CRINKLE RECRUITMENT – GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
Effective Date: 01 April 2019
Last Update: 24 June 2024
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
Definitions
“Candidate” and “Work-Seeker” refers to any individual interested in, or using our website and services to access our work finding services.
“Hirer”, “Recruiter”, and “Recruiting Organisation” refers to any organisation using our permanent recruitment services.
“The Services” or ”Our Services” refers to any of our service provided for work-seekers, and/or hirers.
“User Account” refers to any account on our website that you may register, or be registered for, in order to use certain aspects of our Services.
“We”, “Us”, and “Our” means Crinkle Recruitment (part of The
Schools HR Co-operative Limited.) or Crinkle and should be construed
accordingly
“You” and “Your” refer to any individual accessing the website.
Put Simply
These definitions clarify how to interpret certain phrases used in our General Terms and who we are referring to.
Each time you
access our website, crinklerecruitment.com, you are deemed to have accepted
these General Terms, our Website Privacy Policy, our Cookies Policy and any relevant Additional Terms and Conditions
that govern your use of our website and our provision of services.
Our Website
Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookies Policy), is incorporated in these General
Terms. Our Website Privacy Policy governs our use of personal information that
we collect from you, as a result of your use of our website and user account
service. Please click here to view our full Website
Privacy Policy.
Additional
Terms and Conditions (the “Additional Terms”) apply to some aspects of our
website and/or services, relating specifically to work-finding and recruitment
services for candidates and hirers. If you choose to access these services, the
Additional Terms should be read in conjunction with these General Terms, and
can be accessed as follows:
Additional Terms and Conditions for Candidates
Additional Terms and Conditions for Placement Candidates
Additional Terms and Conditions – Recruitment Services for Recruiters (Educational Settings and Other Employing Organisations)
Please ensure
you read these General Terms, our Website Privacy Policy, our Cookies Policy and
any relevant Additional Terms before using our website and services. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, please do not
register on, or use our Website.
Put Simply
These terms explain the conditions that you must follow when you use our website and services, and provide details of how we use the information you provide to us.
This website
is owned and operated by Crinkle Recruitment. Crinkle Recruitment is part of The
Schools HR Co-operative Limited (“SHRC”) and SHRC is registered in England and Wales
under the company number 8004727. Our Registered Office and trading address is:
The Schools
HR Co-operative Ltd, Unit 1 Britannia Court, The Green, West Drayton,
Middlesex, UB7 7PN
To contact us
with a general enquiry, please refer to our contact information here.
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This is who we are and how to reach us.
Certain aspects of our services, will require you to provide us with personal information by means of registering for a User Account or completing an Application Profile. We will use the information you provide to aid the job seeking process and/or the recruitment process, and their associated administrative functions. We will process any personal information, that you provide when using our services, in accordance with data protection legislation. Our use of the information you provide is governed by the applicable Website Privacy Policy. Click here to view our Website Privacy Policy.
You agree
that all information provided by you, and any other material you submit, on the
website:
a) Is accurate and complete, and maintained and updated
accordingly. If you wish to make changes to your User Account, or the details
contained in it, you can do so at any time by visiting the ‘My Account’ or
‘Settings’ page while logged into the website.
b) Does not include any material that is false, misleading,
defamatory, discriminatory, threatening, offensive, abusive, likely to cause
someone anxiety or distress, encourages violence or racial or religious hatred,
blasphemous, pornographic, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy,
unlawful, harassing, libellous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene,
or otherwise objectionable.
You must also
not post or upload material which is technically harmful; including, without
limitation, computer viruses or other malicious software (malware).
If at any time we suspect that a user account has been used for inappropriate purposes; specifically, but not limited to the creation or submission of a user account, application profile or application form for fraudulent reasons. We reserve the right to act as detailed below in our Suspension and Termination clause.
Transfer outside the United Kingdom (UK): the United Kingdom (UK): Limited aspects of personal data, which You supply to Us, will be transferred to Our third-party service provider outside of the EU UK for the purpose of providing certain aspects of Our Services, specifically relating to email communications for service and administrative notifications associated with The Services we provide You and Your education setting/organisation. Further information about the transfer of information personal data outside the UK can be found in the Website Privacy Policy.
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You will need to give us some personal details to register with us, create an application profile; or in the case of our business customers, access additional content and/or functions on our website. We ask that you make sure the information you provide to us is correct, and not offensive or harmful in any way. We use a third-party provider outside the UK for email related communications relating to our services. Some of your personal information may be shared securely with this third-party provider.
In order to register with our website, and to sign in and access your user account you will need to use a username, which will be your email address, and a password that meets our minimum password strength requirements. You will be solely responsible for the security and proper use of your password which we would recommend remains confidential at all times. Please notify Crinkle Recruitment immediately of any suspected breaches in the security of your account. We do not accept any liability for any unauthorised or improper use or disclosure of your password and username.
