Technician Agreement

Version date: 19 September 2026

Parties and formation

Between: KarKar Ops LLC, a Delaware limited liability company registered in California, of 8 The Green STE B, Dover, Kent County, DE 19901 ("KarKar", "we", "us")

And: you, the independent technician accepting this agreement ("you", "Technician")

Effective: when you accept it electronically.

How this agreement relates to the Terms of Service

A. This agreement is additional to the KarKar Terms of Service. It does not replace them. The Terms of Service are incorporated into this agreement by reference and you are bound by both.

B. The Terms of Service carry the platform-wide terms that apply to everyone: KarKar's role as a marketplace, accounts, how and when Clients are charged, the 48-hour review window, refunds and cancellations, the commission schedule, non-circumvention, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, disputes and governing law.

C. This agreement carries the obligations that apply only to Technicians: insurance, licensing, workmanship and the Standard Warranty, parts, responsibility for damage to a Client's vehicle, payout mechanics, recovery of money already paid to you, confidentiality, indemnity and non-circumvention detail.

D. Which document wins. Where this agreement and the Terms of Service conflict on a matter this agreement covers, this agreement governs as between you and KarKar. On everything else the Terms of Service govern. Nothing in this agreement reduces any right a Client has under the Terms of Service, and nothing in it gives you any right against a Client.

E. You may not accept jobs on the Platform without accepting this agreement.

F. Terms defined in the Terms of Service have the same meaning here. "Client" means a customer who books a service. "Platform" means the KarKar platform.

1. What you are, and what you are not

1.1 You are an independent contractor. You are not an employee, partner, agent or joint venturer of KarKar. This agreement does not create an employment relationship.

1.2 You decide which jobs to accept and which to decline. You decide when you are available. You set your own prices. You use your own tools, your own vehicle and your own methods. You may work for anyone else, including our competitors, at any time.

1.3 We do not supervise how you do the work. We do not tell you how to perform a repair, what sequence to work in, or what to wear.

1.4 You are responsible for your own business costs, including tools, transport, fuel, licences, insurance and taxes.

1.5 You are not eligible for employee benefits — no health insurance, no workers' compensation through us, no unemployment insurance, no paid leave, no overtime, no minimum wage.

1.6 You may not hold yourself out as an employee or agent of KarKar, and you may not make commitments on our behalf.

2. Licences, certifications and legal right to work

2.1 You must hold every licence, permit, registration and certification the law requires for the work you perform, in every place you perform it, and keep them current for as long as you use the Platform.

2.2 KarKar does not tell you which credentials you need, and does not check that you hold them. KarKar publishes no list of required credentials by service category. Deciding what the law requires for the work you accept, and holding it, is entirely your responsibility under 2.1. KarKar collects no licence, certification, registration or credential of any kind, stores none, and verifies none. The only verification any Technician passes is Stripe's identity and banking check (4.4(b) of the Terms of Service).

2.3 You must give us copies of your credentials on request, and tell us within 5 days if any of them is suspended, revoked, expired or subject to any proceeding.

2.4 You must be legally entitled to work in the United States.

2.5 You will only accept jobs you are qualified and equipped to perform. If a job turns out to be beyond your competence or equipment, you must stop and tell the Client and us rather than attempt it. Where you stop, you must cancel the job through the Platform, which returns the Client's money in full.

2.6 Background checks — we do not run them. KarKar does not carry out criminal-history, driving-record or any other background check on Technicians, and never has. Nothing in the Platform performs, records or stores such a check. If we introduce background checks, we will do so on notice under 16.4, and this clause will then require your consent to an initial check and to periodic re-checks and will allow us to suspend or remove you on the result. Until that happens, no statement by KarKar should be read as meaning any Technician has been checked.

3. Insurance

3.1 You must carry insurance appropriate to the work you perform. For as long as you use the Platform, you must maintain, at your own cost, commercial insurance appropriate to the services you perform through the Platform, to the vehicles you work on, and to the places you work in.

3.1.1 You represent and warrant that you hold it. By accepting this agreement, and each time you accept a job, you represent to us that you hold that cover and that it is in force. That representation is a term of this agreement and we rely on it.

Clauses 3.2 and 3.5 are intentionally left blank.

