We are PCB Global Tech Ltd, Trading as Hirely Health, a Company registered in England and Wales. Our company registration number is 13084433 and our registered office is at Oasis Camden, 85-87 Bayham Street, London, United Kingdom, NW1 0AG. Our registered VAT number is 375363477.
Hirely Health operates an online job marketplace platform via https://gethirely.com/ and other channels (the "Service"). The Service connects companies ("Company" or "Companies"), and candidates ("Talent" or "Talents") with each other trying to match the right person with the right job. Talents are natural persons seeking new employment or freelance contracts through the Service. Companies are natural persons or business entities searching for new employees or contractors through the Service.
- Scope
- Within the framework of the Talents' own technical and operational possibilities Hirely Health allows the Talents to participate in the Service. Hirely Health provides all services in connection with the Service for Talent solely based on these Terms of Service (hereinafter referred to as "Talent Terms of Service" or "Terms of Service").
- Hirely Health objects to the validity of any general terms and conditions of Talents. General terms and conditions of Talents become an integral part of the agreement between the Talent and Hirely Health, only if Hirely Health explicitly consents to them in writing.
- Hirely Health can utilize the services of independent third parties for the Service ( "Third Party Service" ) such as app stores and social networks. No third party services are provided by third parties upon the instruction of Hirely Health. Third party services are not provided by Hirely Health. Hirely Health or the third party will identify these services in a suitable manner. Any issues in connection with third party services are not affected by these Terms of Service. Hirely Health shall not be responsible for third party services. Third party services are potentially subject to their providers' general terms and conditions.
- Applications for mobile devices ( "Apps" or "Apps" ) are generally not directly provided by Hirely Health but by a third party provider ( "App Store" ). A separate user account may be necessary for this purpose. Hirely Health does not warrant that the Service is identical in functionality and design on all mobile devices. Certain functions and contents may not be available. Talents should see the functionality description of the App.
- Talent Eligible to Participate
- Hirely Health offers the Service only to Talent looking for Placement as defined in Section 7.2 below.
- With his/her account registration or participation in the Service, Talent represents that he/she is of legal age and of legal capacity.
- Talent Enrolment / Entry Into Force
- The participation in the Service requires that the Talent enters a binding agreement with Hirely Health as defined below in Section 3.4 and the setup of a Talent account ( "Account" ).
- Talent must submit an application to participate in the Service on Hirely Health's website or otherwise.
- Talent must accurately complete the application (and provide Hirely Health with future updates) and not use any aliases or other means to mask its true identity or contact information.
- By filling in the application, Talent submits a binding offer to enter into an agreement with Hirely Health according to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service ( "Agreement" ).
- After Hirely Health reviews Talent's application, Hirely Health will notify him/her or it of its acceptance or rejection to the Service, generally within five (5) business days of receipt of the application. Hirely Health may request additional information (see Sections 6.1 and 6.2). The Agreement enters into force upon Hirely Health's acceptance of Talent to the Service. Hirely Health is under no obligation to accept applications.
- Hirely Health is entitled but not obliged to verify the accuracy of the Talent's information. This may be done by Hirely Health requesting documents to prove the identity such as a personal ID card. Hirely Health is entitled to make the creation of an account subject to such verification.
- Prior to the application Talent will have to conduct a telephone/online interview with Hirely Health.
- Prior to sending the online application form, the Talent can print out the Terms of Service or save them to a permanent data storage device.
- Limits of Use / Prohibited Conduct
- Hirely Health provides the Service solely for use in accordance with these Terms of Service. Automated login is prohibited. Only the official clients and apps or websites provided by Hirely Health may be used to connect to the Service. The Talent may not create, support, host, link or provide any other options, which can be used by other persons to utilize the Service.
- The Talent is prohibited from transferring his/her Account to third parties without the prior written consent of Hirely Health.
- The Talent is not entitled to use any means, mechanisms or software in connection with the Service, which can disturb functions of the Service. The Talent may not undertake any action, which can result in an unreasonable or excess load of the technical capacities of Hirely Health. In particular, the Talent is not permitted to block, overwrite or modify the contents generated by Hirely Health unless Hirely Health has permitted it specifically in writing.
