Candidate Terms

The Agreement

Please read this agreement carefully as it governs your use of our websites at weare.guru (“Website”) and its online services following your application (“Services”). By clicking “Submit CV” on our Join our Talent Pool you are forming a contract and are agreeing to the terms that appear below. References to “you” and “your” are to you as an individual. If you have any questions please email us at hello@gurucareers.com. To the extent that the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and/or the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003, Guru Resourcing Limited acts in the capacity of an employment agency to help you find the type of work you are looking for.

1. Provision of service

1.1 This Service is provided by Guru Resourcing Limited, incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 04393951, whose registered office is at 10 Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, England, TN1 2EP (“Company”).

1.2 To make an application on the Website you must be over [16] years of age.

2. Data Protection

We will retain a copy of your CV and any additional information you provide to us until you delete it which can be done by emailing a delete request to webmaster@gurucareers.com. Upon deletion we will not retain a copy of your CV or personal details on our database and it will not be made available to recruiters, however we are not able to control the storage of your details and/ or CVs by recruiters.

3. Restricting information

3.1 You are solely responsible for the material you submit to the Website and by submitting any material you agree to follow the provisions set out in this clause

3. You may not submit any material which:

(a) advertises or promotes any goods or services;

(b) reveals any confidential or sensitive information;

(c) contains or links to any unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory or indecent material or material which is deliberately intended to upset other users;

(d) contains any material which you do not have permission to use (including material which may be protected by copyright, trademarks, database rights or any other form of intellectual property right);

(e) contains viruses or any other components with harmful or contaminated effects on the Website or any equipment connected to it; or

(f) impersonate any living person.

3.2 The Website offers you a forum to submit material and you agree to be responsible for all of the Company’s losses arising out of any breach by you of this clause 3.

4. Licence to use your information

By clicking “Apply” you consent to our sharing your CV, together with any additional information you provide to us, with the recruiters who use the Website. This means that you give us:

(a) a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence of any rights, including intellectual property rights, in your CV and any additional information you provide to us via the Website, to share or otherwise use such CV and additional information as we reasonably require to fulfil the services we provide on the Website; and

(b) the right to grant a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide sub-licence of any rights, including intellectual property rights, in your CV and any additional information you provide to us on the Website, to recruiters for their recruitment related activities.

5. Disclaimer

The Website contains materials submitted by others over which the Company has no control. We have asked all users to follow these terms but cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of other material. We do not endorse any of the material published by any others on the Website.

6. Limited rights to use website and its content

6.1 You may not use the Website for any of the following purposes:

(a) disseminating any unlawful, harassing, libellous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material or otherwise breaching any law;

(b) transmitting material that encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offence, or otherwise breaches any applicable laws, regulations or codes of practice; or

(c) interfering with any other persons use or enjoyment of the Website.

6.2 All material displayed on the Service made available to you following your application (“Content”) belongs to the Company or its licensors. Subject to clause 6.3, you may:

(a) retrieve and display the Content on a computer screen;

(b) print individual pages on paper and store such pages in electronic form on disc and on your PC (but not on any other server or other storage device connected to an external network); and

(c) bookmark to any part of the Service.

6.3 A great deal of the Content is used under licence from other third party candidates such as yourself (“Third Party Content”). Some Content may even be marked with a copyright notice of particular third parties. Some of the Third Party Content will be subject to additional restrictions and the relevant copyright notice will make it clear where that it is the case.

6.4 You may not (without contacting us to obtain prior written permission):

(a) redistribute any of the Content or Third Party Content (including by using it as part of any library, archive or similar service);

(b) remove the copyright or trademark notices from any copies of the Content or Third Party Content made under this agreement; or

(c) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the Content or Third Party Content or, except as expressly set out above, modify, reproduce or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content or Third Party Content.

6.5 Copyright in any software that is made available for download for the participation in the Service (“Software”) belongs to the Company or its suppliers. Your use of the Software is governed by the terms of any licence agreement that may accompany or be included with the Software.

