Terms & Conditions 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE FOR USERS OF VC-JOBS.COM

1.    ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

These Terms and Conditions apply to all and any use of the website identified by the domain name vc-jobs.com ("the Website") including all and any postings, emails and other communications made to or using the website ("Communications"), any business undertaken with the Website and all files and information sent to you by MindServices Limited ("MS"). You will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions.  By using the Website you are fully accepting the terms, conditions and disclaimers contained in this notice.  If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions you must immediately stop using the Website or opening or receiving any files or information sent to you by MS. 

2.    ADVICE

The contents of the Website do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making or refraining from making, any decision.

3.    COMMUNICATIONS

3.1.     MS is engaged in the business of providing a job advertisement service and ancillary to this is engaged in the transmission, storage, retrieval, hosting, formatting or translation of third party communications without selection or alteration of the content of the communication for which it is a mere conduit ("Communication").

3.2.     You agree and accept that MS has no responsibility to review the content of the Communications on the Website all of which are made available on the basis that MS shall not be required to exercise any control or judgement of the content or the material posted or contained therein.

3.3.     The views expressed in any Communications are the views of the individual authors and not those of MS unless otherwise specified by MS. MS is not responsible for and disclaims all liability in respect of any comments, views or remarks expressed in any Communications.

3.4.     MS gives no warranty and makes no representation as to the accuracy, currency or validity of the information and material contained within the Communications or on the Website and shall not be responsible for any loss or damage caused as a result of any use of such material.

3.5.     You agree and undertake that you will not post to or transmit to the Website any statement, material or Communication or other content that:

3.5.1.      is unlawful or which gives rise to civil or criminal liability;

3.5.2.      may cause the Website to be interrupted or damaged, or in any way impaired, including, without limitation, "overloading", "flooding", "spamming", "mailbombing" or "crashing;

3.5.3.      infringes upon the intellectual property rights of any third party;

3.5.4.      is technically harmful such as computer viruses, worms, logic bombs or other malicious software or harmful data;

3.5.5.      is abusive, pornographic, aggressive, homophobic, defamatory, libellous, untrue, discriminatory, obscene, inflammatory or racist material whatsoever;

3.5.6.      harasses any person;

3.5.7.      may be deemed a marketing or commercial communication or promotes the products or services of any person other than MS;

3.5.8.      promotes any illegal or unlawful activity including but not limited to solicitation, gambling or the sale of prescription medicines;

3.5.9.      contains any restricted material, including but not limited to passwords, medical information or confidential information of any person; or

3.5.10.  solicits, invites, encourages, advocates, incites or provokes any or all of the foregoing.

3.6.     You further agree that in any activity undertaken following use of and related to your use of the Website you will not in any way conduct yourself in a manner which is unlawful or which gives rise to civil or criminal liability or which might call into disrepute MS.

3.7.     You agree to indemnify and hold harmless MS against all liability it may have in respect of and arising out of your use of the Website and your Communications.

3.8.     You agree that any information that you submit to the Website will be your own and is true and is not in any respect, misleading, deceptive, inaccurate or likely to mislead or deceive including in particular that all employment opportunities that you post on the Website relate to genuine job opportunities.

3.9.     MS shall be entitled to remove or restrict any Communications which it determines in its sole and absolute discretion might be unacceptable including as described in these Terms.

3.10. By submitting Communications or other content to the Website, including a job advertisement, you agree to waive any moral rights in your Communications and you grant MS a royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, non-exclusive, worldwide right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works for, transmit, communicate, distribute, display or make available to the public such Communications or other content.

3.11. MS regularly monitor the discussion threads, however the sheer volume of traffic on the comment threads and [forum] mean that MS doesn’t’ always manage to read every post on the Website. If you discover a post which you believe contravenes the site guidelines please notify the moderator [turn this into a link] with details of the page you found it on.

