Terms & Conditions

Access to and use of this site (‘expatnetwork.com’) is provided by Expat Network subject to the following terms:

By using expatnetwork.com you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of expatetwork.com. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use expatnetwork.com.

Expat Network may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by Expat Network. Your continued use of expatnetwork.com after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of expatnetwork.com

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use expatnetwork.com content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use.

You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any expatnetwork.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of expatnetwork.com content requires the prior written permission of .

You agree to use expatnetwork.com only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of expatnetwork.com. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within expatnetwork.com.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

expatnetwork.com content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Expat Network, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided “AS IS” and on an “IS AVAILABLE” basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

Under no circumstances will Expat Network be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of expatnetwork.com regardless of the form of action.

Expat Network does not warrant that functions contained in expatnetwork.com content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that expatnetwork.com or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual property

The names, images and logos identifying Expat Network or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks of Expat Network and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of Expat Network or any other third party.

Contributions to expatnetwork.com

Where you are invited to submit any contribution to worldofexpats.com (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant Expat Network a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in Expat Network’s Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to Expat Network the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to expatnetwork.com.

By submitting your contribution to expatnetwork.com, you:

warrant that your contribution:

• is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Expat Network for all the purposes specified above;
• is not defamatory; and
• does not infringe any law; and
• indemnify Expat Network against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Expat Network as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
• waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on expatnetwork.com and the purposes specified above.

Jobseekers

Your CV

When you store your candidate profile and CV on our database you do so at your own risk and you agree that it can be made available free of charge for searching, viewing and downloading by any recruiter, employer or other person who requests CVs matching your criteria. We do not verify the identity or the nature of the business of such organizations. Under no circumstances will we be liable for any loss or damage sustained by you as a direct or indirect result of you storing your candidate profile and CV on our database.

It is solely your responsibility to keep your details up to date, especially if your contact details have changed from contract to contract.

We reserve the right to remove CVs from our database, which we at our sole discretion believe to be inaccurate or offensive.

Remember that your current employer may be a client of one of our recruiters, and we cannot be held responsible for any eventuality that arises directly or indirectly as a result of this. However, you have the option to ‘hide’ certain information from potential recruiters and it is your responsibility to decide whether or not you wish to make use of this facility.

We may also from time to time use the information you have provided to compile statistical, employment or salary trends, however, your personal information will not be identified for this purpose.

You acknowledge and agree that you will not seek to hold us liable for any loss or damage arising, either directly or indirectly, as a result of a recruiter retaining a copy of your CV and any use such recruiter may make of your CV. You may remove your CV and candidate profile from the database at any time

Recruiters

Job Advertisements

If you are an employment agency (as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973) it is your responsibility to ensure that the job advertisements you place with us  must comply with these regulations and all subsequent laws and regulations. Expat Network reserve the right to remove a vacancy at any time if this is considered to be in appropriate, inaccurate or fraudulent.

Job advertisements must be bona fide, and not for other products or services, not relating to recruitment, including but not limited to ‘business opportunities’ ‘pyramid schemes’, etc.

Candidate Responses

Candidates who are responding to job advertisements placed on our site by you must be dealt with fairly and professionally at all times. You agree that you will indemnify us from and against any claim brought against us by any candidate arising from your breach of this obligation.

CV Database

If you are an employment agency (as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973) it is your responsibility to ensure that the use you make of our CV database complies with these regulations.

We do not verify nor guarantee any candidate’s details. It is your responsibility you as the recruiter to take up references and satisfy yourself as to the accuracy, availability, suitability, integrity and reliability of the information given on any CV provided by us on behalf of any of our members. You agree that you will not seek to hold us responsible for any loss or damage arising out of the dealings between you and our member.

Due to the sensitive nature of information contained in a CV, you the recruiter may not transmit nor distribute the CV or other information received from us to any person(s), company or businesses other than for the purpose of finding employment for the member

Security

You the recruiter must undertake all reasonable precautions for securing the confidentiality of information on our members gained from our site against unauthorized persons using their passwords, pin numbers and email addresses in an attempt to access such information.

It is a condition of allowing you to use our site that you the recruiter must at all times comply with the Data Protection legislation of the United Kingdom and the EC in force from time to time and all changes thereto.

General

If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.