Version 8 - 17th July 2007
These Conditions are deemed accepted by the Client when the Services of OfficeRecruit have been accessed by the Client or ordered and upon signature of the Service Agreement by the Client.
1. Definitions
2. Services Generally
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2.1. The Client agrees to provide OfficeRecruit, in such a format as OfficeRecruit may request, any information, design work, artwork and logos necessary to enable OfficeRecruit to provide those Services.
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2.2. OfficeRecruit shall not be obliged to provide those Services until the Client has supplied it with the information, design work, artwork and logos necessary to provide those Services. Such information shall be supplied within 5 days of the date of the signed Service Agreement, or such later date as agreed by OfficeRecruit. If the Client fails to supply OfficeRecruit with the information then clause 14.3 shall apply.
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2.3. Advertisements will become live on the Site only when the Client has approved the design work, set-up, artwork and logos. If a Client has been authorised to approve any design work, artwork or logos on behalf of the End Client, then the Client must provide proof of this in writing to OfficeRecruit on request.
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2.4. OfficeRecruit shall make such modifications to any Advertisement as are reasonably requested by the Client provided that OfficeRecruit reserves the right to charge at the rate of 50 Pounds Sterling per hour for the time involved in connection with such modifications.
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2.5. Once a Contract is signed by the Client, the Contract remains in force for the full duration of the Term and may not be cancelled by the Client.
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2.6. The Client may remove an Advertisement from the Site before the Advertisement has reached its expiry date, but shall not be entitled to a refund for the time not used. The Client may extend the term of an Advertisement provided they have purchased a sufficient quota of the relevant Service.
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2.7. If any quota of Services which are to be used with any period of time specified in the Service Agreement are not used within that period of time, then in each case the Client shall still be responsible for the full payment of the invoiced amount as if the Services had been properly and fully provided (and for the avoidance of doubt OfficeRecruit shall not be liable for providing any unused Services and such Services may not be carried over to any subsequent period.)
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2.8. OfficeRecruit reserves the absolute right, without giving any reasons, to decline, cancel or remove any Advertisement or provision of Services for any reason and at any time without prior notice.
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2.9. An Advertisement or Service which indicates, or can reasonably be understood as indicating, an intention to discriminate on grounds of sex or race will not be accepted unless it is exempted from the requirements of the Sex Discrimination Act or the Race Relations Act. A statement must be made at the time the Advertisement is placed or Service used saying which of the exemptions in the Act(s) is considered to apply.
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2.10. OfficeRecruit will use its reasonable endeavours to publish the Advertisement or provide the Services on the agreed date. OfficeRecruit does not accept liability for any consequences, howsoever arising, due to error or delay in provision of the Services and has the right at its sole discretion to decline to publish or omit, suspend or change the position of any Advertisement accepted by it.
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2.11. Links to a Client's or End Client's website will not be permitted to appear in any Advertisement placed, with the exception of Corporate Brochures, or Service used by the Client without OfficeRecruit' prior consent.
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2.12. OfficeRecruit may at its discretion and without prior notice, report any Advertisement or Service used which in its reasonable opinion is being used for an improper or illegal purpose by a Client to the relevant authorities including, without limitation, the Department of Employment, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. OfficeRecruit may also disclose information about any Client to any third party, as OfficeRecruit shall deem necessary to protect its interests or the interests of Clients, Recruiters, Candidates, Applicants and/or other users of the Site.
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2.13. OfficeRecruit shall be entitled at anytime without notifying the Client to make changes to the Services, which are necessary to comply with any applicable security or other statutory requirements and shall determine the manner in which the Services are provided.
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2.14. OfficeRecruit will only make available or supply copies of the CVs that have been received by it for distribution to Clients of OfficeRecruit solely for the purpose of securing suitable employment for the Candidates.
3. Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements
If the Services include Lineage Advertisements or Semi-Display Advertisements, the provisions of this clause 3 shall apply thereto.
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3.1. Lineage Advertisements are only available to Clients who are Recruitment Agencies or Recruitment Process Outsourcing Agencies and accordingly, if the Client has requested that OfficeRecruit provides Lineage Advertisement Services:
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3.1.1 the Client confirms that it is a Recruitment Agency or a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Agency;
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3.1.2 if requested by OfficeRecruit the Client will promptly provide to OfficeRecruit such evidence as OfficeRecruit requests to prove that the Client is a Recruitment Agency or a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Agency;
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3.1.3 OfficeRecruit shall not be obliged to provide the Services (or shall be entitled to suspend them) until the Client has provided such evidence.
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3.2. All Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements are to be entered online by the Client, sent in the OfficeRecruit email template to a OfficeRecruit email address or sent in a specific OfficeRecruit file format to a OfficeRecruit file directory notified by OfficeRecruit to the Client.