As required by data protection legislation, we take the security of your data, and data stored in the website and its databases very seriously. As such, we employ various security measures including but not limited to, reCAPTCHA authentication and TLS/SSL encryption. We also ensure that all data handled by Crinkle Recruitment is done so by trained personnel, using devices with the most up to date security updates and antivirus programs.
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You are responsible for keeping your account details safe, and for notifying us if you are worried someone else may be able to access your account. We have taken steps to help you keep your account access details safe on our website.
While we make
every effort to ensure that all the information on our website is accurate, complete,
and as up to date as possible, this cannot always be the case. Some of the
information on our website is supplied to us by third parties, or organisations
using our Services, and we are not able to check the accuracy, completeness or
relevance of all information provided. Crinkle Recruitment does not accept any
liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission in any of the information on
our website. We will not accept any liability for any of the information which
has been supplied by third parties, or organisations using our services.
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We do our best to make sure the information on our website is correct but we do not accept liability if an error appears.
Our website
may contain links to external websites which are owned or controlled by a
third-party and not Crinkle Recruitment.
Where external
website links have been published as a part of any of the content of our website,
we do not accept any responsibility or liability in respect of the content of
third-party websites, and we warn you that you access such external resources
or websites at your own risk.
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Our website contains links to content outside of the Crinkle Recruitment website, and we are not responsible for these external websites or the content of them.
The Schools HR Co-operative are the owners or licensees of the intellectual property rights for Crinkle Recruitment and all related services and materials pertaining to the same. You agree that you will not use the website for commercial purposes without our prior written consent. You also agree that you will not copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, display, post or transmit in any form or by any means of the content of the website without our written consent.
While we do allow the use of extracts from our material for personal non-commercial use, we do expect that they will not be used for illegal or defamatory purposes. We reserve the right at any time to request you remove any material which we deem to have been used inappropriately.
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Our website, and the contents of it, should not be used for unauthorised commercial (business) purposes. Commercial customers must agree to the relevant applicable Additional Terms and Conditions to use our website and services for business.
While we try
to ensure that the standard of the 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 the website (or
any part of it), or to provide the services offered on the website.
We will not
be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance
of, any of our obligations under these General Terms, any Additional Terms, or
any related contract between us that is caused by any act, event,
non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control including,
without limitation, the following:
- Strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action;
- Civil commotion, riot, invasion, cyber-attack, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war;
- Fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster;
- Impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport;
- Interruption or failure of utility service; including the inability to use public or private telecommunications networks;
- The acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.
Our
performance under any Terms and Conditions or any related contract between us
is deemed to be suspended for the period that the unforeseen event(s) continue,
and we will have an extension of time for performance during that period.
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We do not accept liability where an event that is outside of our control occurs.
It is our absolute discretion to terminate your account on our website, at any time without notice and without liability to you or any third-party. We may terminate your account for any reason which we deem appropriate. That includes but is not limited to: any use of your account for illegal activities and/or purposes, use for harassment, or any use of your account for unintended purposes. The reasons for any termination of account will remain our purview to decide. We may also remove and discard any information you provide to us, at any time, without notice and without liability to you or any third-party, and for any reason, including, but not limited to, any breach of our General Terms and Additional Terms.
Where there is a breach of these General Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, the rights described in this paragraph are not our only remedy and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate in connection with such a breach.
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We reserve the right to suspend your user account or terminate your access at any time. We may also permanently delete information you have provided to us, at any time.
From time to
time we may make changes to our website and/or services. These changes may
include: modification, suspension, cessation or launch, of any part of our
website and/or services. We reserve the right to implement such changes, at any
time, with or without notice. We are not liable to you or to any third party
for implementing such changes.
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We reserve the right to make changes to our website or services at any time and without notice.
These General Terms, any applicable Additional Terms, other policies referred to within these terms, and any agreements entered into through the website, constitute the entire agreement between you and us, in relation to your use of our website and service.
The website is governed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. You and us agree that any claim brought by you arising from, or related to, the use of the website and/or services, shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
If any part of these terms and conditions is found to be unlawful or unenforceable this shall not affect the validity of any other part or provision or these terms.
These Terms
and Conditions in this agreement, in its entirety, supersede any existing prior
agreements.
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Our Terms and Conditions are a contract between you and us. If there is a legal dispute, this will be settled in court in accordance with English Law.
We may revise
these General Terms, the Additional Terms and/or accompanying policies from
time to time. When revisions occur, we will post the revised version with an
updated “Last Update” date. If a revision, at our discretion, is significant,
we may also notify you by other means such as sending an email or posting a
notice on our website. We reserve the right to determine the appropriate form
and means of providing you with notifications of revised Terms and Conditions.
Put Simply
We will let you know about changes to our Terms and Conditions. Our method of notification will vary depending on the nature, and significance of these changes.