- The Talent will refrain from anything that could endanger the performance and availability of the Service.
- By using the Service, the Talent will not violate any applicable legal provisions such as the criminal code or third party rights and the Talent assures not to contribute or transmit any illegal or immoral contents to the Service. This includes specifically any contents (including member names, etc.),
- which are, false, inaccurate or misleading
- which are, insulting, racist, sexist, pornographic or obscene;
- which can damage the reputation of Hirely Health;
- suitable to violate copyrights, patents, brands or any other intellectual property rights, the rights on a person's own image and other personal rights or third party rights.
- The Talent is not permitted to disseminate commercial advertising for third party products or programs, to send unsolicited mass emails and unsolicited advertising in the Service. The Talent will honor the privacy of third parties. In addition, the Talent is not permitted to disseminate in the Service unauthorized any third party work that is protected by copyrights or other rights. Moreover, the Talent is not allowed to refer to offers with such content.
- Hirely Health is entitled to stop such violations against this Section 4. In addition, Hirely Health is entitled to delete the breaching contents of the Talent. The same applies to definite indications of a violation against these Terms of Service to contents, which are otherwise illegal. There is no entitlement to the recovery of breaching deleted content. Such claim is also voided if the restoration is not possible for technical reasons.
- Without the prior express written consent of Hirely Health, any blocked Talent is prohibited from creating a new account. If this ban was circumvented, then Hirely Health has the right to block this Account permanently without prior announcement.
- The provisions of this Section 4 do not limit the termination right of Hirely Health — particularly the right to terminate effective immediately — in accordance with Section 12. In addition, they do not limit the right of Hirely Health to exercise the virtual domiciliary right.
- Functioning of the Service / Hirely Health's responsibilities
- Hirely Health provides the Service to connect Talent and Companies. The Service works as follows: Talent sign-up to the Service and make their curriculum vitae and other information as specified in the Terms of Service or the Talent Terms of Service available. Companies also sign-up and provide a profile. This profile is only visible to Talents that the Companies are interested in as defined below. Companies can browse the Talent profiles in a list and detailed view and decide to apply to the respective Talent by sending an interview requests. These interview requests come with a first, non-binding offer proposal of what compensation package the company has in mind. Talent can review the interview requests and are able to browse the profiles of Companies that have sent the requests. The Talent can accept or reject the interview request. If rejected, the Company may (upon choice of the Talent) re-contact the Talent with a revised proposal. If accepted, Hirely Health connects Talent and Company.
- Once a Talent has been viewed by a Company in the list view it is considered to be introduced by Hirely Health ( "Introduction" ). If Talent and Company had been introduced in the past twelve months before the Introduction directly or by a third party and Company does not inform Hirely Health about this within five business days in writing and substantive materials showing the introduction, the Talent is considered to have been introduced by Hirely Health. Email or the Service are sufficient media in this matter. A Talent is considered to be already introduced directly or by a third party when there is a written communication concerning the Talent, with a clear identification of the Talent and the Company and with a clear identification of the opportunity to hire the Talent.
- An Introduction on the Service lasts twelve months.
- Hirely Health may from time to time, but is under no obligation to, suggest a specific Talent to a Company or vice versa. The Talent is then also seen as introduced. This can be done via email, messaging service or phone.
- Hirely Health undertakes reasonable efforts to match Talent and Companies, however, Hirely Health does under no circumstances represent, assume a warranty or guarantee or undertake in any other way that Talent or Company will find a match through Hirely Health and/or the Service.
- Obligations of Talent
- Talent shall submit the information about him/or herself as requested in the compulsory and voluntary fields of the sign-up form.
- Hirely Health may add compulsory or voluntary fields from time to time. The Talent shall not transmit any personal data of third parties (i.e. data allowing identification of an individual) to Hirely Health, unless data protection laws allow for such transmission or Talent has obtained consent from the concerned parties. Hirely Health may also request additional information from Talent on a case by case basis.
- Unless otherwise provided in these Terms of Service, Hirely Health will usually communicate with the Talent via email. The Talent shall make sure that it receives all emails sent by Hirely Health to the address submitted in the course of the application, or at a later date. The Talent will in particular configure the spam filter accordingly and regularly check all incoming email under this address. Hirely Health may choose any other appropriate means of communication.