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3.3. Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements will be sent out to all relevant Candidates on a weekly basis via the Jobs-by-Email Service for each week that they are live on the Site and to any new relevant Candidates registered within that week.
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3.4. OfficeRecruit will convert each vacancy described in a Semi-Display Advertisement to a Lineage Advertisement for the purposes of distributing through the Jobs-By-Email Service.
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3.5. Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements will remain live on the Site and available for searching via the internet for the number of weeks requested by the Client, but in all circumstances up to a maximum of 52 weeks, where a single week equals one Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement.
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3.6. Any Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement placed on the Site may be expired and removed by the Client. The Client will be charged for the full number of weeks for which the Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement was originally placed.
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3.7. OfficeRecruit will use reasonable endeavours to procure that Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements will become live on the Site within 1 hour of submission to the Site.
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3.8. Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements can only be modified by the Client, within the first 4 hours of submission to the Site and thereafter cannot be modified in anyway whatsoever by the Client.
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3.9. Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements may link only to a Client's Corporate Brochure or Live Vacancy Listing or contact details but may not contain a link, or references, to the Client's website.
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3.10. Lineage Advertisements and Semi-Display Advertisements may only contain:
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3.10.1 one email address, which must be in the specific place designated by OfficeRecruit and must not be part of the text describing the vacancy;
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3.10.2 information describing the Recruitment Agency and/or the services offered by the Recruitment Agency in the specific place designated by OfficeRecruit and must not be part of the text describing the vacancy.
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3.11. A Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement shall contain the details of, accurately describe and pertain to no more than a single vacancy.
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3.12. OfficeRecruit may edit, remove or refuse to publish any Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement:
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3.12.1 containing unnecessarily repeated words or phrases which cause a false positioning in the search results seen by a Candidate;
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3.12.2 advertising products, services, businesses or websites, including, but not limited to, franchises, pyramid selling, network marketing, multi-level marketing and 'get rich quick' schemes.
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3.13. If requested by the Client, OfficeRecruit shall send an email to the Client to remind it that a particular Lineage Advertisement or Semi-display Advertisement is about to expire on the Site. The Client accepts that if it replies to such a requested email in any way the relevant Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement will be renewed by an automated system linked to the reply email address and such renewal shall be on the same terms as set out in the original Service Agreement relating to that Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement (as amended by the terms of that email). It is the Client's responsibility to ensure that they do not respond to that email in any way (whether manually or by means of an automatic system) if it does not want to renew the relevant Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement.
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3.14. Where the Client chooses to use Vacancy Posting Software to submit a Lineage Advertisement or Semi-Display Advertisement to the Site, the Client accepts that any malfunction of, or change to, the Vacancy Posting Software or its incompatibility with OfficeRecruit' systems causing incorrect, missing or multiple submissions to the Site is entirely the responsibility of the Client and the Client agrees that any quota of Services used and Fees incurred will be payable in full.
4. Display Advertisements, Corporate Brochures and Logo Buttons
If the Services include Corporate Brochures or Display Advertisements, the provisions of this clause 4 shall apply thereto.
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4.1. Corporate Brochures and Display Advertisements shall be provided in the form supplied by the Client to OfficeRecruit provided that they comply with the provisions of this Contract. Subject to clause 2.4, OfficeRecruit shall make such modifications to any Corporate Brochures or Display Advertisements as are reasonably requested by the Client.
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4.2. In relation to Display Advertisements:
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4.2.1 Display Advertisements will remain live on the Site in multiples of 5 weekly periods, as requested by the Client.
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4.2.2 A Display Advertisement shall contain the details of, accurately describe and pertain to no more than a single vacancy;
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4.2.3 OfficeRecruit will convert each vacancy described in a single Display Advertisement to a Lineage Advertisement for the purposes of distributing through the Jobs-By-Email Service.
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4.2.4 Display Advertisements may link only to a Client's Corporate Brochure or Live Vacancy Listing or vacancy Advertisement or contact details but may not contain a link, or references, to the Client's website.
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4.2.5 Display Advertisements will be sent out to all relevant Candidates on a weekly basis via the Jobs-by-Email Service and to any new relevant Candidates registered for each week it is live on the Site.
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4.2.6 A Logo Button located on the MyOfficeRecruit pages for relevant Candidates will link to each Display Advertisement.
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4.3. In relation to Corporate Brochures
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4.3.1 Corporate Brochures will remain live on the Site in multiples of calendar Months, as requested by the Client.
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4.3.2 Corporate Brochures may contain one link to the Client's website and a link to the Client's Live Vacancy Listing.
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4.3.3 Corporate Brochures may contain up to a maximum of 2500 characters of text, per page.
