Terms & Conditions
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. IT SETS OUT THE TERMS UNDER WHICH REACH PLC OFFERS YOU USE OF ITS SERVICES AS DEFINED IN CLAUSE 1.1 OF THIS AGREEMENT. BY USING ANY OF THE SERVICES AND/OR THE WEBSITE YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND THAT THEY SHALL APPLY TO YOUR USE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THEM, PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER FOR OR USE THIS WEBSITE.
This Agreement is made between you and Reach plc whose registered office is ONE CANADA SQUARE, CANARY WHARF LONDON, E14 5AP.
The Services
By means of the Website, Reach plc makes available an on-line recruitment and employment information service, where The Company place advertisements for positions which they have and if interested you may submit responses to such positions (the "Services").
The Services are only available on the completion of the registration section of the Website including confirmation that the relevant terms and conditions have been read and accepted.
Use of the Website and the Services
Reach plc make no warranty that the contents of any and all e-mails communicated through the Site are free from infection by viruses or anything else which has contaminating or destructive properties and shall have no liability in respect thereof.
The Website and/or the Services may include links to websites and/or services owned and/or operated by third parties. These are provided for your convenience only and Reach plc is not responsible for and does not give any warranties or make any representations regarding any such websites and/or services and is not responsible for or liable in relation to the content or your use of such websites (save to the extent required by law).
You acknowledge that Reach plc is not responsible for third party content on the Website and that Reach plc cannot ensure that material presented on the Internet is legal. Reach plc will not limit access to material unless notified that it is illegal.
Reach plc will not be a party to any communications whatsoever between you and those responding to any use which you may make of the Services, although Reach plc reserves the right to monitor any such communications which are made by you or third parties by means of the Website and/or the Services.
Availability of the Website and the Service
Reach plc does not promise full, uninterrupted or error free operation of the Website and/or the Services. All liability of Reach plc, its directors or employees howsoever arising for any loss whatsoever arising from your use of or inability to use the Website and/or the Services is excluded, insofar as it is possible to do so in law.
Whilst we try to ensure that the standard of this website remains high and to maintain the continuity of it, the internet is not an inherently stable medium, and errors, omissions, interruptions of service and delays may occur at any time. We do not accept any liability arising from any such errors, omissions, interruptions or delays or any ongoing obligation or responsibility to operate this website (or any particular part of it) or to provide the service offered on this website. We may vary the specification of this site from time to time without notice.
Information on this Site
Whilst we make every effort to ensure that the information on this site is accurate and complete, some of the information is supplied to us by third parties and we are not able to check the accuracy or completeness of that information. We do not accept any liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission in any of the information on this site or any liability in respect of information on this site supplied by you, any other site user or any other person.
Your Use of this Site
You may only use this Site for lawful purposes when seeking employment or help with your career. You must not under any circumstances seek to undermine the security of the Site or any information submitted to or available through it. In particular, but without limitation, you must not seek to access, alter or delete any information to which you do not have authorised access, seek to overload the system via spamming or flooding, take any action or use any device, routine or software to crash, delay, damage or otherwise interfere with the operation of this Site or attempt to decipher, disassemble or modify any of the software, coding or information comprised in the Site.
You are solely responsible for any information submitted by you to this site. You are responsible for ensuring that all information supplied by you is true, accurate, up-to-date and not misleading or likely to mislead or deceive and that it is not discriminatory, obscene, offensive, defamatory or otherwise illegal, unlawful or in breach of any applicable legislation, regulations, guidelines or codes of practice or the copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights of any person in any jurisdiction. You are also responsible for ensuring that all information, data and files are free of viruses or other routines or engines that may damage or interfere with any system or data prior to being submitted to this site. We reserve the right to remove any information supplied by you from the website at our sole discretion, at any time and for any reason without being required to give any explanation.
Registration Terms and Conditions
These Registration Terms and Conditions are to be read in conjunction with our general Terms and Conditions (see above) and our Privacy Policy. These Registration Terms and Conditions apply to our discussion forums, and will apply to you if you register with us. Where you are asked to complete a registration form the personal details that you provide must be true, accurate and complete. You agree to notify us of any changes which are relevant to your registration.
