Terms of Service

1. Scope and Acceptance

These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of the Gainful website, operated by Durandal. By accessing or using the website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.

2. A Work of Fiction

Gainful is a fictional company, and the website is a work of satire and speculative design imagining work after artificial general intelligence. Gainful Placement Co. does not exist.

No jobs, placements, add-ons or other products or services are offered, sold or provided through the website, and no applications are received or processed. Nothing on the website is an offer of employment, an offer to enter into a contract, or an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities or any other investment.

All people, companies, partners, testimonials, workplaces, jobs and events depicted on the website are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or organisations is coincidental.

3. Use of the Website

The website is free to use and does not require an account. You may not use the website to, or in a way that would:

• violate applicable law, regulation or third-party rights;
• interfere with, disrupt, probe or circumvent the security or integrity of the website or related systems;
• scrape or copy the website at scale, or overload it with automated requests; or
• mislead others, including by presenting the website's content as real job offers, real products or real statements by any person or organisation.

4. Intellectual Property

As between you and us, we and our licensors retain all right, title and interest in and to the website, including its text, images, design, code, names and logos, and all related intellectual property rights. Except for the limited rights expressly granted in these Terms, no licence or right is transferred to you.

You may link to the website and share screenshots of it for personal, non-commercial purposes, including commentary and review, provided that you do not present the content as real or as your own.

5. Third-Party Links

The website may link to third-party websites, such as X. We do not control and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices, and your use of them is subject to their own terms.

6. Privacy

Our processing of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy. By using the website, you acknowledge that we may process personal data as described there.

7. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the website is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free. The content of the website is fiction and is not career, financial, investment, legal, medical or any other professional advice.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Durandal and its affiliates, officers, employees and service providers will not be liable for any damages arising out of or related to these Terms or your use of the website, including any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or any loss of profits, data or goodwill. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, such as liability for intent or gross negligence.

9. Changes to the Website or Terms

We may update these Terms or change, suspend or discontinue the website at any time. If we make a material change to these Terms, we will post the updated version on this page. Your continued use of the website after the updated Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

10. Governing Law and Contact

These Terms are governed by the substantive laws of Switzerland, excluding conflict-of-law rules. The courts of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory applicable law.

Questions about these Terms may be sent through our Contact page.