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Terms and Conditions - Friends Reunited Jobs

Operated by Jobsite UK (Worldwide) Limited

5 - 4th September 2007

1. Definitions

  • 1.1 In these Conditions the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:-

    • Advertisement

      any advertisement issued by the Client;

    • Applicant

      a Candidate who applies for a vacancy advertised on the Site;

    • Application

      an Application made by a Candidate to a vacancy advertised on the Site;

    • Candidate

      a person who uses the Site for the purpose of finding employment;

    • Client

      the recruiter and/or its agent placing a job vacancy on the Site;

    • Conditions

      these Standard Terms and Conditions;

    • CV

      the curriculum vitae or brief outline details of a Candidate's education, training, skills and employment experience which is provided to Friends Reunited Jobs by a Candidate for distribution to Clients with a view to securing employment;

    • Jobsite

      Jobsite UK (Worldwide) Ltd. Registered office: Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT. Registered in England and Wales with company number 3097157.

    • Jobs-by-Email

      a service which matches and sends vacancies via email to Candidates who have subscribed to this service;

    • Registration

      the process a Candidate completes in order to store and save their details and CV with Friends Reunited Jobs, for the purposes of securing employment;

    • Services

      the Services which FRJobs has agreed to provide and which are available on the Site for use by Candidates;

    • Site

      the website at www.friendsreunitedjobs.co.uk;

  • 1.2 In these Conditions:

    • 1.2.1. references to any statute or statutory provision shall, unless the context otherwise requires be construed as a reference to that statute or statutory provision as from time to time amended, consolidated, modified, extended, re-enacted or replaced;
    • 1.2.2. references to the masculine include the feminine and the neuter and the singular include the plural and vice versa as the context admits or requires;
    • 1.2.3. words importing persons include individuals, bodies corporate and unincorporate; and
    • 1.2.4. headings will not affect their construction.

2. Application of these Terms and Conditions

  • 2.1. These Conditions to the exclusion of all previous terms and conditions shall apply to any Candidate who uses the Services after the date on which these Conditions were posted on the Site.
  • 2.2. These Conditions are deemed to be fully read, understood and accepted by the Candidate upon acceptance of these Conditions during Registration, or in the case of a Candidate who has not completed Registration, when an Application is made.

3. Services Generally

  • 3.1. Jobsite does not make any representation whatsoever about any Advertisement accessed either on, by virtue of or by way of any links from the Site nor about any of the Clients. Jobsite relies on information provided to it by Clients and via third parties and accordingly it is a matter for the Candidate to satisfy itself as to the suitability of any Client or of any Advertisement found directly or indirectly through the Site.
  • 3.2. Jobsite shall be entitled at anytime without notifying the Candidate to make changes to the Services which are necessary to comply with any applicable security or other statutory requirements and shall determine the manner in which the Services are provided
  • 3.3. Any intellectual property, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques developed by Jobsite or obtained during the execution of the Services will be owned exclusively by Jobsite.
  • 3.4. Jobsite shall not be responsible for any failure to provide the Services, or unavailability of the Site, as a result of circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
  • 3.5. The Candidate accepts that Jobsite shall not be liable for any failure to provide the Services (or any part thereof) as a result of the Candidate's failure to comply with these Conditions.
  • 3.6. The Candidate agrees to provide Jobsite, in such a format as Jobsite may request, any information necessary to enable Jobsite to provide those Services.
  • 3.7 Jobsite shall not be obliged to provide those Services until the Candidate has supplied it with the information, necessary to provide those Services.
  • 3.8 The Candidate accepts that Jobsite cannot be held responsible for the content of Advertisements on the Site and that no obligations are imposed on Jobsite in this regard.

4. Jobs By Email

If the Candidate has signed up to receive Jobs-By-Email, the provisions of this clause 4 shall apply thereto.

  • 4.1. Jobs-By-Email are sent once a day on any day of the week and each Jobs-By-Email will contain a limited listing of live vacancy Advertisements posted or renewed since the last Jobs-By-Email sent to the Candidate and matching the Candidate's search criteria.
  • 4.2. The Candidate accepts that Jobsite cannot guarantee the number of vacancy Advertisements distributed in the Jobs-by-Email and that no obligations are imposed on Jobsite in this regard.

5. CV's

If the Candidate has saved their details and stored a CV with Friends Reunited Jobs, the provisions of this clause 5 shall apply thereto.

  • 5.1. The Services are subject to any instructions from a Candidate that his or her details should or should not be made available to the Client and Jobsite will only make available or supply copies of the CVs which have been received by Friends Reunited Jobs for distribution to Clients of Jobsite solely for the purpose of securing suitable employment for the Candidate.
  • 5.2. Jobsite cannot guarantee the minimum number of times a CV will be viewed by or distributed to Clients on any given day.
  • 5.3. Jobsite has the right at its sole discretion to decline to distribute or forward, or to suspend or remove any Candidate information or CV accepted by Friends Reunited Jobs.
  • 5.4. Jobsite may refuse, withdraw, or require to be amended, any Candidate information or CV which is illegal, immoral, obscene or offensive or so as to comply with the legal or moral obligations placed upon Jobsite or the Candidate or to avoid infringing a third party's rights or any statutory or regulatory requirements or is designed to or is likely to cause disruption to any computer system or network.

