Terms of Use

Last updated: February 3, 2026

Welcome to Ducker. These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern access to and use of the Ducker platform — our website, the employer console, the candidate assessment workspace, our APIs, and everything we provide with them (together, the "Platform"). Ducker is operated by Ducker Ltd., a company registered in Israel.

By accessing or using the Platform, you agree to these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organization, you confirm you have authority to bind it. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.

What Ducker Is

Ducker is a technical assessment platform for hiring software engineers who work with AI.

A candidate receives a timed engineering task in a browser-based workspace with an AI coding agent alongside them. The Platform records the working session — prompts, agent responses, tool calls, code, diffs, reverted changes, terminal commands, and test runs — and produces a report that scores correctness, code quality, architecture, edge-case awareness, testing, and how well the candidate collaborated with the agent. The Platform also attributes engineering decisions to the candidate, the AI agent, or the starter code.

Ducker measures how someone builds software with AI. It does not measure whether they can code without it.

Definitions

"Company", "we", "us", "our" — Ducker Ltd. and its affiliates.
"Customer" or "you" — the organization that subscribes to the Platform, and, where the context requires, the individual using it.
"Authorized User" — a person the Customer permits to access the Platform under the Customer's account, such as a recruiter, hiring manager, or engineer.
"Candidate" — a person invited by a Customer to take an assessment.
"Assessment" — an assessment definition, including its tasks, rubric, and settings.
"Attempt" — one Candidate's timed session against an Assessment.
"Task" — an engineering exercise, whether from our library or authored by the Customer, including its starter repository, runtime profile, tests, and hidden tests.
"Workspace" — the browser-based development environment in which an Attempt is performed.
"Candidate Data" — personal information about Candidates and everything recorded during an Attempt, including telemetry, submissions, snapshots, grader output, and reports.
"Customer Content" — anything a Customer or Authorized User uploads or creates on the Platform, including custom Tasks, starter repositories, hidden tests, rubrics, and job descriptions.
"Report" — the scored, evidence-backed output produced for an Attempt.

Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 and able to enter into a binding contract.

Provide accurate, complete, current registration information, and keep it current.
Keep your credentials confidential. You are responsible for everything done under your account.
Tell us immediately at support@ducker.ai if you suspect unauthorized access.
Do not share credentials or transfer your account without our written consent. Each Authorized User needs their own login.
You are responsible for your Authorized Users' compliance with these Terms.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms.

Licence to Use the Platform

Subject to these Terms and payment of the applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the Platform during your subscription for your internal hiring purposes.

You may not:

Copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works of the Platform
Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of it, except where that restriction is unenforceable by law
Sublicense, rent, lease, resell, or provide the Platform as a service to third parties
Use the Platform to build a competing product, or to benchmark it for a competitor
Remove or obscure proprietary notices
Circumvent usage limits, metering, rate limits, or access controls

Task Library and Assessment Integrity

Our Task library, rubrics, hidden tests, and grading logic are the core of the product, and their value depends on them not circulating publicly.

You agree not to publish, distribute, or otherwise make available our Task content, hidden tests, rubrics, or grading criteria outside your organization, and to take reasonable steps to prevent your Authorized Users and Candidates from doing so. You may share a Task with a Candidate only through the Platform, for the purpose of that Candidate's Attempt.

You must not attempt to extract hidden tests from a Workspace, tamper with the assessment timer, interfere with telemetry collection, or otherwise manipulate scoring.

Your Responsibilities as an Employer

Ducker gives you evidence about how a Candidate worked. Deciding what to do with that evidence is yours alone, and so is the legal responsibility for it.

You agree that:

You are the decision-maker. You will apply meaningful human review before rejecting, advancing, or otherwise deciding about a Candidate. You will not use a Ducker score, recommendation, or any other Platform output as the sole basis for an employment decision.
You comply with employment law. You are responsible for complying with every law that applies to your hiring, including anti-discrimination law, equal-opportunity law, and laws governing automated employment decision tools — for example New York City Local Law 144 and its bias-audit and notice requirements, the Illinois Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act, the Colorado AI Act, and the EU AI Act, under which the use of AI systems in recruitment is regulated as high-risk. Where such a law requires an audit, a notice, a disclosure, or an accommodation, providing it is your obligation.
You give Candidates notice. Before an Attempt, you will tell Candidates that the session is recorded and scored with AI assistance, and you will make our Candidate Privacy Notice available to them. You confirm you have a lawful basis for giving us a Candidate's contact details.
You offer accommodations. Assessments are timed and require a capable device and browser. You are responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to Candidates with disabilities, and for offering an alternative where the Platform is not suitable.
You use the Platform fairly. You will apply assessments consistently across comparable Candidates, and you will not use the Platform to discriminate.

