TERMS OF USE

1. INFORMATION ABOUT LEGALBUDDY

Welcome to Legalbuddy (legalbuddy.fi) provided by Administer Oyj (the "Company"), reg. no. reg. no. 0593027-4, with address Konepajankuja 3 B, 00510 Helsinki, Finland.

It is important to us that you and our other users have the best possible experience when visiting the website. It is also important that you are fully aware of our respective legal rights and obligations when using Legalbuddy. For these reasons, we have established these Terms of Use, which constitute the legally binding terms for your use of Legalbuddy. We kindly ask You to carefully read the Terms of Use before using the website as they affect Your legal rights and obligations.

2. YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF USE

By accessing the information provided on the website, You accept the Terms of Use. Please note that the Terms of Use may be amended and/or revised at any time and without notice by making an updated version available on Legalbuddy.

3. REGISTRATION

When registering for a possible user account, you will need to provide certain information. It is a prerequisite for the use of Legalbuddy that all information provided by You is correct, current and complete. If the Company has reason to believe that your information is not correct, current or complete, we reserve the right to deny you access to Legalbuddy and to terminate or suspend your user account.

If you are under 18 years of age, we require your parent's consent to register.

4. PERSONAL DATA

We do our best to protect your privacy and to act in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. For Legalbuddy, the terms of Legalbuddy's Privacy Policy apply.

5. TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT

Legalbuddy and all material provided to Legalbuddy by the Company ("Material" or "Material") are protected by copyright, other intellectual property rights ("Intellectual Property Rights"). Some of the figures, designs, marks, logos and other images provided by the Company to Legalbuddy are protected as trademarks and/or product, brand or service names. The Company respects the Intellectual Property Rights of others and we expect you to do the same.

6. YOUR USE OF MATERIALS

Your right to use LegalBuddy and the Materials and other content provided on this website is conditional upon your compliance with the Terms of Use. Modification and/or adaptation of the Materials or other content on LegalBuddy for purposes not permitted under the Terms of Use may constitute an infringement of the Company's or third parties' Intellectual Property Rights and/or Trademarks and is therefore not permitted.  

You may access certain Materials and other content available on Legalbuddy free of charge. Other Materials and Content are only available for a fee. The latter Material and Content may not otherwise be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or used in any way other than as expressly authorized on the Site without the express permission of the Company. Material provided free of charge may be shared if you cite Legalbuddy as the source.

To the extent not otherwise provided by applicable and mandatory law, it is also prohibited to translate, modify, decompile and/or break down or disassemble code used for the provision of the Website or the software accessed through links from the Website, such as accessing or converting code into readable form for the purpose of examining the design of the software and/or copying or creating other works based, in whole or in part, on such software.

7. LIMITED WARRANTY

Your use of Legalbuddy is at your own risk. The website contains free general legal information, but should not be seen as legal advice customized to your circumstances. Customized advice, which you order on the website, is provided by Administer Oyj on the terms applied by Administer Oyj.  

Legalbuddy and all Materials and any other content on Legalbuddy are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, the Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The Company does not warrant that Legalbuddy's functions will be available, uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Company's websites or related servers are free of viruses or other harmful components.  

The Company makes no representations or warranties regarding the use or the results of the use of LegalBuddy or any sites linked to Legalbuddy in terms of their correctness or otherwise. The Company makes no warranty that your use of the Materials or other content on Legalbuddy will not infringe the rights of others and the Company assumes no liability for any errors or omissions in the Materials or other content on Legalbuddy. If applicable law would not allow the exclusion of some or all of the above warranties in relation to You, the above exclusions shall apply to You only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

 The Company disclaims liability for any loss and damage (including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, consequential and third party damages) arising out of the use of or inability to use Legalbuddy, Materials, or any other content on the website and regardless of the basis of any claimed liability. If you have paid for the service, our liability is limited to the amount of the payment, up to a maximum of the amount paid by you in the three months preceding the event giving rise to liability. If applicable law does not allow certain limitations of liability to be applied against You, the limitations shall apply against You only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

9. USER FORUM 

Material on chat or discussion boards, community pages or other forums on LegalBuddy ("Forums") is not always shared by the Company, our affiliates or suppliers. The Company does not undertake to monitor and review the Forums to any greater extent than may be required by mandatory applicable law. The Company assumes no responsibility for content on such Forums. Any use of such Forums is at Your sole risk and such use is subject to the disclaimers of warranties and limitations of liability set forth above.

10. YOUR USE OF LEGALBUDDY

You may use Legalbuddy and its content solely for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from storing, distributing or transmitting illegal material on or through Legalbuddy. You may not collect or store personal data regarding other users. Storing, distributing or transmitting illegal material may result in criminal and civil liability. You agree that if a third party claims that material you have provided to Legalbuddy is illegal, it is your responsibility to demonstrate that the material is legal. You understand and agree that responsibility for any material submitted by the public (other than the Company) or transmitted by an individual to or through Legalbuddy rests with the sender, not the Company. You are responsible for all materials that you upload, post or otherwise transmit to or through Legalbuddy.

It is not permitted to make available on Legalbuddy such content - or for You to act in a way - that in the opinion of the Company: 

  1. is defamatory, abusive, threatening, incitement to racial hatred, including racism, stalking, invasion of privacy or obscene, indecent or pornographic, including child pornography

  2. aims to exploit or harm children by showing them inappropriate material, questioning them about personal and identifiable circumstances, etc;

  3. infringes the intellectual property or other rights of any natural or legal person;

  4.  constitutes, or may constitute, an infringement of any law;

  5.  means, irrespective of the Company's knowledge thereof, that you transfer or disseminate insider information, trade secrets or information that is subject to confidentiality or a duty of secrecy under, for example, an employment contract or other contractual obligation;

  6.  advocates or encourages illegality;

  7.  implies a false or otherwise misleading association with a natural or legal person or involves the manipulation of senders or identities to disguise the origin of any content;

  8.  includes marketing or commercial activities, such as offering to sell or buy goods and services, organizing sweepstakes and contests, or providing banners for sponsors, unless specifically permitted on LegalBuddy;

  9.  involves attempts to attract advertisers, sponsors, etc;

  10.  includes the distribution of software containing viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other programs or files designed to interfere with, damage or limit the functionality of software, hardware or telecommunications;

  11.  causes disruption or interruption of the normal flow of dialog, or the technical conditions for dialog, in real time on Legalbuddy;

  12.  involves the copying of pages or images on Legalbuddy without proper authorization;

  13. includes pyramid schemes and similar;

  14.  involves the storage of large amounts of data, for example by using space on Legalbuddy made available to you for the storage of large files, which are only linked from other websites;

  15.  involves a breach of any policy or regulation relating from time to time to the use of Legalbuddy or any network to which Legalbuddy is connected; or

  16.  means linking to other websites which include content falling within the descriptions in (1) to (15) above.

In addition, you are prohibited from removing material published on Legalbuddy.

11. ABUSE OF LEGALBUDDY

You agree not to send, create, or otherwise participate in mass mailing (mail bombing), spamming, or other conduct that adversely affects the functionality or performance of Legalbuddy for any other person. You may not reproduce, sell or otherwise exploit any assets, or access to assets, included in Legalbuddy.

12. SAFETY

When you register for a user account, you create a password. All passwords used on Legalbuddy are for personal use only. You are responsible for protecting your password. You are prohibited from using any service or functionality provided on Legalbuddy in any manner that jeopardizes the security or manipulates systems or user accounts. You are strictly prohibited from using or distr