- The Talent shall inform Hirely Health in writing within 5 business days if a Company gets in contact with the Talent outside of the provided Service while its profile is visible to Companies on the platform.
- The Talent shall keep all access data (login, passwords etc.) for the Service ( "Access Data" ) strictly confidential. The Talent shall promptly inform Hirely Health in case it learns or suspects that an unauthorized third person is in possession of the Access Data.
- In case Hirely Health has reason to believe that an unauthorized third party is in possession of Access Data, Hirely Health may, without assuming any responsibility to do so, and always acting in its sole discretion, change the Access Data without prior notice or block the respective account. Hirely Health will promptly inform the Talent and will, upon request, communicate the new Access Data to the Talent without undue delay. The Talent cannot claim to have its initial Access Data restored.
- In case a third party uses of Access Data, with the Talent at fault, the Talent's Access Data, the Talent is liable for all such actions, and for damages. In such event, all access through the Talent's Access Data shall be considered as an access by the Talent.
- Hirely Health is not responsible for providing or assisting with the obtaining of any work or other permits and/or medicals and other country specific regulations and requirements that may be necessary to employ the Talent.
- Placement / Payment
- The use of Hirely Health is free of costs for Talents.
- Talent undertakes to inform Hirely Health in writing (through the service or via email is sufficient) as soon as possible, but no later than five business days, if he was hired or otherwise contracted by Company ( "Placement" ). Hirely Health may contact Talent to request status updates about ongoing negotiations.
- Placement shall mean any form of employment, temporary employment, contracting or other use of Talent by Company or an undertaking affiliated with Company.
- Talent agrees that Companies are allowed to share all contract details with Hirely Health.
- Talent has to inform Hirely Health in writing within five business days about any rehiring or similar by Company for a period of twelve months after termination.
- Talent has to transmit the signed agreement to Hirely Health as proof of the conclusion of the agreement and for the invoicing processes.
- Quality of the Service / Technical Deficiencies
- It is in the nature of the Service that it is continuously advanced and updated. By changing and advancing the Service, Hirely Health intends to provide Talents a useful Service and pleasant Talent experience. Therefore, Hirely Health grants the Talent access to the Service in its available form or version. Changes and advancements can affect system requirements and compatibility requirements. The Talent has no claim for maintaining or reconstruction of a specific condition of scope of services. Any of the Talent's claims for deficiency, which refer to the technical usability of the Service itself, shall remain unaffected thereby. Due to the continuous advancement of the Service, Hirely Health reserves itself the right to offer new features and/or to remove them from the Service or to change them. The Talent consents these continuous changes of the Service.
- Excluded from warranty are generally such errors, which occur through external influences such as operating errors by the Talent, force majeure or any modifications, not carried out by Hirely Health or any other manipulations.
- Hirely Health does not assume any guarantees in a legal meaning as long as not expressly provided for in these Terms of Service.
- Limitation of Liability / Availability
- Hirely Health shall be liable under the terms of this Agreement only in accordance with the provisions set out in Sections 9.1.1 to 9.1.5. Except in case of intent or gross negligence, any liability of Hirely Health shall be disclaimed. The same applies in case of slight negligence by agents or assistants in performance. However, the foregoing does not apply in the following cases:
- Hirely Health shall be unrestrictedly liable for losses caused intentionally or with gross negligence by Hirely Health, its legal representatives or senior executives and for losses caused intentionally by other assistants in performance; in respect of gross negligence of other assistants in performance Hirely Health's liability shall be as set forth in the provisions for simple negligence in Section 9.1.5 b) below.
- Hirely Health shall be unrestrictedly liable for death, personal injury or damage to health caused by the intent or negligence of Hirely Health, its legal representatives or assistants in performance.
- If Hirely Health provides a warranty it shall be liable for losses arising from the lack of any warranted characteristics up to the amount which is covered by the purpose of the warranty and which was foreseeable for Hirely Health at the time the warranty was given.
- Hirely Health shall be unrestrictedly liable in accordance with the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in the event of product liability.