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4.3.4 A Logo Button will be located on the home page of the Site periodically, the Featured Recruiter Listing and the MyOfficeRecruit pages for relevant Candidates and these Logo Buttons will link to each Client's primary Corporate Brochure.
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4.4. In relation to Logo Buttons:
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4.4.1 Logo Buttons will not exceed three thousand bytes in graphic size and will be static.
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4.4.2 Logo Buttons will be displayed on a rotational basis and no guarantee is made by OfficeRecruit of the number of times on which they will be displayed and the Client accepts that no obligations are imposed on OfficeRecruit in this regard whatsoever.
5. Skillword Sponsorship Banners
If the Services include Skillword Sponsorship Banners, the provisions of this clause 5 shall apply thereto.
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5.1. Skillword Sponsorship Banners may link to either a Corporate Brochure or a Live Vacancy Listing or a vacancy Advertisement.
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5.2. Skillword Sponsorship Banners must not exceed twelve thousand bytes in size and their dimensions must measure 468 x 60 pixels.
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5.3. Skillword Sponsorship Banners designed by OfficeRecruit will be static banners. Animated banners may be used if they are supplied complete to OfficeRecruit by the Client at the Client's own expense and conform with the parameters set out by OfficeRecruit. OfficeRecruit will not accept any banners produced in Flash graphics.
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5.4. Skillword Sponsorship Banners are live on the Site in multiples of weekly periods, as requested by the Client, up to a maximum of two consecutive weeks.
6. Homepage Banners
If the Services include Homepage Banners, the provisions of this clause 6 shall apply thereto.
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6.1. Homepage Banners may link to either a Corporate Brochure or a Live Vacancy Listing or a vacancy Advertisement.
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6.2. Homepage Banners must not exceed twelve thousand bytes in size and their dimensions must measure 468 x 60 pixels.
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6.3. Homepage Banners will be static banners. OfficeRecruit will not accept any banners produced in Flash graphics.
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6.4. Homepage Banners are live on the Site in multiples of weekly periods, as requested by the Client, up to a maximum of two consecutive weeks.
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6.5. Homepage Banners are displayed on the home page of the Site periodically.
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6.6. OfficeRecruit may require Header Banners to be amended, such that the banner contrasts suitably with the Site.
7. Jobs-by-Email Sponsorship
If the Services include Jobs-by-Email Sponsorship, the provisions of this clause 7 shall apply thereto.
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7.1. Jobs-by-Email Sponsorship is for one day on any day of the week from Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays in England and Wales) as agreed between OfficeRecruit and the Client.
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7.2. The sponsored message may contain a link only to a Client's Corporate Brochure or Live Vacancy Listing or any individual vacancy Advertisement.
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7.3. The Client accepts that OfficeRecruit cannot guarantee the number of recipients of the Jobs-by-Email Sponsorship and that no obligations are imposed on OfficeRecruit in this regard.
8. CV Services
If the Services include CV Services, the provisions of this clause 8 shall apply thereto.
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8.1. The Services are subject to any instructions from a Candidate that his or her details should or should not be made available to the Client. In the event that OfficeRecruit has reason to believe or suspect that its CV Services are being abused by the Client, including but without limitation to the breach of this Clause 8, OfficeRecruit reserves the right to immediately suspend or terminate the Contract.
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8.2. The CV Watchdog service will (under normal circumstances) be delivered to the Client by email on a once per day basis or other period as selected by the Client and such email will include all CVs identified by the search strings selected by the Client pursuant to clause 8.3.
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8.3. The CV Watchdog service will allow the Client to select, at any one time, up to the number of search strings specified in the Licence, with each search string allocated to an email address, to which the CVs will be sent to.
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8.4. The CV Online service will (under normal circumstances) be available to the Client at all times and will allow up to the number of Client's Recruiters specified in the Licence, access to all CVs on the Site. Where multiple CV Online service lines are specified on the Service Agreement, the Licence with the higher number of users applies and supercedes the lower number of users.
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8.5. OfficeRecruit cannot guarantee the minimum number of new CVs available on any CV Service on any given day.
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8.6. OfficeRecruit will (under normal circumstances) ensure that CVs are made available to the Client via CV Watchdog within one working day of receipt of the CV from a Candidate, or searchable online within one hour of receipt of the CV from a Candidate via CV Online.
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8.7. Each CV Online and CV Watchdog is available in multiples of Months, as requested by the Client.
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8.8. In relation to the CV Services the Client shall ensure that no automatic extraction software (to include software tools commonly known as robots and spiders) or any other means, are engaged or deployed, either on a temporary or a permanent basis, or unless specifically requested by the Client and approved in writing by a director of OfficeRecruit, to facilitate the downloading or capturing of volume quantities of CVs from the OfficeRecruit database irrespective as to which CV Service has been purchased from OfficeRecruit.
