Ponta Website and Online Services Terms of Use

Effective January 1, 2025

Welcome to Ponta! As used in these Terms of Use, "Ponta", "us" or "we" refers to Ponta Oy and its affiliates.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY AS IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. These terms of use (“Terms”), along with Ponta’s Privacy Policy (https://www.ponta.co/privacy), govern your use of Ponta’s Websites and Online Services.

For the purposes of these Terms:

  • “Websites” refers to www.ponta.co, as well as the other websites that Ponta operates and that link to these Terms.

  • “Online Services” means Ponta’s products and services that are publicly available without a subscription or a Ponta account.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use our Websites or Online Services.

THESE TERMS DO NOT APPLY TO YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE PONTA PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED UNDER A SELF-SERVE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, ENTERPRISE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, OR OTHER WRITTEN AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN YOU AND PONTA (IF APPLICABLE).

If there is a conflict between these Terms and additional terms applicable to a given Website or Online Service, the additional terms will control for that conflict.

1. ELIGIBILITY

By agreeing to these Terms, you represent and warrant to us that:
(i) you are at least eighteen (18) years of age;
(ii) you have not previously been suspended or removed from the Websites and Online Services; and
(iii) your use of the Websites and Online Services complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

2. LICENSE GRANT TO PONTA

By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Ponta a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works of your Content.

You will retain ownership of your Content. However, any use of your Content by Ponta may be without any compensation paid to you.

By submitting, posting, and publishing your Content, you represent and warrant that your Content does not:
(i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party rights, including copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; or
(ii) slander, defame, or libel any third party.

3. INFRINGEMENT AND ABUSE

Ponta operates pass-through network services used to improve network performance and does not provide hosting services. As such, we have no way of removing improper or infringing material from our users’ websites, third-party sites, or their hosting services.

If you believe that material served through Ponta’s network is infringing on copyrights or is otherwise abusive, please submit a notification through our abuse form:
🔗 https://www.ponta.co/abuse

Alternatively, you may mail your complaint to:

📍 Ponta Oy
Attn: Legal Department
Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00180, Helsinki, Finland

When submitting abuse reports, please provide detailed information supporting your complaint as well as an affidavit attesting to its validity.

Ponta may provide copies of or information from your complaint to the appropriate parties, including but not limited to the Ponta user whom the complaint relates to, their hosting provider, website operator, and visitors of Ponta’s website.

If you intend to automate the process by which you submit abuse reports, you will need to request access to an abuse API token. If you are granted an abuse API token, you agree not to disclose or provide the token to any person or entity other than yourself or your organization’s employees. Ponta may suspend or revoke an abuse API token at any time at its sole discretion.

4. TERMINATION OF USE; DISCONTINUATION AND MODIFICATION OF THE WEBSITES AND ONLINE SERVICES

We may, at our sole discretion, suspend or terminate your access to the Websites and/or Online Services at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason at all.

We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Websites and/or Online Services at any time without notice to you.

We will have no liability on account of any changes to the Websites and/or Online Services or any suspension or termination of your access to or use of the Websites and/or Online Services.

5. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

The Websites and Online Services may contain links to third-party websites. These websites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for their content.

6. OWNERSHIP; PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

All visual interfaces, graphics, design, compilation, data, software, services, and other elements of the Websites and Online Services (the "Materials") provided by Ponta are protected by intellectual property laws.

All rights to these Materials belong to Ponta or our third-party licensors. You may not use these Materials without express authorization.

7. PROHIBITED USES

You may not use the Websites or Online Services:

  • In any way that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms;

  • To harm, disable, disrupt, or interfere with our servers, networks, or other users;

  • To transmit viruses, worms, or other malicious software;

  • To violate any laws or regulations.

Ponta retains the right (but not the obligation) to block content it determines to be illegal, harmful, or in violation of these Terms.

8. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESTRICTION

You may not use automated bots to access, scan, scrape, data mine, copy, or use content from this website for developing, training, fine-tuning, or otherwise contributing to machine learning or artificial intelligence models unless explicitly permitted in our robots.txt file.

9. INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ponta and its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, and agents from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, and expenses arising out of or related to your use of the Websites and Online Services.

10. DISCLAIMERS; NO WARRANTIES

The Websites and Online Services are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Ponta will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Websites and Online Services.

12. GOVERNING LAW

These Terms will be governed by the laws of Finland, without regard to conflict of law principles.

You and Ponta agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Finland for any disputes arising from these Terms.

13. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

Ponta reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. Changes will be posted on this Website, and continued use of the Websites and Online Services constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

14. CONTACT INFORMATION

The Websites and Online Services are operated by:

📍 Ponta Oy
Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00180, Helsinki, Finland

📧 support@ponta.co

For abuse reports:
🔗 https://www.ponta.co/abuse