GRADUATE LAUNCH - TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR CANDIDATES

Last updated September 2021

Introduction

These are the terms and conditions of Hudson & Flowerdew Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 08683882 whose registered office is at Unit C, Regent House 9 Crown Square, Poundbury, Dorchester, England, DT1 3DY (“we” or “us”).

We own and operate Graduate Launch an exciting website recruitment platform that connects companies to candidates, available at http://graduate-launch.com/ (our “Platform”).

By registering for an account on our Platform or by visiting our Platform, you are deemed to accept these and conditions, and a legally binding contract is formed between you and us. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, please do not register for an account or visit our Platform.

We may amend these terms and conditions from time to time, and such amendments shall apply to your use of our Platform. When any such amendments are made, you will be prompted to accept the new terms and conditions within our Platform.

Our services

Our Platform is a free intelligent job board whereby candidates sign up to our Platform, upload their CV and any other relevant information. Companies will post job adverts on our Platform, setting out their specific requirements and you will be matched to suitable jobs where you meet the company’s requirements. You can apply for a job that is posted or after matching with a job, your CV and contact information will be provided to the company so that you can liaise with each other directly without any involvement from us.

By using our Platform, you consent to being contacted directly by us or any associated or subsidiary company to discuss your job search and opportunities. All contact information is processed by us in accordance with our privacy policy (further information below).

Use of our Platform

The information contained on our Platform is not directed to, nor intended for, distribution or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction where the publication or availability of our Platform, or such distribution or use, would be contrary to local laws or regulation. You should not access our Platform/information on our Platform if you know that the access would contravene applicable, local, national or international laws.

You have permission for temporary use of our Platform, but we can withdraw or change our Platform at any time without telling you and without being legally responsible to you. You are only eligible to use our Platform if you are at least 18 years of age, or have capacity to form a binding contract, and if you are not a user barred from accessing our Platform under applicable law. Your use of our Platform must not violate any applicable law or regulation.

You must treat all identification codes, passwords and other security information as confidential. If we think you have failed to keep confidentiality, we are allowed to disable any security information (including your passwords and codes).

If you allow anyone else to use our Platform, you must make sure that they read these terms and conditions first, and that they follow them.

Only use our Platform as allowed by law and these terms. If you don't, we may suspend your usage, or stop it completely.

We frequently update our Platform and make changes to it, but we don't have to do this, and material on our Platform may be out-of-date. No material on our Platform is intended to contain advice, and you shouldn't rely on it. We exclude all legal responsibility and costs for reliance placed on our Platform by anyone. We are not liable for any technical errors, maintenance, work, damage, wrongful use, unauthorised access to our Platform, or any content you upload to our Platform.

You are responsible for configuring the computer or device used to access our Platform, and the software to access the material and content on our Platform, including downloadable files. We do not warrant that the way in which we deliver data to you is compatible with your software. We do our best to protect our Platform, but are not responsible for bugs, viruses etc., and are not liable for damage or loss caused by a virus, distributed denial of service attack or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programmes, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Platform, downloading any content from it or using any website linked to it.

We do not warrant that your use of our Platform will be uninterrupted or error-free. We are not responsible for any loss or damage suffered as a result of any interruptions or errors, and you acknowledge that our Platform may be subject to limitations, delays or other issues.

We do our best to provide the most accurate information possible. However, we cannot ensure that our Platform is completely error free, or that it will not become outdated. Therefore, we do not provide any warranty or other assurances as to the completeness, accuracy, timeliness or fitness for particular purposes of any of the content or materials contained within our Platform.

We are also not liable for any third party content on our Platform, and do not endorse what this content may contain.

These terms and conditions remain effective so long as you use our Platform.

We follow our privacy policy in handling information about you. By using our Platform, you agree to us handling this information and confirm that data you provide is accurate.

Intellectual Rights and Copyright

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Platform (for example the copyright and any rights in the designs) and in any of the material posted on it. They are protected by copyright.

You are allowed to print one copy and download extracts of any page on our Platform for your personal reference, but not for commercial use without a licence from us. You must not alter anything, or use any illustrations, video, audio or photographs separately from the text that goes with them. You must not change, copy, reproduce or translate anything on the site without our consent. You are not permitted to license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, exploit or otherwise make any documents or online resources from the site available to any third party.

If you breach these terms, you lose your right to use our Platform, and must destroy or return any copies you have made.

Our legal responsibility to you

As far as legally possible, we exclude legal responsibility for loss of income, profit, business, opportunity, data, contracts, goodwill or savings, or any other indirect, consequential or special loss.

We also exclude, as far as legally possible, all terms and warranties or promises implied by law or by statutes.

We don't exclude legal responsibility for death or personal injury owing to our negligence, or legal responsibility for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else where exclusion is not allowed by the law.

Any duty of care we owe to you is owed only to you, and not to any third parties.

We are not recruitment or employment advisers, and do not hold ourselves out as such.

We have no control over the companies that post job on our Platform and your decision to accept a position is at your absolute discretion. We accept no liability for any action you do or do not take in response to a job post and we can accept no liability should that company later be found by you to be unsuitable.

Uploading to our Platform

Material that is uploaded by companies to our Platform will be regarded as non-confidential and not owned. This means that we can copy it, distribute it, and show it to other people for any purpose. You agree that if anyone else claims to own the material, or says that it breaches their rights, we can give them your identity.

We won't be legally responsible to anybody for the accuracy of material that is uploaded to our Platform, and we can remove it at any time.

Computer offences

If you do anything which is a criminal offence under a law called the Computer Misuse Act 1990, your right to use our Platform will end straightaway. We will report you to the relevant authorities and give them your identity.

Examples of computer misuse include introducing viruses, worms, Trojans and other technologically harmful or damaging material.

You must not try to get access to our Platform or server or any connected database or make any 'attack' on our Platform. We won't be legally responsible to you for any damage from viruses or other harmful material that you pick up via our Platform.

Links from our Platform

Links from our Platform to other websites are for information only. We don't control them and don't accept responsibility for other websites or any materials found upon them or any loss you suffer from using them.

Data Protection

Our authority for data protection is the UK Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk 

We have implemented, and maintain, safeguards to ensure the protection and security of the information that is uploaded to our Platform, such as your CV and personal data. We comply with applicable data protection legislation, including the UK Data Protection Act 2018. For more information on how we process and stores personal data, please see our privacy policy, which can be found here: [insert link]

General

We may remove your rights of access to our Platform at any time should you be breach these terms and conditions, without any further liability to you.

If any part of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it is deemed to be deleted, and the rest of these terms and conditions shall remain in full force and effect.

No third parties are provided with any rights under these terms and conditions, and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 does not apply.

Either party may give notice to the other party by sending an email to the last email address notified to the other party. Time of delivery is deemed to be the time of transmission. This shall not apply to the delivery of legal proceedings.

These terms and conditions, and any non-contractual obligations arising hereunder, shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute arising hereunder. Where you are a consumer, the courts of the country in which you reside will also have jurisdiction.