General

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern the use of the services provided by Duunitori Group (“Service”). Unless otherwise agreed, these Terms apply to all users of our Service, including employers (“Employer”), job applicants (“Applicant”), and other users (collectively “User”). Some sections may apply only to some groups of users. The contracting Duunitori Group company (“Provider”) depends on the User’s location: Duunitori Oy in Finland, Jobbland AB in Sweden and Jobbland AS in Norway.

You accept these Terms either on your own behalf or on behalf of your company or other organization by i) using the Service, ii) registering for a user account for the Service, iii) posting a job advertisement, or iv) issuing an order or otherwise agreeing with the Provider on the use of the Service.

The Service includes a variety of features related to recruitment and job application available from time to time to different user groups, such as the possibility to publish a job advertisement, to apply for a job, to take tests, to organize an advertising campaign to reach employees and to enhance recruitment. The Service is intended for companies, organizations and private individuals seeking employees, and for job applicants.

Provision and Use of the Service

The Service is provided as is and with the features and functionalities available from time to time. The Provider shall have the right at its sole discretion to develop, modify or suspend the Service. The Provider shall take reasonable efforts to inform Users beforehand of any material changes to the Service. The Provider shall have the right to use subcontractors to provide the Service and to change the subcontractors at its sole discretion.

The User shall use the Service in accordance with these Terms, other rules and instructions concerning the use of the Service, and in accordance with applicable law and good practice. The User is fully liable for its use of the Service and for any damage caused to the Provider and any third parties by its use of the Service in violation of these Terms, applicable law, or good practice. 

The User is responsible for any devices, network connections, and software necessary for the use of the Service, and for all of its and its users’ use of the Service.

The Service may include features or components which rely on third-party products or services, or links to third-party services. The Provider shall not be responsible for any third-party products or services or their impact on the Service, including but not limited to any outages, disruptions, or changes, or for any linked third-party services.

User Accounts

Some features of the Service require a user account. To use such features, the User must provide the information requested during the registration process and keep such information up to date. The User must promptly correct or notify the Provider of any inaccuracies or changes in the user account data. The User shall handle the user credentials with due care and shall be responsible for all use of its user credentials. All user accounts are personal, and no shared user accounts are allowed unless agreed to with the Provider.

Limitations and Restrictions of Use

Job Advertisements

The Employer’s job advertisements shall adhere to the following limitations:

• Job advertisements are for individual jobs and may not contain more than one job or job description.
• The job advertisement must clearly indicate the employer and the position being filled.
• The Employer may seek several employees with a single job advertisement if there are several positions available with the same job description.
• The number of job advertisements the Employer may publish depends on the tier chosen by the Employer. On the free tier, the Employer may publish up to eight job advertisements per month.
• The Employer’s advertisement expires after the application period.

The Provider shall have the right to limit the number of job advertisements to be published, to refrain from publishing advertisements or to remove advertisements already published. The Provider shall also have at its sole discretion the right to issue other directions or limitations regarding the use of the Service.

Content Use

The User may create ordinary links to publicly accessible pages of the Service, such as individual job advertisements or articles published in the Service. The User may not use the Service or its content to create or provide a competing or substantially similar service, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service or its content, including by systematically linking to or embedding the content of the Service as part of another service or product made available to third parties without the Provider’s prior express written consent. 

The User may not make the content of the Service or a substantial part of it available to the public by distributing, presenting, or displaying it publicly or by any similar means. The User may not store, archive, scrape or otherwise systematically copy the content of the Service or a substantial part of it, except to the extent technically necessary for the authorised use of the Service.

General Restrictions of Use

The User shall not, under any circumstances:

1. sublicense, lease, or redistribute access to the Service to a third party;
2. break, circumvent or reverse engineer any features, functionalities, logic, source code, security measures, or usage restrictions and limits of the Service;
3. probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service;
4. use the Service in a manner that accesses or uses any information beyond what the Provider allows under these Terms;
5. perform any actions that could damage, disable, disrupt, overburden or impair the Service or its underlying services or systems;
6. attempt to change, distort or modify the Service or its underlying systems;
7. transmit any viruses, malware or other code that is intended to or may damage or detrimentally interfere with the Service or its underlying services or systems;
8. use the Service in violation of any applicable law or the rights of third parties.