3.12. You use the Website entirely at your own risk. It is a known risk of internet usage that people are not necessarily who they say they are. People may provide information or behave in a way that it is unreliable, misleading, unlawful or illegal. MS have no way of telling if statements made by other users are true. This is a decision that can only be made at your discretion and the exercise of some degree of caution is recommended. By using the Website and its services you accept that this is the case and accept the risk associated therewith. MS asks that users take particular care in relation to the disclosure of their own personal information including surname, address, email address, telephone number and place of work.

4.    CHANGES TO WEBSITE

MS reserves the right to:

4.1.1.      change or remove (temporarily or permanently) the Website or any part of it including recategorising the location of any recruitment advertisement without notice and you confirm that MS shall not be liable to you for any such change or removal; and

4.1.2.      suspend or terminate your access and use of this Website or make inactive or delete your registration, account, job advertisement or other Communications at any time without notice; and

4.1.3.      change these Terms and Conditions at any time, and your continued use of the Website following any changes shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change.

5.    LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The Website may include links to third party websites that are controlled and maintained by others and have not been verified or reviewed by MS.  Any link to other websites is not an endorsement of such websites and you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the content or availability of any such sites.

6.    INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

6.1.   All copyright, trade marks (registered or unregistered including without limitation the following marks: "MINDSERVICES and "VC-JOBS.COM"), trade and business names, trade secrets, know-how and all other intellectual property rights in the Website and its content (including without limitation the Website design, text, graphics and all software and source codes connected with the Website) are owned by or licensed to MS or otherwise used by MS as permitted by law. All such rights of MS are hereby asserted and reserved.

6.2.     In accessing the Website you agree that you will access the content solely for your personal use.  None of the content may be downloaded, copied, adapted, altered, broadcast, reproduced, transmitted, stored, sold or distributed without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.  MS grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable right and licence to download and print a single copy of this Website only to access and use this Website for your personal, non-commercial use and subject to these Terms. You may not sublicense or deal with this Website without MS’s prior written permission.

7.    PRIVACY POLICY

7.1.     MS makes a commitment to protecting privacy and promises only to use personal information collected in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

7.2.     From time to time MS may ask for and/or you may choose to submit personal data and sensitive personal data to the Website or MS. By providing personal details you are consenting to its use and warranting that you have complied with your obligations under the Data protection Act 1998. This information will be kept securely in accordance with our internal security policy.

7.3.     You agree that this data may be used, stored and processed to improve the operation, administration and development of the Site; to improve MS’s service; for identification purposes as well as for marketing, advertising and promotional purposes but only in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. In addition, you agree that MS may share this data with other reputable companies from time to time both within and outside the European Union who, together with MS or not, may use the information or parts of it to occasionally broadcast it or notify you about MS events or related activities that you may find useful.

7.4.     You are entitled to be informed of the personal information MS holds about you. MS is happy to comply with such a request once it has satisfied itself as to your identity. However, to protect the privacy of others MS cannot comply with such a request if it would result in the disclosure of information about another person unless it would be reasonable to do so or that person has consented to the disclosure. It may be necessary to charge an administration fee to provide this information, but the fee shall not exceed £10 and the information will be provided within 40 days of receipt of your request.

7.5.     If you do not want MS to collect or process your personal data, please do not submit it and if you have or you believe that we have data about you that is incorrect please write to MS at the address below and the information will be corrected as soon as possible or removed from our database.

8.    COOKIES

8.1.     In order to improve our service and Website we may use a device known as a ‘cookie’. Cookies are a means by which information relating to your Internet activity (such as whether you have visited the Website before) is recorded on your hard drive and used by us to improve the Website.

8.2.     If you do not wish for us to use cookies when you use the Website please adjust your Internet browser settings to not accept cookies. Your computer’s help file should tell you how to do this.

