Terms of Use
Welcome to the website for Ignis Partners. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this site.
This site is operated by Ignis Partners (Ignis Partners, we, our or us). Ignis Partners is registered in England and Wales with company number 10982366. Our registered office is at 7Building 4 Carrwood Park Selby Road, Leeds, LS15 4LG.
These terms and conditions (terms) govern your use of our website at www.ignispartners.com
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to them, you must not use our site or download or use materials from it.
CHANGES TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. Please check these Terms and Conditions frequently for updates by checking the date of "Last updated" at the top of this document, as they are binding on you. If any change is not acceptable to you, you must discontinue your use of this Site immediately.
CHANGES TO THIS SITE
We may update, change, suspend or withdraw our site, in whole or part, at any time for our own business reasons. We will try and give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal. We reserve the right but not the duty, in our sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions in any portion of this Site at any time without notice.
ACCESSING OUR SITE
We do not guarantee that our site will always be available or be uninterrupted or error free. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We will not be responsible to you if for any reason our site is unavailable to you.
PERMITTED AND PROHIBITED USES
The Site may be used only for lawful purposes by individuals seeking employment and career information ("Candidates"). You agree to use the Site only to send Content and receive Materials that are proper and related to purpose of the Site.
Subject to these Terms and Conditions, Ignis Partners grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use and view this Site and the Materials thereon, solely for your own personal or internal company use, provided, however, that you may not, nor may you allow others to, directly or indirectly:(i) remove, from any copy of the Materials downloaded, the copyright or other proprietary notices contained in the Materials; (ii) sell, reproduce, modify or attempt to modify the Materials in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose, including without limitation use of the Materials on any other website; (iii) transfer the Materials to any other person without the written consent of Ignis Partners; (iv) print or copy any of the HTML or other computer programs that are accessible at this Site; (v) use this Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair this Site; (vi)interfere with the security of, or otherwise abuse, this Site or any services, system resources, accounts, servers or networks connected to or accessible through this Site or affiliated or linked sites; (vii) disrupt or interfere with any other person's use or enjoyment of this Site or affiliated or linked sites; (viii) upload, post or otherwise transmit on this Site any Content that would negatively affect the functioning of the Site, including without limitation computer viruses, Trojan horses, worms or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or computer programs or that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on this Site's infrastructure; (ix) use any robot, spider or other automatic program or device, or manual process to monitor, copy, summarize, or otherwise extract information from this Site or the Materials in whole or in part; (x) use or attempt to use another's account, password, service, system or other information without prior written authorization from Ignis Partners; (xi) create or use a false identity on this Site; (xii) attempt to obtain unauthorized access to this Site or portions of this Site that are restricted from general access; (xiii) transmit on, to or from this Site spam, chain letters, junk mail or any other type of unsolicited mass e-mail; (xiv) harvest or otherwise collect information about others, except for the sole stated purposes provided by this Site, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; or (xv) register an e-mail address that you do not own or for which you do not have the express permission of the owner to register.
You may post certain Content to the Site. You may only post Content for the lawful, stated purposes of this Site. You agree, that in posting Content, you will not, nor will you allow others to, directly or indirectly: (i) post any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or information which is not your own accurate resume; (ii) post any franchise, pyramid scheme, multi-level marketing (MLM) opportunity, "club membership", distributorship or sales representative agency arrangement or other business opportunity which requires an up front or periodic payment, requires recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents; (iii) delete or revise any material posted by any other person or entity; (iv) post or transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, or tortuous or materials which infringe or violate any third party's copyright, trademark, trade secrets, privacy or other proprietary or property right or that could constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law; (v) impersonate any person or entity, including without limitation an Ignis Partners employee or agent, an authorized user of Ignis Partners’ Services, a Candidate, an Employer or a Recruiter, or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with any person or entity; (vi) post opinions, notices or advertisements, commercial or otherwise or solicit business from Recruiters and Employers who post on the Site, including any solicitation by any of our competitors of Recruiters who post on the Site.
In addition, you agree that you are solely responsible for actions and communications undertaken or transmitted in the course of your usage of this Site, and that you will comply with all laws that apply or may apply to your use of or activities on this Site or in respect of the Content and Materials. Ignis Partners will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.