User Content

The User may within and in connection with the Service create, upload, use, and otherwise process content (“User Content”), such as job advertisements of Employers and job applications of Applicants. The User shall be solely responsible for all User Content, including its legality, accuracy and quality. For clarity, this means that the Provider is not responsible for the job advertisements published by the Employers or for the job applications submitted by the Applicants. The User acknowledges that the Provider does not verify User Content in any way. The User further acknowledges that the Service is not intended for storing or archiving User Content, and the User is solely responsible for backing up any User Content or other data processed in the Service.

Copyright and other rights to materials and content owned by the User and potentially provided by the User in the course of the Agreement shall remain with the User or its third-party licensors. The User grants the Provider a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable right to use User Content for the purpose of providing the Service in accordance with these Terms.

The User shall be liable for ensuring that (i) it has all necessary rights to publish and use the User Content, (ii) the User Content does not infringe any rights of third parties or violate any applicable laws or regulations, (iii) the User Content is not offensive, insulting, defamatory, obscene, illegal, contrary to good practice, harmful to the Provider or any third party, or related to criminal activity or inciting to such activity. The Provider reserves the right to remove any User Content which violates these Terms or applicable law.

The Provider shall retain the User Content of an Employer for a maximum period of two years unless the Employer requests its removal earlier. User Content of Applicants is retained for as long as the Applicant has a valid user account, unless the Applicant removes the content earlier.

Data Protection

When providing the Service, the Provider processes personal data as a controller. Such processing is described in the Privacy Statement of the Provider. In addition, when providing some features of the Service (such as applying for jobs through the Service), the Provider processes personal data on behalf of the Employer as a processor. The terms for such processing are set out in the Data Processing Terms below.

Service Availability

The Provider has the right to temporarily suspend the Service or a part thereof in case it deems it necessary. Such suspension may relate to for example maintenance, updates, or repairs, as well as measures to ensure or restore the availability, performance, recoverability, information security, or manageability of the Service. In case of a suspension, the Provider shall seek to keep the interruption as short as reasonable and to not cause undue inconvenience to the User. The Provider shall inform the User of the suspension in advance where reasonably possible. The Provider shall have no liability for any suspensions or interruptions of the Service.

In case the Provider reasonably believes the User’s use of the Service, including any User Content, violates these Terms, the rights of a third party or any applicable law or regulation, the Provider shall have the right to suspend or remove such User Content from the Service and suspend the User’s access to the Service without liability.

Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights

All intellectual property rights related to the Service, software, materials, and the work related to the performance of the Service and any materials, software, and applications created on the basis of such work, and any modifications to the aforementioned shall belong to the Provider or its third-party licensors, and none of these rights are transferred to the User.

The User shall not remove, modify, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property notices present in the Service.

The Provider shall not be responsible for infringements of intellectual property rights insofar as they concern anything other than the Service provided by the Provider. The Provider shall also not be responsible for infringements resulting from changes made by the User to the Service, use of the Service contrary to these Terms or any directions or instructions of the Provider, or the use of the Service together with another service provided by a third party or produced by the User.

The User may use the Provider’s trademark, trade name, and product name in services provided by third parties in connection with its job advertisements when indicating that the job applicant may apply for the job through the Service. The User shall at all times adhere to all instructions and directions given by the Provider regarding the use of its trademark, trade name or product name. The User is not entitled to use the Provider’s trademark, trade name, or product name in any other context, and these Terms shall not be considered a transfer of any intellectual property right to the User.

The User’s breach of the above obligations shall be considered a material breach of these Terms. The provisions of this section shall remain in force regardless of the term of the User’s use of the Service.

Limitation of Liability and Warranties

The Service is provided on an “as is” basis. The Provider does not warrant that the Service is free of errors or that the Service will be available for the User’s use without interruption. Further, the Provider gives no warranties regarding the reliability or content of the Service, or the suitability of the Service for any specific purpose. 

The Provider endeavors to ensure the functionality and availability of the Service, and to correct possible errors in the Service within a reasonable time, without any commitments to particular service levels. 

Unless otherwise required by applicable law, the Provider shall not be liable for any direct or indirect, material or non-material damage that may be caused to the User or a third party by the use of or related to the Service, including but not limited to interruptions, delays, or errors in the Service, loss of profit, revenue, or benefit, decrease in turnover or production, loss or delay of data, failure to fulfill obligations promised to a third party, or other deficiencies in the Service or its content. In any case, the total aggregate liability of the Provider shall not exceed the amount of fees paid by the User during the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

The User shall compensate the Provider and third parties for any damage caused by the User’s actions that violate applicable law or these Terms. 

The Provider shall not be responsible for the processing of the job applications or for any application or recruitment decisions made by the User, or results thereof. Under no circumstances shall the Provider be considered an employer in relation to any job applicants.