9.    DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

9.1.     The Website is provided on an "AS IS" basis without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

9.2.     To the extent permitted by law, MS will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss or damage whatever (including without limitation loss of business, opportunity, data, profits) arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website including without limitation all liability in relation to:

9.2.1.      any incorrect or inaccurate information on the Website and all interruptions to or delays in updating the service;

9.2.2.      the infringement by any person of any Intellectual Property Rights of any third party caused by that person’s use of the Website;

9.2.3.      any amount or kind of loss or damage due to viruses or other malicious software that may infect a user's computer equipment, software, data or other property caused by persons accessing, using or downloading from the Website, or from transmissions via emails or attachments received from MS or its licensees;

9.2.4.      the availability, quality, content or nature of the other sites on the internet that are owned and operated by third parties ("External Sites") to which the Website links and web sites located on or through any External Site nor for any transactions involving External Sites (including as to 'cookies', personal data, confidential information, or purchases of domain names or other services). You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such links, web site or transactions; and

9.2.5.      all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms which but for this notice would have effect.

9.3.     MS makes no warranty that the functionality of the Website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or anything else which may be harmful or destructive.

9.4.     Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed so as to exclude or limit the liability of MS for death or personal injury as a result of the negligence of MS or that of its employees or agents.

10. INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold MS and its employees and agents harmless from and against all liabilities, legal fees, damages, losses, costs and other expenses in relation to any claims or actions brought against MS arising out of any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions or other liabilities arising out of your use of this Website.

11. PAYMENT

11.1. The Website is free to visit and view however in order to post a job advertisement, you must subscribe and pay the relevant charges (the structure of which is notified to you from time to time including by clicking here), complete the appropriate online form and submit your request or order.  When you submit your request or order it will be deemed an offer to purchase the relevant services for the price stated.

11.2. Payment may be made online, or over the phone, using a credit or debit card (currently VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Delta and Switch/Solo).

11.3. MS aim to debit money from your account within [one working day] after receiving your purchase request.

11.4. To ensure that shopping on-line is secure, your credit/debit card details will be encrypted to minimise the possibility of someone being able to read them as they are sent over the Internet.

11.5. Your credit card company may also do security checks to confirm it is you making the order.

11.6. Invoices will be sent to the credit card billing address.

11.7. From time to time it may become necessary for MS to make alterations to the charges, prices and fees. In the event of any such change MS shall publish these on the Website and they shall become effective immediately upon publication.

11.8. You will not be charged for any request that cannot be fulfilled and where appropriate MS will use all reasonable efforts to re-credit to your account or otherwise refund any sum debited by MS on request.

11.9. All prices are quoted in pounds sterling and include V.A.T and delivery costs.

11.10.                The Website does not accept cash, cheque or money order.

11.11.                MS may cancel any sale and not supply services if it is reasonable to do so and may change or discontinue such services at any time at its sole discretion.

12. GENERAL

12.1. MS acts as principal on its own account and not as agent for you or any other person.

12.2. If MS does not enforce any provision of these Terms and Conditions such will not be considered a waiver of any provision or right.

12.3. In the event that any part of these Terms and Conditions is held to be unenforceable, such part will at MS’s option be construed as far as possible to reflect the parties’ intentions and the remainder of the provisions will remain in full force and effect.

12.4. These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and MS and shall apply to the exclusion of all other terms or conditions of contract which you may purport to propose.

12.5. Since the Website is primarily aimed at the UK Market, MS cannot guarantee that it accords with the local laws of any other countries.

12.6. MS will not be liable in any amount for failure to perform any obligation under these Terms and Conditions if such failure is caused by the occurrence of any unforeseen contingency beyond the reasonable control of such party including without limitation Internet outages, communication outages, fire, flood, war or act of God.

12.7. All Questions, comments or enquiries should be directed by email to [info@vc-jobs.com] or by post to Managing Director, Mindservices Limited, whose registered office is situated at 28a Cole Street, London SE1 4YH, UK.

13. GOVERNING LAW

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.