6.6 You acknowledge that “Guru”, “Guru Careers”, “Guru Resourcing”, and the “GURU” logo are trademarks and that you may not use them without written permission.

6.7 You will be responsible for our losses and costs resulting from your breach of this clause 6.

7. Warranties

7.1 The Company warrants that:

(a) it will use always reasonable skill and care in making the Service available to you and ensuring its availability; and

(b) It has the right to licence the Content and the Third Party Content under this agreement.

7.2 Because of the number of sources from which the Company obtains the Content and because of the nature of the internet and archived information, errors and omissions do occur and the Company does not give any other warranties in respect of the Service. In particular, the Company makes no warranty that the website is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties.

7.3 Although we aim to offer you the best service possible, we make no promise that the Services will meet your requirements. We cannot guarantee that the Services will be fault free. If a fault occurs with the Website you should report it to hello@gurucareers.com and we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as we reasonably can.

7.4 Your access to the Website may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to restore the Service as soon as we reasonably can.

8. The company’s liability

8.1 If we are in breach of this agreement, we will only be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a result to the extent that they are a foreseeable consequence to both of us at the time you use the Website. Our liability shall not in any event include business losses such as lost data, lost profits or business interruption.

8.2 This clause 8 shall not limit or affect our liability resulting from any Services being found to be unsafe or if something we do negligently causes death or personal injury.

9. Privacy policy

The information that you provide about yourself to the Company will only be used by the Company in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

10. Notices

10.1 All notices shall be given to the Company by email at hello@gurucareers.com or by post at Guru Resourcing Ltd, Stafford House, 16 East Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1HG or to you at either the email or postal address you provide on the registration form.

10.2 Notice will be deemed to be received when an email is received (or else on the next business day if it is received at a weekend or a public holiday in the place of receipt) of three days after the date of posting.

11. Termination and cancellation

11.1 This agreement and your access to the Service may be terminated by written notice if you are in material breach of this agreement and the breach is not remedied within the period of 14 days after written notice of the breach has been given to you. If we reasonably believe that you are in breach of clause 3.1 and the provisions of clause 6 we may suspend your access to the Service at any time.

11.2 You may terminate this agreement at any time by giving us written notice at hello@gurucareers.com.

11.3 We will remove all material submitted by you following termination.

11.4 The termination of this agreement and your right to use the Website shall not affect either party’s statutory rights or liabilities.

12. Amendments

We may update this agreement from time to time for legal or regulatory reasons or to allow the proper operation of the Website. Any changes will be notified to you via the email address provided by you on registration or via a suitable announcement on the Website. The changes will apply to the use of the Website after we have given notice. If you do not wish to accept the new agreement you should terminate this agreement. If you continue to use the Service or do not serve notice to terminate within 7 days after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new agreement.

13. Advertising and sponsorship

Part of the Website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Website complies with relevant laws and codes. We will not be responsible to you for any error or inaccuracy in advertising and sponsorship material.

14. International use

We make no promise that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United Kingdom, and accessing the Website from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access this site from locations outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

15. General

15.1 We may transfer/or assign our rights and/or obligations under this agreement. This will not affect your rights under this agreement. You may not transfer any of your rights or obligations under this agreement.

15.2 Nothing in this agreement shall confer your rights on any other person.

15.3 If you breach this agreement or ignore this, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies at a later date or in any other situation where you breach this agreement.

15.4 This agreement, together with our privacy policy, our legal notice and any additional terms of the Service, represents the entire terms agreed between the parties in relation to its subject matter and may be amended only by our agreement in writing.

15.5 If there are any conflicting provisions between this agreement and our legal notice, this agreement shall prevail.

15.6 This agreement shall be governed by English Law.

15.7 We will try to solve any disagreement quickly and efficiently. If you want to take court proceedings in relation to this agreement you must do so in the United Kingdom.