Terms & Conditions for users of Econ-Jobs.com


Introduction

These terms and conditions are formed of three sections, please read them carefully as they refer to your rights and obligations. Section A contains general terms and conditions applying to the general use of Econ-Jobs.com “the website”; Section B contains additional special terms relating to and applying to registered economics job seekers; Section C contains additional special terms relating to and applying to registered economist employers and recruitment agencies.

By using Econ-Jobs.com, you accept these terms and conditions. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, then you must not use Econ-Jobs.com as your actions may be found to be unlawful.

Econ-Jobs.com is intended for users who are aged 18+. If you are under 18 you must ask a parent or guardian to read and accept these terms and conditions on your behalf.


SECTION A
General Terms and Conditions

1. Licence to use Econ-Jobs.com

Unless otherwise stated, the intellectual property rights to the content and material the website are owned by Econ-Jobs.com. This does not apply to user-generated content, including your job posts which you may re-use elsewhere if it is yours.

You must not:

i) republish material that from this website (including republication on another website), unless it is your user-generated content;

ii) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;

iii) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;

 

2. Acceptable use policy

You must not use Econ-Jobs.com in any way that causes, or could possibly cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website.

Further you may not use Econ-Jobs.com in any way that is considered unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful activity.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (for example data mining) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.

You must not use Econ-Jobs.com to send unsolicited commercial communications

 

3. Restricted access

Access to certain areas of our website is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website at our discretion.

If you sign up for an employers or job seekers account you must ensure that you keep your username and password confidential.

Your Account may be disabled if you are found to be in violation with any of these terms and conditions

 

4. User generated content

This refers to content that is provided by the users of Econ-Jobs.com. For user generated content:

i) You grant Econ-Jobs.com a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user generated content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

ii) Your user generated content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). 

iii) You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

iv) We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to Econ-Jobs.com, stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.

 

5. Links from Website

We hold no responsibility for any other websites that may be linked to Econ-Jobs.com. These websites are not run by Econ-Jobs.com and we cannot endorse or accept responsibility for their content

 

6. Limited warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we are subject to limited warranties. We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of content on Econ-Jobs.com, particularly user generated content; we do not warrant that user generated content is accurate or lawful; nor do we commit to ensuring that Econ-Jobs.com remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

 

7. Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

 

8. Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if your behaviour on Econ-Jobs.com is not in accordance with these terms and conditions in any way, we may take action to deal with this. This can include suspending your account, prohibiting your access to Econ-Jobs.com, blocking computers using your IP address, contacting your ISP to request that your access to Econ-Jobs.com is blocked, and bringing court proceedings against you.

 

9. Future Changes to Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions may be altered in the future.  Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from their date of the publication on Econ-Jobs.com. Please ensure that you are familiar with the most up to date terms and conditions.
 

10. Entire agreement

These terms and conditions, including Section A, Section B and Section C, together with our privacy statement, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of Econ-Jobs.com, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

 

11. Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

If you are outside the United Kingdom we accept no liability for breaches of any local laws in your jurisdiction and by accepting these terms and conditions you accept that it is your responsibility to ensure that any such laws are complied with.

 

SECTION B
Additional Terms and Conditions for Registered Economics Jobs Seekers
These terms are additional to the general terms in Section A

1. Information you submit

By creating a economics job seeker account on Econ-Jobs.com you authorise us to store and process your personal information.

This information will be available to economist employers and recruitment agencies registered on site, but your most important personal information will be kept hidden (your name and email address

Your email address must be active, if your email address is found to be inactive your account may be removed.

User generated content that you provide on the website (this includes your profile, CVs and applications) must adhere to the following conditions:

  1. You must ensure that this information is truthful, accurate and lawful
  2. You must own the right or have permission for the content that you provide
  3. You must ensure that this content is not offensive or threatening to any person

If any of the information that you provide is incorrect or unlawful then it may be edited or removed at our discretion.

 

2. Background checks

We do not carry out background checks of any kind on any of the Economist Employers or Recruitment Agencies who advertise on Econ-Jobs.com and cannot give warranty for the information that they submit. If you have any concerns then these must be dealt with directly between you and the Recruiter.

We do not carry out any background checks on you; it is the responsibility of yourself and the employer or recruitment agency to check that you are eligible to work in the job offered. This includes relevant work permits.

 

SECTION C
Additional Terms and Conditions for Registered Economist Employers and Recruitment Agencies
These terms are additional to the general terms in Section A

1. Information you submit

By creating an economist employer account on Econ-Jobs.com you authorise us to store and process your personal information.

Your email address must be active, if your email address is found to be inactive your account may be removed.

User generated content that your provide (this includes economics job advertisements and your employers profiles) must adhere to the following conditions:

  1. You must ensure that this information is truthful, accurate and lawful
  2. You must own the right or have permission for the content that you provide
  3. You must ensure that this content is not offensive or threatening to any person
  4. You must ensure that your advert is used to announce specific job vacanies rather than announce general recruitment campaigns

If any of the information that you provide is incorrect, unlawful, offensive or inappropriate then it may be edited or removed at our discretion.

 

2. Background checks

We do not carry out background checks of any kind on any of the job seekers or users of Econ-Jobs.com; and therefore cannot give warranty for the information that they submit, or accept liability for their actions. If you have any concerns then these must be dealt with directly between you and the Job seekers.

 

3. Payment

Details of prices and payment methods can be found here

Payment is made to purchase job advertisements. Either Bronze, Silver or Gold Job Posts can be purchased. These are purchased in advance of advertising a job, and cannot be refunded.

If your account is suspended then any material you have posted on Econ-Jobs.com will be removed without refund.

Payment is handled via PayPal, this is to provide the highest level of security to you. Your payment details are not processed or stored by Econ-Jobs.com

You must acknowledge that all payment details that you provide are your own or have permission to use if ordering on behalf of an organisation, and that you have sufficient funds or credit to purchase.