Allocat is a team resourcing management platform service (“Allocat Service”) developed and provided by Allocat Oy (“Platform Supplier”), a Finnish company with business ID 3227402-2 and official address at Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00180 Helsinki, Finland.
Allocat Service enables an IT professional or company such as a freelancer or small consultant company (“Service Professional”) to provide people to connect with and enter into contract to perform services or be employed by customer companies (“Teams”). In addition, Allocat Service provides the Teams a way to manage their own workforce and find external IT professionals to work with freelancer contracts or with permanent employment contracts. The Service Professionals and the Teams will enter into service or employment contracts on their own terms and conditions. For clarity, the Platform Supplier is not a party to the contracts between the Service Professionals and the Teams.
These General Terms of Allocat Service (“Terms”) govern the access to and the use of Allocat Service by each registered user (“User”). The User must accept these Terms before accessing or using Allocat Service. The User will be registered in Allocat Service as a representative of either the Service Professional or any of the Teams.
The Platform Supplier may from time to time update these Terms at its sole discretion. The updated version of the Terms will be published on Allocat Service. The User will be requested to accept the updated Terms as a precondition to continue to access and use Allocat Service.
The Platform Supplier shall provide the User with an access to use Allocat Service. The User shall have a right to use Allocat Service for their internal purposes only. The user account is personal.
If the Platform Supplier needs to interrupt or restrict the provision of Allocat Service temporarily due to e.g. maintenance measures, the Platform Supplier endeavors to notify the User in advance through its website or Allocat Service. The Platform Supplier intends to make Allocat Service available on a 24/7 basis but shall not give any service level guarantee or warranty. Consequently, Allocat Service is provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis.
The Platform Supplier develops Allocat Service and may from time to time modify and release new versions of Allocat Service at its sole discretion.
The User is responsible for managing their own user account, including keeping their personal information accurate and up to date. In addition, the User shall control who shall have access to their personal information and removing the access once it is no longer needed. In particular, the User must use their real identity, name, and contact information on their user account.
The User shall not use Allocat Service for any illegal, unauthorized, offensive, or harmful purpose but shall comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and user instructions of Allocat Service.
Allocat Service is made available to the User free-of-charge. However, the Platform Supplier may publish chargeable features that the User may order on separate terms and conditions.
The User is responsible for acquiring and maintaining at the User’s own expense hardware, software and telecommunications that are required to access and use Allocat Service.
All copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights relating to Allocat Service, including its modifications and new versions, will remain the exclusive property of the Platform Supplier or its licensors. The User shall have only a limited right to access and use Allocat Service in accordance with these Terms.
The Platform Supplier shall have a right to use content and information, including feedback, provided by the User only for the purposes of providing Allocat Service, and for developing and improving Allocat Service.
The Platform Supplier shall maintain the confidentiality of the User’s personal data and process such personal data in accordance with Allocat Service privacy policy.
To the maximum extent permitted by the applicable law, neither the Platform Supplier nor any supplier or licensor of the Platform Supplier shall be liable for any indirect, special, consequential, punitive or incidental damage, or loss of revenue, profit or data, in relation to Allocat Service or these Terms. Regarding direct damage, the maximum liability of the Platform Supplier shall be limited to EUR 100. The User expressly acknowledges and accepts that these limitations of liability constitute an essential part of these Terms.
The User will be entitled to terminate their user account at any time through a specific account removal function of Allocat Service.
The Platform Supplier will be entitled to terminate the User’s user account with a seven-day written notice to the User. In addition, the Platform Supplier will be entitled to temporarily suspend the User’s access to Allocat Service if the Platform Supplier has a justifiable reason to believe that User has violated these Terms, in which case the Platform Supplier will notify the User of the suspension in writing.
These Terms shall be governed by the substantive laws of Finland, excluding conflict of law principles in any jurisdiction.
Any and all disputes, controversies or claims, which the parties fail to settle amicably, arising out of or relating to these Terms, or the breach, termination or validity thereof, shall be submitted to the District Court of Helsinki as the court of first instance.
The Platform Supplier shall be entitled to transfer Allocat Service to a third party, including the contractual relationship with the User.
These Terms will be applicable as of the date set forth in the beginning of these Terms.
