Terms and conditions of use

Terms and conditions of use

 

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website, or use

any of our website services. we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

 

2. Copyright notice

2.1 Copyright (cl [year(s) of first publication] [full name].

2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights on our website and the material on our website; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights on our website and the material on our website are reserved.

 

3. Permission to use the website

 

3.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive.

(d) stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and

(e) use our website services through a web browser, [additional list items subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

 

3.3 You may only use our website for [[your own personal and business purposes)] OR [[define purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.

3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent, or sub-license material from our website;

(c) show any material from our website in public;

(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from our website.

3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute [our newsletter] in print and electronic form] to [any person].

3.7 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website, and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website [during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

 

4. Misuse of website

4.1 You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes. or may cause. damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity, or security of the website.

(b) use our website in any unlawful way, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity.

(c) hack or otherwise tamper with our website.

(d) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission.

(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website.

(f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, and use. publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, or other malicious computer software.

(g) impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity, and processing capacity.

(h) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission.

(i) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting on or about our website without our express written consent.

(j) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider, or other automated means except for [search engine indexing.

(k) use our website except using our public interfaces.

(I) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website.

(m) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing, and direct mailing, or

(n) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website

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4.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website or concerning our website, is [true, accurate, current, complete, and non-misleading.

 

5. Use on behalf of an organization

 

5.1 If you use our website or expressly agree to these terms and conditions in the course of a business or other organizational project, then by so doing you bind both:

(a) yourself; and

(b) the person, company, or other legal entity that operates that business or organizational project.to these terms and conditions, and in these circumstances references to "you" in these terms and conditions are to both the individual user and the relevant person, company, or legal entity, [unless the context requires otherwise) OR [except that [specify exceptions]]

 

6. jobseeker registration and accounts

 

6.1 This Section 6 applies to you if you are a job seeker.

6.2 To be eligible for an individual account on our website under this Section 6, you must be at least 18 years of age and resident in the United Kingdom.

6.3 You may register for an account with our website by [completing and submitting the account registration form on our website and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.

 

7. Recruiter registration and accounts

 

7.1 This Section 7 applies to you if you are a recruiter.

7.2 To be eligible for a business account on our website under this Section 7, you must be operating a business and:

(a) if you are a sole trader, you must be at least 18 years of age and resident in the United Kingdom.

(b) if you are a partnership, you must [be established under the laws of the United Kingdom and

(c) if you are a limited company or other limited liability entity, you must be incorporated in the United Kingdom.

7.3 You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.

7.4 You must pay the fees specified on our website concerning [your account type] OR [any upgrades to your account that you purchase) OR [any premium services that you purchase), under Section 12.3.

7.5 Paid-for services will remain available for the relevant period specified on our website at the time of purchase unless you pay the applicable account renewal fees.

 

8. User login details

 

8.1 If you register for an account with our website, we will provide you with OR you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.

8.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 14; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

8.3 You must keep your password confidential.

8.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

8.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

 

9. Cancellation and suspension of account

 

9.1 We may:

(a) suspend your account;

(b) cancel your account; and/or

(c) edit your account details.at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation, providing that if we cancel any services you have paid for and you have not breached these terms and conditions, we will refund to you a pro-rata amount of your payment. such amount to be calculated by us using any reasonable methodology.

9.2 You may cancel your account on our website [using your account control panel on the website. You will not be entitled to any refund if you cancel your account under Section 9.2.

 

10. Jobseeker services

 

10.1 jobseekers who register with our website will have access to additional website areas and features. which we will determine at our sole discretion. These may include:

(a) facilities to upload a CV and/or profile into our database, to enable registered recruiters to search for the CV/profile, to assess whether the jobseeker may be suitable for a role, and to contact the jobseeker where appropriate.

(b) a facility to enable the jobseeker to browse our database of job listings.

(c) a facility to enable the jobseeker to receive email alerts, newsletters, a notice of competitions, and/or other email notifications from us.

