Huaren Bridge Program Disclaimer

Huaren Bridge ("the Program") is a community initiative operated by Huaren.ai on a strictly non-commercial, volunteer basis. Its purpose is to connect members of the Chinese diaspora who request assistance with volunteers willing to provide that assistance, free of charge.

Huaren Bridge is not a registered charity, a licensed educational institution, a translation agency, a software development firm, or a professional services provider. It is a coordinated goodwill effort. Participation — whether as someone seeking help or as a volunteer — is voluntary at all times and may be ended by either party without cause.

To preserve focus, quality, and compliance with our non-profit purpose, the Program offers volunteer assistance in three — and only three — areas:

Academic Tutoring

Informal one-on-one or small-group academic support for K–12 and post-secondary students. Subjects typically covered include mathematics, the natural sciences, English, Chinese, and standardised test preparation. Tutoring is supplementary to, and not a substitute for, formal schooling. Tutors are not licensed teachers and do not issue grades, transcripts, certificates, or accredited instruction.

Translation Assistance

Best-effort Chinese ↔ English translation of everyday materials such as school correspondence, healthcare paperwork, government forms, and community letters. Volunteers are not certified, sworn, or notarised translators. Translations produced under the Program are not certified, are not legally binding, and may not be accepted by courts, immigration authorities, regulators, or other bodies that require certified translation.

Pro-bono Development for Non-profits

Volunteer software development, simple websites, and basic technical support, offered exclusively to organisations that the coordinator has reasonably verified as bona fide non-profits serving a charitable, educational, or community purpose. Work is delivered on a best-effort basis, without warranties, service-level commitments, or ongoing maintenance unless separately and expressly agreed in writing.

What the Program Does Not Do

• —Legal advice or representation of any kind
• —Medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice or treatment
• —Financial, tax, accounting, or investment advice
• —Immigration, visa, or asylum advice or filings
• —Court interpretation or sworn / certified translation
• —Court-ordered, sentence-mandated, probation, diversion, or school-discipline community-service hours (see the dedicated section below)
• —Emergency assistance — please call local emergency services
• —Solicitation, collection, custody, or disbursement of donations or funds of any kind
• —Endorsement of, or guarantee for, any volunteer, participant, or third-party service

All volunteers participate of their own free will and are not employees, agents, contractors, partners, or representatives of Huaren.ai or Huaren Bridge. Volunteers receive no monetary compensation, stipend, expense reimbursement, equity, or benefits for their participation.

Volunteers are expected to act respectfully, honestly, and within the scope of their stated skills. Statements, opinions, or work product offered by a volunteer represent that volunteer alone and do not constitute the views or representations of Huaren.ai. Huaren.ai does not independently verify the credentials, experience, or character of every volunteer beyond the basic information they provide upon application.

Volunteers must be at least eighteen (18) years of age. Individuals under 18 may participate only with the prior written co-signature of a parent or legal guardian, arranged in advance by writing to hello@huaren.ai. The Program does not match minors as volunteers without that written guardianship consent on file.

Huaren Bridge is a strictly voluntary community initiative. It is not a court-approved community-service site, and it does not exist to satisfy disciplinary or punitive service requirements. The Program does not, and will not:

• —Accept volunteers whose participation is required to fulfil a court order, criminal sentence, plea agreement, probation condition, diversion program, deferred prosecution, or other legal obligation
• —Supervise or log time-stamped hours in the manner required by court-ordered service programs
• —Sign, stamp, notarise, or otherwise certify any court-ordered service form (including but not limited to district-attorney, probation, diversion, juvenile-court, immigration, traffic-court, or school-discipline forms)
• —Accept volunteers whose participation is being assigned as part of school discipline, academic-integrity sanctions, or other punitive remediation
• —Communicate with courts, probation officers, district attorneys, school disciplinary administrators, or any other authority regarding sentenced or mandated service

On their application, every volunteer is required to confirm that their participation is voluntary and is not being undertaken to satisfy a court-ordered, sentence-mandated, probation, diversion, or school-disciplinary service requirement. A material misstatement on this point — including using Program participation to claim hours toward such a requirement — is grounds for immediate removal from the Program and may also breach the underlying court order or disciplinary directive, which is a matter for the participant alone.

