Linda Terms of Use

These Terms govern use of Linda, a platform operated by BuntuCart Limited.

Nature of the Platform

Linda provides technology and information tools intended to support worker discovery, professional reputation, referrals, references, verification and hiring decisions.

Linda is not an employer, recruitment agency, guarantor, insurer or law-enforcement authority merely by operating the platform.

Linda does not guarantee employment to workers or successful hiring outcomes to employers.

Account Responsibilities

Users must provide accurate information, maintain the security of their accounts, promptly update materially outdated information and use the platform lawfully.

Users must not impersonate another person, create deceptive profiles, manipulate reviews, purchase or sell fake references, submit malicious allegations, scrape personal information, discriminate unlawfully, harass another person or attempt to bypass security controls.

Employer Responsibilities

Employers and hirers remain responsible for their own hiring decisions and for complying with employment, labour, discrimination, privacy and other applicable laws.

An employer must not use Linda information for harassment, blacklisting, unlawful discrimination or unrelated surveillance.

Verification information must be interpreted proportionately and in context.

Worker Responsibilities

Workers must provide accurate information and must not submit false qualifications, fabricated employment history, false references or misleading identity information.

Workers may be required to cooperate with reasonable verification processes.

Reviews and References

A review or reference represents the contributor's experience or opinion and does not necessarily represent Linda's view.

Contributors must submit information honestly and in good faith.

Linda may request supporting information, seek responses from affected persons, restrict visibility, attach context, reject submissions or remove content where appropriate.

Verification

Verification may be carried out through third-party providers and authorised data sources.

A verification result is not a guarantee of future behaviour, competence, safety or suitability.

Employers should use appropriate judgment and additional assessment relevant to the role.

Verification results are obtained from official third-party data sources and are relayed by Linda in good faith. Linda does not independently verify the accuracy of the underlying source data and is not liable for errors, omissions or delays in information provided by those sources.

No Defamation or Retaliatory Reporting

Users may not use Linda to punish former employees, settle personal disputes or publish knowingly false allegations.

Linda may suspend accounts, preserve relevant evidence and cooperate with lawful investigations where the platform is deliberately abused.

Platform Enforcement

Linda may warn, restrict, suspend or terminate users who breach these Terms or create material risk to other users or the platform.

Where appropriate, users may be given an opportunity to respond to disputed information.

Intellectual Property

The Linda name, platform design, software, branding and proprietary technology belong to BuntuCart Limited or its licensors.

Users retain applicable rights in content they lawfully submit but grant Linda the limited rights necessary to host, process, moderate and display that content for platform operation.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Linda is not liable for decisions independently made by employers, workers or other users, or for conduct occurring outside Linda's control.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Kenya.

Disputes should first be submitted through Linda's internal complaint-resolution process before court proceedings are commenced, except where urgent relief or a statutory complaint process is available.