These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Max Korpinen, an individual sole trader based in Finland ("we", "us", "our"), governing your use of Interview Recipes (the "Service").
By using the Service or creating an account, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service. Please also read our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal data.
1. Who we are and how to contact us
The Service is operated by Max Korpinen (Finland). You can contact us at maxkorpinen@gmail.com.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract to use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these Terms on its behalf, and "you" includes that organisation.
3. The Service
Interview Recipes helps you build structured, research-backed interviews. It provides a library of curated interview questions ("ingredients") and lets registered users assemble them into saved interview templates ("recipes"), with follow-up probes, guidance on what a good answer looks like, and red flags.
Browsing the public library does not require an account. Creating, saving, and sharing templates, writing your own questions, and using premium features require an account. We may add, change, or remove features over time.
4. Accounts
To access certain features you must create an account using an email magic link or a supported sign-in provider (currently Google or LinkedIn). You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for all activity under it. Tell us promptly at maxkorpinen@gmail.com if you believe your account has been compromised. You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation;
- upload or generate content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, hateful, or discriminatory;
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other users' accounts, or our systems;
- probe, scan, overload, scrape, or disrupt the Service, or bypass rate limits, usage limits, or security measures;
- resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service or its curated content except as expressly permitted;
- use the Service to build a competing product or to train a machine-learning model on our curated content; or
- misuse the AI features, including attempting to generate abusive, deceptive, or otherwise prohibited content.
We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms or use the Service in a way that harms us or others.
6. Your content
"Your Content" means the templates, custom questions, notes, and other material you create, upload, or save in the Service.
You keep all rights you have in Your Content. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, store, process, and display Your Content solely to operate and provide the Service to you — for example, saving your templates, generating an AI draft you asked for, or displaying a recipe through a public share link you choose to create.
You are responsible for Your Content and confirm that you have the rights to it and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights or break any law. If you create a public share link for a recipe, you make that recipe viewable by anyone with the link; do not include confidential or personal information in content you share. If a recipe you share includes private questions you wrote, we will warn you before the link is created.
We do not claim ownership of Your Content and will not use it to train AI models.
7. Our content and intellectual property
The Service, including the curated question library, competency framework, guides, design, branding, and software, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the curated content for your own internal hiring and interviewing purposes.
You may use and adapt curated questions within your own interviews and templates. You may not republish, redistribute, or resell the curated library as a whole or in substantial part, present it as your own product, or use it to build a competing offering. The "Interview Recipes" name and logo may not be used without our permission.
8. AI generation features
The Service offers optional AI features that generate draft interview questions and templates at your request, using a third-party AI provider (Anthropic's Claude).
You understand and agree that:
- AI-generated output is produced automatically and may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or unsuitable. It is a starting point, not a finished or vetted product.
- You are responsible for reviewing, editing, and deciding whether to use any AI output.
- As between you and us, you own the AI output you generate through your use of the Service, to the extent such output is capable of ownership; the same content may be generated for other users, so AI output is not guaranteed to be unique.
- AI features are subject to fair-use limits (including a free monthly allowance) and may be paused, rate-limited, or withdrawn — including via cost or safety controls — without notice.
- You must not rely on AI output as legal, HR, or professional advice.
9. Interviewing responsibility — not legal or HR advice
Interview Recipes provides interviewing tools and educational content. It is not legal, HR, or professional advice, and using it does not create any professional relationship.
Employment, recruitment, and anti-discrimination laws differ by country and change over time. You are solely responsible for ensuring that the questions you ask, the way you assess candidates, and your hiring decisions comply with all laws that apply to you — including equal-opportunity and anti-discrimination requirements. You should not ask questions, or rely on guidance, that would be unlawful in your jurisdiction, and you should seek qualified professional advice where needed. We are not responsible for your hiring decisions or their outcomes.
10. Premium subscriptions
Some features require a paid subscription ("Premium"). The following terms apply when Premium is available and you purchase it.
