Terms of use
Terms of use
Innovation Funding Agency Business Finland and Business Finland Oy (hereafter jointly referred to as Business Finland) have created the businessfinland.fi website in order to better serve their customers. Welcome to our website!
The use of the businessfinland.fi website requires the acceptance of the following terms and conditions. By using this website, you agree to comply with these terms of use. You may not use the website if you do not agree to these terms. Business Finland retains the right to amend these terms of use at any time by updating them.
Individual documents and/or services in the e-services included in the businessfinland.fi website may be subject to separate terms of use, in which case these special terms are applied to these documents/services.
The official general terms and conditions applied to Business Finland’s funding decisions are always appended to individual funding decisions, and the more informal general terms published on the website are not applicable to activities related to funding decisions.
In the United States the materials are provided by Business Finland USA, Inc. on behalf of Business Finland Oy.
Use of Business Finland's website
The Business Finland web pages may be browsed on a computer or equivalent device, parts thereof may be printed out, and material contained therein may be disclosed further. The use of the pages or the material contained therein for other than non-commercial purposes is prohibited without prior written permission from Business Finland.
The contents and images on this website are the property of Business Finland or its cooperation partners and protected under international copyright law unless otherwise stated.
Announcements published by Business Finland and other documents intended to be made public may be used for public communication provided that the information source is acknowledged when using it.
Unauthorized use or distribution of material contained herein may violate copyright, trademark rights or other legal protection rights and incur penalties or liability for damages.
Functionality and content of Business Finland's website and Business Finland's liability for damages
Business Finland provides the website to its users as is and retains the right to modify the pages or limit access to them at any time. Business Finland does not guarantee the faultless or uninterrupted operation of the website and maintains no responsibility for any direct or indirect damage caused by the use of the website.
Business Finland provides no warranty for the suitability of the material for a specific purpose and shall not be liable for any damage caused by using the information contained herein.
Links on Business Finland’s website
If Business Finland’s website provides links to third-party websites or services, Business Finland maintains no responsibility for the contents or services on the third-party websites. The use of third-party websites is entirely at your own risk. Please read the terms of use and accept them before using the website.
Material sent by users or a third party to Business Finland’s website
By submitting unsolicited material (such as feedback) addressed to Business Finland by email or through the website, you give Business Finland and the website users the right to use and disclose the submitted material without compensation, unless otherwise agreed. Any material submitted, reported or sent by a user or other third party to the site is public and can be freely used by anyone. Such material may be used, copied, distributed, modified, developed, or otherwise utilized.
Business Finland does not check the content or correctness of the submitted material and maintains no responsibility for its content. You accept and confirm that the material you submit to the website is owned by you or you have permission to send it, and that the material is not unlawful or otherwise unfit for publication. Business Finland also requires that you have taken precautions to detect and remove any viruses from the submitted material. Business Finland retains the right to remove material submitted to the website at any time.
Customer materials related to the use of Business Finland’s services are subject to service-specific terms and conditions.
Terms of use for the logos and trademarks of Business Finland and its partners
All names, graphics, logos and trademarks appearing on this site belong to Business Finland or its cooperation partners. Copying, transferring, distributing, storing or otherwise using them is forbidden without prior written permission from Business Finland or its cooperation partner.
Other terms
The terms of use are governed by the laws of Finland. If any disputes relating to these terms of use cannot be resolved through negotiation, they will be settled at Helsinki District Court.