We will process any data which you provide in completing the online registration or application forms and any further forms, assessments or personal details which you complete or provide to us when using this site in accordance with UK data protection legislation. We explain more about your personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Registration Process
Before you are able to access Registered Users' Areas you must read through these Registration Terms and Conditions. To register you need to provide a verifiable email address, complete the required fields on the registration form and read and accept these Registration Terms and Conditions. Once you have done this we will send you a confirmation email with your registration information.
Username and Passwords
In order to register with this site and to sign in when you visit the site, you will need to use a user name and password. You are solely responsible for the security and proper use of your password, which should be kept confidential at all times and not disclosed to any other person.
If you believe that someone else may have access to, or know your password, you must change it immediately by logging in and clicking on the 'settings' link on the top right of the page. You must notify us immediately if you believe that your password is known to someone else or if it may be used in an unauthorised way.
We accept no liability for any unauthorised or improper use or disclosure of any password.
Data Protection and Use of Personal Information
Your personal data will be collected and processed by Reach plc in accordance with its privacy policy. The personal data collected may include, without limitation, your name, address, telephone and fax details, email contact address, and other data obtained from you from time to time.
Information may be gathered from your registration form(s) and your use of the Sites and/or the Interactive Services including through "cookies". Cookies are blocks of text placed in files on your computer's hard drive when you visit a web site which contain information to identify you. A cookie does not contain any personal information you have provided us with, except your user name, unless the cookie attached to personal information collected another way, such as by means of your on-line registration form.
The information gathered may be used by Reach plc and companies in the same group as Reach plc (i.e. companies which share the same ultimate parent company) internally, for purposes relating to your use of the Sites and the Interactive Services and for marketing activities, and may be passed to carefully selected third parties to use for marketing activities. By marketing activities, we mean the communication directly to particular individuals (by e-mail, post or telephone) of any advertising or marketing material. If you do not wish to receive marketing material from Reach plc, from companies in the same group as Reach plc or from carefully selected third parties you should tick the appropriate box on the registration form(s) or notify us by e-mail. If you subsequently decide you no longer wish to receive direct marketing/information from Reach plc or companies in the same group as Reach plc or no longer wish us to pass your information to third parties you should again notify us by e-mail.
Termination
We may terminate your registration and/or deny you access to the site or any part of it (including any services, goods or information available on or through the site) at any time in our absolute discretion and without any explanation or notification.
Claims
You agree to indemnify Reach plc and all companies within the Reach group for all losses, costs, actions, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal costs and expenses) or liabilities, whatsoever suffered or incurred by Companies within the Reach plc group in or as a consequence of your breach of this Agreement and/or your use of the Website and/or Services (save to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction holds that such a claim arose due to an act or omission of Reach plc).
Liability
Neither we, nor any other party involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Website, will be liable for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party including without limitation any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, whether in tort, contract or otherwise (including without limitation negligence) in connection with: your use, inability to use or the results of use of the Website, any websites linked to the Website or the material on such websites; or any amount or kind of loss or damage including without limitation any loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data, or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Website or your downloading of any Material from the Website or any websites linked to the Website.
In so far as we are able we exclude all liability for all direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage which arises out of or in connection with the use of the Website. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, fraud, or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter. You must notify us immediately if anyone makes or threatens to make any claim against you relating to your use of this site.
Reach plc reserves the right to assign or transfer all or any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any companies in the same group as Reach plc or any other third party. In the event of assignment or transfer, notification will either be given to you by e-mail or posted on the Website.
If your use of the Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of your equipment, software or data, you assume all costs of this.
Submission of Content
As a Registered User you may post or upload Your Content to the Website as long as you comply with our content standards, community guidelines and Terms and Conditions. You grant us a perpetual, royalty-free, non exclusive licence to use Your Content on the Website, and subject to your permission for any other uses as we may require in any and all media. This includes, without limitation, the right to sub-license to third parties via any and all media (whether existing now or invented in the future). You grant us all necessary rights, licences, consents and clearances to allow us to use Your Content in accordance with these Registration Terms and Conditions and agree not to assert any moral or similar rights you may have in any Content.
You guarantee that Your Content:
- ●does not infringe any copyright, trade marks, rights of privacy/confidentiality, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any other person or entity;
- ●does not contain any information about any person(s) under the age of 16 unless you are either their parent or legal guardian, or have signed permission from their parent or legal guardian;
- ●does not contain malicious code, viruses or other harmful programmes or material;
- ●does not violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation; and
- ●meets our Content Standards (see below) and complies with any specific rules that may apply to any particular area of the Registered Users' Areas.
