Terms and Conditions

General

Terms of use
Working for Parents is made available to you on the following terms and conditions. By using the site and the services available you are deemed to accept these terms and conditions.

The site
The information and services available on the site are provided for the sole purpose of individuals looking for job opportunities and career information and for employers seeking to recruit staff. You may use, print and download information from the site for these purposes only and for no other personal or commercial purpose.

All copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the site and the material available on the site belongs to Working for Parents. Use of the site does not give you any rights in such materials.

Data protection
Our use of CVs and other personal information supplied by users of this site is governed by our privacy policy. Please click here to view our privacy policy.

Candidates

CVs and job advertisements
CVs and job ads on the site are provided by candidates and prospective employers and their agents and are not reviewed by Working for Parents. We accept no responsibility or liability for the contents of CVs or advertisements and expect candidates and prospective employers to carry out such verification procedures as are customary in the circumstances.

Working for Parents information
The services and information provided are to assist in the jobseeking or recruitment process. Neither we nor our third-party suppliers guarantee their suitability in any particular case. You should obtain independent verification before relying on information provided on the site in circumstances that may result in loss or damage.

Limitation of liability
Our liability, and the liability of our third-party suppliers, for any loss or damage suffered by you as the result of your use of this site is limited to your actual direct damages and, except in the case of fraud, excludes any loss of future earnings, profit or prospects or any consequential or speculative loss. As required by law, this exclusion does not extend to death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

Site availability
We try to ensure continuous availability of the site and all the services available on it but accept no responsibility for the consequences of interruptions or delays, however caused. We may, additionally, alter the design and specification of the site at any time.

Browser policy 
Working for Parents endeavours to support as many users as possible. We cannot guarantee availability of the service through all browsers. Working for Parents also requires jobseekers to enable session cookies and JavaScript in their browser.

Terms and conditions of business for recruiters

General
In these terms and conditions:
Customer - means any person, company, organisation or firm that purchases services from Working for Parents
Order Form - means an order for services on a form provided by us (in any format) and signed by a customer
Services - means all recruitment products and services made available by Working for Parents from time to time
Contract month - means, in respect of any order form relating to the provision of services for a specified period of months, the calendar month commencing on the start date specified in the order form and ending on the day before the same date in the next calendar month. For example, the calendar month commencing on 24 February and ending 23 March
Contract term - means the full term specified in the order form

Commencement of services
We will not commence the provision of services pursuant to any order form until the order form has been returned to Working for Parents Limited, in a form approved by Working for Parents Limitedand signed by the customer.

Prices
Prices are guaranteed for the period stated on the order form. Prices are confidential and may not be disclosed by the customer.
A job posted on Working for Parents will remain live for 30 days or such time as we agree with the customer. Any extension of this time will be charged to the customer as a new posting. Any jobs posted in addition to the agreed number of jobs per month will be charged at a price per job agreed with the customer at the time of the contract negotiation. A single job is identified by its unique number. If a customer deletes a job and then either reposts it or posts another, this will be classed as two jobs.

If any services to be used within any time period specified on the order form are not used within that period of time they may not be carried over into any subsequent period without our prior written consent. The customer will be responsible for payment for any unused services.

Payments
All prices include VAT. All invoices are payable within 30 days from invoice date. Late payment will entitle us to suspend provision of services. Interest will be payable on late payments.

Termination
The customer may terminate the provision of services under any order form by no fewer than 30 days notice to expire at the end of a contract month. Termination by the customer before the end of the contract term may, at our discretion, result in loss of discounts agreed for the entire contract term.

Job posting - Employment agencies and employment businesses
If you are an employment agency or an employment business (as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973 ('the Act')) it is your responsibility to ensure that advertisements you place on Working for Parents comply with your obligations under the Act and Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2004. You agree to comply with the Act and these regulations as they affect the conduct of your business and the advertisements you place on Working for Parents.

Working for Parents site rules
The rules regarding the content and format of jobs posted on Working for Parents and their purpose is to ensure that users who search the site or Working for Parents database get results that are presented as clearly as possible. At our discretion and without liability to you, we will remove from Working for Parents any advertisement that is posted in breach of these rules. The rules may change from time to time and you are advised to refer to them regularly.

Illegal advertisements
Advertisements that discriminate on grounds of sex, race, age or disability are illegal and may result in proceedings being taken against both the advertiser and the publisher. We may at our discretion remove any advertisement from Working for Parents if we feel it is in breach of employment discrimination rules.

Content and links
If your advertisement links to another site from the 'apply now' option, you are responsible for maintaining the links and for the content of your advertisement and the linked site. We may remove from Working for Parents any advertisement that contains content or links to a site that, in our opinion, is defamatory or illegal. You will indemnify Working for Parents Limited from any claims or liability arising from content or links contained in your advertisements.

Browsers
Working for Parents endeavours to support as many users as possible. We cannot guarantee availability of the service through all browsers. Working for Parents also requires jobseekers to enable session cookies and JavaScript in their browser.

Use of CV database

Employment agencies and employment businesses
If you are an employment agency or an employment business (as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973 ('the Act')) it is your responsibility to ensure that the use you make of information from our CV database complies with your obligations under the Act and the various regulations made under it, together with any applicable guidelines. These regulations are currently contained in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2004. You agree to comply with the Act and these regulations as they affect the conduct of your business and the use you make of information on our candidate database.

Rights in the CV database
CV database rights and all other applicable copyright and intellectual property rights in the CV database belong to Working for Parents. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any rights in the database or its content and that your retention and use of the database and its content is governed by these terms and conditions.

Deletion of database material
You agree to delete all material from the CV database upon its replacement with up-to-date material or the satisfactory conclusion of your search for a suitable candidate, whichever occurs first.

Dealings with candidates
You agree to deal fairly with individuals you may contact using information from the CV database.

Online advertising
These terms and conditions apply to all advertising campaigns accepted by Working for Parents for display on our website. By placing a campaign you accept these terms and conditions even if you are acting as agent or buyer for the actual advertiser.

You are responsible for the content of the campaign and for ensuring that it complies with all relevant legislation and codes of practice. We may, at our discretion, remove the campaign from display without reference or liability to you. You will indemnify Working for Parents Limited against any claim that the campaign or its content infringes the intellectual property rights or other rights of others or is defamatory or otherwise offensive. If you are an employment agency or an employment business (as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973) it is your responsibility to ensure the advertisements you place on Working for Parents comply with the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2004.

If we, or our third party subcontractors who may host and serve campaigns from time to time, make an error in displaying any campaign, it is the cost of re-running the relevant campaign. Neither we nor our subcontractors shall be liable in any circumstances for any loss of profit or business. We shall, additionally, have no liability for failure to display the campaign caused by circumstances outside our control.