3.3 We may demand proof at any time, and you have 10 days to produce it. KarKar does not collect or verify a certificate of insurance when you join, and nothing in the Platform records one. We may require you to produce certificates of insurance, policy documents and evidence of payment at any time, including after a claim or an incident, and you must produce them within 10 days of our request. If you do not, we may suspend or remove you.

3.3.1 You must tell us within 5 days if cover required by 3.1 is cancelled, not renewed, lapses or is materially reduced.

3.4 If you do not maintain the required insurance, we may suspend or remove you immediately.

4. Damage to a Client's vehicle or property

4.1 You are fully responsible for any loss or damage to a Client's vehicle, its contents, or their property caused by you, your work, your employees or your helpers.

4.2 If you cause damage, you must tell the Client and us immediately, and in any event within 5 days, and cooperate fully with any investigation or claim.

4.3 KarKar is not responsible for damage you cause. KarKar is a marketplace and does not perform repairs.

4.4 If we reasonably conclude that you caused damage and you have not resolved it with the Client within 30 days, we may resolve it directly with the Client, including by refunding them, and recover what we pay out from you under clause 8.

5. Doing the work properly, and coming back if it is wrong

5.1 You will perform every job in a workmanlike manner, to the standard of a competent professional technician, using appropriate tools and methods.

5.2 You will follow the manufacturer's procedures and specifications where they apply, and all applicable safety and environmental rules — including proper disposal of oil, coolant, refrigerant, batteries and other waste.

5.3 The KarKar Standard Workmanship Warranty, and your opt-in to it. KarKar publishes a standard workmanship warranty — the KarKar Standard Workmanship Warranty, set out in full in Schedule 1 to this agreement. The current version is version 1.0, and its headline term is 12 months or 12,000 miles from the date you complete the work, whichever comes first.

5.3.1 Opting in. You opt in to the Standard Warranty by ticking the box in your KarKar dashboard. Opting in has three consequences:(a) you are obliged to honour the Standard Warranty, in the version you accepted, on every job you complete while your opt-in is in force;(b) your opt-in is recorded — which version you accepted, and when — and that record is kept and may be shown to a Client, to KarKar support and to a court; and(c) a badge appears in the highlights on your public profile, identifying the warranty as yours, offered by you and surfaced by KarKar.

5.3.2 You agree to a version, not to a moving target. You are bound by the version of the Standard Warranty you accepted. If KarKar publishes a new version, it does not apply to you until you accept it, and it never applies to a job you completed before you accepted it. KarKar will tell you when a new version is published, under 16.4.

5.3.3 If you have not opted in. If you have not opted in, you owe no warranty through the Platform and no badge is shown on your profile.

5.3.4 What honouring it means. Within the warranty period, where your work fails or the problem you were paid to fix recurs because of your work, you will:(a) diagnose and re-perform the work at no charge to the Client; or(b) where you cannot or will not, refund the Client in full.

5.3.5 What happens if you do not honour it. The Client complains to KarKar support. Support investigates. If we conclude that you failed to honour the Standard Warranty, the Client is refunded, and we recover that money from you — from your Stripe account, from your future payouts, or as a debt you owe us. Clause 8 sets out the mechanism and the limits on it.

5.4 The warranty does not apply where the failure is caused by a part the Client supplied, by unrelated pre-existing damage, by the Client's own misuse, or by work someone else did afterwards. Schedule 1 states this in the same terms, in the words a Client reads.

5.5 You must not ask a Client to pay you outside the Platform for warranty work.

6. Parts

6.1 Unless the Client supplies the part, you source the parts and you are responsible for them.

6.2 You will use new parts, or — where appropriate and disclosed to the Client before they approve — remanufactured or used parts of a quality suitable for the repair.

6.3 You pass through to the Client the full benefit of any manufacturer's warranty on parts you supply, and you will help the Client claim under it.

6.4 Where a Client supplies a part, you may decline to use it. If you use it, you are not responsible for the part itself failing, but you remain responsible for fitting it correctly.

6.5 You will return replaced parts to the Client on request, unless the law or a supplier's core-return arrangement prevents it.

7. Getting paid

7.1 How the money flows. The Client pays KarKar, not you. We hold the Client's money and pay you your share afterwards, through Stripe. You must have a Stripe Connect account in good standing with identity verification complete; we cannot pay you without one.