9. Recruiting a Recruiter Advertisement Services
If the Services include Recruiting a Recruiter Advertisement Services then the provisions of this clause 9 shall apply thereto:
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9.1. Recruiting a Recruiter Logo Buttons may link to either a Corporate Brochure or a Live Vacancy Listing or a vacancy Advertisement or the Client's branch contact details.
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9.2. Recruiting a Recruiter Logo Buttons must not three thousand bytes in graphic size and will be static.
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9.3. Recruiting a Recruiter Advertisements may contain up to a maximum of 2000 characters of text.
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9.4. Recruiting a Recruiter Advertisements will remain live on the Site in multiples of calendar Months, as requested by the Client.
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9.5. Recruiting a Recruiter Advertisements will be rotated randomly on the Recruiting a Recruiter page on the Site and no guarantee is given as to the order in which the Advertisement will appear on that page.
10. Conkers Multi-Posting Services
If the Services include Conkers Multi-Posting Services then the provisions of this clause 10 shall apply thereto:
11. Featured Jobs-By-Email
If the Services include Featured Jobs-by-Email advertisements, the provisions of this clause 11 shall apply thereto.
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11.1. Featured Jobs-by-Email advertisements shall be created in an agreed form between Client and OfficeRecruit and in compliance with the provisions of this Contract. Subject to clause 2.4, OfficeRecruit shall make such modifications to any Featured Jobs-by-email reasonably requested by the Client.
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11.2. Featured Jobs-by-Email advertisements may only be sent to Candidates subscribed to the Jobs-By-Email service on a scheduled date and time agreed between OfficeRecruit and the Client, subject to service and calendar availability.
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11.3. Featured Jobs-by-Email shall contain the details of and accurately describe career opportunities that match a Candidate's search criteria and may contain a link only to an individual vacancy Advertisement or to a Client's Corporate Brochure.
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11.4. Any highlighted opportunity contained within a Featured Jobs-By-Email advertisement must already exist as a Live Vacancy listing in the form of either a Semi-Display or Display Advertisement.
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11.5. The Client accepts that OfficeRecruit cannot guarantee the number of recipients or the responses to the Featured Jobs-by-Email advertisement and that no obligations are imposed on OfficeRecruit in this regard.
12. Obligations of OfficeRecruit
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12.1. OfficeRecruit will use its reasonable endeavours to enable Applicants the facility of viewing the Clients' Advertisements on the Site and to provide the Services to the Client. However, the Client accepts that OfficeRecruit cannot guarantee the number of occasions on which any individual Advertisement appears on the Site and that no obligations are imposed on OfficeRecruit in this regard.
13. Obligations of the Client
14. Rates
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14.1. The rates shall be those rates as agreed between OfficeRecruit and the Client in the Service Agreement.
15. Payment
16. Liability
17. Indemnity
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17.1. The Client agrees to indemnify OfficeRecruit and to keep OfficeRecruit indemnified in respect of, but not limited to, all damages, costs or liabilities that OfficeRecruit may incur arising from an Advertisement or use of any Service, and in particular resulting from the following:-
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17.1.1 the publication of any defamatory statement;
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17.1.2 breach of copyright;
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17.1.3 any claims made by any person in respect of race, religion, age, sex or disability discrimination;
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17.1.4 any breach by the Client of any warranty given hereunder.
18. Disclaimer
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18.1. Except as otherwise provided by statute, OfficeRecruit disclaims all warranties, express or implied by law of statute, in relation to, but not limited to, the Site.
19. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
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19.1. These Terms shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England and Wales and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of its courts.
20. Miscellaneous
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20.1. The signing of a Service Agreement for provision of Services amounts to an acceptance of these Terms to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions. No variation shall be binding unless agreed in writing.
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20.2. If any provision of these Terms is held to be void or unenforceable in whole or in part, these Terms shall continue to be valid as to the other provisions and the remainder of the affected provision. No waiver by OfficeRecruit shall be effective except in relation to the matter in respect it was specifically given.
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20.3. Nothing in these Terms is intended to confer on any person any right to enforce any provision of these Terms, which that person would not have had but for the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Insofar as the Client is a consumer (as that term is defined in the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, the Client agrees that the provision of Services under these Terms may, by agreement between the Client and OfficeRecruit, take place before the end of any applicable cancellation period, in which case the right to cancel such provision of Services shall not apply.
21. Contracting Party
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21.1. OfficeRecruit (company number 04388542) of
Kingfisher House, Elmfield Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1LT is a subsidiary of Jobsite UK (Worldwide) Limited (company number 03097157) of Langstone Technology Park, Langstone Road, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 1SA, a subsidiary of Associated Newspapers Limited (company number 84121).
THIS SCHEDULE REPLACES ALL PREVIOUS SCHEDULES TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS