1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of the Rekroot website.
1.2 By using the Rekroot 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 the Rekroot website.
1.3 If you [register with the Rekroot website, submit any material to the Rekroot website or use any of the Rekroot 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 the Rekroot website; by using the Rekroot website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least [18] years of age.
1.5 The Rekroot website uses cookies; by using the Rekroot website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our [privacy and cookies policy].
2.1 Copyright (c) 2017 Rekroot
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 in the Rekroot website and the material on the Rekroot website; and
(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in the Rekroot website and the material on the Rekroot website are reserved.
3.1 You may:
(a) view pages from the Rekroot website in a web browser;
(b) download pages from the Rekroot website for caching in a web browser;
(c) print pages from the Rekroot website;
subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from the Rekroot website or save any such material to your computer.
3.3 You may only use the Rekroot website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use the Rekroot 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 the Rekroot website.
3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
(a) republish material from the Rekroot website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the Rekroot website;
(c) show any material from the Rekroot website in public;
(d) exploit material from the Rekroot website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from the Rekroot 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 restrict access to areas of the Rekroot website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the Rekroot website.
4.1 You must not:
(a) use the Rekroot website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
(b) use the Rekroot website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
(c) use the Rekroot website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, 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;
(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to the Rekroot website without our express written consent;
(e) access or otherwise interact with the Rekroot website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for the Rekroot website; or
(g) use data collected from the Rekroot website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).
4.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through the Rekroot website, or in relation to the Rekroot website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
5.1 If you use the Rekroot website or expressly agree to these terms and conditions in the course of a business or other organisational project, then by so doing you bind both:
(a) yourself; and
(b) the person, company or other legal entity that operates that business or organisational 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
6.1 This Section 6 applies to you if you are a jobseeker.
6.2 To be eligible for an individual account on the Rekroot website under this Section 6, you must be at least 18 years of age.
6.3 You may register for an account with the Rekroot website by completing and submitting the account registration form on the Rekroot website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.
7.1 This Section 7 applies to you if you are a recruiter.
7.2 To be eligible for a business account on the Rekroot 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 England and Wales;
(b) if you are a partnership, you must be established under the laws of England and Wales; and
(c) if you are a limited company or other limited liability entity, you must be incorporated in England and Wales.
7.3 You may register for an account with the Rekroot website by completing and submitting the account registration form on the Rekroot 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 the Rekroot website in relation to your account type OR any upgrades to your account that you purchase OR any premium services that you purchase, in accordance with Section 12.3.
7.5 Paid-for services will remain available for the relevant period specified on the Rekroot website at the time of purchase, unless you pay the applicable account renewal fees.
8.1 If you register for an account with the Rekroot website, 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 the Rekroot 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.
9.1 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 the Rekroot website [using your account control panel on the website. You will not be entitled to any refund if you cancel your account in accordance with this Section 9.2.
10.1 Jobseekers who register with the Rekroot website will have access to additional website areas and features, which we will determine in 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, 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 the Rekroot website from time to time.
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 the Rekroot website, and you agree that you will not hold us liable, or seek to hold us liable, in relation to 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 to any registered recruiter via or in relation to the Rekroot 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 the purposes of Section 13 and Section 14.
11.1 Recruiters who register with the Rekroot website will have access to additional website areas and features, which may include:
(a) the ability to post advertisements on the Rekroot website;
(b) any other services specified on the Rekroot website from time to time.
11.2 For the avoidance of doubt, any advertisements you upload or supply to us shall constitute "your content" for the purposes of 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 the Rekroot website, and you agree that you will not hold us liable, or seek to hold us liable, in relation to 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.
11.5 Recruiters must treat the information in our database of jobseekers as confidential, and must only use the database and information for the purpose of seeking 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 in relation to 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.
12.1 The fees in respect of the Rekroot 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 the Rekroot website are stated exclusive of VAT.
12.3 You must pay to us the fees in respect of the Rekroot website services in advance, in cleared funds, in accordance with any instructions on the Rekroot website.
12.4 We may vary fees from time to time by posting new fees on the Rekroot 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 in relation to 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 recognise or fail to remember the source of an entry on your card statement or other financial statement, and make a charge-back as a result, this will constitute an unjustified charge-back for the purposes of 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.
13.1 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 the Rekroot website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, the Rekroot website].
13.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media
13.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 13.2.
13.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 13.2.
13.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
13.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on the Rekroot website.
13.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
14.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.
14.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
14.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:
(a) be libellous or maliciously false;
(b) be obscene or indecent;
(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;
(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
(i) be blasphemous;
(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;
(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
(p) constitute spam;
(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.
14.4 Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.
14.5 You must not use the Rekroot website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on the Rekroot website, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.
14.6 You must not submit to the Rekroot website any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
16.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on the Rekroot website;
(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or
(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
16.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of the Rekroot website services, and to stop publishing the Rekroot website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
16.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 17.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, the Rekroot website and the use of the Rekroot website.
17.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
17.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 17 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
(a) are subject to Section 17.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.
17.3 To the extent that the Rekroot website and the information and services on the Rekroot website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
17.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
17.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
17.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
17.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
17.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
18.1 You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of the Rekroot website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.
19.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
(a) send you one or more formal warnings;
(b) temporarily suspend your access to the Rekroot website;
(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing the Rekroot website;
(d) [block computers using your IP address from accessing the Rekroot website];
(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to the Rekroot website;
(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
(g) suspend or delete your account on the Rekroot website.
19.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to the Rekroot website or a part of the Rekroot website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).
20.1 The Rekroot website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
20.2 We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 17.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
21.1 Our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
21.2 The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on the Rekroot website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.
22.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
22.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of the Rekroot website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.
22.3 If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.
23.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
23.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
24.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
24.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
25.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
25.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
26.1 Subject to Section 17.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of the Rekroot website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of the Rekroot website.
27.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
27.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
28.1 If you register as a jobseeker for the purpose of seeking employment, we will act in relation to you as an employment agency providing introductions (and not an employment business) for the purposes of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. We will, through the Rekroot website, help you to seek education work. We will help you by providing those services specified in these terms and conditions. We will have no right to negotiate or enter into any contract on your behalf; nor will we be authorised to receive money on your behalf. No fees are payable by a jobseeker in respect of these services. The contract between us under these terms and conditions may be terminated by you or us at any time upon immediate written notice.
28.2 If you register as an employer on the Rekroot website, we will act in relation to you as an employment agency providing introductions (and not an employment business) for the purposes of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. Details of our charges and payment details are set out in these terms and conditions and on the Rekroot website. No refunds or rebates are payable. We will have no authority to enter into contracts with jobseekers or otherwise act on your behalf.
29.1 This website is owned and operated by rekroot.
29.2 Our principal place of business is at 2nd Floor, Elford Park Farm, Elford, Nr Tamworth, Staffordshire B79 9DF.
29.3 You can contact us:
(a) by post, using the postal address given above;
(b) by telephone, on the contact number published on the Rekroot website from time to time; or
(c) by email, using the email address published on the Rekroot website from time to time.
