Upright – Terms of Use

These terms of use apply to all online services provided by Upright ("Upright's Online Services"), including, but not limited to:

  • The Upright Website, available online at https://uprightproject.com
  • The Upright Platform, available online at https://uprightplatform.com
  • The Upright API, available online at https://api.uprightproject.com

Upright's Online Services are made available by Upright Oy (business ID 2848353-4 and address Annankatu 27, 00100 Helsinki).

Should you have any questions regarding these Terms, you can send us an email at hello@uprightproject.com.

By using Upright's Online Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (“Terms” or “Agreement”), whether or not you register to any of Upright's Online Services. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use Upright's Online Services.

In these Terms “you” or “user” refers to all users of Upright's Online Services, both consumers and companies, associations and other entities.

Use of Upright's Online Services

You have a limited right to use Upright's Online Services in a manner and form offered to you by us from time to time.

Upright's Online Services are used via a web browser. You are responsible for obtaining equipment, connections and software necessary to use Upright's Online Services as well as for any costs relating thereto.

Upright's Online Services are offered on various tiers. Some features are available free of charge ('Free Plan'), while others require a paid subscription ('Paid Plan'). The Free Plan is provided only for informational use and may not be used for external reporting (e.g., for CSRD reporting).

We reserve the right to define the rules for using Upright's Online Services and to modify, change, or remove functionalities and features, particularly those within the Free Plan, at our sole discretion and at any time.

We are not responsible for retaining any materials or information that has been uploaded by the users to Upright's Online Services. Do not use Upright's Online Services for storing or backing up any materials or information.

User accounts

Some features of Upright's Online Services are only available to registered users. When registering to Upright's Online Services by creating a user account, you must submit accurate and current registration details, as requested on the registration page. Please remember to update your details in case of any changes.

Your account and password are personal. Do not disclose your password to third parties and do not let third parties use your Upright account. Please note that you are responsible for all purchases and use of Upright's Online Services under your account.

When creating an Upright account to a company or other organization, you confirm that you have the authorization to make such registration on behalf of such organization.

We have the right to terminate your Upright account at any time, for example in case we deem that you have breached these Terms or caused harm to us or the other users of Upright's Online Services.

Purchases and payment

The applicable fees for our Paid Plans are specified on the websites of Upright's Online Services. All fees are quoted exclusive of applicable taxes, for which you are responsible.

Paid Plans are billed on a subscription basis ('Subscription') in advance on a recurring billing cycle (e.g., monthly or annually). Subscriptions will automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle unless you cancel it through your account settings or by contacting us prior to the renewal date.

You agree to pay for your Subscription using the payment functionalities offered. By providing a payment method, you authorize us to charge it for all applicable Subscription fees. Should a payment fail, we reserve the right to attempt to process the payment again or to issue an invoice for the outstanding amount.

By purchasing a Subscription, you consent to the immediate commencement of the service. You acknowledge that by receiving immediate access to the service, you lose your right of withdrawal for the initial purchase period. This does not affect your right to cancel the Subscription's renewal at any time.

Interest on any overdue payments shall accrue according to the Finnish Interest Act. You shall be responsible for the reasonable costs incurred by Upright when collecting overdue fees.

User content

You retain full ownership of all content and data you submit to Upright’s Online Services ('User Content').

You grant Upright a license to use, host, store, reproduce, and modify your User Content solely for the purpose of providing, maintaining, and improving Upright’s Online Services for you.

Furthermore, you grant Upright a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use User Content in an aggregated and anonymized form, such that it does not identify you as an individual or entity. We may use this anonymized data to operate and improve our platform, algorithms, and models, and for creating industry benchmarks and other analytical purposes.

Please note that you are responsible for the content you have added to Upright's Online Services and for having obtained all necessary rights to add such content to Upright's Online Services to be used in accordance with these terms. Do not add any illegal or offensive content to Upright's Online Services.

We have the right to remove any content added to Upright's Online Services by the users.

Information available on Upright's Online Services

The information uploaded by our users, the conclusions made by our artificial intelligence and the other information available on Upright's Online Services is for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice.

Please note, that the information available on Upright's Online Services may include information that you find erroneous, misleading or otherwise objectionable. For clarity, we make no warranty as to the information available on Upright's Online Services of its accuracy, reliability or fitness for a particular purpose. The information does not, in any way, reflect the opinion of Upright or its affiliates.

Restrictions of use of Upright's Online Services

You may use Upright's Online Services only and strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Unless otherwise permitted in this Agreement, you may not:

  • circumvent or attempt to circumvent any usage control or anti-copy features Upright's Online Services;
  • probe, scan or test the vulnerability of Upright's Online Services;
  • use Upright's Online Services and the content available through Upright's Online Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair Upright's Online Services;
  • use any data mining, robots, scraping, or similar data gathering or extraction methods;
  • use, sell, rent, transfer, license or otherwise provide anybody with Upright's Online Services and/or the content available through Upright's Online Services, except as provided herein;
  • interfere with other users’ use and enjoyment of Upright's Online Services;
  • reverse engineer or decompile Upright's Online Services or access the source code thereof, except as permitted by law;
  • use Upright's Online Services for transmitting any unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, contests, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation or mass messaging;
  • use Upright's Online Services in violation of applicable law;
  • use Upright's Online Services in ways that violate intellectual property rights, business secrets or privacy of third parties;
  • use Upright's Online Services to transmit any material that contains adware, malware, spyware, software viruses, worms or any other computer code designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of computer software or equipment.

