Terms of Service

1. Definitions

"findjobs.ge", "we", "us" and "our" mean the operator of findjobs.ge and legal.findjobs.ge, named on this page as the seller. "Service" means legal.findjobs.ge, its case pages, messages, payments and everything else offered on it. "Lawyer" means an independent legal professional who works on matters through the Service, including legal advisers and attorneys (advocates). "You" means the person or business that sends an enquiry or uses a case page. "Matter" means the legal question or task described in your enquiry. "Fee proposal" means the written proposal of fees and scope a lawyer sends on your case page. "Case page" means your private page on the Service.

2. What findjobs.ge is, and is not

findjobs.ge is a job board and the operator of this Service. findjobs.ge is not a law firm, is not a lawyer, and does not give legal advice. Nothing written by findjobs.ge, on these pages or anywhere else, is legal advice.

We arrange legal services: we present the services and prices, receive your enquiry, give the lawyers a secure place to work on your matter with you, and, where your fee proposal says so, take payment for the lawyer's work and pay the lawyer.

All legal advice, documents, filings and representation are given by the lawyers, independently, under their own professional obligations and their own professional responsibility. We do not direct, review or supervise the content of any lawyer's advice, and we do not read your messages or documents in the ordinary course.

3. The lawyers

The lawyers are independent professionals, not our employees. Each decides which matters to take and may decline any matter, at any stage before accepting it, without giving reasons, in particular to avoid a conflict of interest.

Court representation and any other work reserved by Georgian law to attorneys is done only by an attorney (advocate) admitted to the Georgian Bar Association, within the scope of their authority. A lawyer may need a separate power of attorney or a separate written mandate signed by you to act for you before a court or an authority; signing it is your decision.

Each lawyer is bound by the confidentiality, conflict of interest and conduct rules of their profession. A complaint about a lawyer's professional conduct may also be brought to the body that regulates that lawyer.

4. How a matter starts, and when there is a contract

Sending an enquiry is a request, not a contract. It does not make anyone your lawyer, does not oblige any lawyer to act, and does not stop, suspend or extend any legal deadline. If a deadline is close, say so in your enquiry and take any step you must take yourself to protect your position.

A lawyer reviews your enquiry, may ask you questions, and may send a fee proposal setting out the work, the fee and how it is paid. A contract for that work comes into being only when you accept the fee proposal on your case page. Its scope is what the proposal describes; anything else is quoted and agreed separately before it is done.

By accepting a fee proposal you ask for the work to start straight away, including during any period in which the law lets you withdraw from a contract made at a distance (see section 7).

Information shown on the Service before a contract (prices, descriptions of services, examples, explanations of the law) is general information, not advice about your situation, and may change.

5. Fees and payment

Prices on the Service are professional fees in Georgian lari (GEL). The fee for your matter is the one in the fee proposal you accepted. Unless the proposal says otherwise, half is due when you accept it and the rest when the work is delivered; court work is due by stage.

Unless your fee proposal tells you to pay the lawyer directly, you pay findjobs.ge, by card through Stripe or Revolut, or by bank transfer with the reference shown on your case page, and findjobs.ge pays the lawyer. Card payments are processed by Stripe or Revolut under their own terms; we never receive or store your card details. Your card statement shows findjobs.ge.

Fees do not include state, registration and court fees, translation, notarisation, apostille, legalisation, couriers, expert reports, travel or any other cost paid to third parties. These are paid by you separately, at their actual cost, and travel only with your prior approval. We do not collect money other than professional fees through the Service.

Fees are stated without any tax that applies, unless the fee proposal says otherwise. You bear any bank, card or currency conversion charges of your own payment provider.

Work starts when the advance is received. If a payment is not made when due, the lawyer may pause the work until it is, and neither we nor the lawyer are responsible for any consequence of that pause, including a missed deadline.

If you think a payment is wrong, contact us first. Disputing a card payment with your bank for work that was agreed and done, instead of contacting us, is a breach of these terms; we will provide the bank with the record of your matter, including your acceptance of the fee proposal.

6. Refunds

If the lawyers cannot take your matter after you have paid, everything you paid for it is refunded.

If you withdraw a matter, or a lawyer stops work for a reason that is not your fault, work done until then is charged as agreed in the fee proposal, in proportion to the work done, and the rest of what you paid is refunded.

Refunds are made the way you paid, within 14 days of the decision. Costs already paid to third parties (such as state fees or translation) cannot be refunded by us. To ask for a refund, write to your lawyer on your case page or to info@findjobs.ge.

7. Withdrawal and cancellation

You may withdraw a matter at any time from your case page. Section 6 applies to what is charged and refunded.

If you are a consumer and the law gives you a right to withdraw from a contract made at a distance within a set period, you keep that right. Because you asked for the work to start straight away (section 4), if you withdraw within that period you pay for the work done until you withdraw, and once the work has been fully performed at your request the right to withdraw no longer applies.

