Terms of Use - Candidate
Last updated - July 25, 2016
Please review the following terms and conditions, which govern the use of the website TapInTal.com.
1. General Remarks
The website tapintal.com (the “Website”) is owned and operated by JT TechnoSoft Inc. (the “Site Operator”). The Website may only be used for lawful purposes by individuals looking for job opportunities (“Candidate”) and employers looking to hire Candidates for job positions based in Canada or USA for their company (the “Employer\"). The Site Operator provides various services at the Website, including maintaining a collection of profiles of Candidates (“Candidate Profiles”) and advertisements for jobs at Employer companies (“Job Advertisements”), providing resume search and results listing of Candidate Profiles, and providing a job search and a results listing of Job Advertisements (“Job Board”).
This document sets out a legal agreement (the “Agreement”) that governs the use of the Website. Use of the Website constitutes agreement to follow and be bound by this Agreement.
This Agreement includes the Privacy Policy set out at https://www.tapintal.com/terms_file/privacy.html, which outlines the Site Operator’s policies relating to the collection and use of personal information through the Website.
The Site Operator reserves the right to modify this Agreement at any time in its sole discretion without prior individual notice. Any modifications to this Agreement will be posted on the Website, and subsequent use of the Website constitutes an agreement to be bound by and comply with these modifications. Please review the Agreement with each use of the Website. This Agreement was last modified at the “last updated” date that appears at the top of the Agreement. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Website.
Website is provided for informational purposes only. The Site Operator is a conduit for information and is not obligated and has no responsibility to screen or monitor information submitted by Employers, Candidates or other users of the Website. The Website provides a venue for interaction between Employers and Candidates. The Site Operator is not involved in the actual employment transaction between Employer and Candidate, and has no control over the Employer and Candidate actions and quality, safety, accuracy, legality of information submitted to the Website.
The Website, and all materials on the Website, including text, images, illustrations, graphics, designs, icons, software, applications, music and sound files, photographs, commercials, video clips and other materials, and their selection and arrangement, and the copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade dress and/or other intellectual property in such materials, are owned, or licensed by the Site Operator, with all rights reserved. The materials on the Website are protected by copyright and other laws. The materials on the Website may not be sold, modified, altered, copied, reproduced, displayed, distributed, extracted, or otherwise used in any way for any public or commercial use. Any reproduction of materials on the Website for personal use, non-commercial must retain all proprietary notices.
2. Job Advertisements
After an Employer has activated their account, the Employer can post one or more Job Advertisements for a job based in Canada or USA. A Job Advertisement includes a job name, a job code, key skills, a job description, job type, job level, salary range, job location, job requirements, functional area, and number of openings. Job Advertisements are made available to Candidates through a job search and Job Board.
The Site Operator assumes no responsibility for Job Advertisements published on Website, and makes no representation of the ability of the Employer to offer a job in a Job Advertisement. The Site Operator makes no claims or promises about the quality, accuracy, security, safety, or reliability of the information in a Job Advertisement.
3. Candidate Registration
A Candidate must register for an account at the Website in order to search for Job Advertisements, view a Job Board, and create a Candidate Profile. A Candidate registers with the Site Operator for an account by providing required identification information and required contact information, including username, name, e-mail address, phone number, and address. The Candidate is responsible for providing identification information and contact information. The Candidate must provide complete and accurate information. A Candidate may not create an account for another user and may not create multiple accounts. After a Candidate provides the required identification information and contact information an activation confirmation message will be sent to the e-mail address associated with the Candidate in order to activate the account. The Candidate is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of its account password and the accuracy of information about its account. The Candidate is also responsible for all activities that occur in connection with its account. The Candidate agrees to notify the Site Operator immediately of any unauthorized use of its account. The Site Operator reserves the right to temporarily or permanently terminate a Candidate’s account at any time for any or no reason. By creating an account, a Candidate agrees to receive certain communications in connection with the Website. The Site Operator will store all information received from the Candidate on servers located in Canada.
4. Candidate Profile
After a Candidate has activated their account, the Candidate will provide information to the Site Operator for its Candidate Profile including a cover letter, a detailed resume and optionally a video resume. A Candidate will also provide information regarding the Candidate’s job experience, job skills, expertise, qualifications, and job preferences (“Key Skills”) to the Site Operator for its Candidate Profile. A Candidate can also provide its current annual salary range for its Candidate Profile.
An Employer and the Site Operator may perform a resume search for Candidate Profiles based on the Key Skills to identify and shortlist Candidates for jobs in Job Advertisements. A resume search results will display a listing of Candidates that meet the parameters of the resume search. The resume search results may identify the Candidates by username and a summary of some of their Key Skills. The Employer can select which Candidates identified in the resume search results to shortlist for a Job Advertisement. The Candidate may set and change a searchable status of their Candidate Profile to permit or not permit their Candidate Profile to be displayed to Employers in resume search results. The Site Operator may make some or all of the Candidate Profile available in a resume search, subject to the searchable status of the Candidate Profile.