Data Protection

You are the controller of Candidate Data. We are your processor. Our Data Processing Addendum is incorporated into these Terms and governs that processing; our sub-processors are listed at ducker.ai/subprocessors.

As controller you are responsible for having a lawful basis to collect and process Candidate Data, for giving Candidates the information the law requires, for responding to their requests, and for meeting any registration or notification duties that apply to you.

We will process Candidate Data only to provide the Platform and on your documented instructions, will not disclose one Customer's Candidate Data to another, will apply the security measures described in the DPA, and will assist you with data subject requests, impact assessments, and breach notification.

Artificial Intelligence

The Platform is built around AI. A coding agent works alongside the Candidate, and a reviewer agent produces the evidence-backed portions of the Report.

You acknowledge that:

AI output is probabilistic. It can be wrong, incomplete, or inconsistent between runs.
Scores and recommendations are decision support, not decisions, and must be reviewed by a human.
We may change model providers or model versions, which may change output over time.
We do not use your Customer Content or Candidate Data to train foundation models, and our AI providers are contractually barred from doing so.

We make no warranty that any Report accurately predicts a Candidate's job performance.

Candidate Terms

If you are a Candidate taking an assessment, you agree to:

Provide accurate information about yourself and not to impersonate anyone or have another person complete an Attempt for you
Work only within the Workspace, and not attempt to extract hidden tests, tamper with the timer, disable telemetry, or otherwise manipulate the assessment
Keep Task content confidential and not publish or share it
Accept that your Attempt is recorded as described in the Candidate Privacy Notice, and that the recording and Report are made available to the employer who invited you

Your relationship regarding the hiring process itself is with that employer, not with us. We do not make, influence, or review hiring decisions.

Acceptable Use

You will not:

Use the Platform unlawfully or in breach of any applicable regulation
Upload or transmit malware or other harmful code
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Platform, other accounts, or our infrastructure
Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Platform without our prior written permission
Use the Workspace or the AI agent to mine cryptocurrency, attack third parties, or run workloads unrelated to an assessment
Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Platform
Scrape or harvest data from the Platform, or use automated means to access it outside our documented API
Send spam or unsolicited communications through the Platform
Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation
Infringe anyone's intellectual property or privacy rights

Fees and Payment

Merchant of Record

Lemon Squeezy, LLC is our merchant of record. Lemon Squeezy sells the subscription to you, processes your payment, issues your invoice, and collects and remits applicable sales tax and VAT. Your purchase is therefore also subject to Lemon Squeezy's terms of service and privacy policy. We never receive or store your full card details.

Plans

Current plans and pricing are published at ducker.ai/pricing and are quoted in US Dollars.

On Demand — no subscription fee. Assessments are metered and billed at the published per-assessment rate for the assessments you actually complete in a billing period.
Growth — a monthly or annual subscription that includes a set number of assessments per period. Assessments beyond that allowance are billed at the published overage rate.
Enterprise — priced and agreed separately in an order form. Where an order form conflicts with these Terms, the order form governs.

Billing Terms

Subscription fees are billed in advance, monthly or annually as you select, and renew automatically for the same period until cancelled.
Metered and overage charges are billed in arrears for the period in which they were incurred.
An assessment counts as consumed when a Candidate starts an Attempt, whether or not it is submitted.
You authorize recurring charges to your payment method through Lemon Squeezy.
We may change pricing on 30 days' notice. Changes take effect at your next renewal, and you may cancel before then.
Fees are exclusive of taxes except where Lemon Squeezy collects them as merchant of record. You remain responsible for any taxes it does not collect.

Failed and Late Payment

If a payment fails, Lemon Squeezy will retry it. Your plan has a grace period, shown in your billing settings, during which the Platform continues to work. If payment is still outstanding after the grace period, we may suspend access until the balance is cleared, and may charge interest on overdue amounts at the maximum rate permitted by law.

Cancellation and Refunds

You may cancel at any time from your billing settings or by emailing support@ducker.ai. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; your subscription stays active until then and does not renew.
Cancelling does not refund the current period. Metered and overage charges already incurred remain payable.
Consumers — where you buy as a consumer rather than for a business, and mandatory consumer law grants you a withdrawal right (for example the 14-day right under EU consumer law, or the rights under the Israeli Consumer Protection Law, 5741-1981), you may cancel within that period for a refund, less the value of any assessments already consumed and any transaction costs the law permits us to deduct.
Refunds are issued by Lemon Squeezy to your original payment method, normally within 14 business days.
We may refund at our discretion where the Platform failed materially and we could not put it right.