The provisions of this section shall remain in force regardless of the term of the User’s use of the Service.

Fees and Payments

The Provider charges fees for some of the features of the Service. Pricing information, including the applicable fees and billing periods for such features in force from time to time are available within the Service in connection with such features. The fees are charged by card or similar method, or by invoices. In case of an invoice, the payment term is 14 days net from the date of the invoice, unless otherwise indicated.

The Provider shall have the right to change such fees at its sole discretion for any future billing periods. All fees are nonrefundable.

If there are changes in taxes related to the Service or the fees, such as value-added tax, or other public charges, the Provider shall have the right to adjust the fees accordingly. In addition, the Provider shall always have the right to change its prices if a change in law or an order issued by an authority requires a price change.

Term and Termination of the Agreement

These Terms shall apply to all use of the Service by the User and remain in force as long as the User uses the Service. 

The User may terminate these Terms at any time by discontinuing its use of the Service, and where applicable, by deleting its user account.

The Provider may terminate these Terms at any time with 14 days’ prior notice, or with immediate effect if:

1. the User materially breaches the Terms and does not remedy the breach within a reasonable time after the Provider’s notice;
2. the User has not paid a due payment within 14 days after being notified of this in writing;
3. the User is declared bankrupt, files for bankruptcy, is in liquidation, or is otherwise insolvent;
4. there is a change in the User’s creditworthiness; and
5. the User’s use of the Service has been completely suspended for more than one month.

Notice of termination must be given in writing. Termination by the Provider does not eliminate the User’s obligation to pay fees until the end of the subscription period, where applicable.

Force Majeure

The Provider shall be released from its obligations in case of an event that could not reasonably have been foreseen and the consequences of which cannot reasonably be overcome or avoided (force majeure). Such an event may include, for example, unreasonable difficulty in fulfilling the Provider’s obligations, server error or network connection failure, national state of emergency, labor dispute, fire, thunderstorm, storm, natural disaster, regulatory order, flood and water damage, interruption in the supply of energy, or another similar event with corresponding and unusual effects beyond the Provider’s control.

Amendments

The Provider may, at its sole discretion and at any time, amend these Terms by updating the Terms and notifying the User thereof. By continuing to use the Service, the User shall be deemed to have read and accepted the amended Terms.

Other Terms

If any part of these Terms is found for any reason to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining parts of the Terms shall remain valid. 

All notices by the User related to these Terms must be sent to customerservice@duunitori.fi. The Provider shall send notices regarding these Terms to the email address last provided by the User or through other communication channels to addresses or numbers provided by the User (for example by text message to the mobile number provided by the User). General notices concerning the Service may also be published on the Service’s website. The User shall keep its contact details up to date within the Service or notify the Provider of changes in its contact details without undue delay.

Neither party to these Terms has the right to assign its rights or obligations under these Terms without the written consent of the other party. The Provider shall, however, have the right to assign its rights and obligations to a third party in connection with a corporate transaction. In addition, the Provider shall have the right to assign its receivables under these Terms to a third party.

Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the country in which the Service is provided ( [Finland, /Sweden/ or Norway]) excluding its choice of law provisions.

Employers

If the party to these Terms is a company or another organization, any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this contract, or the breach, termination or validity thereof, shall be finally settled by arbitration in accordance with the Rules for Expedited Arbitration of the Finland Chamber of Commerce. However, at the request of a party, the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce may determine that the Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce shall apply instead of the Rules for Expedited Arbitration, if the Arbitration Institute considers this to be appropriate taking into account the amount in dispute, the complexity of the case, and other relevant circumstances. The seat of arbitration shall be Helsinki, Finland. The language of the arbitration shall be English.

Private Individuals

If the party to these Terms is a private individual, any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this contract, or the breach, termination or validity thereof, shall be finally settled by the [Helsinki/Stockholm/Oslo] District Ccompetent courts as the first instanceof the individual’s domicile, unless otherwise provided by applicable mandatory law.

DSA Content Moderation Policies

The Provider uses both automated and manual moderation to review content published on the Service before or after publication to ensure compliance with applicable law.

Users of the Service can report content they consider unlawful directly through functionalities available on the Service. The Provider may remove or restrict content that violates applicable law, these Terms, or that The Provider otherwise considers inappropriate or inconsistent with the purpose, safety, or integrity of the Service.