  • 5.5. The Candidate hereby undertakes that:

    • 5.5.1 the details and CV they store and save on Friends Reunited Jobs are a true and accurate reflection of their education, employment, training history and that their personal details are correct;
    • 5.5.2 that if any of the information stored and saved on Friends Reunited Jobs for the purposes of securing employment is found to be false or inaccurate in any way, that Jobsite reserves the right to remove those details and/or suspend the use of the Services on the Site for the Candidate;
    • 5.5.3 in respect of any information or CV submitted by the Candidate which contains the name or pictorial representation (photographic or otherwise) of any living person and/or any part of any living person and/or any copy by which any living person is or can be identified the Candidate has obtained the authority of such living person to make use of such name, representation and/or copy;

6. Applications and Application Forms

If the Candidate makes an Application or is required to complete an Application Form as part of an Application, the provisions of this clause 6 shall apply thereto:

  • 6.1 The Candidate hereby undertakes that:

    • 6.1.1. they have fully read and understood the requirements of a vacancy Advertisement on the Site to which they make an Application;
    • 6.1.2. they have the appropriate skills and qualifications required by the Client and the necessary qualifications required by law;
    • 6.1.3. they satisfy or will attend to the necessary immigration requirements of the country in which the position will be situated;
    • 6.1.4. the details they provide to the Client as part of an Application or in an Application Form are a true and accurate reflection of their education, employment, training history and that their personal details are correct;
    • 6.1.5. that if any of the information used in an Application or Application Form is found to be false or inaccurate in any way, that Jobsite reserves the right to remove those details and/or suspend the use of the Services on the Site for the Candidate;
    • 6.1.6. in respect of any information submitted during the Application by the Candidate which contains the name or pictorial representation (photographic or otherwise) of any living person and/or any part of any living person and/or any copy by which any living person is or can be identified, the Candidate has obtained the authority of such living person to make use of such name, representation and/or copy.
  • 6.2. Jobsite has the right at its sole discretion to decline to distribute or forward, or to suspend or remove any Application accepted by Friends Reunited Jobs.
  • 6.3. Jobsite may refuse, withdraw, or require to be amended, any Application which is illegal, immoral, obscene or offensive or so as to comply with the legal or moral obligations placed upon Jobsite or the Candidate or to avoid infringing a third party's rights or any statutory or regulatory requirements or is designed to or is likely to cause disruption to any computer system or network.
  • 6.4. When a Candidate makes an Application through the Site, Jobsite will pass the Candidate's details to the Client who placed the Advertisement for the purpose of that one Application only.

7. Candidates Obligations

  • 7.1 The Candidate agrees that:

    • 7.1.1 he/she has read, understood and agrees to the Privacy Statement on the Site;
    • 7.1.2 he/she will keep confidential and not disclose to any person the password used by them in relation to the Services;
    • 7.1.3 he/she will be responsible for any misuse of all such passwords.

8. Liability

  • 8.1. Jobsite will not be liable (whether in contract or tort) for:

    • 8.1.1. any loss of copy, artwork, photographs, data, CVs or other materials that the Candidate supplies to Friends Reunited Jobs and the Candidate shall be responsible for retaining in its possession sufficient quality and quantity of such materials for whatsoever purposes it may require;
    • 8.1.2. any mistakes or errors whatsoever that arise during the course of use of the Services or any loss of information or data or any damage thereto in each case as a result of circumstances beyond its reasonable control or which arise as a result of the acts or omissions of the Candidate;
    • 8.1.3. for any failure to secure employment or consequential loss (whether caused by the negligence of Jobsite, its employees or agents);
    • 8.1.4. any delay, costs, expense, loss, damage or liability (including without limitation as a result of any hardware failure, provision or use of software, virus, deletion, corruption, loss or removal of data) howsoever caused arising from any matter beyond the reasonable control of Jobsite or as a result of the acts or omissions of the Candidate;
    • 8.1.5. any loss or damage whatsoever howsoever caused arising out of the negligence, dishonesty, misconduct, breach of faith, incompetence, or the wrongful disclosure of confidential information by, any Client. It is for the Candidate to satisfy itself as to the integrity and reliability of all vacancy Advertisements placed on the Site;
    • 8.1.6. any breach of agreement or infringement or violation of any right of any person or be rendered liable to any proceedings whatsoever, as a result of any information or CV or Application submitted to Friends Reunited Jobs by the Candidate and the Candidate indemnifies Jobsite against all costs, claims, damages, loss, expenses and liabilities suffered or incurred by Jobsite as a result of this undertaking and warranty being incorrect.
  • 8.2 Nothing in these Conditions will restrict or exclude Jobsite's liability for death or personal injury caused by its own negligence.
  • 8.3 The Candidate agrees and acknowledges that no condition, warranty or representation of any kind is, has been, or will be, given by or on behalf of Jobsite in respect of or in connection with the Services and accordingly the Candidate confirms that it has not, in accepting these Conditions, relied on any condition, warranty or representation by Jobsite or Friends Reunited Jobs or any person on its behalf, express or implied, whether arising by law or otherwise in relation to or in connection with the Services. The benefit of any such condition, warranty or representation by Jobsite is hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waived by the Candidate.

9. Termination

Either party may, at its sole discretion, terminate the provision of the Services to the Candidate at any time by notice in writing.

10. Notices

  • 10.1. Notice required or permitted to be given under these Conditions shall:

    • 10.1.1. be in writing addressed to that other party at its registered office or principal place of business or such other relevant address as may at the relevant time have been notified pursuant to this provision to the other party giving the notice; or
    • 10.1.2. be in the form of an email addressed to Jobsite at help@friendsreunitedjobs.co.uk(or such other address as supplied by Jobsite) or if to the Candidate, to the address provided in the Candidate's details submitted during Registration or as subsequently amended.
  • 10.2. The Candidate is responsible for notifying Jobsite of any changes to its email address.

11. General

  • 11.1. If any provision of these Conditions shall be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect any other provision, which shall remain in full force and effect.
  • 11.2 These Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.