1. About us and our business
targetconnect Link is operated by GTI Futures Ltd ("GTI", "we" or "our"). GTI is a company registered in England and Wales with the company registration number 2347472. Our registered office is The Fountain Building, Howbery Park, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8BA and our VAT number is GB 882 4583 89.
2. Changes to these Terms
We reserve the right to change these Terms at any time and we encourage you to revisit these Terms periodically to ensure that you are at all times fully aware of them. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting to targetconnect Link. Your continued use of targetconnect Link constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.
3. The services and registration
3.1. By means of targetconnect Link, we make available a distribution service where you as a recruiter may enter advertisements for jobs together with information about your organisation and have targetconnect Link send these electronically to the destinations you select (collectively the “Destinations"). Destinations include but are not limited to university job boards and GTI’s targetjobs website.
3.2. The use of targetconnect Link by recruiters is only available to holders of valid "Employer Accounts". Registration of an Employer Account is also managed by targetconnect Link and includes the facility for you to provide a profile of your organisation that can be read in conjunction with your job advertisements.
3.3. Whether or not we accept your application for an Employer Account is entirely at our discretion. If we do accept your application, you will receive a registration confirmation email.
3.4. You must treat your username and password as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party. If you know or suspect that your username and/or password have become known to any third party, you must inform us immediately.
4. Your use of Link and its associated services
4.1. For the purposes of these Terms the information you enter ("Content") includes, but is not limited to, all or part of any text, layout or logos provided by you as part of your registration, organisation profile or advertisement of a job.
4.2. The Content and your use of targetconnect Link must:
a) is untrue, fraudulent, inaccurate or incomplete; and/or
b) directly or indirectly discriminates on grounds of age, sex, disability status, nationality or race; and/or
c) constitutes advertising for anything other than a position of employment;
4.3. You must make clear the nature of the work offered and specify any necessary skills required, the proposed wages and other terms. See our advertising handling policy for guidance on what information to include.
4.4. You acknowledge that Group GTI reserves the right not to advertise your organisation or it's content. Our advertising handling policy outlines what we do and do not accept onto targetconnect Link.
4.5. Destinations will impose their own terms and conditions for the display of job advertisements and you agree to be bound by these as part of these Terms. (A copy of a destination’s terms and conditions can be requested from GTI. Please send an email to gtimediasupport@groupgti.com)
4.6. By using targetconnect Link you automatically grant us royalty free, worldwide, perpetual and non-exclusive license to use, copy, distribute, publish, syndicate, sub-license, transmit, display, edit. make available on targetconnect Link and otherwise deal with as necessary the whole or any part of any Content which you may provide us through your use of targetconnect Link. Specifically you agree to the sharing of Contact Details, Contact Permissions, and Content with Destinations, and their use of this to manage and display your job advertisement. Destinations may contact you as part of this process and for their own marketing purposes.
4.7. You warrant that the material you submit through your use of targetconnect Link is not obscene, threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, abusive, likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety, is in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property right (including, without limitation, copyright) or otherwise is in breach of or violates any applicable law or regulation or code.
4.8. You warrant that where you use targetconnect Link to submit material (including advertisements for positions of employment) or otherwise act on behalf of an agency or other third party, you are expressly authorised to do so and you acknowledge that you are primarily liable for such material and otherwise for ensuring compliance with these Terms.
4.9. You acknowledge that any breach of the warranties set out in sections 4.8 and 4.9 may cause GTI damage or loss and you agree to indemnify GTI in full and permanently on demand against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any anticipated loss of profit, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data, costs and fines and/or any special or incidental damages of any kind) as a result of any such breach.
4.10. You agree that we may (at our discretion) disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material sent by you to targetconnect Link is defamatory, is in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property right (including, without limitation, copyright), in breach of any of the warranties set out above or otherwise is in breach of or violates any applicable law or regulation or code.
4.11. You are solely responsible for verifying the information contained in any responses you may receive as a result of your job being advertised by the Destinations and for the suitability of any employee you recruit as a result.
4.12. By using targetconnect Link you accept that destinations included as part of the network are subject to change and you acknowledge that any destination receiving your posting may choose to leave the network within the timeframe of the advert being live.
5. Charges and payment
5.1. In order to hold an Employer Account and to be entitled to use the Services you must pay the charges (plus VAT where relevant) set out on targetconnect Link.
5.2. Where you have purchased an advertisement for a period of time, it is up to you to fully utilise that time. We will not refund you for any under-utilised periods. We make no representations as to the effect or likely rate of response to any advertisement, and accept no liability for low response rates. It is your responsibility to check the correctness of the advertisement (and of each publication of the advertisement if more than once).
5.3. GTI makes no warranty that your job will be accepted by the destination sites you select and GTI will make no refund of any fees in respect of destinations sites that reject or refuse to publish your Content.
5.4. We reserve the right to change the charges at any time.
6. Termination, suspension and removal of content
6.1. GTI reserves the right not to process Content it deems:
6.2 At any time and without giving you any advance notice, we may permanently or temporarily and for any reason:
6.3. If you cancel your Employer Account you will remain liable for all charges payable up until the date that any such cancellation takes effect.
