Trust & legal
Who you would be buying from, where the data comes from, and what you may do with it. Plain answers, no marketing.
Who is behind jobs-database.de
You contract with Andreas Tonio Liebrand, trading as Tonio Liebrand Data&AI Services, Frankfurt am Main. German law applies, and a person answers your email ([email protected]) within one business day.
If we ever stop the service or a paid plan, paying customers get at least 90 days' notice by email. The service keeps running under the same terms during that time, you can request one final full export of the active jobs in your plan's scope for your own continued use (no resale), and fees paid in advance for the time after shutdown are refunded pro rata (terms, § 12).
Pro comes with a 99.5% monthly availability guarantee. If we fall short you get a service credit on the next month's fee: 10% below 99.5%, 25% below 99.0%, 50% below 95.0%, capped at 50% of the month's fee. The guarantee applies from November 2026; the terms (§ 7) list what is excluded.
You can check how we are doing yourself: the status page shows measured monthly availability, including months from before the guarantee started, and the changelog lists what changed and when.
Our job-title counts are published openly on Hugging Face and refreshed every Monday, so anyone can check that the index is running.
The legal form: a sole proprietorship (Einzelunternehmen) run by one person. Under § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG) no VAT is charged, so prices are net and final, and we hold no VAT ID number. A sole proprietor is not required to register in the commercial register, so there is no register entry. The full legal name and address are in the imprint.
How we collect data
The job postings we deliver are taken from employers' own career pages and from the applicant-tracking systems (ATS) those employers use to publish their openings. We collect job ads. We do not collect applicant or candidate data.
To find out which employers and career pages exist we also look at other public sources. They help us locate employers; the posting itself comes from the employer's page or ATS.
Being a good citizen
- We limit how fast we request pages from any one site, and we back off when a site slows down or refuses us.
- Where we fetch description pages from employers' own websites, we check the site's robots.txt first and skip what it disallows.
- Opt-out: any employer can write to [email protected] and ask us to stop collecting from its site and to remove its postings. We do it, and confirm by email.
Personal data
A job ad can name a contact person whom the employer chose to publish. We keep ads as published, and we remove a named person's details on request. Details and your rights are in the privacy policy.
What you may do with the data
Licence in one table. Every plan, including the free one, allows commercial use in your own product. What is reserved is passing the raw data on as data.
| Free | Starter | Pro | Custom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Show the jobs to your users inside your own app or website, also commercially | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internal use: analysis, research, sales and recruiting work | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Apply links must go unchanged through our redirect | Yes | No | No | No |
| Credit us as the source in your product | Only where the pricing page asks for it | Not required | Not required | Not required |
| Resell or pass on the raw data as a dataset (file, database or your own data API), or sublicense it | No | No | No | By agreement |
| Build a competing job-data offering from the raw data | No | No | No | By agreement |
| Keep using the data after the contract ends | No | Only the final export if we stop the service (§ 12) | Only the final export if we stop the service (§ 12) | As agreed |
This table summarises the usage rights in the terms (§ 6); the German AGB are binding. Employers keep their own rights in the text of individual postings. Details: Terms of Service.
Infrastructure
The website, the API and the database run on a server that we operate ourselves in Germany. Web traffic reaches the site through Cloudflare, as described in the privacy policy.
Frequently asked questions
Is this legal?
We collect job ads that employers publish openly on their own career pages, we handle personal data in them under the GDPR (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f); see our privacy policy), and we honour opt-outs. We are not a law firm and cannot give you a legal opinion for your own use; if that matters to you, ask your counsel, and ask us anything about our practice.
Where does the data come from?
From employers' own career pages and the applicant-tracking systems they publish through, not from resold lists. Each job keeps the link to the employer's own posting.
How fresh is it?
The index is refreshed hourly. When an employer takes a posting down, it leaves the active set once we confirm it is gone, which can take longer if the employer's site is temporarily unreachable.
Can I resell the data?
No, not as a dataset. You can build your own product on it, but redistributing the raw data is only possible under a Custom agreement.
What if a job disappears?
Jobs close all the time. A closed job is marked as no longer active, and with Starter and Pro webhooks tell you when a job is closed. We give no warranty for individual postings (terms, § 8).
Who do I contract with?
Andreas Tonio Liebrand, trading as Tonio Liebrand Data&AI Services, Frankfurt am Main: a sole proprietorship (Einzelunternehmen). German law applies; the German terms (AGB) are binding and an English translation is provided. A person answers email within one business day.
What happens if you stop the service?
Paying customers get at least 90 days' notice by email. During that time the service keeps running under the same terms. At the end you can request one final full export of the active jobs in your plan's scope, for your own continued use under the same restrictions (no resale), and fees paid in advance for the time after shutdown are refunded pro rata (terms, § 12).
What availability do you guarantee?
Pro: 99.5% per calendar month, measured by our own once-a-minute check of the public service; a minute without a successful check counts as down. Below 99.5% you get a 10% credit on the next month's Pro fee, below 99.0% 25%, below 95.0% 50% (capped at 50% of the month's fee), on request by email within 30 days after the month ends. Announced maintenance (up to 4 hours a month, 48 hours' notice), outages caused by you or by force majeure, and failures of the upstream sources are excluded; the guarantee covers our API answering, not the completeness of source data. It applies from November 2026. Starter has a target without credits; Custom can have an individually agreed SLA. Measured figures: status page.
Is there VAT?
No. Under § 19 UStG no VAT is charged and prices are net. We are a small business and have no VAT ID number.
How do I cancel?
At any time, by email. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing month. Nothing is locked in beyond that.