hrConnections Terms of Use

1.This Agreement

1.This is a binding legal contract that applies to your use of the HR Connections, Inc. website HRConnections.com (“Site”) and any of our services (“Services”). If you do not agree to all of these terms, please do not use the Site or the Services - if you visit the Site or use any Services, you are necessarily agreeing to these terms. If you have entered into a separate written agreement with us, that agreement will supersede these terms to the extent of any conflict.

2.Accounts and Registration

1.You have the option of opening account, simply registering with our Site, or doing neither and using the Site as a visitor.

2.If you open an account, you are responsible for everything done through your account so please do not share your ID and password with anyone you do not want to be accountable for. Please notify us right away if you have lost control of your account ID or password or you suspect there is unauthorized activity in your account.

3.Your account is not meant to be primary storage for resumes or anything else. Please keep originals of everything on your own computer, server or other facility.

4.To change your account settings, click [here]. To change your registration preferences, click [here].

3.Fees

We do not charge fees for candidates. For employers, please contact us to discuss fees for your particular needs by sending a message to [address] or calling [phone number].

4.Intellectual Property Issues

1.When you upload any Content on the Site and/or through the Services, you grant HR Connections a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such Content in connection with the Site and the Services, in any media known now or in the future.

2.HR Connections retains all right, title and interest in the Site, the Services, and its trademarks, service marks and logos. You may not copy, modify, create derivative works from or distribute any content from the Site (whether the content has been posted by us, a candidate or an employer) or our trademarks or use the Site for any purpose not authorized by these Terms. Except for rights expressly granted in these Terms, nothing in these Terms grants any right, title or license to any intellectual property or other rights.

5.Reporting Problems

We are strongly committed to respecting intellectual property and other rights. We have a policy of responding to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the United States, and terminating accounts of repeat infringers. To report copyright infringement, click [here]. We are also concerned with other types of abuse. To report a problem other than copyright infringement, click [here].

6.Things You Cannot Do

1.Lie to us or anyone else in connection with your use of the Site or the Services. This includes but is not limited to giving false information in your account registration or submitting misleading resumes or job descriptions.

2.Post any resume, testimonial, blog post or anything else (“Content”) that violates anyone else’s rights, including but not limited to rights in intellectual property, publicity or privacy.

3.Post anything defamatory, libelous, discriminatory, obscene, threatening or otherwise hateful.

4.Interfere with another candidate or an employer in any way.

5.Open a new account (directly or through someone else) without our written permission if we have terminated your account or suspended your access to the Site or any Services.

6.Transfer your account to someone else.

7.Use your account for any purpose other than investigating, applying for and/or posting jobs. Among other things, this means you cannot open or use an account for the purpose of making a competitive assessment of our Services, pricing or inventory.

8.Do anything that smacks of bad online citizenship, such as spam our candidates and employers, distribute spyware or viruses, collect personal information without disclosing and abiding by your privacy policy, or attempt to reverse engineer or hack into our systems.

9.Access or scrape the Site or the Services by any automated means unless you are a search engine crawling the Site for the sole purpose of creating a publicly accessible search index; bog down the Site or a Service by uploading or downloading an unreasonably large amount of material at one time; or bypass any technical protections, storage limits or throttling that we institute.

10.Do anything we ask you not to. We may pre-screen or filter any content submitted to the Site. We may also investigate your account and any Content. In addition to or instead of terminating or suspending your use of the Site and/or the Services and any other remedies, we may immediately take down any Content, stop any transaction, or take any other action we think is appropriate to deal with any issue we believe is problematic in our sole discretion. However, while we reserve the right to do these things we are not obligated to do them – we do not make any commitment that we will police any Content, the Site or the Services for problems that have not been reported to us. To report a problem, please see the next section.

7.Indemnity, Disclaimers and Limits on Liability

1.You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless HR Connections, Inc., its officers, directors, shareholders, employees, contractors, licensors, licensees, agents, and representatives (the “Covered Entities”) against all liability, claims, costs, damages, settlements, and expenses (including interest, penalties, attorney fees and expert witness fees) (“Liabilities”) incurred by any Covered Entity in any way arising out of or relating to these Terms or your interaction with other candidates and/or employers. This includes but is not limited to Liabilities arising out of or relating to your use of the Site or any Services, any use of your account by you or anyone else, any Content you provide or receive through the Site, claims of intellectual property or other third party rights infringement, and taxes. HR Connections reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claim.

