Terms of Use

1. The object and general provisions of the Conditions of Use

1.1. These Conditions of Use of the Helk online service (hereinafter referred to as the Conditions) regulate the legal relations and the general conditions of using Helk between the provider of the Helk online service located at www.helk.ee (hereinafter referred to as Helk), i.e. Helk OÜ (registry code 12903248, hereinafter referred to as), the users of Helk (hereinafter referred to as the User) and the users providing a service (hereinafter referred to as the User Providing a Service).

1.2. The Helk online service includes a free-of-charge option for the User to create a personal user account at Helk (hereinafter referred to as the User Account) and to create a profile page for this User Account (hereinafter the Profile) for providing a service, to evaluate and comment on the Users Providing a Service. A more specific and complete list of Helk’s options and their descriptions has been provided on Helk’s homepage at www.helk.ee.

1.3. By registering oneself as a User and using the services of Helk, the User and/or User Providing a Service confirm that they have examined the Conditions and agree to those Conditions. A User and/or User Providing a Service who does not agree to the conditions, shall be obliged to stop using the services of Helk immediately.

1.4. Pursuant to the legislation of the Republic of Estonia, the User shall be liable for violating the Conditions and causing damage, and for any consequences arising from the actions of the User and/or User Providing a Service.

2.Users, User Accounts, rights and obligations of the Users

2.1. Any natural and legal person registered at the Republic of Estonia may become a User after having confirmed upon the registration of their User Account that they have examined the Conditions and agree to them.

2.2. A User Account is a unique username given to a User along with their log-in password and account data.

2.3. Each natural and legal person may own only one User Account at Helk and operate under only one username. The same natural or legal person may create several User Accounts only upon a previous agreement with Helk.

2.4. By creating a User Account, the User gives Helk the right to provide the User the services of authentication, logging in, monitoring visits and online presence, and displaying user data in connection to the services of Helk.

2.5. By creating a User Account and using the services of Helk, the User consents to disclosing only true and correct personal data to Helk and ensures that the data is up to date. If the User’s data changes, the User shall be obliged to immediately enter their new correct data to their User Account or the services of Helk.

2.6. The User shall give Helk the right to process and preserve the personal data the User has entered into Helk. If the User wishes to terminate the processing and preservation of their personal data, Helk shall allow the User to delete their User Account and all associated data.

2.7. The User shall be obliged to keep the password of their User Account secret and not to disclose it to third persons. They must also do everything in their power to ensure that their password could not be accessed by anyone. In case of doubt or knowledge that someone other than the User has learned the password, the User shall be obliged to inform Helk immediately and to start using a new password.

2.8. A User who is a natural person may use the services of Helk only for non-commercial purposes which do not produce any personal gain or monetary income, unless the Service Provider and User have made a separate agreement on the matter.

2.9. Users acting in the name of a legal person shall register at Helk in the name of the corresponding legal person.

2.10. In using the services of Helk, the User shall be obliged to follow all copyright legislation valid in the Republic of Estonia. The User may not enter, upload or otherwise disclose any works (including photos, texts etc.) protected by the copyright of other persons on their Profile’s User Account, unless they have consent from the author of the work. Works published at Helk shall be governed by ordinary copyright, unless the User has noted otherwise by the works they present (e.g. by specifying a Creative Commons type licence or permitting the use of the work along with an explanatory text within the data).

2.11. The User shall be entitled to upload only files in .jpg format to their User Account and Profile. In presenting information and data, the User shall be obliged to adhere to the general ethical and moral standards of the Republic of Estonia and to be polite to other Users.

2.12. The User shall be prohibited from directly linking data (e.g. photos) presented at Helk with HTML tags to other webpages, and from using such software, scripts, programs or other applications on their User Account which could burden, disrupt or damage the work of Helk’s servers, impeding the Service Provider from providing a high-quality service.

2.13. The User shall be prohibited from sending other Users advertisements, junk mail, mass messages or other such messages, which the other Users have not subscribed to and cannot be assumed to be interested in.

2.14. When using the services of Helk, the User shall be prohibited from publishing materials, data or comments with criminal, pornographic, threatening, obscene, insulting, knowingly defaming or knowingly incorrect content. Helk shall reserve the sole right to decide which materials, data or comments meet these criteria and to delete or block materials, data or comments not compliant with requirements without giving the User any advance notice.

3. The service and the rights and obligations of the Service Provider

3.1. The Service Provider shall ensure the best and high-quality service within reason, but all services shall be provided on the ‘as is’ principle, within the abilities and better judgement of the Service Provider.

3.2. The Service Provider does not give the User any guarantees within the framework of their service. Regardless of the fact that the Service Provider shall do everything in their power to ensure the preservation of data, security systems, the usability of the service and the confidentiality of data, the Service Provider shall not assume any liability with regard to these activities and indicators. The Service Provider recommends all Users to ensure that all of their data and files have back-up copies in other systems/on other data carriers.

3.3. Neither the Service Provider nor their partners shall be liable for direct or indirect damages or other possible negative consequences to the User caused by using or not using the services of Helk. The Service Provider shall not be liable for the content of the data (including photos, texts etc.) uploaded or added to the service by the Users, and the liability for this shall fall only on the User who registered the User Account.

3.5. The Service Provider shall be entitled to demand that the User removes such photos from Helk where a third person has been depicted against his/her free will outside a public place, or such photos shall be deleted or blocked.

3.6. The Service Provider shall be entitled to demand that the User removes such data, including software, scripts etc., from Helk which impede the Service Provider from providing a high-quality service or which are insulting or defaming with regard to other persons or in some other way in controversy with the Conditions, or to delete such data themselves.

3.9. The Service Provider shall be entitled to publicly display, without any restrictions, a list of all Users and all the public albums and photos of Users. Helk also has the right to link data (e.g. photos) entered by a User into Helk to external webpages outside of the services of Helk for the purpose of introducing Helk (e.g. banners, HTML advertisements etc.)

3.10. The Service Provider shall be entitled to create technical possibilities of sending all data (e.g. photos) included in the services of Helk to other web, Internet and mobile services and applications outside of the services of Helk, and charge various fees for using such possibilities and interfaces.

3.11. The Service Provider shall be entitled to offer charged services, of which the Users shall be notified separately.

4. Changing User Conditions, blocking or deleting data on User Accounts, closing the User Account

4.1. The Service Provider shall be entitled to partially or fully unilaterally amend the Conditions. The amendments shall enter into force as of being announced on Helk’s homepage at www.helk.ee or upon sending a corresponding notice to the User via the internal messaging system of Helk.

4.2. Should the User not agree to the amendments to the Conditions, they shall be obliged to immediately stop using the services of Helk and to terminate their User Account. Further use of the services also means agreeing to the amendments to the Conditions.

4.3. A User shall be entitled to stop using the services of Helk and to close their User Account at any moment they wish.

4.4. The Service Provider shall be entitled to block or delete data on a User Account or to completely close a User Account without notifying the User in advance, should the User violate the Conditions (including registering a User Account under someone else’s name or a fake name, submitting wrongful data or having several User Accounts).

4.5. If a person has previously violated the Conditions, wherefore the Service Provider has closed their User Account, the Service Provider shall have the right to refuse creating a new User Account for them.

4.6. Additionally, the Service Provider shall be entitled to unilaterally close a User Account if the User has not logged into their User Account for 3 months and the Service Provider has previously sent a notice about the intention to close the User Account to the e-mail address submitted by the User, but has not received any reply.

By clicking the “Complete Sign Up” button, the User confirms having understood the Conditions and fully accepting them.