributable.

A change to scope, outcome, rate, unit, currency, approval rule, service window, access, decision rights, acceptance, duration, or closeout becomes effective only through the applicable written change process.

An urgent instruction may contain immediate risk, but it does not erase the requirement to identify authority, evidence, impact, and the resulting baseline. Work outside the professional's authority follows the stop-and-escalate rule.

Closeout is part of the terms.

The package states what happens to accepted and unfinished deliverables, invoices and approvals, access, client data, confidential information, equipment, decisions, documentation, knowledge transfer, intellectual property, support boundaries, and the receiving owner when work ends.

No client request, duration, minimum hours, continued engagement, income, employment, placement, or immigration result is promised outside an accepted written scope.

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Controlling-terms boundary: The executed agreement and engagement order govern actual rights, obligations, values, jurisdiction-specific provisions, and dispute routes. This page explains the operating structure in plain language.