The Provider informs users of moderation decisions and provides an appeal option through the functionalities of the Service. The Provider complies with lawful requests from the relevant authorities and trusted flaggers under the Digital Services Act ((EU) 2022/2065) and publishes an annual transparency summary of moderation actions.

Data Processing Terms

The following terms and conditions govern the processing of personal data carried out by the Provider on behalf of the Employer as a processor, such as that related to applying for jobs through the Service. The processing carried out by the Provider for its own purposes is described in the Privacy Statement.

General

The Employer is responsible for the lawful processing and collection of personal data in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other laws and regulations concerning the processing of personal data. The Provider will not monitor the Employer’s processing of personal data in the Service. Where applicable, the Employer shall be responsible for having all required rights and necessary permissions from third parties to use and disclose personal data to the Provider. The Employer shall ensure it is entitled to transfer the relevant personal data to the Provider to process, and be responsible for the accuracy and lawfulness of the personal data processed in the Service under these Terms.

The Provider shall only process personal data in accordance with these Terms and documented instructions from the Employer, unless required otherwise by applicable law. In such a case, the Provider shall inform the Employer of such a requirement, unless prohibited to do so by law. If the Provider considers the Employer’s instructions to be against applicable law, the Provider shall not be obliged to comply with such instructions and shall notify the Employer.

After the expiration of the Terms, the Provider shall delete the data, unless requested to return the data by the Employer.

Security

The Provider shall implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of processing and to safeguard the data against unauthorized or unlawful processing or access and against accidental loss, destruction of personal data, taking into account the costs of implementation as well as the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing of personal data carried out by the Provider.

The measures shall include, where relevant for each processing activity: (i) the pseudonymization and encryption of personal data; (ii) the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of processing systems and Service; (iii) the ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident; (iv) a process for regularly testing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.

The Provider shall ensure that all persons processing personal data are under contractual or statutory obligation of confidentiality.

The Provider shall notify the Employer of a personal data breach without undue delay after becoming aware of it.

Subcontractors

The Provider shall have the right to use subcontractors for the processing of personal data. The Provider shall ensure that the sub-processing is governed by a written agreement with terms and conditions substantively similar to these data processing terms. The Provider shall be liable for the processing carried out by the subcontractors as for its own.

An up-to-date list of the subprocessors is available here. In case there is a later change of a subprocessor (addition or replacement), the Provider shall notify the Employer of such change, thereby allowing the Employer the opportunity to object to such change. If the Provider is not willing to change the subprocessor to which the Employer has objected, both Parties shall have the right to terminate these Terms.

International Transfers of Personal Data

The Provider shall have the right to transfer personal data outside the European Union. Before any personal data is transferred to countries not deemed to have an adequate level of data protection by the European Commission, the Provider shall ensure the transfer complies with the obligations set forth in Chapter V of the GDPR or ensure its subprocessors comply with such requirements.

Assistance

Taking into account the nature of the processing, the Provider shall assist the Employer with appropriate technical and organizational measures in complying with the Employer’s obligation to respond to requests for the exercise of data subjects’ rights under Chapter III of the GDPR.

Taking into account the nature of the processing and the information available to the Provider, the Provider shall assist the Employer in ensuring compliance with the Employer’s obligations set out in Articles 32 to 36 of the GDPR, such as data protection impact assessments, breach notifications and prior consultations of the competent supervisory authority.

Audits

The Provider shall by request make available to the Employer information necessary to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR and these Terms. Where such information is not reasonably sufficient for the Employer, the Employer shall have the right to conduct an audit concerning the processing of personal data in the Service or to commission a third party to carry out such audit, provided that the third party agrees to be bound to confidentiality. The Parties shall agree separately on the timing and details of the audit. The audit must not cause unreasonable harm or inconvenience to the Provider or jeopardize the Provider’s confidentiality commitments towards any third parties. The Employer is responsible for all costs of the audit.

Description of the Processing

Subject-matter and purpose of processing

The Provider processes personal data on behalf of the Employer as part of the Service when offering the possibility to contact the Employer or apply for jobs through the Service.

Nature of the processing

Collection, storage, retention, and transfer of data.

Categories of data subjects

• The Employer’s jJob applicants or other contacts
• The Employer’s contact persons

Types of personal data

• Contact persons and job applicants: contact details
• Job Applicants: education details, employment history, experience, other skills, and potentially areas of interest, communication details

Duration of processing

By default, the Provider processes data for the duration of the contractual relationship with the Employer. After this, some data may be stored in backups before being deleted as part of the normal backup cycle. The Employer also has the possibility to delete its data directly from the Service.