Terms of use

About these terms

These terms apply when you use North Beacon (the “service”), which is run by [to confirm: legal name of who runs the service] (“we”, “us”). By creating an account, you agree to them. Our privacy notice explains how we handle personal data.

Who can use the service

• You must be 18 or over.
• Students and graduates can use it to be found by employers for work in the UK. Employers can use it to recruit for roles in the UK.
• Each person may have only one account. If you use it for an employer, you must be authorised to act for that employer.

Your account

You sign in with a link sent to your email address, so keep access to your email secure. Tell us straight away at support@northbeacon.co.uk if you think someone else has used your account. You’re responsible for what happens on your account.

For students and graduates

• The service is free for you. We never charge candidates.
• Keep your profile accurate and about you. Don’t upload anyone else’s CV or details.
• Employers find you. When one asks to meet you, we show you who they are, what they’re looking for and why you fit. We can’t promise you’ll be asked, or that you’ll get interviews or a job.
• You decide when an employer sees who you are: only if you say yes to their request, and only for that role. You can say no, and you can withdraw at any point before you’re hired.
• If you accept a job through the service, please tell us with “I got this job”.

For employers

Your searches

• Only search for people for real vacancies that you’re actively recruiting for, and describe them accurately. The people you ask to meet see your description and your company’s name.
• Only ask to meet people you’d genuinely consider. Each role can have up to 10 requests waiting for an answer at once. A request nobody answers within 14 days expires, and like a “no thanks”, you can’t ask that person again for the same role. Cancelling a request doesn’t restart its 14 days: if you ask again, it expires when the first request would have.
• Follow UK employment and equality law, including the Equality Act 2010. Don’t set requirements that discriminate unlawfully, and never ask candidates to pay you.

Candidates’ details

• Only use the details a candidate shares with you to consider them for the role they were introduced for, and to talk to them about it.
• Don’t try to identify or contact candidates before they’ve said yes to your request, or after they’ve said no.
• You’re responsible, as a data controller, for the details you receive. Handle them in line with UK data protection law, and delete them when you no longer need them.
• Keep each candidate’s progress up to date, and mark them as hired when they accept an offer.

Fees

You pay [to confirm: employer fee] for each successful hire. A successful hire is when a candidate introduced to you through the service accepts a job offer from you, or from a company in your group, within [to confirm: how long an introduction counts] of the introduction. This applies whether the offer is for the role they were introduced for or a different one, and however the offer is made, including outside the service. A candidate is introduced when they say yes to your request to meet them.

• We’ll invoice you once a hire is recorded. Invoices are due within [to confirm: payment terms].
• If a hire leaves early: [to confirm: early-leaver policy].
• If a successful hire isn’t recorded, for example a candidate tells us they accepted your offer, we may invoice you for it once we’ve checked with you.
• Fees for hires already made stay payable if your account is closed.

Acceptable use

Please don’t:

• give false information or pretend to be someone else
• scrape, copy in bulk or access the service with automated tools
• try to get around security or fair-use limits, or interfere with how the service works
• upload anything unlawful, offensive or harmful, such as malware
• contact users about anything other than genuine recruitment, or use the service to build a competing database

AI features

Some features use AI, such as reading CVs, turning an employer’s description of who they need into a brief, and writing match explanations. AI can make mistakes, so check your profile or brief before saving it, and treat explanations as a guide rather than a guarantee.

Your content and our service

You keep ownership of what you add, like your profile or your description of who you need. You give us permission to store, process and show it as needed to run the service, including showing it to employers, or to the candidates you ask to meet, as the privacy notice describes. That permission ends when you delete it, except where we must keep records by law.

The service itself, including its design and software, belongs to us. We may change or improve features. We aim to keep the service running smoothly, but can’t promise it will always be available or free of errors.

Closing or suspending accounts

You can delete your account at any time in Account settings. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts other people at risk. We’ll tell you why, unless the law stops us.

Our liability

• Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn’t allow us to limit.
• Students and graduates: you have legal rights as a consumer, and these terms don’t affect them. We aren’t responsible for losses we couldn’t reasonably have foreseen.
• Employers: we aren’t liable for lost profits, lost business or indirect losses. Our total liability to you in any 12 months is limited to the fees you paid us in that period. We don’t vet candidates, so you’re responsible for your hiring decisions, right-to-work checks and references.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Small changes, such as clearer wording, apply when we publish them. For significant changes, we’ll show you what’s changed and ask you to accept the new terms before you carry on using the service. If you don’t agree, you can delete your account.

Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts deal with any dispute. If you’re a consumer living in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring a claim in your local courts.

Contact us

Email support@northbeacon.co.uk, or write to [to confirm: address].