Huaren Bridge welcomes high-school and post-secondary students whose volunteer service is undertaken voluntarily to support a scholarship application, an honour society, a college-preparatory program, or a graduation-requirement service component. Examples include, but are not limited to, the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program (Seminole County Public Schools and other Florida districts), the National Honor Society, Key Club, Beta Club, and similar voluntary student programs across North America.

What we provide

• —A Huaren Bridge coordinator will serve as the supervising "Contact Person" on your school's service plan (e.g., SCPS Form 1489 for Bright Futures), agreeing to supervise the volunteer activity within the scope of the Program
• —Our organisational details (legal name, mailing address, phone, website, supervising contact) for completion of the school's service plan
• —Accurate, written tracking of your volunteer hours, agreed jointly with the supervising coordinator after each session
• —Signature on the school's Volunteer Service Plan and on the Volunteer Service / Paid Work Log when complete
• —A written verification letter (on request) confirming participation, dates, service area(s), and total hours logged — suitable for financial-aid, scholarship, work-study, or admissions purposes (see Volunteer Verification)

What students should do

• —When applying as a volunteer, name the program you are collecting hours for in the "Student scholarship or credit program" field on the volunteer form
• —Email a blank copy of any forms requiring our signature (service plan, hours log, etc.) to hello@huaren.ai and we will complete our portion within two business days
• —Record each session's hours promptly and confirm them with your coordinator — accurate, contemporaneous logging is what makes a verification letter possible later
• —Submit a one-page reflective essay where required by your scholarship program (we do not write or co-author these; the reflection is yours alone)

Compatibility with scholarship-program rules

Because programs such as Bright Futures impose their own eligibility limits on what counts as accepted volunteer service, students remain solely responsible for ensuring that hours earned through Huaren Bridge meet their scholarship's rules. We note in particular, without holding ourselves out as an authority on any specific scholarship, that Bright Futures generally does not accept hours that involve financial benefit to the student, hours completed during regular school hours, fundraising for school-sponsored activities, religious-attendance hours, family-related service, or unsupervised service. Huaren Bridge work is supervised by our coordinator and is non-paid, which addresses several of those constraints, but the responsibility to confirm accepted activities, to time sessions outside school hours, and to comply with all other program-specific rules rests with the student and their school counsellor.

What this section does not change

• —Huaren Bridge still does not handle court-ordered, sentence-mandated, probation, diversion, or school-disciplinary service of any kind (see preceding section)
• —All sessions still take place strictly within our three service areas: academic tutoring, translation assistance, and pro-bono development for verified non-profits
• —Student volunteers remain bound by the same safeguarding rules as any other volunteer, including transparent settings for any session involving a minor

From time to time, third parties (typically schools, universities, employers, or other organisations) may need written confirmation that a Program volunteer has participated. Huaren Bridge handles such requests under a deliberately narrow policy designed to protect volunteer privacy and to keep the Program within its non-profit scope.

How to request a verification

Verification requests must be submitted through the official form at huaren.ai/bridge/verify, by an individual with legitimate authority at the requesting organisation, using an organisational email address (personal-email submissions cannot be processed). We typically respond within five business days.

What we will confirm

• —Whether the named individual is recorded as a Huaren Bridge volunteer
• —The approximate dates of their involvement (month and year)
• —The service area(s) in which they were active (academic tutoring, translation, or pro-bono development)
• —The total volunteer hours logged with the Program — including for legitimate financial-aid, scholarship, or work-study verification purposes

What we will not confirm

• —Performance evaluations, skill assessments, or character references — Program coordinators do not assess or rate volunteers in this manner
• —Court-ordered, sentence-mandated, probation, diversion, or school-discipline service participation, in any form
• —Confirmation for immigration, asylum, visa, or other status proceedings, beyond a plain factual statement of program participation
• —Any information about the people the volunteer assisted
• —Any information about a volunteer who has not given prior written consent to verification on their application

Huaren Bridge reserves the right to decline any verification request, in whole or in part, without explanation. Where a request appears to relate to court-ordered service or another excluded use, the response will plainly state that the Program does not certify such participation.