We or a lawyer may end work on a matter if you breach these terms, if continuing would break the law or the lawyer's professional rules, if a conflict of interest appears, or if you do not cooperate as section 8 requires. Section 6 then applies.

8. Your responsibilities

You will give true, complete and up-to-date information, tell the lawyer promptly of any change and of any deadline, answer the lawyer's questions, and provide the documents asked for. The advice you receive depends on what you tell the lawyer; neither we nor the lawyer are responsible for consequences of information that is false, incomplete or late.

Every document you upload must be genuine and yours to share. You must not upload forged, altered or stolen documents, documents of another person without their permission, or anything unlawful. You must not use the Service to deceive an authority, to obtain any permit, status or benefit unlawfully, or for any other unlawful purpose.

You are responsible for keeping your email account and your case link private. Anyone who can read your email can open your case. Tell us at once if you think someone else has access; we will send you a new link and the old one will stop working.

9. No guarantee of outcome

Decisions on visas, permits, registrations, residence, court cases and similar matters are made by authorities, courts and other parties, not by us or the lawyers. Neither we nor any lawyer guarantee any outcome, approval, decision, timing or result, and no fee buys one. Time estimates are estimates.

10. Confidentiality

Your lawyer keeps your matter confidential under their professional rules. We protect it technically: what you write and the documents you upload are encrypted before they are stored, your case page opens only with your private link and a code sent to your email, and the lawyers sign in with a second factor. Our staff do not read your messages or documents in the ordinary course. We may access them only where the law requires us to, to investigate a security incident, or to respond to a dispute about the Service, and then only as far as necessary.

How we process your personal data is described in the Privacy Notice, which forms part of these terms.

11. Electronic communication, documents and signatures

You agree that we and the lawyers may communicate with you, deliver documents, fee proposals, notices and receipts, and record your decisions electronically, through your case page and by email to the address you gave. A decision you make on your case page, such as accepting a fee proposal or withdrawing a matter, is recorded with its time and is binding as if you had signed it, to the extent the law allows.

Where a document is offered for electronic signature on the Service, signing it electronically has the effect the law gives to that kind of electronic signature. Some documents must by law be notarised or signed in another form; the lawyer will tell you when that is so. Keep copies of the documents that matter to you.

12. Languages and translations

You may write in Georgian, English, Russian or Turkish. The lawyers work in Georgian and English. Translations shown on the Service when you or a lawyer ask for one are produced automatically and are an aid to understanding only: the original wording is what counts, and neither we nor the lawyers are responsible for errors in an automatic translation. Ask your lawyer if anything is unclear.

These terms are published in four languages. If the versions differ, the English version prevails, unless the law requires otherwise.

13. Use of the Service

You must not interfere with the Service, try to access another person's case or any part of the Service you are not given, test or probe its security, upload malicious software, send unsolicited messages, or use automated means to access it. We may suspend access to protect the Service or other users.

The Service, its design, text and software belong to us or our licensors. The documents a lawyer prepares for your matter are for your use in that matter.

14. Liability

The Service is provided as it is and as available. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors, and we are not responsible for failures of third parties we rely on, such as hosting, email, banks, Stripe or Revolut.

The lawyer is responsible for the legal advice and work they give. To the fullest extent the law allows, findjobs.ge is not liable for the content of any legal advice, document, filing or representation, or for any act or omission of a lawyer, an authority, a court or any other third party.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, lost opportunity, loss of data you could have kept yourself, or for any loss caused by a deadline you did not tell the lawyer about or information you did not give.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any matter is limited to the fees you paid through the Service for that matter.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including for intentional wrongdoing or gross negligence, or any right you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.

15. Indemnity

You will compensate us and the lawyers for any loss, claim, fine or cost (including reasonable legal costs) caused by your breach of these terms, by information or documents you provided that were false, forged or unlawful, or by your use of the Service for an unlawful purpose.

16. Complaints

About your matter or the advice: write to your lawyer on your case page. About the Service, payments or refunds: write to info@findjobs.ge. We aim to answer within 10 working days. About an attorney's professional conduct: you may also contact the Georgian Bar Association.

17. Events beyond our control

Neither we nor the lawyers are responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, such as the failure of networks or providers, decisions or closures of authorities, natural events, war or civil unrest.

18. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. The version and date are shown at the top. A matter already under way continues on the terms you accepted for it, unless a change is required by law. You will be asked to accept the new version the next time you sign in to your case.

19. Law and courts

These terms and every matter arranged through the Service are governed by the law of Georgia. Disputes are decided by the courts of Tbilisi, Georgia, except where the law gives you as a consumer the right to bring proceedings elsewhere.

20. General

These terms, the Privacy Notice and the fee proposal you accepted are the whole agreement about your matter. If any part of these terms is found invalid, the rest remains in force. A failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent; we may transfer ours to a successor of the Service.

21. Contact

findjobs.ge, info@findjobs.ge.