7.1.1 What KarKar does and does not promise you. KarKar is a mediator. We help you and the Client agree scope and price, and we place an authorisation hold on the Client's card for the full amount before your appointment, so that the funds are confirmed to be available before you travel. That is the assurance of payment we give you, and it is the only one. KarKar does not guarantee that you will be paid: the money is only captured if the Client confirms your arrival (7.2), and it is only released to you when the job closes — which happens when the Client accepts your work, or automatically 48 hours after you mark the job finished if the Client says nothing, or when we resolve a rejected job in your favour (7.8). KarKar does not guarantee your work to the Client either. Where you have opted in to the Standard Warranty in clause 5.3, that warranty is yours and is owed by you; KarKar publishes it and displays that you offer it, and does not itself guarantee the work..

7.2 When the Client is charged, and the risk that creates for you. There are three moments and they are worth reading in order:

1. About 48 hours before the appointment, we place an authorisation hold on the Client's card for the full quoted amount. Nothing has been taken; the funds are reserved.
2. When the Client confirms in the Platform that you have arrived, we take the money. Not before, and not when the work is finished.
3. That same confirmation is what starts the job. In the Platform there is no separate "work started" event: capturing the money and starting the job are the same step.

If the Client never confirms your arrival, no money is taken and you are not paid, even if you attended and did the work. The booking expires 24 hours after the appointment start time, the hold is released, and the job closes.

You have no recourse in that situation, and none is planned. There is no route in the Platform by which you can claim to have attended, and KarKar will not capture a payment on your word alone. This is a decided position rather than an oversight. If a Client is not going to be there, or is not going to confirm, the time to find out is in the chat before you travel.

7.3 Our commission. We deduct a commission from the job total. The rate is set from your revenue over the previous 30 days:

• $0.00 – $4,999.99 — 30%
• $5,000.00 – $9,999.99 — 25%
• $10,000.00 and above — 20%

The bands are exact and do not overlap. At exactly $5,000.00 the rate is 25%; at exactly $10,000.00 it is 20%.

7.4 Your rate is fixed at the moment the Client's card is authorised — about 48 hours before the appointment — and does not change for that job, whatever happens to your revenue afterwards.

7.5 Revenue means the money captured on your successfully closed jobs in the previous 30 days, less any refunds in the same period, and is never treated as less than zero. We recalculate it every hour. If your revenue falls, your rate goes back up.

7.6 Different rates by agreement. We may agree a different rate with you, including a promotional, negotiated, reduced or zero rate. Where we do, that rate applies to you instead of the table in 7.3 until we give you notice of a change. We will give you 30 days' written notice before changing it.

This clause is not cosmetic. The Platform already applies per-Technician rate overrides in production, including the 0% rate on current test accounts, and the published Terms of Service reserve no right to charge anything other than the three published tiers in either direction. 7.6 and section 9.5 of the Terms of Service close that gap.

7.7 Referral commission. If a Client reaches the Platform through your referral code, we apply a reduced commission of 10% to that Client's jobs with you, for one year from the referral. If you also have an agreed rate under 7.6, whichever rate is lower applies. We may agree a different referral rate with you, and support may vary the rate on an individual referral; where we do, the rate we tell you applies instead of the 10%.

7.8 The payout hold — a fixed 7 days. After a job closes successfully, we hold your share for 7 days before transferring it. That is a fixed period, not a minimum. The only circumstances in which we hold your money for longer are the ones listed in 7.10, and where we do, we will tell you why.

A job closes when the Client accepts your work, or 48 hours after you mark it finished if the Client says nothing, or when we resolve a rejected job in your favour.

7.9 So in the ordinary course, if a Client says nothing, you are paid approximately 9 days after you finish the work: 48 hours of Client review, then 7 days of hold. The 7 days runs from the job closing, not from the work being done.

7.10 The only exceptions to the fixed 7 days. We may extend the hold, or withhold payment entirely, where we reasonably suspect fraud, where a chargeback has been raised or is likely, where a dispute or damage claim is open, or where you are in breach of this agreement. That list is exhaustive, and we will tell you which of them applies and why.

7.11 Where a job is refunded to the Client in whole or in part, your share and our commission are both reduced in the same proportion. Where the refund is total, you are paid nothing.