The Program is free of charge. Volunteers and coordinators must not request, accept, or arrange for any payment, gift, tip, fee, deposit, in-kind compensation, or referral commission from a participant in connection with Program services. Conversely, Huaren Bridge does not solicit donations from the public and does not issue tax receipts.

All assistance is provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis, in good faith and to the best of each volunteer's ability. The Program makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, as to:

• —The accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any tutoring instruction, translation, or development work
• —The fitness of any output for a particular purpose, including academic submission, official filing, publication, or commercial use
• —The continuous availability of a particular volunteer or volunteer match
• —The outcome of any academic test, application, proceeding, or organisational initiative supported by Program work

Participants are responsible for independently reviewing any translation, tutoring guidance, or software deliverable before relying upon it, and — where stakes are meaningful — for engaging a licensed professional in the relevant jurisdiction.

The wellbeing of every participant — particularly minors and other vulnerable individuals — is paramount. The Program adheres to the following baseline expectations, which apply to volunteers and coordinators alike:

• —Tutoring sessions involving a minor must take place in a transparent setting: a parent or guardian must be aware of the session, and online sessions must use a recordable platform with the parent or guardian able to join at any time
• —Volunteers must not engage in private one-on-one in-person meetings with minors in non-public locations
• —Any form of harassment, discrimination, intimidation, or solicitation of a personal, romantic, religious, political, or commercial nature is prohibited
• —Participants must not share, store, or transmit content that is unlawful, sexually explicit, or otherwise harmful
• —Volunteers and participants are expected to keep one another's personal information confidential and to use it only for Program purposes

Reporting Concerns

If you witness or experience conduct that violates these expectations, please write to hello@huaren.ai with as much detail as you can provide. Coordinators will treat reports confidentially, investigate in good faith, and may suspend or terminate any participant's involvement in the Program at their sole discretion. Where conduct may involve a criminal matter or imminent risk of harm, please also contact local authorities.

Information you provide through the Program (including your name, contact details, and the content of your request or application) is collected and used solely to coordinate Program services. Personal data is shared only with the matched volunteer or coordinator on a need-to-know basis.

Program data handling is governed by the Huaren.ai Privacy Policy, which forms part of this Disclaimer by reference. Where the two documents are read together, this Disclaimer applies specifically to volunteer activity and participant interactions; the Privacy Policy applies to underlying data processing.

For development work and translations produced under the Program, the participating non-profit or recipient is granted a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use, modify, and redistribute the resulting work for its non-profit purposes. Volunteers retain authorship rights and may, with the recipient's reasonable consent, reference the work in a portfolio, provided no confidential information is disclosed.

Materials shared by a participant (lesson content, source documents, organisational data) remain the property of that participant. Volunteers must use such materials only to deliver the requested assistance and must destroy or return them on request.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Huaren.ai, Huaren Bridge, their affiliates, coordinators, and volunteers shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive losses or damages arising from, or in connection with, participation in the Program, including without limitation losses arising from reliance on tutoring, translation, or development output.

Participants and volunteers each agree to indemnify and hold harmless Huaren.ai, Huaren Bridge, and their respective coordinators and volunteers from and against any third-party claims, demands, or proceedings arising out of that party's misuse of the Program, breach of this Disclaimer, or infringement of any law or third-party right.

Coordinators reserve the right, exercised reasonably and in good faith, to:

• —Decline a request or application without providing a reason
• —Pause or end a volunteer match at any time, including where a volunteer is unavailable, where the request falls outside the Program's scope, or where conduct gives rise to concern
• —Refer a participant to alternative resources where the Program is not the appropriate avenue for the assistance sought
• —Suspend the Program in whole or in part for operational, safeguarding, or compliance reasons

This Disclaimer is governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Disputes that cannot be resolved through good-faith discussion shall, to the extent permitted by law, be referred to mediation in Vancouver, British Columbia, before any other proceeding is commenced. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable rights you may have under your local consumer protection or volunteer-protection legislation.

We may update this Disclaimer from time to time as the Program evolves. The "Last updated" date above will always reflect the current version. Material changes will be highlighted on huaren.ai/bridge for at least fourteen days before they take effect. Continued participation in the Program after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Disclaimer.