A Candidate with an active account may perform a job search for Job Advertisements and may apply for a job in a Job Advertisement identified by the job search. If a Candidate applies for a job in a Job Advertisement then the Candidate agrees to allow the Site Operator to make the Candidate’s detailed resume and video resume available to the Employer associated with the Job Advertisement. An Employer will consider a Candidate that uses the Website to apply for a job in the Employer’s Job Advertisement and decide whether or not to shortlist the Candidate. If a Candidate is not interested in the job that is s/he is short listed for, the Candidate may opt to not display the detail resume and video resume. The Site Operator has no obligation to provide an Employer with access to information regarding the Candidate’s detailed resume and video resume.
Employers agree to only use a Candidate Profile including the detailed resume and the video resume for its purpose of hiring for the job in the Job Advertisement. Employers agree to not disclose or use a Candidate Profile including the detailed resume and video resume to any third party or for any illegal, unsolicited, or other purpose.
The Site Operator may provide an application tracker tool on the Website to enable a Candidate to see if an Employer has shortlisted the Candidate for a job in a Job Advertisement. The Site Operator may also provide an application status monitor tool on the Website to enable a Candidate to monitor the status of its application for a job in a Job Advertisement at each stage of the hiring process, if either the Candidate applied for the job in the Job Advertisement or the Employer shortlisted the Candidate for the job in the Job Advertisement.
The Site Operator may, at its sole discretion, decline to make a Candidate Profile available on the Website. The Site Operator reserves the right to remove, screen, or edit Candidate Profiles from time to time at the Site Operator’s sole discretion and without notice. A Candidate is not permitted to and agrees to not submit a Candidate Profile, including detailed resume and video resume, that is unsuitable, false, intentionally misleading, offensive, or defamatory; violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; contains material that is unlawful, including illegal hate speech or pornography; exploits or otherwise harms minors; or violates or advocates the violation of any law or regulation. The Site Operator has no obligation to retain or provide a Candidate with copies of the Candidate Profile. The Site Operator has the sole discretion to remove the Candidate Profile, delete the Candidate’s account and deny access to the Website.
The Candidate is responsible for providing the required information for the Candidate Profile, including the detailed resume and the video resume. Once the Candidate Profile is submitted to the Site Operator, it may not be possible to withdraw Candidate Profile within any particular time period. The Candidate may update the information for the Candidate Profile. Such updates will be applied to the Candidate Profile in accordance with the practices of the Site Operator.
The Candidate assumes all risks associated with its account and Candidate Profile, including any reliance by any Employer, or other user of the Website on its quality, accuracy, or reliability, or any disclosure of personal information in the Candidate Profile. The Site Operator makes no claims or promises about the quality, accuracy, security, safety, or reliability of the information in a Candidate Profile. The Candidate represents that it has the necessary permissions for its Candidate Profile and authorizes the use and display of its Candidate Profile provided to the Site Operator, subject to consent required for disclosure of its detailed resume and video resume during the pre-screen process if the Candidate is shortlisted for a job in a Job Advertisement. A Candidate may not imply that its Candidate Profile is in any way sponsored or endorsed by the Site Operator.
A Candidate may be exposed to liability if, for example, its Candidate Profile contains material that is false, intentionally misleading, or defamatory; violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; contains material that is unlawful, including illegal hate speech or pornography; exploits or otherwise harms minors; or violates or advocates the violation of any law or regulation.
The Site Operator may use a Candidate Profile in a number of different ways, including displaying it, reformatting it, incorporating it into other works, displaying it in whole or in part in conjunction with other works, creating derivative works from it, promoting it, displaying an index to it, and distributing it. As such, the Candidate hereby irrevocably grants the Site Operator a world-wide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable right to use the Candidate Profile, including the detailed resume and video resume, provided to the Site Operator for any purpose. The Candidate also irrevocably grants Employer’s the right to access Candidate Profile in connection with their use of the Website. Finally, the Candidate irrevocably waives, and causes to be waived, against the Site Operator and its users any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to the Candidate Profile provided to the Site Operator, where \"use\" means use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate, and create derivative works.
A Candidate may link to their Candidate Profile on a third party website provided that the Candidate does not suggest that the Site Operator promotes or endorses any third party causes, ideas, websites, products or services, including its Job Advertisements and company.
A Candidate is not permitted to submit Candidate Profiles on behalf of a third party.
Site Operator assumes no responsibility for Candidate Profiles and Candidates hired through the Website. The Site Operator has no control and makes no representation about the ability of the Candidate to fill a job in a Job Advertisement.
5. Fee and Payment
Candidates may use the Website and its service at free of cost. There is no fee for using the website for Candidates.