- Hirely Health shall be liable for losses caused by the negligent (including simple negligence) or intentional breach of its primary obligations by Hirely Health, its legal representatives or assistants in performance.
- Primary obligations are such basic duties, which form the essence of the Agreement, which were decisive for the conclusion of the Agreement and on the performance of which Talent may rely.
- If Hirely Health breaches its primary obligations through simple negligence, then its ensuing liability shall be limited to the amount which was foreseeable by Hirely Health at the time the respective service was performed.
- Damages shall be restricted to ten (10) times the fees provided under these Terms of Service in the past twelve (12) months.
- Subject to Clause 9.1 only and other than in case of intent Hirely Health does not accept any liability under or in relation to the Agreement or its subject matter whether such liability arises due to negligence, breach of contract, misrepresentation or for any other reason for any indirect damage and consequential damage, in particular, not for loss of profit, interruption in business and/or interruption of operations of Talent or its customers, unless explicitly specified otherwise in these Terms of Service.
- Hirely Health undertakes to assure an availability of the Service of 99% (ninety nine percent) as a yearly average. Periods during which the Service is not available because of technical or other problems outside Hirely Health's control (such as force majeure or third party fault) and periods during which routine maintenance works are carried out, are excluded from this. Hirely Health may restrict access to the Service if required for network security, maintenance of network integrity and the prevention of severe malfunction of the network, the software or stored data. The Talent's rights in case of intent or gross negligence remain unaffected.
- Intellectual Property / Indemnification
- Hirely Health or its respective licensor is the exclusive owner or exclusive owner of the rights of all contents of the Service. The content is protected by national and international law and particularly by copyright. The unauthorized dissemination, copying, deletion or any other violation of intellectual property rights and copyrights of Hirely Health are prosecuted under both civil and criminal law.
- All rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Service are reserved by Hirely Health. Hirely Health will retain all rights, title, and interests in and to the Service (except for any licensed content and third-party content included therein), including all data (such as any usage data and compilations thereof), information and software related thereto. The Talent acknowledges that the software, information, content and data related to the Service (such as any usage data or compilations thereof) are protected for Hirely Health under copyright and similar rights and may contain trade secrets or other intellectual or industrial property owned or licensed by Hirely Health.
- Talent warrants, that he has the right (i) to submit the information to the Service and (ii) can grant Hirely Health the right to use the information as described above.
- Talent hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Hirely Health and their its subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, owners and agents against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) based on (i) any failure or breach of the Agreement and the Terms of Service, including any representation, warranty, covenant, restriction or obligation made by Talent herein, (ii) any misuse by Talent.
- Confidentiality
- Except as otherwise provided in these Terms of Service or with the consent of Hirely Health, the Talent agrees that all information, including, without limitation, business information, information from the company profile e.g. salary information and information about tech stack concerning Hirely Health or any of Hirely Health's other customers provided by or on behalf of any of them shall remain strictly confidential and secret and shall not be utilized, directly or indirectly, by Talent for any purpose other than Talent's participation in the Service ( "Confidential Information" ).
- Talent shall especially not use any information obtained from the Service to develop, enhance or operate a service that competes with the Service, or assist another party to do the same.
- After and during the term of the Agreement, neither party will use for any purpose or disclose to any third party, any Confidential Information of the other party. Any exception to this must be obtained in advance.
- The foregoing restriction does not apply to information that has been developed independently by the receiving party without access to the other party's Confidential Information or has been rightfully received from a third party authorized to make such disclosure or has been approved for release in writing by the disclosing party or has become publicly known through no breach of this Section by the receiving party or is required to be disclosed by a competent legal or governmental authority, provided that the receiving party gives the disclosing party prompt written notice of such requirement prior to disclosure and assists in obtaining an order to protect the information from public disclosure.
- Term / Termination
- The Agreement shall commence on the date of Hirely Health's approval of Talents application and shall continue thereafter until terminated as provided herein.
- Each party has the right to terminate the agreement by giving an advance notice of five business days unless otherwise agreed in writing.
- Sections 7 and 11 shall survive any termination of the Agreement. Section 11 for five years.