Pricing. Premium is offered on a monthly or an annual subscription. The current price of each is shown on our pricing page and again at checkout before you pay, in euros (EUR) — the price you are shown at checkout is the price that applies to you. Prices may include or exclude applicable taxes as indicated at checkout. We may change prices for future billing periods and will give you reasonable notice of any change before it affects you.
Payment. Payments are processed by Stripe. By subscribing, you authorise us, through Stripe, to charge your chosen payment method. You are responsible for providing valid, current payment details. We do not store your card details.
Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period (monthly or annual) at the then-current price, unless you cancel before the renewal date.
Cancellation. You can cancel at any time from your account, via the billing portal. Cancellation stops future renewals; your Premium access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for. Except where required by law (see the right of withdrawal below), fees already paid are non-refundable and we do not provide partial refunds for unused time.
Taxes. You are responsible for any taxes associated with your purchase that are not collected by us.
Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, we may retry, suspend, or downgrade your Premium access.
11. Right of withdrawal (EU consumers)
If you are a consumer in the EU (an individual acting outside your trade, business, or profession), you have the right to withdraw from your purchase within 14 days of subscribing, without giving a reason.
Because Premium gives you immediate access to digital content and services, by starting the subscription and using Premium during the 14-day period you expressly request that we begin providing the Service immediately and acknowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal once the Service has been fully performed. If you withdraw after performance has begun but before it is complete, you may be charged a proportionate amount for the access already provided.
To withdraw, tell us clearly at maxkorpinen@gmail.com before the 14-day period ends. We will refund the amounts due without undue delay using the same payment method you used, unless the right has been lost as described above. This right does not affect any stronger rights you have under Finnish consumer law.
(This section applies to consumers only. If you subscribe as a business or on behalf of an organisation, statutory consumer withdrawal rights do not apply.)
12. Free features and changes
We may offer parts of the Service free of charge, subject to usage limits (such as a monthly AI allowance). We may change, limit, or discontinue free features at any time. Free features are provided "as is" and we may adjust their scope to manage costs and abuse.
13. Third-party services
The Service relies on third-party providers (including Vercel, Supabase, PostHog, Anthropic, Stripe, Resend, Google, and LinkedIn) and may link to third-party sites. We are not responsible for third-party services or content, and your use of a sign-in provider or payment processor is also subject to that provider's terms. The current list, and what each provider does, is in our Privacy Policy.
14. Disclaimers
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that its content — including curated and AI-generated content — is accurate, complete, current, or fit for a particular purpose. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any warranty or right that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including mandatory consumer rights.
15. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law:
- We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost business opportunities, arising from your use of (or inability to use) the Service.
- Our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in that period, or (b) €50.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law. If you are a consumer, these limits apply only to the extent permitted by the mandatory consumer-protection law that applies to you, and do not affect your statutory rights.
16. Indemnity
If you use the Service as a business, you agree to indemnify us against reasonable losses, damages, and costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or Your Content. This section does not apply to you if you are a consumer.
17. Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Service at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account by emailing maxkorpinen@gmail.com. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if necessary to protect the Service or other users. We will give you reasonable notice where practical.
On termination, your right to use the Service ends; sections that by their nature should survive (including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law) will continue to apply. Before your account is deleted you can keep a copy of Your Content — every recipe has a print view you can save as a PDF, and you can ask us for a copy of your data at any time. After deletion, we handle your data as described in the Privacy Policy.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date and, where appropriate, notify you by email or through the Service. Changes take effect when posted (or on a later stated date). If you do not agree to the changes, you should stop using the Service; continued use after changes take effect means you accept them.
19. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Finland, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts of Finland.
If you are a consumer, this choice of law and jurisdiction does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts where the law allows. EU consumers may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr, and, in Finland, may contact the Consumer Disputes Board (kuluttajariita.fi).
20. General
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a transfer of the Service, provided your rights are not reduced. These Terms do not create any partnership, agency, or employment relationship between us.
21. Contact
Questions about these Terms? Email maxkorpinen@gmail.com.