7.12 We may change the commission tiers in 7.3 on 30 days' written notice. A change does not affect a job whose payment has already been authorised.

8. Chargebacks, clawback and offset

8.1 When you owe us money back. You owe us the amount concerned where, after we have paid you:(a) a Client successfully charges back a payment for your job;(b) we are otherwise required to return money to a Client for a job we have already paid you for;(c) we refund a Client under clause 4.4 because you caused damage and did not resolve it; or(d) we refund a Client under clause 5.3.5 because you did not honour the Standard Warranty.

8.2 How we recover it. You authorise us to recover it by any of the following, at our choice and in any combination:(a) recording it as a debt you owe us, and setting it off against anything we owe you now or later;(b) deducting it from your future payouts until it is cleared;(c) reversing the Stripe transfer to your connected account, where there is a balance to reverse;(d) charging a payment method you have on file with us; or(e) invoicing you, payable within 14 days.

8.2.1 Which of those will actually be used, and why you should know. Your payout leaves us about nine days after you finish a job. The Standard Warranty in clause 5.3 runs for twelve months. By the time a warranty claim is decided, the money is in your bank and there is usually nothing left in your connected account to reverse — so in practice (a) and (b), the debt and the offset, are the ordinary route, and (c) is available mainly for a chargeback that arrives while a balance is still there.

8.3 Where a chargeback is later decided in your favour, or a claim we recovered against turns out to be unfounded, we return what we took, and we cancel any debt we recorded.

8.4 We may hold back future payouts up to the amount at stake while a chargeback or claim is open.

8.5 You will help us contest a chargeback we believe is unjustified, including by giving us your records, photographs and an account of what you did, within 5 business days of being asked, or sooner where we tell you the card network's own deadline is shorter.

8.6 Negative balances and your bank account. Your Stripe connected account is configured so that a negative balance can be debited from the bank account you connected (debit_negative_balances). If we reverse a transfer or recover an amount and your connected account does not hold enough, Stripe may take the difference from your bank account without asking you again. This is stated here so that you read it before it happens rather than afterwards.

9. Reviewing and disputing your work

9.1 When you mark a job finished, the Client has 48 hours to accept or reject it. If they do nothing, it is treated as accepted and the job closes in your favour.

9.2 If the Client rejects your work, the job goes to KarKar support. A KarKar specialist will review it and decide one of exactly two outcomes: you are paid in full, or the Client is refunded in full. There is no partial outcome, and there is no appeal within the Platform.

9.3 How long it takes. We will respond to a rejected job within three (3) business days. Responding is not the same as deciding: we do not commit to resolving the dispute within any period. While the case is being worked, the Client's money stays with KarKar and is not paid to you. There is no automatic resolution timer in either direction — the case does not lapse in your favour or in the Client's if nobody acts.

9.4 KarKar is not a neutral arbitrator, and has a financial interest in the outcome: KarKar earns its commission where you are paid, and earns nothing where the Client is refunded. This is disclosed so that you do not mistake the process for an independent adjudication.

9.5 Our decision under 9.2 is made in good faith on the information available. It determines only what happens to the money we are holding. It does not decide your legal rights against the Client, and it does not prevent you from pursuing the Client directly or from using the dispute-resolution provisions of the Terms of Service against us.

9.6 Evidence. The messages in the Platform chat, and the photographs and files shared in it, may be used as evidence in a dispute. Where we review a rejected job, we will make that material available to both you and the Client, so that neither side is answering something it cannot see. Anything either of you wants us to take into account should be in the chat. Section 4 of the Privacy Policy describes how chat content is handled, including that it is machine-screened and that KarKar staff can read flagged messages.

9.6.1 The Platform requires no evidence from either side today: marking a job finished has no photograph, report or checklist requirement. Nothing in 9.6 creates one — it settles what happens with the material that does exist. See CHANGES.md, product dependency P10.

9.7 You will not contact a Client outside the Platform to pressure them into accepting work or withdrawing a rejection.

10. Non-circumvention

This expands section 10 of the Terms of Service, which is retained there in its published form.

10.1 You may not solicit or accept payment outside the Platform from any Client introduced to you through KarKar, for any service of a kind offered on the Platform, for 12 months after your last job with that Client.

10.2 You may not encourage a Client to cancel a KarKar booking and deal with you directly, nor offer a discount for doing so, nor give a Client your own contact details for that purpose.