- The parties remain free to terminate the Agreement for cause at any time.
- Every termination must be in written form, whereby the written form is maintained by email. Upon request, the reasons for extraordinary termination must be disclosed immediately in writing if the termination notice did not specify them already. Any standard termination notice does not require specification of the termination reasons.
- Data Protection
- Hirely Health processes and utilizes the Talent's data collected during the performance of the Agreement and within the framework of the These Terms of Service, specifically to the extent necessary to fulfil the agreement properly, in accordance with all applicable European and UK data protection provisions. The privacy policy of Hirely Health shall apply.
- The Talent understands that the performance of the Agreement includes the making available of personal data to Companies Hirely Health cooperates with to mediate the Talent and try to match the right person with the right job subject to these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.
- The Talent understands that Hirely Health may contact him/her Talent via phone, email or messaging service and suggest Companies which fit the Talent's profile.
- Changes to the Terms of Service
- Each login to the Service is subject to these Terms of Service.
- Hirely Health may make changes to these Terms of Service (including amendments) at any given time, for the future, if this should prove necessary (in particular to reflect changes in the Service or changes in the legal framework applicable to it, such as new legislation or case-law) and provided the Talent is not disadvantaged contrary to good faith.
- The Talent will be notified of changes to the Terms of Service in appropriate form. Hirely Health will notify the Talent on the Service, or via email.
- The Talent may dispute changes to the Agreement within a time period of six weeks following receipt of the notification of the changes and the possibility of taking notice thereof. It is recommended that the Talent submits its opposition in writing (for example via email).
- The changes to the Terms of Service become binding in the event that the Talent (i) does not dispute the changes within the above-mentioned time period or (ii) continues to use the Service after the above mentioned period.
- Hirely Health will inform the Talent about the possibility of disputing the changes and the legal consequences, especially the legal consequences of a lack of opposition, when notifying the Talent about the changes to the Terms of Service.
- If the Talent disputes the changes in time, each party may terminate the Agreement with one month's prior notice unless termination is possible at any time according to Section 12. Until termination, the Agreement in their former version will govern the Talent's relationship with Hirely Health. The Talent does not have any other claims against Hirely Health.
- Governing Law / Jurisdiction
- This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the UK. If Talent is an EU resident, he shall not be deprived of the protection offered by the binding consumer protection law of his county of residence Talent In the event, the Talent takes legal action, suit must be filed before a UK court or before the court of the Talent's domicile.
- General Provisions
- The Agreement contains the entire agreement between Hirely Health and Talent with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and/or contemporaneous agreements or understandings, written or oral. Terms and conditions of the Talent do not become part of the Agreement, unless Hirely Health has accepted them in writing.
- All or any of Hirely Health's rights and obligations under the Agreement may be assigned to a subsequent owner or operator of the Service in a merger, acquisition or sale of all or substantially all of Hirely Health's assets. The Talent must not assign or transfer the Agreement or any or all of its rights thereunder without the prior written consent of Hirely Health. This Agreement will be binding on and will inure to the benefit of the legal representatives, successors and valid assigns of the parties hereto.
- Except as set forth in the Section 14 above, the Agreement may not be modified without the prior written consent of both parties. Any changes, amendments or the abrogation of the Agreement (partly or entirely) require written form (letter, fax or email); the requirement of written form can only be waived in written form.
- Each party to this Agreement is an independent contractor in relation to the other party with respect to all matters arising under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall be deemed to establish a partnership, joint venture, association or employment relationship between the parties.
- Hirely Health's failure to act with respect to a breach by the Talent does not waive Hirely Health's right to act with respect to that breach or subsequent or similar breaches. No consent or waiver by Hirely Health under these Terms of Service shall be deemed effective unless delivered in writing and signed by a duly appointed representative of Hirely Health.
- Section headings used in these Terms of Service are for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of the Agreement.
- The English version of these Terms of Service is decisive.
- By submitting an application to join the Service, Talent affirms and acknowledges that Talent has read these Terms of Service in their entirety and agrees to be bound by all of its terms and conditions. If Talent does not wish to be bound by these Terms of Service, Talent should not submit an application to join the Service.