(d) a facility to limit the disclosure of confidential information to recruiters, and/or

(e) any other services specified on our website from time to time.

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10.2 You acknowledge that we merely provide a facility to enable jobseekers and recruiters to get in touch and that we do not vet or monitor the recruiters who advertise on our website, and you agree that you will not hold us liable, or seek to hold us liable, concerning any loss, damage or expense that you suffer arising out of the actions or omissions of a recruiter (subject to Section 17.1).

10.3 You must ensure that all the information you provide to us and any registered recruiter via or concerning our website is true, accurate, current, complete, and not misleading, and you must keep such information up to date.

10.4 For the avoidance of doubt, any CV you upload or supply to us shall constitute "your content" for Section 13 and Section 14.

 

11.   Recruiter services

 

11.1 Recruiters who register with our website will have access to additional website areas and features, which may include:

(a) the ability to post advertisements on our website,

(b) access to our database of jobseekers and/or

(c) any other services specified on our website from time to time.

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11.2 For the avoidance of doubt, any advertisements you upload or supply to us shall constitute "your content" for Section 13 and Section 14.

 

11.3 You acknowledge that we merely provide a facility to enable jobseekers and recruiters to get in touch and that we do not vet or monitor the registered jobseekers who use our website, and you agree that you will not hold us liable, or seek to hold us liable, concerning any loss, damage or expense that you suffer arising out of the actions or omissions of a jobseeker (subject to Section 17.1).

11.4 Recruiters undertake to ensure that all job advertisements that they submit to the website for publication are true, accurate, current, complete, and non-misleading advertisements for bona fide jobs.

11.S Recruiters must treat the information in our database of jobseekers as confidential, and must only use the database and information to seek candidates to fill bona fide jobs; and recruiters must not copy any information from the database or record or retain any information from the database or disclose to any third party any information from the database, except as strictly necessary for that purpose.

11.6 We warrant to recruiters that we will perform the paid-for recruiter services with reasonable care and skill.

11.7 We do not warrant that recruiters will receive any applications concerning job advertisements; nor do we warrant that our database will hold information regarding jobseekers that are suitably qualified for the positions that recruiters require to be filled.

 

12.  Fees

 

12.1 The fees in respect of our website services will be as set out on the website from time to time.

12.2 All amounts stated in these terms and conditions or on our website are stated [inclusive of VAT] OR [exclusive of VAT].

12.3 You must pay to us the fees in respect of our website services in advance, in cleared funds, following any instructions on our website.

12.4 We may vary fees from time to time by posting new fees on our website, but this will not affect fees for services that have been previously paid.

12.5   If you dispute any payment made to us, you must contact us immediately and provide full details of your claim.

12.6 If you make an unjustified credit card, debit card, or other charge-back then you will be liable to pay us, within [7 days) following the date of our written request:

(a) an amount equal to the amount of the charge-back;

 

(b) all third-party expenses incurred by us concerning the charge-back (including charges made by our or your bank or payment processor or card issuer);

(c) an administration fee of [GBP 25 .00 including VAT]; and

(d) all our reasonable costs, losses, and expenses incurred in recovering the amounts referred to in this Section 12.6 (including without limitation legal fees and debt collection fees).and for the avoidance of doubt, if you fail to recognize or fail to remember the source of an entry on your card statement or other financial statements, and make a charge-back as a result, this will constitute an unjustified charge-back for this Section 12.6.

12.7 If you owe us any amount under or relating to these terms and conditions, we may suspend or withdraw the provision of services to you.

12.8 We may at any time set off any amount that you owe to us against any amount that we owe to you, by sending you written notice of the set-off.

 

13. Our rights to use your content

 

13.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content” means [all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software, and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website).

13.2 You grant to us a [worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license] to [use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media) OR [reproduce, store and publish your content on and concerning this website and any successor website] OR [reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and concerning this website].

13.3 You grant us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 13.2.

13.4 You grant us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 13.2.