Ignis Partners reserves the right at all times to disclose any Content provided by you as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or remove any Content, in whole or in part, that in Ignis Partners sole discretion is objectionable or in violation of these Terms and Conditions.
REGISTRATION AND PASSWORDS
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your registration information and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify Ignis Partners of any unauthorized use of your registration or password.
We may disable any user credentials, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
Limited License and Copyright. This Site, including all Materials, is protected by UK and worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions, authors' rights and database right laws. You agree to comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of this Site and to prevent any unauthorized copying of the Materials. Except as expressly provided herein, Ignis Partners does not grant any express or implied right or license to you under any intellectual property right, including under any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, or confidential information, of Ignis Partners.
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such content for any purpose. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such uploaded content.
You may not extract and/or re-utilise parts of the content of our site without our express written permission. You may not utilise any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to extract (whether once or many times) for re-utilisation any substantial parts of the content of our site or platform, without our express written permission. You may also not create and/or publish your own database that features substantial parts of our site(e.g. our database) without our express written permission.
Trademarks. The Services names, company names and logos used on this Site may be trademarks, including registered trademarks of Ignis Partners. Such Services names, company names and logos of Ignis Partners may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of Ignis Partners. Other services and company names mentioned on this Site may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
Reservation of Rights. Ignis Partners’ Services, methods and processes may be covered by one or more patents or other statutory intellectual property rights and are subject to trade secret and other proprietary rights. Ignis Partners reserves all such rights.
Software. Any software, including calculator software, as well any files, images generated by such software, code and data accompanying such software (the "Software"), used or accessible through this Site is the copyrighted work of Ignis Partners or its licensors. Unless provided for elsewhere, you are licensed to use the Software on a non-exclusive basis for the purposes expressly stated on this Site. Except as permitted by law, you may not use the Software for any other purpose or attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the Software comprising or in any way making up apart of the Site.
LINKS AND THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and Ignis Partners makes no representation or warranty regarding, and does not endorse, any linked web sites, the information appearing thereon or any of the products or services described. If you use these sites, you will leave this Site. If you decide to visit any linked site, you do so at your own risk, and it is your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses and other destructive elements.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
AGREEMENT TO PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIE POLICY
When you use our site, you will be providing us with personal data about you. You can see how we use personal data by going to our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.
By using this site, you agree to abide by Ignis Partner’s Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy, which is incorporated by reference into these Terms and Conditions.
DISCLAIMERS
You acknowledge that any use of or reliance on this Site or any Materials shall beat your sole risk. Ignis Partners makes no representation or guarantee of any kind regarding the Site and/or the Materials, including with respect to the information provided by third party legal and other consultants, all of which are provided on an "AS IS" basis. Ignis Partners expressly disclaims all representations, warranties and conditions, including without limitation any implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, merchantable quality, non-infringement and fitness for a particular purpose and those arising by statute or otherwise in law or from a course of dealing or usage of trade. Ignis Partners does not guarantee that this site will continue to operate, operate without interruptions or that it will be error-free.
Not limiting the generality of the foregoing, the information provided on this Site is for general informational purposes only. Information provided on the Site with a by line, identification of publication source, or any other sort of third-party identifier, is provided by third parties on an "As Is" basis, and Ignis Partners does not review it. Ignis Partners and its third party consultants do not warrant or guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of this information. This Site acts as a venue, among other things, for Recruiters and Employers to post job opportunities and Candidates to post CVs.
Ignis Partners does not screen or censor the listings offered. As a result, Ignis Partners has no control over the quality, safety or legality of the jobs or CVs posted, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of Employers to offer job opportunities to Candidates or the ability of Candidates to fill job openings. In addition, there may be risks, including but not limited to risk of physical harm of dealing with strangers, foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretenses. You assume all risks associated with dealing with other users with whom you come in contact through the Site.
Because user authentication on the Internet is difficult, Ignis Partners cannot and does not confirm that each user is who they claim to be. Because we do not and cannot be involved in user-to-user dealings or control the behaviour of participants on this Site, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users, you release Ignis Partners (and our agents and employees) from all claims, demands and damages of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in anyway connected with such disputes.
