IdealJobs terms for job seekers
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These terms apply to your use of IdealJobs as a job seeker. IdealJobs is operated by Idealweb (Pty) Ltd, trading as IdealJobs (“we”). They are not the terms on which agencies and employers advertise or use our software; those are separate agreements. IdealJobs is for people of 18 and over.
Accepting these terms
You accept these terms when you create a profile or send an application through IdealJobs, and we keep a record of the version you accepted and when. If you use IdealJobs without a profile, for example to search or to set up a job alert, these terms apply to that use.
Accepting these terms is not, in itself, consent to any particular use of your personal information. The privacy notice explains how your information is handled, and where we ask for your consent.
What IdealJobs does
IdealJobs lets you search adverts placed by recruitment agencies and employers, keep a profile and a CV, receive job alerts and apply. We provide the platform. Agencies and employers decide whom to contact, shortlist, interview and employ, and on what terms. Automated tools may be used to read a CV and to screen, match or score applications against criteria an agency or employer has set. They sort applications for the agency or employer, who makes the decisions. We cannot promise you a reply, an interview or a job.
We do not charge job seekers for the features currently offered on IdealJobs.
Adverts and advertisers
Adverts are supplied by agencies and employers, or prepared from information they supply, in some cases with automated assistance. Each advertiser is responsible for its advert and for its dealings with you.
We may review, decline, suspend or remove an advert. We do not verify every advert or advertiser, and publishing or reviewing an advert is not an endorsement of it, or a guarantee that it is genuine, accurate, current or suitable for you. A position may be filled or withdrawn before its advert is removed.
If something about an advert or an advertiser seems wrong, tell us at [email protected].
Some adverts are placed directly by an employer, or by a recruitment agency for its client. You can report any advert from the advert's own page if something about it seems wrong.
Being asked to pay for work
South African law generally does not allow a work seeker to be charged a fee for employment services, such as being placed in a job. Be careful if anyone you meet through IdealJobs asks you to pay in order to get or keep an offer of work, and let us know.
Your account
Give accurate information, and keep your profile and contact details up to date. The profile and CV must be your own: do not register or apply in another person's name. Keep your sign-in codes and the email account they are sent to under your own control, and tell us promptly if you think someone else has used your account.
Your CV and other content
You keep your rights in your CV and in anything else you upload. You give us non-exclusive permission, free of charge, to host, copy, read, format, display and transmit that material as needed to provide the service to you. We do this in line with the privacy notice and the law. We ask for no wider permission.
You confirm that you are entitled to submit what you upload, including any information about other people, such as referees.
Who receives your profile
An agency or employer you apply to or register with receives your full profile, CV and contact details. While your profile is switched on, any recruitment agency or employer using IdealJobs can find it. They can view your details, including your name, contact details and CV. They may contact you about a job. You can switch your profile off, withdraw consent or delete your account. When your profile is switched off, no agency or employer can find it on IdealJobs.
A copy that an agency or employer has already received is its own responsibility, and a change you make later does not recall it. The privacy notice explains who can see your information, and how it is handled, in full.
Acceptable use
Use IdealJobs for your own job search. Do not scrape it, harvest adverts or other information in bulk, use automated tools to access it in a way that burdens or bypasses it, try to reach accounts or information that are not yours, upload anything harmful or unlawful, or infringe anyone else's rights.
How we run the service
We may maintain, change, limit or withdraw features or the service, and apply limits on use. Where we reasonably suspect fraud, abuse, a security risk or a breach of these terms, or where the law requires it, we may remove content and suspend, restrict or close an account.
We do not promise that the service, or any feature, will be available without interruption or error, or that what you store here will be kept indefinitely. Keep your own copy of your CV.
The IdealJobs software, design, name and logos belong to us or to those who license them to us. These terms allow you to use the service for your own job search, and give you no other right in it.
Our responsibility to you
Please read this section carefully. It limits what we are liable for and the claims you can bring against us.
IdealJobs is provided to job seekers free of charge, as it is and as it is available. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for:
Agencies, employers and other users. What they do or fail to do, including their recruitment and employment decisions, how they deal with your application, and what they do with information they have received.
Adverts. An advert that is inaccurate, misleading, fraudulent, out of date, withdrawn or unavailable.
Applications, alerts and messages. An application, alert, email or other message that fails, is delayed or is not acted on.
Interruptions and third parties. An interruption or fault in the service, a loss of data, or the failure of a service provider or network we rely on.
Automated tools. An error made by an automated tool, including in reading your CV, interpreting a search, matching jobs with profiles, or screening or scoring an application.
Lost opportunities and indirect loss. The loss of a job, an interview, an offer or any other employment opportunity, loss of earnings or income, and any indirect or consequential loss.
This section does not limit our liability for loss caused by our gross negligence, our intentional misconduct or our fraud, and it does not take away any right, or limit any liability, that the law does not allow to be excluded or limited, including rights you may have under the Consumer Protection Act and the Protection of Personal Information Act.
Closing your account
You may stop using IdealJobs and delete your account from your account or by writing to us at any time. The privacy notice explains what is removed and what is kept. Closing an account does not withdraw an application already sent, or recall a copy that an agency or employer holds; ask the agency or employer about its copy.
If you applied or registered on an agency's or employer's own website or careers page, your dealings are with that agency or employer, and these terms apply only to your use of IdealJobs itself.
Changes to these terms
We may change these terms. A change applies from the date it takes effect, and not to anything that happened before it. We will give reasonable notice of a material change, on IdealJobs or by email, before it takes effect, and where the law requires your agreement we will ask for it. If you do not accept a change, you may stop using the service and close your account. A change to these terms does not replace the privacy notice, or a consent that the law requires.
Law and disputes
South African law governs these terms, and the South African courts have jurisdiction. Please raise a complaint with us first, so that we can try to resolve it. Nothing in these terms stops you from approaching a consumer protection authority, the Information Regulator or any other body or court that has jurisdiction.
Contact
Questions about these terms go to [email protected]. IdealJobs is a service of Idealweb (Pty) Ltd (registration 2015/054112/07), 87 Marjoram Avenue, Sinoville, Pretoria, 0129, telephone 087 265 2153 / 072 617 4893.