Simply Interims Terms & Condition

1. Introduction

1.1 Contract

SimplyInterims is a trading name of Veloc Ltd

When you use our Services you agree to all of these terms. Your use of our Services is also subject to our Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect, use, share, and store your personal information.

You agree that by clicking “Register”, “Register with SimplyInterims”, “Sign Up” or similar, registering, accessing or using our services (described below), you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with SimplyInterims (even if you are using our Services on behalf of a company). If you do not agree to this contract (“Contract” or “User Agreement”), do not click “Join Now” (or similar) and do not access or otherwise use any of our Services. If you wish to terminate this contract, at any time you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing or using our Services.

 

Services

This Contract applies to SimplyInterims.com.

SimplyInterims

You are entering into this Contract with SimplyInterims (also referred to as “we” and “us”).

This Contract applies to Members and Visitors.

As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy).

1.2 Members and Visitors

When you register and join the SimplyInterims Service you become a Member. If you have chosen not to register for our Services, you may access certain features as a “Visitor.”

1.3 Change

We may make changes to the Contract.

We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. We agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you object to any changes, you may Close Your Account. Your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms as of their effective date.

2. Obligations

2.1 Service Eligibility

You’re eligible to enter into this Contract and you are at least our “Minimum Age.”

The Services are not for use by anyone under the age of 16.

To use the Services, you agree that: (1) you must be the “Minimum Age” (described above) or older; (2) you will only have one SimplyInterims candidate account, which must be in your real name; and (3) you are not already restricted by SimplyInterims from using the Services. Creating an account with false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 16.

You may have an account as a candidate and as an Employer.

“Minimum Age” means 16 years old. However, if law requires that you must be older in order for SimplyInterims to lawfully provide the Services to you without parental consent (including using of your personal data) then the Minimum Age is such older age.

2.2 Your Account

You will keep your password a secret.

You will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law.

Members are account holders. You agree to: (1) use a strong password and keep it confidential; and (2) follow the law and our list of Dos and Don’ts. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.

As between you and others (including your employer), your account belongs to you. However, if the Services were registered by another party for you to use (e.g. Employer/Recruiter account on behalf of your employer), the party paying for our services has the right to control access to and get reports on your use of such paid services; however, they do not have rights to your personal account.

2.3 Payment

You’ll honor your payment obligations;

Refunds are subject to our policy.

 

If you buy any of our paid Services, you agree to pay us the applicable fees and. Also, you agree that:

• Your purchase may be subject to foreign exchange fees or differences in prices based on location (e.g. exchange rates).
• All of your purchases of Credits are non refundable.
• All purchases include UK sales tax.

You will be sent a receipt by email, to your registered email address, at the time of purchase.

2.4 Notices and Messages

You’re okay with us providing notices and messages to you through our websites, apps, and contact information. If your contact information is out of date, you may miss out on important notices.

You agree that we will provide notices and messages to you in the following ways: (1) within the Service, or (2) sent to the contact information you provided us (e.g., email, mobile number). You agree to keep your contact information up to date.

Please review your profile settings to limit messages you receive from us.

2.5 Sharing

When you share information on our Services, others can see, copy and use that information.

Our Services allow messaging and sharing of information to employers/recruiters through the search facility. Your contact details will only be shared once you accept an invitation to view/apply for a role.

When you send a request for endorsement the invitee will only be given the information necessary to provide a scoring of your key skills. All scoring is neutral or positive. Individual scoring by other candidates you invite is not visible to you or anyone else.

Scoring and feedback by an employer/recruiter is only possible after you have accepted an invitation to view/ apply for a role. All scoring is neutral or positive.

Feedback is only visible to you and the providing employer/recruiter

Individual scoring by employers/recruiters you is visible to you only but will contribute to your overall score for each claimed key skill.

We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it with or without notice.

3. Rights and Limits

3.1. Your License to SimplyInterims

You own all of the content, feedback and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to use it in order to facilitate the functions of the site.

As between you and SimplyInterims, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting SimplyInterims the following non-exclusive license:

A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish and process, information and content that you provide through our Services and the services of others, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. These rights are limited in the following ways:

1. We will only share your information with employers/ recruiters who search. At this stage they will not see contact information, name or the name of your most recent employer.
2. When you accept an invitation to apply for a role the searching employer/recruiter will be able to see your contact details and download your CV. (If you have uploaded one).
3. While we may edit and make format changes to your content (such as translating or transcribing it, modifying the size, layout or file type or removing metadata), we will not modify the meaning of your expression.
4. Because you own your content and information and we only have non-exclusive rights to it, you may choose to make it available to others.
    

You and SimplyInterims agree that if content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy.

You and SimplyInterims agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with, the terms of our Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).

By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to SimplyInterims, you agree that SimplyInterims can use and share (but does not have to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.

You promise to only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and that your SimplyInterims profile will be truthful.

You agree to only provide content or information that does not violate the law nor anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights). You also agree that your profile information will be truthful. SimplyInterims may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.

You agree to keep your availability status up to date and accurate.

3.2 Service Availability

We may change or end any Service or modify our prices prospectively.

We may change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services. We may also modify our prices effective prospectively upon reasonable notice to the extent allowed under the law.

We don’t promise to store or keep showing any information and content that you’ve posted. You agree that we have no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content or information that you or others provide, except to the extent required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.

3.3 Other Content

Your use of others’ content and information posted on our Services, is at your own risk.

By using the Services, you may encounter content or information that might be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, misleading, illegal, offensive or otherwise harmful. SimplyInterims generally does not review content provided by our Members or others. You agree that we are not responsible for others’ (including other Members’) content or information. We cannot always prevent this misuse of our Services, and you agree that we are not responsible for any such misuse.