Demandbase company data content

In addition to other data sources, Upright's Online Services uses data provided by Demandbase including, but not limited to company revenues, employee counts, and website URLs.

You agree (a) that your use of Demandbase content (i) must be solely for your internal business, and (ii) should abide by all access and use restrictions contained in Demandbase content made available through Upright's Online Services. In addition, you agree (b) not to (i) sell, lease, share, transfer, sublicense or fail to protect the confidentiality of Demandbase content, directly or indirectly, from, any third party, including any data broker, ad network, ad exchange, or other advertising monetization-related party, (ii) use Demandbase content for the purpose of compiling, supplementing or amending any mailing list, business directory, or like compilation of information that is distributed to a third party, (iii) use Demandbase content to market products or services of any kind to individual consumers, (iv) use Demandbase content in evaluating any consumer with respect to credit worthiness, a financial, insurance or employment decision, or with respect to eligibility for any government-granted license or benefit, (v) authorize any third parties to do any of the above, or (vi) resell, sublicense, time-share, or otherwise share Demandbase content with any third party.

Other third party services and content

Certain functionalities and content on Upright's Online Services may be provided by other third parties.

This Agreement covers exclusively Upright's Online Services and the use thereof and any and all linked third party services and content are provided by the relevant third parties and covered by their terms of service or other agreement or licenses. Upright does not assume any liability in regard to use of such third party services and content, whether or not they are referenced by or available on Upright's Online Services.

Intellectual Property

All intellectual property in or related to Upright's Online Services and the data generated by Upright's Online Services or the users’ use of Upright's Online Services and all parts and copies thereof shall remain exclusively vested with and be the sole and exclusive property of Upright.

Except as expressly stated herein, this Agreement does not grant the user any intellectual property in Upright's Online Services and all rights not expressly granted hereunder are reserved by Upright and its subcontractors or licensors, as the case may be.

Limitation of liability

We try to keep Upright's Online Services up and running but please note that Upright's Online Services may at any time be temporarily interrupted or permanently discontinued and may contain errors and inaccuracies.

We are not responsible for damages caused by such interruptions, suspensions, errors or inaccuracies or from any use of Upright's Online Services by you or the organization that you represent.

This section does not limit Upright’s statutory liability for defects or delays in Upright's Online Services to our consumer users or your statutory remedies under any applicable mandatory consumer protection laws.

General terms

For paid plans, unless described otherwise in the Agreement or agreed upon separately, the IT 2022 YSE (General terms and conditions), Appendix 1, and IT 2022 ETP (Special terms and conditions for services delivered via data network), Appendix 2, apply with the following exceptions:

  • Section 4.7 of IT 2022 YSE does not apply. Any reimbursement of possible travel costs must be agreed upon separately in writing.
  • The liability of both parties is in all situations limited as described in Sections 13.1–13.4 of IT 2022 YSE. Section 13.2 of IT 2022 ETP does not apply. The termination process is described in section “Term and Termination”.
  • Section 13.5 of IT 2022 YSE does not apply.

Term and termination

Paid subscriptions may be terminated according to the terms of your subscription and its billing cycle, and the general terms. This Agreement is in force and binding as long as the user is using Upright's Online Services or as long as a company's subscription is active.

In case you discontinue a subscription and/or delete your free account with Upright's Online Services, you may still access the public version of Upright's Online Services and the relevant provisions of this Agreement continue to apply as long as you are using Upright's Online Services.

Amendments to the terms and our prices

We have the right to amend these terms of use or our prices by publishing the amended terms/prices on Upright's Online Services websites and by notifying our registered users of the amendment by sending them an e-mail to the address they have submitted to us.

The amended terms of use will become effective within 30 days after they have been published.

By continuing to use Upright's Online Services after the amendments have been published, you accept the new terms of use.

Assignment

You cannot transfer or assign this agreement. We may, however, transfer and assign this agreement and our rights hereunder (including intellectual property rights and licenses) to our affiliates or as part of a sale or transfer of our business or other corporate acquisition.

Reference rights

Upright may state, on its website or other materials, that it is providing services to the user. This does not apply to consumer users.

Applicable law and dispute resolution

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Finland, notwithstanding its choice of law provisions.

Any dispute arising from or relating to these terms of use shall be subject to amicable negotiations between the parties. If no amicable settlement is reached, the dispute shall be settled by the District Court of Helsinki as the first instance. A consumer may always institute proceedings in the district court of its domicile. As a consumer you may also refer a dispute to online dispute resolution provided by the European Commission (please seehttp://ec.europa.eu/odr). Finnish consumers may initiate proceedings in the court of their domicile or refer a dispute to the Finnish Consumer Disputes Board (please see kuluttajariita.fi).