Terms

Applicable terms

The Terms of service incorporate the following additional terms, policies and conditions, which also apply to your use of our site in addition to the terms and conditions set out on this page:

Our Privacy and Cookies Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us, and it also provides information about the use of cookies on our site; and Our Acceptable Use Policy , which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.

Acceptance of these Terms of Use

We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms of Use for future reference. By using our site, you confirm that you accept the Terms of Use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to all of the provisions in the Terms of Use, you must not use our site.

If you make use of our site and its services as a registered user, please note that you will be required to indicate your acceptance of the Terms of Use during the registration process.

Changes to these Terms of service or our site

We may revise the Terms of Use at any time. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes that we make, as your continued use of our site will be deemed to indicate your acceptance of any such changes to the Terms of Use.

We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at anytime.

Accessing our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of the Terms of Use and that they comply with them.

If you register with our site

If you choose to register with our site and are provided with a user name ,password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as strictly confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of the Terms of Use.

Applying for an advertised role

If you wish to apply for a role that is advertised on the site, you will normally be required to provide certain information that is requested on the site, which may include personal data.

For further information about how we process your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

In some instances, if you indicate that you wish to apply for a role that is advertised on the site, you will need to follow a link that will automatically take you to a third party site (belonging to the party that has advertised the role) and will be asked to provide information via that third party site. You should refer to the third party site’s privacy policy to understand how the third party will process your personal data.

Intellectual property rights

Unless specified otherwise, we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Any content you upload to, or create on, our site (e.g. your CV) will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to the third party employers and training providers that we work with.

No reliance on information

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

Limitation of our liability

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a consumer user:

If we fail to comply with these Terms of Use, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking this contract or our failing to use reasonable care and skill.

Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

If you are a business user:

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.

We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

use of, or inability to use, our site; or use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

In particular, we will not be liable for:

loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

Linked websites and resources

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Viruses and cyber attacks

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material, which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page or any other page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you. Our site must not be framed on any other site.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy

Privacy and Data Protection

We will comply with our obligations under applicable data protection legislation in respect of any personal data that we collect from you,or which you provide to us.

Please read our Privacy Policy for full information about how we process your personal data.

Other important terms

Governing Law:

If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these Terms of Use, their subject matter and the information (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Assignment: You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights under the Terms of Use.

Severance: If any part of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the validity of the remaining provisions will be unaffected.

Waiver: If either party does not exercise any right or remedy under these Terms of Use, this will not be taken to mean that they have been waived.