Intellectual Property

Ours

The Platform — software, designs, Task library, rubrics, grading logic, documentation, text, graphics, and logos — belongs to Ducker Ltd. and is protected by Israeli and international intellectual property law. Our trademarks may not be used without our written consent. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

Yours

You keep ownership of Customer Content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce, process, and display it solely to provide and support the Platform. You confirm you have the rights to submit it and that it infringes nobody.

Candidate Submissions

As between you and a Candidate, ownership of code the Candidate writes during an Attempt is determined by your arrangement with that Candidate. We claim no ownership of it and use it only to run the assessment, produce the Report, and meet our obligations under these Terms and the DPA.

Aggregated Data

We may generate aggregated, de-identified data from use of the Platform and use it to operate, improve, and research the Platform, including improving Task quality and scoring accuracy. Such data never identifies you, your organization, or any Candidate, and we will not disclose it in a form that does.

Feedback

If you send us suggestions, we may use them freely without obligation to you.

Third-Party Services

The Platform integrates with third-party services such as identity providers, applicant tracking systems, and payment and communication vendors. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms. We are not responsible for their availability, practices, or content.

Support and Availability

We provide email support at support@ducker.ai and aim to respond within one business day. Documentation and help resources are available at ducker.ai/help.

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee it outside an Enterprise order form containing a service level agreement. We may perform maintenance, and will give advance notice of planned maintenance that we expect to be disruptive.

Assessments run in the Candidate's browser. Whether an Attempt runs well depends partly on the Candidate's device, browser, and network, which we do not control. The Platform runs a pre-flight check before an Attempt for this reason, and the assessment timer does not start until the runtime reports ready.

Disclaimers

THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Platform will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free; that results will be accurate, complete, or reproducible; that defects will be corrected; or that the Platform will meet your requirements.

We make no warranty about hiring outcomes. Scores, Reports, and recommendations are assistive analysis. They do not predict job performance and are not a substitute for your own judgement, your legal obligations, or a fair hiring process.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DUCKER LTD. WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PLATFORM.

WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY EMPLOYMENT DECISION YOU MAKE, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BROUGHT BY A CANDIDATE ARISING FROM YOUR HIRING PROCESS.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms will not exceed the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limits apply regardless of the form of action and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Indemnification

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Ducker Ltd., its officers, directors, employees, and agents against any claim, damage, loss, liability, and expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:

Your use of the Platform
Your breach of these Terms
Customer Content, or Candidate Data you instructed us to process
Any employment decision you made, or your hiring process generally
Any claim by a Candidate or a regulator relating to your use of assessments
Your infringement of a third party's rights

Term and Termination

By you. Cancel at any time as described under Cancellation and Refunds.

By us. We may suspend or terminate access immediately if you breach these Terms or fail to pay, and on 30 days' notice for any other reason, in which case we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid subscription fee.

On termination. Your right to use the Platform ends. Outstanding amounts fall due. We will delete your account and Customer Content in accordance with the retention periods in our Privacy Policy. Provisions that by their nature should survive — including fees accrued, intellectual property, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnities, and governing law — survive.

Data export. For 30 days after termination you may ask us to export your Customer Content and Candidate Data in a standard machine-readable format. After that we may delete it.

Changes to These Terms

We may change these Terms. We will post the updated version, revise the "Last updated" date, and email you about material changes. Changes take effect when posted, or on the date stated in the notice. Continuing to use the Platform after that means you accept them. If you do not, stop using the Platform and cancel.

Force Majeure

Neither party is liable for a failure or delay caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, fire, flood, epidemic, labour disputes, failures of telecommunications or cloud infrastructure, and failures of AI providers.

Dispute Resolution

The parties will first try to resolve any dispute through good-faith negotiation. If that fails within 30 days, the dispute will be submitted to binding arbitration under the Israeli Arbitration Law, 5728-1968, before a single arbitrator appointed by agreement or, failing agreement, by the head of the Israel Bar Association. The arbitration will be conducted in English in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The arbitrator must give reasons. This clause does not prevent either party from seeking injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or confidential information, and it does not apply where mandatory consumer law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict of law rules. Subject to the arbitration clause above, the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa have exclusive jurisdiction. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. Nothing here deprives a consumer of the protection of mandatory law in their country of residence.

General

Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in force.

Waiver. Failing to enforce a right is not a waiver of it. Waivers must be in writing.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Notices. We give notice by email to your account address or by posting in the Platform. You give notice to legal@ducker.ai.

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Data Processing Addendum, and any order form are the entire agreement between us and supersede prior discussions. Where they conflict, an order form governs, then the DPA, then these Terms, then the Privacy Policy.

No third-party beneficiaries. Except as stated for our indemnified parties, these Terms create no rights for anyone else.

Contact Us

Ducker Ltd. Support: support@ducker.ai Legal: legal@ducker.ai

By using Ducker, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.