You agree that before posting or uploading Your Content you are responsible for obtaining all releases, consents and/or licenses necessary for uploading Your Content on our Website and for any subsequent use of that content by us in accordance with these Registration Terms and Conditions.
You promise that you are the person depicted in any images or recordings submitted as part of Your Content and if you upload any images or recordings of any third party, you have obtained the prior written consent of that party to submit such content to our Website.
Content Standards
You agree whenever you submit Your Content to our Website or contact other Registered Users you must comply with our Content Standards and community guidelines. If you do not comply we reserve the right to suspend or ban you from using the website and the Registered User Areas without notice.
You agree Your Content must be accurate where it states facts and be genuinely held where it states opinions.
You agree Your Content must not:
- ●contain any material which constitutes or encourages conduct that could be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law;
- ●contain any material which is defamatory;
- ●contain any material which is obscene or offensive;
- ●infringe any copyright, database rights, trade mark or other intellectual property right or other right of any other person;
- ●be likely to deceive any person;
- ●be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party such as a contractual duty or obligation of confidentiality;
- ●be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
- ●be likely to disrupt our service in any way;
- ●give the impression it emanates from us where this is not the case; or
- ●advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act, for example copyright, trade mark infringement, or computer misuse.
You agree to comply with any additional rules that may apply to a particular Registered Users' Area.
We reserve the right to reject, block, suspend or remove Your Content at any time at our sole discretion. We in no way guarantee that Your Content or any part of it will be displayed on the Website. Any content is published at our discretion.
Severability
If any provision of this Agreement or part thereof is determined to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, such provision, or part thereof, shall be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which shall continue to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Changes to Terms and Conditions and Invalidity
These website terms and conditions may be changed by Reach plc at any time. You will be deemed to accept the terms and conditions (as amended) when you next use this site following any amendment.
If you are uncertain about anything in these Terms and Conditions please write to us at the above address.
Law and Jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Privacy Policy
Reach plc endeavours to ensure that the information that you submit to us remains private, and that it is used only for the purposes described below. We aim to provide a safe and secure experience for all of our users.
This policy together with our terms of use sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Reach plc.
Information we may collect from you
We generally collect information contained in your CV such as name, address, home phone number, work phone number, mobile phone number(s), email addresses and general contact information to facilitate Reach plc to be able to readily communicate with you. We also collect additional personal information such as career objectives and restrictions, as well as your CV and skills (your “information”).
We collect and may disclose statistical information gathered as a whole (e.g. total number of applicants and applicant origin) for internal reporting purposes and to improve the experience we offer to our job seekers. However, we never disclose information that identifies any individual for such purposes. We do not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not knowingly market our services to children.
If you opt to provide Date of Birth, Sex, Marital Status or Nationality information, this information is gathered for diversity monitoring and reporting only and will not be used in the recruitment and selection process.
IP addresses and cookies
Reach plc uses your IP address to help track where you came from and what services you are using, to help us administer our web site and to improve our services.
We and some of our associates and 3rd party organisations that support us to deliver the services you are using, also use “cookies” to track your use of the site, and to ensure that you are a valid, registered user throughout your “session”.
A cookie is a file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. They help us to improve our site and those of our associates and 3rd party organisations that support us to deliver the services you are using and to deliver a better and more personalised service. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Uses made of the information
Reach plc gathers the personal information required for you to be considered for job vacancies within Reach plc and to conduct research relating to our recruitment activities. Generally, the information gathered from you is used to assist you to search for Reach plc job vacancies, apply for Reach plc job vacancies and to be processed for each job application you submit. As such, it may require us to release your personal information with your consent to Reach plc hiring managers, administrators and third party contractors.
We may also use, disclose and communicate your personal information for compliance with any legal obligation to which we may be subject.
Reach plc uses all reasonable means to ensure that third party sources use your personal information only for the purposes for which it was provided and in adherence to the Reach plc Privacy Policy. However, Reach plc is not responsible for any improper use of your personal information that is beyond our reasonable control.
We do not disclose your information to anyone except as described above, including personal information, CV information, email addresses, information about your visits to the site, etc.
Third party links
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to other sites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Where we store your personal data
Your personal information is stored on a secure server hosted by a Reach plc approved contractor.
How is your personal information secured and protected?
We use commercially reasonable measures necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Access to information
The Data Protection Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 towards our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
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