3.4 Limits

We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on our Services.

SimplyInterims reserves the right to limit your use of the Services including your ability to contact other Members. SimplyInterims reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if you breach this Contract or the law or are misusing the Services (e.g., violating any of the Dos and Don’ts).

3.5 Intellectual Property Rights

We’re providing you notice about our intellectual property rights.

SimplyInterims reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the trademarks of their respective owners. SimplyInterims, and “in” logos and other SimplyInterims trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of SimplyInterims.

3.6 Automated Processing

We use data and information about you to facilitate your appearance in search by employers/recruiters. Keeping your profile accurate and up to date helps us to make these search results accurate and effective.

4. Disclaimer and Limit of Liability

4.1 No Warranty

This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the quality, safety, or reliability of our Services.

SIMPLYINTERIMS MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY ABOUT THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY REPRESENTATION THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND PROVIDE THE SERVICES (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, SIMPLYINTERIMS AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

4.2 Exclusion of Liability

These are the limits of legal liability we may have to you.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW (AND UNLESS SIMPLYINTERIMS HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT OVERRIDES THIS CONTRACT), SIMPLYINTERIMS, INCLUDING ITS AFFILIATES, WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CONTRACT FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION (E.G., OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS), LOSS OF DATA (E.G., DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OF, OR CHANGES TO, YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT) OR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.

SIMPLYINTERIMS AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CONTRACT FOR ANY AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS (A) THE TOTAL FEES PAID OR PAYABLE BY YOU TO SIMPLYINTERIMS FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF THIS CONTRACT, IF ANY, OR (B) £1000.

4.3 Basis of the Bargain; Exclusions

The limitations of liability in this Section 4 are part of the basis of the bargain between you and SimplyInterims and shall apply to all claims of liability (e.g., warranty, tort, negligence, contract and law) even if SimplyInterims or its affiliates has been told of the possibility of any such damage, and even if these remedies fail their essential purpose.

These limitations of liability do not apply to liability for death or personal injury or for fraud, gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or in cases of negligence where a material obligation has been breached, a material obligation being such which forms a prerequisite to our delivery of services and on which you may reasonably rely, but only to the extent that the damages were directly caused by the breach and were foreseeable upon conclusion of this Contract and to the extent that they are typical in the context of this Contract.

5. Termination

We can each end this Contract, but some rights and obligations survive.

Both you and SimplyInterims may terminate this Contract at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services. The following shall survive termination:

• Our rights to use and disclose your feedback to us about our service;
• Our rights to use the endorsement scores and feedback (as an employer/recruiter) you have provided about other candidates.
• Sections 4, 6, 7, and 8.2 of this Contract;
• You can close your account at any time by emailing us and requesting this. We will then delete your account permanently.

6. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, you and SimplyInterims agree to resolve it in UK courts using UK law.

7. General Terms

If a court with authority over this Contract finds any part of it unenforceable, you and we agree that the court should modify the terms to make that part enforceable while still achieving its intent. If the court cannot do that, you and we agree to ask the court to remove that unenforceable part and still enforce the rest of this Contract.

This Contract (including additional terms that may be provided by us when you engage with a feature of the Services) is the only agreement between us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior agreements for the Services.

If we don't act to enforce a breach of this Contract, that does not mean that SimplyInterims has waived its right to enforce this Contract. You may not assign or transfer this Contract (or your membership or use of Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that SimplyInterims may assign this Contract to its affiliates or a party that buys it without your consent. There are no third-party beneficiaries to this Contract.

You agree that the only way to provide us legal notice is at the addresses provided in Section 10.

8. SimplyInterims “Dos and Don’ts”

8.1. Dos

SimplyInterims is a community of professionals. You agree that you will:

1. Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, anti-spam laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements;
2. Provide accurate information to us and keep it updated;
3. Use your real name on your profile; and
4. Use the Services in a professional manner.

8.2. Don’ts

You agree that you will not:

1. Create a false identity on SimplyInterims, misrepresent your identity, create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another’s account;
2. Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the Services;
3. Override any security feature or bypass or circumvent any access controls or use limits of the Service (such as caps on keyword searches or profile views);
4. Copy, use, disclose or distribute any information obtained from the Services, whether directly or through third parties (such as search engines), without the consent of SimplyInterims;
5. Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others (including your employer));
6. Violate the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other proprietary rights.
7. Violate the intellectual property or other rights of SimplyInterims, including, without limitation, (i) copying or distributing our learning videos or other materials or (ii) copying or distributing our technology, unless it is released under open source licenses; (iii) using the word “SimplyInterims” or our logos in any business name, email, or URL.
8. Upload anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
9. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Services or any related technology that is not open source;
10. Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by SimplyInterims without our express consent;
11. Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or otherwise monetise the Services or related data or access to the same, without SimplyInterims’s consent;
12. Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
13. Monitor the Services’ availability, performance or functionality for any competitive purpose;
14. Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
15. Overlay or otherwise modify the Services or their appearance (such as by inserting elements into the Services);
16. Interfere with the operation of, or place an unreasonable load on, the Services (e.g., spam, denial of service attack, viruses, gaming algorithms); and/or
17. Violate these Terms or any additional terms concerning a specific Service that are provided when you sign up for or start using such Service.

9. Complaints Regarding Content

Contact information for complaint about content provided by our Members.

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that information posted by Members be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. If you have a complaint about our services or content please email us

10. How To Contact Us

In the first instance please always use the contact form to contact us.