6. Job and Candidate Information
The Site Operator does not control the content posted by Candidates and Employers and makes no representation or warranty regarding the quality, accuracy, security, safety, or reliability of the information available on or accessible through the Website. The Site Operator has no control over the truth, accuracy, quality, or legality of the information displayed on Job Advertisements and Candidate Profiles including any representation made by an Employer or Candidate.
7. Errors, Inaccuracies, and Omissions
Occasionally there may be information on the Website that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions that may relate to Job Advertisements, Candidate Profiles, and other information. The Site Operator reserves the right at any time and its sole discretion and without prior notice to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions to the information on the Website.
8. Information Submitted Through the Website
The submission of information through this Website is governed by our Privacy Policy. This Agreement incorporates by reference the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy.
9. Links to Other Websites and Services
The Website may contain links to other websites that are not maintained, controlled or created by the Site Operator. The Site Operator makes no representations about and has no responsibility for the linked websites, and does not endorse any linked website or the information appearing thereon. Links are provided solely for the convenience and information of this Website\'s users, and do not imply that the Site Operator endorses, is affiliated with or associated with such linked websites. The Site Operator recommends before using any third party website, review of such website’s own terms of use agreement and privacy policy.
10. Website Security
Employers, Candidates and other users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of this Website, including, without limitation:
accessing data not intended for you, including logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access,
attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization,
attempting to interfere with, disrupt or disable service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of \"denial of service\" attacks, overloading, \"flooding\", \"mail bombing\" or \"crashing\",
forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or posting,
disrupt network nodes or network services or otherwise restrict, inhibit, disrupt or impede Site Operator’s ability to monitor or make available the Website;
taking any action in order to obtain non-entitled services; and
framing, scraping, data-mining, mirroring, extracting or collecting contents of the Website.
Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. The Site Operator may investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting anyone who is involved in such violations.
11. Right to Change the Website
The Site Operator reserve the right, at any time, and without prior notice, at its sole discretion, to: modify, change, add, delete, restrict, suspend or discontinue this Website or any aspect of this Website (for example, any service, content, account, Job Advertisement, Candidate Profile or feature displayed on or offered through this Website, and including access to, or use of the Website); charge fees in connection with the use of this Website; modify and/or waive any fees charged in connection with this Website; and/or offer opportunities to some or all Employers, Candidates and other users of this Website. The Site Operator shall not be liable to Employers, Candidates, other users, or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Website, or for any service, content, feature or product offered through this Website.
If an Employer, Candidate, or other user does not abide by the Agreement, as determined by the Site Operator in its sole and absolute discretion, the Site Operator has the right to and may revoke privileges to use all or a portion of this Website and/or take any other appropriate measures to enforce the Agreement, without warning or liability whatsoever. For example, the Site Operator may suspend, cancel or terminate access to the Website (or any part thereof), accounts, Job Advertisements and Candidate Profiles.
12. Disclaimer
Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties, representations and/or conditions of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title, implied warranties, representations or conditions of business quality, fitness for a particular purpose, or title and non-infringement of intellectual property. The Site Operator does not warrant that this Website or the servers making the Website available are virus free or free of other harmful components, or that the Website and its functions will be uninterrupted or error free, or that defects will be corrected. By providing Job Advertisements, information and materials on the Website, the Site Operator does not in any way promise that they will remain available. The Site Operator and its affiliates expressly disclaim any duty to update or revise the content of the Website, although we may modify the content at any time without notice. Use of the Website is at your sole risk, and Candidates, Employers, and users assume full responsibility for any costs associated with your use of this Website. The Site Operator and/or its affiliates shall not be liable for any harm, loss or damage of any kind related to your use or misuse of this Website, including, without limitation, in relation to correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise.
13. Indemnification
Employers, Candidates, and other users agree to defend, indemnify and hold the Site Operator harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, loss, costs and expenses, including attorneys\' fees, arising from or related to their use or misuse of the Website and/or their breach of any representation, warranty, or other provision of the Agreement.
14. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Ontario and Canada, as applicable therein, without regard to any conflict of law provisions. Any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be resolved exclusively by the Superior Court of Justice or Federal Court of Canada residing in Toronto, Ontario.
15. General
The waiver of any provision of the Agreement shall not be considered a waiver of any other provision or of the Site Operator’s right to require strict observance of each of the terms herein. If any provision of the Agreement is found to be unlawful, void or unenforceable for any reason, that provision shall be severable, and will not affect the validity and enforceability of all other provisions, which shall remain in full force and effect. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us relating to your use of this Website.
16. Termination
These terms are effective unless and until terminated by the Site Operator. The Site Operator may terminate this Agreement at any time without notice, and accordingly may deny access to this Website, for any reason or no reason. The obligations and liabilities of the parties incurred prior to the termination date shall survive the termination of this Agreement for all purposes.
17. Contact
Any questions concerning the Agreement should be directed to:
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