1. Agreement
By accessing or using The Talent Seed website and the services offered through it (together, the "Service") provided by The Talent Seed OÜ (registry code 17070921) ("we", "us"), you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
2. What the Service is
The Talent Seed is a recruitment, talent strategy and coaching consultancy. Through this website we provide information about what we do, free resources and tools (such as our Hiring Health Check, the Career Navigator, and downloadable guides and templates), and ways to contact us or book a consultation. We also offer paid professional services — for example executive search, talent strategy and employer-brand work, human-centred AI-transformation advisory, and executive coaching.
3. Information only — not professional advice
Our free tools, resources and general website content are provided for general informational and reflective purposes only. They do not constitute professional recruitment, career, legal, financial, medical, psychological or employment advice, and using the free tools does not create any advisory, coaching or client relationship. A client relationship arises only under a separate engagement for our paid services. You remain solely responsible for your own decisions.
4. No guarantee of outcomes or timing
Any scores, estimates, timeframes, projections, routes or recommendations produced by our free tools are illustrative and generated automatically from the information you provide and from general models. They are not predictions, promises, assessments of your actual prospects, or guarantees of any job, hire, promotion, salary, result, or that any goal will be achieved within any timeframe or at all. Recruitment and career outcomes depend on many factors outside our control. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for any reliance on, or decision made on the basis of, these outputs.
5. Accuracy of your inputs
The outputs of our tools depend entirely on the accuracy and honesty of the information you provide. We are not responsible for results that are affected by incomplete, inaccurate or untruthful inputs.
6. On-screen results and delivery by email
Where a free tool shows you results (for example the Hiring Health Check), those results are displayed to you on screen immediately; this on-screen display constitutes provision of your results. Emailing a copy is an optional convenience that depends on you entering a valid email address and on third-party email delivery, which may be affected by spam filters, incorrect addresses, provider outages and other factors outside our control.
Accordingly, we do not guarantee that an emailed copy will be delivered to or received in your inbox, and we accept no liability for any non-delivery, delay, or non-receipt. If you do not receive an email, please check your spam/junk folder and, if needed, contact us — but a missing email does not mean you were denied your results, which were provided on screen.
7. Paid services
Our paid services (for example executive search, a talent strategy engagement, AI-transformation advisory, a rebuilt CV, a personalised plan, or coaching) are bespoke professional services prepared specifically for you on the basis of the information you provide and the consultation call. They are described at the point of engagement and are subject to any additional terms presented there. Where payment is taken online, it is handled by a third-party payment provider.
Scope
The exact scope — what is included, in what quantity, and to what standard — is agreed with you during your initial consultation call. We will deliver work matching the scope, quality and quantity agreed on that call. Items outside that agreed scope are not included and may be quoted separately.
Delivery times
Unless we agree otherwise in writing, deliverables are provided within 3–7 business days after your first (initial) consultation, with the exact timeframe depending on the scope and the specific service you engaged us for. Where the work depends on information from you, the timeframe runs from the point we have received everything we reasonably need.
Refunds
Because our paid services are personalised and produced specifically for you, and because preparation begins after your consultation at your express request, fees are non-refundable once payment has been made and work has begun. What we guarantee in return is delivery: we will provide the quality and quantity agreed at the consultation, and if a deliverable does not match what was agreed, we will correct or re-perform it at no extra cost so that it conforms. This does not affect your mandatory rights as a consumer (see below).
Cancellations and rescheduling
You may cancel before we begin preparing your deliverable; in that case we refund any amount paid for work not yet started. Once preparation has begun, cancellation is not available save for the mandatory rights below, although we will always try to find a fair solution. Where you cannot attend or proceed due to illness or other comparable serious circumstances, please contact us and we will reschedule your consultation or delivery rather than treat the matter as a cancellation.
Your statutory consumer rights
Nothing in this section removes or limits the mandatory rights you have as a consumer under EU law and the Estonian Law of Obligations Act. In particular, consumers have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for distance contracts. For services, this right ends once the service has been fully performed where you have given your prior express consent to begin during the 14-day period and acknowledged that you will lose the right of withdrawal upon full performance; if you withdraw after performance has begun but before it is complete, you pay a proportionate amount for the work already done. For personalised deliverables made to your specifications, the statutory right of withdrawal does not apply. We obtain this express consent and acknowledgement from you before starting any paid work, and you also keep your statutory remedies if a service does not conform to what was agreed.
8. Intellectual property
The Service, its content, design, tools, scoring logic, branding and the names "The Talent Seed" and "The Talent Seed Navigator™" are owned by us and protected by law. You may use your own results and our free resources for your personal or internal business purposes; you may not copy, resell, or create derivative products from the Service without our written permission.
9. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, and we exclude liability for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, lost opportunities, lost income, or loss arising from reliance on the outputs.
Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law — including, under the Estonian Law of Obligations Act (Võlaõigusseadus), liability for intent and gross negligence and for damage caused to a person's life, body or health, and any mandatory consumer-protection rights.
10. Third-party links
The Service may link to third-party sites and tools. We are not responsible for their content, availability or practices.
11. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Estonia, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of residence remain unaffected. The place of jurisdiction is Harju County Court (Harju Maakohus), Tallinn, subject to any mandatory consumer rules that allow a consumer to sue or be sued in their place of residence.
12. Changes and severability
We may update these Terms; the current version is always posted here. If any provision is found invalid, the remaining provisions stay in effect.
13. Contact
info@thetalentseed.com · The Talent Seed OÜ, Ahtri tn 12, 10151 Tallinn, Estonia
Consumer dispute resolution
Consumers resident in Estonia may refer a dispute that cannot be settled directly with us to the Consumer Disputes Committee (tarbijavaidluste komisjon), an independent out-of-court body at the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet). Secretariat: Endla 10a, 10122 Tallinn; website: ttja.ee. Submitting a claim is free of charge for consumers.