2.THE COVERED ENTITIES MAKE NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND REGARDING THE SITE, THE SERVICES, ANY CONTENT OR ANYTHING ELSE, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE, AND NON INFRINGEMENT. THE COVERED ENTITIES MAY NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATIONS AS TO THE TRUTHFULNESS, ACCURACY, CURRENCY OR USEFULNESS OF ANY CONTENT. THE COVERED ENTITIES HAVE NOT MADE ANY REPRESENTATION AS TO THE RESULTS YOU MAY REALIZE BY USING THE SERVICES, THE QUALIFICATIONS OF ANY CANDIDATE, EMPLOYER OR JOB. THE SITE AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”.

3.THE COVERED ENTITIES ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING ACCESSED VIA ANY LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES, SERVICES, SOFTWARE OR ANYTHING ELSE. YOU BEAR ALL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH USING THIRD PARTY LINKS, WEBSITES, ETC.

4.YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT HR CONNECTIONS IS PROVIDING ACCESS TO ITS SITE AND SERVICE ON THE EXPRESS CONDITION THAT YOU AGREE TO LIMIT OUR LIABILITY TO YOU. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COVERED ENTITIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS, THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR ANY SERVICES, THE ACTIONS OR INACTIONS OF ANY CANDIDATE OR EMPLOYER, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

5.YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR ANY CLAIMS OR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SITE AND THE SERVICES IS TO STOP USING THEM. IN THE EVENT THAT THE PRIOR PROVISION IS HELD INVALID, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF ANY COVERED ENTITY FOR ANY DAMAGES PERMITTED BY LAW DESPITE THIS LIMIT OF LIABILITY AND FOR DIRECT DAMAGES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL JOB SERVICE THAT IS THE BASIS OF THE DAMAGES.

8.Termination

1.We reserve the right to terminate your account or terminate or suspend Services to anyone (or everyone) at any time for any or no reason. This is not our exclusive remedy under any circumstances.

2.When your account is closed (voluntarily or involuntarily), you may no longer have access to any information or materials you store within your account. We may delete or archive these things at our discretion.

3.Sections 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of these Terms will survive termination of these Terms, termination or suspension of any Services and closure of your account.

9.Miscellaneous

1.We reserve the right to change these Terms and our policies at any time, effective immediately. When we make such changes, we will post them to our website and you will be able to access them through the same link you used before. [or list links]

2.These Terms incorporate all HR Connections policies, whether or not these Terms contain links or explicit references to a given policy.

3.HR Connections will be entitled to recover any legal fees and other costs associated with enforcing these Terms. You hereby waive the right to a jury trial or to participate in any class action litigation against HR Connections arising out of or related to the Site, the Services, these Terms and any potential or actual employment relationships.

4.We will communicate with you either by emailing the address associated with your account or by posting to the Site. You and we will give any notices required or permitted by these Terms (other than legal process) by email with the proviso that we will email your account address and you will email us at [email address for notices]. Emails to other addresses will not satisfy any notice requirement. For legal process, we can serve you by any means allowed by law or by sending registered mail to the address associated with your account (which notice will be effective three days after we post the mailing) and you will serve us by personal service to [agent]. Any other form of service to us is legally ineffective unless we choose to ratify it.

5.You are responsible for being informed about and complying with all laws, rules and regulations that apply to your use of the Site, all Services, any Content and any potential or actual employment relationships.

6.These Terms is the entire agreement between you and HR Connections and it replaces any other agreement between us on this subject. Aside from our right to make changes described in Section 9.1, any amendments to these Terms must be in a writing signed by both parties.

7.You cannot assign these Terms without our written agreement. We can assign these Terms to any entity that agrees to be bound by the terms of these Terms.

8.These Terms are governed by California law, excluding its choice of laws principles. The parties will resolve any disputes in the state or federal courts of Los Angeles County, California.

9.If any provision of these Terms is unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions will not be affected. No waiver will be effective unless it is in an explicit writing and signed by the waiving party.

Last update: May 26, 2010