Ignis Partners is under no legal obligation to, and generally does not, control the Content provided by other users which is made available through the Site. By its very nature, other people's information may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabelled or deceptively labelled. Ignis Partners does not guarantee, and makes no representations or warranties as to the truthfulness, accuracy, reliability, currency, veracity or completeness of the Materials or about the results to be obtained using the Materials. The use of the Site and the Material is at your own risk. Changes are periodically made to the Site and may be made at any time.
This Site contains materials, data, information provided, posted or offered by third parties, including third party provided content, advertisements and user content. You agree that Ignis Partners shall have no liability whatsoever for any such third party material, data or information.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the form, content and accuracy of any resume, posting or other Content placed by you, as applicable on the Site.
Ignis Partners shall not be responsible for any employment decisions, for whatever reason made, made by any entity posting jobs on the Site.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with use of, or inability to use, our site; or use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
Please note that in particular, we will not be liable for loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; business interruption or loss or damage to computers, devices or any software or data; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation. Nor will we be liable for any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
In any event, you agree that Ignis Partners aggregate liability for damages shall be limited to £100.
INDEMNITY
You will protect, indemnify, defend and hold harmless us, our directors, officers, investors, employees, agents, partners, suppliers and licensors from any third-party claim or demand, including reasonable lawyers' and accountants’ fees, relating to or arising from (a) your uploading any content to our site; (b)your use of our site and activities and behaviours occurring during such use of our site; (c) any violation by you of these terms; or (d) your violation of any third-party rights. This obligation will survive the termination of these terms and your use of our site.
VIRUSES
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from viruses. You are responsible for ensuring your own virus protection measures.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will end immediately.
TERMINATION
If you do not comply with these terms we may suspend or end your right to use of our site until you comply. If it is not possible for you to comply, we may end your use of our site completely.
CHOICE OF LAW
This Site is controlled, operated and administered by Ignis Partners from its offices within London, UK. Ignis Partners makes no representation or warranty that materials at this Site are appropriate or available for use at any locations outside the UK. If you access this Site from outside the UK, you are responsible for compliance with all local law. You may not export any of the Materials accessible through this Site in violation of applicable export laws and regulations. These Terms and Conditions shall be interpreted, construed and governed by the laws in force in England & Wales, without reference to its conflict of laws principles, except where prohibited by mandatory provisions of the laws applicable in your jurisdiction. Except in respect of any matter relating to the enforcement of intellectual property rights and protection of confidential information, the parties agree that any action, suit or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms and Conditions shall be commenced in England. Each party hereby agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of England & Wales and to waive any objections based upon venue in any such action, suit or proceeding. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to these Terms and Conditions.
ARBITRATION
Any and all disputes arising out of these Terms and Conditions, its performance, breach, enforcement, existence or validity, including any failure of the parties to reach agreement with respect to matters provided for in these Terms and Conditions and all matters of dispute relating to the rights and obligations of the parties, which cannot be amicably resolved, even if only one of the parties declares that there is a difference, will be referred to and finally settled by private and confidential binding arbitration before a single arbitrator held in England, in English and governed by the laws of England& Wales. The arbitrator shall be a person who is legally trained and who has experience in the information technology field in the UK and is independent of either party.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party may pursue the protection intellectual property rights and confidential information through injunctive or other equitable relief through the courts.
GENERAL
(i) Except as expressly provided in additional terms of use for areas of the Site, a particular legal notice, or an additional Agreement, these Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between Ignis Partners and you with respect to the subject matter hereof; (ii) Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of this Site or which is the subject of these Terms and Conditions must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises; (iii) If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these Terms and Conditions or portion thereof to be unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to effect the intent of these Terms and Conditions, and the remainder of these Terms and Conditions shall continue in full force and effect; (iv) The relationship of the parties is solely that of independent contractors and neither party shall have any authority to act for or bind the other party; (v)The waiver of any breach or default hereunder shall not constitute the waiver of any other or subsequent breach or default; (vi) No changes to these Terms and Conditions shall be made except by a revised posting on this page.
ADDITIONAL TERMS OF USE
Certain areas of this Site may be subject to additional terms of use. By using such areas, or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional terms of use applicable to such areas.