10.3 Any attempt to bypass KarKar — including cash payments, private transfers or off-platform arrangements — is a material breach and may result in immediate termination, forfeiture of amounts we are holding for you, and legal action.

10.4 Clause 10.1 does not apply to a Client you already had a direct relationship with before KarKar introduced you, and can show it.

10.5 Warranty work under clause 5.3 is not a breach of this clause.

10.6 You acknowledge that messages sent through the Platform are automatically screened for contact details and off-platform solicitation, that matches are recorded, and that KarKar staff may review flagged messages. Section 4 of the Privacy Policy describes this.

11. Confidentiality and Client data

11.1 Through the Platform you will receive Client names, addresses, phone numbers, vehicle details and service histories. You may use this only to do the job you were booked for.

11.2 You will not sell, share, publish or otherwise use Client information for any other purpose, including your own marketing, and you will not add Clients to any mailing list.

11.3 You will keep confidential any non-public information about KarKar's business, pricing, technology or plans.

11.4 You will keep Client information secure and delete it when you no longer need it, except where the law requires you to keep records.

11.5 If Client information you hold is lost or exposed, you will tell us within 24 hours.

11.6 This clause 11 continues after this agreement ends.

12. Your indemnity to KarKar

12.1 You will indemnify, defend and hold harmless KarKar Ops LLC, KarKar IP LLC, KarKar Holding Inc and their officers, employees and agents against any claim, loss, liability, damage, fine, penalty, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:(a) the work you perform, or fail to perform;(b) damage to any person or property caused by you;(c) your breach of this agreement or of the Terms of Service;(d) your breach of any law, or failure to hold a required licence or permit;(e) any claim that you are or were an employee of KarKar, or any claim for wages, benefits, taxes or contributions relating to you;(f) any chargeback, refund or Client claim arising from your work; or(g) your handling of Client information.

12.2 We will tell you promptly of any claim covered by 12.1, and you may control the defence with counsel we reasonably approve. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits liability on our part, or imposes an obligation on us, without our consent.

13. Taxes

13.1 You are responsible for all taxes on what you earn through the Platform — federal, state and local income tax, and self-employment tax. We do not withhold.

13.2 Your tax identity is held by Stripe, not by KarKar. Your KarKar payouts run through a Stripe Express connected account. Stripe collects your legal name and your taxpayer identification number as part of its own onboarding, holds them, and files the information return required by law for the payments it settles to you. KarKar does not collect a Form W-9, does not hold your taxpayer identification number, and does not issue tax forms. What KarKar holds against your account is your Stripe account id, whether your account can accept charges and receive payouts, and whether and when your verification completed.

13.3 You must keep your tax details current with Stripe. If Stripe restricts or closes your account because your details are missing, out of date or do not match, we cannot pay you (7.1), and clause 14.3(e) applies.

13.4 If we are ever required by law to withhold from a payment to you, we will withhold, and we will tell you why.

14. Suspension and termination

14.1 You may terminate this agreement for convenience on 30 days' written notice. Jobs that are already live when you give notice must be completed, or cancelled through the Platform, before the notice period ends (14.5).

14.2 We may terminate this agreement for convenience on 30 days' written notice, for any reason. Jobs that are already live must be completed, or cancelled through the Platform, in the same way.

14.3 We may suspend or terminate you immediately, without notice, where:(a) you lose a required licence, permit or insurance;(b) we reasonably believe you have endangered a Client's safety, or damaged property and not dealt with it;(c) you breach clause 10 (non-circumvention);(d) we reasonably suspect fraud;(e) Stripe closes or restricts your connected account; or(f) you breach this agreement materially and do not fix it within 10 days of being asked.

14.3.1 The cure period does not delay suspension for fraud or safety. The 10-day cure period in 14.3(f) applies only to that paragraph. Notwithstanding it, we may suspend or terminate you immediately on any of the grounds in 14.3(a)–(e), and in particular where we reasonably suspect fraud or believe a Client's safety is at risk. Nothing in this clause requires us to wait out a cure period before removing a Technician from the Platform on those grounds.

14.4 On termination, we will pay you for completed jobs under clause 7, subject to the holds and offsets in clauses 7.10 and 8, and subject to clause 10.3.