6.4. The cancellation of your Employer Account does not and will not affect the accrued rights and liabilities of GTI or the enforceability of sections 5 or any other provisions of the Terms that are intended to remain in force after cancellation.
7. Confidentiality
7.1. The content and terms of this Agreement shall be confidential as between the parties and there shall be no breach of that confidence by either party.
7.2. Save as provided in clause 7.1 each party agrees and undertakes that it will keep confidential and will not use for its own purposes nor without the prior written consent of the other party disclose to any third party all information of a confidential nature, (including but not limited to trade secrets and information of commercial value) which may become known to such party from the other unless such information is public knowledge (other than by breach of this clause 7) or is required to be disclosed by a court of competent jurisdiction. Breach of this clause 7.2 shall not be subject to the terms of clause 9 (Exclusions and limitations of liability).
8. Third-party sites and links
targetconnect Link may contain hypertext links to third-party websites or endeavour to distribute your Content to third party websites. We are not responsible for, nor do we endorse in any way such third-party websites or their content.
9. Exclusions and limitations of liability
9.1. GTI is only responsible for the operation of targetconnect Link and the making available of its associated services, subject to the limitations set out in these Terms. We do not guarantee that you will receive any responses to adverts placed for positions of employment or otherwise.
9.2. GTI will not be a party to any communications whatsoever between you and those responding to any use which you may make of the Services, although we reserve the right (but not the obligation) for targetconnect Link to monitor the viewing statistics of your advertisement when it appears on any system operated by GTI and you now consent to any such monitoring. Notwithstanding the first part of this section 9.2, GTI excludes insofar as it is possible to do so in law all liability to you concerning such communications and your dealings with third parties.
9.3. All information and/or data on targetconnect Link are provided on an "as is" basis. Save to the extent required by law, no representations, warranties or terms of any kind are made (or shall be implied by statute or otherwise) in respect of targetconnect Link or its content, including, without limitation, warranties of satisfactory quality, conformity to contract, accuracy, adequacy, conformity to description or fitness for any particular purpose. Your use of targetconnect Link is entirely at your own risk.
9.4. GTI gives no warranty or guarantee relating to availability of targetconnect Link, our operation of it, its content or that the server that makes targetconnect Link, available are error or virus free or free of other harmful components or that your use of targetconnect Link will be uninterrupted.
9.5. GTI shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that targetconnect Link and its services are kept secure. However, due to the nature of the Internet, we cannot accept any liability for those who intentionally attempt to and/or manage to gain unauthorised access to the same by means such as, without limitation, computer hacking (save to the extent that GTI is unable to exclude such liability by law).
9.6. You agree that GTI its directors, employees, agents or other representatives, data providers or affiliates will not be responsible or liable (whether in contract, tort or otherwise), under any circumstances for any amount or kind of loss or damage (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any anticipated loss of profit, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data, costs and fines and/or any special or incidental damages of any kind) that may result to you or a third party arising from or connected in any way to your use of targetconnect Link or its services.
9.7. Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms, GTI does not exclude or limit its liability for
10. Indemnity
You will indemnify and will keep indemnified GTI and its data providers and affiliates on demand against all claims, costs, proceedings, demands, losses, damages, expenses (including legal expenses) or liability whatsoever arising directly or indirectly as a result of:
11. Assignment
11.1. You may not assign, transfer, sublet, lease, sub-license or delegate all or any of your rights or obligations in respect of targetconnect Link and its services without our prior written consent. In particular, but without limitation, you must not allow a third party to access and/or use targetconnect Link using your logon and password (or otherwise as a result of your Employer Account) without our prior written consent.
11.2. GTI may freely assign, transfer, sublet, lease, sub-license or delegate all or any of its rights or obligations in respect of targetconnect Link and its services (in whole or in part) to any third party at any time.
12. General
12.1. Any contractual or legal relationship between you and GTI will be conducted in English.
12.2. These Terms (together with any variations to them pursuant to section 2) form the entire agreement between the parties concerning your access to, browsing and/or use of targetconnect Link and supersede all prior agreements, arrangements, understandings and representations made between us (whether written or oral) concerning targetconnect Link.
12.3. Nothing in these Terms is intended to or shall operate to create a partnership or joint venture of any kind between us or to authorise either of us to act as agent for the other, and neither of us shall have authority to act in the name or on behalf of or otherwise to bind the other in any way (including but not limited to the making of any representation or warranty, the assumption of any obligation or liability and the exercise of any right or power).
12.4. If the whole or any part of any provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid, void or unenforceable for any reason the same shall to the extent required be severed from these Terms and rendered ineffective so far as is possible without modifying the remaining provisions of these Terms and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provisions.
12.5. No waiver by GTI of any breach of these Terms shall constitute a waiver of any other prior or subsequent breach and GTI shall not be affected by any delay, failure or omission to enforce or express forbearance granted in respect of any of your obligations.
12.6. The rights and remedies of GTI under these Terms are independent, cumulative and without prejudice to its rights under the law.
12.7. These Terms are not intended to create and shall not create any rights, entitlements, claims or benefits enforceable by any third party by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
12.8. These Terms and/or your use of targetconnect Link shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute which may arise.