14.5 Jobs already booked when this agreement ends must still be completed, or cancelled through the Platform so that the Client's money is released or refunded.

15. What survives

Clauses 4 (damage), 5.3–5.5 (the Standard Warranty, for its full period — 12 months or 12,000 miles — on every job you completed while your opt-in was in force, including jobs completed shortly before this agreement ended), 8 (recovery, offset and debt), 10 (non-circumvention, for its stated period), 11 (confidentiality), 12 (indemnity), 13 (taxes), this clause 15, and clause 16 (general) continue after this agreement ends.

16. General

16.1 Governing law and forum. The Terms of Service choose Delaware law and the courts of Kent County, Delaware.

16.2 Dispute resolution. Disputes between you and KarKar are resolved under section 17 of the Terms of Service (informal resolution, then arbitration, with a class-action waiver). The internal review in clause 9 is not arbitration, is not neutral, and does not replace section 17.

16.3 Entire agreement. This agreement and the Terms of Service, together with the Privacy Policy and the Refund and Cancellation Policy, are the whole agreement between us about your use of the Platform. Where this agreement and the Terms of Service conflict on a matter covered here, this agreement wins.

16.4 Changes. We may change this agreement on 30 days' written notice. If you keep using the Platform after the change takes effect, you have accepted it. Changes do not affect jobs already authorised.

16.5 Assignment. You may not assign this agreement or subcontract your jobs without our written consent. We may assign it to an affiliate, or to a buyer of our business, on notice to you.

16.6 No waiver. If we do not enforce something immediately, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

16.7 Severability. If any part of this agreement is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable or, if it cannot be, severed. The rest stays in force.

16.8 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failing to perform because of something outside its reasonable control, including natural disaster, fire, flood, war, civil unrest, epidemic, government action, labour dispute, failure of the internet, or failure of a third-party service or payment processor. This does not excuse an obligation to pay money already due.

16.9 No third-party beneficiaries. This agreement is between you and KarKar only. A Client cannot enforce any part of it, including clauses 4, 5 and 6. This is deliberate and settled: KarKar is a mediator, gives no platform workmanship guarantee, and creates no third-party beneficiary rights..

16.10 Notices. We will send notices to the email address on your account. You send notices to KarKar Ops LLC, 4615 Arriba Dr, Tarzana, CA 91356, USA, and by email to info@kar-kar.com. Notice is effective when sent. Keep your contact details current.

16.11 Language. This agreement is in English. Any translation is for convenience only; the English version governs.

Schedule 1 — The KarKar Standard Workmanship Warranty

Version 1.0. This is the document referred to in clause 5.3. It is versioned: a Technician opts in to a stated version, and a later version does not bind a Technician who has not accepted it (5.3.2). Any change to it produces a new version number and a new opt-in — it is never edited in place.

W1. Who gives this warranty. The Technician who performed the work gives it. KarKar does not give it. KarKar writes the standard, records which Technicians have opted in, displays that fact on their profiles, and enforces it against them under clause 5.3.5. KarKar does not perform the work, does not guarantee it, and is not liable for it.

W2. What is covered. The workmanship of the job the Technician was paid to do, and any part the Technician supplied for it, to the extent of the manufacturer's own warranty on that part (clause 6.3).

W3. How long it lasts. 12 months from the date the work was completed, or 12,000 miles driven from that date, whichever comes first.

W4. What the Technician must do. If, within that period, the work fails or the problem the Technician was paid to fix comes back because of that work, the Technician will diagnose and re-perform the work at no charge to the Client, or, where they cannot or will not, refund the Client in full.

W5. What is not covered. A failure caused by a part the Client supplied; unrelated pre-existing damage; the Client's own misuse or neglect; ordinary wear; or work someone else did afterwards.

W6. How a Client claims. Through KarKar support. Support investigates, and where it concludes the Technician did not honour this warranty, the Client is refunded and KarKar recovers the money from the Technician under clause 8. The Client's route is a complaint to KarKar, not a claim on this Schedule: a Client is not a party to this agreement and cannot enforce it (16.9).

W7. What this is not. It is not a KarKar guarantee of the repair, not an insurance policy, and not a promise that KarKar will pay the Client out of its own funds. It does not affect any right a Client has directly against the Technician, or any right a Client holds under law regardless of contract.